Top 10 Funniest Monty Python Sketches
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Has YOUR hovercraft ever been full of eels? For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down iconic moments from the entire catalogue of Britain’s all-time greatest comedy troupe, Monty Python. Featuring the lumberjack song, dead parrot, Black Knight, and much more! Let us know in the comments which “Python” sketch you quote on a daily basis.
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Top 10 Iconic Monty Python Moments
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WHAT!!! You omitted the travel agent sketch, where Eric Idle (Smoke Toomuch) can't pronounce the letter C - especially Eric's rant whilst being ushered out of the Hollywood Bowl.
'Eees pinin' for the fjords
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" One of their best quotes.
Even better: "I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night half an hour before i went to bed"
A former neighbor of mine had a parrot. I couldn't help myself when he went away for a week and taught her to say "Remarkable bird! Beautiful plumage!" Needed to be done.
You were lucky - we rescued our African Grey from a mens club and the only thing he ever said was `f*** the vicar' every time our padre friend came to visit!
@@jonathonsmith2114 Oh, I would have just loved to have seen the look on the vicar's face when he came to visit!
Look, my lad, I've had enough of this - that parrot is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not more that half an hour ago, you assured me that it's lack of movement was due to it's being tired and shagged out following a long squawk.
Yes it did, Christopher…yes it did.
I vote for the Biggus Dickus and his wife Incontinenta scene.
Incontinentia Buttocks, awesome. happy days, when comedy was funny.
I agree also
Funniest scene ever 😂
Do you find it wisible when I say the name Biggus Dickus?
That's a great one alright! Me and my kids still joke about that ... also 'what did the Romans ever do for us'?
This should have been a top 20 list because there are so many funny moments from Monty Python
Still can't get enough.
Could probably make it top 100 😃. My favourite film of all time, and always will be, is Life Of Brian. My son and I are always quoting bits from it, much to the annoyance of the rest of the family lol
Top 100 would have done it for me. 😂🥰
YES!
Stacking things on top of other things definitely could've been a top 10 list.
You missed Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink. One of my favourite sketches from them.
The cheese shop?
Nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, know what I mean?
Say no more....
@@saldiven2009 nudge nudge
@@michaelcap9550 Along with "The Whizzo Quality Assortment" "Spam with Vikings" sketches. I agree that 10 isn't nearly enough...
The cheeseshop sketch always cracks me up. The way John lists so many cheeses while building up a head of steam never really got the recognition it (still) deserves....
Second the cheese shop, just a bit peckish..
@@TaxPayingContributor Esurient, even?
Its a bit runny!
@@davey60six65 I don't care how excrementally runny it is!
Wensleydale?
Yes?
Good.
I,m sorry, that’s my name, Mr. Wensleydale.
Brilliant.
"What have the Romans ever done for us?" from Life of Brian is surely another of the Pythons' most quotable scenes...
The best!!
The roads go without saying.
And the aquaducts! Oh yeah there's that!
"You yellow bar--steward! Come back here and take what's coming to ya! I'll bite your legs off!" 😂
The Black Knight scene will always be my favourite.
whatcha gonna do? Nibble me bum?
"I'm invincible!" And I believe he said yellow bastard.
The Spam Song, the Upperclass Twit of The Year Show, The Fish Dance......you need to do more lists.
Upper-class twit of the year is my favourite MP sketch of all-time, I don't know how that wasn't even mentioned on this list.
The Upperclass twit of the year is just soo True to life, lol.
You can do a Top 20 if not a Top 50.
The Fish Slapping Dance :)
The Bridge of Death & How Can You Tell She’s A Witch are a couple of my favorites, but there’s just so many to choose from
Monty Python were, and still are, one of the best comedy teams who ever lived. And some of these sketches are still so funny as ever, more than fifty years later.
Yes absolutely. Sometimes I feel like walking up to complete strangers and saying my hovercraft is full of eels and seeing what reaction I get ,love the python
@@alanrix5344 Probably a trip to the Psychiatric ward
As expected, the ex-parrot takes a lofty perch atop the countdown 😂Other favorites of mine include Vocational guidance counseling, “How not to be seen” and “The four Yorkshireman”
In this scene there are 40 people, none of whom can be seen.
