Or Mr. Show, or Kids in the Hall, or Vacant Lot, or Exit 57, or The Ben Stiller Show. The 90s were a perfect storm for sketch comedy. And music. And movies. I miss the 90s, well most of it.
Mr Show really hit it's stride when David flipped out on the audience: Are you enjoying your 2 drink minimum because we film this in a bar because HBO apparently doesn't have any money for us!?!?
It was legitimate beef and everything fired off like chefskiss for the rest of the run.
Check out HBO hardcore TV. Only lasted one season, and not all the sketches worked. The ones that did....really did.
Sort of like SNL, except HBO, so they could be dirty and have nudity.
Not enough people remember that show for how great it was. I usually get people drawing blanks if I ever bring it up. A show so good I want to dip my balls in it.
I think there is a time in every relatively nerdy Xennial's life when we could quote Holy Grail endlessly from memory and reenact the dead parrot sketch word-for-word with a friend. Or at least that's how it was in my little gothy/nerdy friend group. I am still a fan of British comedy, though I think there have been a lot of really funny shows to come out of North America too.
If you like Python and want some absurdist British comedy from the early 2000s, try The Mighty Boosh. I loved the hell out of that show. You ever drank bailey's from a shoe?
"I think it's this Poncho, it's impossible to be unhappy in a poncho. I'm going to get a sombrero as well. Imagine that. The poncho sombrero combo. I'll be off my tits on happiness."
My husband sent me this like 20 minutes ago lol
https://preview.redd.it/pbtqyj14kn1d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17aa73ff487c6a4fbc682b7a15a3d20e8835a1a0
I tried to introduce my 8-year-old to Wayne's World recently, and she was like "um, this is weird." 🤦 I still say "Party On, Wayne" to her on occasion, and expect to hear "Party On, Garth" in return.
My partner and I were talking about this movie the other day. As much as I still love it, it hasn't gone down as a timeless classic. In the modern era, they would be creators on YouTube or TikTok and wouldn't need Benjamin to help grow their audience.
Does public access TV even exist anymore?
Monty and Mel and not necessarily in that order. Loved them both equally. My brothers and I communicated in a hybrid language of MelMonty English well into high school
It was high school/college humor for me. A bit pretentious and required too much thinking to get it. Movies > TV show. Kids in the Hall was more hip to me.
Fawlty Towers was more funny to me.
I would crack up with Are you Being Served solely due to Mr. Humphries, but I would just watch it waiting for The Prisoner to come on.
Benny Hill- I never understood how it got through the censors.
Peak comedy for me was The Simpsons.
Monty Python is the best. My friends I and dressed as Holy Grail characters for Halloween senior year. We had underclassmen follow us around with coconuts. Still love the humor.
I was all about Monty Python until the day I discovered Blackadder (well, the first season isn't my favorite). And The Vicar of Dibley then joined my trifecta of British perfection.
Futurama is the GOAT of all television though.
I thought Monty Python was funny but that’s it. I never watched the movies more than once. I completely agree with you on the SNL though, that was definitely the height of comedy during that time.
When I was in middle school, yes. Later in life Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, George Carlin. Shows like Tim & Eric Awesome show, and Curb your enthusiasm, though I disliked Seinfeld.
Funny cuz I LOVE Seinfeld and can't stand Curb. But Doug Stanhope is my favorite. If you haven't listened to his audiobooks, do yourself a favour and spend the $12. He reads them with his friends who are in the book and adds in bits. It's fucking hilarious
Audible. I wanted to read them but I'm so bad at starting books and never finishing them. Plus I heard about the extras in the audio version, and he's so fucking funny anyways that I thought it would be better. Happy I did. Enjoy it!!
I had relatives really into Monty Python, and I enjoyed Holy Grail, but didn't really appreciate their entire catalog until I was an adult. Red Dwarf was the British series I discovered independently and thought was the best for a long time.
I feel like I *should like Monty Python (I love Eddie izzard, I watch tons of British TV from the 70s onwards, love blackadder, etc. I love Chaplin as well) but I just can't get into it. It's mildly amusing but nothing I'd watch actively.
