Top 10 Unscripted Monty Python Moments That Were Left In

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  • 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  11 місяців тому +15

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

    • @benleydon
      @benleydon 11 місяців тому +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 5 місяців тому

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

    • @theresabashford1726
      @theresabashford1726 2 місяці тому

      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 26 днів тому

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

  • @nobodynemoq
    @nobodynemoq Рік тому +620

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

    • @Plethorality
      @Plethorality 11 місяців тому +31

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

    • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
      @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 9 місяців тому +2

      defines Python...

    • @hatsofmeato5746
      @hatsofmeato5746 8 місяців тому +2

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

    • @Icemann89
      @Icemann89 8 місяців тому +2

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

    • @mikaelbiilmann6826
      @mikaelbiilmann6826 8 місяців тому +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.

  • @i_have_no_taste
    @i_have_no_taste Рік тому +286

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

    • @bradsmckay
      @bradsmckay Рік тому +34

      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 Рік тому +60

      @@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 Рік тому +5

      ​@@Northman_Roams 😂😂

    • @Ansible1000
      @Ansible1000 Рік тому +57

      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 Рік тому +24

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

  • @brianwillson9567
    @brianwillson9567 Рік тому +607

    Python simply made the world a better place.

    • @gedofgont1006
      @gedofgont1006 Рік тому +9

      They certainly made it sillier.

    • @BeatlemaccaAR
      @BeatlemaccaAR Рік тому +9

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

    • @davidhensley76
      @davidhensley76 Рік тому +2

      No, they didn't. Your turn.

    • @a_diamond
      @a_diamond Рік тому +3

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

    • @PotterheadMando
      @PotterheadMando Рік тому +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 Рік тому +309

    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 Рік тому +28

      That would be Terry Jones as Sir Bedevere.

    • @Comfy_Gaming
      @Comfy_Gaming 9 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому +2

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

    • @fordid42
      @fordid42 9 місяців тому

      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 9 місяців тому

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

  • @andyrobson7686
    @andyrobson7686 Рік тому +204

    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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +8

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

    • @DustyDingoPhotos
      @DustyDingoPhotos Рік тому +8

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

    • @klausschneider1045
      @klausschneider1045 Рік тому

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

  • @UnclePhil73
    @UnclePhil73 Рік тому +82

    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 8 місяців тому +5

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

  • @rufus1346
    @rufus1346 Рік тому +97

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

    • @logandarklighter
      @logandarklighter Рік тому +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 Рік тому +5

      @@logandarklighter Yes.

    • @SunshineSuperstar
      @SunshineSuperstar Рік тому +5

      For me every single individual sentence in LOB was hilarious!

    • @melissasalasblair5273
      @melissasalasblair5273 Рік тому +1

      Yes lol

  • @daveknight957
    @daveknight957 Рік тому +107

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

    • @jota55581
      @jota55581 3 місяці тому +8

      Hear hear !

    • @trumpsbrain-worm5196
      @trumpsbrain-worm5196 2 місяці тому +11

      No shit. Dude yapping makes the video unwatchable.

    • @JesusIsKing96
      @JesusIsKing96 2 місяці тому +9

      Thanks for the warning. I didn’t even bother watching it. I hate that too!

    • @ThatDamnedTurk
      @ThatDamnedTurk 2 місяці тому +2

      All of the watchmojo nonsense does this.

    • @mustangman6170
      @mustangman6170 2 місяці тому +5

      YES!!!

  • @timjohnson1199
    @timjohnson1199 Рік тому +137

    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 7 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely 💖😅 The benchmark of Humor for me as well

    • @EndertheWeek
      @EndertheWeek 4 місяці тому +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 3 місяці тому

      @@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 3 місяці тому

      @@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 3 місяці тому

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

  • @kingarthur4ever
    @kingarthur4ever Рік тому +66

    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!

  • @ericjanssen394
    @ericjanssen394 Рік тому +60

    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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +2

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

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Рік тому +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 8 місяців тому +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 6 місяців тому

      ⁠​⁠@@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”.

  • @jdraven0890
    @jdraven0890 Рік тому +49

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

    • @steeleye2112
      @steeleye2112 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +4

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

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 Рік тому +3

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

    • @stewpitteejit
      @stewpitteejit 6 місяців тому

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

  • @bonjovi1612
    @bonjovi1612 Рік тому +25

    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.

