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the Pythons.

Here is Moore in a particularly funny bit with the wonderful Peter Cooke (admittedly not a Python) during a stage show of '"Beyond the Fringe" from 1964;

We were toked up but already loved MP. We were not alone in the laughter until my husband and I saw The Meaning Of Life. One would have thought the audience would have been ready for Mr. Creosote. We were holding each other and trying not to laugh our popcorn out of our noses and the rest of the theater was dead silent. I will never understand that. Granted Mr. Creosote was pretty damned gross but knowing it was Python should have made it more than a morose and uncomfortable moment. I guess YMMV on that one.

is the expression on Mr. Creosotes face after he explodes and the sight gag of his heart still pumping!


"It's WAFER thin!"

They were fucking geniuses, plain and simple.


I love the interview with Cleese where he talks about the making of "Fawlty Towers (Totally genius sit com if there ever was one) and getting "Life of Brian" made and how George Harrison basically came to the rescue. Cleese, with a spot-on accurate Harrison impression says "I'll put the money up. His partner asked why and Harrison says "I want to see the movie".

Here's that clip, the portion containing the quote above starts at the 2:50 mark;

I had never seen them. Both treasures for a fan. I never did watch Fawlty Towers, I guess after I finish my Breaking Bad marathon I should see about that show. I am certain I would love it as well.

That really was a perfect George Harrison! I was waiting for it but it was good enough that it still surprised me.

I laughed all the way through the first video. My husband came in totally confused about why I was sitting here laughing so hard. Great interview and I completely agree with you, they were genius. There are some sketches I can watch over and over again and never tire of. I have never been able to quote much, I just enjoy.

My children grew up with them. They LOVED the Holy Grail long before they really knew what it was all about and I had a MP songbook that I would play on the piano. Once they were old enough we would sing along to Every Sperm is Sacred (I think that is what it was called) before that it was always Sir Robin that they liked so much.

Really thank you so much! That was some good fun watching that.

You can find so many wonderful bits.

This one hour BBC panel discussion show called "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" did an episode about the impact of The Life of Brian where John Cleese and Michael Palin debate a couple of British religious figures, for instance;

I just added it to my Netflix queue!

I will watch this video later as you suggested, when it is quiet and I can stay down for an hour I can imagine it is very good. These guys are no dummies. I adore Michael Palin (he is such a nice guy, I nodded when I heard that...so true) and the two of them probably make a very good discussion. Thank you.

I have seen many good things but I would bet that watching Monty Python has given me more hours of joy and laughter than just about any. Silly to sublime. I have the perfect memory of my brother showing it to me on the TV for the first time when he was home for a vacation. It was the show with the Twit of the Year contest. He and I laughed together so hard. He has been gone now for 11 years and that show always makes me think of that so I am laughing before they even start .

Thank you.

Enjoy!

My condolences on the loss of your brother.

Fawlty Towers was one of the very few shows (most of them Pythonesque, come to think of it) that literally made Mr. Bear and me gasp with laughter. I kind of have a little crush.

And I'm sure I'd think of more if I saw it again. It's been several years.

That John Cleese made a number of training films/videos for office work? "Limey" (a British former co-worker) had seen the Customer Service module, and said it was quite good in the instructional sense. I don't know if I could get past being trained in "service" by Basil Fawlty, tho....

Our hosts interrupted dinner and everything and dragged us to the TV to watch the show. It was hysterical.

I described it for several years to friend in the US before PBS started first bringing over episodes. It was the episode with the philosophy final soccer match between the Greeks and the Germans.