Is Monty Python the greatest comedy team of all time?

Oh, he's done crazier **** than that, love the guy, he's a madman.

 

Not saying this was the greatest or even legendary...but the cast of In Living Color was very solid...

Jim Carrey
Keenan Ivory Wayans
David Alan Grier
Kim Coles
Tommy Davidson
Damon Wayans
Jamie Foxx
Jennifer Lopez (non-comedic)

 

As someone mentioned earlier Second City. Was a goldmine for talent. Where do you think SNL got a lot of their talent. By far the best

Bill Murray
Gilda Radner
John Candy
John Belushi
Dan Aykroyd
Del Close
Eugene Levy
Catherine O'Hara
Nia Vardalos
Ryan Stiles
Mike Myers
Steve Carell
Tina Fey
Amy Poehler
Stephen Colbert

 

Who's the best...Phil Hartman just is one of the greatest people ever.., Nealon...you figure it out.

 

Cannot believe I didn’t post this!! Can’t believe we didn’t get more than two seasons. Love these dudes.

 

Monty Python is definitely up there. Among Brit humor I would also say the Black Adder crew of Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry and Miranda Richardson.

Also remembering the great Carl Reiner who teamed up with Mel Brooks.

 

I seem to remember it being on PBS like at midnight on Saturday nights?

 

I remember watching Faulty Towers i think even before any Monty Python. I was really young, can’t remember where...Most likely PBS.

 

The series first started showing on PBS in the fall of 1974. I became a fan when I saw their film that was made up of reshot bits from Python’s first couple of seasons, “And Now for Something Completely Different!” I saw it in 1971 in Amsterdam and thought I would die laughing. Seriously!

 

Black Adder is almost the opposite humor of Mr. Bean. Mr Bean is all about physical humor, I mean he doesn't even talk. Black Adder is almost all about witty word play. Rowan Atkinson is great but so Hugh Laurie, better known to US audiences as Dr. House.

 

For those who haven't seen Black Adder here's a good into.

 

Not a big fan, honestly. Benny's humor probably resonates in the UK, but not over here. Python's humor resonates anywhere and everywhere, in my humble opinion. ;-)

 

Let's not BS around here. If you didn't have cable in the 80's, the main draw of Benny Hill was for the split second of tit shot at the end of most episodes.

 

Watching 3/4 of The Holy Grail is a rite of passage.

 

Well sure, not that I watched very many episodes. However, I did have cable in the '80's. We moved to Austin from Houston in June of 1980. I mentioned somewhere around here, probably in D&D while responding to an "assault" on CNN, that I have watched the Cable News Network since it's inception. It began in June of 1980. Austin, to my astonishment and delight, had cable! Heck, we had HBO and Showtime! Boobs in color! In 1980! Turns out that Austin, and being the state capital may have had something to do with it, was tricked out with cable during the early 1960's.

At that moment Houston, my hometown, seemed so backward. The city has striven mightily since then to catch up to Austin and I'm sure it has, not that "cable" is that important, unless we're talking about the fiber optic cable I have from Google Fiber. Super fast! Tiny DVR's, and each one is a WiFi "hot spot." Needless to say, I no longer miss being able to make a call on a payphone for a dime. ;-)