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    Fav Monty Python Sketch?

    Ok so a lot of it is dated, but I’ve been watching the Best Of…. on DVD lately and there are still many moments that stand up as pure genius.

    For me though, it doesn’t get any better than the “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch, in fact, even though they weren’t writing partners, I find the sketches that John Cleese and Michael Palin act on together are always the best.

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    Yeah the ministery of silly walks it is for me

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    Every Sperm is sacred is my favourite song.

    Probably the knights that go ni for skit
    The glass isn't half full or half empty it's just too damn big!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOwl
    Ok so a lot of it is dated, but I’ve been watching the Best Of…. on DVD lately and there are still many moments that stand up as pure genius.

    For me though, it doesn’t get any better than the “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch, in fact, even though they weren’t writing partners, I find the sketches that John Cleese and Michael Palin act on together are always the best.
    I know its from the Life of Brian, but I quite like the "Romanus eunt domus" grammar lesson scene. "Conjugate that verb!"

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    Also, its not even Python this time, but Cleese's sketch in Faulty Towers where Basil says to Manuel:
    "There is too much butter on those trays"
    "que...? "
    "...on those trays!"
    "No senor! Not 'on those trays'... 'Uno, dos, tres!"

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    The four Yorkshiremen sketch (that was theirs originally wasn't it?)

    Fantastic, Spanish Inquisition a close second.

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    Check it out and laugh your head off!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063929/quotes

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    i think the famous dead parrot sketch from monty python is classic!!
    Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

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    If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

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    The Lumberjack song is my favourite moment.

    I also quite like the cheese shop with no cheese.

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    What about the one about the talking sheep? Or the bit with the rabbit in the Holy Grail??
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    i like the one in Flying Circus where there's a talking dog sitting
    at a campfire saying he's an undercover detective. its trippy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by shedite
    Every Sperm is sacred is my favourite song.
    Not "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me"?

    It would be wrong to say the parrot sketch is tired. But it is.

    I've always been rather fond of the bignose bit in Life of Brian.

    "One more time mate, and I'll take you to the f*cking cleaners!"

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    Did Latin in school - makes the "Person called Romanus they go the 'ouse?!" sketch so much funnier! If our Latin teacher had been allowed a sword in class, he'd have reacted exactly the same way as the Roman soldier every time we mixed up dative and ablative...

    Four Yorkshiremen is quality. I quite enjoy the parrot sketch, the idiot quiz...

    Ghastly Quizmaster: Jolly good! Well now Madam your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?
    Ratbag: I don't know that.
    Ghastly Quizmaster: Well -- have a guess!
    Ratbag: Oh... Henri Bergson?
    Ghastly Quizmaster: ...is the correct answer! (Piano chords)
    Ratbag: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him.
    ...the philosophers' song, the argument clinic (could apply to some posters here )...plenty of them! Have an old record of Monty Python at the Drury Lane Theatre - not quite the same when you can't see the actions as well, but still great listening.

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    From time to time I have been known to sing the accountancy-shanty:
    "its fun to charter an accountant,
    and sail the wide accountancy,
    We'll find, explore, the funds offshore,
    and skirt the coasts of bancruptcy...!"
    (no, I'm not an accountant!)

    or

    "Finland, Finland, Finland!...
    ...a poor second to Belgium, when going abroad"

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    The Dirty Hungarian phrasebook one I've always found funny...
    The Model Club

    Tell all the Bohs you know
    that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
    and it's not gonna be three
    and it's not gonna be four
    it's more likely to be 5-1.

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    or, the machine that goes "bing!"

    I'll have to stop, this thread could go on for months!

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    Quote Originally Posted by d f x-
    The Dirty Hungarian phrasebook one I've always found funny...
    You want to come back to my place bouncy bouncy?

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    I don't think you're using that right..
    The Model Club

    Tell all the Bohs you know
    that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
    and it's not gonna be three
    and it's not gonna be four
    it's more likely to be 5-1.

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    It's only waaaaaffffeeer thin!

    Also love

    Man (MP): Inspector! Inspector!

    Inspector (JC): Yes sir?

    Man: I was sitting on a park bench just now and I put my coat down and when I picked it up again I found my wallet had gone and 15 pounds had been stolen.

    Inspector: Did you see any, anyone?

    Man: No, no one at all.

    Inspector: Well there's very little we can do about that sir.

    Man: (pause) Do you wanna come back to my place?

    Inspector: (pause) Yeah, all right.

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    The Four Yorkshiremen would be my favourite, but isn't it Tim Brooke Taylor's (from the Goodies), while Cleese was involved, I think it pre-dated Python.

    (Oh Christ: Nerd alert , fcuk it, it's my favourite)

    The Ministry of Silly Walks second
    Spanish Inquisition third

    Also love the
    Brian: "you're all individual"
    Mob: "We're all individual"
    One Guy: "I'm not"

    piece from the Life of Brian, IMO the funniest line in the history of Film.
    Actually laughing here at the desk just thinking about it, brilliant
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slash/ED

    Spanish Inquisition a close second.
    nobody expects the inquisition...........................

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