Top 10 Funniest Monty Python Sketches

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  • Has YOUR hovercraft ever been full of eels? For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down iconic moments from the entire catalogue of Britain’s all-time greatest comedy troupe, Monty Python. Featuring the lumberjack song, dead parrot, Black Knight, and much more! Let us know in the comments which “Python” sketch you quote on a daily basis.
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  • @WatchMojoUK
    @WatchMojoUK  Рік тому +17

    Top 10 Iconic Monty Python Moments
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    • @kenchristie9214
      @kenchristie9214 Рік тому

      WHAT!!! You omitted the travel agent sketch, where Eric Idle (Smoke Toomuch) can't pronounce the letter C - especially Eric's rant whilst being ushered out of the Hollywood Bowl.

    • @paulwoodman5131
      @paulwoodman5131 Рік тому

      'Eees pinin' for the fjords

  • @GonzoShitcock
    @GonzoShitcock 2 роки тому +328

    It's been over 50 years...
    And we still laugh at Monty Python
    Life is good

    • @GonzoShitcock
      @GonzoShitcock 2 роки тому +4

      @matt Always look on the bright side of life, sir

    • @neil999ish
      @neil999ish 2 роки тому

      Laugh at them before the political correctness brigade get them banned. I wonder if the surviving team members could get together and do a skit on pol. corr. I think that would be hilarious.

    • @sitarnut
      @sitarnut 2 роки тому +5

      And then, we we saved by "Fawlty Towers" and then later, "The Young Ones."

    • @neil999ish
      @neil999ish 2 роки тому +6

      @@sitarnut Keh? Iz not rat, iz long tailed hamster.

    • @alanr4447a
      @alanr4447a 2 роки тому +5

      @@neil999ish Named "Basil", coincidentally...

  • @fonziebulldog5786
    @fonziebulldog5786 2 роки тому +302

    I vote for the Biggus Dickus and his wife Incontinenta scene.

    • @THEJR-of5tf
      @THEJR-of5tf 2 роки тому +8

      Incontinentia Buttocks, awesome. happy days, when comedy was funny.

    • @brigadoonbandit
      @brigadoonbandit 2 роки тому +4

      I agree also

    • @rickkomorowski3370
      @rickkomorowski3370 2 роки тому +4

      Funniest scene ever 😂

    • @sourisvoleur4854
      @sourisvoleur4854 2 роки тому +6

      Do you find it wisible when I say the name Biggus Dickus?

    • @fergalohearga9594
      @fergalohearga9594 2 роки тому +3

      That's a great one alright! Me and my kids still joke about that ... also 'what did the Romans ever do for us'?

  • @wildlifeman6365
    @wildlifeman6365 Рік тому +37

    "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" One of their best quotes.

    • @skeewb9008
      @skeewb9008 4 місяці тому

      Even better: "I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night half an hour before i went to bed"

  • @poke125
    @poke125 2 роки тому +174

    This should have been a top 20 list because there are so many funny moments from Monty Python

    • @timjohnson1199
      @timjohnson1199 2 роки тому +5

      Still can't get enough.

    • @hedcase
      @hedcase 2 роки тому +6

      Could probably make it top 100 😃. My favourite film of all time, and always will be, is Life Of Brian. My son and I are always quoting bits from it, much to the annoyance of the rest of the family lol

    • @trixie898989
      @trixie898989 2 роки тому +2

      Top 100 would have done it for me. 😂🥰

    • @gidgitvonlarue9972
      @gidgitvonlarue9972 Рік тому

      YES!

    • @JaredHassell
      @JaredHassell Рік тому

      Stacking things on top of other things definitely could've been a top 10 list.

  • @wolfeflambe
    @wolfeflambe 2 роки тому +139

    You missed Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink. One of my favourite sketches from them.

    • @michaelcap9550
      @michaelcap9550 2 роки тому +4

      The cheese shop?

    • @saldiven2009
      @saldiven2009 2 роки тому +4

      Nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, know what I mean?

    • @screamingnighthog7155
      @screamingnighthog7155 2 роки тому +9

      Say no more....

    • @nightthornkvala94132
      @nightthornkvala94132 2 роки тому +1

      @@saldiven2009 nudge nudge

    • @DavidTSmith-jn5bs
      @DavidTSmith-jn5bs 2 роки тому +1

      @@michaelcap9550 Along with "The Whizzo Quality Assortment" "Spam with Vikings" sketches. I agree that 10 isn't nearly enough...

  • @davidrule385
    @davidrule385 2 роки тому +61

    Monty Python were, and still are, one of the best comedy teams who ever lived. And some of these sketches are still so funny as ever, more than fifty years later.

    • @alanrix5344
      @alanrix5344 2 роки тому

      Yes absolutely. Sometimes I feel like walking up to complete strangers and saying my hovercraft is full of eels and seeing what reaction I get ,love the python

    • @jamesbowden3786
      @jamesbowden3786 Рік тому

      @@alanrix5344 Probably a trip to the Psychiatric ward

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 2 роки тому +75

    The cheeseshop sketch always cracks me up. The way John lists so many cheeses while building up a head of steam never really got the recognition it (still) deserves....

