Well the other people who died like those fighting the rabbit did really die, so presumably Arthur actually killed the black knight, and Lancelot massacred some medieval themed wedding I guess.
I used to have the same many years ago until I upgraded my phone. And about a year ago, I thought, "I bet I could have that for notifications again in about 2 minutes." I was right. It is currently my SMS notification.
I love the fact that you were laughing hysterically from the beginning and accepting the absurdity of it all. And within 5 minutes you said, "sketch comedy!" Yes! You got it!
The ending bothered me for years after I first saw it, but still quoted it endlessly in various role playing games all my life. Only decades later did I see someone explain the end as the ultimate "Cop out" which makes this whole thing the biggest pun in history. I love it so much now!! Fun reaction, glad you enjoyed it!
You must not be familiar with the Flying Circus TV show. Several of their sketches end with a cop arresting the players. It was one of their trademark moves. Also, the sudden cop-out ended the film before the big battle, which they did not have budget for.
@@clarkness77 You watched until the end music stopped too eh? 😛 Anyhoo, what were they supposed to do? They could only afford ONE scene with an actual horse. You can't defeat the "French Persons" with a budget like that!
The film’s budget was reported to be just over £200,000 which even at that time was extremely small for a feature film. Much of the funding came from British rock stars like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, and Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull since no studios were willing to finance the film. Because of the small budget, they had to come up with some creative ideas that actually ended up working to the film’s advantage. For instance, the horse miming and coconuts were a funny solution to the fact that they literally couldn’t afford to get actual horses.
Apart from the one moment where the 'Famous Historian' gets killed, which lends itself to the end and proves their innocence in the murder, as the one who killed him had a horse and Arthur and all his knights did not!
Well, they got the ONE horse the knight rode who killed the Historian. They probably rented him for half a day, maybe even less time if they could get it. The worst part is that King Arthur and his knights were falsely accused of murdering the Historian since that knight had an actual horse.
But I love the contrast between the fake horse riding and other shortcuts.. and the fact that the cinematography and production design actually looks *really* good and really authentic. Not a frame of the film looks cheap, apart from the fact that everyone is being silly.
The fact you were laughing from the opening credits was a good sign. If you don't get the credits, the rest of the movie will go right over your head. I love British Humor.
Fun fact: In the DVD release the monks chanting and hitting themselfs, was a sing a long in the extra material. They even included live instructions to use the DVD box to hit yourself. If it didnt hurt they suggested that you use the sharp end of the box. In true Monty Python style they cut the instruction in the middle of the sharp end instruction. LOVE it.
After what you said in your intro, I was really looking forward to the Knights Who Say Ni scene, your reaction didn't disappoint. Pure joy. Maybe the best reaction I've seen to this movie, which is one of my all-time favorites. I don't know what I was waiting for, but this one earned my subscription. Nice job!
Yes, "The tale of Sir Lancelot (which includes that scene) is my favourite part of the movie. So much great dialogue: "You got my note! ... Well, I got "a" note."
Eric Idle was interviewed many years ago and when questioned on the "The Knights who say Ni" and their demand for a shrubbery, he said one on of his earliest childhood memories was when he was playing in their front garden, his dad came out and said "Don't play in there lad, that's our shrubbery" he said it always stuck in his mind, now it's locked in history
Since History lessons under Python Quotes are a common Trope now. Vilages and Communities that worked like this were actually a thing. As long as Taxes were paid , nobody cared.
Love that you enjoyed it and laughed so much. The guard scene though after 2 minutes of explaining... "Where are you going?" "We're coming with you!" Den this movie probably 50 times and still love it. Yes, Monty Python's Flying Circus was a TV show around the same time as Benny Hill. We would get it on UHF back in the day. Then the movies. The main 6, Graham Chapman, so passed away in his 50's had all the biggest roles in the movies, plus the 3 who did the most acting later in in the US, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin, plus Terry Jones (much of the animation and sketches), and Terry Gilliam who turned it to be a prolific director.
Which, I think, was an excellent acting choice because it makes it look like he was REALLY trying to come up with an answer! (Instead of trying to suppress a laugh.) After all, a good-sized portion of the population have a habit of biting something (fingernails, the end of a pen or pencil, etc.) when thinking hard on something.
Coby, you have the most delightful laugh. So glad we got so many of them here. It was fun watching you pick up the remote to figure out what you did with the subtitles during the opening credits. Now you know all about the Knights Who Say Ni! That was so cool. Also, you were ahead of things on the Trojan Rabbit, nicely done. You asked about the intermission - MP trolled their audience by putting in that break that was just long enough for people to leave their seats and start toward the restroom/concession stand and then have to rush back. That was so funny in the theaters. As for the timeline issue, our knights are not LARPing, the past and present have simply overlapped. That is my explanation, and I am sticking with it.
Only Monty Python could get us laughing hysterically before the movie has even started. Every roleplaying/tabletop game group I’ve been in had at least one guy who could recite whole bits from this movie by heart.
During the Dark and Middle Ages, killer rabbits were a running gag among monks and historians and other writers. They'd draw funny caricatures of rabbits attacking terrified knights in the margins of books, for example. That's the inspiration of the Trojan Rabbit and the killer rabbit in this movie. 😂
I never heard that before, and I'm a history nerd. Monty Python is made up of Oxford and Cambridge boys, so they always had a bit of cleverness to their jokes.
To D&D players, the rabbit is known as a Vorpal Bunny. I debated leaving it a mystery, but I'll go ahead and explain the joke. In the game, there's a magic sword called a Vorpal Blade that has the possibility of decapitating the opponent.
I love how the "Intermission" is even an audience troll. It wasn't uncommon back then for longer movies to have an intermission. People would get up, go to the lounge and get refreshments, go to the restroom, etc. So when the Intermission sign is put up, there were surely some people who got up to start making their way down the aisles to go for a break, but the Intermission only lasts for a few seconds, not the several minutes as normal, so it catches those people not even out of the theater yet and they would need to run back to take their seat.
I love how you recognize John Cleese the 4th time he shows up in the film, and realize they are all playing multiple characters 2 times after that 😂 It is also so weird that someone can know John Cleese and NOT know Monty Python! He's done so much great since, but Python will forever be his legacy.
For the record as many don't know.. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries" The french knight is saying your mother was promiscuous (as a hamster), and your father is a drunk (elderberries were used in making alcoholic drink)
Not only that, but the elderberry drink was an alcohol made and used by common folk. So it added insult upon insult because Arthur and his knights were nobles.
