Anybody here care for Monty Python?

While not totally Python, If you ever get a chance to see "Fierce Creatures" do it. Jaime Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline join John, Terry, and I believe, Mike Palin directed. It's one of those shows that is so funny, you find yourself watching parts of it over because it was so busy.
 
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.

Plus one for "Pirahna Brothers"!

"And Dimmesdale was there, in the conversation pit, with Charles Paisely the baby crusher, and he says to me 'You've been a naughty boy," and he nails me head to the floor."

"Why did he do that?"

"Oh, he said I had broken the unwritten law!"

"Did he say what you had done?"

"No, but he assured me it was a case, and that's all right for me with old Dimsie!"

"Is it it true that he nailed your wife's head to a coffee table?"

"Ah, yeah, he did that. He was a cruel man, but fair."
 
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Four years ago we were someplace on the edge of London and I was looking for a Military Surplus store. We were walking down a street of non descript row homes when I spied a small metal plate on one of the homes, declaring this was THE spot for the Monty Python "The Gasman" sketch. I immediately recalled the sketch....A long line of gas men in work clothes in a long line.

Been a Python fan since the late 60's when they started playing them on Public TV out of NYC late Sunday nights.

Had a partner when I was a cop in Jersey who was 6'-8" tall and LOOKED a bit like John Cleese. I turned him into a Python fan in short order. Many times he would declare "What's all this then"? When we arrived to the scene of a call.

John Cleese recently wrote a book on his life, his time with the Pythons and life after MP. Worth getting, it was very interesting.

FN in MT
 
You haven't got a horse, you got coconuts!


While This was so typical of MP humor it was actually budget concerns that they did not use real horses. And the odd sudden ending was simply the money had run out.

a man with a radio up his nose........and now in stereo.

sheep do not fly as much as plummet.

I'm looking for David Copperfield by Edmund Wells.
 
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". :D:D:D
 
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". :D:D:D

"He's NOT the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
 

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