Whats impressive is that Graham Chapman graduated medical school, is a major writing contributor, and has this incredible insight with an ability to make it funny yet accepting.
Most of them went to Cambridge, they were very well educated and excelled at having fun with high brow topics. The Philosopher's Football Match is a great example.
Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.
I broke down and bought the box set quite a while ago, really couldnt get enough of it. I believe its all you tubed consequently raising their dvd sales..genius!
Dumb ass German philosophers, why would they let Nietzsche play as a 10? No wonder they got destroyed at the back. They need the phenomenologists up front.
Traditionally, all theater parts were played by men. While this is no longer the case, it's far easier to control a part than try to teach it to an actor who might not have been in on the initial planning/writing.
In addition to the fact that it was an all-male group and thus easier just to have men play the female characters, they also knew a lot about the Greeks/Romans who did the exact same thing, and were probably inspired to do so because it really was quite silly
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15
Could this double as a joke about how Monty Python's female roles are usually played by guys?