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quote: EW: Monty Python's funniest sketches By Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly (Entertainment Weekly) -- "Spamalot" hit Broadway on March 17, and in celebration, Entertainment Weekly remembers Monty Python's 20 best sketches. It all began on the night of October 5, 1969, when a strange sketch-comedy show called "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on the BBC. Perhaps "strange" is the wrong word. After all, the show opens with a shot of an old man with scraggly hair, a mangy beard and tattered clothing walking out of the ocean. Was he a castaway? A comedian? Did he have anything to do with a circus? As he staggered onto the beach and collapsed on the sand, he managed to mutter one strained word: ''It's ...'' Then, a voice-over announced, ''Monty Python's Flying Circus.'' Absurd title animation unspooled. The rousing marching-band overture of ''The Liberty Bell'' kicked in. For the next 30 minutes, Monty Python rained a machine-gun fusillade of skits about Mozart, Genghis Khan and men in Viking helmets with only the slightest of strings connecting them all. There was almost no laughter from the live audience. In fact, they had no clue what the hell they were witnessing. Monty Python was made up of five Cambridge and Oxford grads (John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Eric Idle) and one American (Minneapolis-born animator Terry Gilliam). And they knew more about television than they let on. They'd all been writers and performers on shows like David Frost's "The Frost Report" and the kiddie program "Do Not Adjust Your Set." Still, it wasn't until the Pythons banded together during their four seasons on the BBC that they were able to desconstruct and reassemble TV comedy on their own terms, revolutionizing the medium -- and comedy -- forever. Now, after three decades of nearly messianic devotion on both sides of the Atlantic, the Pythons are storming Broadway (though not in person) with Idle's musical, "Monty Python's Spamalot," inspired by the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." In honor of the musical's premiere, Entertainment Weekly has made a list of the troupe's 20 all-time funniest sketches. Click hereexternal link to see if your faves made the list. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Mov...aves/index.html

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funny, but overrated.

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20 Argument Clinic (Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD 9, Episode 29)
A troupe hallmark and a paraphrasing of what Python fans are thinking now. ''That's not one of the top 20.'' ''Yes, it is.'' ''No, it isn't.'' ''Is.'' ''Isn't!''

19 Kilimanjaro Expedition (MPFC DVD 3, Ep. 9)
Who did an explorer who sees double hire to find a crew he sent to build a bridge between Kilimanjaro's two peaks? ''The Arthur Brown twins, two botanists called Machin...and a couple of the Ken Spinoza quads. The other two pulled out.''

18 The Restaurant Sketch (MPFC DVD 1, Ep. 3)
A polite complaint about a dirty fork riles a cleaver-swinging cook and suicidal manager. Highlight: John Cleese's gasping moan, ''Oh, it makes me mad.''

17 Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion Visit Sartre (MPFC DVD 9, Ep. 27)
Who better to debate Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy and burial methods for live cats than two shrieking housewives? The best of the sketches with the Pythons' drag alter egos, the Pepperpots.

16 The Visitors (MPFC DVD 3, Ep. 9)
The rudest drop-ins ever, including Arthur Name (''What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung''), Mr. Equator (''[The seat's a] bit lumpy...ah, no wonder, I was sitting on the cat''), and his incontinent, beans-gobbling wife.

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15 Every Sperm Is Sacred (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
Terry Jones' directorial high, this rousing musical number about the perils of masturbation from the 1983 film is Python irreverence at its most elaborate.

14 Interesting People (Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD 4, Episode 11)
A goofy TV panel features a hypnotist who puts bricks to sleep and a man whose cat flies across the room into a pail of water. (''By herself?'' ''No, I fling her.'')

13 Spam (MPFC DVD 8, Ep. 25)
Thanks to this operatic, Viking-sung ditty, the jellied canned luncheon meat will always be synonymous with classic comedy.

12 Self-Defence (MPFC DVD 2, Ep. 4)
What's a fruit-obsessed instructor's advice for dealing with an assailant attacking with a banana? (1) Shoot him. (2) Eat the banana, thus disarming him.

11 Crunchy Frog (MPFC DVD 2, Ep. 6)
Crunchy Frog, Cockroach Cluster, Ram's Bladder Cup with lark's vomit: This candy selection yields oddly tasty humor.

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10 Stoning (Monty Python's Life of Brian)
You may be humming ''(Always Look on the) Bright Side of Life'' after the 1979 film, but the beard-wearing, rock-hurling women make the movie sing.

9 Eric the Half a Bee (Monty Python's Previous Record)
A rousing ode to a bifurcated bug from 1972: ''I love this hive employee/Bisected accidentally/One summer afternoon by me/I love him carnally.''

