Monty Python's Flying Circus celebrates 40 years

AFP | 10/05/2009

[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.

[NormsRevenge]

A man with three buttocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqosS6DBwhA

[dayglored]

Just over here pinin’ for the fjords...

[DCBryan1]

The shoe! The shoe is a sign!

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywIYQEHZLs

[andy58-in-nh]

LOL - and with tears in my eyes. I forgot how funny scene that was.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Look 2 people...3 people have just fallen past that window!

Python Classic

[VRWCmember]

Funny, but the extended version with the abuse department makes me laugh out loud.

[Slings and Arrows]

“Thwow him to the floow!”

[VRWCmember]

It’s not much of a cheese shop, is it?

Finest in the district, sir

[raygunfan]

aaah, memories.....

[ResponseAbility]

“I fart in your general direction”

[TexasRepublic]

“It’s”

Roger the Shrubber.

[kevao]

My dog has no nose.

[altair]

Fuhrer

Oh yeah. That's another great skit - Adolph "Hilter" giving an impassioned speech to two bored housewives outside his balcony ...

[altair]

"may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new ratings are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up."

[MarkL]

Too bad Cleese turned into a potty-mouthed, Bush-hating tool.

It seems that Terry Jones isn't much different. I once heard him raking the Bush administration over the coals regarding the Iraq war...

Mark

[MarkL]

Well i like em as much as any,, but some of their stuff was.. well crap. And odd crap at that. hehe

Agreed! And over the years I've found that I have a limit on British comedy. I have tried to do "Brit comedy marathons," all of which were unsuccessful. I've found that my limit is about 3 or 4 espisodes of MPFC, no more than 3 episodes of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and 5 episodes of Fawlty Towers. Anything more than that in a row will give me a headache.

Mark

[MarkL]

I’m afraid not. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!

Mark

[paulycy]

Monthy Python is ridiculous.

[Hot Tabasco]

No, it wasn't.

Yes it was!