What is your favorite Monty Python skit?

The "Spam" sketch is a classic. The one that had me rolling on the floor and rewinding the tape many times when I first saw it was the "Worst Family in Britain" contest.

 

Dead Parrot sketch

 

Philosopher football

 

World Forum is far up there, and always great when I meet someone from Coventry.

Others: The Queen Victoria Handicap, Dennis Moore, The Argument, The Upper Class Twit Of The Year Contest

 

I have always enjoyed the episode where the blancmange aliens turn everybody into Scotsmen so they can win Wimbledon.

 

Twit sketch
"got it rough"
The Bishop
cheese shop
Parrot sketch
Argument
silly elections
Mr Luxury Yacht

and I know I'm missing an obvious one.

 

That is my utter favorite. I'm also a fan of the Olympic Hide and Seek and the World's Deadliest Joke.

 

I second that.

 

The Argument is indeed pretty cleverly written.

 

I'll third this one: from an officiating trio consisting of Confucius, Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas (not to mention "Beckenbauer a bit of a surprise there") to "And Marx is claiming offside," it's brilliant.

"The Bishop" and "The Lumberjack Song" are quite honorable mentions, in my cosmos.

 

"No, 'Rarnaby Budge' by Charles Dikkens. That's Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author."

The bookshop sketch is quite good.

 

While not as funny as many named above, the Spanish Inquisition. No, not the comfy chair!

My personal favorite is still the Blamange's attempt to win Wimbledon, since Scotsmen can't play tennis. Carol Cleveland was great in that sketch.

The Blackmail game.

 

the cheese shop.
also, the peckinpah spoofs: garden party, and eric idle's twee presenter being machine-gunned in slo-mo. "a little bit later on in the program, we're going to be taking a look at john wayne's new movie 'buckets of blood pouring out of peoples' heads.'"

whoops, "flying lessons" is good, too. "'oh, eton and maudling, hoops got an hole in.' COURSE IT'S GOT A HOLE IN, OTHERWISE IT WOULDN'T BE AN 'OOP, WOULD IT MOSH?"

i knew i couldn't keep it to one....

 

How about the sketch with the crazy movie studio head and the yes men he arbitrarily fires.

 

I'm crackin' up thinking about all these sketches.

Here's two of my favorites:

Dennis Moore ("Give me all your lupins...")

WWI Pilots "Banter" sketch ("I'm afraid I don't understand your banter...")

 

"dickybirded" is a damn funny verb, isn't it?

 

good call on the banter sketch. leads nicely into "woody" versus "tinny" words. "ever notice dear: all the naughty words are woody!" "really? how 'bout t*t?"

 

Nudge nudge wink wink say no more...

Mr. Hilter, Mr Bimler et al

 

I could name twenty, but I'll stick with the Travel Agent sketch, where Eric Idle goes on a five minute rant about the horrors of package-tours and "Watney's Red Barrel." Its even funnier in "Live at the Hollywood Bowl." I don't know how he ever could have memorized all those lines.

 

No it isn't!

 

The Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

"We used to live in a shoebox."
"Cardboard box?"
"Aye."
"Luxury."

 

Woke up two hours before went to bed, headed down to mill, paid mill owner four pence a day to work for said mill owner, worked 24 hours a day, then came home and dad would cut us in two with a butter knife, and dance on our graves singing "Alleullia", now that was rough.

 

Since there's no 24 on tonight, I think I'm going to do a Monty Python fest at home tonight.

I have all of the tv shows, plus Life of Brian (Criterion edition), Holy Grail (special edition), "Life of Python," and "Monty Python Live" on DVD.

Thank you A&E!!!

It's amazing that Monty Python's Flying Circus still stands up even close to 30 years after it was written.

 

Oh, and why is it that nobody remembers the name of Johann Gambolputty...

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