Really funny. 22-year old male.
I would have put genius, but frankly, after loving The Holy Grail and Life of Brian I went on to watch their other movies and Flying Circus. I wasn’t impressed at all. ESPECIALLY with Flying Circus, which for me was actually painful to watch.
I pretended to like The Holy Grail when I was younger to fit in with my peers but, in all honesty, I don’t get it. The show never made me laugh, either. 26, male, USA
I voted “absolute comic geniuses”; I am 51.
Other:
The stuff I love, I love, other stuff I can take or leave. Generally it breaks down to anything with a plot I find hysterical. When they go way absurd, it kind of wears on me.
Edit: I’m 34
Comic genius.
Female, notquitefifty, Irish
Ditto on both accounts. Swedish male, 42.
I saw Monty Python when the first episode aired on PBS in the states. Laying on the floor, watching them, I have NEVER laughed out loud so much in my life.
I’m 67
Jesus fucking Christ.
That is terrible. TERRIBLE!
50+. Comic geniuses. They did things that were funnier than I thought possible, in ways I didn’t think could be done. Right up there with SCTV, Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Eddie Murphy.
male, 52, USA
Genius, because they truly were. Not always, though-- some stuff was just inane.
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I’d break it down like this:*
25% Excellent
50% Very Good
20% Good
5% ho-hum
Hit or Miss.
I just like the silly Holy Grail Stuff.
Benny Hill was far funnier.
46
*addendum:
After looking at the XKCD link…
I remembered last night at band practice, still considering a band name, one of the names I thought of just happened to be…
“The Band That Plays NI”
I voted absolute genius. And I agree with hit or miss. But even when they missed it was ingenious missing.
Australian, 41.
I voted for really funny, because the “comic genius” spot is reserved for The Goon Show, with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
I voted “didn’t age well”. but it may just be that I haven’t aged well.
I personally thing many people forget about all the stuff that wasn’t funny. Their best bits are funny, but they put up a lot of stinkers, and the majority is just slightly amusing.
I don’t have any reference to know if they didn’t age well, as I’m not old enough to have seen them when they were fresh. So I went with “hit and miss.”
I do have no problem calling them comic geniuses, if only for the fact that people still love them. And, I must admit, their best stuff is still unequaled today, though Internet reviewers are slowly encroaching in.
Genius.
45, male.
Scandinavian origin residing in Singapore.
Any respect I had for them was eroded away by the constant references made to their sketches/movies by my high school drama majors. Better than SNL by far, and doesn’t even come close to SCTV.
37, male, Canadian.
57, born and raised in Minnesota, but have always been an Anglophile. Voted comic geniuses. I first saw Python at the age of 20, but didn’t get many of the jokes until I went and lived in Britain for a time.
Some Pythons, I admit, are funnier than others individually, but as a group they’re superb.
My daughter (born in Russia, a Canadian immigrant at the age of 10, and a lifelong Anglophile as well) received her indoctrination to Python at my hands when she was 12. Five years later,
she can rattle off almost as many bits as I can.
Mid-50s American male. They are comic geniuses.