@@EddieGaster Here’s where he was born, here’s wehere he went on holiday, and here’s the neighbour who told us where he was…. explosions occur seconds after narrator states each thing😂
@@dragonqueen6589 Mrs. Smegma can u stand up please?
@@EddieGaster To change things up,
God: Arthur Puty, are you a man or a mouse?!
Arthur: A man!
God: Now; You march back in there and get your wife back!
Puty (re-enters the room, head held high, knocking on the door to the cubicle where his wife and the counseller are *passionately hugging* Dierdre, you come out of there now!
Counseller (flatly) Go away.
Puty: Oh, okay
{sketch concludes} and I’m almost certain crelm toothpaste came after it😂
@@dragonqueen6589 Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.
It's Monty Python......there is no such thing as bad bits, just the bits that let you get your breath back.... legends
Maybe 10 years after the series, in the early 80s, I traveled a great deal, and in the course of my travels I learned how to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in 21 languages. This one phrase opened so many doors, with people who had never heard of the Pythons, that I have dozens and dozens of very happy stories about what it led to. (My favorite version was probably the Swedish because it just sounds so funny...)
I'll be sure to look that version of the phrase - thanks for the heads-up, my friend.
Now THAT'S funny!
Tá mo sciorrárthach lán d’eascanna.
Meine luftkisserfastzeit ist volle alle. Sorry Germany.
What word in swedish did you use for hovercraft? Svävare? Svävarfarkost? Regardless, i bet it's funny in any language
Palin: "What to go back to my place?"
Cleese: "Yah, all right."
It's impossible for me to pick any single bit as "the best", because they ALWAYS made me laugh to the point of tears.
As a young man watching those epic sketches was a life changing experience.
First time i've watched them i was already like 11 or 12 years old (back in the early-mid 90's) it was on a older cousin's VHS and i honestly didn't think much of it. Despite being from an European country, Monty Python was just not a regular show on tv when i was growing-up. When i was 16 years old i decided to revisit the tv-series, after renting (my parents i mean😆) Life of Brian and The Holy Grail for the weekend. When you understand the context of when it was made, what was made at the time (by comparison) and all the nuances in-between... it really is one of those few true life-changing pieces of media!
It really was. If you see Python at an early age it changes you.
Loved Monty Python . Thanks to PBS who brought them to America. Still hilarious after all these years.
Still crazy after all these years
@@Psychol-Snooper Sooo true.
@@Psychol-Snooper So true and also a fantastic song by Paul Simon!
@@clairejohnson6522 I was only going for the play on words to quote the lyrics. I guess in reminiscence. ☺
It's a wonder you American's understand Brittish comedy?
My favorite from the Holy Grail was the “bring out your dead” bit. I loved the old man saying “I’m not dead yet”.
shut up, you aren't fooling anyone
Or the "I'm getting better"
@@michaelmeyer6306 No you're not. Youll be stone dead in a moment.
The spamalot song is even better
" 'E looked like a king."
" 'ow do you know that?"
" 'E hasn't got shit all 'imself"
Not only is always look at the bright side of life a great scene, but I've been to three funerals in my life where it has been played and apparently is one of the most requested songs to be played at a funeral. Got to love that
Not a bad list, but how can you leave out these, in no particular order: 1. Cheese shop
2. Fish license / Eric the half a bee
3. Travel agent (silly bunt)
4. Decomposing composers
5. Australian table wines
6. Self defense against fresh fruit
7. Accountancy vs lion taming
8. Olympic soccer philosophy: Germany vs Greece
9. Mountaineer sketch (double vision)
10. The German episode
Every one a gem 😂😂😂👌👌
Every one a Maserati...
@@zolfodor4835 Scott of the Antartic, Yes SPAM! Cheese Shop, Michael hosting Prejudice, Eric hosting that Oscars-type show, RAF banter etc.
I’m so pleased Monty Python showed us the plight of trans lumberjacks before it became popular. He’s “okay” indeed.
He's not trans. He's gay.
@@robertmatthews2009 He's not gay, he's a very naughty boy.
He's not trans, he's a cross dresser.
@@davidbecker8227 I see we have a post from "Buzz Killington".
Oh is that what they’re wearing now cutting down trees now… Hampstead not good enough for em
I quote "My hovercraft is full of eels" and "I will not buy this record, EET is scratched!" all the time. I love that skit!
