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An african or an european one?
yes, I do know it is not regading an albatross in the original context
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Even if Monty Python is old, it belongs to my generation. It represents the absurd slapstick that was great when I was a boy. Even if old, it is "mine".
I picked up a DVD with one of my father's favorite comedians (Norwegian, not much know abroad, Leif Juster). As I watched through the sketches, some of them I knew from my childhood, I nodded again and again: That would certainly have made daddy laugh! And that one. That punch line would have made him jump up and down!
All the way, it was dad's humor, just like I knew it to be. I can pinpoint a lot of funny lines, but I do not laugh out loud myself. But it is not my humor.
Actually, I feel it worse with the humor of today's youth: I do not know why they find that moderne humor funny, the way I know daddy's humor. But my own inability to laugh at the humor a generation older than myself, and similar with that a generation younger than myself, I fully accept that those generations of people will not understand my humor. Even if you are of my generation: If you have not grown up with, say, Monty Python style humor, you will not get it. It doesn't belong to you. It is as strange as the humor of another generation.
Obviously, this is just a main rule - there are lots of exceptions, both in people and specific comedians etc. - and the combination of those.
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Well, it's an acquired taste - and for their TV series, I hadn't acquired it. It was a funny at first, but as is often the case, there's a cultural side to the humor which, having fortunately not been brought up in the UK, I have mercifully avoided.*
The movies - Holy Grail and Life of Brian - now that was a time for something completely different.
* How to take these comments:
1 - Just havin' some fun, and/or
2 - Just rubbing it in.
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I probably learned more about British culture from Monty Python than from anywhere. I was 16 and a friend of mine had recently moved from the UK with 5 or 6 Monty Python LPs that we'd listen to. Most of it works quite well without video. I still remember the diatribe from the Travel Agency sketch, which is packed with cultural references.
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Did he have the three sided "Matching Tie and handkerchief"? Yes, it had three sides, I believe they were label side 2 and side 2! 
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Yes! Side 2 had two parallel tracks, so you had to reposition the stylus until it found the one you wanted.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: ...having fortunately not been brought up in the UK...
Fortunately for you, or for the Ukians? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Fortunate for me in that I didn't get that horrid accent and accept eating food I'd otherwise be ashamed to give away. And, of course, the bad teeth and most of all, they're stuck with "The Royals".
Fortunate for them in that they already feel bad enough about themselves - and such a shining example would only cause them more hurt.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I didn't get that horrid accent
Which horrid accent - the Queen's English, BBC Standard, or about 1,000 regional accents?
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: eating food I'd otherwise be ashamed to give away
I don't know how to tell you this, but the UK boasts of some quite good restaurants, and they did it without taking advice from Americans. Fancy that!
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: bad teeth
You're a few decades out of date.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: stuck with "The Royals".
With the exception of the Queen, I'll give you that one.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Fortunate for them...
The British Isles have somehow survived at least three millennia without your shining example, and will probably stumble on without it for a few more.
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I expect no less from an Anglophile.
Looking at them through a rose-colored monocle.*
* OK - I'll give you that they got out of the EU as a plus, but they still have their islands way to close to Europe.
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My own take:
Some of their humor may seem pretty tame nowadays. But back then, it was groundbreaking. They were pioneers. I'd qualify a lot of today's humor as derivative.
Just like Elvis and The Beatles predate me - I wouldn't necessarily spend a lot of my time listening to their music, but I can appreciate and respect their contributions, and the doors they've opened for others.
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Sketch: "Precision Drilling" ... split my sides!
Back in the day; well I guess I laughed at Mel Brooks back then too ...
But that's the story Jerry!
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You are not english...
nuff said  
Neither am I
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 13-May-20 16:26pm.
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If someone has to explain to you why it's funny, it stops being funny!
For me, it was a bunch of very clever people observing life and putting a different spin on it. It was absolutely ground breaking in its day because it was a new and unique form of comedy that appealed to a generation. To be fair, it was also very experimental, so although it is revered now by those who remember it and appreciated it in the context of its time, equally there was a lot of it that didn't really work and was quietly forgotten.
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The television shows were funny when first seen, at the age of 12 or whatever I was back then.
Likewise, Douglas Adams' books were good at first reading. Even the Dirk Gently books.
There are a lot of works like that (And I don't mean to poke at Brits...these examples are just the first to pop into my head.)
But except for bits and pieces, now and again, they don't do anything for me.
Shrug
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It's primarily right place at the right time. I'm old enough to remember (just) the original broadcasts and it felt revolutionary then.
Twenty years ago I bought the entire collection on DVD and enjoyed about 85% of it then. Last time I took a look I enjoyed about 50%. Doesn't devalue the historical importance of what they did though.
I think this is just part of the ageing process; I can barely listen to the Goon Show today, but loved it thirty years ago.
Comedy evolves, I find little makes me laugh out loud now while the kids laugh uproariously at stuff I find cliched and generic. So, what makes me smile these days?
Beef And Dairy Network Podcast[^]
BBC - Search results for John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme[^]
Any suggestions for other titles?
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It's not important how funny they are now. It's the groundbreaking work they did for every comedian that came after them.
I still find most of the things that they did very funny.
And we can be eternally grateful for introducing us to the 'joys' of SPAM.
Even now the spam sketch is bloody funny.
They will always have a special place in my life.
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Just the other day, I was thinking I never wanted to be a developer. I want to be a lumberjack!
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Let’s face it !
As programmers sometimes we get into worries so easy and by elements so vague that we forget to “always look on the bright side of the life”.
[A stupid song], perfect for stupid depressions.
My humble opinion…
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You aren't Welsh, aren't you? (Ok, that's Black Adder, but still... )
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You are dead inside, likely due to a soul crushing job. You should consider chucking it all and becoming a lumberjack in the great North. i'm a lumberjack - Bing video[^]
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My experience watching Monty Python episodes is that each episode contained about 15 minutes of dreck and one skit that was incandescently humorous. Looking backward, people remember the same dozen skits that were hysterically funny, and dismiss all the others. This makes Monty Python similar to pretty much any skit-based comedy show.
Like any kind of humor, not everyone "gets" Monty Python. That doesn't make it non-funny.
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Having dealt with having to be exceedingly literal and logical (programming all day). I find the satirical, absurdist, and dry humor to be very much my liking. In the Holy Grail for instance when Arthur, King of the Britons, meets Dennis the Anarcho-Syndicalist... it is pure gold. Quite possibly the best takedown of the Monarchy and people given to AS at the same time.
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Two words: Dead Parrot.
Da Bomb
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That's your fault. You are not the Messiah. You are a very naughty boy.
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