Top 40 Monty Quotes

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad’s the same. We love watching ‘Monty Python’ together.

My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool – I don’t know why.

I grew up on ‘Monty Python.’

At the end of Season Four of ‘Mr. Show,’ instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into ‘And Now For Something Completely Different,’ and everyone kind of compared ‘Mr. Show’ to Monty Python.

Missing out on ‘Monty Python’ was a real blow at the time. I sometimes wonder how things would have been different if I had been invited to join ‘Monty Python,’ but as the saying goes, one door closes, another opens.

Most ‘Monty Python’ fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it’s just going to be that much funnier. And there’s no better example of that than ‘Monty Python.’

That was sort of the ‘Second City’ approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by ‘Monty Python,’ too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

‘Dead peasants insurance’ is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.

My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome – I’ve been working with him for years now.

If there’s a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis – whether it’s ‘A Room with a View,’ ‘Four Weddings’ or ‘The Full Monty’ – money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

I just don’t know when we all decided that if it doesn’t fit in a Happy Meal box, it’s not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

I am interested in complex characters who are difficult and have numerous sides. But I would love to do a comedy role – something maybe ‘Monty Python’-esque.

My mother is British; she’s from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto ‘Monty Python’ very early.

The label ‘wife of the prime minister’ is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I’m a human being.

I’ve learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I’d just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some ‘Monty Python.’

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

‘Monty Python’ and ‘The Simpsons’ have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Remember that film ‘Sliding Doors,’ when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn’t work, so that film’s wrong.

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At ‘The New Yorker’, we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind – Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Monty Python never directly said, ‘We’re liberals’ – they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that’s their job – pointing out what other people might not notice and going, ‘Yoo-hoo, over here.’

‘Pastoralia’ by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It’s one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words ‘Monty Python’ to me. It’s not bad.

I had a ‘Monty Python’ CD, and I would listen to it in the car on the way to school. It also refined my British accent. I can do a killer British accent because I’m just imitating ‘Monty Python.’

Everyone hated the title ‘The Full Monty’ until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.

I was pretty much a child of ‘Monty Python.’ I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven’t even seen the Monty Python musical, and I’m a huge Monty Python fan.

When I was in my late teens, I discovered ‘Fawlty Towers’ and ‘Monty Python,’ and they still make me laugh.

You can start any ‘Monty Python’ routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

The Full Monty, ah, it’s superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England.

‘Monty Python And The Holy Grail’ is a hugely important movie to me. I remember watching it for the first time on cable when I was about 13 years old.

Ever since the commercial smash that was ‘The Full Monty’, we’ve always made films about underdogs. It’s something that embodies Britishness and that sense of community and people punching above their weight.

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I didn’t have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

I think I was the only person in my experimental film class doing comedy. But my sense of humor and a lot of comedy that I love is quite surreal and strange, you know? You could argue that ‘Monty Python’ is experimental film. It just happens to be really funny.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

I love the English. My God, they brought us ‘Benny Hill,’ ‘Monty Python,’ ‘The Office,’ Neville Chamberlain.

I’d loved ‘Monty Python’ and ‘The Young Ones,’ so making something like that for our own generation would have been amazing.

My parents introduced me to ‘SNL,’ Monty Python, and Richard Pryor probably way earlier than they had any right to.

I’d grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

I love Monty Python, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers. I’m a huge fan of British comedy.