    • @TaxPayingContributor
      @TaxPayingContributor Рік тому +5

      Second the cheese shop, just a bit peckish..

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому +5

      @@TaxPayingContributor Esurient, even?

    • @davey60six65
      @davey60six65 Рік тому +5

      Its a bit runny!

    • @mournblade1066
      @mournblade1066 Рік тому +1

      @@davey60six65 I don't care how excrementally runny it is!

    • @stevebarrett3363
      @stevebarrett3363 Рік тому +2

      Wensleydale?
      Yes?
      Good.
      I,m sorry, that’s my name, Mr. Wensleydale.
      Brilliant.

  • @matthewsykes4814
    @matthewsykes4814 2 роки тому +15

    It's Monty Python......there is no such thing as bad bits, just the bits that let you get your breath back.... legends

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 2 роки тому +68

    The Spam Song, the Upperclass Twit of The Year Show, The Fish Dance......you need to do more lists.

    • @Komicklepto
      @Komicklepto 2 роки тому +6

      Upper-class twit of the year is my favourite MP sketch of all-time, I don't know how that wasn't even mentioned on this list.

    • @roellek16
      @roellek16 2 роки тому

      The Upperclass twit of the year is just soo True to life, lol.

    • @NickCC23
      @NickCC23 2 роки тому +1

      You can do a Top 20 if not a Top 50.

    • @richard6440
      @richard6440 2 роки тому +4

      The Fish Slapping Dance :)

    • @andrewaevaliotis8769
      @andrewaevaliotis8769 2 роки тому +1

      The Bridge of Death & How Can You Tell She’s A Witch are a couple of my favorites, but there’s just so many to choose from

  • @catjudo1
    @catjudo1 2 роки тому +48

    A former neighbor of mine had a parrot. I couldn't help myself when he went away for a week and taught her to say "Remarkable bird! Beautiful plumage!" Needed to be done.

    • @jonathonsmith2114
      @jonathonsmith2114 2 роки тому +5

      You were lucky - we rescued our African Grey from a mens club and the only thing he ever said was `f*** the vicar' every time our padre friend came to visit!

    • @MegaJustGeorge
      @MegaJustGeorge 2 роки тому +1

      @@jonathonsmith2114 Oh, I would have just loved to have seen the look on the vicar's face when he came to visit!

    • @MegaJustGeorge
      @MegaJustGeorge 2 роки тому +6

      Look, my lad, I've had enough of this - that parrot is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not more that half an hour ago, you assured me that it's lack of movement was due to it's being tired and shagged out following a long squawk.

    • @jcdlovetron
      @jcdlovetron Рік тому

      Yes it did, Christopher…yes it did.

  • @Geoduck.
    @Geoduck. Рік тому +28

    As a young man watching those epic sketches was a life changing experience.

    • @tnightwolf
      @tnightwolf Рік тому

      First time i've watched them i was already like 11 or 12 years old (back in the early-mid 90's) it was on a older cousin's VHS and i honestly didn't think much of it. Despite being from an European country, Monty Python was just not a regular show on tv when i was growing-up. When i was 16 years old i decided to revisit the tv-series, after renting (my parents i mean😆) Life of Brian and The Holy Grail for the weekend. When you understand the context of when it was made, what was made at the time (by comparison) and all the nuances in-between... it really is one of those few true life-changing pieces of media!

    • @00bikeboy
      @00bikeboy Рік тому +1

      It really was. If you see Python at an early age it changes you.

  • @papercup2517
    @papercup2517 2 роки тому +56

    "What have the Romans ever done for us?" from Life of Brian is surely another of the Pythons' most quotable scenes...

  • @robertthomas5196
    @robertthomas5196 2 роки тому +5

    Palin: "What to go back to my place?"
    Cleese: "Yah, all right."

  • @haeuptlingaberja4927
    @haeuptlingaberja4927 2 роки тому +52

    Maybe 10 years after the series, in the early 80s, I traveled a great deal, and in the course of my travels I learned how to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in 21 languages. This one phrase opened so many doors, with people who had never heard of the Pythons, that I have dozens and dozens of very happy stories about what it led to. (My favorite version was probably the Swedish because it just sounds so funny...)

    • @MegaJustGeorge
      @MegaJustGeorge 2 роки тому +2

      I'll be sure to look that version of the phrase - thanks for the heads-up, my friend.

    • @SemperFido9915
      @SemperFido9915 Рік тому +2

      Now THAT'S funny!

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому +3

      Tá mo sciorrárthach lán d’eascanna.

    • @captainswing4487
      @captainswing4487 Рік тому +3

      Meine luftkisserfastzeit ist volle alle. Sorry Germany.

    • @rasmusfast5465
      @rasmusfast5465 Рік тому

      What word in swedish did you use for hovercraft? Svävare? Svävarfarkost? Regardless, i bet it's funny in any language

  • @CappyLarou
    @CappyLarou 2 роки тому +10

    Not only is always look at the bright side of life a great scene, but I've been to three funerals in my life where it has been played and apparently is one of the most requested songs to be played at a funeral. Got to love that

  • @yourguidetorights3909
    @yourguidetorights3909 2 роки тому +132

    Loved Monty Python . Thanks to PBS who brought them to America. Still hilarious after all these years.