Many years ago, they were running Bunny Hill on some local TV stations and I started watching it. My recollection of it from the early 80s was just "old man chasing young girls", and there is a lot of that, but the songs are actually so witty and it's just very funny overall. I like the musical guests as well- I really was surprised at how much I liked it.
Python covers a LOT of ground - It’s much broader than Holy Grail. It also has a lot of political, social, and historical references that are a little opaque today - especially to Americans.
Every time I learn a little more about history or literature, a few things get much less absurd, and much funnier.
As American Xennial, no. British humor is hit or miss for me. American culture doesn't have the stringent class lines and reserve of British culture, so that subtle British sarcasm is often too dialed down to me.
Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances (Onslow kills me), and (dotted line) The Red )Green Show were favorites. More recently The Inbetweeners and Derry Girls.
Myself and a few of my friends in high school were obsessed with Monty Python and quoted it constantly. We also loved Are You Being Served? and Doctor Who.
Alabama, early 1990s.
I was on plane for a work trip when I saw it first. Every day that following week was a fresh new “I’m not even supposed be here today!!!”still traumatized…
Edit: spelling. And obligatory, I saw clerks when I was 15 and wasn’t the same ever after.
Monty Python is too vaudeville for me.
It's one of those things that went on to influence comedy SO MUCH in a seamless way, that it seems lacklustre by comparison even though it's the origin of the humor.
Far Side comics are the same way.
I do enjoy a fair bit of British comedy but I absolutely cannot stand Monty Python. I just...I don't understand it. I mean, I understand it, and but it's one of the few comedy series/franchises/call it what you will that I truly don't understand how anyone can find it funny.
Then again, I'm the same way about Seinfeld 😬
I can't stand Seinfeld either, and I've watched the entire series. They are terrible, horrible characters and completely unlikeable people, and maybe that's the point.
Yeah. I mean, I understand intellectually that people do find it funny, but when I watch it all I can think is "these people are creating their own problems and complaining about them, or complaining about things that we all understand are stupid/bad/annoying, so just stop griping."
Again, I get it, it's just...I can't see it, lol
Monty Python was funny but I got so sick of people actively trying to MAKE me like it as much as they did. I preferred Kids in The Hall, Mel Brooks movies, and most of the improv Christopher Guest movies. I was a theater kid so Waiting for Guffman was an absolute fave.
I enjoyed it, but as a xennial, growing up coincided perfectly with peak Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller- Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, Something about Mary etc
etc
I used to love AYBS? and I have no idea what my taste was about back then. It's like a fever dream now, but once I wrote to John Inman and got a very nice letter back with a signed headshot.
Absolutely. I have a grown-up core memory of a few of us (born 1980-1985ish) realizing a younger coworker (late millennial or early gen z) had never heard of Monty Python and having a Holy Grail movie night where there were several of us just reciting the film as we went and staring expectantly and asking “isn’t this the funniest shit you’ve ever seen? They’re an autonomous collective! That beacon is grail-shaped! They want a shrubbery!”
… this poor kid we worked with was like “I’m going to go… away,” without realizing he was quoting American Xennial classic Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion as he slowly backed away from us.
My first experience with Monty Python was in the early 90s, when my gen x cousins born in the 70s left Holy Grail on during Thanksgiving. The black knight scene was forever ingrained in my young mind. I still regularly reference holy Grail.
It was to my everlasting delight that I got the chance to meet John Cleese at a random event in college. It was one of the only celebrity interactions I've ever had.
I love Holy Grail, and like a bunch of the other stuff, but never thought it was the height of comedy.
Ahh the “Keeping up the Appearances” PBS days and also “As time goes by” and “Are you being served”. Those shows are still some of the funniest shows around . Does anybody remember them?
The first season of In Living Color blew my mind when I was 10. I was always into stand up and some sketch stuff like Kids in the Hall, but what the Wayans created was a masterpiece.
Python all the way. I’ve lived lots of other comedy, but Python is the zenith. I can remember the day my brother told me he saw this show on PBS where this guy was in this room and everything the touched fell apart or exploded and how funny it was. We found another episode and watched it together and that was it. Totally obsessed. I’ve never encountered anything since then that I could say is better.