My favorite Monty python
Sketch is when two old ladies lower class housewives (played by men) get together in a laundromat and argue about some obscure point of existentialism and then they row all the way over to Paris to ask Jean-Paul Sartre
Part of the outside scenery for that sketch was filmed in Elm Hill in Norwich. I was watching them while they were filming it!
@@dvdvnr Way cool! Thanks for sharing that.😎
These ladies are called "Pepper-pots" and appear in many Python sketches.
@@teamtamer In that sketch they also had names - one was Mrs Premise and the other was Mrs Conclusion. They also said hello to Mrs Cut-out (who was one of Terry Gilliam's cartoon ladies from the previous sketch).
Arthur’s duel with the Black Knight was hilarious. I do wish that the “terrible creature” guarding the Cave of Caerbannog could have also been included in the list.
When I saw that film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as a child when it first came out in the theatre, I was laughing so hard that my stomach was hurting.
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
It's only a rabbit.
Is it behind the rabbit?
It IS the rabbit.
YOU TIT! I soiled my armor, I was so scared! Manky Scots git!!
“It’s a killer man! With nasty big pointy teeth!”
@@paulweisgerber7654 Where? Behind the rabbit? One rabbit stew coming up!
My family still sings the Lumberjack Song. And, my son bought a t-shirt for me with the Black Knight on it with the caption..."Tis but a scratch" Big group of Python fans here.
"The Black Knight always wins!"
"I'm invincible!"
"Come here you pansy! I'll bleed all over you!"
"All right. We'll call it a draw"
CHEERS
Doug and Dinsdale Piranha being stalked by Spiny Norman, the giant hedgehog. Great mockumentary
They formed a gang which they called, "the gang". Classic
DINSDALE...........😬
All hilarious. But for some reason, I always associate Monty Python with "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!" 😆😂🤣
What! No Cheese Shop sketch? Or the Philosophy Department of Woolloomooloo (including the Philosophy Song)? Or the Shrubbery scene and Bloody Peasants scene ("some watery tart dispensing swords...") from the Holy Grail??
Too many classics to squeeze into a list of ten, I think!
Why didn't the Spam sketch get a mention? 🤔
One of the gems that’s sort of forgotten by and large, but not totally like so many.
I love them all , We used to go to Houston… check into a motel room when they had marathons of Monty python! Room service weed and Monty python!
Our laugh muscles in our face would hurt! 😅🤣❤️🔥🥸
The people with No sense
of direction ! 👇😉🤏
REALLY!!!!
BTW I really did just have SPAM for supper
We really don't need this running commentary. The humour speaks for itself.
When I clicked this. I thought "The first words I'd better hear are "Now you listen 'ere!"
I was not disappointed in the slightest.
I like “what did the Romans ever do for us?” in Life of Brian.
Biggus Dickus.
aside from that
I can't think of a bad Monty Python sketch of course, but my absolute favorite one is when I don't think it is as famous but maybe a lot of people remember hopefully. It's one where a village idiot is being interviewed, and when he's speaking in the interview he's very smart and very eloquent, but when people come along he starts acting like well the village idiot. It's a good sketch that you should look up if you haven't seen it
I surely remember. Great sketch which in a way reappears in life of Brian near the end. Two act like one is deaf and the other one stutters, but once they’re alone they’re fine
@@borhaptrash5454 that is a classic 😂😂👌👌
@@borhaptrash5454 couldn't tell you the last time I saw The Life of Brian, definitely on my watch soon list
“I may be an idiot, but I’m no fool.”
Or the serfs in the field discussing political philosophies.
The scene where King Authur argues with the french about coconuts 🥥 is hysterical and the cheese shop that seems to have no 🧀 are 2 of my favorits!!! Glad to see the argument clinic and dead parrot skits made the cut!!
Odd thing is, the cheese shop skit really happened in history, when the Russian Nihilists "The People's Will'", who assassinated Czar Alexander III, rented a shop so they could dig a tunnel under the parade route and fill it with dynamite. They stored all the dirt and rubble in cheese barrels in the back room but forgot to stock the shop with any cheese. So the government health inspector showed up one day, only to find the shop totally devoid of any trace of cheese but stocked with more dirt than he ever could've imagined. Only in Russia!
