1. Ripping Yarns (Series) - TV Tropes
Ripping Yarns was the definitive parody of the "Boy's Own" genre. Ripping Yarns started a year after Python ended, with its pilot "Tomkinson's Schooldays" ...
Basically, what Michael Palin and Terry Jones did after Monty Python's Flying Circus but completely different and just as funny. Ripping Yarns was the definitive parody of the "Boy's Own" genre. Ripping Yarns started a year after Python ended, …
2. Lost Classic: Ripping Yarns was the best thing the Pythons ever did
6 jul 2018 · The best ripping yarn is by far and away 'Tomkinson's Schooldays', a playful look at life in a British Public School.
Everyone has their favourite hot take on Monty Python – Dead Parrot sketch (‘isn’t Cleese just hysterical?’), no traditional punchlines (‘just incredibly radical’) and cartoon segues (‘so surreal!’) – but ‘Ripping Yarns’, a short-lived television series which Michael Palin and Terry Jones put together in their post-Python incarnations, is really fascinating in its own right, […]
3. Sir Michael Palin reflects on comedy classic Ripping Yarns - Radio Times
20 sep 2022 · Sir Michael Palin is talking to Radio Times about Ripping Yarns, a comedy where anything could happen – and frequently did.
Ripping Yarns, the masterly anthology series that Palin created with fellow Python Terry Jones, is 45 this week – and now on BritBox. So how did it come about? And which is Palin's favourite episode?
4. Ripping Yarns - Zeta Minor DVD Review
The series was called Ripping Yarns, a play on words, with the stories being pastiches of Boy's Own Adventure tales, with appropriate daring-do opening titles ...
5. Ripping Yarns by Michael Palin - Goodreads
This book contains the scripts of six classic episodes, beginning with Tomkinson's Schooldays, in which Palin plays a boy trapped in a bizarre boarding school.
After Monty Python's Flying Circus ended, the performer…
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6. Ripping Yarns: TV Hall of Fame Induction - 70s Music
10 nov 2021 · Ripping Yarns was a shameless parody of British culture. To be fair it could be a bit hit or miss, but when it hit the sweet-spot it was as funny as anything ...
Joe Hunter: Crieff, November 2021 Monty Python’s Flying Circus is of course a benchmark for comedy and an example of 70s television at its finest. A collective that spawned countless TV and c…
7. “Ripping Yarns” remembers a Britain that is not yet lost - The Economist
5 jan 2017 · “Ripping Yarns” reminds its viewers that Britishness is not lost, as those yearning for blue passports and imperial measures might have you ...
Terry Jones and Michael Palin's 1970s love letter to Britain still has plenty to say about the national character
8. Ripping Yarns - by Tobias Sturt - The Metropolitan
13 apr 2024 · A post-Python Michael Palin (with writing help from Terry Jones) sets about parodying Edwardian adventure stories in a series of one-off comedy dramas.
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9. Ripping Yarns - TheTVDB.com
Ripping Yarns is just that, a collection of tales of great adventure, mystery, suspense and high drama, that make for ripping good television.
Ripping Yarns is just that, a collection of tales of great adventure, mystery, suspense and high drama, that make for ripping good television. The series was created by Monty Python's Flying Circus alum Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Michael played the lead role in each tale and his main character's name is denoted in the episode description in bold; however, that wasn't enough for Michael because he would also play various other small roles in each tale. If you look carefully you'll also see other Python alum John Cleese and Eric Idle making cameo appearances.
10. Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns - BBC Four
Alexander Armstrong explores the literature that inspired Michael Palin and Terry Jones's comedy Ripping Yarns, a parody of the Boys' Own books and magazines ...
The literature that inspired Michael Palin and Terry Jones's Ripping Yarns TV series.