Oh, hello there.  I didn't see a thread I could dump this on, so I started a new one. 

Here is a cool clip of Monty Python from 1975.  The lads had just arrived in Los Angeles for the premier of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  The presenter says a PBS engineer shot this footage of an interview during a PBS pledge drive.  You can tell they're a bit groggy from jet lag and maybe one or two other things.  (missing: John Cleese and Eric Idle)

It's unpolished, it's ephemeral, and it's very seventies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjPhboMvWP0&feature=related

And, um, while we're at we might as well adopt this thread for general discussion of MPFC!
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Great show! Very funny comedy. Incredible animation. Very warped behavior.  Too many skits to share so I'll start with this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg

I watched it throughout the 70s on PBS. Now I have some on DVD.

In the 1985 film National Lampoon's European Vacation, when the Bike Rider (Eric Idle) gets hit by The Griswolds car, he makes reference to his injury stating "It's just a flesh wound".  This was a very well done reference to Holy Grail, but many Monty Python fans may already have known this.

Oh, hello there.  I didn't see a thread I could dump this on, so I started a new one. 

Here is a cool clip of Monty Python from 1975.  The lads had just arrived in Los Angeles for the premier of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  The presenter says a PBS engineer shot this footage of an interview during a PBS pledge drive.  You can tell they're a bit groggy from jet lag and maybe one or two other things.  (missing: John Cleese and Eric Idle)

It's unpolished, it's ephemeral, and it's very seventies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjPhboMvWP0&feature=related

And, um, while we're at we might as well adopt this thread for general discussion of MPFC!
8)



That was a fun thing to watch!!!  And they look so young!!  (you know you feel old when....) 

"What's on the telly?" 

"Looks like a penguin!"

"No, no,no, not what's on the television SET, I mean, what program?' 

"Funny thing, where'd that penguin come from."

"Prhaps it's from next door...."

"Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!!"

"Burma!"

"... Why'd you say "Burma?" "

"I panicked!"

anyone know what comes next?  I think the television explodes, or the penguin does or something....    :P

Great show! Very funny comedy. Incredible animation. Very warped behavior.  Too many skits to share so I'll start with this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg

I watched it throughout the 70s on PBS. Now I have some on DVD.


That skit was so hilarious!  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE



Cat

I laughed everytime the show would start, the old man (played by Michael Palin...no relation to Sarah) would crawl from the water or beach or grass, and seemingly during his last breath on earth summon the energy from inside of him and say .

"....It's...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1SZrZbRMA

The show was a trailblazer. I'm sure Lorne Michael's and the SNL gang, as well as Second City (in Canada) got lots of ideas from Python.

I laughed everytime the show would start, the old man (played by Michael Palin...no relation to Sarah) would crawl from the water or beach or grass, and seemingly during his last breath on earth summon the energy from inside of him and say .

"....It's...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1SZrZbRMA

The show was a trailblazer. I'm sure Lorne Michael's and the SNL gang, as well as Second City (in Canada) got lots of ideas from Python.



Much to Q's "offense", I always loved that foot coming down.



Cat

Much to Q's "offense", I always loved that foot coming down.

Cat

She's glad you didn't post a photo, but just left a footnote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE



Cat


OMG!  ;D

Rather amazing how the programme took off in the US, given that the style of comedy was bizarre to say the least...

(The very first episodes prove this...note the 'stilted' laughter from the British studio audience!)

And more amazing, most of the programmes were 'chopped' and re-arranged to suit US programming schedules, which must have made the whole thing even more difficult to follow!

Rather amazing how the programme took off in the US, given that the style of comedy was bizarre to say the least...

(The very first episodes prove this...note the 'stilted' laughter from the British studio audience!)

And more amazing, most of the programmes were 'chopped' and re-arranged to suit US programming schedules, which must have made the whole thing even more difficult to follow!

We saw them in Canada, usually aired on PBS, without commercials. Python was (and still is) very popular in Canada.

We saw them in Canada, usually aired on PBS, without commercials. Python was (and still is) very popular in Canada.



