The Monty Python TV and Film Thread

[BAYLOR]

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.

And given the skits and bits that they did, they really pushed the envelope .

 

[REBerg]

They set the bar for humor of the absurd. I don't know that anyone else has reached or surpassed them in that category.

 

[hopewrites]

My x used seasons 1-3 to fall asleep.
I did eventually work futurama seasons 1 and 2 into the rotation.

I can't sleep with a show on. So it wasn't long into our 8 yr relationship before I could out quote him.

I always enjoyed the housewife skits. "Intercourse the penguin" my favorite part of the exploding penguin but.
Scott of the Antarctic, classic.

My x's parahana was named Dunsdale. He used *whimper* sarcasm.

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Been separated longer than we were together now, so I'm probably a bit rusty. Haven't really watched much from their together years since the split as I'd seen it all so much.

Quite enjoyed Brazil. And the one about the traveling performers who step into the guys mind and shape his imagination (sorry can't remember the name of that one.)

Somewhere on YouTube is the Lego version of Knights of the Round Table. Throw that in for favorite parody.

 

[REBerg]

Another favorite, the Sam Peckinpah" parody, Salad Days.

"Lionel, catch!"

(Caution: contains significant mock violence and pseudo-blood -- like most Peckinpah films )

 

[BAYLOR]

Me too! It is my all time favorite! Oh Bevers I thought you were so rugged.! Lol

It's pretty twisted stuff.

 

[BAYLOR]

Another favorite, the Sam Peckinpah" parody, Salad Days.

"Lionel, catch!"

(Caution: contains significant mock violence and pseudo-blood -- like most Peckinpah films )

Brillant funny.

 

[BAYLOR]

Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition !

 

[Hilarious Joke]

My Dad and brothers and I never get sick of:

"Thwow him to the floor, vewy woughly!"

 

[BAYLOR]

MR GUMBY : " I would like to met someone with superior intelligence "

 

[BAYLOR]

Cardinal Fang , fetch the comfy chair !

 

[REBerg]

Cardinal Fang , fetch the comfy chair !

OMG! Not the comfy chair! Anything but the comfy chair! Give me the rack!

 

[J Riff]

Chapman as the Major.
I have warned this posting board.. about being silly. Now clear off! and let's have a decent thread about something sensible.

 

[farntfar]

IS this what you thought you were voting to avoid?

 

[REBerg]

IS this what you thought you were voting to avoid?

Monty Prophets Flying Circus?

 

[Mythopoet]

Man, it's been a while since I watched Monty Python. Mostly because there was a time some years ago when my husband and I watched Flying Circus over and over so many times that we actually got tired of it. Also one of the dvds broke and most of the others are badly scratched. (One of these days we'll have to replace them since our kids are starting to get old enough to appreciate it.)

I think my favorite sketch (or at least near the top of my favorites) is the Cycling Tour because it's just so bizarre and it carries through its absurdity so far. I think I tend to like the Palin/Jones sketches most.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Dead Parrot is my favourite - the phrase "That is an ex parrot" happens to come up in life so often.

However, I retain a fondness from this snippet from the 25th Anniversary:

 

[J Riff]

Don't Miss - The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as we Know It. Cleese as Holmes, say no more.

 

[Starbeast]

Monty Python!? I'm in.

 

[Silver Bee]

I love this adorable classic little moment of the Parrot Sketch in which Michael Palin loses it for a moment and chuckles after John Cleese delivers a line in an overtly theatrical way. Delightful

 

[Starbeast]

For me, wacky, silly, yet intelligent comedy has always been a treat for me to watch. It's like "Live-Action" cartoons. People in the Monty Python sketches are surreal, yet familiar in our real world. A great deal of it is for adult viewing, but so were Bugs Bunny & Loony Tune cartoons back in the 1940's. I became aware of Monty Python's Flying Circus when I was a kid (1970's). My brother and I would enjoy watching the show on Sunday along with Dr Who. Later, the big news came out that the Monty Python crew were to appear in a feature film (1975). I became a fan forever.

Like the Three Stooges, I could watch those funny people of Monty Python until the end of time.