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper Рік тому +2

      Still crazy after all these years

    • @jamesbowden3786
      @jamesbowden3786 Рік тому +2

      @@Psychol-Snooper Sooo true.

    • @clairejohnson6522
      @clairejohnson6522 Рік тому

      @@Psychol-Snooper So true and also a fantastic song by Paul Simon!

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper Рік тому

      @@clairejohnson6522 I was only going for the play on words to quote the lyrics. I guess in reminiscence. ☺

    • @peterlyall2848
      @peterlyall2848 Рік тому

      It's a wonder you American's understand Brittish comedy?

  • @dragonqueen6589
    @dragonqueen6589 2 роки тому +75

    As expected, the ex-parrot takes a lofty perch atop the countdown 😂Other favorites of mine include Vocational guidance counseling, “How not to be seen” and “The four Yorkshireman”

    • @EddieGaster
      @EddieGaster 2 роки тому +6

      In this scene there are 40 people, none of whom can be seen.

    • @dragonqueen6589
      @dragonqueen6589 2 роки тому +4

      @@EddieGaster Here’s where he was born, here’s wehere he went on holiday, and here’s the neighbour who told us where he was…. explosions occur seconds after narrator states each thing😂

    • @EddieGaster
      @EddieGaster 2 роки тому +4

      @@dragonqueen6589 Mrs. Smegma can u stand up please?

    • @dragonqueen6589
      @dragonqueen6589 2 роки тому +3

      @@EddieGaster To change things up,
      God: Arthur Puty, are you a man or a mouse?!
      Arthur: A man!
      God: Now; You march back in there and get your wife back!
      Puty (re-enters the room, head held high, knocking on the door to the cubicle where his wife and the counseller are *passionately hugging* Dierdre, you come out of there now!
      Counseller (flatly) Go away.
      Puty: Oh, okay
      {sketch concludes} and I’m almost certain crelm toothpaste came after it😂

    • @EddieGaster
      @EddieGaster 2 роки тому

      @@dragonqueen6589 Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

  • @rosemariecleeve3340
    @rosemariecleeve3340 2 роки тому +67

    Why didn't the Spam sketch get a mention? 🤔

    • @jamesbowden3786
      @jamesbowden3786 Рік тому +2

      One of the gems that’s sort of forgotten by and large, but not totally like so many.

    • @ginniemcmillan6778
      @ginniemcmillan6778 Рік тому

      I love them all , We used to go to Houston… check into a motel room when they had marathons of Monty python! Room service weed and Monty python!
      Our laugh muscles in our face would hurt! 😅🤣❤️‍🔥🥸

    • @WhiteTriForce
      @WhiteTriForce Рік тому +2

      The people with No sense
      of direction ! 👇😉🤏

    • @gayehenley1550
      @gayehenley1550 Рік тому

      REALLY!!!!

    • @gayehenley1550
      @gayehenley1550 Рік тому

      BTW I really did just have SPAM for supper

  • @thomasmartinscott
    @thomasmartinscott 2 роки тому +20

    It's impossible for me to pick any single bit as "the best", because they ALWAYS made me laugh to the point of tears.

  • @jaysmith2858
    @jaysmith2858 2 роки тому +18

    "You yellow bar--steward! Come back here and take what's coming to ya! I'll bite your legs off!" 😂
    The Black Knight scene will always be my favourite.

    • @timq6224
      @timq6224 2 роки тому

      whatcha gonna do? Nibble me bum?

    • @elroyfudbucker6806
      @elroyfudbucker6806 Рік тому +1

      "I'm invincible!" And I believe he said yellow bastard.

  • @justdew78
    @justdew78 2 роки тому +22

    the cheese shop and crunchy frog are my two favorites

  • @markbattaglia5139
    @markbattaglia5139 2 роки тому +65

    My favorite from the Holy Grail was the “bring out your dead” bit. I loved the old man saying “I’m not dead yet”.

  • @seabrightnorth
    @seabrightnorth 2 роки тому +6

    Doug and Dinsdale Piranha being stalked by Spiny Norman, the giant hedgehog. Great mockumentary

  • @fredklein3829
    @fredklein3829 2 роки тому +21

    Not a bad list, but how can you leave out these, in no particular order: 1. Cheese shop
    2. Fish license / Eric the half a bee
    3. Travel agent (silly bunt)
    4. Decomposing composers
    5. Australian table wines
    6. Self defense against fresh fruit
    7. Accountancy vs lion taming
    8. Olympic soccer philosophy: Germany vs Greece
    9. Mountaineer sketch (double vision)
    10. The German episode

    • @zolfodor4835
      @zolfodor4835 2 роки тому +2

      Every one a gem 😂😂😂👌👌

    • @stephenpain9236
      @stephenpain9236 2 роки тому

      Every one a Maserati...

