Is it normal i don’t get most of monty python?

I love MP, particularly Flying Circus - a sentiment not shared by my family or friends. I got the boxset probably near to a decade ago, now.

Humour is subjective. Some people like some stuff that others don't. I think the Python's were clever and irreverent, two thing I greatly enjoy in comedy. Moreover, they're silly as fuck. I love that shit.

American and English comedy is quite different. That being said, they were huge in the US in their time.

As you say, if you're not British, you miss a lot of the culture-specific references. The same happens if you listen to British pop-music. There are things in Beatles lyrics that I didn't understand at all until I'd lived in the UK for a while.

As for the cross-dressing, lots of Americans have problems with that. Back in the early 1980s, Queen's "I Want to Break Free" video with the four musicians dressed up as the female members of a 1960s British household apparently did huge damage to the group's sales in the US since their American fans couldn't cope with the gender-bending. British people just found it funny.

The tradition of cross-dressing goes way back in Britain.

Shakespeare's female roles were always played by boys in his time. It was actually against the law for women to perform on stage in Elizabethan times. Also, acting was considered a highly disreputable profession - almost as bad as prostitution - so no woman who wanted to maintain her social standing would appear on stage.

Today, the tradition of pantomime continues to be very popular in Britain. In the run-up to Christmas, there are stage shows all over the country where traditional fairy tales are given a comedic twist, current pop-music is used in the production, and some of the characters are played by actors of the opposite sex. For example, Cinderella's ugly step-sisters are always played by men, and Jack in Jack in the Beanstalk is usually a woman.

It is interesting how British people find cross-dressing amusing, while Americans typically find it disturbing. Maybe it all goes back to the jolly old Puritans, the Taliban of their day.

your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries

Oh, I loved it when they played the female characters! Dead Parrot and Spanish Inquisition are some of my favorites too. The Argument sketch is another.

I think it's called Flying Circus because some jokes fly over our heads! Hehe

I never seen it or if i did i just barely remember, I remember something vaguely like they attack a castle with the french people and 'i fart in your general direction', and the movie cuts off funnily enough. And various popular quotes like ex-parrot and all that, which in think its pretty funny and would get around to watching the movie / show(?) again some day. Also liked Fawlty Towers, john cleese was kinda hot in that.

Burn her anyway haha