Top 10 Unscripted Monty Python Moments That Were Left In

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  • čas přidán 21. 05. 2023
  • They just can't stop being funny! For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 10 Unscripted Monty Python Moments That Were Left In. Featuring hilarious, ad-libbed moments from "Flying Circus", "Life of Brian", "The Meaning of Life", and many more! Let us know in the comments which you think is funniest.
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  • @WatchMojoUK
    @WatchMojoUK  Před 10 měsíci +13

    Want to know what the gang has been up to since? Check this out!
    Monty Python: Where Are They Now?
    czcams.com/video/C0Rp8CbZYlU/video.html

    • @benleydon
      @benleydon Před 10 měsíci +1

      Cheers! Thanks for explaining each blooper and sketch like you were teaching special ed kids - it really really helps us to enjoy the classic Python lines and we'd have never seen the funny side without it !

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann Před 4 měsíci

      Why are you explaining the sketch with voice overs?
      Is that the joke?
      Well done Mr Mojopuk

    • @theresabashford1726
      @theresabashford1726 Před 2 měsíci

      Great version of the dead parrot sketch was for one of the secret policeman's ball.
      They started the sketch with Cheese saying it's a dead parrot and Palin come back with ' well I will replace it ' the look on Cleese's face was brilliant.

    • @theninja2381
      @theninja2381 Před 2 dny

      let me guess..
      you talking over sketches..
      l7ke we're not smart enough to comprehend, you narcissistic prick

  • @nobodynemoq
    @nobodynemoq Před rokem +605

    "Yes! We're all different" followed by a single "I'm not" is absolutely the best line ever. So simple, so clever ♥

    • @Plethorality
      @Plethorality Před 10 měsíci +29

      It was the shooshing at the end that did me in.

    • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
      @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 Před 8 měsíci +2

      defines Python...

    • @hatsofmeato5746
      @hatsofmeato5746 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Its paradoxical claim, Kurt Gödel made a career out of it several decades earlier.

    • @Icemann89
      @Icemann89 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 And it's not even from Pythons themselves.

    • @mikaelbiilmann6826
      @mikaelbiilmann6826 Před 7 měsíci +2

      I think they used that in another scene too. I think where they find the sandal and are divided into sandal-followers and gourd-believers.

  • @daveknight957
    @daveknight957 Před rokem +78

    I wish you'd STOP TALKING over the majority of the sketches ...... 😝

  • @brianwillson9567
    @brianwillson9567 Před rokem +600

    Python simply made the world a better place.

    • @gedofgont1006
      @gedofgont1006 Před rokem +10

      They certainly made it sillier.

    • @BeatlemaccaAR
      @BeatlemaccaAR Před rokem +9

      England produced the combos that would provide humanity with endless joy, fun and originality Beatles and Pythons! Massive national pride!!❤❤

    • @davidhensley76
      @davidhensley76 Před rokem +2

      No, they didn't. Your turn.

    • @a_diamond
      @a_diamond Před rokem +3

      ​@@gedofgont1006 nah, they just pointed out the silly ;)

    • @PotterheadMando
      @PotterheadMando Před 11 měsíci +2

      ​@mamacartney What about The Two Ronnies or Morecambe and Wise?
      Both are Great British Comedy Duos, I'd say. I've enjoyed them all, as a young American, as there isn't really hardly any real "comedy" left (or in the US, anyways).
      I've been enjoying these good old acts that I had mentioned, from here "across the pond" since I was a teenager.

  • @danwolfe2676
    @danwolfe2676 Před rokem +306

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail was, and still is, one of my favorite comedies.
    One of my favorite set of lines is when Cleese says "She turned me into a newt..." and I forget the actor's name "A newt?!" and Cleese's comeback line of "I got better." still cracks me up years later.

    • @pauls478
      @pauls478 Před 11 měsíci +28

      That would be Terry Jones as Sir Bedevere.

    • @Comfy_Gaming
      @Comfy_Gaming Před 9 měsíci +11

      I think the Black Knight was one of my favs "you've lost your arm!" "No I haven't! It's over there!"

    • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
      @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 Před 8 měsíci +2

      What's especially fun for me is finding places, moments, in real life where you can insert these tidbits into conversation...

    • @fordid42
      @fordid42 Před 8 měsíci

      My three favorite movie GOATs: Rear Window, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. All outstanding movies.

    • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
      @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 Před 8 měsíci

      @@fordid42 "Didja all hear what Mama said?"

  • @i_have_no_taste
    @i_have_no_taste Před rokem +274

    I once heard that the guards in the Biggus Dickus scene were simply told, "Don't laugh."

    • @bradsmckay
      @bradsmckay Před rokem +31

      Correct, they did one series of takes to get their cues and camera angles right then for "THE" take they swapped all but two guards and well, you've seen the results

    • @Northman_Roams
      @Northman_Roams Před rokem +57

      @@bradsmckay Its the look Palin has on his face when he moves towards those two guards, absolute gold "He has a wife you know" 🤣

    • @Mortthemoose
      @Mortthemoose Před rokem +5

      ​@@Northman_Roams 😂😂

    • @Ansible1000
      @Ansible1000 Před rokem +55

      The older guard’s face when Palin says ‘He has a wife you know.’ Is priceless. He thinks he’s gotten it under control, Biggus Dickus can’t make him laugh…then he hears the wife line and his face says ‘I’m going to die.’

