Always with a joke - Monty Python

After they had successfully entertained television viewers from all around the world in the late sixties and early seventies of past century, the group Monty Python started making full-length movies and publishing books.

Although their fans expect similar gags in their movies, hardly anyone expected from silly Britons to make pell-mell even in publishing venture.

For a book titled "The Brand New Monty Python Bok" (sequel to Monty Python's Big Red Book with striking blue cover), Terry Jones hired his sister-in-law Katharine Hepburn (accidentally with same name as the famous American actress) to assist them.

The cover was realistically made to look like it was greasy and filled with dirty fingerprints. It was made so realistic that many readers didn’t wanted to buy the book, asking for "newer" and more preserved copy.

However, there was also another thing - the cover could be peeled off and reveal hidden pictures of naked girls. 

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Bagpipes or a pig? – Thomas Beecham and Alfred Hitchcock

A fan of the famous English conductor Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) asked him once what music instrument would he recommend to her baby boy.

"The bagpipes," Beecham suggested, “because they sound exactly the same when you have finished learning them as when you start learning them”.

 

 

 

Famous English film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) also made a funny joke about bagpipes. He said:

"I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of sound achieved by the pig."

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I See Triple! - Juan Gonzales

There are still customers who remain stunned when they enter the male hair salon "3D Kutz" in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The owners of salon are identical triplets – Damian, Dominic and Derrick Montoya. Sometimes they get help and from a fourth "D", their mother called Diana.

Since they are identical, these triplets sometimes know to do a little joke on visitors.

Juan Gonzalez is now a regular customer. But when he first came there for a haircut, he could not understand what was happening around him.

Damian was working on his haircut. When Gonzales said he would like his beard shaved, from somewhere, at the same time when he was asked by Derrick if he wanted to drink coffee, ran Dominic.

I started, in disbelief, to turn my head around - says Juan Gonzalez. I rubbed my eyes and pinched myself thinking that I was on "candid camera".

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