The Monty Python TV and Film Thread

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Okay let talk Monty Python, tv series and movies. Your favorite skit , f Python member. Why do you think the show is so timeless and what what did you think of the show the first time that saw it. Which of their films did you like most and what about the each members solo efforts in film and other mediums ? :)

What impact and influence do you think they had on tv and on world culture ? Thoughts?:)
 
This may be heresy, but I don't think it is timeless. Ok some things the team did still work today, but a lot of the sketches just aren't funny anymore. If you listen to episodes of I'm sorry I'll read that again, in comparison, mostly it is still funny and also you hear a sort of embryonic Python, as well as an embryonic Goodies, another series that was funny then but seems mildly amusing now. I guess Python made an impact on TV because there was very little on for it to compete against, the same way that say Star Trek had an impact with TV sci fi, it wasn't so much that these early programmes were so great just that the competition was pretty awful. I believe they reached a peak with Brian, closely followed by Holy Grail.
 
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Classic bit.:D

I first saw Monty Python back in the 1970's on PBS. I watched it and for some reason could not stop watching . It was absolutely the most bizarre tv show I had ever seen. It was so hypnotic. It took me a while get the cultural references and jokes. I grew to love the show and its off the wall zaniness and its cast of crazies . I liked Graham Chapman best of all. :)
 
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I think it was one of the first British shows I watched in English, maybe around 15 years ago. They would air it on a pretty indie-ish pay-per-view Spanish comedy channel at around 1 AM, and I remember staying up late with my Mum to watch it. It was probably one of the shows that really made me be interested in British culture in general, and from that point I started exploring other comedians, which led to... Well, everything else! :)

It would be really hard to choose a favourite... Eric Idle or John Cleese. I think I have a permanent crush on Michael Palin, though.
 
The John Cleese Memoir, Now Anyway, is a fun read. It's fascinating how the young threads of the various Python actors fell together, so long ago, and amazing how many other well-known comic Names were involved with the Gestation of the Flying Circus. And what a fluke it was that BBC not only approved their undescribed, potential show; but continuously allowed the Pythons to get away with such blasphemous nonsense.
 
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