# Best Monty Python Sketch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593 "2009-10-12T22:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/101 "2009-10-21T21:54:12Z")
What about “Conquistador Instant Coffee” ? That’s always in my top 10. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/102 "2009-10-21T22:10:11Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Fight my ignorance please. Because it wasn’t in the original TV series. It originally appeared in “At Last The 1948 Show” and only became a Python sketch after its appearance in (I think) the Hollywood Bowl live shows. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/103 "2009-10-21T22:19:27Z")
> [@Rayne\_Man](#): > > Because it wasn’t in the original TV series. It originally appeared in “At Last The 1948 Show” and only became a Python sketch after its appearance in (I think) the Hollywood Bowl live shows. But Monty Python isn’t the show, it is the comedy troupe. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/104 "2009-10-21T22:30:32Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > But Monty Python isn’t the show, it is the comedy troupe. The comedy troupe that brings new meaning to the word “vomit”. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/105 "2009-10-21T23:41:55Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Man, it’s like choosing my favorite child. Cheese Shop, Dead Parrot and Argument Clinic are my top three. > > I like the one where John Cleese goes to the Customer Service desk to complain and the man (Palin) says “Yes, miss?” > Cleese: Why did you call me ‘miss’? > Palin: I’m sorry, I have a cold. Um, no. That’s from Dead Parrot, and it is Cleese calling Palin “miss”, then apologizing by saying he has a cold. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/106 "2009-10-22T00:45:31Z")
_Newsweek_ honors Python (more for starting a trend of gross-out humor than I think it deserves): [Monty Python: The Original Kings of Gore](http://www.newsweek.com/id/218091) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/107 "2009-10-22T00:49:23Z")
If anyone has Sirius, station 105 is temporarily the Monty Python channel. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/108 "2009-10-22T11:33:52Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > But Monty Python isn’t the show, it is the comedy troupe. If we were talking only about the television show, the Philosopher’s Song should not be here either. It was added for live shows (or maybe for a record, see just below) and the Hollywood Bowl is essentially a live show edited into a film. And let’s not forget the Pythons also made a series of records with hilarious sketches such as The Day Nothing Happened and Elephantoplasty. But the Four Yorkshiremen sketch already existed before the tv series started and was written by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman. If you sit through the Hollywood Bowl movie end credits you’ll see they’re in there. Actually the Silly Job Interview was also a recycled sketch, it came from How to irritate people. I’d have to watch the end credits to see if anyone else outside MP was involved in writing that. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/109 "2009-10-22T11:44:16Z")
I cannot decide which is the funniest. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/110 "2009-10-22T13:12:22Z")
A CNN story on the 40th anniversary: [http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/21/monty.python.40/index.html?iref=mpstoryview](http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/21/monty.python.40/index.html?iref=mpstoryview) ---
**Author:** ![D.Fenestrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@D.Fenestrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Fenestrator)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/111 "2009-10-22T15:04:44Z")
I voted for the Lumberjack, but it was a close contest between that and the Philosphers’ Song. Although the most side-splitting thing for me was always the sequence in\* Holy Grail\* where the organist is frantically playing happy upbeat music over a blank screen. I could never satisfactorily explain to anyone else why I was laughing so hard at that one… I can’t believe it’s been 40 years. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/112 "2009-10-22T15:16:39Z")
I saw Hollywood Bowl for the very first time last night, IFC I believe. Jeez but it was entertaining. All of a sudden I realized many things I’d read here before were in fact references, shout outs, to Python. For instance, don’t we have a poster here named **Crunchy Frog**? And the historical one upmanship pissing contests; \*You had a house? We had a dugout covered with a tarpaulin… \*etc. What was that skit called? I don’t see it on the list and it had me chuckling pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/113 "2009-10-22T17:50:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > A CNN story on the 40th anniversary: [Monty Python celebrates 40 years of silliness - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/21/monty.python.40/index.html?iref=mpstoryview) There’s a short video clip with this story, but neither the story nor the clip acknowledges Carol Cleveland, who appears in the clip. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/114 "2009-10-22T18:55:07Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > …And the historical one upmanship pissing contests; \*You had a house? We had a dugout covered with a tarpaulin… \*etc. What was that skit called? I don’t see it on the list and it had me chuckling pretty good. The Four Yorkshiremen, as discussed earlier. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/115 "2009-10-23T03:48:56Z")
Argument Clinic. You had 20 chances, and you blew it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593.md?page=5)