{"id":25560,"date":"2019-12-31T00:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=25560"},"modified":"2019-12-30T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:22:29","slug":"how-sweet-to-be-an-idiot-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=25560","title":{"rendered":"How Sweet to Be an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neil Innes passed away on 12.29.19.<br>That makes me very sad.<br>He was one of the original members of The<br>Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, founder of The Rutles,<br>and considered by some to be the 7th Python, a<br>tribute to his work with Monty Python on<br>various projects, including some of their movies<br>and tours like the Live at the Hollywood Bowl gig.<br>He was a talented comedian and songwriter, not to<br>mention a real gentleman and a scholar.<br>This is one of the songs that I associate with him. <br>I&#8217;ll play more of his material this week as a tribute.<br>He used to utter this line doing his performances&#8230;<br> &#8220;I&#8217;ve suffered for my music. Now it&#8217;s your turn.&#8221; <br>Rest in Peace Mr. Innes, you will be missed.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Neil Innes &quot;How Sweet To Be An Idiot&quot;\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UHNJuGbD_PQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Innes passed away on 12.29.19.That makes me very sad.He was one of the original members of TheBonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, founder of The Rutles,and considered by some to be the 7th Python, atribute to his work with Monty Python onvarious projects, including some of their moviesand tours like the Live at the Hollywood Bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25561,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25560\/revisions\/25561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}