1. Comment #181815 by beeline on May 18, 2008 at 9:54 am

This is approaching the limits of Poe's law :-D

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law

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2. Comment #181817 by Colwyn Abernathy on May 18, 2008 at 9:59 am

With the laughter in the audience? Invocation of Poe's Law seems a bit of a stretch. ;)

EDIT: KEWL! They have the Damn It bit, too. "Down with anarchy!" ;)

EDITEDIT: OOOO! AND the Psychic Spoon Bender...CLASSIC!

"Are you sure it isn't FRAUD! they're shouting at you?"

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3. Comment #181820 by mordacious1 on May 18, 2008 at 10:05 am

Ah, I miss Wooster & Jeeves.

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4. Comment #181829 by decius on May 18, 2008 at 10:42 am

Don't miss this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_yXtaICt3Y

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5. Comment #181846 by Robert Maynard on May 18, 2008 at 11:42 am

Fry and Laurie sketches just don't seem to work for me. Has anyone posted the one with the Catholic priests talking like bigshot corporate executives? It's funny in the same sort of way.
What Monty Python got right was when they couldn't boil a sketch into frenzied insanity, they would typically cut it before it extended its welcome, with some bizarre non sequitur or segue. Of course how welcome some gags are varies from person to person, but their pacing usually felt spot-on for me.

This sketch, on the other hand, was funny all the way through, but it never really ..peaked. The setup of the ignorant prude is juicy, but they never really delivered a punchline, just lots of short jabs, which then (ironically) turned into the end of the dead parrot sketch (which also basically fizzled after Cleese was finished being batshit crazy). *shrug*

How about Mitchell & Webb?! Eh? Anyone else like them? :P

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6. Comment #181874 by Rawhard Dickins on May 18, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Give me the last episode of Monty Python any day!

(series 4).





Now.. on with the skating vicar!

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7. Comment #181920 by joshuas3521 on May 18, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Agreed with the previous posts, Monty Python was the best absurd humour. Fry & Laurie is still pretty good though ^^

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8. Comment #181921 by MPhil on May 18, 2008 at 7:28 pm

I'm a huge Monty Python Fan - but I find Fry and Laurie even better... Stephen Fry ist just awesome - hugely intelligent, wonderful person - creative, amazingly witty and funny etc.
Love QI, love house, love Fry & Laurie, Cambridge Footlights etc.

The Barman sketch for example, - most brilliant double entendre sketch ever done.

Then of course there's the many meta-levels. I just love it.

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9. Comment #181969 by YssiBoo on May 19, 2008 at 12:49 am

I thought the sketch was a bit dreary the first half, but I couldn't help laughing at the poor sod in the end. :)

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10. Comment #181995 by njwong on May 19, 2008 at 4:42 am

YssiBoo, your cute avatar reminded me of the famous Banana Phone video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wky5H1xC6-I

:-)

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11. Comment #185373 by cpiasminc on May 27, 2008 at 4:38 pm

This was probably not the best of sketches on the show, but it is good one nonetheless. It does display the typical sort of willful ignorance you see from most idiots out there.

I think a fairly good one (also in the pseudo-science realm) is the one where Hugh Laurie portrays a sort of Uri Geller type of character claiming to bend spoons with his psychic energies --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSk2GWWWCJs

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