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The Rabbit of Caerbannog, often referred to in popular culture as the Killer Rabbit, is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1975 comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail by the Monty Python comedy troupe, a parody of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. [1]
However, scripts for the film and notebooks that are among Michael Palin's private archive, which he donated to the British Library in 2017, do document at least one alternative ending that the troupe considered: "a battle between the knights of Camelot, the French, and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog".
The Funniest Joke in the World" (also "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke") is a Monty Python comedy sketch revolving around a joke that is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter. Ernest Scribbler (Michael Palin), a British "manufacturer of jokes", writes the joke on a piece of paper only to die laughing.
In a 2015 article for The Atlantic, David Sims argues that Monty Python and the Holy Grail (as well as Monty Python in general) has had a significant impact on sketch comedy, particularly for its use of breaking the fourth wall. The film Deadpool and main actor Ryan Reynolds makes references to the Holy Grail's style by breaking the fourth wall ...
Killer rabbit may refer to: Rabbit of Caerbannog, a fictional beast from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, a 1979 incident involving a swamp rabbit trying to board President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat; The creatures from the 1972 horror film Night of the Lepus
Released in 1977, the main body of the book is the final draft of the screenplay, complete with sections that were cut from the final film scribbled out. Also included is the first draft, much of which bears little resemblance to the final product and parts of which ended up in the fourth series of Monty Python, following John Cleese's ...
After the passing of 100-year-old former President Jimmy Carter, many are recalling the “killer rabbit" incident in which Carter had to fight off a berserk swamp creature while fishing in his ...
Jones co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam, and was sole director on two further Monty Python movies, Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. As a film director, Jones finally gained fuller control of the projects and devised a distinct, signature style that relied on visual comedy and surreal touches to ...