I totally agree. I was way too serious a kid, and Python was the first time I really laughed to the point I couldn't stop. They helped me realize that I actually had a great sense of humor, and that it was OK to be funny like that. It was great to be totally silly and smart at the same time. Now I teach kids and they just love watching Python. Best TV program for kids ever, well, picking and choosing of course.

Good for you, mate. I'm glad you're still about, and I'm sure your loved ones are even happier.

Barnaby ap Robert I feel the same. I’ve been so depressed but knowing it’s ok to be silly and weird helped a lot.

@@Stubby1085 In a very similar vein, I was incarcerated for 15 years for rape, and the memories of this show got me through the stretch. I was amazed how much I'd managed to remember. Another guy in there with me was also a fan, and we used to riff off one another. Amazing!

I have a crush on Terry Jones form anytime I’ve seen him.

It's a Norwegian Blue

TheBaconWizard beautiful plumage

He's just sleeping.

It's the old stockbroker syndrome, the suburban fin de siecle ennui, angst, weltschmertz, call it what you will. Call Amaze-an-Armadillo.

Victor Guimarães-Mariusso Moping?

If you're English speaking and you go to live in another English speaking country, even after a short while you start to pick up the accent. It has happened to me, twice.

he's dreamy

The US would have got it eventually. The guy introducing it stated that Davalier saved it from the the scrapheap.but this is just the standard US inability to see much beyond their borders. Python was already a very huge success that had been around for years. So it was already 'out there' and something that big would not have escaped notice for long.

Kimdino1 - aye, but he was the one who took the chance and does deserve mass credit

terrythekittie yessir!!!

terrythekittie Indeed, why would they have them in the studio? O_o

Ah, you're complaining about the phones? I thought you wanted to buy some cheese!

I remember telethons in the 80's, it's basically people phoning up to donate money, always had a row of people with phones ringing, and usually a big digital board with how much had been raaised so far. just one of those things.

Claudius, a box?

Matthew Worswick - I agree. I’m American and if I heard Gilliam speak (without seeing him), I would assume he was an American too. I think he picked up a hint of a British accent from spending most of his life there. When Gilliam tries to do a real British accent, you can still hear his American accent. He’s a hilarious and gifted guy nonetheless.

looks cool as hell

A man with three bums.

He wasn't Too much older when recording the video...his college radio days just behind him. Now a podcast network and annual convention guy, along with a weekly NPR series (I think it migrated from PRX syndication, anyway).

True, he has an unsettling cave man vibe.

You mean sweet looking...

Sweet cave man, maybe. Is there a dating app for that?

+Barnaby ap Robert I wish there was.

I think somehow his personality was even weirder. Read Cleese's book for some of the stories on Gilliam. A true sweet anarchist.

+SPRPhilly 1975, so most likely gin.

+drumstick74 Although Holy Grail was the first Python movie I saw and still to this day love it, I truly believe that Life of Brian is the superior film. I mean the story is really great, the offensive stuff is really teething and hilarious and it's message is really advanced for it's time and for a comedy. Also I'm not honestly a big fan of Holy Grail's ending, I feel it's quite slow and not as funny as the rest.

I rewatched Grail recently and was delighted that it still holds up remarkably well.

"Life of Brian" has some great moments, but it's much too much like a mainstream movie. "Holy Grail" is way funnier.

drumstick74, I've always found "life of Brian" the better film, but "holy grail" has funnier moments.

That comment made me laugh - very funny

I think it's easy to see that he was quite drunk here.

The next two words out of Terry's mouth were ".....Stretching Time."

That's not quite accurate. The longer you live somewhere the more you tend to pick up the inflection. Take a look at Craig Ferguson, to our American ears he sounds like he has retained a strong Scottish accent, but he often comments when he goes home people think he sounds American. He moved to the States in his 30s. Even within a country the longer you stay the more of the accent you in advertantly pick up. My brother in his late 30s moved from central NY to western NC, he now has adopted some words and inflections that weren't there prior to moving.

I've lived in Texas since I was born (1975) and the regional accents are disappearing in the cities. Hearing the strong accents is rare, unless they've moved in from the country.

Fucking phones only exist at whore houses.

When you hear that sound today - it's your grandparents cell ringtone.

That’s how lIve TV was back then.

PBS stations have pledge drives several times a year where they ask viewers to call & donate money (they don't run advertisements). This was during a pledge drive.

I'm pretty sure Cleese is doing fawlty towers and Idle is probably doing rutland weekend television.

Cleese, not Cheese.

is real name is cheese.