Monty Python and the Holy Grail

From what I can gather I owe an awful lot of thanks to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. My two favorite television shows are 30 Rock and The Office, I love Will Ferrell movies and growing up I enjoyed Mel Brooks movies like Robin Hood Men in Tights and Spaceballs. What do they have in common? In my humble opinion, they are all a result of entertainers whose work represents a desire to entertain themselves as much as they entertain there audience.
Please don't take the above as a knock, because I honestly I find this film very funny. But, unlike your run of the mill romantic comedies or television shows such as Two and a Half Men that use formulas to appeal to a lost common denominator audience, Monty Python works because it's goal of entertaining itself resonates with people like me. I have no idea what this movie is about, but I know there are countless scenes that leave me cracking up. In fact, we have an ice cream that goes around our neighborhood ringing a bell instead of playing music and every time I hear it (whether at home or at the park down the street) I shout out "Bring out your dead."
So, whether you are fearlessly guarding a bridge, randomly killing historians or a Frenchman taunting King Arthur you have something to enjoy here.