As in the U.S.


Cat

The argument.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTmBjk-M0c

The argument.


G'day, Bruce!

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...on second thought, let's not go to Camelot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF2HH5VOsUM

It is a silly place.

G'day, Bruce!



Enjoyed the Pony Python's  flying circus there.

ooh, do the ponies have a video for Python's "Ministry of silly walks"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Of course, ponies don't walk, they trot. Ministry of silly trots?

Enjoyed the Pony Python's  flying circus there.

ooh, do the ponies have a video for Python's "Ministry of silly walks"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Of course, ponies don't walk, they trot. Ministry of silly trots?


I contacted the Minister's third assistant deputy undersecretary with a request for more information.

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Apparently, the Minister is still learning How Not To Be Seen.

And now for something completely different:

http://i48.tinypic.com/35ar9eu.jpg

And now for something completely different:
http://i48.tinypic.com/35ar9eu.jpg

;D

Did you know the person in the 3rd row, column 1  entered the

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

Some of their best sketches were interview sketches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOmB1q8W4Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1oMhMwUbgc

A few of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhm4SMlGnbk&list=FLKrezEarplYRmhaxxBQxDMw&index=9&feature=plpp_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEzKqp9x9dM&list=FLKrezEarplYRmhaxxBQxDMw&index=24&feature=plpp_video

Roit-O! Karma for Ken Shabby.  One of my favorite Python characters of all.  He's gross, but he's not as gross as the Most Awful Family in Britain 1974

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWg5shNWR4

http://youtu.be/qLkhx0eqK5w

Bloody lupins!!!

Having seen all the Python films...which one did you like best?

I liked "Holy Grail" most. "Life of Brian" would be my 2nd choice. I liked "The meaning of life" as well and "Holllywood Bowl", but the Holy Grail was just so weird and hilarious.

http://youtu.be/qLkhx0eqK5w

Bloody lupins!!!


Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore riding through the woods
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore with a bag of things
He dum-di-dum-dum and dum-di-di-doo,

He takes from the poor and gives to the rich, Dennis More,
Stupid bitch...

Wot?

Dum-dum-dee!

"Holy Grail" I think is the only one I've seen and I love it. 

"Holy Grail" I think is the only one I've seen and I love it.

So many funny parts in that film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY


I fart in your general die rek shawn. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Loving it!

Having seen all the Python films...which one did you like best?

I liked "Holy Grail" most. "Life of Brian" would be my 2nd choice. I liked "The meaning of life" as well and "Holllywood Bowl", but the Holy Grail was just so weird and hilarious.



I saw Grail at the movies. I was visiting with my Dad at the time and he was living with his girlfriend and her 3 kids. Her oldest came back from the movies with a coconut. They were handing out coconuts to the first ___? people. He told us about the movie and we decided to go see it. But, they ran out of coconuts by the time we went.  :\'( :\'( :\'(  Oh, after the coconut was eaten, yup, he went around the house clopping the halfs together.  :D ;D ;D ;D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4SJ0xR2_bQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2kaQqxmQ0



Cat

My sister and mother won tickets to Monty Python live in NYC.  I think it was 1974, maybe 1975. It was a bit of freaky scene in Manhattan.  They felt like two country bumpkins.  The freaks took them under their wing.
;D

http://youtu.be/crIJvcWkVcs

My favorite.    :)

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/apr/24/monty-python-reunion-big-screens-20-july

Monty Python's reunion to hit big screens in live simulcast

It will be the last time to see them together before they pass on, before they cease to be. Before they kick their buckets, shuffle off their mortal coils, run down their curtains and join their bleeding choirs invisible (metaphorically that is, not literally).

They will be ex-Pythons, but for fans there is good news. Monty Python's last live reunion show is to be broadcast simultaneously to 450 cinemas in the UK and a further 1,500 across the world, it was announced on Thursday.

Picturehouse Entertainment said it had secured the distribution rights to one of the cultural highlights of 2014, if not of all time for the true diehards: the reunion of John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin for a 10-night run at London's O2 in July.