To be a complete pendant, the argument about coconuts was with fellow Englishmen, not French.
the cheese shop and crunchy frog are my two favorites
I love Monty Python more than life itself.
The Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the very first time I saw them. Needless to say, my jaw was totally on the floor.
"NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION"!!! I love that Monty Python skit. 😎
The Pythons were so brilliant that this could be a list of the top 100 sketches and you'd still leave a bunch out.
Yours etc., Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.)
P.S.: I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times
Nobody expects the Bicycle Repair Man sketch to appear.
All in a day's work for....Bicycle Repair Man!
It may not have been their best movie but Mr. Creosote still has me laughing. "It's waffer thin".
All mixed up in a bucket....with the eggs on top
@@screamingnighthog7155 And don't skimp on the pate.
These are all good, but one of my favorites will always be "self-defense against fresh fruit skit." I also love how it ends "When being stalked by an ugly mob carrying baskets of raspberries, you release the tiger..."
That's my youngest's favorite. "Are we going to learn about pointed sticks?"
@@sourisvoleur4854 Pointed sticks, getting all high and mighty are we.
“You SHOT him!”
“He attacked me with a BANANA!!”
Thanks for explaining why it's funny. I'd never have got the jokes otherwise
I never thought anyone could make Monty Python unfunny.
Congratulations on the amazing joke killing commentary.
God's sake, this is tedious....
Totally agree. The overbearing narrative "context" makes it unwatchable.
And covers up the best bits. I stopped at the Lumber Jack. Could have been so good
@WatchMojoUK - Idiot. You presented 10 of the best Python sketches and proceeded to TALK over them!
Yeah he was making a sketch ,killing the very content people want to see.
I was fortunate to see these sketches in their entirety, so I remember them well. The brutally truncated clips flashed here, however, can only raise a smile.
I didn't expect the Spamish Inquisition to be where it was.
NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
Nobody did.
I can't stop watching this 🤣. It's the run the swish of the skirt, the ...Oi, don't talk to me like that. Tv (😉) worthy!
The list should start with their first ever sketch and end with their last, there, I said it. I forgot to mention one of my favorites from the Holy Grail... "The Vorpal bunny in the cave of Caer-Bannor."
I like the Piranha Brothers, the Fish Slapping dance and Happy Valley.
You really could have added "Crunchy Frog" to this list from 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl', or "Spam". Both are my favorites.
When I was watching the intro to this video I heard my husband exclaim in another room where he was playing a video game, "Oh, you're no fun anymore!"
I have a lot of fondness for the graffiti Latin lesson and just about any of the skits from the Holy Grail.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRUBBERY
"Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government". I can't stop laughing when I see that whole scene.
@@petergunn3614 Hell it might be better than what we have now. Lol.
@@neil999ish hahahaha, you're not lying!
@@ilsevanderbij7179 We are no the longer the knights who say "Nih".
The scene in The Holy Grail where Eric Idle is a guard and the supervisor keeps trying to explain to him to stay there
There are so many 'good bits' in Brian it's difficult to chose. But in Python I love the - not 'socially correct' soldiers on the parade ground singing. But the Spanish Inquisition is brilliant too, and just about evrything else!
Bring out your dead
Yes the ministry of silly walks was ICONIC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In addition to pretty much everything else people have mentioned in the comments, I think I would've also included "Every Sperm is Sacred".
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss . . . the anthem of the so-called "pro-lifers" . . . .
And how much better this would be if Mojo could hush.
Rumple Tweezer ran the dinky-tinky shop at the foot of the wobbly dum-dum tree down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives. Old Nick the sea captain… Probably got a few of the words wrong, but I always love this sketch.
I quite like The Spanish Inquisition sketch. I sure hope it becomes a meme, someday. And I mean the part that says, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”. That would be the first meme derived from Monty Python, and hopefully repopularize Monty Python’s Flying Circus for the BBC Channel. Does anyone agree with me?
Gotta be honest with you, when I was watching this list I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
@@studentofsmith Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Life of Brian scene in the colloseum with Stan wanting to be called Loretta in order to have babies
Forty-seven years later, and I'm still singing the lumberjack song.
No you're not.
@@3rdandlong Yes I am...
@@SemperFido9915 No you're not.
I'm wondering if anyone is catching on to this by now.
