The Fab Four and The Funny Five* 🕺🎸🤣🇬🇧

The Beatles and Monty Python are almost perfect analogs from their perspective artistic genres: both were made up of war babies, came of age and prominence in the era of London's Swinging 60's, were incredibly revolutionary within their field, are still the most influential group in their field, and wrapped their careers up as perfectly succinctly as possible.

But I just noticed that if you try to match them up one-to-one as in "John Lennon = John Cleese" it doesn't QUITE work, but if you assign two Pythons to John or Paul it not only works out but it works out PERFECTLY:

Paul McCartney = the optimism & musicality of Eric Idle + the combustion engine of energy & creativity that was Terry Jones' drive leading other members of the group to grumble with annoyance

John Lennon = John Cleese's love of wordplay & never suffering fools + the absolute Lewis Carroll absurdism of Graham Chapman

It's almost so beautiful to realized that I don't wanna Google it because I find it hard to believe I'm the first person who's thought of this. And yes I understand the irony in there not being an example for George Harrison, whose connections with Monty Python are in the movie canon (pssst - I'd forgotten my theory about Lennon accidentally influencing Life of Brian, so excuse me while I pat myself on the big big brain for a hot minute). 🕺🎸🤣🇬🇧 

* trademarked XMASTIME 2025, you're welcome very much