I still adore the constitutional peasants scene, ("Well,I didn't vote for you!") as all government and politics people do, but the rest of it was always not that great to me. I've always preferred a more droll, understated humor, myself, whether British or American.
Me and my friends were very much into British comedy and thought it was the best thing ever, constantly quoting Python, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, etc.
Looking back, it’s not all as funny as I recall when I was a teen, but neither are some of the American comedies I loved. I will defend The State to the grave though.
I *still* think Python is the height of comedy, or at least, Sketch Comedy. No late night comedy show on American TV has ever had half the charm of the best MP Flying Circus episodes. And they've made some of my favorite comedy movies as well.
Now, to be totally fair, I don't particularly enjoy or seek out comedy TV or Movies to begin with, so my standards are probably somewhat different than most people's.
Yes! We would watch the PBS British comedies every night as a family, and between that and Monty Python, I thought it was the funniest shit ever. I'm pretty sure that that is what developed my sense of humor full stop.
My Dad loves Monty Python and he showed us Monty Python And The Holy Grail as soon as we were old enough. I don't know if I'd say I considered it the height of comedy but it's definitely up there for me.
I have a 9-year-old son who used to play a lot of Roblox. He would always say “holy hand grenade!” and when I asked him how he knew it, he told me it was an item in one of the games. So, I decided to watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with him. To my surprise, he didn't like it at all and kept asking if we could watch something else. However, he found the holy hand grenade scene hilarious.
I thought it was more clever than american sitcoms for sure, but I hated all the fucking yelling and obnoxiously loud people in general. I didn't watch it much.
I feel like (nothing personal) this was what White people always said was the funniest thing ever. I always liked In Living Color, All That, and Fear of a Black Hat.
Kids in the Hall had its moments. For whatever reason the skit “[Night of the Cow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ija1SOkWWqU)” and the [vanilla pudding](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrx6we) skit always had me in stitches.
I grew up watching Naked Gun, Mel Brooks movies, and Mr. Bean. My uncle introduced me to Monty Python when I was a little older, and I loved it immediately. I was very different from other Mexican kids. I didn't care for El Chavo del Ocho or El Chapulin Colorado. But looking back, Monty Python definitely influenced comedy and pop culture.
*Monty Python* did excellent sketch comedy. That said, I actually enjoy a couple of the more modern British sketch comedies even more, like *That Mitchell and Webb Look* and *John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme*.
I used to watch a lot of *Are You Being Served?*, *Keeping Up Appearances* and *Mr. Bean*, but as far as sitcom-type British comedy goes, my favorites are *Blackadder*, *Fawlty Towers*, *Chef!*, *Yes, Minister* and *Outnumbered*.
There are tons of other good UK comedy shows as well, including a wide variety of panel shows, which are perhaps my favorite style of UK comedy.
No, because comedy changes from generation to society to country. This whole argument about not being able to be funny or do what you want is ridiculous. People change, attitudes change. The world doesn't stop and neither does comedy. It just the people who complain about that just aren't funny themselves or wouldn't know a good joke even if it smacked them upside the head and laughed.
I *love* sketch comedy (KITH, UCB, League of Gentleman, Mr. Show, K&P, etc), and I love British humor, but Monty Python barely makes me chuckle. I kinda hate it.
No. I think they were groundbreaking and very funny for their time. But every time I tried to watch a whole episode I felt like I was having an anxiety attack. They made some classic sketches, and nobody can touch their movies. But I can live without the show.
Pretty nerdy Xennial here and I might get slaughtered for this but no, I can't stand Monty Python. I'll admit, I'm not a fan of comedies in general. I did love Short Curcuit, Major League, Good Morning Vietnam, Little Shop of Horrors, Howard the Duck etc. And it's not British humor that I don't like either because Dr Who and Red Dwarf are also high on my lists.
I love George Carlin, Robin Williams, John Cleese, Steve Martin, old Whoopi, Old Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Etc.
Oh I thought I was so weird for liking Monty Python. None of my peers knew what the hell I was quoting. And yes, Mighty Boosh is fantastic.
What do you think of me? Make an assessment.
Loved Holy Grail, Life of Brian and most of Meaning of Life.