The mountain climbing sketch was very funny as well
This could easily have been the top 100. My goodness, there's The Cheese Shop, The Plight of the Oppressed (Grail), the development of the People's Liberation Front (Brian), The Knights who say Ni (Grail), etc etc etc etc etc etc so many great skits, I don't believe anyone can make a "best of". It's all of them.
You mean the Judean People's Front? Or the People's Front of Judea?
Four hours to bury that cat is not just the funniest python bit, it's the funniest bit of all time!
One of the more rare sketches I like was one where Chapman's playing Biggles and is trying to dictate a letter to his secretary. At one point, the secretary calls him "Señor Biggles", which he gets very annoyed about. Then he calls in another pilot, played by Palin, who he proceeds to accuse of being gay, which he confirms and is swiftly shot. He then calls another pilot in, played (and dressed) outrageously-camp by Gilliam, who is also asked if he's gay, but is shocked at the mere question and storms out. Finally, when Biggles realises the secretary has been typing-up literally everything he's saying, he proceeds to put on a pair of comedy antlers to signal when she should or shouldn't type what he's saying. It's all ridiculous and pure Python.
Secretary: I Am not a courtesan!
Biggles: Oh courtesan, oh are we grand!.
It would be great to see a top 10 list of Terry Gilliam animations. (#1 - You know that TV is bad for your eyes)
These guys and Spike mulligan.
Great intelligence
"silence when talking to an officer" and on spikes tomb reads "Told you I was ill"
Milligan.
Spike Mulligan. The well-known typing error.
The best one for me is "Always look on the bright side ", a song sung around the World.
I would like to nominate a couple of the longer, more developed skits: The Deadly People-Eating Blancmange and, a great personal favorite, The British Upper-Class Twit Competition.
And I'll go the other way: only about 20 seconds long, and containing no dialogue whatsoever, The Fish Slapping Dance.
detective inspector!
The "Upper Class Twit of the Year Competition" is one of the funniest skits in my opinion.
I also loved the Twit race and the cheese shop sketch. Those were hilarious too. Actually almost everything Monty Python did was hilarious!
The humor of the Pythons goes on beyond decades, endless
The Yorkshire men sketch has to be my absolute favourite, from the beginning until the final punchline, " and you tell t'e kid of t'day and thee won't believe yer,"
But the Yorkshireman Sketch was not a Monty Python sketch, it was from the "at last the 1948 show", which starred Cleese, Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman.
For me the Mr Gumby sketch when he visits the doctor complaining that his brain hurts should have been on the list.
I swear that when Cleese goes to look in his trousers that it was unscripted, and that Palin didn't expect it.
You can see Michael's trying hard not to burst out laughing.
Great but what about “There’s a penguin on the tele.”😂
"They stamp them when they're small" "There's a penguin on the tele and he's about to explode!"
Oh, so many wonderful bits! I have to give a nod to "The Holy Hand Grenade"!
Holy Grail, My all time favorite scene, the guards in the castle. The king trying to give them instructions to watch the prince while he leaves. I have met people that dumb LOL.
Michael Palin as the king talking about how his son, played by Terry Jones will inherit Swamp Castle: "All the other kings the thought I was mad to build a castle in a swamp......it sunk. So I built another one on top of it......it sunk. I built a third one......it burned down, fell over, then sunk. Ahh, but the fourth one, the fourth one! It stayed up! And that's what you'll be inheriting my son, the strongest castle in these 'ere parts!"
And the son complaining about being forced to marry a very plump princess: "What's wrong with the princess? She's rich, she's beautiful, she got huuuuuge (holding his hands cupped in front of his chest imitating breasts) tracts of land!"
That's what you get if buy £50 guards,pay peanuts you get monkeys
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is still the funniest movie I have ever seen in my life! ❤😂
I think The Ministry Of Silly Walks was The Best & Funniest. Especially when John Cleese Does His Walk & When The Lady Serving Tea Spills It All Over The Place. LOL
I particularly like Anne Elk and her theory about the dinosaurs. During conversations, I often add “The next thing I am about to say is my theory.” People fall about in stitches. Or not.
