There's an episode by The Goodies called "Kung Fu Kapers", featuring the ancient Yorkshire martial art of "Ecky Thump", which involves hitting people with a black pudding. It became (in)famous because a man actually died laughing while watching it on TV. I don't think the episode is on RU-vid, but I've seen it on Dailymotion.
The whole inspiration of Monty Python's Flying Circus came from a sketch show they saw where they found everything leading up to the punchline funnier than the punchline itself, so they decided to just write sketches without a punch line.
Great reaction, another great sketch by Monty Python is The Hungarian phrase book. Monty Python`s flying circus was incredible when it first aired in the 70`s, a lot of it still stands the test of time but there were parts that dont work as well today due to them being topical to the times, notibly the political satire. However there is still a lot to explore.
Great reaction. I would like to add a few suggestions: - The society for putting things on top of other things - Spanish inquisition - The Ministry of silly waks - Dead parrot sketch - Cheese shop sketch - The dirty fork - Dirty Hungarian phrasebook Enjoy!
Watched Python as a teen and I'm pretty sure that's why my sense of humour is quick. 71 now but never fail to catch anything Python .. yes even their films, absolutely brilliant.. Thank you so much for making my Friday night, just in time now for the kick off of this years Six Nations Rugby Ireland v France...
Somehow I missed this one when it came out, but all the Python shows do pose serious danger to the listener, breathlessness, stomach cramps, and so on.
As John Cleese said himself.. Our material doesn't have to be funny.. It just has to be silly.. In reality they were all clever men.. Doctors.. University graduates.. but the material they came up with was so silly it was brilliant
When my brother & I rolled kicking around the floor at python stuff, our dad thought we had become bonkers as he didn't think any of it was funny at all.
Incredible, this went out in 1970...! What tickles me is that a vast majority of the population watching Python...didn't know what the hell was going on!!
I love monty python, loads of brilliant quirky sketches but one of my all time favorite is the mountain climb one where it looks like there's a line scaling a mountain until the camera pans back and they're actually lying on the pavement shimming along on their hands and knees!!! Hilarious!!! Especially as one of them 'falls' off at the end!!! 👍👌
Absolute comedy gold Al, I used to watch the re-runs of Monty python in the 70's as a kid and I still lose it and piss myself laughing exactly as u did yourself. Those guys were geniuses. Loved in man and I laughed as much when u lost it as well. Thanks for that buddy, everybody deserves a little Python to brighten up their day.👍😂
Back in the late 70s/early 80s, there was a rash of Punk bands named after Monty Python bits (Piranha Brothers, X-Parrot, and so on). The most successful was an English group named Killing Joke.
I watched all these when the show was on first time around, on Sunday nights; I think. Dad wasn't too impressed. The influence of Spike Milligan (who had 'Q' running contemporaneously with weird sketches)on the MP team was noticeable. Spike was in Life of Brian, just a cameo. The MP learnt their skills in BBC Radio sketch shows and early TV shows, "Written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman, "At Last the 1948 Show" is a groundbreaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch comedy series" IMDB Wait until "SPAM" which is the origin of unwanted email.
"10:10...tallk abavt jour rapidd-feir cameddj..cameddicch eqqviwalennt aw Daniel Rosten..Slimm y slenndr, fast asz a grejhavnd, taph asz letthr y hard asz Krupp steel, tuu janh tou fear detth bat jast elld ienaph tou dei, steadfastlj marrtschinh tou tha beat aw tha dram.."
You get " Monty Python " or you don't You cant explain to anybody.... If you get it , every second of an episode has the humour running through it.... also it drives the ones who don't get it ... Insane !! LOL.
My step daughter got into MIT with an essay using the fatal joke as the basis of her essay. I kid you not. She started with the "peanut" joke and took it from there and they loved it. Don't know if you have seen Fawlty Towers yet. If so I need to watch it. If not you have to!
Hahaa…so nice that Monty Python is back !….Our parents despaired of us kids back in the day when the Pythons were new to our tv screens! The fact that adults can now appreciate and enjoy their “nonsense” is wonderful to me 😄💕 thanks for sharing 👍✨
Hello Alan. I commented before that I recommend a Python spin off called "Ripping Yarns". My favourites are the Yorkshire based ones, which I enjoyed even more than the Goodies' "Ecky Thump" mentioned in another comment, so watch at your own risk.
