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Title: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 08, 2023, 01:22:58 PM
Do not have a good feeling about this


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64563839
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: BeRational on February 08, 2023, 02:17:46 PM
I am not sure it will work today.
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 08, 2023, 04:43:01 PM
This:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/08/why-the-fawlty-towers-remake-is-a-truly-nauseating-idea-john-cleese
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 08, 2023, 04:46:53 PM
Quote from: Aruntraveller on February 08, 2023, 04:43:01 PM
This:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/08/why-the-fawlty-towers-remake-is-a-truly-nauseating-idea-john-cleese
Sort of but there is tedious idiocy in the article such as this 'moments of deliberate insensitivity that modern audiences quite rightly find unappealing'.
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Steve H on February 09, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 09, 2023, 12:48:58 PM
Quote from: SteveH on February 09, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.
Dear Dawkins, I hope being a curmudgeon doesn't mean one can't be funny!

Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 09, 2023, 12:51:12 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 09, 2023, 12:48:58 PM
Dear Dawkins, I hope being a curmudgeon doesn't mean one can't be funny!
I don't belieeeeeeeeeeeeve it!
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: jeremyp on February 09, 2023, 01:37:08 PM
Quote from: SteveH on February 09, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.
That about sums it up for me.
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 09, 2023, 01:47:41 PM
Clive James wrote something like that the genius in Fawlty Towers was that it put an individual who was uniquely unsuited to running a hotel in Fawlty's position. The update surely needs to move from the hotel. Given Cleese's age one suspects a home of some sort. Difficult for Basil to be unique there.
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Dicky Underpants on February 09, 2023, 03:03:45 PM
Quote from: SteveH on February 09, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Big mistake. Andrew Sachs is dead, Prunella Scales has alzheimers, and apparently Connie Booth is not involved. Cleese stopped being funny years ago, and is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

According to some of the Pythons, there was always a lot of Basil in the original Cleese (no matter what Cleese himself says about the origins of the character). It was, as you suggest, his presence among other brilliant characters that made the original series such a success. The present day Cleese and his daughter as the main characters of a new series - heaven forfend!
Title: Re: The return of Flowery Twats
Post by: Dicky Underpants on February 09, 2023, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: SteveH on February 09, 2023, 12:28:59 PM
Cleese .... is now a curmudgeonly, brexity, right-wing bore.

And is all set to host a GB News show.