Any Monty Python fans?

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

What's your favourite sketch?

What have the romans ever done for us?

Albatross! Albatross!

What flavour is it?

It's bleeding seabird flavour!

'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries'...
French insult to King Arthur from the castle ramparts.
And Michael Palin as the skipping leper. The physical comedy of that scene has me in stitches.

The Brave Sir Robin song. Spoiler alert -

He beat a very brave retreat.

“I want to be a………….lion tamer!”
All the ‘thesaurus’ sketches.
The Universe Song (pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space/cos there’s bugger all down here on Earth)
There’s a marked difference between the Cleese/Chapman more cerebral and cruel sketches and the Palin/Jones more whimsical and gentle ones.

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You weren't expecting it, were you?

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The Summarise Proust competition!

I am French so "Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?" is definitively one of mine but The life of Brian is at the top of my list.

It wasn't until recently (after watching it many times) that I realised in Holy Grail that the French soldier calling them "Ker-niggets" is him mispronouncing 'knights"!

The reverse snobbery one where the father is a working-class playright who is angry that the son has left home to go and work in the coal mines. "Hampstead wasn't good enough for you was it? You had to go poncing off to Barnsley". I think of that line anytime I hear Barnsley mentioned 😂

Also - 'How not to be seen' where they keep blowing people up.

The ministry of silly walks

Decomposing composers

Anything with Michael Palin in thanks😍
but MP’s 4 Yorkshiremen (think Marty Feldman was in the original- funny guy) is fab
Spanish Inquisition
All of Life of Brian
Dirty Fork
Holy Grail - all of it

A TV programme called Do Not Adjust Your Set was my intro to Python 😁

Nailing boys to the school building as a punishment. Ian Ogilvy as “school bully” laying on a chaise longe. “But school bully, parents send their boys here especially to be bullied by you”

The virus that turned out to be a tiger. A tiger in Africa!🐯 From The Meaning of Life.

Oh forgot Graham’s Chapman’s sensitive playwright with his ‘Tungsten Carbide…’ askew flayrods
and poncing off to Barnsley’ lines

Batley Townswomen’s Guild present The Battle of Pearl Harbour. If you’ve never seen it, have a look x

I am sure Suzy (prefers to be called Suzanna now) Dent has said that this is actually how it used to be pronounced.

The pythons were forensic in their pedantry - there's a lot more historical accuracy in the films than people realise.

The Holy Grail remains one of my all-time favourite films!

Classics professor Edith Hall has a theory that Life of Brian is based on The Passing of Peregrinus, a story by the first-century writer Lucian.

And Terry Jones wrote a very good study of Chaucer's Knight's Tale.

Their Latin wasn't too shabby either

Oops confession time - bring the soft cushion;
askew flayrods are from Spanish Inquisition sketch.
The heinous sin of mis quoting 😀

Australian wine appreciation and My Theory by Anne Elk.

And the Meaning of Life, Every Sperm is Sacred, not least because it's filmed at Bradford Cartwright Hall and Saltaire.