re: #35 steve_davis

I’m getting the sinking feeling watching season 1 of Monty Python on Netflix that the show is small bits of funny combined with large tracts of unfunny. And I’m pretty sure it’s not just my American sensibilities, because the audience also seems to be rather mystified about what the writers could possibly have thought of as being funny in a skit. I know many later comic acts and writers trace their genesis to having experienced Monty Python, but not much of this seems all that durable.

re: #49 Nojay UK

I’m pretty sure there wasn’t an audience for Monty Python. It was not “filmed before a live audience” and it didn’t have a laugh track, at least in the British television incarnation.

re: #207 steve_davis

definite audience tittering in episode 1, and it’s not a laugh track. it’s nervous tittering, like a bunch of people got roped into seeing this, and nobody knows what the hell is going on.

There was definitely an audience. THe main problem is that the initial audience was decidedly a crowd that was fully expected something different. They went into this a bit some years back when they were in Aspen to be honored as a group:

Monty Python : Live At Aspen - part 2

EDIT: Clarifying a bit because I realize I kinda muddled my negatives there.