Monty Python
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The pythons were: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin and they broadcast on the BBC from 1969 to 1974. Their madcap approach to comedy broke all the boundaries and they were as controversial as they were successful.
If I could, I would play every Python episode and film in its entirety on here but for brevity’s sake here are some of the most famous scenes from their work.
The Four Yorkshire Men
was a really famous sketch that I’ve been constantly reminded of by my previously working-class Yorkshire family, who continue to claim they had to get up four hours before they went to bed or eat gravel for breakfast -only for another member of the family to remind them “you were lucky”. The hard luck stories of the upwardly mobile mean that this joke remains as funny as it was thirty-odd years ago:
The Sperm Song
This song was towards the end of the film “The Meaning of Life” and it was a stinging attack on the logic of the Catholic Church in banning contraception. Several hundred dirty-faced children crowd round their Father to listen to the virtues of not wasting sperm whilst their mother pops kids out at a rate of knots and continues with the washing up as normal:
In line with their bizarre tastes, the pythons included a Chinese dragon in the finale?!
The Killer Bunny
Which monster would you pick to guard the Holy Grail? Monty Python decided that it would probably be a bunny rabbit. Watch the brave knights of the round table do battle with Caerbannog:
How do you know she’s a witch?
The best example of logic you’ve ever seen:
The Ministry of Silly Walks
Responsible for hundreds of school children walking around like idiots -John Cleese did it so it must be fine:
[...] with illegal and destructive computer programmes. Bugger. It wasn’t that nice after all. Even Monty Python are glad to see the back of it. (No Ratings Yet – Rate how shit this item is (5=most shit)) [...]
[...] The speech at the end is still very true today. Despite acknowledging that consumerism isn’t everything, we haven’t got very far as a society in the last 20 years. In fact, the final speech reminded me of the “Choose Life” monologue in Trainspotting. What is the meaning of life? – they ask. Monty Python has the answer. [...]