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Monty Python - Top 10 Comedy Films

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Summary: 1. Fruit In The Looms 2. Python's Give Live Birth three. The Toad Elevating Moment 4. Mystery Of The Lost Python Sketches 5. Brian's The Life Of The Party 6. Kim Bread Aka John Cleese 7. Around The World In 80 Days 8. Get Your self To Mars 9. Maintain It Actual 10. The 12 Fisher Monkey Kings 11. Parting Shots 1. Fruit In Your Looms

A person when said some thing along the lines that, Monty Python is to 'funny' what chartered accountants are to 'boring'. Who are we to disagree...

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Post Body: 1. Fruit In The Looms 2. Python's Give Live Birth three. The Toad Elevating Moment 4. Mystery Of The Lost Python Sketches 5. Brian's The Life Of The Party 6. Kim Bread Aka John Cleese 7. Around The World In 80 Days 8. Get Your self To Mars 9. Maintain It Actual 10. The 12 Fisher Monkey Kings 11. Parting Shots 1. Fruit In Your Looms

Somebody when said some thing along the lines that, Monty Python is to 'funny' what chartered accountants are to 'boring'. Who are we to disagree?

2. Python's Give Live Birth

The legend of Monty Python emerged nobly from the dusty corridors of Oxford and Cambridge universities. All of the British Python members had their comedic starts in revue shows put on by these universities. They soon rose to the ranks of responsibility inside these societies, "In bewilderment we saw a notice board informing us that we are now officers!" recalls John Cleese.

Their properly-received show, A Clump of Plinths, transferred to London's West End and later visited New

Zealand and New York under the new title Cambridge Circus.

Cleese stayed on in New York and in the course of a photo shoot for a comic strip he met American illustrator Terry Gilliam. Terry was soon folded into the every single growing omelet.

The BBC, on the suggestions of producer Barry Took, signed the group - which now included Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam for a 13-show series. Ah, but what to name the show?

three. The Toad Elevating Moment

Owl Stretching Time. A Horse, A Spoon and A Bucket. The Toad Elevating Moment had been all names in the running. But as planning for the series became far more chaotic, the BBC management began to refer to the team as a 'flying circus', inspired by the Red Baron's World War 1 fighter squadron. The troupe liked the sound of it and randomly added the term Monty Python from their growing list of alternates. Funny that.

4. Mystery Of The Lost Python Sketches

No 1 knows what happened to them. Oh wait, three new sketches of in no way just before observed Python material had been lately discovered and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The famed sketches had been written by late Python star Graham Chapman and had been unearthed by a literary executor in Los Angeles. Every single sketch lasts 4 minutes and functions a cast of characters such as a gay parrot and an overworked Messiah.

5. Brian's The Life Of The Party

Monty Python's Life of Brian snagged the funniest film of all time in a poll arranged by Total Film magazine.

The film satires the rise of organized religion and caused far more controversy than a Kevin Smith baptismal once it was released back in 1979. It was banned in numerous parts of the UK and church leaders accused it of blasphemy. Absolutely nothing like poor publicity to push the ratings.

Their King Arthur era spoof, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, trailed by only a couple of spots, landing it at number 5.

Top 10 Comedy Films

1. Life of Brian

2. Airplane!

three. Withnail & I

4. There's Some thing About Mary

5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

6. American Pie

7. Groundhog Day

8. Some Like it Hot

9. Blazing Saddles

10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

6. Kim Bread Aka John Cleese

John Cleese rode a roller coaster of fame in the course of the 1970's playing the role of stressed hotelkeeper Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. He continued his fame with films like Privates On Parade and Clockwise, then hit worldwide stardom with a A Fish Known as Wanda in 1988. The follow-up film, Fierce Creatures faulted to gain attention with audiences. Nowadays audiences know him very best as the new Q in the James Bond films and Almost Headless Ned in the Harry Potter films. He will next be observed playing father to Lucy Liu in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and as the voice Fiona's Father in Shrek 2, Fiona is voiced by Charlie's Angel's co-star Cameron Diaz.

7. Around The World In 80 Days

Michael Palin has also rocketed to fame due to his turn with the troupe and in 1977 he teamed with Terry Jones to make their own comedy series, Ripping Yarns. Michael also appeared aside John Cleese in A Fish Referred to as Wanda, then went on to do a reality show for BBC Television, Referred to as Around the World in 80 Days, where he attempted to literally follow in the footsteps of the Jules Verne literary character, Phileas Fogg, by attempting to travel around the world in the allotted time, but with out flying - By the way, it\'s Jules Verne's 175th birthday this week. In the course of the Pole to Pole trip, he met up with Python fans in Greece and ate snake in China although struggling to meet his deadline.

8. Get Your self To Mars

Eric Idle continued his stint in the limelight by teaming with Neil Innes to develop Rutland Weekend Tv, a parody of regional broadcasting. He later appeared in Graham Chapman's Yellowbeard, Disney's Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Splitting Heirs. His recent novel titled, "The Road to Mars" is about two comedians in the 22nd century. Fans most likely know him nowadays as the voice of Mr. Vosknocker in the animated film, South Park: Larger, Longer and Uncut.

9. Maintain It Actual

Terry Jones maintained a diversity beyond mere comedy, by writing about history, presenting documentaries, penning children's books and going onto direct the 1996 version of Wind in the Willows, starring his old pals - Michael Palin, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

10. The 12 Fisher Monkey Kings

Terry Gilliam lent his talents to the troupe as a director and by developing the very distinct animations that became Monty Python's visual trademark. We soon followed it with his feature film debut, Jabberwocky, starring Michael Palin. Soon after helming the considerably loved, Time Bandits, his fame skyrocketed in Hollywood. But his style led to numerous conflictions in the biz which includes a massive throw down with Universal Studios over his film Brazil and then troubles with backers on the very high-priced, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which starred Eric Idle and featured Robin Williams.

His Actual success followed by taking on unconventional studio films which includes the critically acclaimed, The Fisher King starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges and the stylistic sci-fi thriller, 12 Monkeys starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt and the Hunter S Thompson extravaganza, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. These six actors all gave some of the very best performances of their career in Gilliam's films.

11. Parting Shots

"We weren't becoming satirical due to the fact it wasn't the factor that interested us," Terry Jones says. "Ours was a slightly much more abstract humor - just becoming silly quite. What satire there is, is far more generalized satire."

Referring to The Life of Brian - "Comedy is about reminding us of the truth of becoming human: we all have a body and we all should die, and it\'s okay," reckons Eric Idle.

"Monty Python is a fantastic mixture of intellect and silly", concludes Robin Williams.