Youtube has lots of wonderful old Monty Python sketches. Here are a couple of my favorites, starting with the cheese shop sketch:
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Youtube Gems: Monty Python
Posted on: December 26, 2009 9:23 AM, by Ed Brayton
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Thanks for the laughs and the memories, but I still think "The Argument" should be in the top ten.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM
You would like it too, but it probabaly too closely resembles the recent "Pat Posts". Of course MP were funny and intelligent, as apposed to Pat's funny & sad.
Posted by: J-Dog | December 26, 2009 10:00 AM
The Argument Clinic sketch is the single best Monty Python sketch ever. But I've already posted it before, so I didn't repeat it here.
Posted by: Ed Brayton | December 26, 2009 11:34 AM
Ever notice how many of the great mp sketches simply consist of one character denying obvious reality again and again- dead parrot, black knight, cheese shop, argument clinic, flying lessons, etc.
I love the sketch with the absurd vicar-- "are you SURE i'm not disturbing you?"
and carol Cleveland is hot.
Great way to start the day. Thanks Ed!
Posted by: BZ | December 26, 2009 12:12 PM
My all-time favorite is the Vocational Guidance Counselor.
Posted by: BaldApe | December 26, 2009 12:43 PM
I'd have to think real hard about what my favorite MP sketch is, but in the mean time, Ed, have you seen this?
They really don't take time off, do they?
Posted by: Bachalon | December 26, 2009 1:28 PM
For the record, The Four Yorkshiremen was originally the 1948 Show.
As for favorite sketches, I've always like the lumberjack song.
Posted by: The Science Pundit | December 26, 2009 2:25 PM
Just a minor nit-pick, but the Four Yorkshiremen actually came from "At Last The 1948 Show", and was original performed by Cleese, Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Marty Feldman (with Eric Idle as the waiter).
If you find the DVDs for "At Last The 1948 Show" or the children's series "Do Not Adjust Your Set" (which included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Gilliam's animations, as well as the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band with Neil Innis), be sure to pick them up. They're not as solid as Python, but they really show off part of where Python came from.
Posted by: James HG Redekop | December 26, 2009 2:36 PM
My mother told me long ago that I got my wit from Python and not from anyone else in the family. I've always taken that as a compliment. I had many of the records in the early 80s and the "Arthur Two Sheds Jackson" sketch is one of my all time favorites.
Posted by: Brando | December 26, 2009 5:39 PM
these little fools use science to destroy every mystery in the universe…but not this one!!!
isgodimaginary.com/forum/index.php/topic,40909.0.html
Posted by: deadlyskeptic | December 26, 2009 10:24 PM
The cheese shop sketch is classic, one of my favorites. But I've always liked the Mountaineering sketch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdMV42czPCI
"Killamanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up until you reach the very very top, then it tends to slope away rather sharply."
Posted by: Paul | December 26, 2009 10:47 PM
Eddie Izzard and Alan Rickman were involved in a good redo of the Yorkshiremen sketch.
Posted by: Carlie | December 27, 2009 2:00 PM
Although most people's John Cleese favorite is generally the Ministry of Silly Walks, I think he was never better (for sheer wild-eyed J. Cleese lunacy) than in the Self Defense sketch. He never even topped that one in his entire run of Fawlty Towers.
Posted by: twincats | December 28, 2009 6:57 PM