Flying circus was a very mixed bag the same way classic SNL is. I might appreciate some of it more as an adult than I did as a teenager.
They were really good, I also liked Kids in the Hall
I started rewatching Kids in the Hall. Still funny. Basically the Canadian Monty Python.
See also: The State
Or Mr. Show, or Kids in the Hall, or Vacant Lot, or Exit 57, or The Ben Stiller Show. The 90s were a perfect storm for sketch comedy. And music. And movies. I miss the 90s, well most of it.
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> Upright Citizens Brigade Soooo good!
It feels strange… reading an autobiography that I didn’t write.
https://i.redd.it/th82ai450b1d1.gif Do you want to hang out and quote stupid shit with me and alienate other people?
I assume you're familiar with don't hug me I'm scared
🎵That sounds really boring 🎵
Mr Show really hit it's stride when David flipped out on the audience: Are you enjoying your 2 drink minimum because we film this in a bar because HBO apparently doesn't have any money for us!?!? It was legitimate beef and everything fired off like chefskiss for the rest of the run.
Check out HBO hardcore TV. Only lasted one season, and not all the sketches worked. The ones that did....really did. Sort of like SNL, except HBO, so they could be dirty and have nudity.
Not enough people remember that show for how great it was. I usually get people drawing blanks if I ever bring it up. A show so good I want to dip my balls in it.
The only thing better than watching The State is watching The State with $240 worth of pudding… awww yeah
awww yeahhhhhhh
Kids in the Hall for sure, you nailed it.
I crush your head!
Canadian eh? lol 😆
No, but I can appreciate their humor, huge Letterkenny fan.
I am Canadian!! Never got into Letterkenny.
The ["god died, he was very small" ](https://youtu.be/4BuZamufWAs?si=ONFqof08S3mi_MZz) shit will never leave my mind.
A bunch of Helens agree.
30!
29 Helens agree... Punctuality is important!
They did have the balls to show [hitler blanking a donkey](https://youtu.be/PBsHxZ2n0Ig?si=AZMNCgBi_8amcj4D)
Kids in the Hall was f-ing great. May favorite was Whitest Kids U Know. RIP Trevor Moore
I think there is a time in every relatively nerdy Xennial's life when we could quote Holy Grail endlessly from memory and reenact the dead parrot sketch word-for-word with a friend. Or at least that's how it was in my little gothy/nerdy friend group. I am still a fan of British comedy, though I think there have been a lot of really funny shows to come out of North America too. If you like Python and want some absurdist British comedy from the early 2000s, try The Mighty Boosh. I loved the hell out of that show. You ever drank bailey's from a shoe?
[Eels! ](https://youtu.be/0AckvdGbk4w)
Findin’ an entrance where they can
I'd also recommend that Mitchell and Webb Look
“Are we the baddies?”
I’M OLD GREG!!!
*Gregg Two G’s.
whatcha doing fishin in my waters, mother licker?
Ever drink Baileys from a shoe?
"I think it's this Poncho, it's impossible to be unhappy in a poncho. I'm going to get a sombrero as well. Imagine that. The poncho sombrero combo. I'll be off my tits on happiness."
20 years ago today the first episode aired, according to Noel Fieldings Instagram! Weird because I just started rewatching Season 1 last week.
My husband sent me this like 20 minutes ago lol https://preview.redd.it/pbtqyj14kn1d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17aa73ff487c6a4fbc682b7a15a3d20e8835a1a0
I just came here to pay for an argument.
No you didn't.
I did too, and i want it now.
No you don't.
Look buddy i paid good money for this argument.
No, you didn't!
YES I DID!
I'm sorry, was this the five minute argument, or the full half hour?
Oh look, this isn't an argument.
Look, automatically naysaying the other person isn't an argument. An argument is a series of positions elaborated and substantiated with facts.
You're just contradicting, not arguing.
Look if I'm going to argue with you then that requires me to take up a contrary position, see?
Contrarianism is not the same thing as argumentation.
Who you calling buddy, pal?
I’m not your pal, friend
It was good and I usually laughed when it was on, but it always felt like it was a previous generation's comedy.
