I always got a laugh from the Pet Shop and the Dead Norwegian Blue Parrot.
I was recently discussing the "Piranha Brothers" sketch with a couple of co-workers who had no idea that it was based on two REAL criminals. For years, I thought it was hilarious, but believed it was made up from whole cloth... until the movie "The Krays" came out in the '80s and I learned that Doug and Dimmesdale were modeled on the Kray brothers, "celebrity gangsters" of the '60s. That was the thing about the writing on "Monty Python"; it was insanely funny even if the topical references flew 10,000 feet over your head.
John Cleese saying it in "Silverado" is the ONLY worthwhile part of that movie.Many times he would declare "What's all this then"? When we arrived to the scene of a call.
And you tell that to young people today and they won't believe you!
I can't imagine any English speaker over the age of forty not loving the Pythons.
Those poor souls who don't simply need intensive exposure to the lovely madness.
I've seen every show that was imported to this country (some weren't) at least three times. I have "The Holy Grail" on DVD, and own all the scripts of the first two seasons of the TV show in book form.
I have to rate the final scene of "Life of Brian" as the most hilariously sick and twisted ending in movie history: "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life".![]()