What is the best Monty Python sketch? (call for nominations)

[Nemo]

Four Yorkshiremen isn't Monty Python originally is it? I like upper-class twit of the year btw. Or the lumberjack song.

 

[rioted]

Four Yorkshiremen isn't Monty Python originally is it?

At last the 1984 show?

 

[ska invita]

SPAM

 

[rioted]

the one with all the communists? yea thats pretty good

No, if I remember it right Trotsky spent a lot of time on a bike. There's no Trotsky in your sketch. And definitely no bike!

 

[gentlegreen]

At last the 1984 show?

Or Dickens's Hard Times :-

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday. He stood before the fire, partly because it was a cool spring afternoon, though the sun shone; partly because the shade of Stone Lodge was always haunted by the ghost of damp mortar; partly because he thus took up a commanding position, from which to subdue Mrs Gradgrind.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]‘I hadn’t a shoe to my foot. As to a stocking, I didn’t know such a thing by name. I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty. That’s the way I spent my tenth birthday. Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch.’[/FONT]​

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Mrs Gradgrind, a little, thin, white, pink-eyed bundle of shawls, of surpassing feebleness, mental and bodily; who was always taking physic without any effect, and who, whenever she showed a symptom of coming to life, was invariably stunned by some weighty piece of fact tumbling on her; Mrs Gradgrind hoped it was a dry ditch?[/FONT]​

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]‘No! As wet as a sop. A foot of water in it,’ said Mr Bounderby.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]‘Enough to give a baby cold,’ Mrs Gradgrind considered. ....[/FONT]​

 

[rioted]

Or Dickens's Hard Times :-

Brilliant!

 

[weltweit]

- The parrot sketch -
This parrot's dead ...
No sir its sleeping ..
The norweigien blue .. etc

Every sperm is sacred (from the meaning of life)

Mr Creoste (also from the meaning of life)
The big guy eating in the resteraunt..
Would sir like a chocolate wafer
no fuck off
wafer thin
no fuck off
etc etc explode !!

 

[weltweit]

There are lots of sections of the life of Brian that I love.

They are not really sketches but they are great bits .. of monty python ..

 

[DJ Squelch]

The Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enactment of the battle of Pearl Harbor.

 

[poului]

sorry but that is just shite...i could only watch teh first half

You're just shite.

 

[Detroit City]

You're just shite.

piss off

 

[geminisnake]

Monty Python is guilty of making me unable to take some serious situations seriously enough

Like two sheds I don't think I could pick one sketch. Favourites include the Spanish inquisition, the Parrot/lumberjack sketch, Upper Class twit and there's a squaddie one where they prance

 

[bonjour]

I just watched
"I wish to report a burgalry" - that is genius!
"Arguement clinic"
and "The man who only speaks the end of words"

I can't believe I've never watched this before! Thanks urban!

 

[Artaxerxes]

Love this one

 

[jayeola]

* brave, brave Sir Robin
* Your Father is a Frenchman

 

[Detroit City]

"oi, would ya get that one dierdre??"

 

[teahead]

Or the Fish Licence sketch , forgot about that one.

I married a Norwegian and lived to regret it. Arguement. Always.

Or maybe the thing about half-bees etc.

Monty doing slicing is nice.
Or shouting about what you don't get with an Albatross... Kneel and pray!

 

[two sheds]

is the hungarian phrase book sketch allowable nowadays?

 

[paolo]

Spanish Holiday monologue.

It's almost all my childhood summer holidays, in a single sketch.

 

[paolo]

is the hungarian phrase book sketch allowable nowadays?

By the way, is your nickname, Two "Arthur Jackson" Sheds ?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

My personal favourite, probably the self defence sketch.

 

[Mungy]

- Confuse a cat

 

[two sheds]

By the way, is your nickname, Two "Arthur Jackson" Sheds ?

Yes, bit of a misnomer really since i now have four and reeeeally need another.

 

[paolo]

Yes, bit of a misnomer really since i now have four and reeeeally need another.

Arthur "five sheds" Jackson.

 

[weltweit]

Ministry of silly walks

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Can we count stuff from the movies?

e.g. this bit from the Holy Grail?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Or Lancelot at the wedding, perfect stuff, might have been straight from Mallory.

 

[_pH_]

The Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enactment of the battle of Pearl Harbor.

^ that is superb!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

if we're allowed bits from the films, then for me, the bit where king arthur is going across the field and gets harangued by the lefty peasant.

 

[Detroit City]

if we're allowed bits from the films, then for me, the bit where king arthur is going across the field and gets harangued by the lefty peasant.

you mean the part where eric idle is dressed as a woman and all covered in shit and says he's being repressed?