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The publicly fat Chris Christie, a licensed lawyer, saw zero problem with taking a Monty Python sketch essentially in its entirety, editing in some choice Jon Corzine-is-awful-themed WordArt on the bottom of the screen, and airing it on national television without clearing it by the Monty Python people. Now Terry Jones and Michael Palin are making fun of Chris Christie for being such an idiot, which is infinitely more amusing than whenever Corzine bitchily alludes to Christie’s deep-fried inadequacies.
Reports the Huffington Post:
Alerted to the theft of their copyright, members of Monty Python are most unhappy. Michael Palin, who appears in the clip pirated for the advert, is especially displeased that his likeness is being used by the Republican candidate without permission.
“I’m surprised that a former U.S. Attorney isn’t aware of his copyright infringement when he uses our material without permission. He’s clearly made a terrible mistake. It was the endorsement of Sarah Palin he was after — not that of Michael Palin.”
Monty Python’s Terry Jones says that the troupe is strongly considering suing the Republican for his copyright infringement:
“It is totally outrageous that a former US Attorney knows so little about the law that he thinks he can rip off people. On the other hand — another of Bush’s legal appointees was Alberto Gonzales and he didn’t seem to know much about the law either…,” Jones said.
The ad was pulled basically immediately, but it’s still available on HuffPost. Chris Christie’s 30 second political spot is not even good as Fawlty Towers, and for this he should be ashamed.
[HuffPost]
Next: John Corzine will be stealing some candy from a three year old.
Hehehe, talk about stealing from the wrong people.
Hopefully they take a pound of flesh out of him … in fact, take two or three hundred. Please.
Nobody expects Terry Jones to complain about copyright enfringement.
If you asked me to think of Christie and an appropriate Python sketch, it would probably be this one.
Now Corzine can steal this one and say it is Fatty McChristie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29QfOyuZ3Y
I suppose we’ll soon see Corzine’s career represented by the Dead Parrot Sketch.
Ouch - a Python smack down is pretty much a guarantee that you will never be liked by anyone ever again anywhere, including your slutty alcoholic mother.
Aflac Shrugged: I haven’t looked, but, its Mr. Creosote, isn’t it?
“Christie is no stranger to the world of crime. As the New York Times reported on September 23rd this year, Christie has family ties to the notorious Genovese crime family. As a child, he mingled at family parties with Tino “The Greek” Fiumara — the brother of his aunt’s husband — described by the Times as “a fearsome and ranking member of the Genovese crime family: twice convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, and linked by investigators to several grisly murders, including one in which a victim was strangled with piano wire.”"
Good old Uncle Tino!
Yes, but how can anything live up to Fawlty Towers?
Interesting that both Palin and Jones used similar lines in their statements. Which means that in a few years Eric Idle will launch a new stage production called “That U.S. Attorney Should Know Better!!”
It’s only wa-fer theeeen.
Hey. I loved Fawlty Towers.
Prommie: *nod* I think it’s the only sketch where Python makes obesity the focus, but I’m sure there’s someone here whose Python knowledge outstrips mine.
Somebody get Christie a mint.
But did Trent Reznor get his Gitmo royalties yet? That’s what everyone really wants to know.
It’s strange… I just saw that sketch.
That Huffpost article is written by a humorist who calls himself Martin Lewis. That’s pretty much a perfect name for a humorist. I might adopt a pseudonym myself, like Laurel Hardy or Abbot Costello, or maybe Beavis Butt-Head.
You have to forgive Christie; you see, he’s from Barcelona.
Terry: Now thats some oppo research.
I am very worried now, however; Christie has gotten the endorsement of Manly Rash, a major figure in the tea party movement in NJ. Yes, his name is “Manly Rash.” Say it to yourself a few times, it will make you smile, then giggle. Manly Rash. http://www.manlyrash.com/blog/
I read about this “Manly Rash” in my paper this morning, he was a featured speaker at a teabagger rally:http://www.app.com/article/20091102/NEWS/911020305/Jackson+Tea+Party+works+to+get+out+vote
Dissed by not one, but two Pythons. I think Christie just lost the geek vote.
