Oooops, I should have mentioned Pratchett before (thanks Dr. Fidelius!).
‘The Patrician (ruler of Ankh-Mopork) believed in democracy - one man, one vote. The Patrician was that man and he had that vote.’
‘Thunder rolled. He rolled a six.’
Now I must bring in P.G.Wodehouse…
neuro-trash grrrl wrote:
Now just a cotton-pickin’ minute, sistah! Didn’t Douglas Adams contribute to the Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’ sketch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Quick-N-Dirty Aviation: Trading altitude for airspeed since 1992.
I can’t believe I missed this thread for so long. I must’ve gotten a bit absorbed in re-reading * Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes *, or was I fantasizing about slipping in through the back door of the Castle Anthrax, just after Lancelot & Co. rescue Sir Galahad from almost certain temptation?
I dunno. They’re very different - the main thing they have in common is being British. Adams’ strength is a wryness that has a certain underlying wisdom; I’ve frequently found myself remembering bits of Hitchhiker lore in situations where that Hitchhiker passage describes exactly how the world is working at that moment.
By contrast, Python is just good old-fashioned outside-the-bounds-of-reality humor. A better either-or, IMO, would be Python v. Marx Brothers, who existed in that same rarefied plane, in their best movies, especially the * Monkey Business - Horsefeathers - Duck Soup * sequence. And I can’t make up my mind which is better at it, really, despite my * nom de SDMB *.