Favourite Monty Python: Sketch/Scene/Song/Film/Character...anything!

What's your favourite Monty Python...thing?

It can be a certain sketch, one scene, a song, a film, one of their characters, a quote, one of Gilliams animations...your favourite Python member even.

Doesn't have to be the one thing either. There's so much Monty Ptyhon material that you can't have just the one favourite thing.

So what's it gonna be?

Most likely it's the Holy Grail when the black knight and the white night fight... I think

Dead Bird, Phony Translation Book, or Holy Grail as a whole.

Holy Grail when the monster (a.k.a the bunny) attacks them. I never laughed so hard

Holy Grail, i really liked the entire thing, some parts that really stand out though are, castle anthrax, and the holy hand grenade part, the end was pretty funny to.

Everyone seems to like the Holy Grail. But then again, it is their best film so.

Out of the Holy Grail I like the french taunters, "We've found a witch, may we burn her?!", the tale of Sir Lancelot, "We're knights of the round table, we dance whene'er we're able. We do routines, and chorus scenes" etc., the killer rabbit and the hand grenade...in fact, most of it.

ONe of my favourite sketches has to be "The Penultimate Supper".

Pope: Look! The last supper is a significant event in the life of our Lord, the penultimate supper was not! Even if they had a conjurer and a mariachi band. Now, a last supper I commissioned from you, and a last supper I want! With twelve disciples and one Christ! Michelangelo: One?! Pope: Yes one! Now will you please tell me what in God's name possessed you to paint this with three Christs in it? Michelangelo: It works, mate! Pope: Works? Michelangelo: Yeah! It looks great! The fat one balances the two skinny ones.

And the "Self Defence against Fresh Fruit".

Sgt.: We haven't done them, have we? Right. Bananas. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless. Palin: Suppose he's got a bunch. Sgt.: Shut up. Idle: Suppose he's got a pointed stick. Sgt.: Shut up. Right now you, Mr Apricot.

And of course the dead parrot...but only when they do it live. Cleese gets much more into it when they do it live. Download the audio version and listen to it.

The "Accountancy Shanty" is good. You know, the bit at the start of Meaning of Life with the building that takes to the high seas and destroys all the big stock brokers etc.

The end of Life Of Brian. How can you not love a crowd of people getting crucified singing "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"?

"I'm Brian!" "I'm Brian" "No I'm Brian!" "I'm Brian!"

"We are the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad!"

"People, don't fight! We are all here together! We must join up against the common enemy!" "The Judean's People Front?!"

It was a good film, but not one of my favourites. I don't know if you've seen Michael Palin's "Sahara" where he treks across the Sahara desert, but he goes back to where they filmed the Life of Brian. To say it was 20, 30 years ago, not much has changed.

"Only the true Mesiah would deny his divinity." "Well what type of chance does that give me?! OK, I am the Messiah!" "He is! He is the Messiah!" "Now, FUCK off!" . . . "How shall we fuck off oh Lord?"