...has just gone up a point:

http://www.animated-news.com/2007/idle-upset-over-shrek-the-third-gag/

Even a self-professed Greedy Bastard can have his good points-- :)
Not much, granted, coming from the "Spamalot" guy, but a step in the
right direction.

(Although reportedly, the original-draft script was envisioned to have
lame fanboy Grail-parrot "homages" bursting at the seams, Idle should
consider himself lucky to get *just* that one.)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

Derek Janssen nospam.comcast.net> writes:

I haven't seen the movie yet, but

In the play the heroine loves a middle aged poet, whom she
ultimately describes to her husband as their own child, while one
gets some well-worn effects, such as the galloping horse done with
visible coconut shells ... [_NY Times_, 10/15/1913]

Yes, it's an homage, but I believe that the basic joke is an old
vaudeville gag.

In article comcast.com>, Derek
Janssen nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

Finally saw the touring version of Spamalot, and it's the new stuff
that gets the biggest laugh. Hope that fact influences any future
projects Idle does (though money people will insist on a Python tie-in)

Invid Fan wrote:

And, as the previous poster pointed out, coconuts in the Shrek 3 "stage"
scene might be considered acceptable out of context--

It's only when somebody starts digging up the early drafts--where the
only reason we got Idle in the first was that the #3 producers
originally wanted to reunite all the Holy Grail knights, and then you
ain't *seen* "homaging" yet--that things start to look a little suspicious.

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:10:16 -0400, Derek Janssen
nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

Wow, someone found a way to be more pathetic than Boston dealing
with the Aqua Teen Terror! Well, this is more like Fox News going
after Al Franken for his book. I always liked Michael Palin more
anyway for "A Fish Called Wanda," and his "Around the World"
documentaries . . .