    • @TheConour
      @TheConour Před rokem +23

      @@Ansible1000 That look that says: I know it's coming and it's stronger than me.

  • @andyrobson7686
    @andyrobson7686 Před rokem +201

    All the selected bits are great, but I saw Life of Brian in the theater with a couple buddies. The Biggus Dickus scene was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Between the centurions trying not to laugh, Palin's egging them on, the audience laughing, we were laughing until our ribs hurt, and slouched so low in our seats we were nearly on the sticky floor. Took a while to recover. God bless the Pythons.

    • @robbyv1476
      @robbyv1476 Před rokem +2

      I would agree but have to include the Dead Parrot along with Bigus Dickus. I think I pissed myself the first time I saw it.

    • @Wishbone1977
      @Wishbone1977 Před rokem +6

      For me, the best part is that Palin himself is obviously a hair's breadth away from cracking himself. When he gets into that one guards face with the line "...when I say the name, Biggus... Dickus!", he is visibly barely keeping it together, and the only thing allowing him to pull it back in is the shift of focus as one of the other guards giggles.

    • @McOzman479
      @McOzman479 Před rokem +8

      Centuwian, thwow him to the fowest to fight wild wabid animals.

    • @DustyDingoPhotos
      @DustyDingoPhotos Před 11 měsíci +8

      And then the anticipation, the dread, the expectation of a total wipeout, as he states: "he has a wife you know" . . .

    • @klausschneider1045
      @klausschneider1045 Před 11 měsíci

      "God bless the Pythons"... wow, that's at least as funny as any Python sketch.

  • @UnclePhil73
    @UnclePhil73 Před rokem +79

    The Biggus Dickus scene is gold. But the father in Grail yelling “I feel happy!” before being clubbed also makes me laugh loud.

    • @yitznewton
      @yitznewton Před 7 měsíci +5

      "I don't want to go on the cart!" "Oh,. stop being such a baby"

  • @rufus1346
    @rufus1346 Před rokem +96

    Oh my word, the "I'm not" line from Life of Brian is one of my favourite lines from the film!

    • @logandarklighter
      @logandarklighter Před rokem +12

      The unmitigated and hilarious irony of claiming that you're NOT different by standing out from the crowd by NOT going along with the lock-step rote of instant dogma they're engaging in creates an almost Zen-like koan of cognitive dissonance that does the best thing that comedy can possibly do - MAKE YOU THINK!

    • @rufus1346
      @rufus1346 Před rokem +5

      @@logandarklighter Yes.

    • @SunshineSuperstar
      @SunshineSuperstar Před rokem +5

      For me every single individual sentence in LOB was hilarious!

    • @melissasalasblair5273
      @melissasalasblair5273 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Yes lol

  • @timjohnson1199
    @timjohnson1199 Před rokem +136

    Monty Python was on when I first moved out of my parents house. A bunch of us would gather around and enjoy the skits and sometimes recreating them. They are responsible for my development of a dry and satiric humor in my formative years.
    Monty Python has never and will never be replaced.

    • @bonnienichalson5151
      @bonnienichalson5151 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Absolutely 💖😅 The benchmark of Humor for me as well

    • @EndertheWeek
      @EndertheWeek Před 3 měsíci +1

      Their humour was genius - even today the funny bits are very funny but the original series was very hit and miss. I would greatly recommend Spike Milligan in all his mediums - another true genius that unfortunately suffers a little due to modern day sensibilities.

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Před 2 měsíci

      @@EndertheWeek And of course Milligan turns up in "Brian" He was actually on holiday in Tunisia (where it was filmed) so they asked him if he wanted take part. An other off the wall comic genius. RIP Spike,

    • @EndertheWeek
      @EndertheWeek Před 2 měsíci

      @@mikewilson8513 I had forgotten that. Not the first time he "holidayed" in N. Africa (WW2). I still listen to Goon shows on CD and they never fail to make me laugh and I marvel at the genius of Spike, Peter and Harry. It is such a shame that such swathes of broadcast history were lost because the BBC wanted to re-use tape.

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Před 2 měsíci

      @@EndertheWeek I agree, absolute tragedy.
      Did you ever read Spikes book, "Hitler, my part in his downfall ?" (and Puckoon )

  • @ericjanssen394
    @ericjanssen394 Před rokem +59

    Also, in the TV (yes, TV!) sketch where Michael Palin's Mr. Attila the Hun goes to a police office, Terry Jones is clearly having problems with his fake mustache, and then, mid-sketch, just rips it off, throws it in his hat, and continues on. Perfectly Python.
    And in the WWI sketch, where John Cleese overdramatically plays a chaplain who's lost both arms, when he offers to sacrifice himself, saying "I'm...not a complete man anymore", Graham's perfect beat before saying "You've lost both your arms as well" cracks Cleese up too perfectly to be scripted.

