Whose Movies Are Funnier - Monty Python's or Mel Brooks' ?

Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Meaning of Life

or

History of the World Part I
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles

You make the call....


I say it's Mel Brooks in a squeaker. I never liked the way that Holy Grail ended - I felt swindled.

You?

:-)

"Young Frankenstein" "Blazing Saddles"...

And "The Producers" is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Terry

:D

Just so broad and obvious. I mean come on. He parodies things about 10 years after they come out. Didn't Spaceballs come out at least 10 years after Star Wars? Dracula? Robin Hood. Yeah, he did some funny stuff but nowhere near the timelessness of the Python gang. All of Mel Brook's stuff comes across as totally dated humor.

Specifically The Producers, Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part I.

OTOH, the ending of "Holy Grail" is jarring in extreme. Not funny at all. Completely destroyed the film.

Timeless as well.

Terry

I like them both for different reasons.

...beeeeecause EVERY SPERM IS SACRED!!!!!! :7



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read my post again.

and the rest of the pythons dont speak to each other much. but john cleese and terry jones and michael palin have done some good stuff on their own...not to mention terry gilliams directorial work.

Terry gilliam is making good omens into a film now which should be great. and 12 monkeys was allright

John Cleese has been in tons of funny stuff from fish called wanda to the out of towners - not so many good films but he had funny parts in them rat race etc. and he is a funny Q in the bond flicks and he is doing shrek 2 now.

Terry jones show on the history channel is great

michael palin has done mostly documentary stuff but was the best part of fierce creatures and hilarious in fish called wanda

Eric Idle granted has spent the last 20 years cashing in on python but is still a hugely funny guy.

.....I edited my most dreadful mistake!! :evilfrown:

British humour tends to drag on sometimes.

My favourite part of the movie is "Growth and Learning." With the hymn asking God not to cook them being the very best.

My second favourite is the drill field, where the sergeant-major announced that they'd spend the entire afternoon marching up and down the square unless anyone had something better to do--and everyone did. "Stop yer gawking! You look like you've never seen the hand of God before!"

The beginning of "The Miracle of Birth, Part 2: The Third World" is the best part of that skit...turns out "The Third World" is Yorkshire. "Every Sperm is Sacred" lasts twice as long as it should, but the couple across the street make up for it: the man going on and on about how he could just go to the chemist's any time he wanted to buy a little rubber device to put on the end of his cock to prevent issue...but he never wanted to. "Oh, it's the same for us, dear. We have two children and we've had sex twice."

I used to think the part about the "ping machine" in the Miracle of Birth sequence was funny (they sold the machine to a leasing company, then lease it back because that shifts the payments for it from the capital account to the operating budget) until the owner of the company I used to work for did the same thing with a printing press. The part about the doctors filling the room with apparatus but forgetting to bring in the patient was about right.

I cannot stand Mr. Creosote. Absolutely hate him.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance skit is good for about four viewings. After that you wish they'd have just turned the insurance company into a pirate ship, left out the raid on The Very Big Corporation of America, and finished by singing the Accountancy Song.

The Death scene is okay, I guess...the botulism in the salmon mousse killed everyone at the dinner party, including the woman who didn't eat it. "It's a Mr. Death here about the reaping. The thing is, I don't think we need any." Christmas in Heaven is good for about two viewings.

....something....and I just wanna say this...WELL YOU'RE DEAD NOW...SO SHUT UP!!! :7 .....THE SAAAAALMON MOOOOOOOSE!!! :D

I loooooove the whole thing....have the DVD too!!! :hi:

And The Producers is THE funniest movie of all time. It's my gold standard for whether a guy I'm going out with has a good snese of humor. If he doesn't like The Producers... he's a dud. :)

Mel Brooks is just funny for the sake of laughs.


HELMET (pulls mask up) I can't breathe in this thing.

SANDURZ We're approaching Planet Druidia, sir.

HELMET Good. I'll call Spaceball City, and notify President Skroob immediately.

RICO I already called him, sir. He knows everything.

HELMET What? You went over my helmet?

RICO Well, not exactly over it, sir. More on the side. I'll always call you first. It'll never happen again. Never, ever!

HELMET (puts on Schwartz ring)

RICO Oh shit! No, no, no, no, no, please, no, no, please, no, not that. (covers his neck)

HELMET (pulls mask down) Yes. That. (shoots a green ray at Rico's crotch)

RICO Whaoooooooo! Owwwwwwwwww!

or did you put that up to support Monty Python as the better choice?

Space Balls: bad jokes and made a decade too late. UGH.

This is the hardest decision I'll have to make all day... but I'm going with Python!

Both very funny, I can't choose.

while "young frankenstein" and "blazing saddles" ARE funny, they are the only Mel Brooks movies that are(oops- i forgot about "the producers"- that makes 3 watchable Mel Brooks movies)..."history of the world pt.1", "spaceballs", "silent movie", etc., are worthless pieces of shit, aimed directly at people with about a 3rd grade mentality.

I reluctantly choose Mel.
I am a big fan of both.
Young Frankenstein, "could be worse, could be raining" gets me every time
Holy Grail, "message for you suh" does it to me too.

Both are great but "The Life of Brian" is my all time favorite comedy.

Python never did a film that sucked as consistently hard as some of Brooks' films did (Spaceballs, for example, one of the single unfunniest films I've ever seen).

Python also did two of the funniest films ever, Life of Brian and Holy Grail.

Python wins.

"thus you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb"

me just howl...
The scene from "Holy Grail" when the peasants are telling Arthur that "watery tarts lyin' about in ponds 'andin' out swords is no basis for a system of government!" just cracks me up HUGELY...

Seeing, Blazing Saddles, with my dad in high school. He literally blew popcorn out of his mouth at one point. One of my happiest memories. Dad now calls me when ever a Brooks movie is on and if we can we watch it together.(Young Frankenstein is his fav.)
For helping me bond my funny bones with dad, Mel edges out the Monties(But by just a bit, we both like the old Flying Circus TV shows.).
:pals:

"Men in Tights", "Space Balls", "High Anxiety", etc. Space Balls may have been the single worst movie I ever saw in a theater. When he's good, he's very very good, when he's bad, he's very very bad. Monty Python is consistently good.

are his best ones no doubt and I do love them, but this has to go to Monty Python. They were geniuses.

replace "history of the world pt1" with "the producers", and you've got the list of mel's three decent flicks-

The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein

so long as you left the other two. :)

mel brooks is damned funny, but the pythons are insane.

then Monty Python wins in a walk. However, Young Frankenstein trumps ALL other comedies. It is the ne plus ultra of movie comedy.

The 12 Chairs.

If that were on the list, I might be forced to agree with you. As the list stands, it's Monty Python for me and it's not really even a squeaker.

It woulda been Mel. The Producers is the funniest movie ever made. Mel lost it in later years. That takes the cool off his buzz. Python went out intact.

History of the World Part I is one of the funniest movies ever. But the Holy Grail is THE funniest movie ever. Life of Brian is just behind. Followed by Office Space.