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You said you didn't know how accurate the history would be; the whole movie is a documentary. Close to 100% accuracy. You can tell by the presence of the famous historian.
RIP
Condolences to his family.
FRANK!!!
Frank had several University Degrees!
I had Professor Frank freshman year. He was the best. RIP.
No, the Famous Historian was killed by a knight on a horse, couldn't have been Arthur or any of his men . . .
It was pretty fast. Are you sure that wasn't a coconut?
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What are you talking about? Arthur had a horse. Didn't you see how good his dismount was???
Really, what are you talking about? I heard the galloping the whole time.
could've been ANY knight on'a horse - who's to say it was Lance?
So many Dungeons & Dragons campaigns start off intending to be The Lord of the Rings, but break down pretty quickly into Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
**Raises Hand** Guilty as charged... 😅
My first two campaigns fell into the swamp!
Once you find yourself rolling for initiative against a famous historian, you know you’ve reached that point.
Never had a game session where at least one Holy Grail reference wasn't made.
Never had a game session where at least one Holy Grail reference wasn't made.
The budget could only afford to rent one trained horse, and not for very long. But the budget could afford coconuts.
Much of the budget was spent on Mooses, Moose trainers, LLamas, and Llama trainers.
the rabbit was borrowed and its owner was furious when they returned a bloody red dyed rabbit. also they couldnt afford chainmail turns out grey knitted yarn looks just like chain main from a few feet away.
It's surprising that they got the coconuts at such a discount, them having to be flown in by African swallows and all!!!
@onerian8178 some used knitted some used chainmail. you can tell who uses what when the wind is blowing.
They didn't afford coconuts.
They just found them.
Meg: "I'm a sucker for jokes that go on for too long"
All of us: oh baby, you're in for a treat 😂
Get on with it!
Wait til she discovers the movie Airplane!
Get on with it!
How about the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles?
@matthewcompton3448 *burp* *fart* *fart* *burp* *fart*
“Why does this feel kinda like a group of pals just made it?”
Oh, I see you get it.
Funded by a couple 60s/70's rock bands. Well, more like a couple guys from the bands. More of the bunch of dudes theme.
'There was no internet in the 60s, people had to actually spend time with each other, they had no other choice.
Not you saying "I'm a sucker for jokes that go on too long" literally the scene before the confused guards scene. I am DYING at your laughter. 🤣🤣🤣
The most poetic timing 😂
The confused guard going "if if if if um, if if erm" fucking kills me😂
Eric Idle as the guard is the cherry on top of the entire sundae that is The Tale of Sir Lancelot!
Pure genius. Cleese's Lancelot attacking the flowers on the stairs kills me every time.
...hey...
@crovax1375
"Ah- now, you're not allowed to enter the room-hUEEEERRGH*!"
Lancelot kills everything everytime.
it gave him extra xp and continued his streak bonus
Lancelot running towards them and then ending up further away only to teleport up close and then go on attacking everyone cracks me up😂
"I'm worried if I don't find it funny".
A few minutes later.......
*literally gasping for air, unable to breathe
That's why it's such a classic, it's truly timeless humor.
Actual medieval manuscripts are full of illustrations as bonkers as these - knights fighting giant killer snails and heavily armed rabbits.
Adding on to that, a lot of the chivalric epics and tales of Arthurian mythos actually aren't too far off from this movie.
Knights going on a quest and running into all sorts of random nonsense on the way was standard procedure, and in many tales and sagas Lancelot was actually known to leave a similar trail of bodies as in here when he went into a battle rage.
And rabbits about to behead some poor fellow.
There's (late) medieval art that gets both absurd and legit unsettling, like the Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, the art of Pliny the Elder i believe, and most famously (to my knowledge) the paintings of Jheronimus Bosch.
In the end Arthur is not king because he was covered in shit.
Holy Grail is the single most hardcore medieval larp session in history
No cats were harmed in the movie. Reason a person was in charge of Moose Costumes was because the stunt moose dressed as a cat for those scenes.
