Monty Python vs Mel Brooks
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Topic: Monty Python vs Mel Brooks
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Monty Python vs Mel Brooks
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 14:12
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Ok, two (one being the whole Monty Python group) comedy geniouses... to vote... so hard, yet you must
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:07
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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. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:12
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i love both
cant vote cruel poll |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:24
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Easy one for me. I love Python, but have never been much of a Mel Brooks fan. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:26
| A hard decision to make but I think I prefer the Pythons to Mel Brooks but both are great. |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:44
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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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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:50
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Sorry, but in my opinion nothing Monty Python did was ever funnier than Blazing Saddles.
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 15:57
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.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 16:02
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Monthy Python are in a league of their own.
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 16:03
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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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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 16:06
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They are both fantastic. MP takes the cake for me though..but not by much. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 18:32
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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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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 18:40
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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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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 20:54
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Umm.. Both are great but my sig says Mel Brooks.
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 21:11
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 |
Evans wrote:Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: August 07 2007 at 06:22
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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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Posted By: dwill123
Date 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. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date 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.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Mlaen
Date Posted: August 07 2007 at 13:08
| I dislike both... |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:39
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Yeah Python and it's weirdness wins! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:44
| The Ministry of Silly Walks, and the Bruce Sketch just crack me up. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:57
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slightly unfair to pitch one brilliant mind against 6, but I have gone for MP..
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:59
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Mel Brooks.
I never really got Monty Python. Funny, but never anything spectacular to me. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Progrock105
Date Posted: August 11 2007 at 12:21
| I love absurdist, british humor; so I chose Monty Python; but Mel Brooks made some hilarious movies |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 02:34
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The flayrods gone ou' a skew on th' tre'ul! Python all the way. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 17:28
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MONTY!!! Also Fawlty Towers was great. Mel is good too though. |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 17:33
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this was really tough,
mel brooks made blazing saddles, young frankenstein, history of the world pt. 1 (really underrated movie)
but python put out dozens of episodes of flying circus
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Posted By: daSilva
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:13
| Python. My choice from overseas would have to be Seinfeld. |