Terry Jones studied Medieval History, so there are a lot of subtle easter eggs for super geeks. One is the fact that French mercenaries started to become a thing in the Middle Ages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routiers
I knew you’d be hooked when I saw how hard you were laughing during the credits. I’m jealous that you have all the Python stuff - as a team and also their individual movies and series - still ahead of you.
@@randybass8842Which is though kind of lend from /tribute to one year earlier in 1974 made another superb comedy classic Blazing Saddles where it's Call me...Jim. ;-) :-)
Ah Monty Python, giants of British comedy, I grew up with them! 35:50 Castle Stalker, just up the road from me. Definitely put "Life of Brian" on your list. Great reactions, have a great Hogmanay and all the best for the Ne'er.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was a comedy sketch show (with occasional animation) that ran for 4 seasons (1969 - 1974) and 45 episodes... then came the movies (Holy Grail, Life Of Brian, Meaning Of Life)
Some of the funniest tv ever produced. The sleeping parrot. lol i cant even remember the skit, but just thinking of it summons a chuckle about how hard, how much, and how often that skit made me laugh. PBS aired it quite often during the 80's.
Even though Flying Circus was a show, it had plenty of amazing skits. Laugh til you pee skits. My favorite was the Twit Olympics. Worth a best of, if you're not committed to watching all the episodes. Terry Gilliam did the animations. Everything the troupe did, incorporated his delightful animations.
By far my most favorite skit was the Twit Olympics also! I still laugh until I can't take another breath and almost pee myself when seeing it! "SHOOT THE BUNNY!!!"😂😂😂😂
@@christopherlane5238 If you can find it it's worth a watch but some scam baiter made Nigerian scammers remake the dead parrot sketch as a reverse fraud thing and uploaded it to YT. It's amazing.
I accidentally watched the first airing of Monty Pythons Flying Circus on WTTW TV in Chicago around 1975. It became a thing that only a circle of my cousin and a few classmates knew about. That same cousin had a job at a movie theater. I had the album of the sound track of " Holy Grail" before we saw the movie. We had it memorized. Later the theater showed the movie. When the Knights Who Say Ni came on we were in the back of the auditorium saying "Ni" for a surround sound effect. It was a simpler time.
Similar. I caught one of the first airings of MPFC on WGBH Channel 2. Found a small group of us who were instantly addicted, and the one defining feature of a Python fan is their ability to quote extended segments of the bits on command, if not the the entire script.
@@Thunderclouification Didn't they produce a three sided album? One side had two grooves and you never knew which one you would end up putting the needle in.
I was 14 when this movie came out. I was already a fan of their Flying Circus tv show but this movie put them at the top in such a huge way. I had to hide between showtimes in the bathroom so I could watch it again and again, memorizing as much as I could all those great lines!
Life Of Brian is the best of the "Trinity". The Meaning Of Life went completely off the rails. It's got its moments, but it's not a cohesive story. Some gratuitous nudity, but not enough to save it.
Nice. I remember watching this on tape pretty much every weekend with my friend when we were 16. Nearly 40 years later, me, and most of my friends can literally quote the entire movie, and do so regularly. Genius.
It's worth watching several times as yes they play several characters, you start to notice that when someone like Tim the enchanter is in a scene Lancelot has his helmet on, they use that trick several times and it can be fun trying to spot them. Also, Graham Chapman (King Arthur) is the only one who wears real chain mail, the others are wearing woollen costumes made to look like chain mail. It weighed about 25 lbs. So glad you enjoyed this Coby, I appreciate that you get the humour so easily.. it made me smile as did your laughter. :) If you enjoyed this John Cleese did a little series called "Fawlty Towers" (2 seasons, 6 episodes each) which is pure farce and very funny. (you may have seen it if your step dad ever watched it though. Connie Booth (The witch) was Johns wife and she plays Polly, one of the workers.
Silly Humor?!? This film was a sad social commentary on police profiling and false arrest. Arthur and his men could NOT have been responsible for the death of the famous historian. The one who did it had a REAL HORSE.
Airplane funny and Python funny are two different but wonderful funnies that are completely their own. You would love the series they had. So glad you got to enjoy this!
John Cleese was Tim the Enchanter. He improvised that, he was supposed to have a "mystical" name but during shooting he forgot what it was and said "Tim". They liked it so much they kept it.
Saw Monty Pythons live show back in the early seventies. It was the best. We called for an encore and got the dead parrot skit. Hurray! Called for another encore and they projected a slide on the curtains that just said “Piss Off!”. One of the magical experiences of my life.
Sweden actually had an AMAZING telephone system. Seriously. In the early/mid implementation of phone services they were studied by other countries on how to do it right. I saw a documentary on it and the subtitles started to be sense. My dad was an engineer I had this confirmed by him.
A lot of people don’t realize that Python’s first movie was And Now For Something Completely Different, which was released in 1971. They took sketches from the first two seasons of their tv show, and reshot them for a theatric release. It’s a slightly different take from the tv show, without the live audience reaction.
Fun fact. The coconuts were a result of the budget. They could only afford one horse for one scene, so they used it for the scene where the historian got killed. So they faked every other horse for the movie. Tim the Enchanter: When Cleese introduced himself to Arthur, he had a brain cramp and forgot the name he was supposed to use. So he said to hell with it and said "Tim?". It was so off-the-wall funny that they kept it. Finally, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" was their sketch-based comedy TV series. The movies were separate but equal, and in BOTH all of the Pythons played multiple characters (saves on cast payroll). Welcome to the baffling world of Monty Python! I am SO happy that you like it and get it, because not all women do (The percentage of women who enjoy Python is measurably lower than the percentage of men). So this confirms my suspicion that you are a rare woman! And I love that!
You forgot to add that the end was a literal "cop out", a British term meaning to "avoid doing something that one ought to do." So even the ending was a joke.
Bravo Coby👏👏👏👏This is my absolute favorite video of yours! I love, this movie, and I love that you now love this movie! Watching your reaction was such a treat. Please do more Monty Python.
