And besides, pure silliness will always be in fashion: Slapping someone with a fish was funny then, and it’s funny now. Below, EW celebrates 50 years of Monty Python by rounding up 20 of the ...

“Our fishermen have to perform the Monty Python fish-slapping dance in the Government’s face before the Government do anything. “So they’ve announced, by press release, the £23 million.

Of all the things we hand down to our children, our sense of humor is the one thing that will never lose its value, particularly if it’s coiled around them like a Monty Python, squeezing out ...

5. Fish Slapping Dance. So much of the pleasure of Python comes from wordplay, but this one’s a classic without a single line of dialog. 6. Philosopher Football. I Kant explain…. geddit? 7 ...

7. Nudge Nudge (11%) 8. Fish slapping dance (8%) 9. Dirty Fork (7%) 10. The killer joke (6%) Just missing out on the top ten were the Silly Olympics, Hell's Grannies and Gay Policemen (all with 6%).

“The Fish-Slapping Dance” (Season 3, episode 2): 20 seconds of pure Python absurdity. “Argument Clinic” (Season 3, episode 3): Logic and reason disintegrate in the face of pure, reflexive ...

Friends and I re-created Python's famous fish-slapping dance and "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketches the minute we got a break from earth science. If we got a few blank looks, we didn't notice.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus -- as it was called at the beginning -- first forged its reputation for comedic innovation from 1969 to 1974 in 45 programs on British television.

The British funnyman paid a visit to Ottawa, to slap a fish. British comedian-actor Michael Palin, one of the stars from Monty Python fame, was in Ottawa to receive a geography medal.

Sir Michael Palin and his film crew were detained by armed militia in Venezuela after attempting to film a statue of former leader Hugo Chavez.