"What are you doing to that Moose?"
"Paintin' it to look like a cat."
"Why don't you use a cat?"
"Cats don't look like cats on film. Gotta use a Moose."
Mind you..moose bites can be nasty...
@FatherofheroesandheroinesSurely you mean nasti?
the llamas were supposed to stand in for the horses, but didn't arrive in time for filming.
@mrorinocobottle9371 Don't call him Shirley.
now for "Life of Brian" 😂
then "Fawlty Towers"
OR Monty Python's Flying Circuses!
I disagree. No she shouldn’t
Why? Because of the coconuts?@mercurywoodrose
I’m not sure her stomach could handle it 🤣🤣🤣
"What the hell is going on?" is pretty much exactly all you need to say.
Except at 14:24 where she said, "mmm-hmmm."
It is said that Monty Python set out to create a style of humor that couldn't be easily classified. So we created the word, "Pythonesque".
well I rekon its large doses of surrealism + slapstick
also, its a spiritual continuation of what The Goons were doing
Spot on! And it is in the dictionary!
"couldn't be easily classified"
And then we proceeded to classify it, easily.
@HasegawaRayven We "cheated" by turning it into its own classification! As Captain Hook would say... "Bad Form!!!" 😁😁
"I wonder how historically accurate this will be."
Me: " Oh dear. This will be good"
Terry Jones is a medieval scholar so although taken to extremes for comedic effect a lot of it is based on things you will find in Arthurian lore and either real events or widely believed modern myths about the medieval period (the idea that everyone was filthy is one of those modern myths - in realty people tended to wear bright clothes and tried to keep them clean).
The film is also full of anachronisms compared to the date it is supposedly set in, eg the plague and witch hunts being much much later, however that is very much in keeping with Arthurian lore, which was mostly written long after the earliest references to Arthur which suggest that if he actually existed he fought against the Saxons in the 5th or 6th Century, and the more serious modern films about King Arthur ( which feature Norman or later castles, the knights being equipped with armour and swords from later periods and complying with the code of chivalry )
The Latin being chanted by the monks roughly translates to "dear god give me a break".
Ahem, to be excessively pedantic about it, " Dear Lord Jesus, give us a break." P.S. The animated image of standing buttucks sticking a large trumpet up their asses,vis a line from Dante' Inferno. It refers to demon farts.
@wadeheaton123Give THEM a break.
@haps2019 well excuse me all the way to hell for misremembering something from 40 years ago.
They did not in fact kill the famous historian - the killer had an actual horse...
@mikecoulson3575 I wish I'd said that. Oh, wait . . .
Your expression during the beginning credits as you're realizing just how deep the silliness is going to go... priceless!
"Run away! Run away!!" is historically accurate. The word "retreat" did not enter the English lexicon until several hundred years after the events in the film take place.
@Harv72b Taken from the French?
@davewhitmore1958 retret (old french) and retract (english) apparently
Run away wouldn't have been around in medieval times either, modern English was not a thing in medieval times. People in England would have been more likely to speak French
@SIartibartf4st If you're here for historical accuracy, you're in the wrong place
Yes! 'Run away' was last heard at the Dell of Shannon.
The sheer number of scenes in this movie that end with Arthur getting fed up with whatever nonsense is happening in front of him and just leaving in exasperation is hysterical.
Which fits in with his TV Army officer character who would stop skits because they were too silly.
I apologize for all the copyright strikes. The people responsible for copyright have been sacked.
That pretty much means you'll be sacked too.
That means you have been hacked too? @nataliefaust7959
The people responsible for the sacking have been sacked...
Probably Tim did it @chriskelly3481
@nataliefaust7959 so are you saying the job security has been sacked too?
Fun fact: In Arthurian Lore, Lancelot often went into violent rages, so the Tale of Sir Lancelot is quite accurate!
Yes. apparently he lanced a lot of people
I haven't laughed so hard at someone laughing in forever! I've seen this movie so many times that it isn't possible to laugh at it directly any more, I have to laugh vicariously through others! Thank you!
