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Big nose, Biggus Dickus, The People's Front of Judea, I want to be a woman, I shall welease Brian..............has to be Life of Brian!
Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Free coconuts on opening night, or the film so funny that it was banned in Norway.
It's close, but Brian edges it for me.
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Big nose, Biggus Dickus, The People's Front of Judea, I want to be a woman, I shall welease Brian..............has to be Life of Brian!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Life of Brian but i never really warmed to Python stuff much, it is a style of comedy that gets repetative fast IMO
Close call, but Life of Brian for me too!
My eyes are dim, my knees are weak.......
L.O.B. for me.
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I remember me and a mate of mine going to see it on its release (Life of Brian) my sides ached coming out of the Cinema, I don’t think I have laughed so much since
Definitely Life of Brian.
M
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Life of Brian - an utter gem.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
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No one ever flogged a gag to death longer or harder than the Pythons. Some of the TV show is unwatchable.Originally Posted by xellos99
As for the films, I wouldn’t be tripping over myself to see either again.
Always look on the bright side
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I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Brian for me too, but only just.
I had to go to Manchester to see it as it was banned at my local.
Can’t believe you have all chosen the same film - are we not all individuals?
IMHO Life of Brian is a better film but Grail has the funniest scene in any film ever, on the Bridge of Death, plus plenty of other golden moment.
Do not like Monty Python, neither.
I'm not!
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Life of Brian is the funniest film I've ever seen.
I laughed like a drain at the 'pictures' when I first saw it but had to see it again to appreciate all the scenes.
I’m not and neither is my wife.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Life of Brian, narrowly.
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Holy Grail wouldve been brilliant, were it not for Life of Brian.
Imagine being Ralph Schumacher - youre a F1 driver, a member of an elite group making you one of the best in the world.
But your brother is Michael Schumacher...
Blessed are the cheese makers
I'll go against the general view and pick Holy Grail, it's only a scratch.
I remember going to see it at the pictures when it came out.
Funnily enough, I had a lovely piece of fish last night and it was fit for Jehovah. Are there any women here today?
Was fortunate enough to see the Pythons live in 2014, the last time that they were all on stage.
I fart in your general direction
Holy Grail for me
Life of Brian is the funniest film I’ve ever seen, I can watch it over and over and still find it hilarious.
Some of the Monty Python stuff was brilliant but some definitely wasn’t. The silly Olympics sketch is one if the funniest although its definitely not PC by todays standards.
Holy Grail, but very close.
I'm going to go massively against the grain here, and say while I think both movies have their moments, I reckon they are both overrated.
I can see that Python was absolutely groundbreaking at the time, but I've always thought it was very patchy - definitely some brilliance, but also an awful lot of misfires.
I would also like to add that I am a huge fan of comedy, and my tastes range from Some Like It Hot, to Spinal Tap, and Anchorman to Airplane.
I guess not everyone likes the same thing to the same level.
So clever my foot fell off.
There's a lot in the TV show that would have the PC pantywaists "cancelling" them in a heartbeat
Generally, I find men are far more receptive to comedy than women, men just seem to find stuff funnier than the fairer sex in my experience. Is this a misconception on my part or is there a definite gender split?
My missus didn't find any of monty python funny apart from life of Brian while I did.
It has to be said that much of Monty Pythons Flying Circus hasn't stood the test of time, just the films.
Life of Brian by a whisker for me but there is not a lot in it.
They just don't make films like these any more, they have me in stitches every time I watch them, its the same for with most Mel Brooks Films (although there are some shockers from Mr Brooks)
I think Holy Grail has funnier bits in it, but as an overall film LoB feels more complete.
It's just a matter of time...
Nope, that wasn't an option
Life of Brian.
LOB here, but my wife doesn’t get it despite a similar age; male / boarding school of an era, who knows.
Rewatching, not as funny as I remember, but remember the fun with friends at the time. Feels very dated these days for any new generations; particularly the tv show as stated.
Is there an age element here too? I’m in my very early 50’s and didn’t see either until I was well into my 20’s - I think I was too young when they were released and - whilst I’m a big comedy fan - I just never really ‘got’ Monty Python - a bit like The Beatles and The Stones, they’ve always been there but they pre-date me and and my generation (by which I guess I mean school mates etc) and have never really been my ‘iconic touchstones’ in the way they clearly are for many
I never really found any of the python stuff funny, very forgettable for me the same as the likes of Benny Hill, Charlie Drake and many others, thank goodness we all like different stuff.
Both very funny - some of the humour was pretty much of it's time but I reckon there is enough good stuff to still rate them very highly in modern film.
For me, life of Brian is a great coherent story where holy grail plays more like a series of sketches. LoB for the rating, but HG for re-watchability
Life of Brian for me - still makes me laugh!.
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I love both films. If I had to pick, it would be Life of Brian for reasons I can't say in the G&D.
Holy Grail is shit.
Life of Brian is brilliant
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I am not sure that Monty Python, Benny Hill and Charlie Drake have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before!
Perhaps you needed to be a teenager when the Pythons were on TV to truly appreciate the humour. Monty Python was pretty cutting edge at the time. I think every generation has its comic heroes.
Well I'd never have thought of grouping those 3 together!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Brian for me overall, but this argument in Grail influenced my republicanism from an early age.
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one lives there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! --- HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh?.... That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
David
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I tend to agree (I'm late 50s though) and while many of my contemporaries can recite whole sketches verbatim, I found most of Python's stuff the silly, surreal or just plain unfunny side of humorous. That said, Life of Brian is (mostly) brilliant.
The Holy Grail has it's moments, but it's far patchier, like the TV stuff - I notice no-one's mentioned The Meaning of Life...
That said, I do get the Beatles and the Stones (not Pink Floyd or Queen though!)
M
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'Every Sperm is Sacred' is magnificent, but it was never going to make the cut. By then the team were largely pursuing their individual interests and it shows in the lack of coherency.
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Certainly true. Although Mr. Death and "the salmon mousse," as well as Monsieur Creosote stand firm in the memory. The film also taught me the meaning of the word "episiotomy." Always useful to know.
David
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Aah! I see you have the machine that goes 'ping'.
Grail and Brain (and Meaning of Life) much love for them all, but I voted Grail just because I knew there'd be fewer voting for it
Found some of it funny at the time but grown out of it TBH. The animated cartoon sketches were never funny and excruciating now.
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