Humor

Videos Monty Python Political satire Email jokes Links

  As it is for many people, humor is one of my main passions in life and I have always been a big fan of the comedy of the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Woody Allen, and Monty Python. Originally I had a Humor section on my Favorites page, but after I started adding more and more items to it that were not just links, like the Monty Python videos, I decided to make it into a separate page. One of my all time favorite movies is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and I bought it on video as soon as it came out.  


Humorous videos

  These play in popup windows (which you can safely enable on my website). For you programmers, my Perl section describes how I am playing these.


Medieval helpdesk
(for "the book")

Redneck 911

Granny air bag

Hasty snow removal

Two angry Women

A Big Deck

Rob Paravonian's
Pachelbel Rant

John Belushi
does Joe Cocker
(see the original)


Steve Martin
Holiday Wishes

Power windows

Trunk monkey

Stuck on the escalator

Suspected terrorists



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        David Letterman...


Working the
drive-through window
at McDonalds

Cheney vs. Pelosi:
The blink count

Sonny and Cher singing
"I Got You Babe"

Tribute to Bill Gates

Letterman flips off viewer

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Monty Python "And now for something completely different!"
  Monty Python (Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam) produced some of what I consider the most hilarious comedy of all time. Back in the early 70s they had a weekly TV show that I never missed. I purchased the The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Megaset when it came out on DVD and now I can watch this great comedy whenever I feel like it.

Flying Circus videos    
  Here are some of my favorite Python sketches. I acquired these videos on the Internet, but since I own the DVD set of all the episodes I may see if I can rip them from the DVDs to get the best quality videos. These play in popup windows (which you can safely enable on my website). For you programmers, my Perl section describes how I am playing these.  
 

Spam

Nudge, Nudge

The Ministry of
Silly Walks

Italian Class

Dead Parrot

Argument Clinic

Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

The Man With
Three Buttocks

Mr. Hilter

Agatha Christie
(railway timetables)

Self-defense
Against Fruit

Lifeboat
(cannibalism)

The International Philosophy Match

"I want to get married."

Buying a Bed

The Silly
Job Interview

Agatha Christie
(Inspector Tiger)

Architect Sketch

Secret Service
Dentists

Bored Airline Pilots

Exploding Penguin

Spanish Inquisition

The Butcher

Restaurant Sketch

Archaeology
Today

The Cheese Shop

The Smuggler

The French Sketch

Kilimanjaro
Expedition

The Visitors Sketch

Lumberjack Song

Falling From Building

Arthur
"Two Sheds"
Jackson

The Hospital Sketch

Fish-Slapping
Dance

Travel Agency

Deja Vu

Bicycle
Repairman

Sam Peckinpah's
"Salad Days"

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

      Movie sketches

 

The Holy Grail
The Black Knight

The Holy Grail
French Taunting

The Holy Grail
Bloody Peasants

Life of Brian
The Stoning Scene

Life of Brian
Biggus Dickus

The Meaning of Life
Every Sperm
Is Sacred

      Live at the Hollywood Bowl
 

The Last Supper

Whizzo
(Crunchy Frog)

The Travel Agency

The Argument Clinic

The Ministry of
Silly Walks

"Never Be Rude
To An Arab"

Philosophers’
Song

      Python member highlights
 

Graham Chapman

Eric Idle

Michael Palin

John Cleese

Terry Jones

Terry Gilliam

Graham Chapman Eulogy
by John Cleese
     Video links
Monty Python videos at YouTube.com
Peekvid: COMEDY - Monty Python! – more videos
Look At This...: – Monty Python videos and stuff

     Audios
Nudge, Nudge – (read the words)
The Spam Sketch – (read the words)
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life – (read the words)
Every Sperm Is Sacred – (read the words)
Monty Python Sound Files

     Python links
PythOnline – the OFFICIAL Monty Python site
     The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus – all 45 episodes on 14 DVDs
It's Monty Python's Flying Circus
     Alphabetic list of all the sketches
Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site
The Unofficial Monty Python Home Page
HumorLinks – Python sketches, scripts, songs, etc.
BBC News: Three decades of Python
CNN.com - How Monty Python changed the world - Dec. 11, 2003
List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Just the Words
Live at the Hollywood Bowl – the scripts
Monty Python's Personal Best and Flying Circus | PBS

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Political satire
  It's no secret where I stand on issues.