'tis but a scratch', 'its just a flesh wound' and 'i got better' are probably my 3 most used quotes from the movie.
Same but add in 'I'm getting better!'
A literal cop-out ending 😂
Did you watch the Honest trailer too? 😂
They ran out of money and patience with each other to finish the film properly
HOOOONK! We have our first "cop-out" klaxon! Your turn on the YT naughty step today.
They trolled the entire world before there was an internet
There was no internet. Check what you type.
@JohnHF1957 no, but all the reactors :- "wait, what, did i put the subtitles on without realising...??"
@JohnHF1957That's what he said, idiot. Maybe check what YOU type.
So true, it cracks me up that they had the subtitle credits. I imagine it in the theaters and people trying to figure out what the hell was happening. And now it’s trolling viewers in a whole new way, wondering what subtitle setting got messed up.
@Putzy1Cinema goers at the time were also used to having intermissions in long films where they could go to the toilet or purchase a choc-ice. So when the intermission came up in this film, almost at the end of the film, quite a few in the cinema would get up and then have to rush back to their seats when they realised it was so short. Then after trolling the audience with that short intermission they then trolled them again with the blank screen and music at end leaving the audience confused as to whether the film was over.
"I need to breathe, I need to breathe."
Back in my grad school days, I had a group of ostensible "friends".
I say ostensible, because whenever I was in the same state you are, where I'm laughing so long and hard that I'm having trouble breathing and am on the verve of having a migraine...
They would all helpfully shout out, "Breathe!"
Which, of course, would make the laughter even harder.
I miss them.
It's truly amazing that so many survived with that same calibre of ostensible friends. Whew...
I'm pretty sure the Pythons would take "I need to breathe" as a job well done.
The insults the French guard volleys at Arthur and the rest of the knights are actually based on those used in medieval times. For example, the famous "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries." Rodents had a reputation of being prolific breeders, and elderberries were a common base for cheap wine, so in the modern vernacular, it would be, "Yo momma's a ho, and your dad's a drunk."
But that wine must be cheaper than the hamster
One fine Saturday morning, maybe 12, maybe 15 years ago, I was re-watching my "Holy Grail" VHS, and my father finished his breakfast and made himself comfy in his favorite chair across the room from where I was sitting. Every once in a while I'd hear a quiet snort-laugh come from his direction. Then, while John Cleese was up on the rampart, parlaying Frawn-say, Daddy finally asked, with a big grin, "What ***IS*** this???"
EDIT: Exactly the day after I posted the comment above, I was walking through an aisle in a store where there was a shelf of mugs with initials printed on them. Somebody had taken the time to line six of them up to spell out C-L-E-E-S-E. 🙃
30:51 they didn't kill the historian, the killer had a horse. They were framed. But it was a cop out for the ending so...
"it was a cop out for the ending" Nice
“‘‘Tis a silly place.”
It's only a model
"Shush..."
I mean, if you have a castle which takes its name from a camel/ocelot hybrid, you have to expect that it will be a rather silly place.
The GOAT of movie reactions right here, folks.
The only way this could have been better was if Meg was drunk or stoned.
I'm crying at 18:03
Sounds like a 60 yo smoker
The Tale Of Sir Lancelot is the original Red Wedding 😅
Just a few facts about this film...
