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A lot of programmers say they are into Monty Python books and films. I really can't figure why. I once tried watching a Monty Python sketch, it was unbearable!. Someone enlighten me, what's the big deal with Monty Python?
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Some of it was funny, but overall it was just a bunch of guys who were too clever by half.
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Say! No! More!
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Depends on the sketch - time hasn't been kind to all Monty Python humour, it never is. La Petomane was one of the finest artsy-fartsy stage performers of his time, but a hundred years later and he'd be booed off Youtube!
Humour is to a large extent cultural, topical to the mores of a community, and Monty Python spent a lot of time (and very, very little money) stretching the boundaries of the society they lampooned so well.
Some has survived: Galaxy Song[^] for example.
Others ... sadly only the older among us remember the cultural limitations which made it so brilliant then.
And of course, some of it was total cr@p even then ... 
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modified 13-May-20 10:18am.
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Maybe you watched the wrong sketch. I found some of them terrible and others brilliant.
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You're not alone. Some of the Monty Python stuff didn't resonate with me, either. I really enjoy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, to the point I bought a copy several years ago.
Now, where'd I put that holy hand grenade?
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First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out! Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
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Part of me wants to believe you didn't look that up, and instead have it memorized.
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I do remember it, but copy'n'paste was quicker! 
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I once worked with a New Zealander who could quote verbatim a number of the sketches.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: a number
So, he was just getting started...?
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I once worked with a New Zealander who could quote verbatim a number of the sketches.
Ummm I've never been to New Zealand.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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The actor Hank Azaria was cast in the Broadway show "Spamalot" (the musical based on "...Holy Grail").
On the first day of rehearsal, while the full cast doing a table read of the script, they were impressed that Azaria had already memorized all of his lines.
He replied: "This is Monty Python and the Holy Grail... I've been off-book since I was 12"
Truth,
James
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I find "The Holy Grail" to be terrible to watch, but funny to quote afterward.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Monty Python aka The Emperor's New Clothes
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Did you come here looking for an argument?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I'm surprised by the responses. When this topic has come up before it's usually met with a lot of replies similar to "you just don't get British humour."
I haven't watched much of it but mostly because it is not very funny. I had friends who loved it though.
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It's difficult stuff, because humour is very personal. Watch Dave Allen - if you can find his stuff, and I'll howl with laughter the whole way through. But even when Falwty Towers was brand new I found it funny, but only in small, five minute doses. Any more, and I'd be chewing my knuckles with embarrassment. Take this bit: Whose Fault is It? | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats - YouTube[^] and it still works perfectly despite all the time that has passed.
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Dave Allen would come on Public Broadcasting here (Gov't run educational TV. It's where all the BBC shows aired when I was a kid)
He was very funny for someone who could only count to 9 and a half.
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