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Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies that SHOULD Be Riffed

First of all, sorry for completely spacing and forgetting to post a discussion thread last weekend. My bad.

For this weekend: Is there a holiday movie that you think really deserves riffing? My pick: The 1973 remake of “Miracle on 34th Street” with David Hartman and Sebastian Cabot. Bleah.

What’s your pick?

Updated: CT Interview + Review

The Chicagoist interviews Joel, Trace and Josh.

And Time Out Chicago has a review of last night’s show.

Now Available from RiffTrax…

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Cast Members on Monty Python

John Scott Lewinski at Wired wisely checks in with Frank, Mike and Bill for a piece about Monty Python.

Let me add my thoughts: I was a high schooler in the Philadelphia area in 1973 when the local PBS station, way ahead of almost every other station in the country, began showing Monty Python. I was already a student of comedy, sampling every brand of humor I could find, from the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin to the National Lampoon and Woody Allen. And then I saw Monty Python. I cannot underestimate the effect on me. It was a revelation. I was a member of a sketch comedy group, and seeing these shows was like finding the comedy Rosetta Stone. Every week I was glued to the TV. In the days before VCRs, I was audio taping episodes so I could dissect the incredibly witty wordplay. All these years later (and isn’t amazing that this group was doing its best work nearly FORTY years ago?), like a lot of nerds, I can recite most of the bits by heart — and I still laugh.
That’s something special.

Cartoon Dump Goes to Sketchfest

Frank Conniff and Cartoon Dump will appear at SF Sketchfest Saturday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. at San Francisco’s Eureka Theater. His special guest will be Andy Kindler.

This looks like the only MST3K-related Sketchfest appearance so far.

Get tickets here.