I hadn't met them before but I knew their work from other shows and they were all frightfully witty, well-educated chaps. Then I got the scripts and they were very odd. There was none of Terry Gilliam's animation there, obviously. Sketches had very odd beginnings and often no end.
I couldn't see how they were funny. The boys were falling around laughing and I came home, phoned my mother and said, "Mummy, I don't think this is going to last more than a few episodes. But I soon got into it and they were wonderfully welcoming. It was like being the girl in a schoolboys' gang. How did you become an integral part of the team? During filming, they discovered I wasn't just a pretty face. I would be as silly and outrageous as them.
Michael Palin came up to me during rehearsals and said, "Carol, I'm sorry we don't have more for you to do, but we're just not very good at writing parts for women. Not young women, anyway. They wrote all the time for old women, the pepperpots , but would play those beautifully themselves. But two weeks later, Michael came over again and said, "Darling, we've got a great part for you in episode nine, we've written it with you in mind.
Which Python were you closest to? In the early days, John. But then he went through a funny phase when he was getting divorced from Connie [Booth]. He didn't really want to do another series but got coerced into it, so he was a bit grumpy for a while and I got to know the others better, particularly Michael.
He's the one that's never changed. It's no wonder he's everybody's favourite Python because he's such a poppet.
Has Monty Python helped or hindered you? I loved every minute of Python and owe so much to them. Yet in some respects, it has been a ball and chain. I wasn't taken as seriously as sometimes I would've liked. But in the last few years, I've started being offered character roles. Then just as I think I've shaken off the old ball and chain, Python came knocking again.
Geek women are hard to find Because it's cerebral? Quoted: Geek women do They think its funny and they will watch Star Trek with you and blow you at while you are watching it Because women, as a rule, aren't funny.
There is a lot I love about women, but their sense of humor is not usually on the list. Quoted: Quoted: Geek women do Burn her , she's witch. Quoted: Because women, as a rule, aren't funny. Quoted: Quoted: Add the Three Stooges to the fem hate list I would like to know why too. Quoted: Because they're not as smart as men. Quoted: You just have to quote Monty Python around them more.
Women only think about kids and how they can manipulate you to think about kids. They do not appreciate you thinking about the folly of you actually giving this any thought. Have kids with a women and you are "owned" Before you inexperienced little pups pipe up I've been married 33years and have 9 grand children. Yes the whole damn catastrophe is a blessing but it it is also a curse. In this society men are desposible. Thanks for playing. Quoted: Women only think about kids and how they can manipulate you to think about kids.
I'm 40 from south Florida and my wife is 42 from north Michigan. She loves Monty Python and I don't like it at all. There is a lot of stuff I find funny and she doesn't. Who knows I love Monty Python! I'm a woman. I must be strange Posted Via AR Com Mobile. Well, we got give 'em that one.
The Three Stooges is stupid and unfunny. The movies were great. The show, well I used to watch the show when I was a kid. I didn't get into the movies until I was an adult.
Women appreciate a subtle pun; men a brutal one-liner. There is no shortage of stereotypes out there about the films men and women are supposed to find funny. What the critics had to say about the top 25 The full list of critics who participated — and how they voted Why Some Like It Hot is number one Does comedy differ from region to region? The full top list. Some psychological research backs them up.
A US study found that female college students tended to enjoy romantic film genres more including rom coms , while their male counterparts opted for dark comedies. The reasons come down, no doubt, to a complex tangle of cultural forces and heavily gendered movie marketing: even young children can identify whether a title is aimed at boys or girls.
What about professional film critics? Do male critics have a different sense of humour to female critics? And does this affect their taste in comedies? BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world — women and men — to find out their top 10 comedy films of all time.
The data from the poll gave us a perfect opportunity to tackle this question. We looked at the number of votes for the top films from male and female critics actually films, because two tied for th place and how they ranked them, to find out whether men and women picked out different favourites on average. Annie Hall Woody Allen, 3 4. Life of Brian Terry Jones, 6 5.
Duck Soup Leo McCarey, 5. Groundhog Day Harold Ramis, 4 4. Annie Hall Woody Allen, 3 5. Playtime Jacques Tati, 8. The two lists are similar. Gender is far from the deciding factor when it comes to which comedy films critics enjoy.
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