    • @steeleye2112
      @steeleye2112 Před rokem +7

      Def 2 great ones, but for me the best corpsing in the TV Series is Cleese's when Graham responds "Intercourse the penguin". That or the French sheep aviators. You really do get to put some strange words together in a sentence when discussing Python.

    • @edherdman9973
      @edherdman9973 Před rokem +2

      The French Sheep Aviation sketch also had a shared moustache...seemed improv to me!

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@steeleye2112 Ah yes, the Exploding Penguin sketch. When I was in college, I was on the school College Bowl team that went to a regional tournament at Syracuce U. When we got to our hotel, we had some weed and a bottle of vodka. At one point, I just started reciting the Exploding Penguin sketch; and I had the team mesmerized. The next day, we crossed off our school nickname and wrote in "EXploding Penguins."

    • @Custerd1
      @Custerd1 Před 7 měsíci +2

      “Tell you what - we’ll eat your mum, and if you feel the least bit guilty about it afterwards, we can dig a grave, and you can throw up into it.” So wonderfully twisted!

    • @Brinta3
      @Brinta3 Před 5 měsíci

      ⁠​⁠@@steeleye2112
      There was another improvised line in that sketch: Graham shouting “BURMA”. Cleese has later said, and you can see it in the sketch, that he had to look away because it was so funny. Graham is also having trouble keeping it together.
      So in my opinion “Burma” was funnier than “intercourse the penguin”.

  • @weltonvillegal6258
    @weltonvillegal6258 Před 7 měsíci +29

    I remember watching Monty Python on PBS in the 70’s. For some reason, my parents thought this was a great show to children who were under 10. And I bless them for it!

    • @SpeccyMan
      @SpeccyMan Před 5 měsíci +4

      To be fair, Python humour works on both levels, child and adult, very well. As a child you just think it is silly and you laugh but as an adult you understand why it is silly and you laugh.

    • @dianadurr-ramsey567
      @dianadurr-ramsey567 Před 3 měsíci +1

      My parents, 4 siblings and myself watched Monty Python s Flying Circus in the 70s every Friday night, 9 pm on PBS. We're preteen to teenagers. It was funny; Hells Grannies, Ministry of Silly Walks, Spam, Spam and so many more.

    • @nunyabidness5375
      @nunyabidness5375 Před 2 měsíci

      Watched it as a teenager, would have been WAY too much for me under ten.

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile Před 2 dny

      Carol Cleveland 😉

  • @jdraven0890
    @jdraven0890 Před rokem +47

    Even just watching these short clips I could not stop cracking up during the Biggus Dickus scene

    • @steeleye2112
      @steeleye2112 Před rokem +8

      Saw Brian on it's first release, in a cinema that held 600 plus people, the whole place was in hysterics, one of the greatest film experiences I've ever had.

    • @brucemorris3830
      @brucemorris3830 Před rokem +4

      “Very well…. I shall WELEASE… WEGINALD!!!!” By far my all time favorite MP movie

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 Před rokem +3

      ​@Bruce Morris He's a wapist, and a wobber.

    • @stewpitteejit
      @stewpitteejit Před 5 měsíci

      @@brucemorris3830 It's the most rewatched for me. Just brilliant

  • @Hqhq-01
    @Hqhq-01 Před 3 měsíci +3

    The delivery of the line "'Cause they're made of... wood?" was one of my favorite Python moments. It's like a little boy in school struggling to answer a question from the instructor, afraid of being laughed at by classmates or belittled by the instructor. Thanks for pointing out Eric trying to keep a straight face, I'd never noticed that. Glad he was able to keep it together so they could use that take.

  • @kingarthur4ever
    @kingarthur4ever Před rokem +65

    It would be impossible to select the "best" Python. All of them had incredible deliveries as comedic actors. Their writing styles varied greatly but they were all essential ingredients into the Monty Python vibe. MP's comedy legacy continues to be more priceless with each passing year. Carry on!

  • @GenialHarryGrout
    @GenialHarryGrout Před rokem +111

    Even after all these years Monty Python is still funny

    • @doubledrats235
      @doubledrats235 Před rokem +10

      I started high school in 1974 which was a year before SNL. My friends and I watched Monty Python every Sunday on PBS, Channel 13 in NYC. Every Monday morning at the bus stop we would imitate the funny sketches we watched the night before.

    • @ArcaneAzmadi
      @ArcaneAzmadi Před 10 měsíci +2

      Why would they not be? Nothing has ever matched them.

  • @bonjovi1612
    @bonjovi1612 Před rokem +24

    I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen these sketches and movies and between Cleese and Palin’s incredible talent and delivery I still die laughing.

  • @giojikia6828RapRockNRoll
    @giojikia6828RapRockNRoll Před 10 měsíci +30

    I’m 14 years old and about a month ago I found out about Monty Python. I saw the Holy Grail and it became one of my favorite movies. Just watched Life Of Brian today. I’m going to check out Meaning Of Life these days. Monty Python is hell of a great group and Truly Comedic genius!❤

    • @BrBill
      @BrBill Před 10 měsíci +2

      Look for the film "And Now For Something Completely Different". Many of their best early sketches reshot as a movie. Great.

