Monty Python

[Boss]

I happened to tune into some MP Flying Circus on PBS tonight just in time for "Twit of the year". Man, I forgot how funny that was.

I got to poking around and came across a pretty good MP site with tons of pics, wavs, downloads, etc.

Just like Phil, Monty Python will always be funny.

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/

[Chef Carl Chodillia]

"you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with-- A HERRING!"

[Spooner]

Next to olympic hide-and-seek, this one's still my top fave of all the MPFC bits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsW9DO1k5-s&search=monty%20python%20joke

"My dog has no nose..."

[Vako]

Some that come to mind are "The Ministry of Silly Walks", The Parrot Sketch", and "Confuse-a-Cat".

Monty Python was on PBS when I got home from junior high. I caught the show on and off for years since then. A friend had the DVD set of them, so of course I looked at all of it. Some worthwhile, although random deal there. I think that the Brits made that stuff to rot the brains of Yanks.

[Quipa]

My first viewing of a set of tits was though Monty Python. It was on a Sunday night in the early 70’s, I was around 9 years old and Monty Python was on PBS and they did thier full Frontal Nudity episode where John Cleese walked into a local drug store and a naked women was standing behind the counter. There was no bush showing, just a descent pair of C-cups.
:savvy: -ALOT

[CommunistaCow]

I happened to tune into some MP Flying Circus on PBS tonight just in time for "Twit of the year". Man, I forgot how funny that was.

I got to poking around and came across a pretty good MP site with tons of pics, wavs, downloads, etc.

Just like Phil, Monty Python will always be funny.

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/

That is one of the funniest bits I've ever seen. Friday nights in college were awesome - Monty Python followed by SCTV. :rock:

[Chef Carl Chodillia]

my wife gave me the box set of their BBC show for xmas last year. AND, the holy grail action figures!

[FatSlider]

My first viewing of a set of tits was though Monty Python. It was on a Sunday night in the early 70’s, I was around 9 years old and Monty Python was on PBS and they did thier full Frontal Nudity episode where John Cleese walked into a local drug store and a naked women was standing behind the counter. There was no bush showing, just a descent pair of C-cups.
:savvy: -ALOT

I was in junior high a the time, and several of us were watching this "new" British show being aired Sunday nights. I remember the that scene well. We were all talking about it, and I secretly couldn't wait until it was shown again. The sketch, I believe, was A Day in the Life of a Chartered Accountant, or something along those lines, and I think the main character was played by Michael Palin, not Cleese.

A couple of years later this new show came on, called Saturday Night Live, and the buzz was that it was "sort of like Monty Python, only American."

[Spooner]

This was a rare local TV interview from Texas back in the '70s. Fans may dig it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhcsm6CNqI&search=1975

[Nebraskans4Hendrie]

And now for something completely different... a man with three buttocks!

[Spooner]

Nebraskee, I have but one question for you: Are you now... or have you evah been... a... mason?"

[meatinyourmouth]

Nebraskee, I have but one question for you: Are you now... or have you evah been... a... mason?"


"I wouldn't become a Freemason now if you got down on your stinking rotten knees and BEGGED me!!"

[Spooner]

Remember Palin in the halibut-scented aftershave commercial? "Ayeee likes it 'cause it leaves me shkin noyce an' shcaly!"

[Quipa]

This was a rare local TV interview from Texas back in the '70s. Fans may dig it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhcsm6CNqI&search=1975

:worship: Thanks Billy for that awsome link! :rock:

[Quipa]

The sketch, I believe, was A Day in the Life of a Chartered Accountant, or something along those lines, and I think the main character was played by Michael Palin, not Cleese.
You are probably right. It was a long time ago and I wasn't looking at the actor how walked in. Thanks for the correction.

[Spooner]

Did you guys know that Cleese cited as his favorite bit, the fish dance?...The bit where Cleese and Palin are on a dock hopping up and down alternately taking turns hitting each other on the head with a big dead fish. I laughed for 20 minutes on his commentary about why it was his fave.

[Quipa]

I watched the “BEST OF” the Pythons, where each member picked their favorite skits and each created an hour-long episode. John’s wheelchaired senile narrative between skits along with his greedy young bodacious wife is a classic in itself.
Here is John’s web site :worship: http://www.thejohncleese.com/Broen-and-Ruth-Wuz-Here.html .

[Spooner]

I tried to navigate through that site, but it was ponderous. Where do I go to see/hear that clip you're talkin' about, Quip?

[Quipa]

Billy ;
My post didn’t come from the web site. It came from the PBS series that ran last February. The web site is just a link to John Cleese’s site. Sorry for the mix up. When you wrote about John’s favorite skit being the “Fish Dance”, which was on John’s PBS special, I assumed that was what you were talking about.

[CommunistaCow]

Don't forget the "Self-Defense with Fresh Fruit" bit.

I too saw the Best Of show where the MP guys each talked about his fave. Great show with even greater inside comments about some of the bits.

[Booze]

I always found it strange that Python was popular in the States. Until I got a bit older & got to know some of you 'gloids on SFJ & your anglophile tastes, that is.

I'm glad though. Looking back on the TV series, I find some of it really dated (although lots of it is still really funny). What I really dig is Life Of Brian & Hollywood Bowl.

Have any of you seen the Secret Policemans Ball Amnesty gigs? I know it's not strictly Python, but seeing Cleese & Palin perform with the likes of Peter Cook & a barely known Rowan Atkinson is even better, if you ask me. Especially as they seem to be trying to make each other crack up laughing the whole time.

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On the topic odf English comedies. Anyone seen the TV show Peep Show? I watched all six episodes this weekend. I wasn't that into it during the first episode but after getting through that one I started loving the show. I love episode where the guy gets a man crush on his coworker Alan Johnson (and starts growing a mustache to be more like him). The roommate's music track that he's been working on for 5 months is hilarious.

[Fish Whammy]

If you get near Broadway, I heartily recommend "Spamalot." I brought my kids on New Year's Eve, after which we stood in Times Square for the official ball drop...if you'll pardon the expression. Cows and bunnies do indeed fly, and I hear Penn & Teller helped with the Black Knight's de-limbing. We met them two summers ago at their Vegas show, and though you'd expect Teller to speak normally when he's offstage, it's still weird when he does.

If New York is too far, there is a touring production starting next year, plus a version coming to Vegas. And if nothing else, treat yourself to the cast album CD. Imagine "Knights of the Round Table" as a Broadway production number! (Patsy's coconuts double as King Arthur's tap dance sfx.) And David Hyde Pierce sings my favorite new Eric Idle lyric: "There's a very small percentile who enjoys a dancing Gentile." Wonderful stuff!

[Quipa]

:savvy:alot; Seen it. It was Great!