Monty Python or Fawlty Towers?

[kevo]

Some of the Python material is a bit dated and some of it is still pure genius. Fawlty Towers is flawless but you can't really compare the two.

I think most of the Python stuff has dated very badly, but it still has it's classic moments. Fawlty Towers is simply the best sitcom ever made - and hasn't really dated that much at all.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Python every time !!

 

[W.C.]

It's a different type of comedy, how can they be compared?

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[Poyetry In Motion]

Impossible question! It's like saying Senna or Prost.
Both equally brilliant, but totally different

 

[Frutos]

Not very easy to directly compare the two but I personally find Fawlty Towers more consistently funny, Python was always a bit hit and miss for me.

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Brilliant.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Python by a country mile, especially given the films. Life of Brian and The Holy Grail were two of the funniest films ever made. In all honesty, I have always found Fawlty Towers to be massively overrated. For me it's slapstick tosh and I just don't find it clever at all. I usually cringe when I watch it.

I can't believe how many people have said FT is the greatest sitcom of all time. I can think of twenty others, including BlackAdder, The Office and Only Fools (which is also overrated, but better than FT).

 

[User removed 4]

Python by a country mile, especially given the films. Life of Brian and The Holy Grail were two of the funniest films ever made. In all honesty, I have always found Fawlty Towers to be massively overrated. For me it's slapstick tosh and I just don't find it clever at all. I usually cringe when I watch it.

I can't believe how many people have said FT is the greatest sitcom of all time. I can think of twenty others, including BlackAdder, The Office and Only Fools (which is also overrated, but better than FT).

this,absolutely.

 

[Simster]

Python by a country mile, especially given the films. Life of Brian and The Holy Grail were two of the funniest films ever made. In all honesty, I have always found Fawlty Towers to be massively overrated. For me it's slapstick tosh and I just don't find it clever at all. I usually cringe when I watch it.

I can't believe how many people have said FT is the greatest sitcom of all time. I can think of twenty others, including BlackAdder, The Office and Only Fools (which is also overrated, but better than FT).

Yep, agree. Python was clever comedy, FT was funny in parts but utterly cringeworthy in others. Only Fools, some of the early ones were great but it massively lost its way about the time Rodney met Cassandra and the 6 or 7 pointless Christmas specials that were then churned out made me want to kick my telly in.

 

[User removed 4]

Yep, agree. Python was clever comedy, FT was funny in parts but utterly cringeworthy in others. Only Fools, some of the early ones were great but it massively lost its way about the time Rodney met Cassandra and the 6 or 7 pointless Christmas specials that were then churned out made me want to kick my telly in.

you have no experience of living in south london so how can you expect to appreciate the humour ?

 

[Simster]

you have no experience of living in south london so how can you expect to appreciate the humour ?

I realise you're trying to wind me up, but you slammed FT and you haven't lived in Torquay either.

(And yes, yes I have - although obviously in LEAFY Wimbledon and not Peckham)

 

[User removed 4]

I realise you're trying to wind me up, but you slammed FT and you haven't lived in Torquay either.

(And yes, yes I have - although obviously in LEAFY Wimbledon and not Peckham)

not even trying to wind you up, , just at home sick and very bored

 

[NMH]

For it's time, Python was beyond great, a culmination of all that represented our strange way of looking at things and a capability to make humour out of any situation.
You could be anywhere in the World and as soon as you said "I'm from England" it was "I LOVE MONTY PYTHON!", and that was even from people who struggled to get the joke. It an askew way of looking at just about everything.

Fawlty Towers was a situation comedy, brilliantly constructed.
Looking again at it, it beats 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em' out of sight, and Mr Bean struggles to compare too.

Chalk and cheese really, only involves one connecting person and co-creator/creator.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

For it's time, Python was beyond great, a culmination of all that represented our strange way of looking at things and a capability to make humour out of any situation.
You could be anywhere in the World and as soon as you said "I'm from England" it was "I LOVE MONTY PYTHON!", and that was even from people who struggled to get the joke. It an askew way of looking at just about everything.

Fawlty Towers was a situation comedy, brilliantly constructed.
Looking again at it, it beats 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em' out of sight, and Mr Bean struggles to compare too.

Chalk and cheese really, only involves one connecting person and co-creator/creator.

And with NMH posting I am reminded that Father Ted is another sitcom better than Fawlty Towers

 

[Badger]

I realise you're trying to wind me up, but you slammed FT and you haven't lived in Torquay either.

It's Torbay actually.

I've only really seen the films of Monty Python and not the TV shows but I definitely preferred them to FT. When I was a kid I found FT hilarious but then again I found Mr Bean hilarious so it's not really saying much, I probably wouldn't choose to watch FT now unless it happened to come on TV.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Fawlty Towers, never liked Monty Python.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And now for something completely different ...

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[Kumquat]

"Oh I'm sorry. I think we're fresh out of Waldorfs"

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Classic, I'd never noticed that woman peeping out from her door before though from the house behind. Just surprised because all the documentaries talking about Cleese always said what a serious perfectionist he is.

He was also driving into a "close", so even if the the road hadn't been blocked by the van, he wasn't going anywhere.

 

[User removed 4]

There were some really DIRE comedies in the 70's as well, bless this house, father dear father, on the buses, love thy neighbour (shit comedy, never mind the subject matter ), and one about a language school with francoise pascal ?

 

[Gritt23]

Fawlty Towers, by a distance.

Consistantly brilliant, whereas I always found Monty Python a bit hit and miss. The hits were excellent, but there was a lot in there that just didn't do much for me.