  • @GenialHarryGrout
    @GenialHarryGrout Рік тому +111

    Even after all these years Monty Python is still funny

    • @doubledrats235
      @doubledrats235 Рік тому +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 11 місяців тому +2

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

  • @Komicklepto
    @Komicklepto Рік тому +124

    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 Рік тому +14

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

    • @philthyphil7651
      @philthyphil7651 Рік тому +3

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

    • @thomasmarteny291
      @thomasmarteny291 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +9

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

  • @voodoochild1975az
    @voodoochild1975az Рік тому +43

    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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +4

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

  • @weltonvillegal6258
    @weltonvillegal6258 8 місяців тому +30

    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 6 місяців тому +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 4 місяці тому +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 3 місяці тому

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

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile 25 днів тому

      Carol Cleveland 😉

  • @giojikia6828RapRockNRoll
    @giojikia6828RapRockNRoll 11 місяців тому +31

    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 11 місяців тому +2

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

    • @kikidevine694
      @kikidevine694 10 місяців тому

      I hope you were introduced to it by your family

    • @MrTimtim65
      @MrTimtim65 9 місяців тому +3

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

    • @MrakS
      @MrakS 8 місяців тому +1

      Also check "Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl".

    • @andreaassanelli4117
      @andreaassanelli4117 6 місяців тому +1

      Look for Flying Circus

  • @Hqhq-01
    @Hqhq-01 4 місяці тому +4

    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.

  • @a.c.m.4548
    @a.c.m.4548 Рік тому +11

    Nothing makes Python unwatchable... Unless you have a dry voiceover narrating the setup over irritating background muzak.

  • @DavidBromage
    @DavidBromage Рік тому +28

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

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@tygrkhat4087 Somewhere on UA-cam, 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 3 місяці тому +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 !

  • @roellek16
    @roellek16 Рік тому +30

    Love the Biggus Dickus scene.

  • @kdhavle
    @kdhavle Рік тому +42

    JC once said (the video must be somewhere on UA-cam) 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
    @badkittynomilktonight3334 Рік тому +13

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

    • @logandarklighter
      @logandarklighter Рік тому +1

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

  • @WatchMojoUK
    @WatchMojoUK  Рік тому +21

    Want to see the very best of the main man?
    Top 10 John Cleese Monty Python Moments
    ua-cam.com/video/z1REpEEjU9Q/v-deo.html

    • @ampig8948
      @ampig8948 Рік тому

      😅d DDS I’m

    • @davidreynolds4684
      @davidreynolds4684 Рік тому

      What I find amazing and sad is that John Cleese didn't like acting and didn't want to but claims he was basically forced to do it because noone could do what he does. He stated in several interviews that he really enjoyed the writing and creating process and that he was self conscious when it came to being on stage.

    • @scobra5941
      @scobra5941 11 місяців тому

      Palin's the main man.

    • @davidreynolds4684
      @davidreynolds4684 11 місяців тому

      @@scobra5941 I ran across a movie I havnt seen or thought of since I was prob 10 years old around '79 I'm guessing. John Cleese and Graham Chapman wrote. Rentadick 1972. I was shocked when I found it online. The over the top depiction of the Japanese characters would be boycotted if that movie was produced today.

  • @23Dataminer
    @23Dataminer Рік тому +11

    Monty Python are the world's jewel of humour.

  • @brunozeigerts6379
    @brunozeigerts6379 Рік тому +16

    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 Рік тому +3

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

    • @brunozeigerts6379
      @brunozeigerts6379 Рік тому

      @@hedgehog1965uk Whyever not?

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk Рік тому +3

      @@brunozeigerts6379 Google "Chris Langham trial".

    • @brunozeigerts6379
      @brunozeigerts6379 Рік тому +1

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

    • @standardnerd9840
      @standardnerd9840 6 місяців тому +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.

  • @drahcirnevarc9152
    @drahcirnevarc9152 11 місяців тому +8

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

    • @allenclark4235
      @allenclark4235 6 місяців тому

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

  • @robertaldaron4870
    @robertaldaron4870 Рік тому +10

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

  • @nessus47
    @nessus47 Рік тому +11

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

  • @jolinkarlsson8569
    @jolinkarlsson8569 Рік тому +62

    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 Рік тому

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

    • @caronstout354
      @caronstout354 Рік тому +12

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

    • @55tallanh
      @55tallanh Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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

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

  • @ElroyMcDuff
    @ElroyMcDuff Рік тому +10

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

    • @ThePhoenix198
      @ThePhoenix198 Рік тому +3

      Yes, that has been a workplace staple ever since 😂

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 6 місяців тому +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.