The Pythons, as they came to be known, were an absurdist comedy troupe. The sketches in their series, _Monty Python's Flying Circus,_ mixed surrealism and absurdism. The English members were all highly educated; graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Terry Gilliam, the animator and co-director, is an American. Their first movie, _And Now for Something Completely Different,_ is a re-filming of some of the funniest sketches from the first two seasons of _Flying Circus._ It is probably the best introduction to their particular brand of absurdist comedy. I suggest watching that next. Most of the troupe considers _The Life of Brian,_ their second fully-scripted movie, to be their best film.
I generally prefer The Life of Brian myself for the canonical Python films. Holy Grail is great, but the individualized skits are not subtle enough as such IMO. This is much more reduced in (some) parts of The Life of Brian. If Coby is a fan of John Cleese, I would be remiss not to suggest something of a spiritual successor to the Python movies, "A Fish Called Wanda". Bloody amazing film, great comedy, and one of Cleese's best work in an amazing career as far as I'm concerned.
“And Now for Something Completely Different” is great!! Yes Flying Circus is their original skit show and all this was done in the ‘70s mostly. Lovely reaction
I was repeating something I had heard numerous times without searching for the truth myself, which is never wise. I was only 'mostly' correct. It's true that Doune Castle, in Stirling, Scotland, was used to film most of the exterior castle scenes and all of the interior scenes. However, a brief shot of Bodiam Castle in East Sussex was used to portray the exterior of Swamp Castle (though the courtyard scene and Herbert's tower were filmed back at Doune), and the final scene at the island Castle of Aaargh was filmed at Castle Stalker at Appin. In the future, I will try to remember to check my facts before presuming to correct someone else.
Also, in my haste to "correct" your facts, I completely failed to appreciate the way you numbered your list. My initial response should have been to click the Like button and say, "3, sir."
So much history with this movie in my life! I saw it in theatre with a friend who was from Scotland. He was laughing so hard during the opening credits, his stomach was starting to cramp! At the same time, a woman who I know had a nervous breakdown and was in the psych ward of the local hospital - the nurses would often take them to the theatre to watch a movie, and this is the one she got to see!! I wonder how that night passed when they got them back to the ward! The monologue delivered by Michael Palin (Dennis) about "supreme executive power" is easily the best bit of satire I have ever heard in my life. I have to say, though, that while this movie was more knee-slapping funny, Life of Brian is the best comedy I have ever seen. The satire is so brilliant and insightful - apart from the Biggus Dickus, which is so cheap and goes on for far too long.
I'll concur. I still sing that lullaby when anxiety is making sleep difficult for my partner. Really. Best lullaby ever. The movie's pretty good, too. 😉
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" was a weekly television show. As a teenage boy in the 70s, I used to stay up late on Saturday nights to watch it. Part of the lure was that, being a British show, they sometimes had nudity. And, of course the comedy was ridiculous, from the fish dance, to the dead parrot sketch, to the ministry of silly walks, and on and on. Many people loved the "Holy Grail" movie when it came out and could recite lines from it endlessly. Even the cover band I used to play in would have back and forth dialogs from the movie.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was the TV show. They did several movies as Monty Python, and various other movies have been made by one or more of the members. Fun fact: If you call unwanted e-mail "spam", that's from one of their Flying Circus sketches.
I already knew Coby was my kind of people....and this just proves it. lol. I adore the Python troupe and, yes, I agree they're on a different level from Airplane! At some point in the distant past I heard someone refer to Monty Python as "intellectual absurdism" and that just struck me as so perfectly apt - they're well educated, each of them, and they'll toss obscure and not-so-obscure philosophical/sociopolitical references into much of their work without bothering to dumb them down or to explain them. It's IYKYK in sketch comedy form. Love 'em!
This is a glorious movie! The animation was a hallmark of their long running television series “Monty Python’s flying circus” a sketch comedy format. I recommend their films “the meaning of life” or “now for something completely different”. The horse thing much like the ending was due to lack of funding. The king was in real chain mail everyone else wore woven wool painted silver.
I just watched your reaction to this after watching your reaction to Life of Brian. It's awesome how you incorporate a line from the movies with a childhood experience! Great job!
I was in college when this came out and had a friend who was a big Monty Python fan who took several of us to see it. I didn't know anything about Monty Python, and found less than half the movie funny. Monty Python was so popular they have changed the character of humor. I have since come to appreciate them more. You should watch the movies in order. Life of Brian is next, followed by The Meaning of Life. Eric Idle did a musical in 2014 based on The Life of Brian called Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy), which you should watch as well. You can also find clips of their TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. They also recorded a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982.
I regret not being able to see the Spamalot musical at my college due to having to work on the day it came to my campus. The Monty Python crew couldn't afford horses, so they ended up using coconuts, which was an homage to how they used to make horse walking/running sounds with coconuts on radio shows. It ends on a literal "cop out."
You had me laughing hysterically the whole time!!! I love your genuine response! I’ve seen this movie countless times but enjoyed it the most watching it with you!!!
During the tv show one time they ran the end credits half way through the show causing extreme puzzlement. Trying to make sense of Python will hurt your brain.
Wonderful reaction!! I love the Monty Python comedy movies and Flying Circus series so much!! You are always an amazing and fun reactor!! Thanks for bringing a bit of joy into my life! Best wishes always Coby!! 🙂❤
The difference between American silly humor (like the Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams movies) and the British one is that the British always got some intellect behind it... Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, even Mr. Bean... it's all silliness with brains.
There's a ton of dumb silly British humor (Benny Hill) and smart silly American humor (Coen Brothers, Groucho Marx). Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and Pratchett are absolute monsters of smart silly comedy, but it's not a strict pondial divide.
was like 10 years old when i saw this, and fell in love with python . actually they had a weekly show ' Monty Pythons Flying Circus." SNL were inspired by them and British humor in general, they actually did a mocumentary on the Beatles called the Ruttles , that featured some of the SNL cast. funny as well.
Remember being in the theatre in 75 and seeing the previews for this. We didn't have clue what we were seeing but within months it was a classic for all of us.
A 2021 tweet by Eric Idle[10] revealed that the film was financed by eight investors: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Holy Grail's co-producer Michael White, Heartaches (a cricket team founded by lyricist Tim Rice), and three record companies, including Charisma Records, the record label that had released Python's early comedy albums.[11] According to Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock stars like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin because no studio would fund the film and the rock stars saw it as "a good tax write-off" because the top rate of UK income tax was "as high as 90%" at the time.[12] Idle and Gilliam had previously mentioned that Elton John also contributed to the financing of the film.[12][13] The investors contributed the entire original budget of £175,350 (about $410,000 in 1974) and also received a percentage of the proceeds from the 2005 musical Spamalot.[14] From the film's Wikipedia page...
