The movie, which opens today in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas, takes nasty comic pleasure in observing the miserable marriage of Alice's shrewish older sister, Claire Lauren Grahamm), and her twit of a husband, Peter Bryan Cranstonn).
In the classic Monty Python sketch "Upper-Class Twit of the Year," a group of bumbling aristocrats compete on an obstacle course full of challenges both athletic (leaping over books of matches) and misanthropic (kicking beggars, insulting waiters).
Ellis made a twit of himself there, accusing us of leaking info available on public websites, and here we are now, applauding the triumph over adversity of an activist for whom he apparently had little love or time.
Or the twit-twoo of a tawny owl – it is undeniably exciting to hear that sound at night.
Yet she still easily overwhelms Maxim Mironov's Ramiro, played as a ridiculous, awkward figure, a leading contender for upper-class twit of the year, who acts unconvincingly and makes desperately heavy weather of his arias.
It's a bunch of upper-class twits on a summer lawn, they're all dressed in tennis gear and straw hats, and it turns into a gore fest.
The comedy featured Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel, a Silly Party candidate in a spoof of the 1970 general election, and Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith, a participant in the Upper Class Twit of the Year contest.
And then there was me, easily the most clueless twit of the lot.
Does it look like we need a polo pitch round here?" Later, I read that Monty Python came to this park to film one of their sketches: "The Upper Class Twit of the Year".
Too bad the same can't be said about the two men running in a special election on Tuesday for the Congressional seat that Mr. Weiner forfeited after he sexted himself into political oblivion as the Twit of Tweets.
Sketches from the first two seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus were included: Upper Class Twit of the Year, Dead Parrot and Self-Defence Class (seen below).
