by Cookie N Screen
Monty Python has been a part of, hopefully, all of our lives. For as long as I can remember, I’ve sat up with my sister and father and chortled at the sketches and the movies. When the crew of funny men announced that they were getting back together for several live shows with favourite sketches and movie moments, I was completely delighted! And then I saw the ticket price, woops! Never fear, because nationwide in cinemas and on UK Channel Gold tonight, they will be screening the three-hour live event and it looks incredible.
So why not have a look at some of the best sketches from their incredible show Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
Monty Python has been a part of, hopefully, all of our lives. For as long as I can remember, I’ve sat up with my sister and father and chortled at the sketches and the movies. When the crew of funny men announced that they were getting back together for several live shows with favourite sketches and movie moments, I was completely delighted! And then I saw the ticket price, woops! Never fear, because nationwide in cinemas and on UK Channel Gold tonight, they will be screening the three-hour live event and it looks incredible.
So why not have a look at some of the best sketches from their incredible show Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
Spanish Inquisition
The sketch that nobody expected! Though told in several parts, the crimson-robe-wearing villains with complete devotion to the Pope has now filtered into our conversations more times than saying “Ni.” The most difficult part of the Spanish Inquisition sketches is to decide which one is funnier. Is it the one where they interrupt a conversation with slight confusion over their manifesto? Or is the attack of the comfy chair? Either way, it’s one of the funniest gangs to infiltrate our televisions.
The sketch that nobody expected! Though told in several parts, the crimson-robe-wearing villains with complete devotion to the Pope has now filtered into our conversations more times than saying “Ni.” The most difficult part of the Spanish Inquisition sketches is to decide which one is funnier. Is it the one where they interrupt a conversation with slight confusion over their manifesto? Or is the attack of the comfy chair? Either way, it’s one of the funniest gangs to infiltrate our televisions.
Working Class Playwright
As an artist, most people have had the backlash from parents and those around them for not taking a job doing hard labour. While the latter profession is admirable, as is the former, so the Monty Python sketch Working Class Playwright flips the perception of arty careers on its head and it’s bleeding hilarious. As a son returns to London from working in the mines in Yorkshire, his disappointed writing father is dismayed at his son's career choice. There are no other words. You’ll be cackling as soon as you hear "Tungsten Carbide Drills.”
As an artist, most people have had the backlash from parents and those around them for not taking a job doing hard labour. While the latter profession is admirable, as is the former, so the Monty Python sketch Working Class Playwright flips the perception of arty careers on its head and it’s bleeding hilarious. As a son returns to London from working in the mines in Yorkshire, his disappointed writing father is dismayed at his son's career choice. There are no other words. You’ll be cackling as soon as you hear "Tungsten Carbide Drills.”
Cheese Shop
The cheese shop had one job, one job and it failed at it; it doesn’t have any cheese. It’s made more memorable because the pairing of Michael Palin and John Cleese has chemistry as they balance stoicism and silliness. The sketch’s premise itself is actually quite simple, but it’s carried off by the extravagant reasons for certain cheeses disappearing. It also makes an incredible game, Why? You have to come up with the best excuses as to why there is no cheese in the shop.
The cheese shop had one job, one job and it failed at it; it doesn’t have any cheese. It’s made more memorable because the pairing of Michael Palin and John Cleese has chemistry as they balance stoicism and silliness. The sketch’s premise itself is actually quite simple, but it’s carried off by the extravagant reasons for certain cheeses disappearing. It also makes an incredible game, Why? You have to come up with the best excuses as to why there is no cheese in the shop.
Upper Class Twit Of The Year
Some people really hold a grudge against the upper class, especially with shows such as Made In Chelsea perforating our media lives with their rich relationship woes. However, in this fantastic sketch, Monty Python take all we don’t like about the upper class and make them idiots. And by idiots, I don’t mean not being able to spell, they are so stupid, one of them managed to run themselves over. In a race to be Upper Class Twit of a year, people get into more scrapes than needs be.
Some people really hold a grudge against the upper class, especially with shows such as Made In Chelsea perforating our media lives with their rich relationship woes. However, in this fantastic sketch, Monty Python take all we don’t like about the upper class and make them idiots. And by idiots, I don’t mean not being able to spell, they are so stupid, one of them managed to run themselves over. In a race to be Upper Class Twit of a year, people get into more scrapes than needs be.
