Quotes of: Monty Keyword

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for commun...

Robert Mankoff

I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their referen...

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funn...

Thomas Sadoski

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

Joe Flaherty

King of Swamp Castle: Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

French Soldier: You don't frighten us with your silly knees-bent running around advancing behavior!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Concorde has just been shot in the chest with an arrow bearing a message] Concorde: Message for you, sir.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Dingo: And after the spanking, the oral sex. Galahad: Well, I could stay a bit longer...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty: I can never touch meat until it's cooked. As a youth I used to weep in butcher's shops.

Withnail & I

Monty: Come on lads, let's get home, the sky's beginning to bruise, night must fall and we shall be forced to camp.

Withnail & I

Monty Brogan: Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.

25th Hour

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

Terry Gilliam

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

Libba Bray

King Arthur: Who are you who can summon fire without flint or tinder? Tim: There are some who call me... Tim.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Sir Galahad: Is there someone else up there we can talk to? French Soldier: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

God: Every time I try to talk to someone it's "sorry this" and "forgive me that" and "I'm not worthy"...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Uncle Monty: I adore you. Tell him if you must, I no longer care. I mean to have you even if it must be burglary.

Withnail & I

Monty: [shouting at his cat] You beastly little parasite, how dare you! You little thug! How dare you! Beastly, ungrateful little swine!

Withnail & I

As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.

Zadie Smith

A Quote from Monty's journal in God Must Be Weeping, "I, too, wished to climb the ladder of life and reach the stars spangling by the gates of the Milky Way, where the wondrous mysteries of Heaven unfurled.

God Must Be Weeping

I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great...

Fred Armisen