Monty Python - Airplane Pilots - watch more funny videos
Funny is my top spot. I love funny. Today, I'm looking at another day housebound, and I would LOVE to have the Monty Python collection to just spool throughout the day. It's one of those things that is A) just plain hilarious all the time, and B) nostalgic for me because it was a big deal with the crowd I ran with in high school...we had "watching parties" before there were DVDs or Tivo. If someone found out PBS was going to run some we hustled to get everyone together and it was like harmonic convergence for us. A total, unexpected windfall from heaven.
So why, you may ask, am I waxing nostalgic about the 30 year old work of five British geniuses and their American friend, though I never really got the animations, too violent for me, Terry Gilliam is a mega-talented director. Ooee, ignore that last grammatical quagmire. Well, outside of it being the wee hours of the morning when I've been up all night stressing about whether or not I'll be able to go to work today and how my kids were so glad I was there yesterday and they were so sweet about missing me on Monday...yet another good thing about the switching classes thing: I have not 25 but 75 kids saying nice things to me at once. Lovely. Anyway....I just finished listening to Michael Palin's audiobook of his diaries during the Python years. What a gig. This guy is having the world thrown at his head, being told on a daily basis that he is the greatest thing walking the planet except for maybe John Cleese, and he writes about how he almost cried when he came home after shooting for so long and saw his 3-year old son "cleaning his teeth with no trouser bottoms on. I just missed them so much." He is, hands down, my favorite Python. Have you seen his travel shows? They're called things like Michael Palin Pole to Pole. He just goes out into the world. I love it. Ewan McGregor and his buddy Charlie Boorman have two series (Long Way Round and Long Way Down) where they document their motorcycle trips around the globe and top to bottom. They're good to watch because Ewan is flipping gorgeous and they're both really funny. But Michael Palin's stuff is funny and makes me want to leap from the house and into the world. It ignites wanderlust. Well, maybe not lust, since I've never done anything about it, but a definite single eyebrow raise and a "hmmmm." Do that yourself right now and you'll know what I mean.
Monty Python is all over YouTube and the net. If you haven't seen any for a while, treat yourself to a couple sketches. You'll be quoting and giggling all day...I guarantee!