@@keithgoode6313 George Harrison financed Life of Brian (even remortgaged his house to pay for it); don't think he had anything to do with Holy Grail though.
I knew you were gonna love this. My best friend and I saw this on VHS as 12-year-old kids in the 80s (and then dozens of times since) and it blew our minds so hard we couldn't believe it. We didn't know anyone could would be allowed to do anything like this. We laughed so hard we were sore for a day or two. Oddly, the bit that hit us the hardest - probably because we had been softened up by the first 2/3 - was the intermission. That made my friend laugh so forcefully a giant snot shot right out of this nose, stuck to the carpet and jiggled a bit, which sent us into the kind of hysterics where you're no longer making any sound at all; just complete silence, wondering if you're ever gonna catch your breath. :)
Interesting Fact: Coconuts from trees on beaches in the Caribbean frequently fall into the ocean and end up in the Gulf Stream to wash up on beaches in the UK.
I like how king Arthur and his knights got falsely accused and arrested since the actual murderer was a knight with an actual horse.
Ends in a literal cop out.
Yeah, but they all play so many parts that it might of been... ;)
* King Arthur and his Kaniggets
Well the other people who died like those fighting the rabbit did really die, so presumably Arthur actually killed the black knight, and Lancelot massacred some medieval themed wedding I guess.
@DavidSmith-mt7tb The black knight can't die. He's invincible, or so he would have us believe.
You know someone is going to get this movie when they are dying with laughter in the credits. One of us! One of us! :)
I’ve no time for any reaction channel that doesn’t notice the credits malfeasance.
One of moose! One of moose!
“Gooble gobble, gooble gobble, one of us, one of us!"
@@hughdalton7622
Exactly!
You are the only other person I have ever seen make this reference. Well done!
Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Lovely Spam!
"The Life of Brian" needs to be on your list now! You and this movie were the perfect combination, Coby!
Bumping this comment. Life of Brian is more essential than the Holy Grail imo.
@@FrancisXLord Ooh, I dunno about that one.
Life of Brian for sure.
*are the perfect combination - were is past tense, are/would is future tense.
and...Fawlty Towers!
(arrow sound) "message for you sir" 24:25
I used to have that as the SMS notification sound
Same
Can't believe I didn't think of that. I do have "King Arthur's Theme" 28:40 as my ringtone though.
I had it as my message sound for some IM app, maybe ICQ or one of the clones that came after
I used to have the same many years ago until I upgraded my phone. And about a year ago, I thought, "I bet I could have that for notifications again in about 2 minutes." I was right. It is currently my SMS notification.
This is a fantastic. I'm going to make this for my own messages.
I love the fact that you were laughing hysterically from the beginning and accepting the absurdity of it all. And within 5 minutes you said, "sketch comedy!" Yes! You got it!
I love that Sir Robin has a chicken on his shield 😂
...with one raised foot, as is traditional for "passant".
And yet he could not quite stand up to the vicious chicken of Bristol.
Roosters are savage. Chickens will tear you up too.
"He's killed everyone!"
Lancelot perpetrates the original Red Wedding 😅
"SORRY, SORRY, SORRY EVERYONE."
i love lacelot
He even turns around to chop the flowers with his sword.
George R.R. Martin was inspired by that scene.
The ending bothered me for years after I first saw it, but still quoted it endlessly in various role playing games all my life. Only decades later did I see someone explain the end as the ultimate "Cop out" which makes this whole thing the biggest pun in history. I love it so much now!! Fun reaction, glad you enjoyed it!
Still a lame ending honestly
You must not be familiar with the Flying Circus TV show. Several of their sketches end with a cop arresting the players. It was one of their trademark moves. Also, the sudden cop-out ended the film before the big battle, which they did not have budget for.
The man playing the cop with the megaphone who arrests King Arthur is actually the movie's director.
@@clarkness77 You watched until the end music stopped too eh? 😛 Anyhoo, what were they supposed to do? They could only afford ONE scene with an actual horse. You can't defeat the "French Persons" with a budget like that!
@@clarkness77 Perfect end, unless you are dull or stupid (hello")
In the stage play "Spamalot", John Cleese was the voice of god. The audience just screamed with laughter.
".....now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"
Favorite line that I LOVE to use in real life.
I burst my pimples at you, and call your door-opening request a "silly thing!"
The film’s budget was reported to be just over £200,000 which even at that time was extremely small for a feature film. Much of the funding came from British rock stars like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, and Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull since no studios were willing to finance the film. Because of the small budget, they had to come up with some creative ideas that actually ended up working to the film’s advantage. For instance, the horse miming and coconuts were a funny solution to the fact that they literally couldn’t afford to get actual horses.
Apart from the one moment where the 'Famous Historian' gets killed, which lends itself to the end and proves their innocence in the murder, as the one who killed him had a horse and Arthur and all his knights did not!
Well, they got the ONE horse the knight rode who killed the Historian. They probably rented him for half a day, maybe even less time if they could get it. The worst part is that King Arthur and his knights were falsely accused of murdering the Historian since that knight had an actual horse.
But I love the contrast between the fake horse riding and other shortcuts.. and the fact that the cinematography and production design actually looks *really* good and really authentic. Not a frame of the film looks cheap, apart from the fact that everyone is being silly.
Another fun fact in this regard is that the chain mail armor is actually knitted, grey sweaters. Also to save money.
You forgot George Harrison whose contribution was pivotal.
The fact you were laughing from the opening credits was a good sign. If you don't get the credits, the rest of the movie will go right over your head. I love British Humor.
Spot on!
I've wondered if the "let's replay the credits and I'll now pay attention to them" segments were edited out.
You mean bri' ish.
The 'watery tart threw a sword at you' is also my favorite joke from the movie. Well done!
Fun fact: In the DVD release the monks chanting and hitting themselfs, was a sing a long in the extra material. They even included live instructions to use the DVD box to hit yourself. If it didnt hurt they suggested that you use the sharp end of the box. In true Monty Python style they cut the instruction in the middle of the sharp end instruction. LOVE it.
"Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?" 😆🤣😅😂
"Shut up and go and change your armour." :)
After what you said in your intro, I was really looking forward to the Knights Who Say Ni scene, your reaction didn't disappoint. Pure joy. Maybe the best reaction I've seen to this movie, which is one of my all-time favorites. I don't know what I was waiting for, but this one earned my subscription. Nice job!
Likewise, on all counts. 💯
I think the confused guards scene is one of the funniest comedy routines ever filmed
Yes, "The tale of Sir Lancelot (which includes that scene) is my favourite part of the movie.
So much great dialogue:
"You got my note! ... Well, I got "a" note."
One day lad, all this will be yours.
What? the curtains?
it is reminiscent of abbot and costello "who's on first."
Initially I thought it was just random silliness. Then I became a manager of a team of people. Then I realized it was a documentary.
I think it's the "where are you going?" as he leaves and they try to follow him that always makes me crack up.
The trick with Monty Python is not to think about it too much and just enjoy the ride.
You’ll see the scene between Aragorn and the King Of The Dead in a whole different light after viewing that meme
Coby - "I hope it's funny, but not completely ridiculous" LOL!
I never noticed it before, but during the sword fight The Black Knight has his lunch simmering in the background.
Eric Idle was interviewed many years ago and when questioned on the "The Knights who say Ni" and their demand for a shrubbery, he said one on of his earliest childhood memories was when he was playing in their front garden, his dad came out and said "Don't play in there lad, that's our shrubbery" he said it always stuck in his mind, now it's locked in history
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
"Bloody peasant!"
@@Client_State_Aussie "You saw him repressing me didn't you?!?"
Literally all the American 13% ers
oh shut up
Since History lessons under Python Quotes are a common Trope now.
Vilages and Communities that worked like this were actually a thing.
As long as Taxes were paid , nobody cared.
Love that you enjoyed it and laughed so much.
The guard scene though after 2 minutes of explaining...
"Where are you going?"
"We're coming with you!"
Den this movie probably 50 times and still love it.
Yes, Monty Python's Flying Circus was a TV show around the same time as Benny Hill.
We would get it on UHF back in the day. Then the movies.
The main 6, Graham Chapman, so passed away in his 50's had all the biggest roles in the movies, plus the 3 who did the most acting later in in the US, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin, plus Terry Jones (much of the animation and sketches), and Terry Gilliam who turned it to be a prolific director.
Eric Idol had to bite his scythe to keep from laughing at long pause to answer, "Why do witch's burn"
Which, I think, was an excellent acting choice because it makes it look like he was REALLY trying to come up with an answer! (Instead of trying to suppress a laugh.)
After all, a good-sized portion of the population have a habit of biting something (fingernails, the end of a pen or pencil, etc.) when thinking hard on something.
@@sharkdentures3247 And it also made his character look even more simple-minded 😆
Coby, you have the most delightful laugh. So glad we got so many of them here. It was fun watching you pick up the remote to figure out what you did with the subtitles during the opening credits. Now you know all about the Knights Who Say Ni! That was so cool. Also, you were ahead of things on the Trojan Rabbit, nicely done. You asked about the intermission - MP trolled their audience by putting in that break that was just long enough for people to leave their seats and start toward the restroom/concession stand and then have to rush back. That was so funny in the theaters. As for the timeline issue, our knights are not LARPing, the past and present have simply overlapped. That is my explanation, and I am sticking with it.
Only Monty Python could get us laughing hysterically before the movie has even started. Every roleplaying/tabletop game group I’ve been in had at least one guy who could recite whole bits from this movie by heart.
I work at a big university. I don’t know anyone who cannot quote most of it. I’m beginning to think it’s part of the interview process.
During the Dark and Middle Ages, killer rabbits were a running gag among monks and historians and other writers. They'd draw funny caricatures of rabbits attacking terrified knights in the margins of books, for example. That's the inspiration of the Trojan Rabbit and the killer rabbit in this movie. 😂
I never heard that before, and I'm a history nerd. Monty Python is made up of Oxford and Cambridge boys, so they always had a bit of cleverness to their jokes.
Also loads of knights fighting snails in medieval marginalia art.
To D&D players, the rabbit is known as a Vorpal Bunny.
I debated leaving it a mystery, but I'll go ahead and explain the joke. In the game, there's a magic sword called a Vorpal Blade that has the possibility of decapitating the opponent.
@@MightyDrakeC Oh, that's good. Nice.
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"Snicker-snack" 😉
"Run away! Run away!"
"Jayzuz Christ!"
According to John Cleese, "Best battle cry ever!"
always felt that this was before the word "retreat" was thought up...
I love how the "Intermission" is even an audience troll. It wasn't uncommon back then for longer movies to have an intermission. People would get up, go to the lounge and get refreshments, go to the restroom, etc. So when the Intermission sign is put up, there were surely some people who got up to start making their way down the aisles to go for a break, but the Intermission only lasts for a few seconds, not the several minutes as normal, so it catches those people not even out of the theater yet and they would need to run back to take their seat.
Coby: "I hope it's funny, not completely ridiculous."
Me: 😬
I love how you recognize John Cleese the 4th time he shows up in the film, and realize they are all playing multiple characters 2 times after that 😂
It is also so weird that someone can know John Cleese and NOT know Monty Python! He's done so much great since, but Python will forever be his legacy.
Especially funny that she doesn't recognize him as Tim the Enchanter lol
For the record as many don't know..
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries"
The french knight is saying your mother was promiscuous (as a hamster), and your father is a drunk (elderberries were used in making alcoholic drink)
Thanks for explaining !! The meaning of both the hamster and elderberries references were unknown to me.
Not only that, but the elderberry drink was an alcohol made and used by common folk. So it added insult upon insult because Arthur and his knights were nobles.
Elderberry Wine, to be precise.
The French are absolute masters of the subtle insult, which the British know all too well.
Terry Jones studied Medieval History, so there are a lot of subtle easter eggs for super geeks. One is the fact that French mercenaries started to become a thing in the Middle Ages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routiers
I knew you’d be hooked when I saw how hard you were laughing during the credits. I’m jealous that you have all the Python stuff - as a team and also their individual movies and series - still ahead of you.
"I didnt know the context, i just said we are the knights who say nee!!!" To be fair, thats what monty python did too 😂
Airplane vs Monty Python humour is an excellent illustration of the differences between American and British humour
the accents
You might have missed John Cleese's funniest line in the movie when he was taunting them before the Trojan Rabbit. "I fart in your general direction."
