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Monty Python--Architect sketch

submitted by RhesusMonk

1 decade 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago

The first time I saw this, I think I was about 15. I remember realizing that until that point, my concept of "sense of humor" was completely meaningless.

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Not so meaningless To save a few quid, they'd rather have a desperately unsafe structure than just a straight-up slaughter house!

Classic

^Just meant I didn't know what "funny" meant until I saw this.

I remember listening to a version of this on tape in high school... when you do weed out some of the absolute dross that a large amount of the Flying Circus was and distill it down there is absolute, almost timeless gold in there to be found.

Of course, then you get to their movies, and in particular Life of Brian, and you really DO have timeless comedy...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'abattoire, john cleese, eric idle, graham chapman, terry jones, michael palin' to 'abattoir, john cleese, eric idle, graham chapman, terry jones, michael palin' - edited by Fjnbk

"Are you proposing to slaughter our tennents?" "Does that not fit in with your plans?"

*genius

Agreed RM, same here. My brother introduced Holy Grail to me when I was about that age. I was changed.

My apologies, RhesusMonk! I read your summary message in haste, and thought you'd said something else.

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