What's your favourite Monty Python sketch?

[PFJ]

Good to see Mr Smoketoomuch again.

But that sketch has been doctored. When it went out on TV, at the end of the bit where Mr Smoketoomuch is banging on about bolour supplement, sboolboy, bat etc Michael Palin says if he can't pronounce the letter b he should spell words with the letter k instead - such as Kings Bolledge Bambridge (Oxford in this version).

Mr Smoketoomuch say's he'd never thought of that and then utters the classic line that is now lost forever:

What a silly bunt!

Anyone else remember that or did I dream it?

I remember it as well , but I am wondering whether our memories are fusing the live shows with the BBC version. It's definatly on Live at Drury Lane . Same with the Albatross sketch . Absolute filth on Drury Lane , but a much milder version on the BBC original .

 

[Norman Potting]

Has Spiney Norman made an appearance yet?

Wait a minute,here he is....

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I remember it as well , but I am wondering whether our memories are fusing the live shows with the BBC version. It's definatly on Live at Drury Lane . Same with the Albatross sketch . Absolute filth on Drury Lane , but a much milder version on the BBC original .

I'm pretty sure it was on the original BBC show. Wasn't there an original LP before the Live at Drury Lane recoding? And now for something completely different, if memory serves.

I didn't really get into the recordings, except that first one but I watched all the shows when they went out and I remember being shocked - in a nice way! - at the what a silly bunt line. Pretty sure the BBC had no idea what it meant!

 

[wunt be druv]

One of the early ones - Bicycle Repair Man

Good call,probably my fave as well.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Being a plumbing & heating engineer I always liked the sketches with the hundreds of gas men queuing down the road in their brown coats--------not clever enough to do the pictures tho
I can remember going to the Mulberry Pub in Worthing in the late seventies when after a few hours of ROCK the last 15mins? were devoted to Python stuff.

 

[Danny-Boy]

One of the early ones - Bicycle Repair Man

Good call,probably my fave as well.

Is the Aust

 

[Danny-Boy]

As I was saying, Is the Australian Uni sketch on Youtube?

"Bruce, this is Bruce Bruce Bruce and Bruce. What is Rule 1 Bruce?"

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

As I was saying, Is the Australian Uni sketch on Youtube?

"Bruce, this is Bruce Bruce Bruce and Bruce. What is Rule 1 Bruce?"

Yes, you'll find it under the Philosophers Song, the Bruce bit was a lead in.

The lyrics of the Philosophers Song were absolutely brilliant, some of the best they ever wrote.


Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

 

[Dick Head]

I'm pretty sure it was on the original BBC show. Wasn't there an original LP before the Live at Drury Lane recoding? And now for something completely different, if memory serves.

I didn't really get into the recordings, except that first one but I watched all the shows when they went out and I remember being shocked - in a nice way! - at the what a silly bunt line. Pretty sure the BBC had no idea what it meant!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

No it isn't...

 

[glasfryn]

Short but brilliant

this is true

 

[Norman Potting]

Nice and woody.

 

[TonyBloomsPokerFace]

This has always been one of my favourites.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

two of my favourites were listed by Frutos and the other is the 'Argument Clinic'. I'm surprised we haven't seen this one yet though...

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Possibly this:

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I concur with this oh yes !!! Funniest of all

 

[Frutos]

two of my favourites were listed by Frutos

Which two, out of curiosity?

 

[fire&skill]

The Piranha Brothers, but can only find it in two bits because it is quite long.

I love Graham Chapman as Vince Snettereton-Lewis: "Well, I was sitting at home, threatening the kids, when all at once through the hole in the wall, I sees this tank draw up, and out stepped Dinsdale."

Yep - this. On the rare occasions I need to use the word 'hyperbole' in relaxed conversation, I still refer to it as 'eye-per-bowl'.

 

[16bha]

Finally got tickets for the O2 on 15th July. Hope they've still got it!!

 

[daveinprague]

Fish dance still makes me giggle...its just silly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwLirQS2-o

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]