    • @shack8110
      @shack8110 Рік тому

      @@zolfodor4835 Scott of the Antartic, Yes SPAM! Cheese Shop, Michael hosting Prejudice, Eric hosting that Oscars-type show, RAF banter etc.

  • @davidcooper8562
    @davidcooper8562 2 роки тому +37

    Arthur’s duel with the Black Knight was hilarious. I do wish that the “terrible creature” guarding the Cave of Caerbannog could have also been included in the list.
    When I saw that film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as a child when it first came out in the theatre, I was laughing so hard that my stomach was hurting.

    • @mikestanley9176
      @mikestanley9176 2 роки тому +6

      The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

    • @scottsutoob
      @scottsutoob 2 роки тому +5

      It's only a rabbit.

    • @JohnWilliams-zu8wg
      @JohnWilliams-zu8wg 2 роки тому

      Is it behind the rabbit?
      It IS the rabbit.
      YOU TIT! I soiled my armor, I was so scared! Manky Scots git!!

    • @paulweisgerber7654
      @paulweisgerber7654 Рік тому +5

      “It’s a killer man! With nasty big pointy teeth!”

    • @David-rx2to
      @David-rx2to Рік тому +2

      @@paulweisgerber7654 Where? Behind the rabbit? One rabbit stew coming up!

  • @Christbepraised
    @Christbepraised Рік тому +2

    The scene in The Holy Grail where Eric Idle is a guard and the supervisor keeps trying to explain to him to stay there

  • @CannelleInOK
    @CannelleInOK 2 роки тому +15

    My family still sings the Lumberjack Song. And, my son bought a t-shirt for me with the Black Knight on it with the caption..."Tis but a scratch" Big group of Python fans here.

    • @elroyfudbucker6806
      @elroyfudbucker6806 Рік тому +1

      "The Black Knight always wins!"
      "I'm invincible!"
      "Come here you pansy! I'll bleed all over you!"
      "All right. We'll call it a draw"

    • @dogbitr5886
      @dogbitr5886 Рік тому

      CHEERS

  • @vimess42
    @vimess42 2 роки тому +13

    Nobody expects the Bicycle Repair Man sketch to appear.

    • @polbecca
      @polbecca 2 роки тому +5

      All in a day's work for....Bicycle Repair Man!

  • @FatNorthernBigot
    @FatNorthernBigot 2 роки тому +59

    I’m so pleased Monty Python showed us the plight of trans lumberjacks before it became popular. He’s “okay” indeed.

    • @robertmatthews2009
      @robertmatthews2009 2 роки тому +1

      He's not trans. He's gay.

    • @KaizoeAzurum
      @KaizoeAzurum 2 роки тому +6

      @@robertmatthews2009 He's not gay, he's a very naughty boy.

    • @davidbecker8227
      @davidbecker8227 2 роки тому

      He's not trans, he's a cross dresser.

    • @FatNorthernBigot
      @FatNorthernBigot 2 роки тому

      @@davidbecker8227 I see we have a post from "Buzz Killington".

    • @manuel_winde
      @manuel_winde Рік тому

      Oh is that what they’re wearing now cutting down trees now… Hampstead not good enough for em

  • @just_kos99
    @just_kos99 Рік тому +4

    I love Monty Python more than life itself.
    The Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the very first time I saw them. Needless to say, my jaw was totally on the floor.

  • @dienekes4364
    @dienekes4364 Рік тому +5

    I quote "My hovercraft is full of eels" and "I will not buy this record, EET is scratched!" all the time. I love that skit!

  • @OlagGan
    @OlagGan 2 роки тому +18

    I didn't expect the Spamish Inquisition to be where it was.

  • @laser-steve
    @laser-steve Рік тому +5

    It would be great to see a top 10 list of Terry Gilliam animations. (#1 - You know that TV is bad for your eyes)

  • @markpettis2896
    @markpettis2896 2 роки тому +18

    My favorite Monty python
    Sketch is when two old ladies lower class housewives (played by men) get together in a laundromat and argue about some obscure point of existentialism and then they row all the way over to Paris to ask Jean-Paul Sartre

    • @dvdvnr
      @dvdvnr 2 роки тому +3

      Part of the outside scenery for that sketch was filmed in Elm Hill in Norwich. I was watching them while they were filming it!

    • @francie2915
      @francie2915 Рік тому +1

      @@dvdvnr Way cool! Thanks for sharing that.😎

    • @teamtamer
      @teamtamer Рік тому

      These ladies are called "Pepper-pots" and appear in many Python sketches.

    • @dvdvnr
      @dvdvnr Рік тому +1

      @@teamtamer In that sketch they also had names - one was Mrs Premise and the other was Mrs Conclusion. They also said hello to Mrs Cut-out (who was one of Terry Gilliam's cartoon ladies from the previous sketch).

  • @joeelliott2157
    @joeelliott2157 2 роки тому +2

    I like the Piranha Brothers, the Fish Slapping dance and Happy Valley.

  • @undergamer1361
    @undergamer1361 2 роки тому +5

    When I clicked this. I thought "The first words I'd better hear are "Now you listen 'ere!"
    I was not disappointed in the slightest.