“It was the endorsement of Sarah Palin he was after — not that of Michael Palin.”
There’s gotta be a desecrating-the-name-of-our-blessed-retard-Trig joke in here somewhere…
Copyright theft aside, that’s the worst ad I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched it twice and I still am not sure what I’m supposed to be feeling deja vu about. The combination of a fairly complex series of statements about Corzine subtitled on a dialogue heavy skit with a number of cuts and repetitions is just confusing. I mean, if you are going to commit copyright theft, at least make it count.
Aflac Shrugged: See _The Meaning of Life_. It’s pukey but some folks like it.
“Christie’s deep-fried inadequacies” … don’t know why I thought that was a good euphemism for his testicles.
ForTheTurnstiles: You’re an idiot. Be silent.
Christie has deja vu every day …. in the all-you-can-eat line at Red Lobster.
CHRISTY: Oh, this is futile!
CORZINE: No it isn’t.
When I think of modern Republicans, I definitely have in mind either the Gumbys trying to perform brain surgery or the Upper Class Twit of the Year Competition.
Corzine shoudl respond by dubbing over a particularly homoerotic Fry and Laurie skit with budget ramblings and let the electorate decide what tickles them more.
Chris Christie, according to Monty Python:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfcF1I5e_g
After the many songs used without permission by McCain-Palin last year, this isn’t surprising; they love creating draconian copyright laws at the behest of Disney and the RIAA, yet don’t feel these rules apply to them.
Prommie: Manly Rash. Wow. His parents must really hate him. And he must be dumber than a box of rocks not to understand that & change his name.
the problem child: Next, he’ll be talking about how much he loves the Ewoks, Jar Jar Binks and Wesley Crusher.
after this campaign fails, he can run for Meinhead City Council….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVxM5IBLeU4
Pythons put the squeeze on Christie?
Maybe Christie can get something by Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy to use in his commercial. Or maybe the Jerky Boyz–they’re from New Jersey, aren’t they?
Is Chris Cristie wealthy enough to be in the running for upper class twit of the year?
He also tried to move into a 1950s style “police box” thinking that it would somehow turn him into a brilliant, time-traveling supreme being.
That failed quite miserably.
Christie better defend himself quick (with the legal equivalent of a banana).
My brain ‘urts.
Did Julie just hate on Fawlty Towers??
Jon Corzine for Governor: If you can’t control your appetite, how can you control state government?
magic titty: She must be Connie Booth.
He’s fat, also.
Prommie: Hey, nothing goes better with teabagging than a Manly Rash.
Don’t forget that this is the party which regularly gets busted for playing campaign theme songs without permission. I guess copyright is for fags and commies
Governor of New Jersey? Well, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more!
Prommie: Manly Rash is probably one of those bloggers the FBI trained. But he may have everyone fooled. Manly might really be a deep cover CIA guy who turns out to passing information to Moscow. Or the Vatican. Or Dan Brown.
Formerly Preferred: It’s still better than his main current commercial, which is basically “Vote for me because I have four kids!”. I guess he wants to show the fundies that he’s a true believer in the Every Sperm is Sacred principle?
They wouldn’t SPELL copyright infringement. They would just SAY “copyright infringement.”
Prommie: Wow. You could clear that up with either a tax cut or some calamine lotion, either / or.
Is your candidate a goer, wink-wink, nudge-nudge, know-what-I-mean, say-no-more?
Terry: yes, I was to talking to someone from Jersey. He said everyone knows how crooked Christie is(pay-offs galore)- but it is Jersey, after all.
Larry McAwful: Thanks for leaving me Allen N. Rossi. Hello dere!
Chris Christie, a.k.a. Mr. Creosote, is so fat & dumb he is Upperclass Twits of the Year. Haw haw haw. And now for something completely different…
Chris Christie: the other white meat.
Also he said the name Jehovah. Also.
Bad move, angering the Pythons. Maybe Spiny Norman’s his campaign consultant.
Formerly Preferred: agree totally, what a horrible ad
Since they run in the same circles, perhaps Manly Rash and Oily Taintz will meet, and we’ll have a great Jay Leno wedding announcement.
