kzbin.info/www/bejne/enmZaoV5fqdjmM0 it's behold the lord high executioner

Damn what did you say? 😂

@@dfsafadsDW I told him that i take Monty Python to every job interview that i go to. He asked how i did that and i said "While I'm shaking their hand, i look at them dead in the eye, and with my best Australian accent, say 'Mind if I call you Bruce?'... " I was hoping that either he or the dj would ask what i do for a living so i could reply "Well, I'm still looking .." but the dj went off on some lame story he had about interviews... Lol. Never the less, I garnered a true belly laugh from Eric, so i was happy. Later that year my location sound instructor has the MP sound recordist lecture to our class. I was the only student who knew who he was or had listened to the albums. When he finished he asked for questions and i shot my hand up as high as it can go,.. he laughed because of course, i was the only one with a question.. so i looked him in the eye and said, "Is it true that on Matching Tie and Hankerchief, that there are t w o tracks on each side of the album???" With a twinkle in his eye, he replied, "Actually, there are three..." Ah ha!!! ...Then he had to explain to the children (😂) how albums work and that depending on where one sets the needle down, you could engage one of three nested tracks with completely different dialogue. So much fun. 🤪🎯💯

Not really necessary

Directly naming them is gauche. Need to reference them in a clever way that makes it obvious without just up and naming them.

@@MichaelOnines sorry Mr Gilbert I didn’t have the time to come up with some witty lyrics, the names of the guilty will have to do.

@@HHM706 Then post it on a Game of Thrones clip of Arya naming off all the people she wants dead.

Transvestites, say it, use it, be a man.

"He is not the messiah, He's a very naughty boy!"

The "list" song has traditionally been changed with each production to poke fun at contemporary individuals or social faux pas. For some productions it is justone or two verses rather than this complete replacement, but it is part of the tradition.

@@MichaelOnines Right. Thanks!

Hated it. To take Gilbert's detailed study of Japanese art and turn it into a 1920's British seaside resort says a lot about the production designer's ego than his non-existent taste. Further, the addition of TV specific special effects, notably the beheaded characters in Cheap and Chippy Chopper was totally unneeded.

Unlike this dreadful adaption of a great comic opera. Terrible costumes

i remember seeing him as god when i attended spamalot, was really fitting

@@Nina5144Did you actually watch the whole of this adaptation?

Edwardian? More like the reign of George V.

Well, you're not gonna like the Groucho Marx cover, then.

Mr. Idle is clearly not a trained vocalist (although a solid songwriter,) but his charisma more than makes up for it IMHO:) Also, if I'm not mistaken, the pro's simulated disdain for him is incorporated in the production. Point well taken however!

Expect very many nowadays are offended, that's the zeitgeist. No doubt this opera has been cancelled and all copies burned on the bonfire of Woke righteousness.

@@castelodeossos3947 You were watching it on a public platform. I am watching it on a public platform right now. Let me say that again - Public.

I reckon most Aussies would love it. I know I did.

Four of the dislikes must have been from the Bruces.

@@christine6234 im taking the piss ._.

Bizarre having the chorus sat with their backs to the audience.

explain

Koko is in the job because he was next to be executed, so if he is the Lord High Executioner he can’t execute himself, and therefore can’t execute anyone else either (so the citizens of Titipu can continue to flirt without fear of punishment). In this song, he explains that if he is forced to identify a victim, there are plenty of ‘enemies of society’ who could be chosen. The targets are meant to be ridiculous, but widely recognised as irritating (e.g. people who eat peppermints, in the original) so it is fun for modern productions to identify whatever is fashionable at the time.

It’s just awful isn’t it.

It’s absolutely dreadful isn’t it - The Mikado set in Japan. The costumes are awful the dreadful fey and camp dancing is just a joke. Much prefer the original costume and makeup.

It's fantastic and funny. I'm glad Jonathan Miller didn't listen to the naysayers otherwise I wouldn't have this to enjoy! Hope you enjoy your hundreds of other productions that are no doubt also great, I'm delighted by this one 🙂

@@complexlittlepirate3589 Yes, Jonathon Miller, the guy who wanted to tell Cecelia Bartoli how to sing . .

@@Nina5144 The Mikado is set in Japan but it's a satire of Victorian English politics. So this is still a satire of British politics. Yellowface isn't necessary

1987

Sorta, I can see why you can think that. It takes place in Japan after the Meiji Restoration

Juan Howe, no he's right. It was a send up.

@@kyanhowe8777 it was, like almost all of G & S's work an excuse to mock British society of the time in directly, they hid it in a hilariously inaccurate interpretation of the Japanese

@@kyanhowe8777 same same ,both islanders obssesed with social conventions. 😁

@@kyanhowe8777 and Japan and all things Japanese were oh so fashionable in the 1800s. Think of van Gogh.