  • @amysprenkle9966
    @amysprenkle9966 2 роки тому +7

    You really could have added "Crunchy Frog" to this list from 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl', or "Spam". Both are my favorites.

  • @jerry2357
    @jerry2357 2 роки тому +18

    I like “what did the Romans ever do for us?” in Life of Brian.

  • @Lee.Higginbotham
    @Lee.Higginbotham 2 роки тому +5

    The scene where King Authur argues with the french about coconuts 🥥 is hysterical and the cheese shop that seems to have no 🧀 are 2 of my favorits!!! Glad to see the argument clinic and dead parrot skits made the cut!!

    • @MichaTicho
      @MichaTicho 2 роки тому

      Odd thing is, the cheese shop skit really happened in history, when the Russian Nihilists "The People's Will'", who assassinated Czar Alexander III, rented a shop so they could dig a tunnel under the parade route and fill it with dynamite. They stored all the dirt and rubble in cheese barrels in the back room but forgot to stock the shop with any cheese. So the government health inspector showed up one day, only to find the shop totally devoid of any trace of cheese but stocked with more dirt than he ever could've imagined. Only in Russia!

    • @elroyfudbucker6806
      @elroyfudbucker6806 Рік тому

      To be a complete pendant, the argument about coconuts was with fellow Englishmen, not French.

  • @heatherr0420
    @heatherr0420 2 роки тому +41

    I can't think of a bad Monty Python sketch of course, but my absolute favorite one is when I don't think it is as famous but maybe a lot of people remember hopefully. It's one where a village idiot is being interviewed, and when he's speaking in the interview he's very smart and very eloquent, but when people come along he starts acting like well the village idiot. It's a good sketch that you should look up if you haven't seen it

    • @borhaptrash5454
      @borhaptrash5454 2 роки тому +6

      I surely remember. Great sketch which in a way reappears in life of Brian near the end. Two act like one is deaf and the other one stutters, but once they’re alone they’re fine

    • @zolfodor4835
      @zolfodor4835 2 роки тому +3

      @@borhaptrash5454 that is a classic 😂😂👌👌

    • @heatherr0420
      @heatherr0420 2 роки тому

      @@borhaptrash5454 couldn't tell you the last time I saw The Life of Brian, definitely on my watch soon list

    • @gravl1
      @gravl1 2 роки тому +4

      “I may be an idiot, but I’m no fool.”

    • @Seaker24
      @Seaker24 2 роки тому +5

      Or the serfs in the field discussing political philosophies.

  • @SatoriSoul
    @SatoriSoul 2 роки тому +10

    The list should start with their first ever sketch and end with their last, there, I said it. I forgot to mention one of my favorites from the Holy Grail... "The Vorpal bunny in the cave of Caer-Bannor."

  • @keithnichols7926
    @keithnichols7926 Рік тому +2

    I was fortunate to see these sketches in their entirety, so I remember them well. The brutally truncated clips flashed here, however, can only raise a smile.

  • @vivienwilliams1538
    @vivienwilliams1538 2 роки тому +24

    There are so many 'good bits' in Brian it's difficult to chose. But in Python I love the - not 'socially correct' soldiers on the parade ground singing. But the Spanish Inquisition is brilliant too, and just about evrything else!

  • @SemperFido9915
    @SemperFido9915 Рік тому +8

    Forty-seven years later, and I'm still singing the lumberjack song.

    • @3rdandlong
      @3rdandlong Рік тому

      No you're not.

    • @SemperFido9915
      @SemperFido9915 Рік тому

      @@3rdandlong Yes I am...

    • @3rdandlong
      @3rdandlong Рік тому

      @@SemperFido9915 No you're not.

    • @3rdandlong
      @3rdandlong Рік тому

      I'm wondering if anyone is catching on to this by now.

  • @jay-day
    @jay-day 2 роки тому +5

    All hilarious. But for some reason, I always associate Monty Python with "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!" 😆😂🤣

  • @vladomatoski1634
    @vladomatoski1634 2 роки тому +2

    Life of Brian scene in the colloseum with Stan wanting to be called Loretta in order to have babies

  • @rexharrison6827
    @rexharrison6827 Рік тому +2

    What! No Cheese Shop sketch? Or the Philosophy Department of Woolloomooloo (including the Philosophy Song)? Or the Shrubbery scene and Bloody Peasants scene ("some watery tart dispensing swords...") from the Holy Grail??
    Too many classics to squeeze into a list of ten, I think!

  • @minigrande1939
    @minigrande1939 2 роки тому +4

    These guys and Spike mulligan.
    Great intelligence
    "silence when talking to an officer" and on spikes tomb reads "Told you I was ill"

  • @siinnz
    @siinnz 2 роки тому +8

    Thanks for explaining why it's funny. I'd never have got the jokes otherwise

  • @williammorgan5320
    @williammorgan5320 2 роки тому +5

    This could easily have been the top 100. My goodness, there's The Cheese Shop, The Plight of the Oppressed (Grail), the development of the People's Liberation Front (Brian), The Knights who say Ni (Grail), etc etc etc etc etc etc so many great skits, I don't believe anyone can make a "best of". It's all of them.

