Monty Python's Spamalot

Several years ago, I went to see the Reduced Shakespeare Company show "The Complete Works". For a couple of hours, I sat there doing very little other than laugh. Even once the point where it began to hurt to laugh was passed, I couldn't help myself. Years later and jokes from the show occur to me at strange moments and still make me laugh. In the time since, I have searched in vain for something that funny, so I can once more experience the sheer unbridled joy of laughing until it hurts and then laughing some more. With "Spamalot", the fun starts before you even get there. Knowing that it's a Monty Python musical, at least for the ...

I had a ticket to what I thought was the first West End performance of Monty Python's Spamalot. However, while I was in London, I saw a couple of posters advertising performances from 30th of September, two days earlier. Either way, I saw one of the earliest UK performances of this musical. It advertises itself as 'a new musical lovingly ripped off from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. Certainly, if you've seen the movie, you'll see some stuff you recognise, but there's a lot to the show that wasn't in the film. There are also some jokes pilfered from other Python creations, such as the fish slapping dance, a reference to the dead parrot sketch and ...