The coconut gag is said to be because they had almost no budget;
The 'killer bunny' was a pet owned by a local woman who agreed to loan it out on the condition that it didn't get too dirty. When her rabbit came back covered in fake blood she was not happy;
Graham chapman (King Arthur) was a raging alcoholic at this point and was drunk in almost all the scenes he filmed. At the bridge of death scene he needed a stunt double to cross the bridge because he had the shakes and was clinging to the cliff wall for dear life. This was the time when most of the cast realised how bad his drinking problems were;
The chain mail was made of wool and at the end of shooting each day was drenched and incredibly heavy. John Cleese has said it was an incredibly miserable experience making the film, which is partly why the next film (Life of Brian) was made in Tunisia;
All the cast and crew were staying in one small hotel, and at the end of filming everyone would rush back to get a warm shower before the hot water ran out. Eventually Cleese and Palin had enough of this and booked themselves another hotel, which it turned out was where all the girls from the castle anthrax scene were staying. They saw this an improvement;
The historian could not have been killed by the main characters since he was actually riding a horse;
'Tim the enchanter' was actually supposed to have a complicated grandiose name, but Cleese forgot it when shooting and came up with Tim on the spot. They liked it some much that they kept it in the film;
The film was funded by a lot of rock and pop stars, including Elton John, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, and Island records. Their next film was bankrolled almost entirely by the Beatle George Harrison. He gave the reason that he saw the script and wanted to see the film, and he mortgaged his house to do it. This may be the most expensive ticket to see a film ever;
Elvis Presley LOVED this film. If he ever got a small cut or other injury he was reported to say 'tis but a scratch' or 'its just a flesh wound';
They hadn't worked out how to end the film, partly due to the budget. So they just had everyone arrested and made the ending a literal cop out.
There were various forms of composite armor, such as leather on wool, maybe with some chain mail. Or brigandine, which had leather and other ornamentation over plate armor. It was always a trade off between cost, comfort, weight and resistance to various types of attacks : sword, mace, spear, pike, axe, halberd, bow, long bow and cross bow. I suspect that brigandine also helped conceal where the good stab point gaps were for spear/pike/halberd attacks.
Monty Python were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969. They had a TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on British TV from 1969 to 1974. They very much saw themselves and their brand of humor being rebellious in the same way that Rock and Roll musicians of the time were rebelling against older conventions and norms. There were six of them: Graham Chapman (King Arthur, hiccuping guard, etc.), John Cleese (Lancelot, The Black Knight, Tim, French Man, etc.), Eric Idle (Sir Robin, Roger The Shrubber, etc.), Terry Jones (Sir Bedevere, Prince Herbert, etc.), Michael Palin (Sir Galahad, The Knights who say Ni, Dennis, etc.), Terry Gilliam (Patsy, etc. and he did all of the animations and went on to direct several Hollywood films ).
I first saw Flying Circus here in the States in the early 70's on PBS television (I was just a young kid). Imagine PBS with their intellectual "Masterpiece Theater" shows and then Monty Python's Flying Circus! Back then if you knew Monty Python you were "in the know" and, most assuredly a nerd (which back then was a bad thing. not like today when nerds run the world). You could almost walk into a crowded room (say a school cafeteria) and say "We are the Knights who say Ni!" and expect from random corners of the room you'd hear the response "Ni! Ni!".
One of their rebellious traits was endlessly lampooning Brits that used the Posh accent. They were also quite skeptical about organized religion and of course the merging of British government/society and the Church of England. Their use of Vicar-Sergeant and Detective-Parson in one of the Flying Circus skits showed the absurdity of mixing church and police.
I have noticed when younger people now watch this film, they are always a bit confused by the opening credits and the style of humour. But back when the film came out, the audience in Britain and other Commonwealth countries would have watched Monty Python’s Flying Circus on TV. So they would have known to expect the sort of sophisticated and anarchic style of humour of the team. These blokes all started as comedians at university. They were above all very clever. Hence, the brilliant satire of logical fallacies in the witch scene.
That was absolutely my high school experience as well. My closest friends from that time were made over reciting lines from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and having parties where we’d act out skits from the show. Even made our own Pythonesque 8mm films!
“What? The curtains?”
50 years on, this movie continues to troll people with the ending.
I still believe when the last of them dies, they find the missing ending in his belongings.
They actually did not know how to end the movie, so here you go!
it is a literal cop-out :)
@chuckbtheonenoice
"I don't know how historically accurate it is" - it's about King Arthur lol
To give credit where due, the guy playing Patsy (Terry Gilliam) is the artist who did all the animations in the movie.
... and suffered a fatal heart attack.
