"Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

[Patrick Mullen]

Monty Python pioneered (or at least pioneered the organized televising
of) a form of humor where there is no punchline or reason something is
funny, it just is (or isn't).  I find about half of it very funny, and
the rest very unfunny.  I used to find it more hilarious than I do
now.  It's an extremely subjective humor.  It's not that the jokes
aren't funny (or meant to be) it's that there is nothing to "get".  If
you are trying to understand it (get the joke), it's a lost cause :)
When they do have a joke which has a "reason" it loses its impact if
the rest of the silliness didn't affect you.

This form of humor continues in shows like Saturday Night Live.  They
do have actual jokes on that show for instance, but many of the skits
are just silly characters doing silly things that often don't make
sense, and actual punchlines at the end of a skit are fairly rare.

On Dec 6, 2007 10:14 PM, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> > "Tóth Csaba" <tsabi at tsabi.hu> wrote in message
> > news:4754532D.2060106 at tsabi.hu...
> > |
> > | >> Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because its
> > hard
> > | >> to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
>
> The jokes translate just fine in my country, but dare I admit that
> python (or Monty Python, rather) is not funny for me either. I think
> I've actually heard someone say "that the jokes aren't funny is part of
> the humor". I guess some of us will never get it. Now Benny Hill--that's
> another story!
>
>
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