30 Greatest Monty Python Sketches To Celebrate Their Reunion (VIDEOS)

The Monty Python team - or at least its living members - are reuniting for a stage show for the first time in over 30 years.

So what better way to celebrate a troupe that influenced generations of comedians - and created hundreds of quotable lines - than with a look back at their classic sketches?

From the Bruces to the Yorkshiremen, the lumberjack to the dead parrot, here are 30 of their greatest small screen (and stage) moments:

• 1
  

  Argument Clinic

  
  

  Classic line: "Look, this isn't an argument." "Yes it is!"

  
  


• 2
  

  The Spanish Inquisition

  
  

  Classic line: "Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!"

  
  


• 3
  

  Spam

  
  

  Classic line: "Spam, spam, spam, spam."

  
  


• 4
  

  Fish Slapping Dance

  
  

  Classic moment: the finale.

  
  


• 5
  

  MInistry Of Silly Walks

  
  

  Classic line: "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, but I'm afraid my walk has become rather sillier recently and so it takes me rather longer to get to work."

  
  


• 6
  

  Philosophy Football

  
  

  Classic line: "Nietzsche has just been booked for arguing with the referee. He accused Confucius of having no free will - and Confucius he say, 'name go in book'."

  
  


• 7
  

  Bicycle Repairman

  
  

  Classic line: "Bicycle repairman - how can I ever repay you?!"

  
  


• 8
  

  Hungarian Phrase Book

  
  

  Classic line: "Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?"

  
  


• 9
  

  Theory On Brontasauruses By Anne Elk (Miss)

  
  

  Classic line: "My theory, that I have - that is to say, which is mine - is mine."

  
  


• 10
  

  The Philosophers' Song

  
  

  Classic line: "There's nothing Nietzsche could teach about the raising of the wrist."

  
  


• 11
  

  Election Night Special

  
  

  Classic line: "Luton, normally a very sensible constituency with a high proportion of people who aren't a bit silly, has gone completely gaga."

  
  


• 12
  

  The Cheese Shop

  
  

  Classic line: "No, no, no - don't tell me. I'm keen to guess."

  
  


• 13
  

  How Not To Be Seen

  
  

  Classic line: "Mr Nesbitt has learned the first lesson of not being seen: not to stand up."

  
  


• 14
  

  Upper Class Twit Of The Year

  
  

  Classic line: "And now it's 'kicking the beggar'..."

  
  


• 15
  

  Milkman

  
  

  Classic moment: the final one.

  
  


• 16
  

  The Lumberjack Song

  
  

  Classic line: "I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers/I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars."

  
  


• 17
  

  Mr Hitler

  
  

  Classic line: "You've got the wrong map there - this is Stalingrad. You want the Ilfracombe and Barnstaple section."

  
  


• 18
  

  Nudge, Nudge

  
  

  Classic line: "A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!"

  
  


• 19
  

  Bruce

  
  

  Classic line: "Bruce here teaches logical positivism... and is also in charge of the sheep dip."

  
  


• 20
  

  The Funniest Joke In The World

  
  

  Classic line: "Tests on Salisbury Plain confirmed the joke's devastating effectiveness at a range of up to 50 yards."

  
  


• 21
  

  Travel Agent

  
  

  Classic line: "Stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel..."

  
  


• 22
  

  Self-Defence Against Fruit

  
  

  Classic line: "How about cherries?" "We've done them." "Red AND black?" "Yes!"

  
  


• 23
  

  The History Of The Joke

  
  

  Classic line: "Popular as this jest has always been, however, it cannot compare with the ribald connotations associated with the despatch of an edible missile."

  
  


• 24
  

  Hell's Grannies

  
  

  Classic line: "If she can't get the wool, she gets violent."

  
  


• 25
  

  Four Yorkshiremen

  
  

  Classic line: "We used to dream of living in a corridor!"

  
  


• 26
  

  Architects

  
  

  Classic line: "You lousy, hypocritical, whining toadies, with your lousy coloured TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleedin' masonic handshakes!"

  
  


• 27
  

  Silly Olympics

  
  

  Classic line: "The second semi-final of the 100 yards for people with no sense of direction."

  
  


• 28
  

  Dirty Fork

  
  

  Classic line: "Mungo! Mungo! Never kill a customer."

  
  


• 29
  

  Crunchy Frog

  
  

  Classic line: "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?!"

  
  


• 30
  

  The Dead Parrot

  
  
  Classic line: "Pining for the fjords?!"
  
  (Bonus video: the stage version, with Michael Palin corpsing)
  
  

via Entertainment - The Huffington Post