“Their namesake sketch series helped define Gen Xers, arresting their generational sensibility mid-eyeroll: sarcastic, sneering, derisive of authority and self-importance, yet also progressive, compassionate, wildly intelligent, and maybe more than a little self-indulgent.” -John Semley (from This is a Book About The Kids in the Hall) In the Late eighties SCTV was gone and although […]
Tag: John Cleese
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Simon & Schuster, $35)
“David’s penchant for using real names and real-life stories in Seinfeld scripts, week after week, without any effort to conceal constructed a third dimension: There was reality; there was television; and there was Seinfeldia, where the elements of both comingled, passed through, and, as the show’s audience grew, enticed fans into feeling like this was […]
So, Anyway…by John Cleese (Doubleday, $32.95)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “A good sense of humour is the sign of a healthy perspective, which is why people who are uncomfortable around humour are either pompous (inflated) or neurotic (oversensitive).” -John Cleese No matter what John Cleese achieves in his life, he will always be remembered for Monty Python (even […]