  • @McOzman479
    @McOzman479 Рік тому +8

    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.

  • @taocpa
    @taocpa Рік тому +22

    Best comedy troupe of all time.

    • @Custerd1
      @Custerd1 8 місяців тому +1

      Unequivocally.

  • @centralscrutinizer6108
    @centralscrutinizer6108 Рік тому +16

    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!!!

  • @Colin-Fenix
    @Colin-Fenix Рік тому +11

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

  • @Raelven
    @Raelven Рік тому +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.

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic Рік тому +5

    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.

  • @andreavictoriaparadiso47
    @andreavictoriaparadiso47 5 місяців тому +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!

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp Рік тому +6

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

  • @originalchilehed
    @originalchilehed Рік тому +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 11 місяців тому

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

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 9 місяців тому

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

    • @weebunny
      @weebunny 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @alanrogs3990
    @alanrogs3990 Рік тому +18

    George Harrison had faith in them

  • @Lousybarber
    @Lousybarber Рік тому +4

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

  • @josephsmith1494
    @josephsmith1494 Рік тому +13

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

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 10 місяців тому

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

  • @thatdudeinasuit5422
    @thatdudeinasuit5422 Рік тому +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

  • @andyhinds542
    @andyhinds542 10 місяців тому

    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!

  • @sum12see
    @sum12see Рік тому +1

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

  • @totalcreativegaming6681
    @totalcreativegaming6681 Рік тому +26

    Monty Python is Brilliant comedy gold

    • @SomeGuy-hd4cn
      @SomeGuy-hd4cn Рік тому +1

      Well duh!

    • @gregoryschleitwiler9601
      @gregoryschleitwiler9601 Рік тому

      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.

  • @joeyj6808
    @joeyj6808 Рік тому +4

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

  • @user-ei6uj6im8u
    @user-ei6uj6im8u 7 місяців тому

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

  • @jeffbrooks8024
    @jeffbrooks8024 Рік тому +4

    Bring out the holy hand grenade…priceless

  • @strangerist2
    @strangerist2 Рік тому +3

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

  • @ILikeJohnLennon
    @ILikeJohnLennon Рік тому +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 Рік тому +2

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

  • @artjackson8360
    @artjackson8360 Рік тому +3

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

  • @rgruenhaus
    @rgruenhaus Рік тому +3

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

    • @richardvoogd705
      @richardvoogd705 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @tygrkhat4087
    @tygrkhat4087 Рік тому +3

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

  • @ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM
    @ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM Рік тому +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!

  • @chaneyphillips8317
    @chaneyphillips8317 Рік тому +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

  • @danielvandersall6756
    @danielvandersall6756 Рік тому +7

    The definition of comedy. And it's apotheosis.

  • @ysgol3
    @ysgol3 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      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.

  • @marksasahara1115
    @marksasahara1115 Рік тому +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 9 місяців тому +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.

  • @tbd-1
    @tbd-1 Рік тому +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...

  • @lisalesinszki7536
    @lisalesinszki7536 Рік тому +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 9 місяців тому

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

  • @jeffbrooks8024
    @jeffbrooks8024 Рік тому +3

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

  • @eugenesteenhuisen4065
    @eugenesteenhuisen4065 Рік тому

    Brilliant clips. Comedy geniuses.

  • @awkwardhoors
    @awkwardhoors Рік тому +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 Рік тому

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

    • @ursusbavaricus4761
      @ursusbavaricus4761 Рік тому

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

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Рік тому

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

    • @beej86
      @beej86 Рік тому

      @@tygrkhat4087 Stop the Film!

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 Рік тому

      @@beej86 He's a very brave man.

  • @emgee44
    @emgee44 Рік тому +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

  • @Radoye
    @Radoye Рік тому +8

    "Intercourse the penguin!"

    • @mangrove
      @mangrove Рік тому +1

      Damn near broke Cleese!

  • @terinn7115
    @terinn7115 Рік тому +3

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

  • @paladro
    @paladro 6 місяців тому

    i can watch these again and again and never stop laughing

  • @kaarenhendrickson3977
    @kaarenhendrickson3977 Рік тому +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 6 місяців тому

      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.