Electric Take a look at a thing Eric Sykes did in 1993, it was called 'The Big Freeze', done in 1993, Syes' I would say in his early 60's. You'll be glad you did... It's.. 'He...He...He...larious', and I've only seen the first 6 or 7 minutes...I'm getting back straight after I've sent this. It's 'Star studded, and on RU-vid.
From the uk love seeing you laugh at are perfect classics. An it is funny how you usa heads say..."pie thon" me uk pronounce it piethan. That may be because I'm a manc. ❤ loved watching you laugh Nite ar kid.
at great risk i tracked down the german form of the joke "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
I have to add a suggestion. I don't know if you've already reacted to it before, but if you liked Monty Pythons stuff, I suggest you watch 'Biggus Dickus - Monty Python's Life of Brian'. That will have you rolling on the floor laughing! and I'm not exaggerating. I must of seen it over 50 times and it gets me every single time!
So weird that you said that. Hubby & I were laughing & quoting things from Life of Brian just yesterday and of course Biggus Dickus and Incontinentia came up? 😁
I grew up with MPFC. I used to listen to the Goon Show on the radio which kind of leant it's humour to MPFC. It was a time of a brand new genre of comedy.
So many brilliant MP sketches. The Spanish Inquisition Upper Class Twit of the Year Ministry of Silly Walks Argument Clinic How Not to Be seen Fish Slapping Dance Lumberjack Song The [Dead] Parrot Sketch etc.
@The Electric Beard. You should watch 'The Armstrong and Miller Show | Hitler Has Only Got One Ball' as it's along the same lines about taking the piss out of the germans. With Armstrong and Miller it is a song, and is used as a secret and britains greatest weapon,. Worth a look.
I grew up on Monty python.....now where did I put that holy hand grenade of Antioch....by the way ..my T shirts are a mess too...😅😅😅...stupidity is good for us all...E...
John cleese was born in 1939 eric idle 1943, as young and teen children all the movies they would have seen ,would have been serious movies about war missions, so a parody about a secret weapon which is having a sense of humour works, along with the thought if the Germans had a sense of humour why did they salute a charlie chaplain impersonator, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The best part about the joke is the fact that even if you take the German version and attempt to translate it into English, you will find that it is complete gibberish nonsense. It's just a jumble of a few real German words mixed in with a bunch of made-up German-sounding words, using a proper sentence structure to make it sound like real German to anyone who doesn't actually speak German. So, a real joke used as the "killer joke" doesn't actually exist...they never actually wrote a joke. Brilliant on another level.
The Oxford English Dictionary recognises the word "Pythonesque" as the name of the style of comedy. The pioneer through was Spike Milligan. Sometimes Milligan's work is even too wacky. He was the guy who broke the assumption that a sketch MUST work towards a punchline (however bad) (eg The Two Ronnies sometimes), But it was the Python team who came up with the magic ingredient to avoid the punchline... cut to one of those sublime Gilliam animations.
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput. Is what they say German sounding words but not actually words.
...if terrible wars could only end like that one...historical truth by the way...what Monty tells us. About Snacks. I mean fatcts. Every person should die laughing! If God have a sense of Humor...
I wish people would be honest about Monty Python movies. Yes, they had some very funny parts, but overall, they were not that funny. If you timed the amount of time you laughed with time you just sat there waiting for something funny to happen. You would see you were waiting more than laughing.
The monty python show got a lot of complaints at the time as some christian groups were offended lol So i always thought these sketches were a way for them to take the P out of them for not having a sense of humour
The joke: "My dog has no nose." "How does he smell?" "Terrible." ----- The actual words in the episode are nonsense, and have no actual meaning in German.
Fun Fact Mel Brookes was at the Battle of the Bulge. When the Nazi's Retreated back , They were Yelling Nazi Propaganda at the USA Troops on Loud Speakers. Mel Brookes said Screw that , No Nazi was going to Up Stage Him. So He jumped onto a Halftrack with a Loud Speaker and Started Singing Jolsens Song with a Twist , Nat Nat Nat Nazi Good Bye , Nat nat nat Nazi Don't Cry while He is Dancing the Goose Step. Just like in His first movie The Producers Very Funny Peace OOT
Fun fact: the dog joke supposedly told by Hitler in the sketch apparently works in German as well as in English - Mein Hund hat keine Nase. Wie riecht er? Freuchterlich!
