Monty Python (Pythons): one of the reasons why I stared loving English

Monty Python(s), quite a mysterious name.. Have you heard of it ? (Do you know them?)
I truly (truely) hope you have (do). In any English dictionary (dictionnary), the word 'hilarious' should be defined as 'see: Monty Python (s)'. I discovered the Monty Python team (them) in the Holy Grail film. As it's not really part of my generation nor 'language culture' I was lucky to be briefed (hear from them) by a close friend. We were probabaly 15 years old, chilling out at her's, when she declared my lack of general knowledge was a crime against cinema. So she put it on and for the first few minutes I was like "erm...what?! Why isn't he riding a proper horse..?". That was my first lesson: don't try to make out a meaning. There is none except randomness and pure genius. How such creativity and originality emerged from a bunch of Uni mates...no idea, but the result is simply blissful. I tried to analyse where the comedy (comic) comes from and well, hard to know where to start, really. Here are some ideas: first, their impossible faces and mimics. The way they move and use their body (like in the "silly walks" sketch for e.g). The high pitch their voices reach ("parrot sketch", my absolute favorite one) or the completely stupid things they say with the most serious voice... That's for the characters they embody. But there's also their imagination creating the most unexpected situations. Honestly, they're just genius. Even if you tried really hard to imagine the silliest, wackiest phrases or scenarios (senarios), you couldn't compete with them. I love the way my brain is forced into switching off the 'logical, sensible, reasonable' part of it. You must accept not to be able to know what is going to happen, how characters are going to react and what they will say. There is just no usual, common sense left. The more you refer to it (even unconsciously), the louder you will laugh. And yet, the result also leaves you with an impression of neat work. You just know they spent hours and hours perfecting (perfectionning) each sketch. Behind every great man, there is a tremendous perfectionist (perfectionnist)! And the icing on the cake: all of that is blended with characters you sympathise with, whom you can, to some extent, relate to. Okay you do laugh at them, but they're really attaching as well.
Personally (Personnally), that's what I call 'English sense of humour'. And, well, not everyone may agree with me or even like them, but my point is that humour and comedy sketches are a great source of motivation to learn English or any foreign language. Maybe schools should tap into it a bit more..?

Your descriptions are so vivid and accurate. Just a few misspellings and technically you should not begin a sentence with 'and' but maybe we willallow you 'poetic licence'...haha...... I, too, loved these shows - everything is so predictable, nowadays. Did you take in 'Fawlty Towers' by John Cleese ? - superb comedy! 

Monty Python: one of the reasons why I started to love the English language.

Monty Python, quite a mysterious name.. Do you know them?
I really hope you do. In any English dictionnary, the word 'hilarious' should be defined as 'see: Monty Python'. I discovered them when I watched the Holy Grail film. As they are not really part of my generation nor 'language culture' I was lucky to hear about them from a close friend. We were probabaly 15 years old, chilling out at her's, when she declared my lack of general knowledge was a crime against cinema. So she put it on and for the first few minutes I was like "erm...what?! Why isn't he riding a proper horse..?". That was my first lesson: don't attempt to completely understand anything ! There is nothing except randomness and pure genius. How such creativity and originality emerged from a bunch of Uni mates...I have no idea, but the result is simply blissful. I tried to analyse why it is soo funny and well, it's hard to know where to start really. Here are some ideas: first, their impossible faces and immitations.