    • @mercifulzeus01
      @mercifulzeus01 2 роки тому

      You mean the Judean People's Front? Or the People's Front of Judea?

  • @georgekaragiannakis6637
    @georgekaragiannakis6637 2 роки тому +42

    Thanks for a great selection. I’m not a fan of the grannies skit, but thought you should include the Cheese-shop. The German v Greek philosophers, the Bruce’s, and the 4 Yorkshiremen, are also classics.

    • @johnedieter739
      @johnedieter739 2 роки тому

      i agree about the grannies. communist quiz and world war one noises are good too

    • @stockvaluedotcom
      @stockvaluedotcom 2 роки тому

      Agree on the cheese shop.

    • @RonaldChump
      @RonaldChump 2 роки тому

      Perhaps Four Yorkshiremen was left out because it was recycled from At Last the 1948 Show. It was funnier with Marty Feldman.

    • @RonaldChump
      @RonaldChump 2 роки тому

      Perhaps Four Yorkshiremen was left out because it was recycled from At Last the 1948 Show. It was funnier with Marty Feldman.

    • @dougmphilly
      @dougmphilly 2 роки тому +3

      If you ever travel to Australia then the Bruce’s is less satire and more documentary.

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy 2 роки тому +33

    These are all good, but one of my favorites will always be "self-defense against fresh fruit skit." I also love how it ends "When being stalked by an ugly mob carrying baskets of raspberries, you release the tiger..."

    • @sourisvoleur4854
      @sourisvoleur4854 2 роки тому

      That's my youngest's favorite. "Are we going to learn about pointed sticks?"

    • @garymitchell7068
      @garymitchell7068 2 роки тому +1

      @@sourisvoleur4854 Pointed sticks, getting all high and mighty are we.

    • @paulweisgerber7654
      @paulweisgerber7654 Рік тому

      “You SHOT him!”
      “He attacked me with a BANANA!!”

  • @scurvyjoe269
    @scurvyjoe269 2 роки тому +15

    I quite like The Spanish Inquisition sketch. I sure hope it becomes a meme, someday. And I mean the part that says, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”. That would be the first meme derived from Monty Python, and hopefully repopularize Monty Python’s Flying Circus for the BBC Channel. Does anyone agree with me?

    • @studentofsmith
      @studentofsmith Рік тому

      Gotta be honest with you, when I was watching this list I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @scurvyjoe269
      @scurvyjoe269 Рік тому +1

      @@studentofsmith Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @csulb75
    @csulb75 Рік тому

    The "Upper Class Twit of the Year Competition" is one of the funniest skits in my opinion.

  • @mikewilson8513
    @mikewilson8513 Рік тому +1

    We really don't need this running commentary. The humour speaks for itself.

  • @shalafisama
    @shalafisama 2 роки тому +17

    I have a lot of fondness for the graffiti Latin lesson and just about any of the skits from the Holy Grail.

    • @ilsevanderbij7179
      @ilsevanderbij7179 2 роки тому +1

      SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRUBBERY

    • @petergunn3614
      @petergunn3614 2 роки тому +1

      "Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government". I can't stop laughing when I see that whole scene.

    • @neil999ish
      @neil999ish 2 роки тому +1

      @@petergunn3614 Hell it might be better than what we have now. Lol.

    • @petergunn3614
      @petergunn3614 2 роки тому +1

      @@neil999ish hahahaha, you're not lying!

    • @neil999ish
      @neil999ish 2 роки тому +1

      @@ilsevanderbij7179 We are no the longer the knights who say "Nih".

  • @MarquisDeSacks
    @MarquisDeSacks 2 роки тому +20

    In addition to pretty much everything else people have mentioned in the comments, I think I would've also included "Every Sperm is Sacred".

    • @richardcleveland8549
      @richardcleveland8549 2 роки тому +2

      Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss . . . the anthem of the so-called "pro-lifers" . . . .

    • @PurpleMomgoose
      @PurpleMomgoose Рік тому +2

      And how much better this would be if Mojo could hush.

  • @ziggystardust52
    @ziggystardust52 2 роки тому +1

    Rumple Tweezer ran the dinky-tinky shop at the foot of the wobbly dum-dum tree down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives. Old Nick the sea captain… Probably got a few of the words wrong, but I always love this sketch.

  • @brendamoser8177
    @brendamoser8177 2 роки тому +5

    It may not have been their best movie but Mr. Creosote still has me laughing. "It's waffer thin".

  • @simonrichards6739
    @simonrichards6739 2 роки тому +5

    To be fair it’s was just pining for the Fjords!

