spamalot

we saw spamalot on wednesday night as part of jeremy's work christmas party. we also had a nice dinner where we teased his boss about glowing in the dark after having lunch at the millenium hotel on the same day as Alexander Litvenenko right before the polonium issues were discovered (don't worry , jeremy's boss has been tested and he is not, i repeat, he is not radioactive)

anyhow, spamalot was really funny. although if you don't like the monty python oeuvre you would probably disgree with me (you would also be a humourless jerk, but that's your business). it was largely a sort of greatest hits of monty python moments (the finland song, nods to the dead parrot sketch, always look on the bright side of life performed by dancing knights with parasols rather than dying men on crosses) but they also added some new material. the lady of the lake had a large roll and herbert the sissy in the castle had a much expanded part. the witch bit was left out and that made me sad, but they did some nice things with the french soldiers and the taunting, including one particular raspberry method that i plan to use if ever i have the chance. and tim curry was a very funny, if surprisingly portly, king arthur.

luckily everyone enjoyed it as well, two years ago at the last party they had we went to see jerry springer the opera and jeremy and i were the only ones who liked it. even though none of his coworkers are particularly religious, the whole bit with jesus in a diaper did not go over well with them. we just laughed and laughed though. they have since decided that we are tasteless americans. fair enough.

it was a good antidote to my office christmas lunch earlier in the day. everyone smelled nice, the food and service were better and even though there were no christmas crackers at all (shame!) it was still a very good time.