8 Nudge Nudge (Monty Python's Flying Circus, DVD 1, Episode 3)
''Nudge nudge, know what I mean? Say no more!'' Eric Idle's winking insinuator is the ultimate perv, even if the sketch ends, ''You've slept with a lady.... What's it like?''

7 The Lumberjack Song (MPFC DVD 3, Ep. 9)
A barber longs to be a macho woodsman, because ''I cut down trees, I skip and jump/I like to press wildflowers/I put on women's clothing/And hang around in bars.'' During some live shows, fans Tom Hanks and George Harrison both slipped into lumber gear to sing backup.

6 Fish-Slapping Dance (MPFC DVD 9, Ep. 28)
John Cleese and Michael Palin prance about, slapping each other with fish, naturally. Fifteen seconds of sublime silliness.

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5 The Funniest Joke in the World (Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD 1, Episode 1)
A British joke so funny its audiences die laughing becomes a critical weapon against the Nazis during WWII. Not so the Germans' failed retaliation: ''Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, and von vas...assaulted! Peanut.''

4 Dead Parrot (MPFC DVD 3, Ep. 8)
''If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies.... This is an ex-parrot.'' The legacy of John Cleese's complaint to Michael Palin for selling a stuffed pet is marred only a bit by a listless reprise on a 1997 Saturday Night Live.

3 Guy de Loimbard's Castle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
''Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries'' from the 1975 film remains the gold standard of verbal abuse.

2 The Ministry of Silly Walks (MPFC DVD 5, Ep. 14)
Cleese's giant steps are equally hilarious on the TV show and in the '82 concert film Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

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1 The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD 5, Episode 15)
Red-caped crusading cardinals threaten torture with (gasp!) the comfy chair! Unforgettable for one reason: torture by kitchen drying rack, and Michael Palin's inability to count...two! Two reasons!

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quote: Originally posted by Sava funny, but overrated.

Heretic!

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bah and when talking about MP episodes, the SPanish inquisition is vastly overrated. I like the lumberjack song better.

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Ministry of Silly Walks
Dead Parrot

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I don't like the songs too much.

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I'd rather watch Seinfeld.

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The list is missing "Not Being Seen"! Blasphemy!

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Some obvious good choices...

Fish Slapping Dance

Nudge... nudge...

But no

Raymond Luxury-Yacht Interview

or...

International Philosophy: Greece vs. Germany

This is a ****ing outrage; those ****ers wouldn't know Python if it bit them in the arse.

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What about the naughty Hungarian-English Dictionary skit? I can't believe that one didn't make it.

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quote: Originally posted by Kassiopeia The list is missing "Not Being Seen"! Blasphemy!

That one was excellent.

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Or

"Wuthering Heights: the Semaphore Version"

The communist quiz show where they kept getting football questions.

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Oh yes, that was wonderful.

Poor Karl never got anything right.

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quote: Oh yes, that was wonderful. Poor Karl never got anything right.

It's not so funny now: Coventry City actually won the FA Cup in 1987 which destroys the "trick question" he didn't get.*

I loved the horrible sofa that was the winner's prize though.


*Question: "in what year did Coventry City last win the English Football Cup?" - Answer: "It was a trick question: Coventry City have never won the English Football Cup".

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"NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!"

"Hell's Grannies" was a good one as well. And I liked the one where Hitler, Gobbles, and Himmler were in an English old folks home and were making speaches for the National Bocialist Party!

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quote: Originally posted by Agathon quote: Oh yes, that was wonderful. Poor Karl never got anything right. It's not so funny now: Coventry City actually won the FA Cup in 1987 which destroys the "trick question" he didn't get.* I loved the horrible sofa that was the winner's prize though. *Question: "in what year did Coventry City last win the English Football Cup?" - Answer: "It was a trick question: Coventry City have never won the English Football Cup".

The sketch has both commies and football. I bet it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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The entire episode on the Dinsdale brothers was a classic.

doug was far waorse than Dave he used sarcasm

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I always loved the womens club re-enactments of famous battles.

Since they included bits from the films, what about the "black knight", or the "peasants government" from "Holy Grail". Nothing is mentioned from "Life of Brian". These people know nothing of python!

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Number ten was from Life of Brian.

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Yes, I can't believe they also missed the Hungarian Phrasebook and HitlerHilter in England.

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One of my favorites was the "International Hide and Seek Championship"...

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quote: Hilter in England.

Yeah, funny... I rotfled when they were riding on bicycles and romantic classical nazi music came out of nowhere.

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I've always loved the Fish Slapping Dance. Sometimes it gets lost in the shuffle.


However, probably my alltime fav didn't make the list: The Upperclass Twit of the Year Competition.