Injustice

What the hell is wrong with London? Olivier Award nominations were announced today, and not only was Wicked almost completely ignored, fucking Spamalot was the top nomination recipient??? I consider myself fairly sophisticated and intelligent, but I cannot for the life of me find any humor in the vast majority of Monty Python's material. I thought the Holy Grail movie was dull, pointless, and completely absurd, so unless the humor and point are in the
absurdity (and I'm generally not fond of those kind of movies), I just don't see what the attraction is. On top of that, the Spamalot score does nothing for me. I don't find it clever and the music is nothing special. How the hell did this get seven nods? Contrast this with Wicked, the smartest and most entertaining musical since Kiss of the Spider Woman, which only received four nominations, one for director Joe Mantello, who deserves to win, and three technical awards. How the hell did Idina Menzel get ignored? She won a fucking Tony for Christ's sake. Here's hopeing Avenue Q pulls a repeat and ends up the dark horse winner again.