I actually don't find them funny anymore, although in my younger years I think I knew every word to the Holy Grail and the Life of Brian. One sketch that I have never stopped thinking about, though, is the Grim Reaper bit at the end of the Meaning of Life.
Angela: Who is it, darling?
Geoffrey: It’s a Mr Death or something… he’s come about the reaping…
[To Reaper.] I don’t think we need any at the moment.
Gets me every time.
What's your favourite? Or what sticks in your mind and emerges from time to time?
Remind us of one or two.
I didn't expect some sort of Spanish Inquisition.........
....and you tell that to kids these days.
I always thought Monty Python was 80% rubbish with the rest being very funny, I always liked the fish dance.
"...just one more waffer thin mint."
Is still said in our house when have pigged out.
'tis just a scratch
After some bloomin' bad crashes...
Mr Simpson : Ah, well, there's the problem, due to bad planning the whole 122, 000 miles is in 3 inch lengths...
Adrian Wapcaplett: well, that our selling point, Simpson's Individual stringettes, the now string, ready cut easy to handle...Simpson's Emperor Individual stringettes, just the right length.
Mr Simpson: For what?
It was always a curious mix of satire, slapstick, the surreal and the frankly bizarre. The start of the dead parrot sketch being a case in point:
"Hello miss"
"What do you mean Miss?"
"I'm sorry, I've a cold"
Often think of the following when reading some of the political threads on here....
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: [shakes Dennis] Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!
Arthur: Bloody Peasant!
Dennis: Ooh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
I always thought Monty Python was 80% rubbish with the rest being very funny
Yup.
I have the complete series as a DVD box set, I bought it on a whim years ago (I think it may have been a pricing error or something) so got to binge-watch it. I'd concur that whilst the better stuff is some of the funniest material ever committed to tape, there is a lot of dross and filler. The signal to noise ratio is nowhere near as high as we'd remember.
"the name's 'Pither'. Like 'Brotherhood' but with a P I instead of a B R O and no 'hood' "
What a silly bunt.
Romanes Eunt Domus
The playwright's son who goes off to Yorkshire to become a coal miner.
"I'm Brian and so is my wife" cracks me up every time I hear it, as does "blessed are the greek".
There’s no pleasing some people..
Romanes eunt domus
I forgot about that bit. Fantastic!
As is...
'I think it was, "Blessed are the cheesemakers"!'
'What's so special about the cheesemakers?'
'Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.'
He is an halibut. I chose him out of thousands, didn't like the others they were all too flat.
Some of it is very clever. But not much.
Good stuff:
Life of Brian (all of it)
Four Yorkshiremen
Coal miner dad/playwright son
Deja vu
Cheese shop
On balance, Meaning of Life, I think
Bad stuff:
I'll get flamed for this but - Holy Grail.
Who are you calling big-nose?
On topic
Life of Brian, when they're hiding in the house, the whole scene, but mostly the old fella.. "I'm just an old old man..." etc. Bring tears to the eyes
And do you in fact have two sheds?
Ah yes, "Can I call you Eddie Baby"?
"Oh what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'Ni' at will to old ladies.There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history".
From The Meaning of Life:
<span class="character">Chaplain</span>: Let us praise God. O Lord...
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: O Lord...
<span class="character">Chaplain</span>: ...Ooh, You are so big...
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: ...ooh, You are so big...
<span class="character">Chaplain</span>: ...So absolutely huge.
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: ...So absolutely huge.
<span class="character">Chaplain</span>: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
<span class="character">Chaplain</span>: Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and...
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: And barefaced flattery.
<span class="character">Chaplain</span>: But You are so strong and, well, just so super.
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: Fantastic.
<span class="character">Humphrey</span>: Amen.
<span class="character">Congregation</span>: Amen.
God this formatting thing is rubbish!!
Without a doubt the Biggus Dickus bit in Life of Brian.
Even Michael Palin struggles to keep a straight face!
The Holy Handgranade of Antioch
The silly Olympics -
incontinence marathon.
"...and there is not a tight sphincter in sight. I can see they are all desperate to go."
"Over to the pool for the 50m for non-swimmers........And we will return once they start fishing the corpses out."
Four Yorkshiremen was very funny, but wasn't Python.
The silly Olympics –
incontinence marathon.
“…and there is not a tight sphincter in sight. I can see they are all desperate to go.”
“Over to the pool for the 50m for non-swimmers……..And we will return once they start fishing the corpses out.”
That gets me every time. I still refer back to the swimming sketch whenever the olympics is on. The marathon sketch has me in floods of tears.
The 100 yard dash for those with no sense of direction was another one that has me in hysterics.
I think there is so much that is not laugh-out-loud funny, but just clever and surreal, which i always enjoyed.
Obviously, the films are great: The TV series could be condensed down to a greatest hits package; albeit a large one.
I also love the upper class twit of the year show:
"...and his mother won the Derby"
Are you the Judean Peoples Front?
**** off!
The wonderful "French" taunting...
I <b>don</b>'t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your <b>father smelt</b> of elderberries.
The Brian song is excellent.
Too much of it to quote here but the 127th Upper Class Twit of the Year Show is quite outstanding too.
What's this forum ever done for us?
G'Day Bruce..
I also have a few venues locally that some of you may recognise:
(Outlander fans too)
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Oohh Mr Belpit my big legs are all swollen.
Argument Clinic
Replying to that risks a ban…
The response to which would be presumably be " Don't you oppress me mate!"
Brian opens his shutters to thronging streets of would-be worshippers:
BRIAN: Look. You've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals!
FOLLOWERS: Yes, we're all individuals!
BRIAN: You're all different!
FOLLOWERS: Yes, we are all different!
DENNIS: I'm not.
He's not the Messiah- he's a vewwy naughty boy!
Four Yorkshiremen was very funny, but wasn’t Python.
They definitely look like the pythons lol
It was pre-Python. The original sketch was a couple of Pythons, Tim Brooke-Taylor and, erm, someone else.
Ah, here you go in fact:
"Pre Monty Python sketch from the TV who show At Last The 1948 Show starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman."
Gotta love the Internet.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Lest anyone miss captainflashheart's cleverness...
🙂
Are there any women here??
and
He has a wife you know...