IME asking Europeans from many different countries about what comedy they like (not specifically British), loads say Python or Fawlty Towers. Or as soon as they clock you're from the UK they sometimes strike up a conversation about it.
Monty Python Crap / Not Crap ?
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IME asking Europeans from many different countries about what comedy they like (not specifically British), loads say Python or Fawlty Towers. Or as soon as they clock you're from the UK they sometimes strike up a conversation about it.
Same. I remember around the early 90s BBC2 repeated a load of the Flying Circus. My Dad, who was at Uni in the early 70s and hence a huge Pythonite, suggested I watched it and I just loved its silliness. Now when I watch it I pick up little bits that I'd have missed back then.
Yeah, the Frogs love it. Indeed, my original introduction to the Holy Grail / Life of Brian was at my French exchange's house when I was about 15...
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got to be brazil or fisher king for post python work. love gilliam
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I'd a agree with that: there was an awful lot of eminently forgettable dross in MPFS, punctuated by the occasional sketch of genius.
I have a confession to make, which is that I haven't watched Brazil properly. I actually have the DVD, watched about a third of it ages ago, and the Missus found it Too Weird. Need to give it a proper go.
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My french mates love that bit too. 'I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent.'They thought that bit was hilarious
Haven't they only shown the Germans Fawlty episode in Germany for the first time in the last year?
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What sort of complete knobbler would vote crap?
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I showed it on a large wall by projecter at a squat party in Magdeburg 12 years ago. It was really funny being the only person laughing out loud as Fawlty did his funny walk and a load of very stoned antifa Germans watched in bemusement.
lol I do wonder. I do think it's crap in parts, but the sheer brilliance of some sketches + the movies more than make up for that IMO.
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When they showed it in Spain, Manuel was from Italy.
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I've never really liked Monty Python.
In fact I don't think I've laughed once at a single sketch.
In fact I don't think I've laughed once at a single sketch.
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I think John Cleese more or less admitted that the Pythons had little or no idea as to which of their sketches would work and which wouldn't; he said they would try out lots of different things to try and gauge what was worth doing and what wasn't.
I loved the penguin sketch (with Ken Rosewall as a zoologist trying to prove that a penguin was highly intelligent), but I've never met anyone who even remembers it.
I wouldn't know about that. But surely some Germans have sky or similar?
Oh come on. This is a work of genius:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HaRFBSq9k
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Gabi? Then again, he tends to be singularly wrong on just about everything, so I'm not surprised
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I just watched the entire 6 minutes and 7 seconds of that and didn't even raise a smile. I'm obviously in the minority but I cannot see how people find it so funny?
I just watched the entire 6 minutes and 7 seconds of that and didn't even raise a smile. I'm obviously in the minority but I cannot see how people find it so funny?
What about this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
?
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It deserved a smile
I still don't think I really get the hilarity of it all though 
It deserved a smile
Comedy works on people if it's close to home. Which is why the terribly written and not very funny Little Britain was surprisingly successful. No clever writing was needed as people could relate to the characters, for whatever reason.
The above scene may just raise a smile. But if you watch it in the context of Urban75 - as in, "I'm more working class than you and I don't live in a hostel I live in the bin round the back" then it slowly induces mirth.
And the fact they're all well dressed compounds the point.
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I've been here so long I'm starting to turn into pogofish ... 
I can't find it mentioned anywhere else on urban...
I only just encountered these sketches commissioned by German TV with the Pythons speaking German.
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus - YouTube
I can't find it mentioned anywhere else on urban...
I only just encountered these sketches commissioned by German TV with the Pythons speaking German.
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus - YouTube
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Youtube started showing me programmes featuring Python people which is when I heard about the German project.
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