favourite python

[Orang Utan]

don't be fooled - he's just pulling the wool over you eyes. he's a cunt in real life. makes runners cry with absurd demands and gratuitous insults.

 

[D'wards]

don't be fooled - he's just pulling the wool over you eyes. he's a cunt in real life. makes runners cry with absurd demands and gratuitous insults.

No way? Is that true or embelishment (sp)?

It would shatter all my illusions (allusions) if true. If it was Cleese i would not care as he seems a bit of cunt when interviewed, but not dear Michael.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

No way? Is that true or embelishment (sp)?

It would shatter all my illusions (allusions) if true. If it was Cleese i would not care as he seems a bit of cunt when interviewed, but not dear Michael.

Indeed

Any links, OU?

 

[Orang Utan]

he beats his servants too, even worse than david attenborough does. and that's saying something.

 

[D'wards]

http://pythonline.com/meet/palin

 

[Orang Utan]

http://pythonline.com/meet/palin

very suspicious. when people bend over backwards to stress how nice someone is, it's because they are quite the opposite. he's a tyrant.

 

[foo]

he's well smug in his travelogue programmes - patronising colonial cunt getting his hair cut by blind barbers n shit and just stopping short of patting them on the head and calling them boy. he's worse than rick stein.

yeh this is what i think too.

i used to like him....

 

[Idaho]

Eric Idle was the funniest. Simple as that for me. I just found him funny.

 

[bi0boy]

he's well smug in his travelogue programmes - patronising colonial cunt getting his hair cut by blind barbers n shit and just stopping short of patting them on the head and calling them boy. he's worse than rick stein.

Of course, white people shouldn't visit poor areas abroad and especially shouldn't avail themselves of any services there - they should do like proper middle class people and write letters to the Grauniad about how terrible it is that there are blind people in India being forced to work on the streets.

 

[Orang Utan]

you said that, not me

 

[llion]

Chapman was the craziest and most interesting character. His autobiography is absolutely nuts!
Idle was the funniest for me though.

 

[stavros]

Great as they all were/are, they were greater than the sum of their parts together. A better poll would be favourite Flying Circus sketch; mine would be Upperclass Twit Of The Year.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

i didn't expect that

What did you expect?

more reference to python and less to recent travel series

NOBODY!!! EXPECTS!!! less reference to python and more to recent travel series!!!

When I was a kid, Eric Idle was my favourite cos he's cheeky. As an adult, I seem to have moved towards finding Graham Chapman the funniest. Just brilliantly insane characters. "oh, an Hoop! 'Scuse me mama, I'm orf to play the grarnd piarno!'"

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Great as they all were/are, they were greater than the sum of their parts together. A better poll would be favourite Flying Circus sketch; mine would be Upperclass Twit Of The Year.

Mine would be either Bicycle RepairMan, or that one from the German edition with the Philosophers' football.

 

[stavros]

I think second place would go to the Piranha Brothers. I went through Dinsdale on the train the other day, and had to look out the window for a 60ft hedgehog.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Chapman was the craziest and most interesting character. His autobiography is absolutely nuts!
Idle was the funniest for me though.

Yes, I've heard that it was Chapman who would take an 'ordinary' sketch, turn it on it's head, bring in an element of total illogical madness and make it, well, pythonesque!

 

[llion]

Definitely. 'Flying Lessons' is one of my fave Python sketches, when Chapman just rants at Terry Jones to get up on the table and start flying, with a really maniacal look on his face! A lot of people think he was the best actor of the Pythons as well and I've have to agree, especially when you consider he was really struggling with alcoholism/withdrawls when he played King Arthur in the Holy Grail.

 

[stavros]

Definitely. 'Flying Lessons' is one of my fave Python sketches, when Chapman just rants at Terry Jones to get up on the table and start flying, with a really maniacal look on his face! A lot of people think he was the best actor of the Pythons as well and I've have to agree, especially when you consider he was really struggling with alcoholism/withdrawls when he played King Arthur in the Holy Grail.

Initially Cleese was going to play Brian, but they've all admitted since that Graham was perfect for it, and without him we wouldn't have got Cleese as Reg.

 

[tim]

Carol Cleveland

 

[gnoriac]

Eric Idle. For his monologue as Mr Smoketoomuch in the if nothing else.

 

[Onket]

Cleese, for me. He does stuff with his body like Rowan Atkinson does with his mouth/voice. They made normal stuff utterly fucking hilarious.

What I did love about Palin though, was how often he seemed just on the verge of cracking up and bursting out laughing, or at least giggling. Watching that gets me going, on it's own.

I'm not one of those people that thinks everything that Python ever did was comedy gold or anything though.

 

[catinthehat]

When I was a kid I liked Eric Idle best but in retrospect and in terms of the full cv it has to be Terry Gilliam. And I think his work seems less dated, less sort of smarty pants sixth form than the rest of it - but it only seems like that in retrospect, at the time it was as important to me as the Sunday run through of the top 20.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

In terms of who I found funniest, has to be Cleese, but I heard he can be a bit of a tosser as a person, whereas Palin just strikes me as an all-round good egg, so him

Only reached post two of this thread, but this sounds right. I like the two Terrys too for the same reason. Who wouldn't want Terry Jones as their dad?

 

[tim]

Only reached post two of this thread, but this sounds right. I like the two Terrys too for the same reason. Who wouldn't want Terry Jones as their dad?

Terry Jones's sister, perhaps.