YMMV / Monty Pythons Flying Circus S 1 E 1

• Harsher in Hindsight: "The Funniest Joke In The World" sketch, a joke that is so funny, it causes anyone who heard it to Die Laughing. In 1989, Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen, died while watching A Fish Called Wanda (which featured John Cleese and Michael Palin). He found the film so funny, he laughed so hard that it caused his heart to beat rapidly (at 500 beats per minute) before it suddenly stopped.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Killer Joke" sketch includes a Gag Sub scene from Triumph of the Will, which turns Hitler's serious speech into a joke about his dog lacking a nose and smelling awful. It seems be a precursor to Hitler Rants phenomenon, where Internet users started making Gag Sub scenes out of Adolf Hitler from the serious drama film Downfall (2004) at the Turn of the Millennium.

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