    • @kikidevine694
      @kikidevine694 Před 9 měsíci

      I hope you were introduced to it by your family

    • @MrTimtim65
      @MrTimtim65 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Sadly, The Meaning of Life is nowhere near as good - it's a series of sketches really

    • @MrakS
      @MrakS Před 7 měsíci +1

      Also check "Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl".

    • @andreaassanelli4117
      @andreaassanelli4117 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Look for Flying Circus

  • @Komicklepto
    @Komicklepto Před rokem +123

    I've heard somewhere that in the Holy Grail the reason why Cleese pauses before saying Tim the Enchanter's name is that originally the character had a longer, sillier name but he kept on forgetting so he just ad-libbed the name "Tim".

    • @steeleye2112
      @steeleye2112 Před rokem +14

      That is my understanding as well and has to be funnier than anything else they could have come up with.

    • @philthyphil7651
      @philthyphil7651 Před rokem +3

      Ay can confirm I've seen him say it in an interview

    • @thomasmarteny291
      @thomasmarteny291 Před rokem +1

      I was informed on Facebook by someone that it's a myth, bummer, would have been more hilarious if it was true.(there are some who call me, Tim?)

    • @RatelHBadger
      @RatelHBadger Před rokem +8

      I took it as a satire of high fantasy wizards always having long winded mystical sounding names, and the fact that Cleese starts to go on a big rambling introduction, only to counterpunch that with his name being anticlimactic "Tim".

    • @russellflagg8519
      @russellflagg8519 Před rokem +9

      So now the "Prodigal Sorcerer" card from Magic: The Gathering is generally referred to by gameplayers as "Tim".

  • @roellek16
    @roellek16 Před rokem +30

    Love the Biggus Dickus scene.

  • @voodoochild1975az
    @voodoochild1975az Před rokem +42

    Heres the thing... Python was a bit magical because individually they are all brilliant comedy writers and performers. Absolute top tier, elite comedians.
    Thats individually.
    Together, ideas bouncing off each other, sparks and ideas flying.... They then can make a solid claim to best comedy troup in the history of the sport.
    Improv moments like these would be both easy and natural for them. Monty Python was comedy as an artform performed by Masters.

    • @surrealfarm
      @surrealfarm Před rokem +4

      They give The Goons (Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe) a serious run for their money, but The Pythons will admit that The Goons were a bit better.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz Před rokem +2

      You wouldn't believe exactly how many bits they had to cut from the scripts. Holy Grail, for instance, had only about 10% of the original bits made for it in it.

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Před 11 měsíci +4

      @@surrealfarm The Goons were the idols of the members of Python, except Terry Gilliam; who, as an American didn't know of them.

  • @andreavictoriaparadiso47
    @andreavictoriaparadiso47 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Still make me laugh as much as the first time I saw them in the 1980's. Once we discovered them, my mom and I watched the reruns every night. My favorite gag of all time was "The Spanish Inquisition". I used It for months and months at school and had a ball because no one knew what I was talking about. I would sneak up on my mom while she was cooking, poke her with a cushion and shout out "It's the Spanish Inquisition!" and then run off. I was really in love with Michael Palin dressed up as the head of the inquisition, lol! My other favorite was the gag about "The Lupine". Just gems, all of them!

  • @DavidBromage
    @DavidBromage Před rokem +28

    Spike Milligan's entire appearance in Life of Brian was improvised.

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Před rokem +5

      Apparently, he just happened to be on holiday where they were filming, and of course got him to do a scene. Milligan was very much on the Python wavelength. Im sure the Goons had an influence on the Python crew. Jokes without the punchline had never been done before.
      The sad thing is, MPFCircus would never have been made in todays PC, woke etc political climate.

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@mikewilson8513 The Goons had an absolute impact on Python. All were keen listeners of the Goon Show. Another Goon devotee was John Lennon.

    • @douglassun8456
      @douglassun8456 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@tygrkhat4087 Somewhere on CZcams, there is a Goon Show reunion, filmed for the 50th anniversary of the BBC. They recreated one of the episodes, and it's particularly interesting because they include Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe warming up the studio audience. They got the entire crew together - except for Wallace Greenslade, the announcer, who had passed away by then. They subbed in a very young - and very deliberately serious - John Cleese.

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@tygrkhat4087 And Prince/king Charles. He used to have them round for tea ! (true) Apparently Princess Diana used to get peed off with all the insane humour !

  • @kdhavle
    @kdhavle Před rokem +42

    JC once said (the video must be somewhere on CZcams) that for a very long time he thought that Michael was the funniest Palin on the planet. That was before he (JC) encountered Sarah.

  • @badkittynomilktonight3334

    "Must be a King" is my favorite line from Holy Grail 🤣

    • @logandarklighter
      @logandarklighter Před 11 měsíci +1

      " 'ow can y'tell?"
      "Well e' 'asn't got shit all over 'im!"

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Cleese said in an interview with Dick Cavett that during a live performance (I believe it was the argument clinic skit), he got lost as he and Palin went off script laughing for a few seconds, then he looked at the front row and asked, "What's the next line?" He said about 10 audience members shouted it out in unison.

