Monty Python Philosophy Football

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:37:45 +0000

Germany vs. Greece, a shorter and funnier edit of the skit.

Gran Popo Football Club – La Poesie cést fini

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:31:58 +0000

Grand Popo Football Club are a French electronic music group of a DJ/book-loving television presenter/chat show host and producer/classically trained pianist who studied at the National Conservatory in Paris, respectively. The duo apparently adopted their unusual moniker after Ariel Wizman visited the West African village of Grand Popo to film a television programme and decided that the community was missing a football club. After studying piano, composition, and electronic music, Nicolas Errèra became involved in theatre and successfully directed short films (winning the Clermont-Ferrand prize in 1991, for his Going To Dieppe Without Seeing The Sea [1]) as well as becoming half of pop duo 2 Source. Wizman, meanwhile, djed at Colombian parties in Paris. He became renowned for his show on Radio Nova that mixed easy listening, soundtracks, and electronic music. When the show transferred to television, Wizman brought in guests as disparate as Johnny Rotten and German philosophers: fortuitously, his guests also included 2 Source, an invite that rekindled Wizman and Errera’s previous friendship. gpfc’s first recording appeared on the Source Lab 3 compilation in 1996, but they did not release their debut, Shampoo Victims, until 2000 (the album was re-released two years later). Together the duo creates Gallic pop that seems to revere and revile the music of peers such as Daft Punk, Air, and Cassius in equal measure. They dubbed a song that sounded curiously like the former “One …

The Philosophers’ Football Match

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:49:59 +0000

Famous German philosophers (and one actual footballer) face off against the favoured Greek squad in this sketch from “Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl” (originally from their “Fliegender Zirkus”).

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Monty Python Philosophy Football

Gran Popo Football Club – La Poesie cést fini

The Philosophers’ Football Match