The members of Monty Python get a lifetime pass from me for anything they say. Rarely does a day go by that I don’t think of some skit or scene from their movies or shows. Life is a little better (some days a LOT better) because of them.
Cleese’s reading of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is highly recommended.
John Cleese is on my list of the ten funniest people of all time.
Ping for later.
Sounds like John is pining for the fjords...
By far!
He made it to 78? with his sense of humour?
There may be hope for the rest of us yet. :-)
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
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...
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.
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.
IIRC, Cleese is not the proud atheist he once said that he was, now more of a no-proof-there’s-no-God kind of agnostic.
Basil Fawlty flogging his car with a tree branch was classic. So was the disgruntled cheese shop customer and the man who wanted to be a mouse.
As a Christian I always found Life of brian hilarious. And yes, it is because it is not making fun of Jesus. It is making fun of his followers.
The thrown sandal scene is comedy gold.
It took me quite a while to realize that monty python were not making fun of Christ or christianity. They were making fun of people being kinda nutty in WHY they believed what they believe.
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