Monty python Not Funny

[Smokin Joe]

He's not wrong.

10% of it was hilarious, 10% mildly amusing and the rest was infantile public school humour that was as funny as toothache to everyone else.

 

[ColinJ]

Was Fawlty Towers funny?

 

[marinyork]

Life of Brian was hilarious.

 

[ColinJ]

(By the way - is this a 5 minute argument or the full half hour? )

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[yello]

Was Fawlty Towers funny?

Oh lord yes. If you liked cringing with embarrassment, hiding behind the sofa kind of humour. It's incredible how it's remembered and talked about yet having so few episodes (relatively speaking).

I was a child in the era of Python so, yes, it appealed to me! I reckon I'd find it hit and miss today... but still think that when it amused it'd do so to the extreme.

re 'Life of Brian', I do think generally with comedy films it is very difficult to sustain the humour throughout. They will have flat spots.

 

[MacB]

He's not wrong.

10% of it was hilarious, 10% mildly amusing and the rest was infantile public school humour that was as funny as toothache to everyone else.

I'd agree and it's also very dated but, for me, the huge success was in what it spawned rather than what it was, it's had a lot of influence.

 

[Over The Hill]

It was 40 years ago, move on!

Being funny or not is very much being in tune with the time. Any 1960s or 1970s comedy is very out of touch now. Python was new and bold in its day. As it is neither of these now it is out of context.

I think we sort of consume comedy. In the same way as we cannot keep telling the same joke again and again as it ends up being worn out and also its attraction is often its newness or novelty or shock value.

Some people latch onto a comedy era and like their favourite childhood pudding they never tire of it.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh lord yes. If you liked cringing with embarrassment, hiding behind the sofa kind of humour. It's incredible how it's remembered and talked about yet having so few episodes (relatively speaking).

I asked the question because I was once howling with laughter at one episode of Fawlty Towers when a visiting relative poked her head round the door to see what all the fuss was about.

She stood there stoney-faced and said "It's the man from that stupid Monty Python programme isn't it? He isn't funny!"

I couldn't understand why she wasn't laughing.

 

[Smokin Joe]

It was 40 years ago, move on!

Being funny or not is very much being in tune with the time. Any 1960s or 1970s comedy is very out of touch now. Python was new and bold in its day. As it is neither of these now it is out of context.

Not all humour dates.

Steptoe & Son, Fawlty Towers and Hancock being examples which would still cut it today. Monty Python was really The John Cleese show, when he left it was truely awful.

 

[ColinJ]

Not all humour dates.

Steptoe & Son, Fawlty Towers and Hancock being examples which would still cut it today.

You're right.

Some really does though! I think 'On The Buses' and 'Love Thy Neighbour' wouldn't go down too well these days ...

 

[skudupnorth]

Life of Brian was hilarious.

+ 1 along with the Holy Grail......SPLITTERS and "I blow a raspberry in your general direction,you English sniggerts"

 

[661-Pete]

He's not wrong.

10% of it was hilarious, 10% mildly amusing and the rest was infantile public school humour that was as funny as toothache to everyone else.

You are perfectly right, of course. It vass nicht vunny!
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[Yellow Fang]

I remember not being allowed to watch it. It was patchy but the best bits were sublime.

 

[edindave]

Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour?

 

[mr_cellophane]

"At Last The 1948 Show"was hilarious. After that MP was just a poor imitation.