Four Yorkshiremen
England is a renowned place for complaining. Not just any old complaining. We simply cannot find joy in being happy, we have to let people know exactly what is upsetting us. The worst is when you are just trying to complain about how hard your life is and someone comes along and trumps it. First showcased in the Hollywood Bowl Live bunch of sketches, the four now affluent gentlemen talk about being so poor when they were kids that they had to get up an hour before they went to bed and were flogged to death. And you thought buffering was bad.
England is a renowned place for complaining. Not just any old complaining. We simply cannot find joy in being happy, we have to let people know exactly what is upsetting us. The worst is when you are just trying to complain about how hard your life is and someone comes along and trumps it. First showcased in the Hollywood Bowl Live bunch of sketches, the four now affluent gentlemen talk about being so poor when they were kids that they had to get up an hour before they went to bed and were flogged to death. And you thought buffering was bad.
Funniest Joke In The World
Warfare is so difficult to engage with. How do you come up with a weapon that will effectively defeat the enemy? In World War 2, scientists came up with a joke so funny that people die from laughing and soldiers march through fields chanting it (with ear muffs) in order to defeat the Germans. Told in almost documentary form, the backlash from the joke and the Germans trying to come up with a joke just as funny make this sketch bleeding hilarious. You also never hear the joke, which a good thing...
Warfare is so difficult to engage with. How do you come up with a weapon that will effectively defeat the enemy? In World War 2, scientists came up with a joke so funny that people die from laughing and soldiers march through fields chanting it (with ear muffs) in order to defeat the Germans. Told in almost documentary form, the backlash from the joke and the Germans trying to come up with a joke just as funny make this sketch bleeding hilarious. You also never hear the joke, which a good thing...
Hell’s Grannies
I don’t know about you, but this sketch confirmed to me that the older generation are just as rebellious as the youth of today. The idea of a bunch of grannies, adorned in black and beating up buff youthful men and terrorising the streets worse than the gangs of today, is so simply weird and yet only the Monty Python group can effectively pull it off. It also divulges into the “this is just getting silly” bit too which is an added bonus.
I don’t know about you, but this sketch confirmed to me that the older generation are just as rebellious as the youth of today. The idea of a bunch of grannies, adorned in black and beating up buff youthful men and terrorising the streets worse than the gangs of today, is so simply weird and yet only the Monty Python group can effectively pull it off. It also divulges into the “this is just getting silly” bit too which is an added bonus.
Fish Slap Dancing
Sometimes Monty Python is clever. Sometimes Monty Python is silly and clever. But a lot of the times, they are just silly and it is glorious. None of this is captured more than the Fish Slap Dancing sketch. Timed to Scandinavian-esque music, one man hits another fan with a pair of floppy fish. It shouldn’t work, but it does and the hilarity comes from the surreal moments and the hilarious punch line.
Sometimes Monty Python is clever. Sometimes Monty Python is silly and clever. But a lot of the times, they are just silly and it is glorious. None of this is captured more than the Fish Slap Dancing sketch. Timed to Scandinavian-esque music, one man hits another fan with a pair of floppy fish. It shouldn’t work, but it does and the hilarity comes from the surreal moments and the hilarious punch line.
Argument Sketch
One of those sketches that dissolves into madness towards the end, but it is still epically timed, cleverly written and wonderfully done. The premise follows a man who has paid for an argument (because there is an office where you can do those things), and he doesn’t get what he paid for. If you’ve ever had an argument that has just dissolved into statements of contradiction rather than a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition, then you'll understand the complete irritation of this sketch.
One of those sketches that dissolves into madness towards the end, but it is still epically timed, cleverly written and wonderfully done. The premise follows a man who has paid for an argument (because there is an office where you can do those things), and he doesn’t get what he paid for. If you’ve ever had an argument that has just dissolved into statements of contradiction rather than a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition, then you'll understand the complete irritation of this sketch.
Dead Parrot
There are no words. It is THE most famous Monty Python sketch. So much so that they have erected a giant dead parrot in London. I don’t think it needs much of an introduction, but a good damn watch as a man enquires about the recently deceased parrot that he’d just purchased. It’s pure Monty Python genius.
There are no words. It is THE most famous Monty Python sketch. So much so that they have erected a giant dead parrot in London. I don’t think it needs much of an introduction, but a good damn watch as a man enquires about the recently deceased parrot that he’d just purchased. It’s pure Monty Python genius.
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