bigpoison wrote:
So, if Monty Python ain't funny, what is?
Brass Eye
Bill Hicks
PMQ's
Monty Python is *NOT* funny
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Mithras wrote:
theoreticalboy wrote:
Anybody who can state with honesty that the incisive parody of leftist sectarianism in Life of Brian is "childish" is clearly insane.
see example below
Wonderful. Reminds me also of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA
These "Python is childish" people are maniacs.
Aug 25, 2011
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#24
If I don't understand something, I naturally think that anyone who does get the joke is just stupid. 
DrSpudnik wrote:
If I don't understand something, I naturally think that anyone who does get the joke is just stupid.
This is exactly my point... that there is *nothing* special or hidden to *understand* about MP... infact its quite the opposite... in every one of their skits and movies they are *always* screaming and shouting their very *obvious points/punchlines* at you in the most unsubtle ways possible. If I make a joke and shout out a very obvious and expected punchline its not funny, unless your 5 or in some way mentally retarded.
Excuse the pun but humor is in the eye of the beholder. I grew up watching and laughing to Monty Python and everyone one I knew enjoyed their work.
Not to resemble a troll here, but I have a forum: 100 Top forum titles you won't see on chess.com. I will write my own jokes about chess and not everyone will like them or laugh but that's my humor. Tomorrow I will post a joke about Bobby Fischer, and some will hate it. I find chess and Monty Python funny.
Monster_with_no_Name wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
If I don't understand something, I naturally think that anyone who does get the joke is just stupid.
This is exactly my point... that there is *nothing* special or hidden to *understand* about MP... infact its quite the opposite... in every one of their skits and movies they are *always* screaming and shouting their very *obvious points/punchlines* at you in the most unsubtle ways possible. If I make a joke and shout out a very obvious and expected punchline its not funny, unless your 5 or in some way mentally retarded.
That is because you are not funny. All funny people like Monty Python.
Two of my favorites that haven't been mentioned:
And one More:
And here are some comedians talking about Why I Love Monty Python. They're obviously all people who have the mental age of five or so, and are probably too stupid to appreciate the original poster's brand of humor, like the rest of us who like Monty Python.
Passable humour.
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Mithras wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
So, if Monty Python ain't funny, what is?
Brass Eye
Very much so.
Bill Hicks
Agreed.
PMQ's
Erm... 
The Life of Brian debate was either funny or depressing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAHHhr7vmU&feature=related
This is funny even if it is only about Monty Python and not made by them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUyK6JWt9U
Sep 3, 2011
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#37
When I think about it, I can't take either extreme of this argument. I never raved about Monty Python as a teenager (my brothers were much keener). Some of their stuff I found hilarious (but mostly not at the top of my list of funniest works).
I'd like to draw attention to what I consider as close to perfection as a comedy masterpiece can get. And it's live.
(I was going to say this has nothing to do with Monty Python, but I have since discovered that the late, great Peter Cook did happen to appear in one Monty Python sketch).
A couple of scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS8Mg-JWSg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA
Anybody who can state with honesty that the incisive parody of leftist sectarianism in Life of Brian is "childish" is clearly insane.
see example below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c