Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[rogruth]

I may need to resign from MTJ. I just watched the first fifteen minutes of M.P.and the H.G. and saw nothing funny and not even something
at which to giggle. I guess I just don't understand Brit humour. Twenty five minutes now. I type slow.
I think I'll watch Green Acres.

[rex desilets]

Me, neither

[HONDO74]

I may need to resign from MTJ. I just watched the first fifteen minutes of M.P.and the H.G. and saw nothing funny and not even something
at which to giggle. I guess I just don't understand Brit humour. Twenty five minutes now. I type slow.
I think I'll watch Green Acres.

I didn't find it funny either.

For British humor I like Benny Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO82gPWJj8k

Probably couldn't do this today Not PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epKqu_VHbQU

[healey36]

Most of Monty Python's humor is built around making fun of the British establishment and the Catholic Church, all with greatly exaggerated silliness and irony. For them, it was the equivalent of grabbing hold of the third-rail. For me, the stoning sequence in "Life of Brian" remains the definitive bit for the troupe. It manages to poke nearly every standard of the day directly in the eye.

I recall seeing an interview with George Harrison a few years before his death, where he talked about the risks he and others took in financially backing Monty Python. Nobody in the established world of film would touch them. Harrison put up the bulk of the money for production, which was a pretty big sum/risk.

Healey

[up148]

Right there with you Roger. Never cared for them and have never been able to watch more than a few moments of them.

[healey36]

Aw, c'mon...this is funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0

[HONDO74]

I find this one to be very funny.

Monty Python, Life of Brian.
Biggus Dickus - Monty Python, Life of Brian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Most of Monty Python's humor is built around making fun of the British establishment and the Catholic Church, all with greatly exaggerated silliness and irony. For them, it was the equivalent of grabbing hold of the third-rail. For me, the stoning sequence in "Life of Brian" remains the definitive bit for the troupe. It manages to poke nearly every standard of the day directly in the eye.

Indeed. The entire movie took on everyone very successfully.

Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion (I understand that WalMart is running a special on this commodity) or are representative of the object of the humor.

I recall seeing an interview with George Harrison a few years before his death, where he talked about the risks he and others took in financially backing Monty Python. Nobody in the established world of film would touch them. Harrison put up the bulk of the money for production, which was a pretty big sum/risk.

George Harrison was a primary backer of the 1st movie (along with a few others, like members of Pink Floyd) and he actually put up his estate home as collateral for the money for the movie. He did not tell them that was the source of the money until after the movie was out.

[v8vega]

Who's Monty Python and what doe's he fancy himself as?

[rogruth]

I have seen some skits that were really funny but the Holy Grail thing did nothing for me.
Maybe I am not familiar enough with Brit stuff of that era. Now this will do me in.
I was never a Beatles fan either. I admit that some of their stuff was very innovative.
Except for "Yesterday" I think I was the wrong age.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

... Now this will do me in.
I was never a Beatles fan either. I admit that some of their stuff was very innovative.
Except for "Yesterday" I think I was the wrong age.

I remember, clearly, that when their music and they came to the USA, when I was in college, there was a collective sign, on-campus, of "What-the..." and a dismissiveness about them, their hair styles (the "Kennedy-cut" was till the norm for many young men,) and their music.

In due time, all of that got accepted as a new norm - for some (many?) - and we moved forward and onward. I actually went to the movies to see "A Hard Day's Night" and was mildly amused ( = smiled often) by them , especially the guy who played their grandad or uncle or whomever.

The music sure got stuck in people's heads, though, didn't it. Do you know anybody from that era who couldn't hum at least a few opening bars of, "Yesterday" or "It's Been A Hard Day's Night" ? (!)

Many people I knew, especially when living in Manhattan, disliked that woman John L. got married to; she seemed like a sycophant to many. Ohwell, whocares.

[HONDO74]

Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion (I understand that WalMart is running a special on this commodity) or are representative of the object of the humor.

Okay Dr Rufus. I understand the humor and what they created. Just didn't find it that funny just like I don't find horror movies that amusing. Therefor I don't watch them. You will probably have some meds to offer that would correct that situation. Maybe something with THC in it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...
Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion ... or are representative of the object of the humor....

I'm trying hard to see that.
I guess one could say that instead of "Waiting for Godot," they went out looking for him, and found a few interesting characters (who were in-search of a play) while looking for him. Did they bump into a Rhinoceros, too?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion (I understand that WalMart is running a special on this commodity) or are representative of the object of the humor.

Okay Dr Rufus. I understand the humor and what they created. Just didn't find it that funny just like I don't find horror movies that amusing. Therefor I don't watch them. You will probably have some meds to offer that would correct that situation. Maybe something with THC in it.

I have a 16-ton weight for you.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...
Their humor was an extension of theater of the absurd - most that do not get it or understand it are either in need of a humor transfusion ... or are representative of the object of the humor....

I'm trying hard to see that.
I guess one could say that instead of "Waiting for Godot," they went out looking for him, and found a few interesting characters (who were in-search of a play) while looking for him. Did they bump into a Rhinoceros, too?

Only the pointy bit.