"I wish to register a complaint. Ello miss ?"

[santa claus]

Frankly, if MP doesn't make you laugh then you have no soul and are a hopeless cause!

Aww c'mon, it's an honest challenge. Maybe I've just not heard the really good stuff.

[MrJim]

'Life of Brian' was the pinnacle of Python's humour, no doubt. It remains in my list of top-ten favourite films, & I believe it was voted as Britain's favourite comedy film of all time not so long ago.

I do have my doubts about their 'comeback' though. The O2 is way too big a venue; I went to see Peter Gabriel there last month, and while the concert was great, the view from where I was sitting was definitely not. I was so far away from the stage that I ended up watching the show on the giant screen instead, which kind of defeats the object of going in the first place...

[peterb]

There are lost tribes in deepest, darkest Africa that could see that one coming. Oh well, now I know why MPFC appeals to you

Oh no there aren't

[santa claus]

Ok, I'll kick it off:

"It's not pining, it's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off the mortal coil, rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"

I just wet myself .

[ik9000]

"We are all individuals.

...(I'm not!)"

That was a Spike Milligan Ad-lib you know. He turned up on set one day and threw in the line.

Also the scene where Graham (Brian) appears naked on the balcony was rehearsed with him clothed so the crowd of local extras genuinely were surprised when he appeared in the buff.

[Ttaskmaster]

There are lost tribes in deepest, darkest Africa that could see that one coming. Oh well, now I know why MPFC appeals to you

MPFC is the sort of thing I grew up with - The Two Ronnies, 'Allo 'Allo, Blackadder, A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, Red Dwarf and so on. Yes, a lot of it is repetitive punchlining but so is most classic British comedy and as a young'un, that is what was funny.
I'll take one episode of anything above over the entire careers of Russel Brand and Jo Brand!!

Not sold on the MP comeback idea personally, but I won't argue if they want to give it a try...

[santa claus]

I'll take one episode of anything above over the entire careers of Russel Brand and Jo Brand!!

Agreed .

Tbh, my 'challenge' was intended as a bit of fun to get you lot reminiscing about the old Python stuff but no-one was up for it.

I dunno, you can't be real Python fans, you're just very naughty boys !

[ik9000]

Blessed are the cheesemakers!

[scaryjim]

"Glaive-glaive-glaive-guisarme-glaive?"
"I think you're drifting into another sketch, sir..."

It's not a gaming session until someone quotes Monty Python

The bottom line is that, for a lot of people, Monty Python has become embedded in our individual and collective psyche. Whether it's a desperate call of "help, help, I'm being oppressed" or a spontaneous chorus of "I'm a lumberjack", it's hard to find people who don't at least identify with the sketches, even if they don't necessarily share the humour.

OTOH, maybe Randall Munroe was more on the money than Rich Burlew as far as MPFC went: http://xkcd.com/16/

[g8ina]

So many "catch phrases" (memes ?)....

I wonder how many folk who have never even seen MPFC use em ?

[g8ina]

In fact, having been thinking on this for the last half hour -

He's a very naughty boy, Get OOOoonnnn with it, nasty, big, pointy teeth (C/W hand actions), I fart in your general direction, welease bwian, Im Brian and so's my wife, my nipples explode with delight, anything spam related, lemon curry, no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition, I have this terrible feeling of déjà vu, German tourists forming pyramids and frightening the children, My hovercraft if full of eels, Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!, It's just a flesh wound, she turned me into a newt, It's only a model (I use this one a LOT), Ni, Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z'nourrwringmm, I'll bite your legs off, Luxury (in a Yorkshire accent), I'm thirty-seven, I'm not old, A spanking, a spanking, Albatross, Do you get wafers with it, It's Waffer thinnn, say no more, SPLITTER !!

[ik9000]

you missed the parrot (though others have covered it) Bring out yet dead, are there any women here? what have the Romans ever done for us? brave brave sir robin, what is your favourite colour? etc etc

[santa claus]

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat nudge nudge know what I mean is she a bit of a goer your wife etc

[peterb]

"Always look on the bright side of life"

"Those are my juniper berries"

[ik9000]

Whaaat, is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

I don't know that. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

[santa claus]

"Always look on the bright side of life"

A great song Peter but I prefer these lines:

"Life's a piece of sh*t
When you look at it"

No truer word spoken in jest