If Chris “Chris” Christie loses maybe he could get a job in the Ministry of Silly Waddles.
Given that I have yet to hear a Republican say anything remotely funny, he must have felt that his only option was to steal material from people who are quite good at it.
Larry McAwful: Perhaps they were dictating.
BobTheBuilder: I don’t want to think about a Manly Rash on Orly’s Taint.
the problem child: There’s a New York Post editor somewhere shaking his fist at God for your having come up with that first.
Aflac Shrugged: Classic. My favorite Python sketch of all time. “Bring me a bucket!!”
yargisbargis: DIMMESDALE!!!
Texan Bulldoggette: Every shawarma is sacred. Every shawarma is great.
If a shawarma is wasted, Chris gets quite irate.
If only someone would divulge to Christie the contents of the Funniest Joke in the World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpjk_MaCGM
Cranky Little Camperette: Fanboy geek FAIL. True believers know it to be Dinsdale.
Prommie: I want nothing to do with Manly Rash’s, thank you very much.
You mean ‘Flowery Twats’? Or perhaps ‘Fatty Owls’?
Why can’t lib’rul artists just plain be honored that a politician would choose their work for his or her campaign, and call it a day? Could it be that they’re all a bunch of crybaby fucking elitists? “wah, wah, wah…..I did all that work and they won’t pay me. Wah, wah, wah…”
Gastone, a bucket for monsieur. Love that sketch.
Apparently, Chris Christie needs a Live Organ Transplant.
RoscoePColtraine: Hand outs. It’s all libruls want.
“I think I’ll go for a walk…nah, too much work.”
D’youse know who ELSE complained about copyright infringement?
For countless years to come, students will recite the Palin/Jones putdown while getting stoned. This is Chris Christie’s legacy.
AnnieGetYourFun: Hey politicans!! Just stick to stealing dead people’s creative output. And not recently dead people, either; they need to be bones-n-hair dead. Lucille Ball did some funny shit. And it’s FREE!!!!
RoscoePColtraine:
The last thing an artist wants to see is his/her creations perverted into something destructive.
The Repugnants care for nothing more than wealth by destruction.
We’ve all seen Cleese explain why Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g
If Corzine wins, he should appoint Christie as “Minister of Silly Walks.”
Larry McAwful: It’s spelled “copyright infringement” but it’s pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove.
Aflac Shrugged: Sorry, but there’s a requirement that I provide a link to this as often as possible and I’m also sorry that it has nothing to do with anything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nGyPz9uT0
TGY: Or perhaps ‘Fatty Owls’?
User-of-Owls is now imagining TGY as a plump little mouse, in an open field…with arthritis in his legs.
Fawlty Towers was pretty decent, dammit!
Number 3: The Larch.
Monty Python’s ULTIMATE Revenge on Chris Christie
http://satiricalpolitical.com/2009/11/02/monty-python-takes-revenge-on-chris-christie-for-copyright-violations/
They’re both going to end up losing to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel (Silly Party).
Curiously, the only political commentary I can remember in a Python sketch was anti-Republicn. In the coctail bar sketch (with the Duck coctails) two stockbrokers are chatting:
Stockbroker1: “Did you see the news? Nixon’s had an arsehole transplant.”
Stockbroker2: “But did you see the stop-press? The arsehole’s rejected him!”
Prommie: No, you’re thinking the block of wood.
Chris Christie Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel (Silly Party).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU
magic titty: She’s a girl. She doesn’t even like the good Monty Python sketches.
“which is infinitely more amusing than whenever Corzine bitchily alludes to Christie’s deep-fried inadequacies.”
I didn’t know that “bitchily” was a word — I imagine it means “in a bitchy manner” — but the usage her was superb.
As for the actual subject, as much as I don’t blame ‘em, actors don’t usually get pissed when Democrats lift entire songs and skits off of them, so I can’t but laugh at the self-righteous hypocrisy, and I’m as liberal as they come. They are just mad a wingnut is doing it, not that it’s being done.
We haven’t heard from the other Python’s yet. Wonder what Cleese is thinking? This could be an opportunity.