The funniest joke in the world
Edit: also, The Flasher
How do you make a nazi ceoss?
Tred on his corn!
The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.
I believe he was supposed to be a digger actually. But anarchist peasant is pretty close
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!
If I went around calling myself emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!
(It’s amazing how much of this aligns with Graeber’s work)
I can’t narrow it down to one gag, but Holy Grail as a whole.
The castle of aaaaaargh.
Perhaps he was dictating it.
It’s only a model
Shh!
The fish dance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
I like the defective Hungarian/English phrase book sketch a lot.
“My nipples explode with orgasmic delight”.
I’ve told you once.
No you didn’t!
I most certainly did.
Someone else said The Argument Clinic and that is definitely my favorite.
But my most referenced is “And now for something completely different.”
The fact that their sketch use of “spam” made it into general usage.
And their name inspired the name of the third most used programming language
The scene in the life of brian where he is naked after having sex he swings wide the window shutters and all the worshippers are packed in tight to see him. Its the hardest I ever laugh and my friend had to pause the movie. I was on the ground and got a laugh cramp and it was like 5 or 10 minutes before we could progress again watching it.
Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How’d he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.
The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.
In my first year of high school I had Latin, which I hated with a passion. Before, I thought that it would boil down to learning some common words and sayings and proverbs, but no. It was learning latin as a foreign language. I don’t think I was taught anything remotely as useless as that. And I really don’t like the teacher and she didn’t like me and it was truly awful and I hated every second of it. It was so awful that I had nightmares about it, even years after high school.
A couple (two I think) of years after that latin studies I saw the Life of Brian for the first time. I didn’t know what I was going to see, so when the “romanus eunt domus” scene came. It wasn’t just hilariously funny it was also cathartic.
So I’d say that. I remember that sketch almost by heart since the first time I saw it.
I came here to say this. And for people who didn’t study Latin (which I did as an adult, having chosen German as my second foreign language at school), there is a video on YouTube which explains in detail exactly why that scene is so funny:
Classic.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned my favorite running Python gag:
That’s because nobody expects them
BRING OUT YER DEAD!
I’m not dead yet!
I can’t take him… …e said e’s not dead!
He’ll be dead soon enough, lookatim!
I’m getting better!
Four Yorkshiremen is an all-time classic sketch. Idk if it’s my favorite but it’s up there and nobody else mentioned it so 🤷♂️
“We would’ve DREAMED to have a hole in the ground!”
