Do Americans like Monty Python

[Nora]

Duh-duh-duh... "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

LOL...

Now didn't I say not to go there?!?

 

[Silverluna]

PLEAASEE FONDUL MAII BUT TOCX!

 

[just pet]

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me

Albatross!

 

[patient1]

Cheyenne & I diverge here.

Monty Python was very funny, but also often grotesque.

The Holy Grail was hilarious.

The Life Of Brian was the funniest movie I've ever seen. (I'm Christian. If I were Jewish I'd have taken offense, especially to the suicide squad scene.)

The Meaning of Life was a dissapointment.


As for the Challenger dissaster & The World Trade Center, these are national tragedies that affected all americans personally on an emotional level. Joking about them will always be in poor taste, so long as the people that remember it live.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

" Eees not dead.....eees sleep'n"

Rhumb

 

[markb325]

Like Monty Python?

In two words Hell Yes

 

[Juspar Emvan]

God I so want to finish these lines off.

I love Monty Python.

And Balck Adder beats Bean with a week old turnip (that looks like a thingie, which is strange, because my thingie looks like e turnip.)

And now for something completely different . . . A man with a tape recorder up his nose.



















And now, in stereo.

 

[bluntforcemama]

I'm a twinkie, and I'm okay....

 

[Juspar Emvan]

On Sundays she goes shopping,
and has buttered scones for tea!

 

[Hamletmaschine]

No, we Americans don't really get the jokes, but we laugh anyway, because it's British, and the British are so much cleverer than us, and we don't want to let on.

If you don't know about this, you can find texts of all the sketches here:

Python sketches

 

[Spinaroonie]

The Holy Grail is Vastly overrated by Americans. Everybody and their cousin AND their sister quote from it and think they're soooooooo original.

Good way to ruin a perfectly good movie.

 

[michaelmt1]

Albatros

Albatros!

Albaaaaaaaatrossssssss

 

[Juspar Emvan]

" Eees not dead.....eees sleep'n"

Rhumb

Can't help myself

"The only reason he's standing up is you naled him to the perch"

"Well of course I naled eem to the perch. If I 'adn't nailed em to the perch, 'e would 'ave muscled up to them bars and voom."

"Voom?
This parrot wouldn't voom if you put ten million bloody volts through him.
He's dead, deceased, bereft of life he rests in peace! He's run down the curtain and gone to join the bleedin' chior invisible! He's curled up 'es tootsies and if you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up daisies!
This is an Ex Parrot!"

"Oh, I suppose you want a new one then?"

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Albatros

Albatros!

Albaaaaaaaatrossssssss

Get yer Albatross here!

What flavour is it?

What flavour? It's bloody sea bird flavour, i'n't it!

 

[LukkyKnight]

Your avatar smells of elderberries

It was funny once, say thirty years ago? Not any more.

Go away you silly Honky Tonk Knight, or I shall taunt you a second time...

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

Monty movies are funny. You can watch the same one over and over again and catch something new cause you were laughing your ass off that you missed the next joke. I think the real question is do people from France understand Jerry Lewis? If they do, they need to explain it to us.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Goodies.

Goody Goody yum yum.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

" Eees not dead.....eees sleep'n"

Rhumb

No he's not! He's dead, dead, dead *pounds parrot on counter*

MM, we have threads with the title "And now for something completely different", and you need to ask this question?

Yeah, Monty Python is probably more popular here than it is in Britain - considering some of it was not aired in Britain (due to censorship) for quite some time from what I understand.

Some of us who are slow on the uptake (like myself) don't always get the humor, but I hear little quips from various Monty Python skits all the time.

 

[InnocentAngel81]

actually i love benny hill but i cant find him anywhere :'( i wonder if there is a dvd somewhere?

 

[michaelmt1]

Chef,


I spy with me Little eyes something beginning with ...........C ?

Mike

 

[LukkyKnight]

He's pinin' for the fjords, STG.

 

[Lost Cause]

Yeah, I hate them so much that I have video tapes of the series, and movies! I also hate the other "Python" spinoffs like;
Life of Brian
Meaning of Life
Holy Grail
Fawlty Towers
Eric the Viking
Fish called Wanda
Baron von Munchausen

I watch them all the time so I can hate them more.

**Except when Benny Hill is on!**

 

[fgarvb1]

Only if they has some shrubbery!

 

[Shaq]

*wipes nose*

I like Chris Rock and David Chappelle a lot more....

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

actually i love benny hill but i cant find him anywhere :'( i wonder if there is a dvd somewhere?

Here he is: http://www.mbcnet.org/archives/etv/H/htmlH/hillbenny/hillberryIMAGE/hillbenny.jpg