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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor. (imdb)
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

1982
Comedy
1h 17m
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Avg Percentile 69.55% from 550 total ratings

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Rated 07 Jul 2020
70
53rd
Something about Monty Python live that bugs me oh wait it’s the crowd, sitting next to some screaming Python fan who knows the words to every skit but has forgotten basic hygiene.
Rated 01 Feb 2008
12
58th
I adore Python and their comedy is just as brilliant live, but I can't help but feel that the presence of an audience destroys the magic. It's snobbish, I suppose, but a whooping crowd predicting every punchline reduces Python's genius to trite catchphrasery, and it's a real shame.
Rated 13 Jul 2010
85
88th
Excellent collection of sketches performed (as the title may suggest) by Monty Python at the (as the title might also suggest) Hollywood Bowl. It's great fun! It's the masters at work! And it's live! (except it's not)
Rated 02 Mar 2012
75
68th
The audience is an incredibly lame bunch of bandwagon jumping protocosplay nerds. They're like the 70's equivalent of Chris Hardwick's demo. The skits themselves are a pretty well-done greatest hits package. It would be a great Python starting point, if not for that insufferable gaggle of dorks that made (make) up their audience.
Rated 27 Dec 2006
85
91st
Legendary live performance of some of the Python's best material.
Rated 16 Feb 2007
75
89th
Great.
Rated 04 Aug 2007
70
54th
Some good yuks to be had for Python fans. All others bevare!
Rated 17 Sep 2007
70
63rd
funny
Rated 14 Oct 2007
90
64th
I wish I had been there
Rated 23 Mar 2008
93
82nd
Albatross!!!
Rated 06 Apr 2008
70
41st
Entertaining enough, but just a retread of already famous sketches minus the censorship, nothing new.
Rated 06 May 2008
68
70th
Good skits.
Rated 19 Oct 2008
74
59th
Probably the best bit is Cleese, in the audience, admonishing someone: "you're not supposed to be smoking that." A very stoner kind of vibe.
Rated 11 Sep 2009
85
88th
The Pythons always been very funny, here is no different. This live performance, has several quick gags and very funny, simply unmissable.
Rated 30 Jan 2010
71
66th
Many good laughts and sketchs unbeatable, but as an entirety not as funny as I was expecting. The basic Monty Python vibe was there anyway.
Rated 16 Mar 2010
83
79th
Simply great! Wonderful addition to the films and the series! A must-see for fans!
Rated 25 Sep 2010
73
88th
Although not all of their skits lend to a live format, the ones that do are energetic and a blast.
Rated 26 Sep 2010
88
88th
Have you SEEN this?! Seethis.
Rated 08 Oct 2010
80
75th
Great stuff, and most of the sketches are just as funny here as they were in the show.
Rated 23 Nov 2010
80
81st
I just love them :)
Rated 05 Jan 2011
70
69th
Extremly funny, hopefully as much as I remember.
Rated 04 Jul 2011
74
48th
Good, but nothing new.
Rated 26 Feb 2012
86
87th
Some of the best skits from Monty Python translated from video to stage seamlessly, likely due to their theatrical background. However, I cannot forgive Eric Idle replacing Michael Palin in the Lumberjack sketch.
Rated 15 Jun 2012
75
40th
Albatross
Rated 17 Jun 2012
70
69th
It's great to see the sextet bring its comedic powers to the stage in front of an enthusiastic crowd. The musical numbers by Neil Innes feel like a missed opportunity from a comic standpoint and not all material is top-notch, yet this 1982 concert film bears the troupe's DNA a la Flying Circus and includes some of their finest sketches (Colin "Bomber" Harris, The Last Supper, The Ministry of Silly Walks, Argument Clinic, Comedy Lecture and of course the prerecorded Philosophers' Football Match).
Rated 24 Oct 2012
10
2nd
I loved the show back in the day. But this is just a rehash of some of the more famous but still quite stupid skits. I was not really impressed at all by being able to watch the same old stuff performed yet again, even if it was in person. I don't remember getting a single laugh this time. Oh, and there is of course the Albatross. Pretty lame.
Rated 07 Feb 2013
74
77th
This is by all means an amazing collection, given that was all made live -- the sports skits, the argument routine, all the songs work well, the cross-dressing law men, the history of jokes. Even the ones that don't seem to click or try too hard point to an overall greatness in self-conscious, ironic, we-know-this-is-a-joke-but-let's-laugh-anyway comedy concept.
Rated 11 Apr 2014
100
90th
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Rated 25 Aug 2016
75
61st
Yeah, it's Python and they're great. But it's Python translating old skits onto the stage, which is one step removed from great. I guess you had to be there, judging by the crowd.
Rated 30 Mar 2019
60
41st
Watching the old show live, nothing surprising. Not sure if I would get excited if I watched it really live but I haven't. Still, Monty Pyhton is Monty Pyhton.
Rated 08 Aug 2020
90
67th
A fine greatest hits collection of some of their best work. If I had a time machine I would go back to be in the audience for this.
Rated 09 Jun 2022
60
47th
Collection of skits performed live.

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