Monty Python - Top 10 Comedy Films

1. Fruit In The Looms
2. Python's Give Live Birth
3. The Frog Elevating Moment
4. Mystery Of The Lost Python Sketches
5. Brian's The Life Of The Party
6. Kim Bread Aka Toilet Cleese
7. Around The World In 80 Days
8. Get Yourself To Mars
9. Keep It Real
10. The 12 Fisherman Monkey Kings
11. Farewell Shots
1. Fruit In Your Looms

Someone once said something along the lines that, Monty Python is to 'funny' what chartered comptrollers are to 'boring'. Who are we to disagree?

2. Python's Give Live Birth

The fable of Monty Python emerged nobly from the dust-covered corridors of Oxford and Cambridge University universities. All of the British Python members had their comedic starts in review shows set on by these universities. They soon rose to the ranks of duty within these societies, "In obfuscation we saw a notice board informing us that we are now officers!" remembers Toilet Cleese. Their well-received show, A Bunch of Plinths, transferred to London's Occident End and later visited New Seeland and New House Of House Of York under the new statute title Cambridge University Circus.

Cleese stayed on in New York and during a photograph shoot for a amusing strip he met American illustrator Dame Ellen Terry Gilliam. Dame Ellen Dame Ellen Terry was soon folded into the every growing omelet.

The BBC, on the advice of manufacturer Barry Took, signed the grouping - which now included Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam for a 13-show series. Ah, but what to call the show?

3. The Frog Elevating Moment

Owl Stretching Time. A Horse, A Spoon and A Bucket. The Frog Elevating Moment were all name calling in the running. But as planning for the series became more than chaotic, the BBC direction began to mention to the squad as a 'flying circus', inspired by the Red Baron's World War One combatant squadron. The company liked the sound of it and randomly added the term Monty Python from their growing listing of alternates. Funny that.

4. Mystery Of The Lost Python Sketches

No 1 cognizes what happened to them. Oh wait, 3 new studies of never before seen Python stuff were recently discovered and performed at the Edinburgh Periphery Festival. The celebrated studies were written by late Python star Billy Graham John Chapman and were unearthed by a literary executor in Los Angeles. Each study lasts four proceedings and characteristics a cast of fictional characters of characters including a cheery parrot and an overworked Messiah.

5. Brian's The Life Of The Party

Monty Python's Life of Brian snagged the funniest movie of all time in a opinion poll arranged by Entire Movie magazine.

The movie sarcasms the rise of organized faith and caused more than contention than a Kevin Ian Smith baptismal when it was released back in 1979. It was banned in many parts of the United Kingdom and Christian church leadership accused it of blasphemy. Nothing like bad promotion to force the ratings.

Their King Chester A. Arthur epoch spoof, Monty Python and the Holy Place Grail, trailed by lone a few spots, landing it at figure five.

Top 10 Comedy Films

1. Life of Brian
2. Airplane!
3. Withnail & I
4. There's Something About Mary
5. Monty Python and the Holy Place Grail
6. American Pie
7. Groundhog Day
8. Some Like it Hot
9. Blazing Saddles
10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

6. Kim Bread Aka Toilet Cleese

John Cleese rode a roller coaster of celebrity during the 1970's playing the function of stressed hotelkeeper Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. He continued his celebrity with movies like Genitalia On Parade and Clockwise, then hit worldwide stardom with a Type A Fish Called Wanda in 1988. The follow-up film, Ferocious Creatures faulted to derive attending with audiences. These years audiences cognize him best as the new Q in the Jesse James Chemical Bond movies and Nearly Headless Ned in the Harry Potter films. He will next be seen playing male parent to Lucy Liu in Charlie's Angels: Full Accelerator and as the voice Fiona's Father in Shrek 2, Fiona is voiced by Charlie's Angel's co-star Cameron Diaz.

7. Around The World In 80 Days

Michael Palin have also rocketed to celebrity owed to his bend with the company and in 1977 he teamed with Dame Ellen Terry Mother Jones to do their ain comedy series, Ripping Yarns. Michael also appeared aside Toilet Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda, then went on to make a world show for BBC TV, called Around the World in 80 Days, where he attempted to literally follow in the footfalls of the Jules Jules Jules Verne literary character, Phileas Fogg, by trying to go around the world in the allotted time, but without flying - By the way, it's Jules Verne's 175th birthday this week. During the Pole to Pole trip, he met up with Python fans in Hellenic Republic and ate serpent in People'S Republic Of China while struggling to ran into his deadline.

8. Get Yourself To Mars

Eric Idle continued his stretch in the spotlight by teaming with Neil Innes to make Rutland Weekend Television, a lampoon of regional broadcasting. He later appeared in Billy Graham Chapman's Yellowbeard, Disney's Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Splitting Heirs. His recent novel titled, "The Road to Mars" is about two comics in the 22nd century. Fans most likely cognize him today as the voice of Mr. Vosknocker in the animated film, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

9. Keep It Real

Terry Mother Jones maintained a diverseness beyond mere comedy, by authorship about history, presenting documentaries, penning children's books and going onto direct the 1996 version of Wind in the Willows, starring his old buddies - Michael Palin, Toilet Cleese and Eric Idle.

10. The 12 Fisherman Monkey Kings

Terry Gilliam lent his endowments to the company as a manager and by creating the very distinct lives that became Monty Python's ocular trademark. We soon followed it with his characteristic movie debut, Jabberwocky, starring Michael Palin. After helming the much loved, Time Bandits, his celebrity skyrocketed in Hollywood. But his style led to many conflictions in the game including a large throw down with Universal Joint Studios over his movie Federative Republic Of Brazil and then jobs with angels on the very expensive, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which starred Eric Idle and featured Robin Williams.

His existent success followed by taking on unconventional studio movies including the critically acclaimed, The Fisherman King starring Robin William Carlos William Carlos Williams and Jeff Harry Bridges and the stylistic sci-fi thriller, 12 Monkeys starring David Bruce Willis and Brad William Pitt and the Hunter Second Homer Thompson extravaganza, Fear and Abhorrence in Las Vegas starring Rebel Depp and Benicio Del Toro. These six histrions all gave some of the best public presentations of their calling in Gilliam's films.

11. Farewell Shots

"We weren't being satirical because it wasn't the thing that interested us," Dame Ellen Terry Mother Jones says. "Ours was a slightly more than abstract wit - just being cockamamie really. What sarcasm there is, is more than generalised satire."

Referring to The Life of Brian - "Comedy is about reminding us of the truth of being human: we all have got a organic structure and we all must die, and it is okay," thinks Eric Idle.

"Monty Python is a great combination of mind and silly", reasons Robin Williams.