  • @kristenwrate8142
    @kristenwrate8142 Рік тому +4

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

  • @White_devil1980
    @White_devil1980 10 місяців тому

    Classic scenes they never get old even the faulty towers are priceless also 😂😂😂😂

  • @jackwhite6030
    @jackwhite6030 Рік тому +1

    these guys are so good.....watching since really 70's on Sunday nights.

    • @SailorAllan
      @SailorAllan 2 місяці тому

      what's on the telly ? "I think it's a penguin"

  • @kevinmoore8780
    @kevinmoore8780 Рік тому +1

    Thank you. All great clips. There is a difference between unscripted and improvised. The first few live "mistakes" are funny but normal banter with people who forget lines in a live production. However the skit with the man who lost his wallet and the police officer is good improvisation. The last example about Palin in the Life of Brian has been mentioned elsewhere are being unscripted as well but there is debate if it is or not. The scene was written for the guards to be laughing so hard that Brian can get away. Now getting them to laugh in reality instead of just acting would be great work by Palin. And if this were a single take, single camera clip then it would be easy to see that Palin was improvising and making the actors/guards laugh. But it's not a single take. There are several breaks and camera angle changes. Even in the clip you present we see 5 or 6 different camera angles which would have required stopping and re-starting the skit. Palin might have made up lines that made the actor's laugh but they were supposed to laugh from the very start.

  • @isidornimages
    @isidornimages Рік тому +3

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

  • @roberthardy2013
    @roberthardy2013 Рік тому +3

    Gotta be the Biggus Dickus sketch, best ever anywhere.

  • @chuckabutty888
    @chuckabutty888 7 місяців тому

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

  • @wbertie2604
    @wbertie2604 Рік тому +1

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

  • @apollion888
    @apollion888 Рік тому +2

    videos like these are why I watch UA-cam
    Thank you

  • @sutorippuwebmaster8783
    @sutorippuwebmaster8783 6 місяців тому +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.

  • @stratdx
    @stratdx Рік тому +8

    I love Cleese’s laugh

  • @thomassicard3733
    @thomassicard3733 10 місяців тому

    I wholeheartedly agree with your picks!!! LMAO!!!!

  • @thomaswigfield7623
    @thomaswigfield7623 Рік тому +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.

  • @nobodynemoq
    @nobodynemoq Рік тому +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!

  • @coreysenn9894
    @coreysenn9894 Рік тому +5

    I'm surprised you didn't include the Life of Brian scene where PFJ member Stan revealed he wanted to be Loretta so he could have babies. Cleese made a comment about "Where will the fetus gestate; are you going to keep it in a box?" He and Idle hid their faces so the camera didn't catch them laughing.

    • @hoodatdondar2664
      @hoodatdondar2664 9 місяців тому +3

      The whole trans movement told off and dismissed in one scene.

  • @asmrdreamland200
    @asmrdreamland200 Рік тому

    Love them all !!!❤❤❤❤

  • @tomasnozka1
    @tomasnozka1 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for reminding these 🙂

  • @marcuscoquer5958
    @marcuscoquer5958 9 місяців тому

    The "I'm not!" Line is my favourite line of all time and I use it whenever I can.

  • @michaeldee8443
    @michaeldee8443 Рік тому +6

    The greatest comedy group ever! 😄💯

  • @michaelhawthorne8696
    @michaelhawthorne8696 Рік тому +1

    I'm glad I am of the age to appreciate the Python series on TV and all their films..
    I saw The Life of Brian in the cinema. 😂

  • @BeardVsTheWorldUK1
    @BeardVsTheWorldUK1 4 місяці тому

    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…

  • @bryanstarkweather
    @bryanstarkweather 5 місяців тому +1

    The policeman sketches one of the best short sketches ever.

  • @dougaldouglas8842
    @dougaldouglas8842 11 місяців тому +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

  • @jamescoe764
    @jamescoe764 Рік тому +2

    How can a video with such hilarious material be made devoid of laughs?

    • @makarabaduk1754
      @makarabaduk1754 Рік тому +2

      Having someone explain the joke, while talking over the joke itself, is a strong start.

  • @pacldawson
    @pacldawson 5 місяців тому

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

  • @krakatoa1200
    @krakatoa1200 7 місяців тому

    Brilliant !!