"BRUCE LEE WAS TO MARTIAL ARTS WHAT RIN-TIN-TIN WAS TO GERMAN SHEPHERDS" - WORDS AS TRUE TODAY AS THEY WERE 36 YEARS AGO....

Still stonecutting the Holy Flying Circus post (as if you give a flying, um, circus).  Interestingly, there seems to be a lot of Python in the air this week.  The people of Tunisia, no doubt inspired by memories of the Life of Brian shoot on its soil (do they have soil there? I'm sure Ben Ali had a jar or two), have voted on a new Constitution - and I could hardly call that a coincidence. (Hey, they're already the Beatles of comedy - why can't they be the Plastic People of the Universe, too?)  And, even more propitiously, the Huffington Post has uncovered footage of five-sixths of Python (excepting killjoy Cleese, who opted out) promoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail by essentially (and, at the end, literally) taking apart ABC's short-lived GMA predecessor, AM America.   And by "uncovered," I mean "stumbled upon something that's been sitting on YouTube for four years while obviously fucking around the 'net on Arianna's dime."  (Hey, where can I get a job like that?  I'm available...)  It's such a blast to see these guys in full-on anarchic mode, dodgy video quality, out-of-sync audio, outboard-motor-blade editing and all.  (Not that it isn't also a kick to get a taste of cheesy seventies graphics, ads and promos.)  Fun things to watch for: Terry Gilliam getting all "ugly-American" at the end; Terry Jones' fake mustache (did he bring it with him or did he raid the ABC props department?); Graham Chapman subtly flipping the camera off and not being completely snockered (too early even for him, apparently).  And meanwhile, Saigon is starting to fall - hmmm, makes you think, doesn't it?

(View it below, or go to the HuffPosting itself.  I really don't care what you do with your time.)

Speaking of things that were funny in 1975 - Chevy Chase?  Still a prick.

And speaking of things that have been sitting around on the Web for a while - a brief oral history of the "lost episodes" of SNL.  Wish I'd written this.