"Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian" hold up especially well. I think it's not a coincidence that both of those are set in the past. Some jokes are less effective n

"Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian" hold up especially well. I think it's not a coincidence that both of those are set in the past. Some jokes are less effective now, since of course none of it is really about the past, but much of it references mythical material that's still current. I concur that their other material holds up less well, in part because they themselves didn't always seem to know which jokes were going to land. They had a fondness for absurdism, much of which wasn't even all that good when it was new. But some sketches, like the Lumberjack Song or the Spam sketch, just seemed to click, and still work.