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Poll Question: Who is your favourite member of Monty Python?
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12 [26.67%]
3 [6.67%]
6 [13.33%]
4 [8.89%]
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Poor Terry Jones.  He seems forever doomed to being the least regarded Python.  I haven't the faintest idea why this is the case: the man is one of the funniest human beings to ever walk the earth.  Admittedly, he doesn't really have the poise/swagger of Cleese or Chapman; I blame it on his comparatively short stature and his preference for gratuitous nudity and drag.  I do think that, more than any of the others, he is completely willing to commit to humiliating roles, which is why I adore him.  No shame, no dignity spared.

That being ranted, I had to vote for Chapman.
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Originally posted by Lozlan Lozlan wrote:

Poor Terry Jones.  He seems forever doomed to being the least regarded Python.  I haven't the faintest idea why this is the case: the man is one of the funniest human beings to ever walk the earth.  Admittedly, he doesn't really have the poise/swagger of Cleese or Chapman; I blame it on his comparatively short stature and his preference for gratuitous nudity and drag.  I do think that, more than any of the others, he is completely willing to commit to humiliating roles, which is why I adore him.  No shame, no dignity spared.

That being ranted, I had to vote for Chapman.


I just think it takes more time to appreciate Jones. He doesn't jump out at you with the immediacy of Idle and Cleese. The more Python I watch, the closer he moves to the top of my list.
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John Cleese kicks ass!
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The cheeky one -- Ilde!
 
Palin and Cleese are close ties for second.
I like Palin too.
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I missed this one.

All of them are ( were ) geniuses.
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As for myself Palin is a personal favorite with the other chaps nearly alongside. I just think Palin is a riot though.
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Originally posted by Lozlan Lozlan wrote:

Poor Terry Jones.  He seems forever doomed to being the least regarded Python.  I haven't the faintest idea why this is the case: the man is one of the funniest human beings to ever walk the earth.  Admittedly, he doesn't really have the poise/swagger of Cleese or Chapman; I blame it on his comparatively short stature and his preference for gratuitous nudity and drag.  I do think that, more than any of the others, he is completely willing to commit to humiliating roles, which is why I adore him.  No shame, no dignity spared.

That being ranted, I had to vote for Chapman.


You gotta love Jones when he plays a sicilian mobster trying to blackmail the British Grenadier Guards Colonel played by straightman Chapman . Or The Bishop. Hillarious.
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Hi,
 
I don't think that Monty Python, would have made it were it not for the visuals, and that work mostly came from Terry Gilliam and then Terry Jones, both of whom conspired to also work the direction on their scripts ... which helped define their work a lot more.
 
I remember once, an interview with Spike Milligan, and he was talking about the Goons and how it all appeared 10 years later ... and he said that in the radio days, we had to do it in your mind. In the TV days, they show it to you, and He didn't think it was as funny, which I have to admit I agreed and still do. The best part of any MP for me, is the one that is very surrealistic and stays there, and that is usually the parts that have the cartoons or the multi media stuff.
 
That is not to say that the Parrot bit is not funny, I don't think it is, but if there was no dialogue and it was a silent film, I DO think it would be funnier! ... but many of the bits are not that great, but they are much more fun to watch then they are to listen to.  And if you had the LP's you will know what I mean ... when you don't see the visuals, some of this stuff is not as funny!
 
I think that the films forced them to get better and more centered on better material, and I think they improved. But as that went on, they also went apart more and more.
 
I like the albums, but I have to tell you that the movies are more fun for me, and in the end, Terry Gilliam is my numero uno, because him and I share the same birthday, madness and insanity ... that no one understands and constantly tell us that we're wrong! ... see, Dean, I told you I'm not the only one! ... and Terry's films make unbelievably good sense for me, even in an internal or psychic level ... it is so clear as to what he is trying to do sometimes that it is scary! And to me, it's so obvious!
 
I want him to do a movie, and I am his alter ego ... but I think his dream project of the Man of La Mancha All That Moolah is what he will die for more than anything else. I don't think he wants to do anything else anymore ... when your dream is gone, you might as well die ... but Terry should take a hint from the video crowd and the special effects and tell the movie folks to get f**ked and simply create his own wierdness with all the software and computers out there and sell it ... and I bet it will be better than some cinematic bullsh*t that studios are going to screw with!
 
Live your dream ... what else is life worth for?
 
Best actor of the bunch? - Hard to not go with John Cleese
Best Musician? - Eric Idle ... and remember that he was a part, and one fo the founders of the Bonzo Dog Band! So, you know that MP was looking to add music to their "show", or possibility of a live show!
Best director? - Terry Gilliam
Best un-director? - Terry Jones, because he was trying to tell Terry that his directing was all sideways, and they wanted to go backwards!
Best intelectual? --- leaving that one to The Goons! MP intelectual? ... wow!


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