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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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To: ynotjjr
Well i like em as much as any,, but some of their stuff was.. well crap. And odd crap at that. hehe
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:09:13 AM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(<This space for lease>)
To: Phlap
I think that all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired.....
hear, hear
And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.....
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:09:24 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Phlap
I haven’t posted on this thread yet, because I’m trying not to be seen.
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:09:25 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Clemenza
44
posted on
10/05/2009 11:09:45 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
To: Delta 21
Ok but isn’t Graham Chapman pining for the fjords?
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:09:45 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I dropped a word forgetting to add the word fan. Should read “...big Monty Python fan.” Sorry all.
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:09:57 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:11:23 AM PDT
by
equaviator
("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: Phlap
To: Phlap
But suppose I’m attacked by a man with a banana and I haven’t got a gun?
To: ynotjjr
That sounds like the skit where they are on the picnic in their turn-of-the-century dapper clothing, and then it becomes a Sam Peckinpah-type scene of mayhem.
-PJ
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:12:42 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
To: Delta 21
I think the girl in the pic was also “Polly” in Fawlty Towers, and I think she was married to John Cleese at one time.
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:13:13 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: andy58-in-nh
You want to complain, you should see these shoes!
-PJ
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:13:31 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
To: Billthedrill
What about pointed sticks?
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:13:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: a fool in paradise
SPAM Ping Shut up you bloody vikings!
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:14:10 AM PDT
by
stig
To: Political Junkie Too
“Pretty strong meat there from *sniff* Sam Peckinpah.”
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:14:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I really liked the International Philosophers Soccer Match between the traditional Greek philosophers and the German existential philosophers.
-PJ
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:16:15 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
To: Phlap
"Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait until lunchtime!"
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:16:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves
against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh
fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I’ll tell you something my lad.
When you’re walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes
after you with a bunch of loganberries, don’t come crying to me!
To: andy58-in-nh
I also liked the Hide and Seek Olympics. It was silly in the same vein.
-PJ
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:19:13 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
To: SES1066
The skit on camouflage, "How not to be Seen" (Click for Youtube) is one of my favorites - good advice too! I used that skit (that very YouTube link, in fact) to get my 15-year-old niece hopelessly hooked on Monty Python stuff. She was already a big fan of Fawlty Towers, so this was just a natural progression.
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posted on
10/05/2009 11:20:10 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
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