Some people may be surprised that it is so long into these pieces that I bring in one of the best in the business. There is some madness to my method here, it is choosing the right clips to best highlight their talent, and narrowing down which are my favourite.
Now it would be easy to just go straight into The Parrot Sketch, or the equally brilliant Ministry of Silly Walks, or take scenes from their classic movies.
But the two I have selected here are amongst my favourite Python moments;
The first is the Upper Class Twit of the Year with events such as "Kicking the Beggar", "Reversing over the Old Lady" (in which Oliver runs over himself!) and "Removing the bra". Side splitting stuff!
The second clip I have chosen is typical Cleese material, the HM Services film, How Not To Be Seen.
There are two types of people in the world, Pythons, and those who aren't funny. I think a lot of people say they like Python because everyone else does, but deep down have no idea of the joke. These people are actually more attracted to 'canned laughter', Bill Cosby, Friends and other US sitcoms which tell the people when to laugh rather than figure out the joke themselves.
It is a shame we lost Graham Chapman so early on in his life and career, he was one of the stars of the show and the world lost yet another talent to dependence. RIP.
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| l to r; Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam |
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