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Poll Question: Who is your favourite member of Monty Python?
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5 [11.11%]
12 [26.67%]
3 [6.67%]
6 [13.33%]
4 [8.89%]
8 [17.78%]
7 [15.56%]
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    Posted: November 19 2010 at 18:07

The late great Graham Chapman gets my vote. He features prominently in nearly all my favourite sketches including my all-time favourite ''Flying Lessons''. I love how one minute he could be playing a very serious General and the next be dressed up in drag as Mrs Conclusion. Of course all the Pythons are wonderful in their own way so it was not an easy decision to make.



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Always had a soft spot for Sheffield's own Mr Palin.
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Oh crap that's hard.  I'll go with Gilliam for the animations.  Oh, and for not being from the UK. Tongue

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Idle's the only one I've seen in person.  And he seems like he'd be fun to have a beer with.

Jones and Palin fighting it out for second and third.
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Eric Idle is my favorite, but Cleese is close behind.
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Tough to decide between Cleese and Palin for me... I'll probably go Palin for this alone:
 
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Palin and Cleese are close ties for second.
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I love them all equally for their Python work. But Gilliam by a long shot for career body of work. But I think I like Palin most as a human being.

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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

I love them all equally for their Python work. But Gilliam by a long shot for career body of work. But I think I like Palin most as a human being.
Palin does seem very nice, doesn't he? The other Pythons say as much of him, too, in the book "Monty Python Speaks!" Smile
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Wow.

All are, of course, brilliant, but I have a soft spot for Cleese. Idle would be my next choice
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Wow.

All are, of course, brilliant, but I have a soft spot for Cleese.

Beyond Cleese, I'd choose the "love them all equally" option.  But he gets my vote...plays in two of my absolute favorites, Argument Clinic and Ministry of Silly Walks. LOL
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All are great in their own way. Can't decide.
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All of them Heart But if I could vote for two I'd vote for Palin and Cleese for the Fish Slapping Dance.
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Cleese with Chapman in a close second. Idle is close as well is Palin. The two terrys would round out the bottom, but are still quite brilliant in their own right.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

But I don't like spam.......LOL

A factoid you may not know, Spam sushi is popular in Hawaii.  One of the weirder things I have heard of in my life.
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I like the Monty Boa e twee bit more Tongue
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