This week marks the 40th anniversary of the collaboration of those geniuses, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin who came to be known collectively as...
Here are two of their memorable sketches...
And one of my personal favorites...
Now thanks to the Independent Film Channel, the 40th Anniversary tribute titled:
"Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)"
will be airing here in the U.S. October 18-23, 2009.
Enjoy these comedy masters and forerunners of a lot of what is taken for granted today in television graphic production. They were WAY ahead of their time!
Cheers,
Spartan
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I will show him your post.
Humor: They are very Talented.
I thought I was the only Monty Python fan left.
I watched an episode the other night and was laughing so hard, my son (20 yrs) came in the room to see why I was laughing, I just kept pointing at the tv...he watched for a little bit, said I don't get it and walked out...made me laugh harder. (it was the episode with the giant penquin)
the parrot sketch
The Ministry of Silly Walks..
and now for something completely different...
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Liked Fawlty Towers a lot though.
And Now For Something Completely Different. "How not to be seen."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltmMJntSfQI
40 years I remember sitting watching the show with all my brothers.
SPAM - will never be the same. had never been the same. NOwhere in the history of bad food has ONE bad food Spawned so much! Spam, Python, Spamalot, Email, etc.
and the dead parrot on the tv...
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Monty Python rules...it is unfortunately a male thing that few women seem to share.