I had a tee-shirt with that on it. My wife was embarrassed when I would wear it. It disappeared.
i always liked "I got better"
@@jeffcohnphoto, or "Some call me... Tim."
@@randybass8842Which is though kind of lend from /tribute to one year earlier in 1974 made another superb comedy classic Blazing Saddles where it's Call me...Jim.
;-) :-)
Ah Monty Python, giants of British comedy, I grew up with them! 35:50 Castle Stalker, just up the road from me.
Definitely put "Life of Brian" on your list.
Great reactions, have a great Hogmanay and all the best for the Ne'er.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was a comedy sketch show (with occasional animation) that ran for 4 seasons (1969 - 1974) and 45 episodes... then came the movies (Holy Grail, Life Of Brian, Meaning Of Life)
Some of the funniest tv ever produced. The sleeping parrot. lol i cant even remember the skit, but just thinking of it summons a chuckle about how hard, how much, and how often that skit made me laugh. PBS aired it quite often during the 80's.
Even though Flying Circus was a show, it had plenty of amazing skits. Laugh til you pee skits. My favorite was the Twit Olympics. Worth a best of, if you're not committed to watching all the episodes.
Terry Gilliam did the animations. Everything the troupe did, incorporated his delightful animations.
By far my most favorite skit was the Twit Olympics also! I still laugh until I can't take another breath and almost pee myself when seeing it!
"SHOOT THE BUNNY!!!"😂😂😂😂
also don't forget related movies like Jabberwocky and Yellowbeard, sadly often overlooked movies.
@@christopherlane5238 If you can find it it's worth a watch but some scam baiter made Nigerian scammers remake the dead parrot sketch as a reverse fraud thing and uploaded it to YT. It's amazing.
I accidentally watched the first airing of Monty Pythons Flying Circus on WTTW TV in Chicago around 1975. It became a thing that only a circle of my cousin and a few classmates knew about. That same cousin had a job at a movie theater. I had the album of the sound track of " Holy Grail" before we saw the movie. We had it memorized. Later the theater showed the movie. When the Knights Who Say Ni came on we were in the back of the auditorium saying "Ni" for a surround sound effect. It was a simpler time.
And remember how confused the audiences were when the film ended? Always see things in the theater when you can!
Similar. I caught one of the first airings of MPFC on WGBH Channel 2. Found a small group of us who were instantly addicted, and the one defining feature of a Python fan is their ability to quote extended segments of the bits on command, if not the the entire script.
Isn't it The album of the soundtrack of the trailer of the film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
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Correct! 🏆
@@Thunderclouification Didn't they produce a three sided album? One side had two grooves and you never knew which one you would end up putting the needle in.
What a delightful surprise and so great to see Coby laughing her ass off the entire time.
Where was the donkey in this video?
1:37 "...not completely ridiculous" Unintentional foreshadowing
I was nervous at the beginning that you might not 'get it'...but literally had that fear quashed about 7 seconds into the beginning credits. 🤣
I was 14 when this movie came out. I was already a fan of their Flying Circus tv show but this movie put them at the top in such a huge way. I had to hide between showtimes in the bathroom so I could watch it again and again, memorizing as much as I could all those great lines!
“LOOK AT THE BONES!”
King Arthur was the main person without a horse. You could say he was the horseless head man.
Go to your room.
Daaaadd!
Well played. [Opera clapping]
Ba-dump! Ching!
I have a question for you.
A legendary classic. The next movie they made, the Life of Brian, is even better.
Life Of Brian is the best of the "Trinity". The Meaning Of Life went completely off the rails. It's got its moments, but it's not a cohesive story. Some gratuitous nudity, but not enough to save it.
One does need to remember, when watching Life of Brian, that it was decades and decades prior to some certain insanity of the modern era.
tough call :) notable third place would be Jabberwocky
Funded by George Harrison personally.
@@markhill3858 that's not a Python movie
I love that the ending of this movie is a literal Cop Out.
Nice. I remember watching this on tape pretty much every weekend with my friend when we were 16. Nearly 40 years later, me, and most of my friends can literally quote the entire movie, and do so regularly. Genius.
I immediately thought of Weird Al Yankovic's "White & Nerdy" video about reciting Holy Grail. 🤣
It's worth watching several times as yes they play several characters, you start to notice that when someone like Tim the enchanter is in a scene Lancelot has his helmet on, they use that trick several times and it can be fun trying to spot them.
Also, Graham Chapman (King Arthur) is the only one who wears real chain mail, the others are wearing woollen costumes made to look like chain mail. It weighed about 25 lbs.
So glad you enjoyed this Coby, I appreciate that you get the humour so easily.. it made me smile as did your laughter. :)
If you enjoyed this John Cleese did a little series called "Fawlty Towers" (2 seasons, 6 episodes each) which is pure farce and very funny. (you may have seen it if your step dad ever watched it though. Connie Booth (The witch) was Johns wife and she plays Polly, one of the workers.
There's just something about Coby's laugh.
Colby and Dawn Marie....best laughs!😂
it makes it impossible to sleep?
My mates and I in high school became python obsessed in the 2000s, every time I rewatch the series or movies I find something new to laugh at.
A watery tart granted me supreme executive power.
Strange, a moistened bint had me put away.
Mine came from a moistened bint.
That is no basis for a system of government!
@@adamscott7354but … better than current USA elections 😂
@@cyberspore00 heaven forbid we have an honest vote unlike 2020
The ending is a literal cop-out. Absolutely one of the best comedies of all time.
The "Argument Clinic" is my favorite Monty Python bit.
Ministry of Silly Walks, or The Sleeping Parrot for me.
Cheese Shop skit is a classic as well!
oh. no, this is abuse.
@@Grateful_Dad_54 do you in fact have any cheese at all? (he asked, expecting the obvious answer.)
no it isnt
the ending is the greatest of all cop outs
Your sense of humor is matched by none. This is one quotable heavy movie.
Your excitement and joy at the Knights Of Ni was fantastic!
Airplane was just silly humor, this is intelligent silly humor.
THIS x'd
Silly Humor?!? This film was a sad social commentary on police profiling and false arrest. Arthur and his men could NOT have been responsible for the death of the famous historian. The one who did it had a REAL HORSE.
@@Mr.Ekshin hence why, I used the word Intelligent 😉
@@Mr.Ekshin The one scene where they could afford it!