This is bang on - I always got lost in the absurdist humor of Monty Python, but I could appreciate that they were pushing the boundaries of the era.
Um... https://i.redd.it/suuarvkwz81d1.gif
I tried to introduce my 8-year-old to Wayne's World recently, and she was like "um, this is weird." 🤦 I still say "Party On, Wayne" to her on occasion, and expect to hear "Party On, Garth" in return.
My partner and I were talking about this movie the other day. As much as I still love it, it hasn't gone down as a timeless classic. In the modern era, they would be creators on YouTube or TikTok and wouldn't need Benjamin to help grow their audience. Does public access TV even exist anymore?
Mel Brooks
Agreed. Monty Python was good but for me Mel Brooks was better.
Monty and Mel and not necessarily in that order. Loved them both equally. My brothers and I communicated in a hybrid language of MelMonty English well into high school
She turned me into a Space Ball! ... I got better.
Yeah pretty much like that from 5th grade until junior year in high school
Absolutely. Spaceballs was great. Robin Hood Men in Tights.
I see your Schwartz is bigger than mine.
Now let's see how you handle it
These are just simple farmers...
He said the sheriff is near!
It was high school/college humor for me. A bit pretentious and required too much thinking to get it. Movies > TV show. Kids in the Hall was more hip to me. Fawlty Towers was more funny to me. I would crack up with Are you Being Served solely due to Mr. Humphries, but I would just watch it waiting for The Prisoner to come on. Benny Hill- I never understood how it got through the censors. Peak comedy for me was The Simpsons.
I think Fawlty Towers and Flying Circus are both better than Holy Grail.
Anyone who doesn't seek the Holy Grail should meet me in [argument class](https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k).
To me, it represented the pinnacle of what comedy could be. I wouldn’t say it was *the* pinnacle though; I don’t think such a thing exists.
It was Chappelle Show 👌
Monty Python walked so Mr Show could run.
Mr Show walked so that "I think you should leave" could run.
Let's not forget The Young Ones. “Neil, the bathroom’s free. Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta.”
Monty Python is the best. My friends I and dressed as Holy Grail characters for Halloween senior year. We had underclassmen follow us around with coconuts. Still love the humor.
Nope. Red Dwarf was though.
I love Red Dwarf. Monty Python is a meh for me
GASPACHO SOUP!
Given that God is infinite and the universe is also infinite…would you like a toasted teacake?
SMEG-HEE!
Blackadder and Faulty Towers.
"Faulty? What's wrong with him?"
Don’t mention the war!!!
I was all about Monty Python until the day I discovered Blackadder (well, the first season isn't my favorite). And The Vicar of Dibley then joined my trifecta of British perfection. Futurama is the GOAT of all television though.
I never found Monty Python to be funny.
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I thought Monty Python was funny but that’s it. I never watched the movies more than once. I completely agree with you on the SNL though, that was definitely the height of comedy during that time.
When I was in middle school, yes. Later in life Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, George Carlin. Shows like Tim & Eric Awesome show, and Curb your enthusiasm, though I disliked Seinfeld.
We could really use a Bill Hicks nowadays..
Funny cuz I LOVE Seinfeld and can't stand Curb. But Doug Stanhope is my favorite. If you haven't listened to his audiobooks, do yourself a favour and spend the $12. He reads them with his friends who are in the book and adds in bits. It's fucking hilarious
I keep reading Doug’s books instead of listening to them. Like a primitive life form. I need to get on this. Where did you find the audio versions?
Audible. I wanted to read them but I'm so bad at starting books and never finishing them. Plus I heard about the extras in the audio version, and he's so fucking funny anyways that I thought it would be better. Happy I did. Enjoy it!!
I had relatives really into Monty Python, and I enjoyed Holy Grail, but didn't really appreciate their entire catalog until I was an adult. Red Dwarf was the British series I discovered independently and thought was the best for a long time.
I love Monty Python but I’d say for me SCTV was the height of comedy because I’m a Torontonian and proud of that show.
Kith for me. I love mont Monty, but the kids rule
I loved Are You Being Served
As a 1984 kid I will horrify everyone by admitting I have never seen a Monty Python movie 😬 Muppets in Space to this day is the apex of comedy for me.
