Skit comedies have always been my favorite kind of comedies because in them you just have unlimited creative freedom to not just be about anything but even to do anything you want.This show is one of my favorite TV shows of all time as well as favorite skit and comedy show of all time. It was revolutionary for it's time before skit comedy shows were even common, but what really revolutionized it was in it's execution of comedy where it dared to not play it safe and actually go the extra mile. To this day I'm still surprised they were able to get away with what they did; it's a little more common place now with the shows on the "Adult Swim" block on Cartoon Network but this was one of the first and still the best.The ensemble is great each of them are memorable comedic actors though my favorite one is John Clease he always had this infectious uptight manic mannerism to him. Each of them look as though their really into what their doing and having fun.I really like those brief animated segments which are beautiful but really odd art style, much like you would see in a surrealist painting as well as Mad Magazine. From the clouds, tiny men, giant feet, at times I wondered if the artists were on something. Even the pacing and editing is crisp, from how it quickly transitions and cuts to the next skit or the animated segment in between the skits, it really feels like a live action Mad Magazine as if were flipping between the pages.However what powers this show are the skits which are great and memorable. I'll just say a few that I really loved. Each of the skits are really colorful, creative, weird and may'be even a little risqué with the amount of absurdity and behavior they were really pulling all the stops out; for some of them I still wonder where the hell they came up with the ideas or what when through they heads when they made them. Their rich with both verbal and visual humor, there is just a lot of memorable quotes and dialog in the skits which I can't always say for all of them which is cool. The verbal humor is smart and clever but not to the point of being boring, they just go simply for doing one task and one only delivering the humor which most good skit shows should do.I won't say too much my words can't do them justice their the kind of things you have to see for yourself to laugh.The Deadly Joke: This just cracks me up because of how absurd an idea this is; instead of chem warfare it's punchline warfare.Race of the Twits: It's one of the most bizarre races I've seen in history. Each of the competitors are just idiots to the core and each of the obstacles they do are even more absurd and stupidly easy.The Spanish Inquisition: This is my favorite one of all where it is just absurdity at it's best; it's a Inquisition platoon that's not just out of place but out of time, as they are still operating on outdated laws. But most of all each of them are complete morons.Overall if your a fan of skit shows this classic is worth checking out, this circus flies high.Rating: 4 stars

June 2004, I crashed an airplane in the stupidest manner. The resulting 3 months in ICU on morphine and 7 surgeries after that pretty much sealed my fate, at least girlfriends and aviation were fond memories from my prior life. The only way to cope.... acquire a 22 yr. old blond/blue-eyed 44-23-37 online hooker inside the nursing home (never gonna happen) OR rent the entire series of this faded memory from my childhood. Well intercourse the penguin, these Brits brought me back from the brink of drawing an Xacto blade across my wrists! My mom HATED this and locked the TV plug whenever it was scheduled to air. Skits about hookers, 2 guys in bed together or old ladies on motorcycles weren't gonna fly with my Scotch-swilling, chain-smoking mother! Which made it ALL the more appealing for every 10 yr. old boy in my neighborhood, you stupid git! This and George Carlin's "7 dirty words" were rites of passage for my generation, you senseless waste of human life! Especially favored are: Upper Class Twit of the Year; Ministry of Silly Walks; Village Idiots; SPAM; Wife swapping competition; England's Most Horrible Family contest; Dead Parrot sketch; the Gumbies; the Fish slapping dance; Fish License; Dirty vicar sketch.Too bad you "Millennial" brats staring at your iPhones all damn day will never get it, you bloody bowls of puss!!! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.... I fart in your general direction!

The series was a landmark in television history and broke a number of taboos and boundaries. And there are scenes which have been and continue to be laugh-inducing, such as "Ypres 1914", "The Ministry Of Silly Walks", and "The Spanish Inquisition".But what really made Monty Python work was mainly not the jokes but the performances. If the actors hadn't been able to play everything straight, the whole thing would have fallen apart. The series depended not just on wit but on silliness and absurdity, which in itself isn't automatically funny. And many of the scenes are dated or funny only to Britons...and some of them are genuinely not funny. But not everything Charlie Chaplin was good either (and I'm talking about his early silent films as well as his late talkies.)

Funny, funny, funny! One of the funniest shows ever! It is a God send to all nerds (like me) everywhere. Without this show nerds would have nothing to do at all. But this show sparked the Nerd Invaision of the 60's and 70's-unlike that pointless British Rock and Roll Invaision, I mean who needs the Beatles ? These guys are The Beatles of comedy. My favorite sketch on the show is The Fish Slapping Dance (wait, is that even a real sketch?). It's just such a random sketch, it's funny! My favorite line is "Well if a homicidal manic comes and attacks you in the middle of the night wielding a pineapple, don't come crying to me!" That pretty much sums up Monty Python. The only sad thing is that, it's gone. Graham Chapman's dead, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese have moved on to bigger and better things, Michael Palin's gone traveling, Eric Idle's kicking back feeding of his cut of the Python legacy. And what the hell happened to Terry Jones? But the show will live on in our hearts. Actually just a little joke, I'm actually rat-catcher who needs cash. No you're not! Yes I am! No you're not! Yes I am!