  • @taocpa
    @taocpa Před rokem +21

    Best comedy troupe of all time.

  • @brunozeigerts6379
    @brunozeigerts6379 Před rokem +15

    The actor Palin talks to in the Biggus Dickus scene, 'Do you find it risable(?) when I say, Bickus Dickus?' is comedian Chris Langham. You can see Palin almost giggling himself from Langham's goofy expression.

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk Před rokem +3

      We don't really talk about Chris Langham these days.

    • @brunozeigerts6379
      @brunozeigerts6379 Před rokem

      @@hedgehog1965uk Whyever not?

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk Před rokem +3

      @@brunozeigerts6379 Google "Chris Langham trial".

    • @brunozeigerts6379
      @brunozeigerts6379 Před rokem +1

      @@hedgehog1965uk Yes, I see. I wasn't aware of this.

    • @standardnerd9840
      @standardnerd9840 Před 5 měsíci +1

      wheezable. Having a wheeze is a British expression for having a laugh.
      I love that scene! I still laugh every time I watch it.

  • @jolinkarlsson8569
    @jolinkarlsson8569 Před rokem +61

    I’ve only started watching them only a couple of weeks ago i love them so much RIP Graham Chapman and Terry Jones

    • @JustWasted3HoursHere
      @JustWasted3HoursHere Před rokem

      He is not the messiah! He is a NAUGHTY BOY!

    • @caronstout354
      @caronstout354 Před rokem +12

      Welcome to a large and happy fandom...have fun "Spotting The Gilliam"!

    • @55tallanh
      @55tallanh Před rokem +7

      I on the other hand have been watching them since I was in my teens, and I am now 67. You are in for a long, joyous ride. And who am I? There are some who call me... Tim.

    • @jolinkarlsson8569
      @jolinkarlsson8569 Před rokem +1

      @@55tallanh hi Tim i’m a 19 year old collage student from sweden that’s interested in retro things mostly movies and thanks for your comment

    • @jolinkarlsson8569
      @jolinkarlsson8569 Před rokem +3

      @@caronstout354 thanks i’m a 19 year old collage student from sweden that’s interested in pretty much anything retro mostly movies and shows

  • @starkfels-diespielefestung2680
    @starkfels-diespielefestung2680 Před 11 měsíci +6

    "I'm not" line is the most brilliant line in the whole movie.

  • @23Dataminer
    @23Dataminer Před rokem +9

    Monty Python are the world's jewel of humour.

  • @drahcirnevarc9152
    @drahcirnevarc9152 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Biggus Dickus makes me weep with laughter. The combination of the guards trying not to laugh and Palin's comic timing.

    • @allenclark4235
      @allenclark4235 Před 6 měsíci

      But Cleese though..... "About eleven sir." Every bit of that movie is so good lol.

  • @nessus47
    @nessus47 Před 11 měsíci +10

    It's 50 years later and they are as revant as ever! They are my comical heroes, always have been, always will be.

  • @robertaldaron4870
    @robertaldaron4870 Před rokem +9

    These are bits of comedy gold that will never grow old. Thank you Pythoners from the bottom of my funny bone.

  • @Raelven
    @Raelven Před rokem +6

    When I feel down and can't get myself back to up, I binge watch Python. Snaps me right out of any funk. Monty Python has probably saved my life, more than once, and neither of us knew it.

  • @centralscrutinizer6108
    @centralscrutinizer6108 Před rokem +15

    Palin by far is my favorite which is still a difficult pick because they are all so damned funny. The way he does his different voices and characters crack me up the most. "Don't stand there gobbin! Act like you've never seen the hand of GOD before!!!

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic Před 11 měsíci +4

    Life of Brian is like having all the laughs compressed into a few scenes. Most of the film I kinda chuckle at. But the Biggus Dickus scene has me rolling on the floor paralyzed with laughter. That scene and the "Welease Woderwick." part.

  • @McOzman479
    @McOzman479 Před rokem +7

    Life of Brian, the give away about what the movie meant was when John Cleese said," You are the messiah and I should know because I've followed a few". Yes, blind faith.

  • @Lousybarber
    @Lousybarber Před rokem +4

    When I get bad news at the office about a project my standard response is, "Alright we'll call it a draw."

  • @ElroyMcDuff
    @ElroyMcDuff Před rokem +9

    I was hoping "she turned me into a nnnnnnewt!" and his sheepish followup would make the list. 😄

    • @ThePhoenix198
      @ThePhoenix198 Před rokem +3

      Yes, that has been a workplace staple ever since 😂

  • @ILikeJohnLennon
    @ILikeJohnLennon Před 11 měsíci +3

    One of my favorites was the exploding penguin on the telly.
    "Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!"
    "BURMA!"
    "Why'd you say Burma?"
    "I panicked!"

