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- The Employment Turnover of the Credits. “We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.”
- Weight Ratios and the Humble Swallow. “Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?” – Soldier. One of Monty Python’s calling card joke constructions is presenting an absurdity and then allowing a few characters to nitpick it to death with over-informed logic.
- Bring Out Your Dead. “I’m not dead” – Carried Man. Often misremembered as “I’m not quite dead” or “I’m not dead yet,” the old man protesting his placement on the plague cart is a deliciously dark joke done with great sincerity.
- Debating Government with the Common Folk. “Well, I didn’t vote for you.” – Peasant Woman to King Arthur. Is England a monarchy? A dictatorship? An autonomous collective?
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly): With Hugh Bonneville, Kate Beckinsale, Jim Carrey, Simon Pegg. This series is presented by self-confessed Python nut Hugh Bonneville, each show with a group of five famous comedians remembering their favourite Python moments.
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- 2014-11-03
- Documentary, Comedy
- 29
- Cheese Shop
- Dennis Moore
- The Undertaker
- Nudge Nudge
- Self Defense Against Fresh Fruit
- Exploding Penguin
- The Fish-Slapping Dance
- Hell’s Grannies
- Confuse-A-Cat
- The Dirty Fork
Season 3, Episode 7: "Salad Days" At first glance, "Cheese Shop" feels like a light ripoff of the show's more famous "Dead Parrot" sketch: A customer (Cleese) grows more and more frustrated as he demands answers from an unhelpful shopkeeper (Palin). But what sets this sketch apart is its commitment to absurdity (the bouzouki soundtrack!) and two ve...
Season 3, Episode 11: "Dennis Moore" This later-season standout stars Cleese as a bumbling, flower-thieving highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He even comes with his own theme song (which upon watching will be stuck in your head for the next few weeks, at least).
Season 2, Episode 13: "Royal Episode 13" A man makes funeral arrangements for his late mother, only for the undertaker (Chapman) to suggest some alternative methods for body disposal. Made all the better by the audience's scripted but still funny reactions of horror.
Season 1, Episode 3: "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" This Idle classic is a rare Flying Circus sketch with an actual punchline—and a good one at that. Say no more!
Season 1, Episode 4: "Owl Stretching Time" The Pythons frequently cast Cleese as an imposing, upstanding authority figure, but he did some of his best work when playing a completely unhinged lunatic—like this self-defense instructor who has devised his entire lesson plan around the dangers of fresh fruit.
Season 2, Episode 9: "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body" The Pythons often dressed in drag to play so-called "pepperpots"—grouchy, matronly old ladies with a penchant for high-pitched shrieking. Here, Chapman and Cleese play two such women who sit down to watch telly—only to notice a large, unexplained penguin perched on top of their TV ...
Season 3, Episode 2: "Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular" The entire sketch is less than 20 seconds, but it has endured as one of Monty Python's most iconic. Man slaps another man with fish, high jinks ensue.
Season 1, Episode 8: "Full Frontal Nudity" What could be more terrifying than a marauding band of ne'er-do-well grandmothers, nicking telephone boxes and spray-painting "Make Tea Not Love" graffiti?
Season 1, Episode 5: "Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century" What starts as a seemingly straightforward sketch about a vet visit quickly devolves into one of the show's silliest bits: A highly trained group of military operatives attempt to cure a cat's ennui through the power of confusion.
Season 1, Episode 3: "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite A Long Way Away" Chapman somehow manages to keep a straight face as a man who asks his waiter if he can replace a dirty fork—only for all hell to break loose.
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A guide to Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly), the 2014 Gold TV sketch show. Five-part series celebrating the best of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Hugh Bonneville hosts.
The five-part show, presented and narrated by self-confessed Python nut Hugh Bonneville, looks at the very best sketches from ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ – from the ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch to ‘The Ministry Of Silly Walks’ – and explores the effect and influence they’ve had in the comedy world.
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) TV sketch show; Gold; 2014; 5 episodes (1 series) Five-part series celebrating the best of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Hugh Bonneville hosts. Stars Hugh Bonneville, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and more.
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Overview. This series is presented by self-confessed Python nut Hugh Bonneville, each show with a group of five famous comedians remembering their favourite Python moments. Each guest chooses a sketch (or two) and it's played with their comments.. Hugh Bonneville. Narrator. 5 Episodes. Graham Chapman. Self (archive footage) 5 Episodes. John Cleese.
