Why are people having a problem with this? It seems fair to me, in fact it's one of the things that I think makes great British comedy. Peep Show comes to mind, though 'dry and wordy' (minus negative connotations to those descriptions) might be more accurate.Bang25 said:Monty Python is British, therefore it is sometimes dry and lengthy,
I love Monty Python and every absurd bone in its madly distorted body. I personally like the television series the most, the string of insanity and constant wrong footing makes it like swimming in surrealist treacle. Tasty, tasty treacle.
I'd agree that they do tend to feel sudden, maybe forced, but that was a major point of their comedy; subverting expectations and conventions. They spoke about their deliberate aversion to conventional punch lines. I can definitely see why you might not like it, but it's not that they suck at writing endings. Indeed they were probably very fine at it when they wanted to. I think their endings are often very well written in the context of the kind of subversiveness they were aiming for.random_bars said:Only thing is, though, they really suck at ending sketches (or films) in a way that doesn't feel forced and sudden.