    • @vendingdudes
      @vendingdudes Před 11 měsíci +2

      "what's it doing there?"
      "e's standing"

  • @thatdudeinasuit5422
    @thatdudeinasuit5422 Před rokem +4

    I think that's one of the beautiful things about Python where even when there are bits are missing or characters are temporarily broken it remains funny simply because it's so absurd anyway

  • @marksasahara1115
    @marksasahara1115 Před rokem +6

    Oh, man! this was my life growing up! We all loved Python. That very short but direct bit between Michael and John, always stuck out. D'you want to come back to my place? Looks around... Yeah, awright. You don't know whats going to happen and then it turns into a guy picking up a constable, no less!. No one expected that! Hilarious.

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 Před 8 měsíci +1

      It’s such a bad idea, too.
      They did another bad-idea thing like that, gangsters trying to shake down the army in a protection racket. The colonel is uncomprehending, and it’s hard to blame him.

  • @rgruenhaus
    @rgruenhaus Před rokem +3

    "Always look on the bright side of life!" While tied to a cross!

    • @richardvoogd705
      @richardvoogd705 Před 3 měsíci +1

      On the DVD of the musical version of Life of Brian, it's followed by the Lumberjack song.😂

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp Před rokem +5

    Monty Python is the only group that can go totally off script, or even forget the script, and the audience eats it up.

  • @lisalesinszki7536
    @lisalesinszki7536 Před 11 měsíci +3

    My personal favorite is Eric Idle’s song ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ from the crucifixion scene in Life of Brian. It’s on one of my Spotify playlists and it always makes me laugh. Not an ad lib but just perfect.

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 Před 8 měsíci

      Someone blended it into North Korean propaganda footage. Here on CZcams. It is just mind blowing.
      Anyone caught watching it in North Korea is put to death. I wish I were joking about that.

  • @Colin-Fenix
    @Colin-Fenix Před rokem +10

    How can you not “leave in” unscripted moments in a live performance? Shouldn’t be in the list at all!

  • @totalcreativegaming6681
    @totalcreativegaming6681 Před rokem +25

    Monty Python is Brilliant comedy gold

    • @SomeGuy-hd4cn
      @SomeGuy-hd4cn Před rokem +1

      Well duh!

    • @gregoryschleitwiler9601
      @gregoryschleitwiler9601 Před rokem

      Dear Sir;
      I strongly disagree with your comment regarding the brilliance of Monty Python. Of course I live in a bubble, but still was able to view the dreadfull skits you refer to. I can't finish this letter because I died laughing watching the meaning of life. Sorry
      Signed
      Dead Monty Python viewer.

  • @alanrogs3990
    @alanrogs3990 Před rokem +17

    George Harrison had faith in them

  • @terinn7115
    @terinn7115 Před rokem +3

    Have you ever seen Michael Palin's and Terry Jones' 'Ripping Yarns'? Hilarious, of course.

  • @jeffbrooks8024
    @jeffbrooks8024 Před rokem +3

    There’s just that many…another…The black knight…”it’s only a flesh wound” OR “ build us a …SHRUBBERY”

  • @artjackson8360
    @artjackson8360 Před rokem +3

    I was at the 2014 show at the O2 where they did the parrot sketch and went out of character. So hilarious.

  • @tbd-1
    @tbd-1 Před 11 měsíci +4

    I started watching Monty Python reruns on PBS back in the late '70s and never really thought about a favorite Python beyond Eric Idle. Then a few months ago the question of "who's your favorite" came up at work and it hit me-Michael Palin, hands down. Something about his work with this troupe just clicked.
    Wait 'till Biggus Dickus hears of this...

  • @strangerist2
    @strangerist2 Před rokem +3

    Who on earth was it who said that comedy works better when it doesn't have to be explained?

  • @jeffbrooks8024
    @jeffbrooks8024 Před rokem +3

    Bring out the holy hand grenade…priceless

  • @ysgol3
    @ysgol3 Před rokem +2

    'I'm not' is possibly the most brilliant line in comedy history.
    Some have said it was improvised DURING the take, but there's no way something so brilliant happened like that - it surely was - as you say - suggested and then approved beforehand.

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Před rokem

      Very true. Secondary actors in a scene with say one hundred or so others, don'r simply shout out lines without the directors approval. It was suggested by the actor and it was brilliantly funny.

  • @roberthardy2013
    @roberthardy2013 Před rokem +3

    Gotta be the Biggus Dickus sketch, best ever anywhere.

  • @originalchilehed
    @originalchilehed Před rokem +9

    You neglect to mention that the lead-in to "Stolen Wallet" was a scene in which an angel tells an oaf that he can have anything he wishes, and the wish is to hear a "fairy story with policemen."

    • @tubetorpedo
      @tubetorpedo Před 10 měsíci

      That is quite brilliant too.
      Something like these... watch?v=jrf4Mj2Ibu4

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 Před 8 měsíci

      Not in the movie. The tv show? If so, thanks, a new insight.

    • @weebunny
      @weebunny Před 4 měsíci +1

      I dare say that line was written after the fact...

  • @chaneyphillips8317
    @chaneyphillips8317 Před 11 měsíci +1

    In the Biggus Dickus scene, the howling laughter after he says "Incontinentia Buttocks" is actually the cameraman who couldn't hold himself together and they left it in

  • @wbertie2604
    @wbertie2604 Před 11 měsíci +1

    "I'm not" has to be one of the funniest and most thought-provoking two words in the history of comedy.

