Monty Python...

[Patcat]

So, any other Pythonists out there?

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more!

Patcat

[Sirenna]

Am I ever! ;D

The Dead Parrot Sketch
Monty Python
The Pet Shoppe
A customer enters a pet shop.
Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The owner does not respond.)
C: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
O: We're closin' for lunch.
C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
O: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
C: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
C: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
(shouting at the cage)
'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...(owner hits the cage)
O: There, he moved!
C: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage!
O: I never!!
C: Yes, you did!
O: I never, never did anything...
C: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
C: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.
O: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
C: STUNNED?!?
O: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Norwegian Blues stun easily, major.
C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
O: The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable bird, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage!
C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)

[Penn O'Hara]

"We've already got one!" ::with French accent::

::sotto voice:: "I told him we'd aready got one." ::snicker::


Actually, we've got four in a family of four. Must be contagious. Or is it hereditary? ;D

I always thought of Pythons being Brits or Aussies. I've never known nor talked to an American who is a Python.


Penn.

[Techguy]

Another Pythonist here!
Dead Parrot
Argument Clinic
Ministry of Silly Walks

[sarahlee]

Love the Boys! I chuckle like a madwoman, at the same silly jokes, every Sunday night. (It's on PBS here.)

[SarahIvy]

Absolutely, Patcat!

I have to say my fondest Python memory was when I was in highschool. I hosted a cast party, and in the middle of the night everyone thought it would be brilliant to go run around in the middle school football field.

My friend Ali and I disagreed, so we stayed behind, snuck wine coolers and rolled around on the floor laughing hysterically at The Holy Grail. We want a shrubbery!

(Eventually the cops called, they had rounded up most of our cast-mates, my mother had to go pick them up in the dead of night and I maintain that the Python boys are just about the funniest boys on the planet. The End.)

[Sirenna]

LOL! One of the funniest school memories I have is of watching A Fish Called Wanda whose humour is quite similar. At one of the cheap friday movies nights at uni an entire lecture hall of about 300 people laughing hysterically for two hours.

I have to say reading the "Dead Parrot" sketch and watching the You Tube version play out, it's all in the delivery and the acting. It doesn't hold the seemed depth on humour in written form. It must be hard to pitch comedies these days sight unseen with a script.

[madger]

I gave my boss a tee shirt that reads: "The beatings will continue until morale improves" He assures me he's on a diet so he can fit into it.

The Mr. and I are huge fans of the python troupe movies, I never really got into the TV shows, but I think we own all of Terry Gilliams' DVDs and of course, the Holy Grail, Life of Brian etc....

I even own two copies of "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" by Terry Jones, (don't know if I got the name right, awful memory) very funny, even has an adult section.