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The Funniest Joke in the World" (also "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke") is a Monty Python comedy sketch revolving around a joke that is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter. Ernest Scribbler (Michael Palin), a British "manufacturer of jokes", writes the joke on a piece of paper only to die laughing.
Monty Python's Spamalot: Written by Idle and directed by Mike Nichols, with music and lyrics by John Du Prez and Idle, it starred Hank Azaria, Tim Curry, and David Hyde Pierce; Spamalot is a musical adaptation of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It ran in Chicago from 21 December 2004 to 23 January 2005, and began performances on ...
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The sketch also appeared in the first Python film, And Now For Something Completely Different, in which it segues into "The Funniest Joke in the World" (this sketch being presented as one of the joke-writer's rejected ideas).
The film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl also contains a performance of this sketch, with Chapman as the Inspector and Terry Gilliam as his assistant. The assistant is now called Constable Parrot, and while he too periodically leaves the room to fight off his nausea, he remains onstage during his last attack of sickness and vomits into his helmet—which his superior then orders him to ...
Monty Python actor John Cleese has responded to comments by his co-star Eric Idle in which Idle criticised the group’s management for its dwindling finances.. In a post that initially surprised ...
There's nothing like a well-timed one-liner to make you laugh. And classic comedy films? Well, they're chock full of 'em. Take Monty Python's "The Holy Grail," for instance.Pretty much every funny ...
According to John Cleese, the sketch was inspired by "Self-Made Men," a short story by Stephen Leacock published in 1910. [6] [7] The original performance of the sketch by the four creators is one of the surviving sketches from the programme and can be seen on the At Last the 1948 Show DVD as the closing sketch of series 2, episode 6. Its ...