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[FAST6191]

I really have to watch Monty Python. Has it aged well? Still good?

Some of the TV show is a bit hit and miss but it always was -- if you know any comedy sketch show as it were that was wall to wall hilarity for 4 series (some 45 episodes, each up to 30 minutes a piece) then please please please do share with the class. Alternatively there was a nice compilation film called And Now for Something Completely Different which was somewhat panned at the time for being just a compilation of things people had likely been watching on their TVs for the last however long (rather unfortunate given the name) but today serves as a decent compilation.
The standalone films are still spectacular and probably will be for generations to come. We can probably get in a nerd fight over which is best but I will watch any of them if given half a chance.
I might also suggest their live at the hollywood bowl... I guess it would be called a special these days. The audience participation/interaction stuff alone is something I did not expect from them, and as I sit here there are maybe 5 comedians I know of that do it as well or better as part of the act (if you count dealing with hecklers there might be a few others that are as sharp).

 

[Jiehfeng]

Some of the TV show is a bit hit and miss but it always was -- if you know any comedy sketch show as it were that was wall to wall hilarity for 4 series (some 45 episodes, each up to 30 minutes a piece) then please please please do share with the class. Alternatively there was a nice compilation film called And Now for Something Completely Different which was somewhat panned at the time for being just a compilation of things people had likely been watching on their TVs for the last however long (rather unfortunate given the name) but today serves as a decent compilation.
The standalone films are still spectacular and probably will be for generations to come. We can probably get in a nerd fight over which is best but I will watch any of them if given half a chance.
I might also suggest their live at the hollywood bowl... I guess it would be called a special these days. The audience participation/interaction stuff alone is something I did not expect from them, and as I sit here there are maybe 5 comedians I know of that do it as well or better as part of the act (if you count dealing with hecklers there might be a few others that are as sharp).

Do you mean shows that are consistently funny? That probably doesn't exist, I've watched shows that are "funny" in theory, you laugh in your mind but you don't laugh out loud if that makes sense. Impractical Jokers made me laugh a lot though, probably because it felt more real and there were real interactions/risk/awkwardness.

I'll maybe check a few Monty Python YouTube clips to see if I dig the humour, then maybe I'll get to watching it. As for comedians, the only good one I've seen is Bill Burr, though admittedly I don't know many comedians.

 

[FAST6191]

Do you mean shows that are consistently funny? That probably doesn't exist, I've watched shows that are "funny" in theory, you laugh in your mind but you don't laugh out loud if that makes sense. Impractical Jokers made me laugh a lot though, probably because it felt more real and there were real interactions/risk/awkwardness.

I'll maybe check a few Monty Python YouTube clips to see if I dig the humour, then maybe I'll get to watching it. As for comedians, the only good one I've seen is Bill Burr, though admittedly I don't know many comedians.

Yeah consistently funny, and precisely.

If you have come in having watched the films, standup shows, songs and best of clips on youtube or something then the shows will be a bit slow or flat for some sketches. Any given episode is likely to have a few things which make you chuckle though. On ageing well then a lot of it will be somewhat different if you are not familiar with post world war 2 UK society (or if you think London's fashion, punk, rock and metal, mods and rockers... represented it because that is what you see in films then you are wrong*) but at the same time a lot of it is just bizarre enough that it probably won't matter -- the letters to the editor voice done at the end of some sketches**... most of them are probably in their 80s right now but I knew plenty that effected such a tone and the sensibilities that are being satirised.

I would say launch right in with a film, or if you are going to watch sketches then don't do them from a film and instead do the TV show ones.

*for a US analogy then if you think early 90s US was like I would see in grunge videos or films set in LA or New York then not so much, most of what I saw when I was over there around then more resembled (though with less furry porn)


**mainly just to continue doing videos in the pictures thread (though it also serves to string together a somewhat weaker sketch into a top tier one, and then some other things).
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7a7qi

 

[Jiehfeng]

Yeah consistently funny, and precisely.

If you have come in having watched the films, standup shows, songs and best of clips on youtube or something then the shows will be a bit slow or flat for some sketches. Any given episode is likely to have a few things which make you chuckle though. On ageing well then a lot of it will be somewhat different if you are not familiar with post world war 2 UK society (or if you think London's fashion, punk, rock and metal, mods and rockers... represented it because that is what you see in films then you are wrong*) but at the same time a lot of it is just bizarre enough that it probably won't matter -- the letters to the editor voice done at the end of some sketches**... most of them are probably in their 80s right now but I knew plenty that effected such a tone and the sensibilities that are being satirised.

