Your video, John Cleese Remembers Monty Python's "Dead Parrot", has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Monty Python-Black Knight has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

I'd say out of all the episodes there are about two sketches I wouldn't upvote.

I would consider doing a 'python sketch of the week/month', but I don't really think videosift is the forum for that kind of thing.

However, in case you're interested, my current two favourite obscure sketches are 'Italian lessons' from the first episode, and 'finishing peoples sentences' from the last.

Monty Python - Johann Gambolputty (It's The Arts) has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

Could this be the birthplace of (shameless promote) Johann Gambolputty? *related=http://videosift.com/video/Monty-Python-Johann-Gambolputty-Its-The-Arts

Your video, Eric Idle from Monty Python: "I like Chinese", has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

The world today seems absolutely crackers,
With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high.
There's fools and idiots sitting on the trigger.
It's depressing and it's senseless, and that's why...
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're always friendly, and they're ready to please.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they're cute and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please.

I like Chinese food.
The waiters never are rude.
Think of the many things they've done to impress.
There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and Chess.

So I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.

I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucious taught.
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.

So, I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're wise and they're witty, and they're ready to please

-- Eric Idle, from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Youtube so you can experience it in all its glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2P_pVze6s

Ha ha ha ha ha! You're a good person, newt. May you get better. (Citation: Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Scene 5, Villager #3)

I think improv and sketch comedy groups are all springboards from stage to radio, radio to stage, stage yo television, radio to television, television to radio, to other television and ultimately the big screen. Any good YouTube sketch comedy? I've yet to really explore that, I guess Vine is funny sketch comedy. A bit too fast, over and done for me though. Cyanide and Happiness count? Web comics? Cracked? Anyway, on to television, which remains the fascination:

The first years of SNL are phenomenal with Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner. And before that a lot of those guys were together on the National Lampoon Radio. (Speaking of radio, Dr. Demento?)

And there's also SCTV, jesus -- John Candy, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Joe Flaherty. Flaherty's vampire killed me as a kid. So funny, but really I haven't watched it since I was a youngster.

When I was growing up PBS played a lot of BBC television. Benny Hill amongst them, such a naughty show. I think I was barely allowed watch. But I enjoy the show as much as its mostly about old horny men and women with big tits.

What do I think about Upright Citizen Brigade? I would choose to be an Agent of U.C.B. before S.H.I.E.L.D. Great as both an improv group and sketch comedy for television. Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz are awesome, and I love them on SNL as well. Assssscat

Cast transfers, right? Sketch comedy groups are like sports teams. Mark McKinney on SNL, etc. Daily Show anchors from Upright Citizens Brigade. SCTV to SNL, etc. Every sketch comedy floods into SNL. Did you watch Nickelodeon's All That? Kenan and Kell.

Mr Show is on my to watch list. I love David Cross in his stand up, as Tobias Funke on Arrested Dev, and as Todd Margaret, which is fucking RIDICULOUS if you haven't seen it. It's not sketch comedy but it might as well be. It's like a British comedy with brash Americans thrown into the mix. Chaos ensues and many, many, many laws are broken, including the usage of weapons of mass destruction and murder. Dark comedy.

Oh, I know a good dark sort of sketch comedy: The League of Gentlemen? It's sort of like if Simon Pegg produced Monty Python. They say things like "Rape our dead mouths". Psychopaths, murderers and crossdressers.

Now that we've ventured off the beaten path, what are your thoughts about the short run comedy central show Stella? Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain. All three from a funny sketch comedy series called the State. I think I've sifted or promoted some sketches from that series.

And I can't not mention MadTV, you know what? Uh uh, a list about sketch comed without MadTV, ridiculous. I'm running out of steam though, because I'm typing too much, but MO Collins, Orlando Jones, Bobby Lee, Phil LaMar (who does DC comics cartoon voice over work), Aries Spears, and Will Sasso. Damn.

And lest we forget (Thanks, Rudyard), Little Britain -- Britain, Britain, Britain, if it weren't for Little Britain I would scarcely know of the country.

I'm sure I've left off some other great sketch (In Living Color!!), but these came to mind and as I started to think of my favorite cast members and comedians, I began to realize how they all fit in the grand scheme of things. I'm going to watch some Fire Marshall Bill clips now.

Kids in the Hall is my favorite sketch comedy group of all time. Monty Python a close second. I just think those Canadians are cuter crossdressers.

I don't think there are many subjects or constructs of civilization that I care about beyond the topics of this video. Science is such a great excuse to make comedy and comedy is such a great excuse to crossdress, or sing. Oh, the Pythons. You help me automate.

Your video, Stephen Hawking sings Monty Python's Galaxy Song, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I can't call related, but here's my obligatory Direct Python Reference...
http://videosift.com/video/Monty-Pythons-Flying-Sheep

Some pranksters must have replaced the instructional videos on the workings of parliament with Monty Python sketches...

Maybe if Mulcair had professed his membership in the People's Front of Judea, Calandra might have stayed on topic.

Michael Palin of Monty Python fame did something similar, as did Billy Connelly, who did an awesome tour of almost the entire coast of Canada. Seems to be a "thing" among comedians from the isles, and Craig is certainly the type of spontaneous and interesting guy that could pull this off very very well.

Well worth watching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Connolly:_Journey_to_the_Edge_of_the_World
and (now 25 years old!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Palin:_Around_the_World_in_80_Days

EDIT: Game show, huh? Waste of talent in my book, but probably VERY easy money for Craig and a very controllable schedule for filming. Ah well.