And the one American, right?
honestly, i think being sleep-deprived only made the experience even better whenever i watched something new from python. your brain is already a little punch drunk, which means the ridiculousness lands even harder.
Terry Gilliam was the co-director (Terry Jones was the other), who was responsible for the animations. the tv show had his cartoons as links between segments of the tv show, but he also did an epsiode of a BBC educational series where he explains how he made the animations. "Cut out" style. He literally repurposed magazine ads and old photographs; perfume bottles became buildings, adding detailed pictures of rocks changed the scale of the scene, it was simple but effective work. it would also serve as really decent experience for his non-python films (time bandits, which is really python-like; Brazil, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas were very much his own)
terry jones was a very accomplished medieval scholar; and a lot of history and legend were used as basis for the scenes in this movie: there was a fiefdom full of peasants that more or less ruled themselves because nobody in the aristocracy really wanted the hassle of being the lord of it; there was a religious order known as the flagellates who would beat themselves as displays of piety; arthurian legend even says that lancelot's reputation was charging headlong into any battle and indiscriminately slaughtering anybody within reach, friend, foe, or bystander.
also: coconuts aren't native to the carribean, they totally *do* migrate.
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
In germany the coconuts are even in the name of the movie.
'Die Ritter der Kokosnuss ' wich means :
the knights of the coconut. 😅
The "Bring out your dead" line was real thing. This was a cry often associated with the Black Death, a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague that swept through Europe in the 14th century. During the height of epidemics, this cry was used to summon the deceased to be collected and taken to mass graves... and fathers-in-law who were really, really annoying. (FYI - this is a Boomer movie!)
Som more jokes that were references to real things: The cats were a reference to people blaming cats for the black death, and associating them with witches. The killer rabbit was a reference to a surprising number of medieval manuscripts depicting battles between knights and rabbits.
I got to spend an afternoon at Doune Castle with my kids searching and recreating scenes. Unfortunately, the East Wall was in such bad shape we were not able to taunt each other. I did find just the right spot on the green looking up and someone came up to me and offered to watch for flying cows. When we got there someone prancing to the entrance with someone clip clopping coconuts behind them. Great fun day.
aww
youre saying this castle has significantly degraded since 1975?
dont the brits put a lot of money into preservation?
I guess theres a lot of that stuff ..
@markhill3858most heritage and conservation organisations here aren’t government funded, but instead raise their own funds. It’s expensive to maintain and conserve sites. And tourist damage for sites as famous as Doune happens, no matter how careful the organisations are. Not every site in the U.K. even has organisations to maintain them.
@paperstainedink oh bugger :)
in australia its all looked over by a govt mob called National Trust ..
but ofc our oldest stuff is only 200 years old or so
and there aint a lot of it
certainly not thousands of years of gigantic forts and roman towns
big tombs going back maybe 10k years
and who knows what :)
we DO have some extremely old rock paintings ..
generally they survive because they were already in a spot of perfect conditions to start with
The ending being a literal “cop out” is one of my favourite jokes
14:36 John Cleese (one of the pythons in the film) was actually in the shrek movies as King Harold
And Eric Idle as Merlin
Came here to say this!
Senior year of high school one of my teachers noticed me and a couple friends quoting this movie so much she offered us extra credit to act out scenes for another one of her classes. We didn't even end up needing the extra credit, we just did it for fun and had a blast. Also amusingly enough Monty Python member Terry Jones would go on to be an Arthururian scholar.
@Blastback8 the “what - the curtains?” guy? 😮
@victorsixtythree Yup.
Terry Jones went on to make some notable history documentaries.
Talk about a movie that's just right up your alley. Just random silliness from start to finish.
The 3 minutes of black screen at the end with that organ music...I always try to imagine audiences in theaters when this first came out...thinking "do we stay?" "is there more?" and waiting...and waiting...and the music playing...