I would say launch right in with a film, or if you are going to watch sketches then don't do them from a film and instead do the TV show ones.

*for a US analogy then if you think early 90s US was like I would see in grunge videos or films set in LA or New York then not so much, most of what I saw when I was over there around then more resembled (though with less furry porn)


**mainly just to continue doing videos in the pictures thread (though it also serves to string together a somewhat weaker sketch into a top tier one, and then some other things).
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7a7qi

I haven't watched much of Monty Python, just skimmed through one or two clips and it's mostly just hearing good things about it. What movie do you recommend to start with? Preferably the best one, as I may or may not only watch one.

Also somewhat relevant, from a Looney Tunes disclaimer:

 

[FAST6191]

I don't know that such a disclaimer would apply here outside of the terminally sensitive, though several of the things they send up make them even funnier today (the rich person's birth scene from meaning of life and the womb scene from the life of Brian being two which at the time were almost absurdity but today...).

I was also deliberately avoiding suggesting one there.

The meaning of life is probably my favourite but it is a series of sketches without an overarching narrative. This lack of a narrative puts some people off. At the same time if you want something closer to the series then this is that.
The life of Brian is a great send up of religion, possibly only eclipsed by the interviews they gave on the film (they got a few religious types in that thought themselves intellectual heavyweights... did not go well for said religious types). Probably also the best narrative as it were. However in terms of jokes coming thick and fast then not so much (though still more than most other films you might see).
Quest for the Holy Grail has more consistent sketches woven together with a narrative of sorts (though it is not a terribly important one). It got remade as a stage play a while back and I saw that as well, if someone had told me the film was a stage play adaptation I would probably have believed them.

If you can commit to watching all three then absolutely do that, and I would probably start with the meaning of life. If just two then if Brian and Grail don't sell on you having to watch meaning of life then fair enough. I still don't think I can suggest just one if it is aiming to sell you on the rest of them -- they all have their fans and I don't know your likes here well enough to engineer a suggestion.

 

[Reynardine]

Monthy Python literally were the first to spam, that's got to count for something, right?

Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!
Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam

Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
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Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am

Lovely Spam! (Lovely Spam!)
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam!


I've had tons of fun with Monty Python's humour. But seriously, Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail should be on every list of films you should've seen at least once in your life.

To be fair, not everything they made was golden. The Meaning of Life was too bizarre and all over the place for my taste.

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

[Veho]

I really don't feel like posting all of these pics here, so here's a link to the gallery:

https://imgur.com/gallery/AKfKXAv

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

[VinsCool]

I really don't feel like posting all of these pics here, so here's a link to the gallery:

https://imgur.com/gallery/AKfKXAv

these are the jokes I laugh too loud when I'm tired lol

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

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[Veho]

 

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[Reynardine]

I really don't feel like posting all of these pics here, so here's a link to the gallery:

https://imgur.com/gallery/AKfKXAv

Made me laugh, I love wordplay jokes!

Also, I had no idea what an EpiPen is until now.

Yeah, I'm lame...

 

[Jiehfeng]

"Art of the shit"

 

[FAST6191]

Many times I went into US public bogs they had giant fucking gaps such that you might as well not bother with the door at all.

Random example from image search

Fortunately I am rarely caught short outside the house so I did not have to contemplate their usage when running around in the US but upon seeing it and realising the legends were true


I would not have minded so much if these were a plywood outhouse in nowhere, middle of, but I had a quick scan and $275 - $450 Per Stall for the cheapest plastic coated wood, go stainless and that becomes more like 900 per stall.

 

[Reynardine]

Many times I went into US public bogs they had giant fucking gaps such that you might as well not bother with the door at all.

Random example from image search
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Fortunately I am rarely caught short outside the house so I did not have to contemplate their usage when running around in the US but upon seeing it and realising the legends were true


I would not have minded so much if these were a plywood outhouse in nowhere, middle of, but I had a quick scan and $275 - $450 Per Stall for the cheapest plastic coated wood, go stainless and that becomes more like 900 per stall.

When I think drill sergeant I think Full Metal Jacket, awesome movie.

Those wide open toilet stalls are nasty. I try to avoid public toilets as much as I can, yuck...

 

[Jiehfeng]