Any Monty Python fans?

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

What's your favourite sketch?

Trouble at mill
Batley Townswomen’s Guild
Doug and Dinsdale
Conrad Poohs and his amazing dancing teeth and the little old lady who trips up the bus.

I was 16 when I watched Life of Brian and 18 when I saw Meaning of Life. The latter we had on video and it seemed to be always played when we got back from the pub/clubbing. We still refer to an over complicated explanation of something as having gone "a bit lower peg" and any mention of cormorants begs the question have they had linseed oil rubbed into them.

Is it the Holy Grail film, near the beginning, when the son and dad are looking at the view from a window and the father says “ one day all this will be yours” and the son replies “what, the curtains?” 🤣🤣

I am giggling reading through all these. So many clever funny sketches. Does anyone remember the funniest joke in the world sketch?

@StellaOlivetti Was that the one where the joke was developed to use against the Germans in the war and people died laughing?

Yes! The translators had to work on one word at a time for safety.

Welease Woderwick!

I love all of it. Life of Brian is our Christmas film.

Australian philosophers.

Cheese Shop is top of my list followed by the Fish Dance.

The Life of Brian and Holy Grail (can't get enough of either of them).

Another one
Mr Hilter and Minehead by election

I'm Brian and so's my wife.

I’m watching Holy Grail as a result of this thread.

you lucky bastard

The spam sketch “but I don’t like spam!”
usual response when anyone asks what’s for tea “spam, sausage, egg and spam”

That's the one...I want to be a woman - and yet how did they know?

And the lumberjack song
”I cut down trees, I eat my lunch and I go to the lavatory, on Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea!”

I grew up with Monty Python as my Dad loved it. It made me very happy recently to see the story in the news about 'Monty Python and the HolyGrail' being very historically accurate, and full of jokes that appeal to medieval historians, because Terry Jones was such an expert 😊

The sheep that "Do not so much fall, as plummet"
And the pilots' banter, mentioned by a pp. "I'm sorry, I don't understand your banter."

I love The Life of Brian! ‘Romanus eunt domus’ ‘People called Romans, they go the house…’
The bit where the crowd are mishearing the Sermon on the Mount - ‘Blessed are the cheesemakers’. 😂

I had a Catholic upbringing so the context the jokes were made in made sense to me. It has occurred to me that my daughter may not get them in the same way as she does not go to a faith school and is not exposed to the Christian story. I think a lot would go over her head…

@Halsall I remember Terry Jones did a series called Medieval Lives, fascinating and showed his knowledge about that era.

Met him once when he was out walking his dog, called Nancy, which just seemed the kind of name he would give a dog! May he rest in peace.

Fish slapping dance.

So many phrases we use all the time.

I want to be a lion tamer. I have got a hat.
Not the comfy chair
Fucking runny Brie.
Well, she turned me into a newt.
St Ives is always St Aaarghhhh’s
Let me face the peril.
Things explode all the time.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
King ‘eh? Well I didn’t vote for you.
All llamas are called Ralph the Wonder Llama.
Burma!

Also, DH calls me Judith because of my impatience with inaction.

Also, my iPad is called Eric the Half a Bee.

Oh yes! And then the confused guards.
If…if…if…er…oh.
We’re coming with you!

And I’ve just realised I use “fell over and sank into the swamp” to describe the fate of abandoned projects at work occasionally.

'All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, MUCH thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end'

That is my theory, which is mine, and belongs to me, and it is too.

😂

From a film, but the knights that say "ni".