  • @ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM
    @ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM Před 11 měsíci +9

    I had no idea they improvised any scenes, in movies or in the show.
    That makes me like them even more.
    Although the Biggest Dickus bit really does seem like he's intentionally trolling the guards to get them to laugh.
    I missed these guys so much.
    Python trivia:
    One of the last things Graham Chapman starred in was an Iron Maiden video for a song called "Can I Play With Madness".
    Enjoy!

  • @thomaswigfield7623
    @thomaswigfield7623 Před 11 měsíci +1

    A long, long time ago, I was the guitar player in a band. One time, we had a university gig In Glasgow and, after the sound check, we repaired to a nearby public house along with the support band. The pub was full of students and was as rowdy as any hostelry would be under the circumstances. Python came on the telly, and the place immediately fell silent, apart of course, from the hilarity. It is one of my abiding memories from that time.

  • @kristenwrate8142
    @kristenwrate8142 Před rokem +4

    I love Monty Python and I’ve got the whole box set of dvds. 😂😂😂

  • @pacldawson
    @pacldawson Před 4 měsíci

    Congrats to WatchMojo’s only non-irritating narrator. You are the only Mojo host I can stand to listen to.

  • @dougaldouglas8842
    @dougaldouglas8842 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Times were hard for us in the U.K, but the likes of Mony Python, and many, man more brightened up the day. The zanny days have now gone, along with comedy

  • @BeardVsTheWorldUK1
    @BeardVsTheWorldUK1 Před 3 měsíci

    Legendary! Shoutout to my chemistry teacher for showing us The Holy Grail on successive Fridays, 1983. Don’t know what the movie had to do with chemistry, but teach got the ball rolling…

  • @joeyj6808
    @joeyj6808 Před rokem +3

    "Thwow him to the fwoow!"
    "Yes sir, he did!"

  • @kaarenhendrickson3977
    @kaarenhendrickson3977 Před rokem +4

    I have always loved Monty Python and I own so many of their shows I even raised my children watching these awesome show. When I would take them for walks they would pretend to be on horses and shout (RUN AWAY RUN AWAY)

    • @SophieBird07
      @SophieBird07 Před 5 měsíci

      Me too, and I think the best laugh ever from my then young teen son was when I mentioned needing to go to the store and return something and said “I hope this won’t be a dead parrot scene.

  • @danielvandersall6756
    @danielvandersall6756 Před rokem +7

    The definition of comedy. And it's apotheosis.

  • @tygrkhat4087
    @tygrkhat4087 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Ever since "The Meaning of Life," I can only say "salmon mousse" like Death did.

  • @sutorippuwebmaster8783
    @sutorippuwebmaster8783 Před 5 měsíci +1

    The version of Dead Parrot on one of the Python albums ends similarly with "Do you want to come back to my place?" "I thought you'd never ask.", which supposedly was also ad-libbed.

  • @sum12see
    @sum12see Před 11 měsíci +1

    They were absolute genius's....Love their work my whole life!!

  • @nobodynemoq
    @nobodynemoq Před rokem +4

    The best unscripted part of all Monty Python movies was, when Brian accidentally fell off the tower and happened to fall into alien spaceship. It's a miracle that onboard security footage survived, as well as did Brian. Otherwise, they would need to reshoot all scenes with new "adult Brian". Lucky bastards!

  • @stratdx
    @stratdx Před rokem +8

    I love Cleese’s laugh

  • @user-ei6uj6im8u
    @user-ei6uj6im8u Před 7 měsíci

    I love that they crack each other up, makes it that much more funny. Lol!

  • @josephsmith1494
    @josephsmith1494 Před rokem +13

    Shame, I was hoping to see the Tim the enchanter scene be on this list lol

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 Před 9 měsíci

      Gene Wilder did it one year prior in Blazing Saddles.
      "My name is Jim, but some people call me (pause)... Jim."

  • @andyhinds542
    @andyhinds542 Před 9 měsíci

    Biggus Dickus gets me every time!! The expression in Chris Langham's face is priceless because I can relate to that as I have been in that situation!

  • @bryanstarkweather
    @bryanstarkweather Před 4 měsíci +1

    The policeman sketches one of the best short sketches ever.

  • @Radoye
    @Radoye Před rokem +8

    "Intercourse the penguin!"

    • @mangrove
      @mangrove Před rokem +1

      Damn near broke Cleese!

  • @DoctoreE644
    @DoctoreE644 Před 11 měsíci +2

    To this day, I cannot get Mr. Creosote out of my mind! The infamous haute cuisine restaurant skit was one of the grossest, funniest skits of all their movies. "Bucket for Monsieur" was the tip of the coming hilarity and references to bodily functions. 😂🤣🤤🤮

  • @davidely7032
    @davidely7032 Před měsícem

    Best use of irony. My favorite improvised line had Brian telling the crowd, "We are all different!", the crown mindlessly repeating, "Yes! We are all different," and one cheeky and brilliant extra piping up with, "I'm not." Now that is a perfect example of a spectacular use of irony. 😉 The other extras shushed the improviser thinking he crossed a line. Nope. They boosted his pay to that of a speaking actor. 😋

  • @michaeldee8443
    @michaeldee8443 Před rokem +6

    The greatest comedy group ever! 😄💯

  • @awkwardhoors
    @awkwardhoors Před rokem +7

    There are many instances of Palin struggling to hold it together during Python sketches - "We'll be showing you more of that photo later on - unless we hear from Charles or Michael" during the Blackmail game show is one personal favourite. Palin as an old lady trying to read a poem whilst angry arabs scream in rage at her from the other side of the stream is another.

