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I have been in love with Monty Python, opening up the genre of Britsh Comedy too me (enlightenment would suit as a better term). What do you all think of Monty Pythin> The series? The movies? The lumberjack song?

P.S: If you frequently watch disney channel, and find that funny, dont even bother too vote.

For nay-sayers, and monty python virgins:

The "unexplainable" murder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNq-jrcgtBw

Britans most awful family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fQ32TTgcY

The world funniest joke on earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IysnS5wO60g

Hitler's english cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_D7WtOHZd0

The lumberjack song!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Ly2XCE3jQ

Seeing double: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebZxBEBfodc

Dirty mouthed Hungarians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6x6ePMN5k8

Greek and german generalazation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xpNj9nhoH4

How too not be seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZnGprplKU

How too stop a Banana! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZqx30OvVs

Twit Olympics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWo3oDmjY4g

The Great Black Knight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9HrinSGOvs

Monty Python is British-American comedy. Terry Gilliam is an American.

Tungsten carbide steel!

and...

Rotating knives.

For shame for not linking to The Spam Song.

Monty Python is British-American comedy. Terry Gilliam is an American.

Hahahah. No, it's not. Sorry. Terry Gilliam was born in America, but grew up here. He's as British as I am.

I really like the last supper sketch, it's my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loAE7DdXAwY

Hahahah. No, it's not. Sorry. Terry Gilliam was born in America, but grew up here. He's as British as I am.


Micheal Whats-his-face (Can't remeber his last name and I'm to lazy to look it up on Wikipedia right now) was born in Minnesota (and Raised in Britan)

I think you need to be tied to the rack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO68fUMWx3g) for forgetting the Spanish Inquisition!

amazing.

I have been in love with Monty Python, opening up the genre of Britsh Comedy too me (enlightenment would suit as a better term). What do you all think of Monty Pythin> The series? The movies? The lumberjack song?


The fucking best thing ever to come from Britain.

They should overthrow the Blair and have Pythoncracy.

The fucking best thing ever to come from Britain.

They should overthrow the Blair and have Pythoncracy.

Besides the last supper one, does anyone else have a favorite sketch? Mine is when Lancelot attacks that one castle, in "The Holy Grail".

Besides the last supper one, does anyone else have a favorite sketch? Mine is when Lancelot attacks that one castle, in "The Holy Grail".
LOL
"there were only 12 disciples and one Christ!"
"ONE!?!"
"YES! ONE... What possessed you to make the portrait with THREE Christs?!?"

I love em all!



ALBATROSS!

Here ya go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITeuaqcpckc

Hahahah. No, it's not. Sorry. Terry Gilliam was born in America, but grew up here. He's as British as I am.
Nope. Gilliam went to Occidental College in LA. He's as British as Madonna.

More SPAM !!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITeuaqcpckc



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTRlsYud16s&mode=related&search=

I think the holy grail movie was thier best, out of them all.

Do you get Fawlty Towers in America?

It's made by John Clease and monty python fans would love it!

I think the holy grail movie was thier best, out of them all.

so you didn't see Life of Brian? As a Christian it's freaking hilarious.

so you didn't see Life of Brian? As a Christian it's freaking hilarious.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid.

"We are the knights that say Ni."

Argh he said it. No now I said it. No I said it again." :D


One of my fave sketches is the Dead Parr.ot

so you didn't see Life of Brian? As a Christian it's freaking hilarious.

Advertised in Norway as "the film that was banned in Sweden." Or possibly the other way around.

Quote:

Hahahah. No, it's not. Sorry. Terry Gilliam was born in America, but grew up here. He's as British as I am.

Nope. Gilliam went to Occidental College in LA. He's as British as Madonna.

ROTFLMAO!! :) Thanks!

Do you get Fawlty Towers in America?

It's made by John Clease and monty python fans would love it!

Of course we do. In fact, we get most BBC programming, be it on BBC America or (back in the day and to a lesser extent now), on PBS (Public Television).

Before I could drive, my family built a house in the forest in Connecticut. We got exactly 3 TV stations which included CBS (yes, it sucked then too) and TWO PBS stations.

