Why is this show so enduring? It even gets broadcast time on public television to this day. Is it not in fact the worst television show ever? Can anyone possibly defend the content for being genius?
2007-01-13 15:23:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
It's great comedy, at least for me. Maybe I'm weird, but I love it. How can you not love "The Lumberjack Song?"
2007-01-13 15:34:06 · answer #1 · answered by Beachman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect some of what makes it funny has been lost because its been seen so often. Everyone has seen the dead parrot sketch and the Spanish Inquisition.
For me, the first time I saw it I thought I'd burst a rib I laughed so much. Although the show is almost 40 years old, many of the sketches still apply because they use archetypes rather than topical material that would have dated.
It's true that not everyone gets it, just like not everyone gets Little Britain or The League of Gentlemen, but consider this - 40 years worth of comedians from both sides of the Atlantic, including Eddie Izzard, Robin Williams and hell of a lot of the Saturday Night Live guys (e.g. Bill Murray) cite Python as their influence. They must be doing something right.
2007-01-15 14:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by Cardinal Fang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where does one start with this? Such a broad topic!
It's a group of respectable-looking people who do some of the things we would love to do ourselves....except they might take it to extremes.....a bit....a bit.
The fact that they are themselves so serious about the skits makes it that much better.
Humour is a very personal and culture-dependent thing. French people generally don't get Monty Python.
I feel deeply sorry for you if you don't get it. It has brought many many many (many many many) happy hours to me over the years.
I hope that someday you will find something that makes you laugh. And don't be surprised if it's a Python or Python-esqe skit.
2007-01-14 00:08:35 · answer #3 · answered by chercham 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monty Python's Flying Circus accurately represents the injustice, oppression, and suffering found in today's black communities of America.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an epic in the order of Gone With the Wind.
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2007-01-13 23:31:48 · answer #4 · answered by Ace of Spades 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not to you. British humor either strikes you as really really funny or really really not. You're definitely one of the "not"s. There's no way to convince you it's genius. It's not your kinda thing. But you have to respect the fact that there must be something very funny about it to lots of people, or it wouldn't be so popular.
2007-01-13 23:33:22 · answer #5 · answered by maluba 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am always watching for the Spanish Inquisition to bust in my house at any given moment.
2007-01-13 23:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by Gadwall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