It plans to broadcast the Last Night of the Pythons Live on 20 July – cheering news for anyone struggling to get their hands on the few remaining tickets that exist.

Picturehouse Entertainment is the distribution arm of Picturehouse Cinemas and has previously been involved in cinema broadcasts of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode and productions by the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Bolshoi Ballet.

The company's head of commercial development, Marc Allenby, said: "Picturehouse Entertainment continue to push the boundaries of live cinema broadcasts in what is set to be one of the biggest and certainly funniest events of the year."

Monty Python last performed together – including the late Graham Chapman – at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 1980, and were last on stage in Britain 40 years ago, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.

When the remaining five members – combined age 357, as they are fond of reminding people – announced they were returning for a Monty Python Live (mostly) show, tickets sold out within a minute.

More dates were quickly added, resulting in the 10 scheduled nights now planned.

A statement from the Pythons said: "Thanks to the wonderful invention of moving pictures, The Last Night of Monty Python is coming to a cinema near you. Get your knotted handkerchiefs out and warm your brains one last time at any one of 450 cinemas across the UK, and 1,500 across the world. Join the crowd live from London's O2 in a final weepy, hilarious, uproarious, outrageous farewell to the five remaining Pythons as they head for The Old Jokes Home … on the big screen, in HD."

A spokesman for Picturehouse said it would be screened in at least 450 British cinemas and across the world in countries including the US, Australia, Sweden, Russia and Poland.

Although there had been speculation that there might be other Python shows outside the UK, Palin recently told the BBC that 20 July really would be it: "It will be a great show, but it is the last time we'll be working together."

Yes, Monty Python is back together again (minus one)! We started rehearsals for the show yesterday. Some of us are still rich enough to afford shoes.

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10383545_718174951574655_2101207691884952696_n.jpg?oh=36f4208bd268ff5f41d7a83502d6040b&oe=541889C6

Yes, Monty Python is back together again (minus one)! We started rehearsals for the show yesterday. Some of us are still rich enough to afford shoes.

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10383545_718174951574655_2101207691884952696_n.jpg?oh=36f4208bd268ff5f41d7a83502d6040b&oe=541889C6
The big question is...

Where are they rehearsing?

Yes, Monty Python is back together again (minus one)! We started rehearsals for the show yesterday. Some of us are still rich enough to afford shoes.

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10383545_718174951574655_2101207691884952696_n.jpg?oh=36f4208bd268ff5f41d7a83502d6040b&oe=541889C6


They look like they can go one more time.

Rather amazing how the programme took off in the US, given that the style of comedy was bizarre to say the least...

(The very first episodes prove this...note the 'stilted' laughter from the British studio audience!)

And more amazing, most of the programmes were 'chopped' and re-arranged to suit US programming schedules, which must have made the whole thing even more difficult to follow!


Completely agree. I find it incredible that Britain's successful comedy exports are Monty Python, Benny Hill, Are you being served? and Keeping up appearances. Especially since Benny Hill was barely intelligible at the best of times even to the British and disowned by the UK for his 'outdated' behaviour. Are you being served? is just a camp 1970s sitcom that went on far too long and Keeping up appearances...well...it was the same tired routines reworked every episode.

Monty Python were influenced by a 1960s show with Spike Milligan called 'Q' which, like Monty Python, broke all the rules.

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My favourite Monty Python sketch is 'Upper Class Twit of the Year' - hilarious.  ;D

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I saw One Down, five to go. (Not live on DVD).  Steven Hawking did a great job with the Universe Song. :)

I laughed everytime the show would start, the old man (played by Michael Palin...no relation to Sarah) would crawl from the water or beach or grass, and seemingly during his last breath on earth summon the energy from inside of him and say .

"....It's...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1SZrZbRMA

The show was a trailblazer. I'm sure Lorne Michael's and the SNL gang, as well as Second City (in Canada) got lots of ideas from Python.

Ah yes, the it's man.  Lorne Michaels has mentioned in many interveiws Python's influence.