Videos (of the current president and friends)    
  These play in popup windows (which you can safely enable on my website). For you programmers, my Perl section describes how I am playing these.
Dubya – "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
George Bush & Tony Blair – "Endless Love"
Dubya clips – our articulate leader at his best
Dubya appears on The Tonight Show after the 2004 election
Top 10 Favorite George W. Bush Moments
Top 10 Bush thoughts with a hammer
How does Bush win an election?
What's behind Dubya's stupid speeches?
The Bush pilot (a subtitled German video)
Controlling the borders
Dubya & Little Richard
Tightening the Mexican border
Tony Blair – "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
More Bush videos on YouTube

     Links
Bush Has Tea With the Queen – "It's Tony Blair"
Hu's On First?
Bill Maher - Hits the Nail On Its Head!
President Bush explains the Medicare drug bill – well, heck, now it is all real clear
Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over'
Get Your War On – poignant and hilarious
Welcome to the White House (www.whitehouse.org)
Alfred W. - What, me president?
The Drudge Retort – putting the yellow back in journalism (that's Retort, not Report)
The Complete Bushisms – the president's accidental wit and wisdom
BotoxKerry.com
Colonize.com – distort the faces of Bush & Kerry
Bush falling – use the mouse to control him
"Dishonest Dubya" Lying Action Figure Doll - George W. Bush
Presidential Drag Queens – the title says it all

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Email jokes
  When I get something in email that is outrageously funny, or simply outrageous, I frequently forward it to friends, but I don't want it to die after that so I often preserve it here. I have "webafied" all these but I have tried to retain the format of the original emails as much as possible. Some that had a few pictures were re-created by saving the pictures individually and putting them on webpages with the text, but some that had many pictures, like Remember these?, required a little more elaborate process. First I saved it from my email program as "remember_these.eml." Then I renamed this as "remember_these.mht" (my email program Thunderball wouldn't let me specify that extension on the save) which allowed me to open it up in my web browser, where I saved the page as "remember_these.html." This created a sub-folder containing all the images that the HTML in the webpage points to.  

Some rules for singin' the blues
20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity
Political Philosophy Primer
40 Things Never Said by Rednecks
The Shotgun Rules
16 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn – by Dave Barry
So you think you feel old now?
Marketing explained
Best Out Of Office Replies
Songs from the 60s re-released
Want to feel smarter?
Top 10 Most Polite Ways To Say Your Zipper Is Down – by David Letterman
Dress Code for Seniors
10 Best Caddy Replies
Small Town Humor
Southernness
Political Science for Dummies
What a difference 30 years makes
Signs Written in English Discovered Around the World
You know you live in 2005 when...
Did We Learn These In Hebrew School?
Murphy's Lesser-Known Dictums
Why Golf Is Better Than Sex
Costello Buys a Computer from Abbott
Hu's on First?Who's on First? for the next generation
TV joke writers take shots at Cheney
25 Signs You Have Grown Up
Closing Thoughts For 2006
Telemarketer's Nightmare Call – a hilarious recording from a radio show
Philosophy of Sex
Hebonics
Airport tower humor – actual exchanges between pilots and control towers
Blonde jokes – with apologies to those who are blonde—substitute whatever other hair color or feature you like!
Who is working?
Steven Wright Wisdom
Puns
A love note from the wife
Never lie to your Mother
Kids' Prayers – I'm an atheist, but these are so cute!
Weird Things You Might Never Know
School 1967 vs. 2007
Investment Tip
Rowing Secrets – from The Big Book of Jewish Humor
Forgotten Anniversary
The Real Kings of Logistics – a PowerPoint presentation; click the mouse to advance, press Esc to exit
How to call police
Disorder in the court
The Laws of Weight Gain
Quantas gripe sheets
Wow!
An Irish Ghost Story
1977 JC Penney Catalog
The Wheels of Life
A Very Observant Italian Cop
Things that make you say, "AW Crap!!!"
Truck cranes at work
Geniuses at work
Bolivia highways – a PowerPoint presentation; click the mouse to advance, press Esc to exit
Big Deck – from Blue Collar TV
Remember these? – for those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s
The Darwin Awards, 2007
Beauty queens – Where does the time fly?
George W. Bush resume
AAADD
What do idiots look like?
Winter Classes for Men
A Wal-Mart Application
Wow! pictures
When insults had class
Ten Peeves that Dogs Have About Humans
Chocolate Easter Bunnies
Billboards you will never see
You might be a redneck if...
If celebs moved to Oklahoma...
Word play – from the Washington Post
Neologism – from the Washington Post

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Links
The Marx Brothers
Dave Barry – sometimes I laugh out loud at Barry!
Dilbert.com
Doonesbury@Slate
Parsworld - A Tribute to Gary Larson
The Darwin Awards – commemorating those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it
Improbable Research
Totally Absurd Inventions – the funniest patents on the planet!
The Late Show with David Letterman – includes the latest top-10 list
     Top Ten List – and archives
TOPFIVE.com – "top ten" lists
HumorLinks – directory of humor and comedy Web sites
The New York Slime
View of the World from 9th Avenue – Saul Steinberg's classic New Yorker cartoon
View of the World from Pennsylvania Avenue – Ted Rall's take-off on Steinberg's cartoon
Who's On First? – Abbott & Costello's classic routine
CollegeHumor.com – I especially like the videos
The Kid From Brooklyn – warning; his language is a little rough
Jokes from The Big Book of Jewish Humor – I got one of these in email and added the rest
Spoof songs