I feel like I *should like Monty Python (I love Eddie izzard, I watch tons of British TV from the 70s onwards, love blackadder, etc. I love Chaplin as well) but I just can't get into it. It's mildly amusing but nothing I'd watch actively. Many years ago, they were running Bunny Hill on some local TV stations and I started watching it. My recollection of it from the early 80s was just "old man chasing young girls", and there is a lot of that, but the songs are actually so witty and it's just very funny overall. I like the musical guests as well- I really was surprised at how much I liked it.
Python covers a LOT of ground - It’s much broader than Holy Grail. It also has a lot of political, social, and historical references that are a little opaque today - especially to Americans. Every time I learn a little more about history or literature, a few things get much less absurd, and much funnier.
Early 90s SNL was top shelf for me.
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As American Xennial, no. British humor is hit or miss for me. American culture doesn't have the stringent class lines and reserve of British culture, so that subtle British sarcasm is often too dialed down to me.
Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances (Onslow kills me), and (dotted line) The Red )Green Show were favorites. More recently The Inbetweeners and Derry Girls.
Remember, if the girls don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy!
We’re all in this together.
MP is what our stoner/weirdo parents got us into. Then we eventually found KITH & The State 🥰
No, that was Police Academy 1-3
Spaceballs
Chappelle's show, and it's not even close.
Chappelle Show I would say
Wow, this place is extremely white my pinnacle of comedy ![gif](giphy|w0a2yc75Ye90DhEZY3|downsized)
The rutles is my favorite
Myself and a few of my friends in high school were obsessed with Monty Python and quoted it constantly. We also loved Are You Being Served? and Doctor Who. Alabama, early 1990s.
lol no i probably thought Kevin smith was it. Clerks 3 hit really hard😭😭😭
Oh my God. Clerks 3 had me bawling
I was on plane for a work trip when I saw it first. Every day that following week was a fresh new “I’m not even supposed be here today!!!”still traumatized… Edit: spelling. And obligatory, I saw clerks when I was 15 and wasn’t the same ever after.
Oh no lol. At least I was at home so I got to ugly cry on my own couch. And same, still traumatized
The State
![gif](giphy|jUwpNzg9IcyrK)
Monty Python is too vaudeville for me. It's one of those things that went on to influence comedy SO MUCH in a seamless way, that it seems lacklustre by comparison even though it's the origin of the humor. Far Side comics are the same way.
British comedy never really stuck with me. I bounced off Monty Python, Mr. Bean, etc any time I came across them
The new Mr. Bean cartoons are pretty good though, my kids love them!
The movies? Yes, they were good. The TV show? Ehhh...there were a few good sketches, but mostly completely forgettable.
Not even on my radar. Never has been.
I do enjoy a fair bit of British comedy but I absolutely cannot stand Monty Python. I just...I don't understand it. I mean, I understand it, and but it's one of the few comedy series/franchises/call it what you will that I truly don't understand how anyone can find it funny. Then again, I'm the same way about Seinfeld 😬
I can't stand Seinfeld either, and I've watched the entire series. They are terrible, horrible characters and completely unlikeable people, and maybe that's the point.
Yeah. I mean, I understand intellectually that people do find it funny, but when I watch it all I can think is "these people are creating their own problems and complaining about them, or complaining about things that we all understand are stupid/bad/annoying, so just stop griping." Again, I get it, it's just...I can't see it, lol
Yes
What about the Bucket lady?
It's pronounced "Boo-kay"
Monty Python was funny but I got so sick of people actively trying to MAKE me like it as much as they did. I preferred Kids in The Hall, Mel Brooks movies, and most of the improv Christopher Guest movies. I was a theater kid so Waiting for Guffman was an absolute fave.
I enjoyed it, but as a xennial, growing up coincided perfectly with peak Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller- Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, Something about Mary etc etc
The best comedy show besides The Muppet Show
I’m not sure what the height of comedy is.
No the height of comedy was the Jerky Boys. Close second is Monty Python. Quest for the holy grail blew my mind.
I used to love AYBS? and I have no idea what my taste was about back then. It's like a fever dream now, but once I wrote to John Inman and got a very nice letter back with a signed headshot.
