Biggus Dickus, I remember my dad cracking up over it the first time I saw Life of Brian (not his first time, obviously). And now, more than 15 years later we’re still in tears when just mentioning the name or watching the scene for the x’th time
edit: Life of Brian, not Holy Grail… sleep induced brain didn’t work that well anymore
Biggus dickus sketch is from the life of Brian though.
right! i was half asleep and not thinking that well anymore…
He’s a phony! A big, fat phony!
You know, he has a beautiful wife…
My top favourite is already the top most voted so I’ll just mention a few that I think are classics that I didn’t see on the list:
Sir robin bravely ran away
Holy hand grenade
The animator having a heart attack
A newt???
Argument Clinic
No it isn’t
Jokes, mostly.
Jokes and skits.
Crunchy frogs?
And now for something completely different…
No, no. None of that. It’s silly now.
Mint?
Are you sure…? It’s whaf-fah thin…
Sprints away
people reciting lines in a circle forever at the office
So many things. Great memories with friends watching it just losing their shit laughing over the dead parrot sketch and the alien abduction scene from life of brian. Many great jokes. Also I discovered Terry Gilliam movies over Monty I think, which are whole worlds of treasure for themselves.
Just great.
Oh oh oh, we want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we.
Erik the Viking
The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!
If I went around calling myself emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!
(It’s amazing how much of this aligns with Graeber’s work)
I believe he was supposed to be a digger actually. But anarchist peasant is pretty close
The fact that their sketch use of “spam” made it into general usage.
And their name inspired the name of the third most used programming language
I’m torn between “every sperm is sacred” and the biggus dickus scene. Both make me laugh uncontrollably every time.
He has a wife, you know…
“You know what she’s called? Incontinentia… Incontinentia Buttocks WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING!?”
That scene is always able to make me laugh.
They told the actors playing the guards it was very important that they keep a straight face throughout, and then planned on cracking them up. Or so I’ve been told
I believe it is true. The extras were told they wouldn’t get paid if they laughed. I love when he swings his toga around and gets in that guards face - “how 'bout you centurion? Do you find it risible to laugh when I say the naaaame…”
I think most of the scene was scripted apart from the part about his wife which was improvised, that’s why you can hear the crew behind the camera laughing as well.
Here’s the video I got that from: https://youtu.be/RmCWDZulUuQ
I’d like to think it was less a threat and more an appeal to professionalism.
“We’ve got to get this scene, and time is running out. You guys have to treat this like you’re doing Shakespeare live. Whatever you do, don’t fuck this up.”
The Biggus Dickus sketch is brilliant.
