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red dog 1

(27,844 posts)
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 03:43 PM Apr 2018

Your favorite Monty Python sketch?


16 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Argument Clinic
2 (13%)
Cheese Shop
2 (13%)
Dead Parrot
2 (13%)
The Funniest Joke in the World
1 (6%)
Ministry of Silly Walks
1 (6%)
Nudge Nudge
0 (0%)
Spam
2 (13%)
The Spanish Inquisition
3 (19%)
Upper Class Twit of the Year
3 (19%)
Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
0 (0%)
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Your favorite Monty Python sketch? (Original Post) red dog 1 Apr 2018 OP
You need an All of the Above option! Codeine Apr 2018 #1
RAF banter is one of my faves too! geardaddy Apr 2018 #40
My hovercraft is full of eels NightWatcher Apr 2018 #2
Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait til lunchtime. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #12
Also loved 'The Twit Olympics' Siwsan Apr 2018 #3
Upper class twit of the year! longship Apr 2018 #4
my FAVORITE trueblue2007 Apr 2018 #14
"he's dead, but he's not necessarily out of it." Awsi Dooger Apr 2018 #30
I can't choose Ron Obvious Apr 2018 #5
lol red dog 1 Apr 2018 #8
Found it! Ron Obvious Apr 2018 #9
The Pythons told a story about doing Ken Shabby live during one of their tours TlalocW Apr 2018 #31
I love Ken Shabby! geardaddy Apr 2018 #39
I love them all. Lunabell Apr 2018 #6
Not in the US Revanchist Apr 2018 #21
Damn Lunabell Apr 2018 #22
Trouble at mill. TheSmarterDog Apr 2018 #7
"I'm A Lumberjack And I'm OK" Paladin Apr 2018 #10
Here is my favorite sketch red dog 1 Apr 2018 #11
she's got HUGE.......tracts of land! Skittles Apr 2018 #13
"Some day lad all this will be yours." NewJeffCT Apr 2018 #37
The most talented German baroque composer Johann Gambulputty... IcyPeas Apr 2018 #15
Definitely this one... lame54 Apr 2018 #16
Aaaaaarrh!! Doc_Technical Apr 2018 #17
I have a theory, it is mine, and this is what it is. kwassa Apr 2018 #18
The Norwegian Blue kwassa Apr 2018 #19
Albatross and how not to be seen Revanchist Apr 2018 #20
The Piranha Brothers Number9Dream Apr 2018 #23
Piranha Brothers is awesome! geardaddy Apr 2018 #41
The Four Yorkshiremen fifthoffive Apr 2018 #24
I was going to do that one!!! mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #27
Luxury. A HERETIC I AM Apr 2018 #33
Oh yes! I love that one! smirkymonkey Apr 2018 #32
Good night ding ding ding ding ding ding oberliner Apr 2018 #25
barber - lumberjack JenniferJuniper Apr 2018 #26
The Naughty Chemist TlalocW Apr 2018 #28
I found it for you. geardaddy Apr 2018 #44
All of the above... NeoGreen Apr 2018 #29
Too many to have a favorite. Flying Sheep, Confuse-A-Cat..... A HERETIC I AM Apr 2018 #34
Not dead yet! TomSlick Apr 2018 #35
lol red dog 1 Apr 2018 #45
Sir Galahad the Chaste rescued from spanking and oral sex Submariner Apr 2018 #36
What about The Four Yorkshiremen?! geardaddy Apr 2018 #38
Ewan MacTeagle, Scottish Poet geardaddy Apr 2018 #42
Philosophers' Football geardaddy Apr 2018 #43
None of you posted my personal fave, Working Class Playwright: Mayberry Machiavelli Apr 2018 #46
Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson? uriel1972 Apr 2018 #47
 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
1. You need an All of the Above option!
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 03:46 PM
Apr 2018

But I’ll settle for Dead Parrot, since RAF Banter isn’t on the list.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
30. "he's dead, but he's not necessarily out of it."
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:43 PM
Apr 2018

Every time I want to name one favorite skit a dozen more come to mind. But every list would include Upper class Twit.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
5. I can't choose
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 03:57 PM
Apr 2018

First one that came to mind is the one about the revolting janitor guy wanting to marry the upper class guy's innocent-looking daughter:

"And how do you earn a living?"
"I clean public lavatories"
"And is there promotion involved?"
"Yea, after 10 years they give me a brush."
"And when would you want the marriage to take place?"
"Oh right away, guv. I haven't had any in weeks!"

That's all from memory, so undoubtedly wrong.

TlalocW

(15,388 posts)
31. The Pythons told a story about doing Ken Shabby live during one of their tours
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 06:22 PM
Apr 2018

Graham Chapman, for whatever reason, thought the skit was later and didn't come out leaving Palin making coughing and retching sounds for longer than normal, so Cleese, who wasn't in the skit but was dressed for the next one, came out and did the lines perfectly. The next skit featured him as a bishop. So Bishop Cleese steps out, and the first line is, "Now I understand you want to marry my daughter?"

TlalocW

Paladin

(28,269 posts)
10. "I'm A Lumberjack And I'm OK"
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 06:50 PM
Apr 2018

Tough to pick the best one, but the lumberjack song still makes me smile after all these years.

IcyPeas

(21,899 posts)
15. The most talented German baroque composer Johann Gambulputty...
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 09:22 PM
Apr 2018

Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern Schplenden Schlitter Crasscrenbon Fried Digger Dangle Dungle Burstein von Knacker Thrasher Apple Banger Horowitz Ticolensic Grander Knotty Spelltinkle Grandlich Grumblemeyer Spelterwasser Kürstlich Himbleeisen Bahnwagen Gutenabend Bitte Eine Nürnburger Bratwustle Gerspurten mit Zweimache Luber Hundsfut Gumberaber Shönendanker Kalbsfleisch Mittler Raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.





Revanchist

(1,375 posts)
20. Albatross and how not to be seen
Sun Apr 15, 2018, 09:51 PM
Apr 2018
&ab_channel=Chadner

&ab_channel=MontyPython

oh, and self defense from fruit

&ab_channel=MontyPython

fifthoffive

(382 posts)
24. The Four Yorkshiremen
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 02:26 PM
Apr 2018

Summed up: "And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you."

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
27. I was going to do that one!!!
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 03:29 PM
Apr 2018

Man 1: "A'course WE had it rough! There were 17 of us living in a rolled up newspaper in the bottom of a septic tank & every morning we'd wake up and had to lick the paper clean, with our tongues, work 18 hours a day at mill, got paid only tuppence a month, and every night our dad would come home and thrash us with his belt!"

Man 2: "OH, a NEWSPAPER, eh? Course, WE were so poor we could only DREAM of having a newspaper of our own!"

Or ... roughly that

TlalocW

(15,388 posts)
28. The Naughty Chemist
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:00 PM
Apr 2018

Which led to a slide show of Palin displaying words they wouldn't say anymore with some letters blocked. With
KN*CKERS showing up twice (one for Knickers and one for Knockers). And then Semprini (name of a composer), which took us back to the Naughty Chemist coming out and asking those waiting, "So, who's got a boil on the Semprini then?"

TlalocW

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
29. All of the above...
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 04:04 PM
Apr 2018

...plus "There's no Messiah in here. There's a mess all right, but no Messiah."...

A HERETIC I AM

(24,376 posts)
34. Too many to have a favorite. Flying Sheep, Confuse-A-Cat.....
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 08:18 PM
Apr 2018

The Visitors;

(Best line? "I had to bring the goat, he's not well. I only hope he don't gob on the carpet&quot




They were genius.

Oh...and FWIW, "The Four Yorkshiremen" did not appear in the series. It was a stage sketch only.
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