"Monty Python," sketch comedy, "The State," those were early things that I really got into it.
Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Monty Python launched their stuff on YouTube.
And so for my Monty Python fans, this is where I'm throwing the holy hand grenade.
But I think "Monty Python," British comedy, was always really exciting to me.
Walking in this Monty Python-esque sort of way.
He'd heard of Footlights because of Monty Python.
the famous-- Can we do Monty Python again?
I'd done the sketch on tour-- Monty Python tour with Michael Palin-- and we came off just before the end of the show doing that as the finale.
tale smashed together with a Monty Python tone.
It was a bit like that "Monty Python" sketch about I built a castle and it sank into the swamp.
How many of you know the Monty Hall problem?
And it's like the four yorkshiremen sketch from "Monty Python."
--what did the Romans ever do for us clip from Monty Python, which I haven't got it.
And my friend's brothers introduced us to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
It kind of reminded me of "The Full Monty " when I read it.
And I was thinking just recently how lucky the Monty Pythons were that our two best films were set in historical periods
But it's "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Full Monty ," if that combination can ever, ever happen.
Particular, I should mention Monty Slatkin and his group at UC-Berkeley, and David Reich and Nick Patterson at the Broad Institute in Boston,
Dan Sinker: And David Axlerod was getting him to memorize Monty Python lines and he had been up all night getting a D and D character together just in case.
And you pick door number 1 and then Monty Hell invalidates 998 doors leaving door 576 that you have never thought of.
So plenty of people that fall short of having the "Full Monty " mystical experience claim incredible benefit.
And there are some people that have the "Full Monty " mystical experience that aren't helped so much.
And the "Let's Make a Deal" host, Monty Hall.
It's one of the most well-known and hilarious bits from Monty Python.
And for me that meant letting in the sound of vestigial Steve Martin and the Monty Python.
to America if I could say that I was the bastard child of Monty Python because that's what I felt, you know, I'd got
But Eric Idle of Monty Python once said to me in an interview, "There are two forces in this world.
How many of you know that you know the right answer to the Monty Hall problem?
And so then I heard about the Cambridge Footlights, which was famous because of Monty Python and many other comedians.
And the question is, again, most viewers think about Monty Python as a revolution.
OK, we're not doing Monty Python now, but we can pretend to do Monty Python.
But all the British stuff too, "Fawlty Towers," and "Monty Python," "Mitchell and Webb," just yeah.
body, and soul, everything feels like Monty Hall asking you for a door number.
So after I've shown that really excessively complicated graphic I'm going to show a funny video from Monty Python and The Holy Grail which I think kind of outlines one of the
Rebecca MacKinnon: Well this is one of my favorite Monty Python clips of all time and
They adapted the sensibility of a TV show they had all grown up watching, Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Yeah, that's right, Monty Python.
And now, finally, after half an hour, we can talk maybe a tiny bit about "Monty Python's Flying Circus" if you don't mind.
OK, so now for something completely different, as they used to say on "Monty Python."
I said, well-- I was trying to act like I was the Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy
But then when you really think about it, for me, the '70s comics were usually-- Steve Martin in his early incarnation, Monty Python,
with that, no problem, but Python, the programming language, is named after Monty Python.
position of having done three different types of comedy, which is sketch comedy, which is Monty Python influenced comedy,
So, mentioning Monty Python, um and obviously when you played the Hollywood Bowl, um which Python did years ago.
I was I was thinking about obviously Monty Python is a very big influence of yours, and and I was I was
And at the end of it, he Brian Fitzpatrick: A Monty Burns sort of thing.
Brian Fitzpatrick: I mean, that's like, talking about the Simpson's. Simpson's writers have said that one of the reasons that they loved Monty Burns so much,might even have
As Monty Python used to say, "And now for
comedy nerd um John thinks that SNL is the worst thing that ever happened to American Comedy and doesn't claim to recognize any members of Monty Python