On the dvd version I have, the outro section is like 1 hour long haha
The explanation by younger viewers that there are no end credits because the people responsible for creating them had all been sacked is a recent invention that was completely unnecessary when the movie came out. Most movies at that time had no end credits, or very brief end credits. Opening credits were the overwhelming norm until more recently. The new explanation also doesn't make sense, since there were people available to complete the opening credits in a completely different style at the last minute and at great expense. Not everyone was fired.
As for what happened with moviegoers at the end, that depended somewhat on the theater operators and how long they let the audience sit in perplexity before bringing the house lights up and closing the curtains. Those actions made the perception of the end of this movie somewhat different in movie theaters vs. how today's viewers usually see it. It's similar to how theater audiences were not nearly so perplexed by the first few minutes of music playing while the curtains remained closed, people found their seats, and the house lights came down before the beginning of _2001: A Space Odyssey._
@markhamstra1083 yes thats right
credits go at the START
you want your name noted before they leave
the producers especially .. the real heroes here
Been there, done that, laughed at everyone else in the theater the entire time. 🤣🤣
@chemisthajo I have an old 2-disc DVD version - I think it's called "Special Edition"? I remember one of the special features is "subtitles for people who don't like the film" where you can watch the movie with subtitles that are lines from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2.
But the CRAZY thing is, apparently, they used actual lines from Shakespeare's play AND they chose fairly relevant passages to use. So, when they are arguing about where the cocoanuts came from and the guy in the castle says, "a five ounce bird could not carry a one pound cocoanut" the subtitle reads "Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogshead?" which is from Shakespeare's play. And when Arthur replies "Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court at Camelot is here." the subtitle reads, "Tell thou the earl that the lord bardolph doth attend him here." also an actual line from the play. AMAZING!!
(I am just fully discovering this now. I knew about the weird Shakespeare subtitles feature but thought it was just random lines of Shakespeare that made no sense. I had NO IDEA that such care went into it...and apparently someone in the Python troupe must be a Shakespeare scholar.)
And Monty Python continues to corrupt minds many decades later. Gleefully.
Paused at 4:48 to comment: just seeing the yellow and red colors flashing across your confused face in the opening credits has probably been the funniest reaction to this I've seen, looking forward to watching the rest now!
Monty Python has to be one of the funniest things I've ever watched as a whole. The original show has some of my favorite comedy sketches ever and this movie has some of the most iconic scenes ever in a comedy. I think the most underrated joke is that bit with the guards not understanding their orders and constantly messing them up. It genuinely gets me every time, so I'm happy to see it get more appreciation.
The monks hitting themselves with books is making fun of the Flagellants, who whipped themselves while wandering in public during one of the plague outbreaks. They became quite famous at the time.
I recently learned from a YT comment that the Latin they're chanting translates to, "Oh God, please make it stop" 😂
Blazing Saddles would melt this girl's brain.
The sir Lancelot bit always kills me. It’s not just the wantless violence but the gleeful laughing he puts in there as he is massacring the wedding party… kills me every time.
The cherry on top of the sundae is the way the music starts and stops when his killing sprees do.
23:38 I love this part. Tim just needlessly RPG-ing a tree.
It was absolutely necessary
The "What is the capitol of Assyria?" question was not only difficult, but was also a trick question. Partially because Assyria had numerous different capitols over the course of it's 1500 year existence, and also because the state hadn't existed for about 1400 years by the time the movie is set.
Monty Python’s animator, Terry Gilliam, went on to become a great director in his own right. His work is definitely worth a watch.
This reaction was a complete delight from start to finish. You didn't understand what was happening, but you got it anyway. Thank you so much. 🤣
Fortunately, no moose were harmed thanks to the prompt sackings.
What about Llama's?
Mel Brooks and the Monty Python troupe defined my humor type. This film never fails to cheer me up or help me relax. If you haven’t seen any Mel Brooks films I highly recommend it. Dry wit and humor at its finest.
The late Vogue Theater in Louisville Kentucky used to show this at least once a month. In the blurb on their printed schedule, underneath the synopsis, they'd put: "(The capital of Assyria is Nineveh.)"
