# Monty Python Toasts My Bagel **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919 "2006-10-10T12:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/1 "2006-10-10T12:53:58Z")
Just thought I’d share, since I love Monty Python with a straange passion typically reserved for steak, sex and sunny days…so I thought I might share that Sundance Channel is having a big special on him and they have a bunch of features that are worth of look if you’re half as into the guy as I am. Sidenote: I dodn’t put this in Cafe Society b/c it really is MDPSIMS…but i had to! link to site ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/2 "2006-10-10T13:26:19Z")
Him? And you referring to the troupe as a gestalt entity? Very well then. Carry on. FWIW I’m on a britcom kick right now, currently in the process of acquiring Alexei Sayle’s “Stuff” and Flowery Twats – er, Fawlty Towers, and already in posession of the complete Young Ones, Black Adder, Mr. Bean and Red Dwarf sets. I love british comedy. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/3 "2006-10-10T13:35:29Z")
I agree with **Mindfield**. Since when is Monty Python a “him?” ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/4 "2006-10-10T13:38:48Z")
So, which one is Mr. Python? I always, like, wondered that. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/5 "2006-10-10T13:53:00Z")
We’ve just had a Monty Python night on English TV. One fine moment was (amazingly) at Graham Chapman’s memorial service. John Cleese started speaking conventionally by saying how talented Chapman was and how cruel to have lost him at such an early age. Then he smoothly said something vaguely like like “Of course if Graham were here, he’d want me to stir things up. So this is the first funeral where anyone says **fuck**!” ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/6 "2006-10-10T13:57:11Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] FWIW I’m on a britcom kick right now. [/QUOTE] What about some decent new Brit comedy like “Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place” or “Monkey Dust”? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/7 "2006-10-10T14:08:16Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] What about some decent new Brit comedy like “Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place” or “Monkey Dust”? [/QUOTE] Being that we don’t seem to get a lot of British comedies here, even on digital cable, I don’t know what a lot of them are like. My most recent exposure to British comedies include Bottom, AbFab, My Hero, and Alexei Sayle’s Stuff. Not exactly the latest and greatest. 🙂 But still, plenty of those old British comedies are absolutely classic. A Bit of Frye & Laurie, On The Busses, Are You Being Served?, The Two Ronnies, Dave Allen At Large, etc. I grew up with that lot. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-toasts-my-bagel/375919/8 "2006-10-10T14:34:29Z")
Monkey Dust is on DVD, not so sure about Garth M but I know a lot of it is downloadable from t’interweb. It’s worth looking out for if it ever makes the crossing to your side of the pond.