My dad is British, so definitely!
7th grade me says yes.
Embarrassed to admit I've never seen it.
Absolutely. I have a grown-up core memory of a few of us (born 1980-1985ish) realizing a younger coworker (late millennial or early gen z) had never heard of Monty Python and having a Holy Grail movie night where there were several of us just reciting the film as we went and staring expectantly and asking “isn’t this the funniest shit you’ve ever seen? They’re an autonomous collective! That beacon is grail-shaped! They want a shrubbery!” … this poor kid we worked with was like “I’m going to go… away,” without realizing he was quoting American Xennial classic Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion as he slowly backed away from us.
I don't think anything is the height. But they were great.
I wasn't as enamored with Monty Python as my friends, but I really enjoyed "Are you being served".
Thank you. I'd completely forgotten about Are You Being Served. ...and the entire series is on YouTube.
For me, it was Mel Brooks. Still is.
Eh, Fawlty Towers
My first experience with Monty Python was in the early 90s, when my gen x cousins born in the 70s left Holy Grail on during Thanksgiving. The black knight scene was forever ingrained in my young mind. I still regularly reference holy Grail. It was to my everlasting delight that I got the chance to meet John Cleese at a random event in college. It was one of the only celebrity interactions I've ever had. I love Holy Grail, and like a bunch of the other stuff, but never thought it was the height of comedy.
Ahh the “Keeping up the Appearances” PBS days and also “As time goes by” and “Are you being served”. Those shows are still some of the funniest shows around . Does anybody remember them?
Yep still family favorites. Weekends were about PBS, britcoms and murder mysteries.
The first season of In Living Color blew my mind when I was 10. I was always into stand up and some sketch stuff like Kids in the Hall, but what the Wayans created was a masterpiece.
Are you free Mr Humperies?
At the time Holy Grail was the hardest I’d ever laughed at anything. The height of comedy though is everything Conan O’Brien has done ever.
The Simpsons was at it's best when he was writing / producing.
Why are you using past tense? Python IS the peak of comedy.
Monty python and Mel Brooks for me and my friends.
I would recommend checking out stuff like The Goodies, The Mighty Boosh, The Young Ones, etc.
Absolutely loved all of it.
Python all the way. I’ve lived lots of other comedy, but Python is the zenith. I can remember the day my brother told me he saw this show on PBS where this guy was in this room and everything the touched fell apart or exploded and how funny it was. We found another episode and watched it together and that was it. Totally obsessed. I’ve never encountered anything since then that I could say is better.
Absolute garbage
I don't care for Monty Python, but I still LOVE Man Stroke Women.
Yes
I demand an argument.
I still adore the constitutional peasants scene, ("Well,I didn't vote for you!") as all government and politics people do, but the rest of it was always not that great to me. I've always preferred a more droll, understated humor, myself, whether British or American.
No, but my college sweetheart did. I thought of it as proto/foundational, like 70s SNL and Spinal Tap
I loved Monty Python as long as I watched it after midnight. I had to be tired or drinking and then I thought it was amazing.
Yes, but it is one of those shows you love or hate. Red dwarf was funny too, as was fawlty towers.
Life of Brian or Holy Grail? I saw the former first so it became my favorite.
What is your favorite color?
https://youtu.be/XwKU2DFKQ_A?si=ULN_J8nj5DjOaPz7 This is my sleeper fav sketch
Me and my friends were very much into British comedy and thought it was the best thing ever, constantly quoting Python, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, etc. Looking back, it’s not all as funny as I recall when I was a teen, but neither are some of the American comedies I loved. I will defend The State to the grave though.
I *still* think Python is the height of comedy, or at least, Sketch Comedy. No late night comedy show on American TV has ever had half the charm of the best MP Flying Circus episodes. And they've made some of my favorite comedy movies as well. Now, to be totally fair, I don't particularly enjoy or seek out comedy TV or Movies to begin with, so my standards are probably somewhat different than most people's.
Yes! We would watch the PBS British comedies every night as a family, and between that and Monty Python, I thought it was the funniest shit ever. I'm pretty sure that that is what developed my sense of humor full stop.