Airplane is American humor.
Airplane funny and Python funny are two different but wonderful funnies that are completely their own. You would love the series they had. So glad you got to enjoy this!
John Cleese was Tim the Enchanter. He improvised that, he was supposed to have a "mystical" name but during shooting he forgot what it was and said "Tim". They liked it so much they kept it.
Good thing everyone just kept going with it. That explains why Lancelot was not in the scenes together with the Enchanter.
That's a rumor. It's not true. It's one of those tropes that's become popular on the internet that has no basis in fact.
Tim the Enchanter was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly - a good friend of the Pythons
@@johnpratt3561 Tim was played by Fulton Mackay better known for playing Mr. Mackay in Ronnie Barker's Porridge.
Tim was played by Fulton Mackay better known for playing Mr. Mackay in Ronnie Barker's Porridge.
The ending is a literal "Cop Out".
Fun fact: The use of coconuts bit came about because they didn’t have the budget to get horses. It definitely worked out.
Leave it to the Monte python crew to turn a production weakness into one of their best jokes.
Saw Monty Pythons live show back in the early seventies. It was the best. We called for an encore and got the dead parrot skit. Hurray! Called for another encore and they projected a slide on the curtains that just said “Piss Off!”. One of the magical experiences of my life.
Sweden actually had an AMAZING telephone system. Seriously. In the early/mid implementation of phone services they were studied by other countries on how to do it right. I saw a documentary on it and the subtitles started to be sense. My dad was an engineer I had this confirmed by him.
Can you let the cement mixing, complicated insurance form signing Moose know he’s on call in 5 plz?
Thx
Sweden, and all the rest of you, got the telephone from us.
@@paulmartin2348 to quote Python -
_And now for something completely different…_
Your reaction to the Knights Who Say "NI!" was great! Especially after hearing your intro to this video!! Glad you enjoyed that!!! XD
They take non sequitur humor to its ultimate level.
The best part about the Black Night scene is that the bridge isn't even high off of the ditch, so Arthur could've just walked around.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus was their half hour tv show 😂
One of my favourite movies!! So incredibly quotable. 😁🤣
A lot of people don’t realize that Python’s first movie was And Now For Something Completely Different, which was released in 1971. They took sketches from the first two seasons of their tv show, and reshot them for a theatric release. It’s a slightly different take from the tv show, without the live audience reaction.
The ending is a literal cop out. 😂
Life of Brian is really good too.
24:26 “Message for you, sir.” 🤣
Fun fact. The coconuts were a result of the budget. They could only afford one horse for one scene, so they used it for the scene where the historian got killed. So they faked every other horse for the movie. Tim the Enchanter: When Cleese introduced himself to Arthur, he had a brain cramp and forgot the name he was supposed to use. So he said to hell with it and said "Tim?". It was so off-the-wall funny that they kept it. Finally, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" was their sketch-based comedy TV series. The movies were separate but equal, and in BOTH all of the Pythons played multiple characters (saves on cast payroll). Welcome to the baffling world of Monty Python! I am SO happy that you like it and get it, because not all women do (The percentage of women who enjoy Python is measurably lower than the percentage of men). So this confirms my suspicion that you are a rare woman! And I love that!
You forgot to add that the end was a literal "cop out", a British term meaning to "avoid doing something that one ought to do." So even the ending was a joke.
actually, they just didnt want to mess with horses
Bravo Coby👏👏👏👏This is my absolute favorite video of yours! I love, this movie, and I love that you now love this movie! Watching your reaction was such a treat. Please do more Monty Python.
The Pythons, as they came to be known, were an absurdist comedy troupe. The sketches in their series, _Monty Python's Flying Circus,_ mixed surrealism and absurdism. The English members were all highly educated; graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Terry Gilliam, the animator and co-director, is an American.
Their first movie, _And Now for Something Completely Different,_ is a re-filming of some of the funniest sketches from the first two seasons of _Flying Circus._ It is probably the best introduction to their particular brand of absurdist comedy. I suggest watching that next.
Most of the troupe considers _The Life of Brian,_ their second fully-scripted movie, to be their best film.
Never heard them referred to as "The Pythons". Interesting.
I generally prefer The Life of Brian myself for the canonical Python films. Holy Grail is great, but the individualized skits are not subtle enough as such IMO. This is much more reduced in (some) parts of The Life of Brian. If Coby is a fan of John Cleese, I would be remiss not to suggest something of a spiritual successor to the Python movies, "A Fish Called Wanda". Bloody amazing film, great comedy, and one of Cleese's best work in an amazing career as far as I'm concerned.
@timriggs08 As there are only twelve episodes _Fawlty Towers_ is an easy binge, and makes a perfect, quick series for a reaction channel.
The original Flying Circus TV show is more fun, I guess because the skits have the energy of a live audience.
The ending is a literal cop out
36:44 That's what they, literally, call a *Cop Out.*
“And Now for Something Completely Different” is great!! Yes Flying Circus is their original skit show and all this was done in the ‘70s mostly. Lovely reaction
5 fun facts:
1. made in color
2. made in 1975
5. made in some castles
Actually, they used only 1 castle. They just used different sides of it for different scenes.
@davidfelgate9541 there was more than used.
@@stupidsmart-phone6911well of course they were used, you think they could afford new castles? 😂
I was repeating something I had heard numerous times without searching for the truth myself, which is never wise. I was only 'mostly' correct. It's true that Doune Castle, in Stirling, Scotland, was used to film most of the exterior castle scenes and all of the interior scenes. However, a brief shot of Bodiam Castle in East Sussex was used to portray the exterior of Swamp Castle (though the courtyard scene and Herbert's tower were filmed back at Doune), and the final scene at the island Castle of Aaargh was filmed at Castle Stalker at Appin. In the future, I will try to remember to check my facts before presuming to correct someone else.
Also, in my haste to "correct" your facts, I completely failed to appreciate the way you numbered your list. My initial response should have been to click the Like button and say, "3, sir."
So much history with this movie in my life! I saw it in theatre with a friend who was from Scotland. He was laughing so hard during the opening credits, his stomach was starting to cramp! At the same time, a woman who I know had a nervous breakdown and was in the psych ward of the local hospital - the nurses would often take them to the theatre to watch a movie, and this is the one she got to see!! I wonder how that night passed when they got them back to the ward!