That's the NEW KINGDOM capital. The Old Kingdom capital, and the original capital, was Assur. Just in case you need to pull a switcheroo on the bridgekeeper ...
@kingbeauregard
"Which kingdom? The old one or the new one?"
"I don't know that! AAAAAAAH-!"
@kingbeauregard I am a fan of Sumero-Akkadian studies, thanks for the info!
@kingbeauregard Is Assur cognate with Ashurbanipal?
Loved this reaction. Such unfeigned laughter is a joy to behold. It's a shame the copyright police come down on you so hard, but those folks who know the movie off by heart can tell exactly what's on screen just from your reaction. And your humor isn't broken.
And there was much rejoicing..
YAAAAAY
🚩 yay!.....🚩🚩🚩😂
Tim the Enchanter was not the original name of the character. It was supposed to be a very long winded and complicated name, but John Cleese forgot the line, so he just went with "There are some who call me...Tim." So, that accidental adlibbed line was funnier than what they had originally, and it made it into the movie.
And then went on to live as the nickname for one of the older, most iconic, blue summon cards in Magic; The Gathering.
The funniest parts to me are when Lancelot on his way up the final stairs turns around to swing at the flowers in the sconce And the guy clapping in the dungeon of Camelot... Heeeey..... FRANK !!!!
It's been head Canon in my head and alone stays there that the series Frisky Dingo which I have a unhealthy affection for.... its name was derived from this movie :) BAD NAUGHTY EVIL ZOOT !! -Dingo
animation looks really good cause Terry Gilliam is an amazing animator! and the sole American-born member of Monty Python :)
"Guys, I'm a sucker for jokes that go on too long." ... The Tale, of, Sir Lancelot.👐
Monty Python is the name of the comedy troup, and they started out doing essentially what you described in a show called "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Its a running gag in the show that someone would say "and now for something completely different", and the show would oblige.
"There are some who call me...Tim?" The name Tim was ad-libbed. He had forgotten the line.
No.
How the late Graham Chapman (Arthur) managed to get through this I will never know. He was a raging alcoholic and struggled all the time with his lines. But you would never know it. Clinging to the side of a cliff with DT's pretty much started the process of straightening him out.
I am a movie fan from way back. GORBB=Grumpy Old Retired Baby Boomer. Love it when younger people discover and appreciate films of my youth. Thanks for sharing.
"Stop it with the cats!"
"No, I don't think they will..."
"One does not simply defy a Papal Edict."
I'm sure they rubbed some soothing lard on it later
I haven't heard that line since Ryan said it to Colin on 'Whose Line' 15 years ago.
@benschultz1784 the same as no one expects the spanish inquisition
Congratulations, Meg.
You are now *legally allowed* to use the words "funny," "humor," and "comedy."
Also Ni, Peng, and Neeeewom
@kuronos23 Just not the word "it", mind you.
*humour
This is British after all
The Guy who killed the Historian had a real horse which means it was none of the Arthurian men who did it since they all had coconuts.
I think the funniest comment was, “I don’t know how historically accurate this is…”
Welcome to the world of the Pythons! You said in your reaction that you had a catholic upbringing so your next watch has to be Monty Python's Life of Brian. Hope to see you enjoy that one soon. Great reaction.
You should react to all comedies on a lack of sleep! Fun fact, Patsy is played by Terry Gilliam, who does all the animations and went on to become a major movie director. He's also the only American in the group.
Welcome to Monty Python.
You'll never leave!
50 years later, this movie still has the most hilarious credits roll of all time. It's never been topped.
"Let's not go to camalot, 'tis a silly place." has stuck in my mind for the rest of time. Any time i get invited to somewhere i don't want to go, i cant help but think to myself, "tis a silly place".
Coconuts do migrate. They've sometimes washed up on English beaches.
In the spawning season coconuts can be seen swimming upstream like salmon
You win for having the best reaction to the Lancelot running edit gag ever :-)
I love this movie so much and your reaction to it brought to us as a Val edit has really made my day.