😂 the Lumberjack song is one of my all time favorites!!!! Epic!! Even my kids can sing along 😊 Best Comedy Troup EVER!!!! Every Sperm is Sacred
Thanks for a great selection. I’m not a fan of the grannies skit, but thought you should include the Cheese-shop. The German v Greek philosophers, the Bruce’s, and the 4 Yorkshiremen, are also classics.
i agree about the grannies. communist quiz and world war one noises are good too
Agree on the cheese shop.
Perhaps Four Yorkshiremen was left out because it was recycled from At Last the 1948 Show. It was funnier with Marty Feldman.
Perhaps Four Yorkshiremen was left out because it was recycled from At Last the 1948 Show. It was funnier with Marty Feldman.
If you ever travel to Australia then the Bruce’s is less satire and more documentary.
A very short sketch that I love is where Palin claims to have written all of Shakespeare's plays, and he's shut down when Cleese notes that Shakespeare's plays were published 300 years before Palin is born. Palin admits, "This is where my claim falls to the ground." Also, in no particular order: Spam. Death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Cheese shop. Theatre critic (which I had memorized at one time).
I was in college when Holy G came out and I shared a house with 5 business and history majors but I was a physics major. After we all went to the movie I had to constantly hear "who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?"
you have to know these things when you're a king
Monty Python's Flying Circus was the funniest bunch of mates EVER !!
Do a Part 2, including Spam, The Job Interview, and Musical Mice.
Trying to listen to my sister in law at the same time. This was the funniest scene ever and I mean ever. I still think about it some times and start laughing.
Although it might only be fully appreciated by those who had to take Latin in school, I would nominate the scene in “The Life of Brian” where Brian gets a harsh lesson in Latin grammar from centurion (John Cleese) who catches Brian in the act of trying to apply the graffiti slogan “Romans go home!” on the walls of the Roman garrison. Brian’s “Romanes eunt domus” is violently corrected by the centurion “Latin teacher” to “Romani ite domum”, and as punishment Brian is ordered to write out - the now corrected - graffito 100 times along the walls of the garrison.
This sketch has the further hilarious characteristic that it translates well into any number of European languages; the dubbed German version is particularly compelling for anyone who was a schoolboy in 1970s Germany or Austria, where Latin in high school was compulsory if one was aiming towards university entrance.
I love the fish slapping bit. It’s just so stupid. 😂
Probably against the rules for me to say this, but anything with John Cleese. His straight face through Dead Parrot, Silly Walks Ministry etc is wat sells the sketches.
I have a friend who use to quote a Python sketch when he got mad, he would say “ Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! “😅😅😅
You know that is actually a genuine insult
@@liamdavey2273 Yeah, I do know and at the time, I thought it was a pretty good insult too!😏😏😁
I grew up in the 70s. I remember reading the TV Guide and seeing “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and thinking-I don’t want to watch no circus…
Fast forward to the 80s and my college roommate exposed me to Monty Python. I was so upset that I never gave that silly listing a look. I made up for it, rented all the movies and bought the show on DVD when it came out in the 90s.
I also like “What’s on the telly?” and “Vocational Guidance Counselor”🤣
Looks like a penguin.
Just how I like great comedy: with someone talking all over it
So much to choose from, I just can't, they were all great.
My greatest academic achievement was translating the first line of the Lumberjack Song into Latin and still keeping the melody!
Sum lignarius et sum bene …
LOLOLOLOLLLLLL! TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNNNNN-NY!!!
Never missed an episode of MPFC!!
Bong hits required.. 😂
They were truly ahead of their time! Still waiting for something as revolutionary in tv-comedy (and overall comedy itself) as they were.
hell no! they are the one and only!! i would honestly never want something else revolutionary because it could take magic away from this
So many great Python sketches but my very favourite is probably the couple who go into a store to buy a mattress and are told by an assistant never to say the word 'mattress' but to ask for a dog kennel. Another great one is the procession of strange characters who knock at the door of Graham Chapman and Carol Cleveland who are trying to have a romantic evening. Knock knock, it's Eric Idle "remember me from the pub 3 years ago". Also like the 'dirty vicar' sketch.
There are so many to choose from. I don't think I ever saw any Python sketch or film that did not crack me up.
One of my many favourites is the Spanish Inquisition.
NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
Get out.......the comfy chair!!!!
My nomination would be "We are now the knights who say icky-icky-icky-icky-petang-zooooooo-bong"