It’s amazing how on the money Monty Python were about politicians in general, considering they were writing in the early Seventies about politicians in the United Kingdom.

Here’s another of Monty Python’s famous sketches, the Hungarian Phrasebook sketch, featuring the always brilliant John Cleese as the clueless Hungarian, Terry Jones as the patient (male) tobacconist, and once again Graham Chapman as a clueless authority figure, this time a policeman with sharp hearing, but without a patrol car.

My nipples explode with delight!

This scene is from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the story of Brian Cohen, a man who happened to be born in the manger next to Jesus Christ, and how he went from mama’s boy to freedom fighter to reluctant messiah.

This clip contains Brian’s greatest teaching. Unfortunately, just like many other great teachings, its true meaning is completely lost on the crowd — except for one strangely self-aware member of the multitude, who gets shushed when he voices his dissent.

Well, it’s finally happened: I’ve missed a day of posting. Apparently some power transformer blew up somewhere, taking out a large chunk of the power grid, including my condo. My electronics are out of power and I’m at a net cafe charging my phone.

But it’s okay. In fact it’s kind of fun being unplugged. I’ve been rereading The Invisibles. It’s the kind of comic that yields something new every time I read it. And why are so many of my heroes bald?

Anyway, even nailed to the cross, Eric Idle (the main songwriter of Monty Python) reminds us: Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.

I’m going to go enjoy my freedom from the Internet for a while. Catch you later!

On October 5, 1969, a small comedy group of 3 Cantabrigians, 2 Oxonians, and a lone American unleashed a concentrated dose of sheer lunacy upon an unsuspecting world.

40 years later, we celebrate Monty Python’s continued detrimental influence on the world, as we steal their funniest skits and post them on YouTube without paying them one red cent, while they endure our fatuous comments and our blatant theft of their righteous income through royalties.

Or not, as it appears from the clip below that they have simply given up and decided to post their own videos on youtube themselves: