Today's Big Surprise: Clay Aiken doesn't know Monty Python
North Carolina's own Clay Aiken, who has somehow turned being runner-up on American Idol into a career selling Christmas albums to your lonely aunt with all the cats, is set to take one of the lead roles in the Tony Award winning Broadway show "Monty Python's Spamalot."
The show is based on "Monty Python and The Holy Grail," which Aiken said he thought was "the stupidest thing I'd ever seen in my entire life," upon first viewing.
Which was apparently a recent thing.
In an AP story Aiken says, "I thought Monty Python was a person until three months ago."
Clay Aiken's only a few years older than me -- and I thought my generation was issued a copy of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in high school, as a required thing. When I made it to my sophomore year of high school without seeing any Monty Python all my arty, band-geek friends (of whom Aiken had to have had plenty) nearly called an ambulance to rush me to the nearest VCR.
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I dunno, I'm 28 and I saw a Monty Python movie for the first time in college. I had seen the TV show when I was younger, but I thought it was dumb at the time.
Not that I'm standing up for Clay Aiken, whom I love, or anything. ;-)
Posted on January 14, 2008 5:36 PM