Stop that! It's far too silly. ( A tale of Cross dressing and French knob waving.) (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

Member Name: markhobbs

Product:	Monty Python's Flying Circus
Date:	07/12/01 (145 review reads)
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Advantages: Bananas

Disadvantages: Old Ladies

Monty Python has done for comedy what several very good artists has done for art, revolutionised it and brought less mainstream main- stream tastes into the fray. For instance, pre 1968 it was considered a great offence to laugh at a man in a dress, but by 1972 it was all the rage, and every kid in the schoolyard wanted their very own floral ankle high dress. Pokemon eat your heart out!

Created by several unemployed, largely talentless men with but one ambition, to wear a dress, Monty Python’s Flying Circus took late night BBC2 viewers by storm. The Beeb received so many phone calls that they had to literally employ one or two people to inform callers that they had dialled the wrong number.

The nation was enthralled, if it wasn’t John Cleese in a dress swaning around, it was Eric Idle making mischief in a nice blouse and skirt. But cross dressing wasn’t the only pull, Terry Gilliam’s hilarious and frankly terrifying cartoons were enough to keep us marginally more interested than we would be if they hadn’t been there in the first place.

It would be fair to say that the first two series of MPFC are the funniest series of sketches you are ever likely to see. Some would condemn its downright silliness, but that’s what set it apart from the rest, it’s been able to baffle, scare and make me laugh all at once. It’s like a cake with seventy five different types of chocolate on it !! Even the opening sequence is pure genius, a men from very far off runs towards the camera, half exhausted, and says “ it’s “ before we’re treated to a funny voice saying “ Monty Python’s Flying Circus “. Class.

Yes, it’s the funny voices, walks and faces that cap it off, in short, the childish, silly things are the best. Sure, to write most of it you have to be a genius, but it John Cleese didn’t have a series of funny walks the series would have
fallen flat on it’s often unnecessarily bare arse.

After series two and a bit John left and the show got a little less funny but ultimately weirder. After series four they called it an evening and went their separate ways, older and richer than before, when they were younger and had less money. That is until age and money got the better of them and they decided to prostitute themselves in a series of hilarious films. The Search for the Holy Grail holds the most bizarre insult ever muttered by a fake French accent. “ I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.” And later, “ I wave my privates at your aunty.” The Life of Brian was funny, blasphemous and full of unnecessary male nudity, all the hallmarks of a would be banned film.

I know my op has thus far been uninformative, aimless, and, as Microsoft Word keeps on telling me, very poorly written (I’m being ironic by the way), so to make up for it here’s a tremendously good sketch for you to boisterously laugh at.


(A large sign saying 'Registry Office ', 'Marriages' etc. A man is talking to the registrar.)
First Man: Er, excuse me, I want to get married.
Registrar: I'm afraid I'm already married, sir.
First Man: Er, no, no. I just want to get married.
Registrar: I could get a divorce, I suppose, but it'll be a bit of a wrench.
First Man: Er, no, no. That wouldn't be necessary because...
Registrar: You see, would you come to my place or should I have to come to yours, because I've just got a big mortgage.
First Man: No, no, I want to get married here.
Registrar: Oh dear. I had my heart set on a church wedding.
First Man: Look, I just want you to marry me... to...
Registrar: I want to marry you too sir, but it's not as simple as that. You sure you want to get married?
First Man: Yes. I want
to get married very quickly.
Registrar: Suits me, sir. Suits me.
First Man: I don't want to marry you!
Registrar: There is such a thing as breach of promise, sir.
First Man: Look, I just want you to act as registrar and marry me.
Registrar: I will marry you sir, but please make up your mind. Please don't trifle with my affections.
First Man: I'm sorry, but...
Registrar: That's all right, sir. I forgive you. Lovers' tiff. But you're not the first person to ask me today. I've turned down several people already.
First Man: Look, I'm already engaged.
Registrar: (agreeing and thinking) Yes, and I'm already married. Still we'll get round it.
Second Man: (entering) Good morning. I want to get married.
Registrar: I'm afraid I'm already marrying this gentleman, sir.
Second Man: Well, can I get married after him?
Registrar: Well, divorce isn't as quick as that, sir. Still, if you're keen.
Third Man: (entering) I want to get married, please.
Registrar: Heavens, it's my lucky day, isn't it. All right, but you'll have to wait until I've married these two, sir.
Third Man: What, those two getting married... Nigel What are you doing marrying him?
Registrar: He's marrying me first, sir.
Third Man: He's engaged to me.
Fourth Man: (big and butch) Come on, Henry.
Registrar: Blimey, the wife.
Second Man: Will you marry me?
Fourth Man: I'm already married.
(Cut to a photo of all five of them standing happily outside a house.)
Voice Over: Well, things turned out all right in the end, but you musn't ask how 'cos it's naughty. They're all married and living quite well in a council estate near Dulwich

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