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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6      Non-Film Score Discussion: Favorite of Monty Python's Flying Circus?    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3 4 5    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 5:47 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Football match? Is that Greek philosophers v long John silver appreciation society? Lol. My kind of intellectual, absurdist humour. That's hilarious!    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 5:48 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) I always loved the genius of how they warm up like they would for a football match, dribbling and such like, and then when the whistle blows they go into deep thought n pace about.    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 6:04 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) And the eureka moment.    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 9:00 AM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) After having watched several episodes lately, I keep expecting my non-Python viewing to break into a Python sketch! Everything feels like a Python sketch now! Quotes from historical figures, news broadcasts, po-faced documentaries...I can practically hear their loud, absurdist delivery, I can practically see Eric Idle's series one huge hairstyle, the high-stance, early-'70s suits...the Python aesthetic has become my reality!    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 11:30 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Two other things I always loved was the guy being served in the wig shop where the 3 assistants are wearing wigs that are a starkly different colour to their own hair and say in horror "You mean to say you can tell its a wig??!!" Then that wonderful sketch about how mums never see sons as grown up, where Cleese shows up to see his mum and her neighbour and they treat him like he's five "Oooh he's such a clever little boy, arent you coochy coo?" And the neighbour is going "Can he talk, coochy coo?" And a weary Cleese is going "Of course i can talk, i'm minister for overseas development" The sketch changed a few times over the years    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 12:08 PM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) At the risk of plagiarising Justin "Just Shoot Me" Boggan, I am starting a fresh rewatch of Monty Python's Flying Circus from the start. I will select my favourite sketch for each episode. I encourage the world to do the same.    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 12:11 PM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) Series One, Episode One: "Whither Canada?" Episode Features: It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', Famous Deaths, Italian Lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson, Cycling Race, and The Funniest Joke in the World. Best Sketch: "The Funniest Joke in the World" I'm a simple man. I see dummies falling from high places, and I laugh. This sketch runs at an "epic" length. Was that Neil Innes as a test subject British soldier? My Rating: 8 out of 10    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 12:24 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) At the risk of plagiarising Justin "Just Shoot Me" Boggan, I am starting a fresh rewatch of Monty Python's Flying Circus from the start. I will select my favourite sketch for each episode. I encourage the world to do the same. I did this just a couple of years ago. The whole show was on Netflix, so I binged it from start to finish. Discovered some gems along the way that I hadn't seen before, or that I had seen, but forgotten.    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 1:08 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Series One, Episode One: "Whither Canada?" Best Sketch: "The Funniest Joke in the World" I'm a simple man. I see dummies falling from high places, and I laugh. This sketch runs at an "epic" length. Was that Neil Innes as a test subject British soldier? Innes was a regular face before he did music for them like Minstrels in holy grail and Rutland Weekend Television with Idle    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 2:27 PM     By:   Doc Loch   (Member) To me the two sketches that demonstrate the comedic range of Python are 1) on the cerebral side, The Argument Clinic, which is like the Moebius strip of comedy in that once you get into it there isn't any way out ("I came here for an argument." "No you didn't." "Yes I did."), and 2) on the completely silly side, The Fish Slapping Dance. Both make me laugh every time I think of them.    Posted:   Mar 27, 2024 - 9:56 PM     By:   On the Rooftops   (Member) From the first episode (if I remember correctly): “Basil is that most dangerous of animals….a clever sheep”    Posted:   Mar 28, 2024 - 2:39 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) To me the two sketches that demonstrate the comedic range of Python are 1) on the cerebral side, The Argument Clinic, which is like the Moebius strip of comedy in that once you get into it there isn't any way out ("I came here for an argument." "No you didn't." "Yes I did."), and 2) on the completely silly side, The Fish Slapping Dance. Both make me laugh every time I think of them. Exactly! Love the intellectual referencing and riffing (like the aforementioned football match), but also dig the more slapstick- or absurdist-oriented sketches. It takes a great mind (or minds!) to do successful slapstick.    Posted:   Mar 28, 2024 - 1:00 PM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) There have been numerous Python documentaries and retrospectives, but Life of Python, an episode of Omnibus from 1990, remains my favourite. It was produced shortly after the death of Graham Chapman.    Posted:   Mar 28, 2024 - 3:59 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) There are quite a few python related docus on netflix, including the one that covers their reunion concert and the episodes of each member choosing their fave sketches n talking about filming them.    Posted:   Mar 29, 2024 - 9:45 AM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) There are quite a few python related docus on netflix, including the one that covers their reunion concert and the episodes of each member choosing their fave sketches n talking about filming them. The Python boys thankfully haven't been media shy, whether as a group or as individuals, for which I will be forever thankful.    Posted:   Mar 29, 2024 - 9:58 AM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) KERA Dallas are credited with making Python (relatively) popular in America. This 1975 fund drive features the fellow who saw the Pythons' genius as well as everyone save for Cleese.    Posted:   Mar 29, 2024 - 1:59 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) I remember Steve Martin promoting it in 80s/90s - and like many Americans, calling it Pie-tharn. Lol    Posted:   Mar 30, 2024 - 5:13 AM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) I remember Steve Martin promoting it in 80s/90s - and like many Americans, calling it Pie-tharn. Lol One would think he would have gotten the pronunciation right. After all, his early career was essentially an American take on madcap Pythonesque hilarity.    Posted:   Mar 30, 2024 - 5:41 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) The Python boys thankfully haven't been media shy, whether as a group or as individuals, for which I will be forever thankful. Thankfully indeed. They weren't afraid to speak up and defend their work either. For example in all the hooplah surrounding LIFE OF BRIAN (I think the film was banned here in Norway too). This particular interview, where Cleese and Palin argue with the clergy (hosted by Tim Rice, no less!), is a hoot and is almost an unintential Python sketch in itself:    Posted:   Mar 30, 2024 - 7:35 AM     By:   Indy1981   (Member) I plan on watching the Life of Brian debate once I've watched the film. ..and now for something completely different: To Norway, Home of Giants (1979)     Non-Film Score Discussion: Favorite of Monty Python's Flying Circus?    << < 1 2 3 4 5  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6

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