    • @r.s.204
      @r.s.204 Před rokem

      Or during the airplane sheep sketch while putting the mustache on John Cleese

    • @ursusbavaricus4761
      @ursusbavaricus4761 Před rokem

      @@r.s.204 John: "Maintenant, je vous présente mon collègue, le pouf célèbre, Jean-Brian Zatapathique."

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Před 11 měsíci

      The Blackmail sketch is my absolute favorite Python sketch. "Hello Mrs. Teal."

    • @beej86
      @beej86 Před 11 měsíci

      @@tygrkhat4087 Stop the Film!

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Před 11 měsíci

      @@beej86 He's a very brave man.

  • @chuckabutty888
    @chuckabutty888 Před 7 měsíci

    " Blow your noses and seize him." Brilliant !!

  • @malahammer
    @malahammer Před rokem +4

    Palin is a genius!

  • @nerdmeister2
    @nerdmeister2 Před rokem +2

    you forgot to include the "oh, intercourse the penguin!" shout from Graham. for me, the real #1.

  • @emgee44
    @emgee44 Před 11 měsíci +2

    The first time I watched Life of Brian and the Dickus scene, was the only time I’ve very nearly, had a momentary loss of bladder control from laughing 😂. Loved both Holy Grail and LoB. You can always tell a Brit if they can quote a line or sketch from Monty Python

  • @fraumahler5934
    @fraumahler5934 Před měsícem

    Monty Python changed my appreciation of comedy scenes forever.

  • @isidornimages
    @isidornimages Před rokem +2

    If anything, this is a good reminder to go re-watch something Monty Python.

  • @sailor5853
    @sailor5853 Před 5 měsíci

    "Hey, I didn't eat the mousse."
    That's the best one.

  • @Boudicca15
    @Boudicca15 Před rokem +7

    Best comedy ever, the dross that passes for comedy today should take note 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

  • @eugenesteenhuisen4065

    Brilliant clips. Comedy geniuses.

  • @darylogrady5826
    @darylogrady5826 Před rokem +2

    Python is by far the funniest comedy troupe that had a show on the BBC in the early 70s followed by 3 films.

    • @Brinta3
      @Brinta3 Před 11 měsíci

      @Daryl O’Grady
      Officially they have four feature films, the first being “And Now for Something Completely Different”.

  • @tomasnozka1
    @tomasnozka1 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you for reminding these 🙂

  • @advancetotabletop5328
    @advancetotabletop5328 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Thanks! Didn‘t know who said those lines. “ He played Gregory (and other roles) in the controversial Life of Brian (1979) - a religious spoof about a man mistaken for the Messiah - uttering two of the film’s most memorable lines. During the final crucifixion scene, Brian’s fellow prisoners try to pass themselves off as him in order to escape death (a subversion of the “I’m Spartacus” moment in Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film). Amid the many cries of “I’m Brian”, Gregory exclaims “I’m Brian, and so’s my wife” - an ad lib by Bayler. Earlier in the film, when the assorted throng worshipping Brian shout in unison “We are all individuals”, Bayler interjects “I’m not” - another ad lib.” - Guardian

  • @VeracityLH
    @VeracityLH Před 5 měsíci +2

    Love love love Monty Python. I was a rare female fan in the 80s and 90s. I will never forget quoting Python in the middle of a group of half a dozen guys. They had never even met a woman who liked Python and my quip was met with a stunned silence. Then I suddenly had 6 new best friends. Long live Monty Python!

    • @e-curb
      @e-curb Před 3 měsíci

      What was the quote?

  • @Irene-ym7bx
    @Irene-ym7bx Před 5 měsíci

    We converse in Monty Python in this house. From "pie jesu domine" to "bring out you dead" to "african or European" to "Bickus Dickus" to the stuttering in Brian. And on my final card it will say: "She has ceased to be"

  • @SweetTreat-wl2yl
    @SweetTreat-wl2yl Před rokem +2

    I'm surprised the Cleese/Chapman mortuary scene ending with the line "...tell you what, we'll eat 'er, and if you feel bit guilty afterwards, we'll dig a hole and you can... (et-cetera'd for those who don't like their humor quite so dark)"

  • @dindi8270
    @dindi8270 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Michael Palin IS Monty Python, even down to the initials !! Outrageously funny ! The first 3 minutes of Holy Grail are comedy genius, one of my favorite bits of MP/MP, and all down to his comedic skills :)

  • @user-rm3ii9dp3z
    @user-rm3ii9dp3z Před 5 měsíci +1

    "How shall we fuck off oh lord".