The holidays - time for Life of Brian.

[TNDemo]

"Go and praise someone else's brat, will ya?"

[everythingsxen]

1. How shall we...

fuck off O lord?

[ezgoingrl]

2. "Blessed are the cheesemakers."

I love that scene. Monty Python are genuises, geniuses I say!!!

[trof]

3. Graham Chapman's ashes.

Then in 1988, Chapman was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx and spine. He refused hospitalization, and died at age 48, one day shy of Monty Python's twentieth anniversary. Michael Palin and John Cleese were at his side.

When the remaining cast members were reunited in Aspen, Colorado for a roundtable discussion, Chapman's 'ashes' were paraded onstage with fanfare and applause. Then Terry Gilliam accidentally knocked the urn over with his foot, and the remains were cleared away with a Dust Buster. Rumors circulated that at midnight of New Year's Eve 2000, the ex-Chapman's real ashes were blasted into space by rocket from atop a Welsh mountain.
http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/monty-python/

I saw this reunion, and the "kicking over of the ashes" is one of the funniest bits I've ever seen on TV. The audience completely bought it (as I did). There were shocked gasps until a "butler" came onstage with the DustBuster. Then the whole place collapsed in laughter.

[LanternWaste]

5. "Once a philosopher, twice a pervert"

I saw a replay of the reunion (on Bravo or A&E, maybe?) about a year ago and Cleese said one of the most witty statements I've ever heard (and he said it off the cuff... making it that much more funny)...

"Once a philosopher, twice a pervert"

No idea why it tickled me so much, but it's illustrative of most of the body of their work to me.

[HERVEPA]

4. saw this in the theater

the day they gave us half day off from work when the pope came to town many years ago when it was first out. Couldn't think of a MORE fitting way to spend the time.