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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
No, none of the Pythons have OBEs. My freaking uncle had an OBE, but none of the Pythons. Go figure.
Government sanction is not a requirement. Please note original post quoted above.
Chaplin's Lifetime Achievement award is duly noted. Pity the Academy never saw fit to give either him or any of his work a specific award, but then very little of what wins an Academy Award has anything to do with the quality of the work under consideration.
So, so far, I've found two bits of American silliness that have been recognized by credible institutions. You have found one great British actor who was chased out of the US by the tax authorities and because he married a very young woman, and who, belatedly was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by an apparently contrite Academy of MPAS.
It isn't looking good for any of the other nations or cultures at this point. Although, if the British have seen fit to knight Mr. Pratchett, then there's a real contribution to the thread, and thank you!
The other stuff .... since it doesn't relate to the original post, I am simply ignoring. I would have thought that the French or the Germans .... someone else, any one else, would have had some culturally significant silliness that had been recognized by some credible group.
Guess not. Too bad.
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Eric Frank Russell won the Hugo in 1955 (Best Short Story), for a nice piece of silliness called Allamagoosa. (But I still think Study In Still Life was sillier.)