I know it’s a few months off but I’m excited about it.
It just so happens that my daughter out of the blue said she wanted to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. She has never seen it. I know, I’m a terrible father. Anyway shortly after that I see this. A screening of Holy Grail and then a talk and Q&A with John Cleese. I had to get tickets. Now she is going to wait to see the movie so we can watch it together during the special event. Now I can’t wait. Screw the election, hurry up January.
That sounds so completely fabulous I would be wishing for those annoyingly slow boring holidays to hurry up & get over with!
When I need cheering up I will pull up his eulogy of Graham Chapman on Youtube, and it works every time. 
Hope you have 16 tons of fun! And of course you will have to come back and give a full report!
I saw him do pretty much this same thing 6-7 years ago, it was awesome. Hope it’s as good as when I saw him.
Some time in about 1988 I got to see Graham Chapman speak at my college. He did about the same thing except he showed various clips instead of an entire movie.
Emphasis mine. Forgive me for saying this, but you’re (still) doing it wrong: Half the fun of Holy Grail screenings is audience participation. The other half is bad Swedish accents during the credits. The third half involves coconut (halves). I was going somewhere with this but basically your daughter needs to watch Holy Grail ASAP.
John Cleese and Eric Idle are touringtogether! Saw a half-page ad for this in today’s newspaper. Dates so far are mostly western US and Canada.
Seconded. Do you want her to be the only one there who’s seeing it for the first time? At the very least, she needs to see it in advance so she’ll have a chance to formulate any questions she might have for John during Q&A. Otherwise, she’ll go home and several days later think of something she should have asked him.
And we have tickets for Nov. 11th in Pasadena! So looking forward to this.
Dammit. The closest they get to me is New Orleans. Way too far.
Ugh. The last time I saw Holy Grail in a theatre, I had to listen to seventeen wags saying “I got better” with poor timing before John Cleese finally delivered the line. That was not an improvement.
I already replied, but I gotta pile on with those who say she needs to see it at least once ahead of time, maybe even twice.
The best part about The Holy Grail is anticipating the jokes, and for me, marveling at the mash up of high and low brow words. Especially in the segment with the Constitutional Peasants. They talk so fast, I didn’t catch it all until multiple viewings. And each time it got funnier.
Off Topic: I only just registered here after many years of lurking, and when choosing a user name I couldn’t decide between “Watery Tart” and “Moistened Bint”, so I just went for an Artist’s Oil Paint color instead. “Bad Naughty Zoot” was also in the running.
That was me in high school freshman Humanities class, where I got to watch it for the first time as our sort of end-of-Medieval-History reward. Let’s just say I was one of the few who had never seen it. (Yes, it was a class full of serious nerds.)
It’s a 1500 seat theater and she’s a self conscious teenager. She is not going to be asking him a question.
I disagree. I sometimes wish I could capture that moment when I saw it the first time and laughed till it hurt.
The first time I watched Holy Grail (on VHS) the sound was so poor that I couldn’t catch half of the words, which means I missed out on the majority of the jokes. Also it takes some ear training to get used to the accent, so it’s possible she’ll not get lots of it. My vote is to watch it together ahead of time so you can pause and rewind as needed.
I saw Eric Idle last time in 2003 on his Greedy Bastard Tour, which was right before Spamalot came out. I thought at the time that John Cleese really needs to join him, but my idea was 13 years too early.
We have tickets for his Nov. 21st show in Mesa.
OT: Welcome to the talking section.
I do get slightly queasy considering your chain of possible names, but maybe it’s just me… 
Well you are, self-admittedly, just an Amateur Barbarian…I think once you go pro it won’t put you off as much! 
Several years ago, a friend of mine was working at a summer camp. One rainy day, one of the counselors brought a copy of MP&tHG to entertain the kids. My friend reminded him of *that *scene, which had slipped his mind. The DVD got pulled out of the player *really *fast, and a Disney alternative was found.
Zoot’s segment is probably one of my least favorite parts, that’s why I sent it off the Bridge of Death.
Went to the show last night in Mesa.
We really enjoyed it. Even though it was mostly nostalgia, it was great to hear Idle and Cleese talk about the evolution of their careers and about Monty Python.
The show was definitely R-rated (profanity) - especially the final bit where Idle sang “F— Christmas!”
They gave a very moving tribute to Graham Chapman, and it was nice to see how much all the players cared about each other.