The monologue delivered by Michael Palin (Dennis) about "supreme executive power" is easily the best bit of satire I have ever heard in my life.
I have to say, though, that while this movie was more knee-slapping funny, Life of Brian is the best comedy I have ever seen. The satire is so brilliant and insightful - apart from the Biggus Dickus, which is so cheap and goes on for far too long.
20 years before this was the best knight comedy ever, 1955's "The Court Jester"..
Danny Kaye is unmatched by anyone before or since.
Maybe even the best comedy ever.
I'll concur. I still sing that lullaby when anxiety is making sleep difficult for my partner. Really. Best lullaby ever. The movie's pretty good, too. 😉
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" was a weekly television show. As a teenage boy in the 70s, I used to stay up late on Saturday nights to watch it. Part of the lure was that, being a British show, they sometimes had nudity. And, of course the comedy was ridiculous, from the fish dance, to the dead parrot sketch, to the ministry of silly walks, and on and on. Many people loved the "Holy Grail" movie when it came out and could recite lines from it endlessly. Even the cover band I used to play in would have back and forth dialogs from the movie.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was the TV show. They did several movies as Monty Python, and various other movies have been made by one or more of the members. Fun fact: If you call unwanted e-mail "spam", that's from one of their Flying Circus sketches.
(spam, spam, spam, spam) Love-ly spam! Won-der-ful spam!
I already knew Coby was my kind of people....and this just proves it. lol.
I adore the Python troupe and, yes, I agree they're on a different level from Airplane! At some point in the distant past I heard someone refer to Monty Python as "intellectual absurdism" and that just struck me as so perfectly apt - they're well educated, each of them, and they'll toss obscure and not-so-obscure philosophical/sociopolitical references into much of their work without bothering to dumb them down or to explain them. It's IYKYK in sketch comedy form. Love 'em!
This is a glorious movie! The animation was a hallmark of their long running television series “Monty Python’s flying circus” a sketch comedy format. I recommend their films “the meaning of life” or “now for something completely different”. The horse thing much like the ending was due to lack of funding. The king was in real chain mail everyone else wore woven wool painted silver.
and having horses is a hastle
I just watched your reaction to this after watching your reaction to Life of Brian. It's awesome how you incorporate a line from the movies with a childhood experience! Great job!
I was in college when this came out and had a friend who was a big Monty Python fan who took several of us to see it. I didn't know anything about Monty Python, and found less than half the movie funny. Monty Python was so popular they have changed the character of humor. I have since come to appreciate them more. You should watch the movies in order. Life of Brian is next, followed by The Meaning of Life. Eric Idle did a musical in 2014 based on The Life of Brian called Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy), which you should watch as well. You can also find clips of their TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. They also recorded a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982.
I regret not being able to see the Spamalot musical at my college due to having to work on the day it came to my campus. The Monty Python crew couldn't afford horses, so they ended up using coconuts, which was an homage to how they used to make horse walking/running sounds with coconuts on radio shows. It ends on a literal "cop out."
Monty Pythons flying circus was a television series back in the 70’s
1969-74.
You had me laughing hysterically the whole time!!! I love your genuine response! I’ve seen this movie countless times but enjoyed it the most watching it with you!!!
During the tv show one time they ran the end credits half way through the show causing extreme puzzlement. Trying to make sense of Python will hurt your brain.
the eps felt extremely short already
Wonderful reaction!! I love the Monty Python comedy movies and Flying Circus series so much!! You are always an amazing and fun reactor!! Thanks for bringing a bit of joy into my life! Best wishes always Coby!! 🙂❤
The difference between American silly humor (like the Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams movies) and the British one is that the British always got some intellect behind it... Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, even Mr. Bean... it's all silliness with brains.
There's a ton of dumb silly British humor (Benny Hill) and smart silly American humor (Coen Brothers, Groucho Marx). Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and Pratchett are absolute monsters of smart silly comedy, but it's not a strict pondial divide.
thats just something hipsters repeat mindlessly
was like 10 years old when i saw this, and fell in love with python . actually they had a weekly show ' Monty Pythons Flying Circus." SNL were inspired by them and British humor in general, they actually did a mocumentary on the Beatles called the Ruttles , that featured some of the SNL cast. funny as well.
No horses were harmed in the making of this movie.
Remember being in the theatre in 75 and seeing the previews for this. We didn't have clue what we were seeing but within months it was a classic for all of us.
A 2021 tweet by Eric Idle[10] revealed that the film was financed by eight investors: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Holy Grail's co-producer Michael White, Heartaches (a cricket team founded by lyricist Tim Rice), and three record companies, including Charisma Records, the record label that had released Python's early comedy albums.[11] According to Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock stars like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin because no studio would fund the film and the rock stars saw it as "a good tax write-off" because the top rate of UK income tax was "as high as 90%" at the time.[12] Idle and Gilliam had previously mentioned that Elton John also contributed to the financing of the film.[12][13] The investors contributed the entire original budget of £175,350 (about $410,000 in 1974) and also received a percentage of the proceeds from the 2005 musical Spamalot.[14]
From the film's Wikipedia page...
I believe George Harrison was also a big investor.
@@keithgoode6313 George Harrison financed Life of Brian (even remortgaged his house to pay for it); don't think he had anything to do with Holy Grail though.
I knew you were gonna love this. My best friend and I saw this on VHS as 12-year-old kids in the 80s (and then dozens of times since) and it blew our minds so hard we couldn't believe it. We didn't know anyone could would be allowed to do anything like this. We laughed so hard we were sore for a day or two. Oddly, the bit that hit us the hardest - probably because we had been softened up by the first 2/3 - was the intermission. That made my friend laugh so forcefully a giant snot shot right out of this nose, stuck to the carpet and jiggled a bit, which sent us into the kind of hysterics where you're no longer making any sound at all; just complete silence, wondering if you're ever gonna catch your breath. :)
Interesting Fact: Coconuts from trees on beaches in the Caribbean frequently fall into the ocean and end up in the Gulf Stream to wash up on beaches in the UK.
No, _ENGLAND!_
@@dancarter482 England is a part of the UK.
@@MrBigPicture835 Not in the Middle Ages it wasn't. The UK came into existence in 1805. Or 1803.
@@patrickneylan The land that is is now called the UK was still there, and coconuts still washed up on beaches there.
11:15 after they weigh the witch and the duck, you can see the scales are skewed horribly and that's why they weigh the same