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Top 15.5 Monty Python Sketches Of All Time

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The Best Monty Python Sketches

You really should play all these sketches below at the same time ;-P The following are the best Monty Python of all time….Curated by a team of monkeys we found behind the Apple Store at Regents Street, London. What makes these sketches so special? Well, they are the most viewed Monty Python sketches on youtube and these are the sketches (probably) that even the novice fan should be familiar with. The rest of the sketches not included are either formula derived or unfunny/dated. Enjoy!

Monty Python will be doing their London live show this summer so there is ample reason for a post about their revolutionary contribution to British & world humour.

Spanish Inquisition Sketch

Basically a commentary on the absurdity of humanity but then twisted an additional right angle to really be a gag about presentation, pomp and surprising entrances.

The Argument Sketch

A unique business model that never took off. Do arguments have to abide by logic or are they contradictions? An argument is a definite set of premises to position a conclusion. So there is an educational value in this sketch as are many arguments and…Monty Python sketches for that matter….

The Spam Sketch

The float in at the opening is quite strange. …he idea that an ingredient could be listed in a dish multiple times for comic effect was certainly innovative and original in the English language (we can’t assume that this hasn’t occurred in other languages). Likely the inspiration for the Hamburger sketch on SNL, the Spam sketch emphasizes the strangeness of spam as a food group of its own.

I have no idea what this is other then it is very English.

The Ministry of Silly Walks Sketch

This is perhaps created to emphasize the absurdity of bureaucracy and the intellectual hobbits that comprise most government departments. It’s mostly silly however and visually strange. The point being that government grants are wasted sometimes. Or no point really at all. Who knows.

The Philosophy’s Football Sketch

Clearly demonstrating that philosophers aren’t really interested in understanding reality as much as they are interested in hearing themselves think. They don’t really interact with the ball until Socrates scores as you can see. Also reiterates that Greece and Germany have produced the world’s most important thinkers.

The Philosopher’s Song

A live performance in Hollywood. Kinda of fun.

Election Night Sketch

Probably makes the point best that politics is not particularly interesting in the 20th century. The talking heads are also funny. The process for declaring a winner in British elections is rather novel relative to other common wealth countries such as Canada. The differences between British and Canadian elections is worth a further post in 2015….

Upper Class Twit of the Year

A commentary on twits who are often upper class or acquired their wealth prior to their being born (inherited). Not an easy problem to solve considering that some upper class twits are useful because they have capital. What is a twit? The most plausible example is those who suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect.

The Lumberjack Song

Perhaps a commentary on how we as human beings tend to mis-allocate ourselves in the wrong profession etc. It’s also about British Columbia and the vastness of Canada which at the time had a population of 23 million people which is roughly half of Britain at the time. Also is about the idea of of gender expectations in an era before that was appropriate.

Hell’s Grannies Sketch

You wouldn’t expect grannies to be a problem but there you have it. Bolton’s grannies are funny because they play with the idea of what should be expected of grandmothers. Perhaps this stereotype of the quaint old granny will change in the future. Making this sketch less amusing.

The Silly Olympics

The olympic games are completely absurd. Period.

The Dead Parrot Sketch

The classic complaint sketch. The sneaky sales man, the strange customer; the resting bird. There is a morbid element to this sketch but generally, it’s just really really strange.

The Self-Defence Class Sketch

This is a commentary on bad teachers / corporal instructors who clearly suck at their jobs. It’s also about military stupidity which channels immense energy and concentration. This class seems to have taken a turn for the worse when the instructor starts killing his students.

The Travel Agent Sketch

Selling people travel was something done in the 20th century in a face to face interaction. Rather absurd today. This client appears to rather ramble on and on to the irritation.

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink Sketch

This sketch is about the prudishness of British culture. The perverted questionary just kinds of pursues a line of questioning that is funny. Perhaps is funny how we as human beings tend to take I minds in the direction we really want to take them no matter what the conversation….

Business

Buffett & Gates on How To Be Successful

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Synopsis Of Discussion In 1998

Warren Buffett Points:

Career Advice:

Don’t do a job that you don’t enjoy. Waiting for a good time to have fun at your job is like saving up for sex for your old age. Get right into what you enjoy instead of doing something you don’t enjoy. You are wired to do something best. So find that thing. Enjoy doing your job everyday.

Capitalism is always neutralizing so expect value to be ephemeral.

Good Fortune:

Warren Buffett recognized that he was born in the right place and wired the right way to create immense value. There was a 1/50 chance that he would be born in the US at the time. He doesn’t believe in the dynasty model, he believed in a meritocracy in business. Let the resources flow to those who use them best. Warren is looking for the predictable rather then software product like Gates’. Buffett famously doesn’t invest in technology. Buffett can’t tell the winners and losers in technology stocks so he doesn’t invest in them. (He has now come around in 2012)

Warren Buffet loves playing the game of investing.

When You Find Something Of High Value:

You need to take a swing at that high value opportunity. Don’t read another book on the subject just go do that thing. You should be afraid of decisions of omission just as much as anything else. Never Look Back, don’t worry about the past. Learn from it but that’s a bit it.

What Buffett Does For A Living:

  • Allocate capital investments is 50%
  • The other 50% is keeping a group of manager enthused about what they do when they have no financial need to do it.

What About Retirement?:

Warren Buffett said in 1998 that he would retire 5 years after he died. That his team of Berkshire Hawthaway would be able to contact him via wigi board. But in seriousness, we have outstanding people. Buffett has written a letter that opens “Yesterday, I died. Here’s what you do with Berkshire Hawthaway.”

Bill Gates Points:

We’ve gotten better at understanding non-US markets at Microsoft in 1998. Microsoft is very good at international business because we have scaled outside of the US. The future is that the United States is a replacement market but the international market is early development so that’s more exciting.

Being Too Young When You Start A Company:

Bill Gates couldn’t rent a car to go to meetings because the rental restriction was 25 in the US, he had to take taxi to client meetings in the early days. The best thing is to learn how other businesses work which is sort of a regret on Gates’ part. Clients would say things like, let’s go to the bar but they couldn’t go to the bar. It is hard to find older people because they don’t want to take the risk.

What Gates Does For A Living:

Gates doesn’t miss game changing changes. IBM was unstoppable until they missed a few turns in the road. Microsoft is concerned about pulling things together to prevent a missed change in the tech market. We don’t want to get surprised but we almost missed the internet. The internet came along as the 5th priority at first but then Gates realized it was a much deeper phenomenon. And then they coalesced around ideas and how to measure success ourselves internally, then deployed an internet strategy.

The Future Of Value:

Bill Gates believes that the US is best at allocating capital at the moment. Korea and China are investing in education and technology so we should expect the next generation to get ahead. But there will be shift of value away from country-based value, now with the internet, services and advice are going to be made more easily available and those people are going to be better off and taken advantage. Gates is adamant that China is at least stealing our software then we figure out how to collect.

Picking People Is Important:

You need to totally trust and totally check you people. You need to have really brilliant people around you that have that kind of brilliance to debate openly. Bill Gates sees that anti-trust is not unfair. The judiciary looks at whether the competition has been beneficial to consumers. Developing countries are going to get great development and people are what matter.

What About Retirement?:

Bill Gates said he would resign as CEO in 10 years. Gates actually resigned 2 years after this presentation….

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