Re: My respect for Eric Idle...


"Evan Kirshenbaum" <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Derek Janssen <ejanss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

...has just gone up a point:

http://www.animated-news.com/2007/idle-upset-over-shrek-the-third-gag/

Even a self-professed Greedy *** can have his good points-- :)
Not much, granted, coming from the "Spamalot" guy, but a step in the
right direction.

(Although reportedly, the original-draft script was envisioned to
have lame fanboy Grail-parrot "homages" bursting at the seams, Idle
should consider himself lucky to get *just* that one.)

I haven't seen the movie yet, but

In the play the heroine loves a middle aged poet, whom she
ultimately describes to her husband as their own child, while one
gets some well-worn effects, such as the galloping horse done with
visible coconut shells ... [_NY Times_, 10/15/1913]

Yes, it's an homage, but I believe that the basic joke is an old
vaudeville gag.

I believe it was a commonly used as a sound effect in the early days of
radio. I think Idle may be taking credit for something that he did not
create.


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