History Film / MontyPythonMostlyLiveOneDownFiveToGo

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* {{Corpsing}}:
** Happens to Creator/JohnCleese no less than twice throughout the show, most blatantly during "Crunchy Frog" (when he finds himself quoting "Dead Parrot" and cracks up), and "Dead Parrot" (in which he flubs a line).
** John Cleese told the other Pythons that the first to corpse would have to donate £10,000 to charity. [[spoiler:Cleese himself was the first to crack up. Idle saying "He couldn't get through the first sketch!"]].
** Terry Gilliam loses it during "Crunchy Frog" as well.

''Monty Python (Mostly) Live: One Down, Five to Go'' is a concert film by British comedy troupe Creator/MontyPython, filmed at the O2 Arena in London in July 2014 and released on DVD, Blu-Ray, and streaming in November of the same year. It is the EndOfAnAge for the quintet (formerly sextet until the [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]] of Creator/GrahamChapman in 1989).

The show was done as a series of ten performances, the last of which was broadcast to theaters internationally on July 20, 2014. It is this performance that was released to media platforms.

* GallowsHumor: As if recognizing their own ages, an alternate title for the show was "[[Creator/GrahamChapman One Down,]] Five To Go".

* HypocriticalHumor: A promo video for the show featuring Music/MickJagger.

The troupe lost a lawsuit to the producer of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' for £800,000 ($994,600, which he claimed he was owed as royalties from ''Spamalot''), and they decided to raise the money by throwing the stage equivalent of their retirement party.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The "Nudge Nudge" sketch is full of this.

The troupe lost a lawsuit to the producer of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' for £800,000 ($994,600), (he claimed he was owed royalties from ''Spamalot'') and they decided to raise the money by throwing the stage equivalent of their retirement party.

* CannotSpitItOut: The title character of the "Miss Anne Elk" sketch's prolonged coughing fits when she tries to tell the host her theory [[spoiler:[[TheUnreveal (which happens to be no big secret anyway)]]]] could qualify her as this.

* BaitAndSwitch: At the end of the "Vocational Guidance Counselor/Lion Tamer" sketch, Palin starts saying "I never really wanted to be a Lion Tamer...''I WANTED TO BE...''a systems analyst". He would then go into "The Lumberjack Song" [[note]] Said FakeOut job would be different every night. [[/note]]

The troupe lost a lawsuit to the producer of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' for £800,000 ($994,600), and they decided to raise the money by throwing the stage equivalent of their retirement party.

** John Cleese told the other Pythons that the first to corpse would have to donate 10,000 pounds to charity. [[spoiler:Cleese himself was the first to crack up. Idle saying "He couldn't get through the first sketch!"]].

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[[caption-width-right:293: One last hurrah... ]]

* CannotSpitItOut: The title character of the "Miss Anne Elk" sketch's prolonged coughing fits when she tries to tell the host her theory [[spoiler:[[Main/TheUnreveal (which happens to be no big secret anyway)]]]] could qualify her as this.

* CurtainCall: After the "Christmas in Heaven" number, the Pythons come back out and Creator/EricIdle is holding a guitar, which he uses to lead the Pythons, the cast, and ''the entire O2 audience'' in one final performance of[[spoiler:--what else?--[[Main/SignatureSong "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"]]]].

* GratuitousSpanish: The "Llamas" sketch which opens the show is completely done in Spanish. There are subtitles for those not fluent with the language, but since [[Main/RuleOfFunny this is Monty Python]]...who knows.

'''Eric Idle:''' ''[who had been talking entirely in anagrams up until this point, save for the one Spoonerism already mentioned]'' If you're gonna split hairs, I'm gonna [[Main/StockBritishPhrases piss off]].

[[spoiler:[[Main/DownerEnding 'Cos there's bugger all down here on Earth]]]]

-->'''Head Bruce:''' We find, over here, your English beer is a little like making love in a canoe... [[spoiler:It's [[Main/PrecisionFStrike fucking]] close to water!]]
* UnusualEuphemism: "''Intercourse'' the penguin." -Terry Jones

''Graham Chapman 1949-1989''\\

''Piss Off''

** John Cleese told the other Pythons that the first to corpse would have to donate 10,000 pounds to charity. [[spoiler: Cleese himself was the first to crack up. Idle saying "He couldn't get through the first sketch!"]].

--> ''Good evening and welcome to another edition of'' Science Today, ''where we look at science today.''

--> '''Michelangelo Idle''': We'll call it ''The Last But One Supper''.\\
'''His Holiness Pope Cleese I''': ...what.

--> ''Well, it's just gone 8:00, in time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode. (cue exploding penguin)''

--> '''Old Lady Cleese''': Penguins don't come from next door! They come from the Antarctic.\\
'''Old Lady Jones''': ''Burma!!''

--> '''Creator/MichaelPalin''': But surely [Ring Kichard]'s not an anagram. That's a {{Spoonerism}}.\\
'''Eric Idle''' (who had been talking entirely in anagrams up until this point, save for the one Spoonerism already mentioned): If you're gonna split hairs, I'm gonna [[Main/StockBritishPhrases piss off]].
* PrecisionFStrike: Cleese does it thrice, once in "Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint ''The Last Supper''"...
--> '''His Holiness Pope Cleese I''': Look, I'm the head of the ''fucking'' Catholic Church, I am, so watch it!

--> '''Inspector Cleese''': ''Fuck'' your sales; we have to protect the general public.

--> '''Vendor Cleese''': 'Course you don't get ''fucking'' wafers with it! It's an '''albatross'''!

--> '''Eric Idle''': And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space\\

--> '''Head Bruce''': We find, over here, your English beer is a little like making love in a canoe...[[spoiler:It's [[Main/PrecisionFStrike fucking]] close to water!]]

** Izzard, Cox, and Warwick Davis appeared at the end of the final show.

* {{Corpsing}}: Happens to Creator/JohnCleese no less than twice throughout the show, most blatantly during "Crunchy Frog" and "Dead Parrot" (in which he flubs a line).

* Izzard, Cox, and Warwick Davis appeared at the end of the final show.