Monty Python

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The sketch that cracked me up when I first saw it - and I mean really cracked me up, tears and stomach aches and asthma attacks and everything - is the one with the two documentary presenters who keep stealing the microphone from each other, so we're getting an interchangeable documentary about Walter Scott and de-forestation. The bit with John Cleese and Michael Palin rugby-tackling each other and rolling around in the grass beating each other up, whilst still bleating on about 'Ivanhoe' and economic impacts, is just one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my whole life.

"Dinsdale?"

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I should have expected a Python thread on this board.
NOOOOOBODY EXPECTS.... [/color]etc...
I thank gawd I married a Python fan, as some of my older Python friends are no longer around: Python-less living would be unthinkable. DoktorD and I break into a routine nearly once a day. One sketch I love that hasn't been mentioned is the travel agent sketch (don't know if that's its proper title) where Eric harangues viciously about his fellow British tourists' annoying habits. ("Bleedin' Watney's red ale... !) Also, I cherish the argument clinic ("... you toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!")
The Beatles and Monty Python... yup! Changed the world.

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My favorite of favs is the" killing joke" episode. It's WWII and the English are blanketing the german trenches with paper with a joke so funny, it kills them.

Then they take a bullhorn and shout the joke out into a woods, seconds later German soldiers are dropping out of trees.

The Germans try to do the same and come up with the lame "Two peanuts are walking down the straza, one was assaulted".

hehehehe


Going to see Spamalot on Broadway next month.

And now...a larch...

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Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

[Mouse]

I saw Spamalot and laughed and laughed and laughed.

Alas, I've heard Eric Idle is an asshat.

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It's that good? Awesome! :-D

I have also heard that Eric Idle is a complete tool. My favorite of them all, since the 70's has been Michael Palin, and he is a nice guy, thank god.

[Mouse]

Yes, Palin is supposed to be a very cool guy. He and Chapman are tied for the best-looking Pythons.

[ladymadonna]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed

Asshat or not, Eric Idle is a brilliant songwriter, lol!

My high school had a medeival fair one year and all of the classes had to have a booth or entertainment or whatever. My class did The Spanish Inquisition, while my best friend ran around with a wheelbarrow yelling: "Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead!" Good times, man.

[Mouse]

I heart the "Lumberjack Song."

[cyclonevkc]

I cut down trees, I wear high heels,
suspenders and a bra.

I wish I'd been a girlie,
just like my dear papa!


Another one I could watch over and over is when they go to the "Marriage Counsellor" (Idle).

"This is it, Arthur Pewtey. At last, you're a man! All right, Deirdre, come out of there."

"Go away!"

"Right, right."

I just think the name Arthur Pewtey makes it hilarious.