Word: skits
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...slapstick comedy as acted out by Gilliam, Jones and Palin, complete with a Three Stooges pine board and lots of cream pies; a filmed retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood legend, with Cleese as Ms. Hood and the rest as seedy rapists; and best of all, another filmed skit wherein the German philosophers (Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, et. al.) played soccer against the Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Archimedes, etc.). In appropriate costumes, they dashed onto the field and fell immediately into deep personal contemplation, until Archimedes yelled "Eureka!" and scored. The Germans disputed the goal, claiming it may have existed...
Like all good satire, the skit from Chicago's Second City Theater strikes within a hair of real life: young adults in America are coming back to roost. Among some ethnic groups, the Old World style of several generations living under one roof has long persisted. Until now the middle class has exhorted its young to go west, go to college, go to work -in short, to get out. But those catalysts of unwed cohabitation in the '70s-inflation, recession and rising divorce rates -are now persuading young people to cleave unto their parents...