So my TV diet from 1984-1990 consisted of:
Monty Python
Doctor Who
Are you being Served?
Benny Hill
The Young Ones
Blakes' 7
Various BBC productions on "Mystery!" (ie: Gallowglass)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
BlackAdder
Fawlty Towers
I, Claudius
Red Dwarf
Dad's Army
Connections

...which, since other children in school had cable TV (or at least a dozen stations) made me a bit different. I mean, the only show I could discuss in the lunchroom was "Tour of Duty", at the time the ONLY good show on CBS!

BTW: There was one show which I don't know if it a Britcom or not: it was historical, and involved a news anchor interviewing people about the Black Death and such. Does anyone have a clue what it was called?

Advertised in Norway as "the film that was banned in Sweden." Or possibly the other way around.So it was.

I, Claudius

Oh how I loved the acting in I, CLAVDIVS. The spinning camera in the one episode was especially great.:rolleyes:

so you didn't see Life of Brian? As a Christian it's freaking hilarious.

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home."
Centurion: No, it doesn't! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus"!
Centurion: Goes like?
Brian: Annus.
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Annus" is?
Brian: Er, er, annus, anni, anno, annum, anno, anni... "Romani"!
Centurion: [writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go"!
Brian:Er, "Ire." Er, "eo," "is," "it," "imus," "itis," "eunt."
Centurion: So, "eunt" is... ?
Brian Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans go home" is an order. So you must use... ? [twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh! The imperative!
Centurion; Which is...?
Brian: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaaagh! Er, er... "i"!
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh! Plural, plural... er, "ite"!
Centurion: [writes "ite" on wall] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion toward, isn't it?
Brian: Dative! [Centurion holds a sword at Brian's throat] Aaagh! Not the dative, not the dative! Er, er... accusative, "ad domus"!
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er... "Domum"!
Centurion: [writes "Domum" on wall] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.


I love Latin. :D

Oh how I loved the acting in I, CLAVDIVS. The spinning camera in the one episode was especially great.:rolleyes:

Heh. It's the BBC! I expect production values to be low and the special effects to be woeful, but the acting is usually good to exceptional.

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home."
Centurion: No, it doesn't! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus"!
Centurion: Goes like?
Brian: Annus.
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Annus" is?
Brian: Er, er, annus, anni, anno, annum, anno, anni... "Romani"!
Centurion: [writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go"!
Brian:Er, "Ire." Er, "eo," "is," "it," "imus," "itis," "eunt."
Centurion: So, "eunt" is... ?
Brian Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans go home" is an order. So you must use... ? [twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh! The imperative!
Centurion; Which is...?
Brian: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaaagh! Er, er... "i"!
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh! Plural, plural... er, "ite"!
Centurion: [writes "ite" on wall] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion toward, isn't it?
Brian: Dative! [Centurion holds a sword at Brian's throat] Aaagh! Not the dative, not the dative! Er, er... accusative, "ad domus"!
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er... "Domum"!
Centurion: [writes "Domum" on wall] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.


I love Latin. :D

As do I. That's a great part.
Another great part is:

Reg: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man —
Stan: Or woman.
Reg: Why don't you shut up about women, Stan? You're putting us off.
Stan: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
Francis: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
Stan: I want to be one.
Reg, Francis: What?
Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me "Loretta".
Reg: Wha'?
Loretta: It's my right as a man.
Judith: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Loretta: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!
Loretta: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But... you can't have babies.
Loretta: Don't you oppress me!
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan, you haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?
[Stan/Loretta starts to cry.]
Judith: Here! I-I've got an idea. Suppose that you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb — which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans' — but that he can have the right to have babies.
Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry.
Reg: Wh-what's the point?
Francis: Wha'?
Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?
Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.

Micheal Whats-his-face (Can't remeber his last name and I'm to lazy to look it up on Wikipedia right now) was born in Minnesota (and Raised in Britan)

Michael Palin? Born in Yorkshire.

And Terry Gilliam has British Citizenship so...yeah.:p