Also fun fact the end is so abrupt with the police because it's literally a cop out.
I love when Sir Launcelot wipes out the band during his assault on Swamp Castle. Such a smooth move to wipe out so many with one blow.
It's often reported that they used coconuts because their budget could not afford horses. That is not true, they were always meant to use coconuts.
Maybe so, probably so but Id prefer to believe the coconuts were all they could afford
The budget was estimated ti be around £400k.
@benschultz1784 £175,350, about $410,000 in 1974, according to Eric Idle
Wrong, it’s true that they couldn’t afford horses. John Cleese confirmed it in an interview, and he said that it led to Michael Palin coming up with the coconuts
It was simply a nod to silliness. "Which would be sillier looking?" Just take a lot at the entirety of Flying Circus skits, and "silliest option" was usually the route taken.
"Five is RIGHT OUT." Also, the capitol of Assyria was Nineveh
It's kind of ironic that you didn't think you would find it funny because it's a 1975. Because the general consensus is that comedy was in it's prime decades ago. It was the golden age of Sitcoms, the greatest comedy movies, the greatest stand up comics, etc. In the 2020's, we have a lot of memes but professional comedy isn't in a strong place right now.
John Cleese's performance as Tim the Enchanter-He ad-libbed the name Tim because he'd forgotten what it was.
A very apt description of the movie that could be used in a guess the movie from the offbeat description game: "One big larping session culminates with a literal cop out ending."
FYI Patsy is played by Terry Gilliam who is also the animator and went on to direct various films like Brazil and Twelve Monkeys.
It's roughly the same eight people playing all the speaking roles in this. For example:
Graham Chapman: Arthur, one of the confused guards, one of the three-headed giant's heads
John Cleese: Lancelot, Tim the Enchanter, the French guy, the Black Knight, the guy trying to dispose of the not-dead-yet old man
Eric Idle: Sir Robin, the "Bring Out Your Dead" guy, the other confused guard, Lancelot's servant Concord
Terry Jones: Sir Bedivere, Herbert, one of the three-headed giant's heads, Dennis's wife (?)
Michael Palin: Sir Galahad, yet another of the giant's heads, Herbert's dad, Dennis the peasant
Terry Gilliam (yes that Terry Gilliam): Patsy, the bridgekeeper, the cartoonist who suffered the fatal heart attack
Carol Cleveland: the witch, Zoot, Zoot's identical twin sister Stingo
And I'm going to count as #8: Neil Innes, their resident musical genius, who played Robin's minstrel and the servant crushed by the wooden rabbit.
The witch was actually Connie Booth who was married to John Cleese (and later co-wrote and starred in the comedy series "Fawlty Towers" with John Cleese).
@davidwebb4451 Oh! Thanks for the correction.
Dennis's mother* :)
Apparently Jurgen Wigg is the one who trained the moose to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms.
Now add "A Fish Called Wanda" to your Need To Watch list. John Cleese and Michael Palin from Monty Python, plus Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Amazingly, John Cleese never thought of himself as an actor. He was primarily a writer. He was always uncomfortable acting. And the intelligence of the Pythons was off the charts. They were all educated at either Oxford or Cambridge. The one exception was Terry Gilliam, the only American in the group. He was also the animator, and he became a genius director in his own right (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, etc.)
10:49 bloody hell, woman
Your laughter really did brighten my mood today!! Loved watching this!!
Michael Palin who played Galahad and the leader of the Ni Knights has written a daily diary for many decades and has published them. Each book covers a decade of entries. Highly recommend picking up the audiobooks. He covers his time with Python in great detail. After Python he has had quite a career hosting travel documentaries and he goes into great depth about that part of his life too.
He was also knighted in 2019
Palin is an avid trainspotter, what we would call a railfan, in the US. He has documented many of his travels by train.
I love sir Robin's mistrels. "When danger reared it's ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled!"
Beware of rewatching this movie, as each rewatch will increase your appreciation of it, and if you watch it too much, people who haven't seen it will no longer understand you. As you know.