Some visual media is deserving of praise, See: Movies. As such the people of BNUS has decided to add to this short list the contribution of the Monty Python team.

Monty Python is a group of 6 males (5 well educated Englishmen and an American) that enjoyed dressing up and portraying immature and generally completely absurd acts in the name of comedy. Putting a vast distance between themselves and the stereotype of the conservative Englishman. They produced a TV series as well as 4 feature length movies.

The Pythons are not in the same league of high brow literature (art) that is Shakespeare but their absurd immature acts were just that, an act. Beneath the exterior of immature camaraderie lay political and religious satire in a similar vein to Corrupt and ANUS. Topics that are now interpreted as controversial bravado for its own sake by a modern comic was common place for the Python team. Their period of existence as a team resided in a era before liberal political correctness. Today’s controversial topics were prime material for their light-hearted jokes. In this era of time (post WWII, pre ~1990) jokes about Jews, Blacks, Englishmen and Homosexuals were acceptable. These topics were funny not controversial, the Pythons did not aim to shock their audience with taboo. Contrast this to the material of a modern comic, for example Dave Chapelle.

The relaxed outlook before our current wave of liberalism provided them with the perfect setting to create original material and maintain a sense of integrity. A kin to the great metal bands, the Pythons created their material from a natural born impetus. Entertaining people was at the top of their list not ‘grabbing money’. However, all good things come to an end. Their last feature length movie was fully funded before they started to write material. It relied heavily upon their winning formula but lacked the amateurish spark of their earlier works. The result was a movie-length feature composed of highly polished sketches that were related but incoherent as a whole; Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

The real gems that will stand as classics of absurd humour are “The Life of Brian” and “The Holy Grail”. Political and religious satire bound in an absurd and immature narrative that mimic two well known classic stories. The Python’s warp truth but present as a warped truth without pretense, in doing so they mock the contentious truths portrayed by the film industry.