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All had different strengths and specialities.
Cleese n Palin were funnier to me, but that's just individual humour taste. But equally the others all had sketches and performances that were faultless.
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Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
or Terry Gilliam?
Discuss.
Monty Python was all of these. They were a unit.
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Carol Cleveland.
That's funny.
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I agree that Monty Pythons was best in its absurdist comedy TV show, and Monty Python's first feature length movie, And Now for Something Completely Different was basically just selected sketches from that show. (So that movie feels like one longer Monty Python Flying Circus TV show.)
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Holy grail was comedy genius from beginning to end.
Despite one or two pythonesque characters (terrific race, the romans), Life of Brian changed to more general humour to get a bigger audience (the whole biggus dickus giggling sequence and Welease Woger) was not very python at all, although still funny.
People forget but huge swathes of the episodes, sometimes whole episodes, were unfunny crap. And this admission from a fan who watched from the beginning and bought the LPs (and has rewatched the lot in recent years). When the sketches were good, they were great classics. And these are the ones people remember. When they didn't really work, they were awkward.
Their highlights stuff - like And Now for something completely different film - and the LPs - were always well-chosen. The cream at top was delicious, but a lot of the milk underneath was very ordinary yoghurt.
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Their highlights stuff - like And Now for something completely different film - and the LPs - were always well-chosen. The cream at top was delicious, but a lot of the milk underneath was very ordinary yoghurt.
In other words, Python were just like every other pop culture or artistic phenomenon: 99% crap!
Nooo, more like 65% crap 35% utter genius 
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Holy grail was comedy genius from beginning to end.
Despite one or two pythonesque characters (terrific race, the romans), Life of Brian changed to more general humour to get a bigger audience (the whole biggus dickus giggling sequence and Welease Woger) was not very python at all, although still funny.
I agree, these were are funny films to this day.
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