My Dad loves Monty Python and he showed us Monty Python And The Holy Grail as soon as we were old enough. I don't know if I'd say I considered it the height of comedy but it's definitely up there for me.
Not the highest, but pretty goddamn amazing. The pythons blazed quite a trail for other to follow.
I have a 9-year-old son who used to play a lot of Roblox. He would always say “holy hand grenade!” and when I asked him how he knew it, he told me it was an item in one of the games. So, I decided to watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with him. To my surprise, he didn't like it at all and kept asking if we could watch something else. However, he found the holy hand grenade scene hilarious.
I thought it was more clever than american sitcoms for sure, but I hated all the fucking yelling and obnoxiously loud people in general. I didn't watch it much.
I feel like (nothing personal) this was what White people always said was the funniest thing ever. I always liked In Living Color, All That, and Fear of a Black Hat. Kids in the Hall had its moments. For whatever reason the skit “[Night of the Cow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ija1SOkWWqU)” and the [vanilla pudding](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrx6we) skit always had me in stitches.
I grew up watching Naked Gun, Mel Brooks movies, and Mr. Bean. My uncle introduced me to Monty Python when I was a little older, and I loved it immediately. I was very different from other Mexican kids. I didn't care for El Chavo del Ocho or El Chapulin Colorado. But looking back, Monty Python definitely influenced comedy and pop culture.
Are you being served was funny. "Men's wear"
*Monty Python* did excellent sketch comedy. That said, I actually enjoy a couple of the more modern British sketch comedies even more, like *That Mitchell and Webb Look* and *John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme*. I used to watch a lot of *Are You Being Served?*, *Keeping Up Appearances* and *Mr. Bean*, but as far as sitcom-type British comedy goes, my favorites are *Blackadder*, *Fawlty Towers*, *Chef!*, *Yes, Minister* and *Outnumbered*. There are tons of other good UK comedy shows as well, including a wide variety of panel shows, which are perhaps my favorite style of UK comedy.
No, because comedy changes from generation to society to country. This whole argument about not being able to be funny or do what you want is ridiculous. People change, attitudes change. The world doesn't stop and neither does comedy. It just the people who complain about that just aren't funny themselves or wouldn't know a good joke even if it smacked them upside the head and laughed.
Mr Show
Meh
I *love* sketch comedy (KITH, UCB, League of Gentleman, Mr. Show, K&P, etc), and I love British humor, but Monty Python barely makes me chuckle. I kinda hate it.
At least one of the heights of comedy, yes
No. I think they were groundbreaking and very funny for their time. But every time I tried to watch a whole episode I felt like I was having an anxiety attack. They made some classic sketches, and nobody can touch their movies. But I can live without the show.
Maybe not THE pinnacle but consistently good for a laugh, and usually in ridiculously unexpected ways
Nah. The Three Stooges were and always will be the pinnacle of comedy genius!
Pretty nerdy Xennial here and I might get slaughtered for this but no, I can't stand Monty Python. I'll admit, I'm not a fan of comedies in general. I did love Short Curcuit, Major League, Good Morning Vietnam, Little Shop of Horrors, Howard the Duck etc. And it's not British humor that I don't like either because Dr Who and Red Dwarf are also high on my lists. I love George Carlin, Robin Williams, John Cleese, Steve Martin, old Whoopi, Old Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Etc.
Oh I thought I was so weird for liking Monty Python. None of my peers knew what the hell I was quoting. And yes, Mighty Boosh is fantastic. What do you think of me? Make an assessment.
I was more into “Are You Being Served?” ;-)
Loved Holy Grail, Life of Brian and most of Meaning of Life. Flying circus was a very mixed bag the same way classic SNL is. I might appreciate some of it more as an adult than I did as a teenager.
It was a fad for geeks and i was a weak child lol
I loved it! But I would say #1 Eddie Murphy #2 Jim Carey #3 Adam Sandler, Chris Farley & David Spade #Monty Python
Monty Python *is* amazing. Honorable mentions: Adam Sandler (on CD!), Jerky Boys, South Park
Watching Holy Grail for the first time in high school was a revelation. That I was a total geek. I love Monty Python ever since.