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The Best…Monty Python moments

The Best…Monty Python moments
  • Posted at 3:05pm
  • 28 September 2009
  • by WilliamGallagher-RT
  • 6 comments

Forty years ago, Monty Python's Flying Circus burst onto television without much attention at all.

Screened on BBC2 from 1969 to 1974, each short series did earn an increasing following, yet it would really only be in the years since that Monty Python would become the incredible phenomenon it is today. Four decades of stage shows, films, books and phrases that have entered the language. It launched the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin - and is still seen around the world.

With all that, can you really pick out just a few sketches as being the best of Monty Python? Yes. It's just that everybody's list will be different.

Python star Terry Jones, for instance, tells Radio Times these two are among his absolute favourites:



The Lumberjack Song

The TV show finished in 1974 but Monty Python was really only beginning: watch the touring stage show's version of The Lumberjack Song.



You can find a huge selection of Python sketches plus new interview material on the official Monty Python's Life of Brian.



Ministry of Silly Walks

To this day, you'll see people doing this. John Cleese is in charge of granting government licences for silly walks.



What Have the Romans…

Yes, sanitation, yes, aqueducts, roads… But apart from the sanitation, the aqueducts and the roads, what have the Romans done for us? From Monty Python's Life of Brian.



What are your favourite Monty Python moments? Post a comment below and let us know.

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  • Posted on 05 November 2009
  • at 9:49am
  • by Eric

I love them all, of course, but I wonder why we never see the "New Brain" sketch. Of course it doesn't beat "Silly Walks", "Lumberjack", "Spam", etc., but I think it's really funny.

  • Posted on 14 October 2009
  • at 3:34pm
  • by Dominic

A difficult choice, but has to be the cheese shop sketch; "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?"

  • Posted on 11 October 2009
  • at 10:14pm
  • by PhilWes

The fish slapping dance! I gets funnier every time you see it!

  • Posted on 11 October 2009
  • at 6:24pm
  • by John

Great fun ,many thanks

  • Posted on 03 October 2009
  • at 10:40am
  • by Junkmail

For me it's definitely the dead parrot sketch.

  • Posted on 29 September 2009
  • at 9:38am
  • by Louise

My favourite sketch is the chocolate shop sketch. I think it's absolutely hilarious. I also love the red indians in the theatre "Me heep big fan Cicely Courtneidge". And I love the science fiction sketch where everyone turns into red-bearded scotsmen.

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