  • @johnmckenzie4639
    @johnmckenzie4639 2 роки тому +27

    The Pythons were so brilliant that this could be a list of the top 100 sketches and you'd still leave a bunch out.
    Yours etc., Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.)
    P.S.: I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times

  • @nathaliecarluccio7559
    @nathaliecarluccio7559 Рік тому

    Yes the ministry of silly walks was ICONIC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @charleybarley914
    @charleybarley914 Рік тому +1

    "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

  • @jpwphoenix1701
    @jpwphoenix1701 2 роки тому +9

    One of the more rare sketches I like was one where Chapman's playing Biggles and is trying to dictate a letter to his secretary. At one point, the secretary calls him "Señor Biggles", which he gets very annoyed about. Then he calls in another pilot, played by Palin, who he proceeds to accuse of being gay, which he confirms and is swiftly shot. He then calls another pilot in, played (and dressed) outrageously-camp by Gilliam, who is also asked if he's gay, but is shocked at the mere question and storms out. Finally, when Biggles realises the secretary has been typing-up literally everything he's saying, he proceeds to put on a pair of comedy antlers to signal when she should or shouldn't type what he's saying. It's all ridiculous and pure Python.

    • @roellek16
      @roellek16 2 роки тому +1

      Secretary: I Am not a courtesan!
      Biggles: Oh courtesan, oh are we grand!.

  • @marijeangalloway1560
    @marijeangalloway1560 2 роки тому +12

    I would like to nominate a couple of the longer, more developed skits: The Deadly People-Eating Blancmange and, a great personal favorite, The British Upper-Class Twit Competition.

    • @suburbanplankton
      @suburbanplankton 2 роки тому

      And I'll go the other way: only about 20 seconds long, and containing no dialogue whatsoever, The Fish Slapping Dance.

    • @andromedaiscoming185
      @andromedaiscoming185 Рік тому

      detective inspector!

  • @Octoberfurst
    @Octoberfurst 2 роки тому +7

    I also loved the Twit race and the cheese shop sketch. Those were hilarious too. Actually almost everything Monty Python did was hilarious!

  • @rongendron8705
    @rongendron8705 Рік тому

    Terry Gilliam ( Monty Python's only American member) was my 'bunk mate' in Army Basic training, 03-05, 1964!
    After those two months, we went our separate ways & he went to England in '65, to pursue his artistic career &
    join this fledgling group! Since "Monty Python" didn't appear on American t.v. until the '70's, I didn't realize that
    he had achieved fame until then! After "M.P.", he has gone on to a very successful movie directing career! Congrats!

  • @rosifervincent9481
    @rosifervincent9481 2 роки тому +27

    I never thought anyone could make Monty Python unfunny.
    Congratulations on the amazing joke killing commentary.

    • @philhawley1219
      @philhawley1219 2 роки тому +3

      God's sake, this is tedious....

    • @richardmartin3902
      @richardmartin3902 2 роки тому +6

      Totally agree. The overbearing narrative "context" makes it unwatchable.

    • @farmerpete6274
      @farmerpete6274 2 роки тому +8

      And covers up the best bits. I stopped at the Lumber Jack. Could have been so good

    • @citanullunatic4084
      @citanullunatic4084 Рік тому +1

      @WatchMojoUK - Idiot. You presented 10 of the best Python sketches and proceeded to TALK over them!

    • @tralfazruk1
      @tralfazruk1 Рік тому +2

      Yeah he was making a sketch ,killing the very content people want to see.

  • @stephenshallcross7832
    @stephenshallcross7832 2 роки тому +3

    The Yorkshire men sketch has to be my absolute favourite, from the beginning until the final punchline, " and you tell t'e kid of t'day and thee won't believe yer,"

    • @richardhill2643
      @richardhill2643 Рік тому

      But the Yorkshireman Sketch was not a Monty Python sketch, it was from the "at last the 1948 show", which starred Cleese, Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman.

  • @robertmayer7678
    @robertmayer7678 Рік тому +1

    So much to choose from, I just can't, they were all great.

  • @paulmcwilliams1709
    @paulmcwilliams1709 2 роки тому +3

    "NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION"!!! I love that Monty Python skit. 😎

  • @rustyshackleford2792
    @rustyshackleford2792 2 роки тому +9

    So basically every sketch on and now for something completely different.

  • @jamess5154
    @jamess5154 2 роки тому +5

    I was in college when Holy G came out and I shared a house with 5 business and history majors but I was a physics major. After we all went to the movie I had to constantly hear "who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?"

    • @timq6224
      @timq6224 2 роки тому

      you have to know these things when you're a king

  • @thomasdonner2495
    @thomasdonner2495 Рік тому

    THE DEAD POLLY!! Absolutely hilarious!!!

  • @cynthiasimpson931
    @cynthiasimpson931 2 роки тому +1

    When I was watching the intro to this video I heard my husband exclaim in another room where he was playing a video game, "Oh, you're no fun anymore!"

  • @sainjawoof3506
    @sainjawoof3506 2 роки тому +8

    No Mr. Creosote!?!?

    • @amyr8526
      @amyr8526 2 роки тому +1

      Wafer-thin mint?

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk 2 роки тому

      @@amyr8526 F*ck off, I'm full!

  • @alabamaal225
    @alabamaal225 Рік тому +3

    The Ballad of Sir Robin (from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail") should be on this Top 10 list. End of Discussion.

