"Mash that dirty red scum! Kick 'em in the teeth where it hurts! Kill! Kill! Kill! Filthy bastard commies! I hate 'em, I hate 'em! AAAUUUUUUURRRRGH!"
Posted on 09/17/2017 2:34:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Well, I couldn’t wade through the entire thing which is very hard to read in the first place but it just solidifies in my mind that comedians and comedy writers generally have no sense of humor.
And if I hear one more dumb Brit pontificate on American regional cultures...
I thought about it many times over the years which one of the Monty Python troupe is the funniest or my favorite. I’ve come to the conclusion that that is unanswerable as they were all too good at what they dld.
I got more huge laughs out of them than any other comedy on Earth and still to this day all of their bits are pretty funny
“Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss about the struggling artist. You excrement! You lousy hypocritical whining toadies with your lousy colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding Masonic handshakes! You wouldn’t let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn’t become a Freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me.”
“But I came here for an arguement!”
I always considered Michael Palin to be the most talented of the lot.
.... No, it isn’t!
DON’T GIVE ME THAT, YOU SNOTTY-FACED HEAP OF PARROT DROPPINGS!
Thanks. Format (quoting) kind of missing but I appreciated reading that. Grew up with Monty Python and some of their skits or movies have stayed with me nearly daily with references.
I liked reading the part where Cleese and a co-Python were in NYC in the 90s recreating the Dead Parrot skit for SNL, and beforehand they went out to dinner, and were saying that they actually forgot the lines in that classic skit, and laughing about how if they walked outside the restaurant and literally stopped people on the sidewalk, the passers by could probably recall all the lines for them!!
Nice, thanks.
After reading that, I’ll just have one more wafer...
He says in the article he has dementia and indeed is not well.
My favorite back in the day was always Eric.
The Holy Grail was most definitely weird. A tough one for a first timer. But every skit was the best. An movie that has to be seen a dozen times to get the humor.
I remember laughing my head off while dads students were visiting us and during the skit with the Scotsman that was a secret weapon; a bomb. The bagpipes would start playing, everyone would panic, and the only way to diffuse the Scotsman was to remove his head and put it in a bucket of whiskey. Nutty in the extreme and even worse that my dad’s students didn’t get the humor. I was the only one laughing.
The first time I saw a partially naked woman (top, only) was the skit with the businessman going to work. Paraphrasing. Don’t remember the exact name. I was shocked! Only slightly. LOL.
“F-— OFF!”
;)
Steve Allen, TW3, and Monty Python definitely shaped by sense of humor as a youth. Unfortunately my misguided attempts at using that humor too often got me in trouble at work and in personal relationships. I realized too late in life that nobody likes a satirical smartass.
I have John Cleese on my GPS giving directions...
He was not!
I heard the one that Arnold Schwarzenegger did.
When I designed supervisors training for the Cal Youth Authority i bought 3 videos written, starred in and produced by Cleese. One was meetings Bloody Meetings. Hilarious depiction of how not to run a meeting and great comic relief.
I remember the customer service training video from the 80’s...great stuff
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