Associated Press Article About Spamalot Showing Up At Various Online Sites

An Associated Press article which includes some things about Spamalot from the first portion of the Newsweek interview is beginning to show up all over the internet. The article is as follows:

New York — Clay Aiken, who joins the cast of "Monty Python's Spamalot" this week, says its humor was initially lost on him.

"The first time I saw it I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen in my entire life," the "American Idol" runner-up and Raleigh, North Carolina, native told Newsweek. "My tour drummer is the 'Spamalot' drummer, and (he) said you've got to see it again."

Aiken plays one of the leads, Sir Robin, in the Tony Award-winning musical in a stint from Friday through May 4. He told the magazine he was so sore from rehearsals he "couldn't even get off the toilet the other day."

"It hurts so bad. I don't know if it's I'm not coordinated or using muscles I never had to use before," he said.

The show is based on the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," which came out in 1975, a little before the 29-year-old singer's time.

"I thought Monty Python was a person until three months ago," Aiken told Newsweek for editions on newsstands on Monday.

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Here are some sites that are carrying that article:

• WRAL.com (Raleigh)
• The Canadian Press
• Mercury News.com
  USA Today
• The Herald Sun (Durham/Chapel Hill) (Note: You can only read this article if you are a registered user)
• The Daily Comet (Thibodeaux, LA)
• Prince George Citizen.com (Canada)

More internet sites are bound to be showing up with this article. We'll keep you posted.