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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

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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		(Scroll to see all in Firefox)

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.

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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)

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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