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Monty Python's Flying Circus celebrates 40 years
AFP
| 10/05/2009
Posted on 10/05/2009 10:43:08 AM PDT by Phlap
Monty Python's Flying Circus, the group responsible for the launching the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Parrot Sketch on an unsuspecting world, was on Monday celebrating 40 years since the comedy sketch show was first broadcast.
The show, which was written and acted by John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, first aired on October 5, 1969 and ran for a total of 45 episodes.
It was the Pythons' surreal and satirical humour which shot them to global fame in the 1970s, as they broke new ground in what was acceptable in terms of both style and content.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cheese; comedy; happybirthday; montypython; moose; napl
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A little off topic but it was funny stuff.
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:43:09 AM PDT
by
Phlap
To: Phlap
Imagine what they could do with obama material...
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:44:20 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:44:42 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: Phlap
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:45:22 AM PDT
by
NY.SS-Bar9
(Tree of Liberty)
To: Phlap
I came to thread for something completely different.
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:45:22 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: Phlap
I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:45:43 AM PDT
by
ssaftler
(OBAMA; One Bad A$$ Move, America!)
To: Phlap
Monty Python’s song “Sit On My Face” cracks me up every time I hear it. Too bad it’s only ~ 45 seconds long, LOL.
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:46:18 AM PDT
by
ChrisInAR
(The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
To: Phlap
Obama Administration = “Ministry of Silly Talks”? (cough)
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:47:16 AM PDT
by
equaviator
("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: Phlap
"ran for a total of 45 episodes"
Wow, that doesn't seem like a lot of episodes. Oh well.... "I like Chinese, they only come up to your knees..." Nothing was off limits to them.
To: ChrisInAR
My favorite Python ditty was always “Not the Noel Coward Song”, from “The Meaning of Life”
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:47:57 AM PDT
by
ssaftler
(OBAMA; One Bad A$$ Move, America!)
To: Phlap
The Dinsdales. Cruel but fair!
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:47:59 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Phlap
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:49:11 AM PDT
by
hoe_cake
(A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
To: Phlap
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:49:48 AM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
To: Phlap
To: ssaftler
STOP IT! Just cut that out.
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:50:18 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
To: ssaftler
“The Galaxy Song” is three minutes of wonderful commentary on the idiots that are currently in charge.
To: Phlap
I've never understood why, but for me, the funniest bit ever done by "The Pythons" was "The Fish Slapping Dance." It just kills me every time, no matter how many times I've seen it.
It's short, to the point, and amazingly silly.
Mark
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:51:05 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Phlap
My favorite was the Philosophers Song. “And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am””
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:51:13 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Joe Wilson speaks for me.)
To: Delta 21
Poor Graham Chapman. Dead before his time.
To: Phlap
“There’s a penguin on the telly!”
Thanks, MP, for 40 years of starving me for air while I laughed out loud!
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posted on
10/05/2009 10:52:23 AM PDT
by
Ignatz
(Helping others to be more like me since 1960!)
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