  • @sourisvoleur4854
    @sourisvoleur4854 2 роки тому +1

    A very short sketch that I love is where Palin claims to have written all of Shakespeare's plays, and he's shut down when Cleese notes that Shakespeare's plays were published 300 years before Palin is born. Palin admits, "This is where my claim falls to the ground." Also, in no particular order: Spam. Death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Cheese shop. Theatre critic (which I had memorized at one time).

  • @mariovaccarella6854
    @mariovaccarella6854 Рік тому

    I think The Ministry Of Silly Walks was The Best & Funniest. Especially when John Cleese Does His Walk & When The Lady Serving Tea Spills It All Over The Place. LOL

  • @TheFrankiemonkey
    @TheFrankiemonkey 2 роки тому +4

    Do a Part 2, including Spam, The Job Interview, and Musical Mice.

  • @shaber9
    @shaber9 2 роки тому +5

    Although it might only be fully appreciated by those who had to take Latin in school, I would nominate the scene in “The Life of Brian” where Brian gets a harsh lesson in Latin grammar from centurion (John Cleese) who catches Brian in the act of trying to apply the graffiti slogan “Romans go home!” on the walls of the Roman garrison. Brian’s “Romanes eunt domus” is violently corrected by the centurion “Latin teacher” to “Romani ite domum”, and as punishment Brian is ordered to write out - the now corrected - graffito 100 times along the walls of the garrison.
    This sketch has the further hilarious characteristic that it translates well into any number of European languages; the dubbed German version is particularly compelling for anyone who was a schoolboy in 1970s Germany or Austria, where Latin in high school was compulsory if one was aiming towards university entrance.

  • @RichZFishes
    @RichZFishes 2 роки тому +2

    #1 is right on. But my top ten would have to include 'Crunchy Frogs" as #2, and you don't even have it in the top 10. Also Arthur, 'Two Sheds' Jackson and La LLamas.

  • @skykrasher4475
    @skykrasher4475 Рік тому

    “That’s no ordinary rabbit!” Is my personal favorite

  • @lordnul1708
    @lordnul1708 2 роки тому +7

    Probably against the rules for me to say this, but anything with John Cleese. His straight face through Dead Parrot, Silly Walks Ministry etc is wat sells the sketches.

  • @rickstermandude
    @rickstermandude 2 роки тому +11

    Just how I like great comedy: with someone talking all over it

  • @sleuthentertainment5872
    @sleuthentertainment5872 Рік тому +2

    The humor of the Pythons goes on beyond decades, endless

  • @alanwllms5172
    @alanwllms5172 2 роки тому +1

    There’s so many; The Gumby’s, the naughty vicar, Roman’s go home

  • @dinsy512
    @dinsy512 Рік тому +3

    I particularly like Anne Elk and her theory about the dinosaurs. During conversations, I often add “The next thing I am about to say is my theory.” People fall about in stitches. Or not.

  • @roellek16
    @roellek16 2 роки тому +6

    Anyone else notice that most of the clips from Flying Circus on here are actually from "And Now For Something Completely Different"?? Also, where's The Fish slapping dance?

  • @kenneththrasher9241
    @kenneththrasher9241 Рік тому +1

    Oh, so many wonderful bits! I have to give a nod to "The Holy Hand Grenade"!

  • @countzer0408
    @countzer0408 6 місяців тому

    I love the fish slapping bit. It’s just so stupid. 😂

  • @anomalouswoof2554
    @anomalouswoof2554 2 роки тому +4

    " Help help! Come see the violence inherent in the system!"

    • @jenhindley
      @jenhindley 2 роки тому +1

      Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

  • @tnightwolf
    @tnightwolf Рік тому +4

    They were truly ahead of their time! Still waiting for something as revolutionary in tv-comedy (and overall comedy itself) as they were.

    • @poopturds8757
      @poopturds8757 7 місяців тому

      hell no! they are the one and only!! i would honestly never want something else revolutionary because it could take magic away from this

  • @russell7445
    @russell7445 Рік тому +1

    The mountain climbing sketch was very funny as well

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 2 роки тому +1

    "One of cross-beams gone out of skew on triddle".

  • @josebrown5961
    @josebrown5961 2 роки тому +3

    I grew up in the 70s. I remember reading the TV Guide and seeing “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and thinking-I don’t want to watch no circus…
    Fast forward to the 80s and my college roommate exposed me to Monty Python. I was so upset that I never gave that silly listing a look. I made up for it, rented all the movies and bought the show on DVD when it came out in the 90s.

  • @dwbiggly6907
    @dwbiggly6907 2 роки тому +4

    Great but what about “There’s a penguin on the tele.”😂

    • @artvandelay4545
      @artvandelay4545 Рік тому

      "They stamp them when they're small" "There's a penguin on the tele and he's about to explode!"

  • @petermontoya1796
    @petermontoya1796 2 роки тому +2

    Monty Python's Flying Circus was the funniest bunch of mates EVER !!

  • @billcarroll986
    @billcarroll986 2 роки тому +1

    The best Christmas gift I ever gave myself was the complete series box set on DVD.