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Poll Question: One is a director... the others are just plain funny... VOTE!!!
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    Posted: August 06 2007 at 14:12
Ok, two (one being the whole Monty Python group) comedy geniouses... to vote... so hard, yet you must
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Monty Python is forever funny and I just saw Spamalot recently to remind me but Mel's "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles" still make me LOL.
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i love both

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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:24
Easy one for me. I love Python, but have never been much of a Mel Brooks fan. 
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A hard decision to make but I think I prefer the Pythons to Mel Brooks but both are great.
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I've recently seen "Young Frankenstein" in its original language... I can't help but voting Mel Brooks
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Sorry, but in my opinion nothing Monty Python did was ever funnier than Blazing Saddles.

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Way to hard to vote.  Python was brilliant but they were a group of guys not just one.  Mel did fantastic and had some great actors to promote his material Gen Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn (rip).   Chapman, Gilliam, Cleese, Idle et all were absolutely nuts.  They really introduced me to British slapstick.  I just watched The Life of Brian last night and laughed my ass off again.  I guess the best way to sum up is Python is so British and Brooks is so American they are both fantastic.   Clap


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Monthy Python are in a league of their own. 
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I am a huge fan of Monty Python. Love everything from their BBC shows to their movies. My all-time favorite is easily The Holy Grail.
 
 
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They are both fantastic. MP takes the cake for me though..but not by much.
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Monty Python, by a mile. Mel Brooks' humour is not my kind of humour; it is a bit shallow at times. But the Pythons are the kings of absurdity. I could watch some of their immortal scetches again and again, like the one about the two Kilimanjaros.


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Monty python by a coutrly mile. Just think of mister Hilter ("sorry mein führer, uhh... my dicky old chum!"), the football match with german and greek philosophers, or "salad days".... genius.

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Umm.. Both are great but my sig says Mel Brooks.
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Originally posted by Evans Evans wrote:

Monty python by a coutrly mile. Just think of mister Hilter ("sorry mein führer, uhh... my dicky old chum!"), the football match with german and greek philosophers, or "salad days".... genius.
What about the Upper Class Twit of the Year, or the invasion of the tennis playing blancmanges?

As much as it pains me to say this, Mel loses. However, Blazing Saddles is a masterpiece, as it kills racism with comedy. Still, MP win win a combo of great films and their timeless show
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Monty Python were much more sophisticated than Mel Brooks, whose humour (as has been mentioned before) sometimes is too shallow. Loved Young Frankenstein (or was it Fronkensteen) though.
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Points: 4460 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2007 at 08:08
Sorry this one is a dead heat.  "Blazing Saddles" is the funniest movie ever made but "Holy Grail" is right there also.
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2007 at 10:05
I have to go with the python, i like thiere wierd humor a bit more but its a close one Mel did some nice movies. Thumbs%20Up
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I dislike both...
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Points: 2078 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:39
Yeah Python and it's weirdness wins!



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