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There never has, nor never will, be a more quoted TV show. The likes of The Fast Show and Little Britain have tried but everyone knows 'The dead Parrot Sketch' and no one expects The Spanish Inquisition! They are all geniuses of comedy and as such deserve the label of English icon.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2007-07-18 by Jennifer Moss from Castleford, UK
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The series is just such a wonderful example of the British sense of humour and is appreciated all over the world.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2007-03-30 by carolyn solomon from israel
Some cool facts you might want to know.
ok this is just some random stuff i thought some fanatics might wanna know. 1. terry jones was allergic 2 horses. 2. graham chapman went to medical school 3. chapman was also a fully qualified mountain climber and a goat herder at one time. he reffered 2 them as 'very sensible animals' 4. supposively there was a 13th Fawlty Towers episode that was lost, but i'm not sure if this is true or not. if anybody knows, i'd like 2 know. 5. Carol Cleveland was in 30 of the original episodes 6. Eric Idle is responsible for the official website, Pythonline. You should check it out if you haven't already. P.S. This is to the person who has the crush on you Michael Palin. I think it's sweet. Personally, I think Eric Idle is cute, along with Palin. lol
Comment on Monty Python posted 2007-02-09 by j.w. from united states
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Mr Bean's originated in this - a total legend. A perfect example of British humour. We use the sayings in every day, and it raises our spirits every time.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-10-02 by Sally's Sociology Class F from Basingstoke
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Can anyone name a comedy before or since that even semi-afficionados can recite off by heart (with the possible exception of certain lines from those Anglo-American icons Laurel and Hardy)? I could do you a largely accurate version of Nudge, Nudge, Four Yorkshiremen, Australian Wines, Cheese Shop, Buying a Bed, Election Night Special, etc., etc. at the drop of a hat, nearly 40 years after the sketches were first written!
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-07-04 by James Richards from Poland
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Growing up as a kid in the USA, we did not get many british things. Once i saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail, i fell in love with the British. They have attracted so many people to the great country
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-05-04 by David Kuhn from Pennsylvania, USA
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The supreme expression of English eccentricity laughing at itself to those of us in sunnier climes.Basil Fawlty excepted. But then John Cleese had time to hone him to a fine degree on Monty Python. Who can forgot the Upper Class English Twit of The Year Award.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-02-03 by Lewis Offler from Australia
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Why? How could it *not* be an icon?!
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-01-30 by Pat Steppic from Seattle, Washington
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Worldwide - and America wide - everyone, and I mean everyone, knows the "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa and calls it, "The Monty Python Song." I love England. Best place, after Texas, to be. But 30+ years after the show, Monty Python carries on. It was a stereotypical success! I see Tower Bridge, The KJ Bible, the Bobby, HMS Victory and himself atop at Trafalgar Square. But Monty Python is the twentieth century contribution, bare none. Happy Trails.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-01-26 by Jeffrey P Miller B.A. A.S. from Austin, YeeHaw!, Texas
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I'm a Brit living in America and always hearing "Only in America." well with Python it really was "Only in England!" They taught us how to tear apart our stuffy old way of doing things a la WWII and get to dealing with the new world. The Pythons are as iconically English as The Beatles or Will Shakespeare.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2006-01-23 by Rich Godwin from Chicago USA
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You mention the Goons, at least Spike, as a precedent; please give a little more credit where credit is due: Python is the apex, the culmination, the glorious flower of the well-read and quite mad "Satire Boom" humor started by Beyond the Fringe.
Comment on Monty Python posted 2008-05-06 by Sally Campbell from FW/D Texas USA