RE: Has Monty Python lost its humor or have we lost our humor? // Monty Python perdeu a graça ou foi nós que perdemos o humor?
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Heheh. I understand you completely. I don't know how old you are, but I'm 37 and I have serious problems with the humor of generation Z (imagine Alpha), I'm a self-confessed millennial and I experienced the rise of the chaotic and almost dadaist humor of the internet. I saw all the Python movies even before the internet was ubiquitous in people's lives and at the time the grade I would have given would probably have been an 8/10...
The question is, have I lost my sense of humor or have they become naive and unfunny? I'd say it's both. And look, I swear I'm not a "super progressive" who tries to problematize cultures and say that X or Y thing is in bad taste, I rarely do that, but there are things that simply age badly, unfortunately.
We're the same age! (Almost!)
I loved the chaotic humor of the early Internet. I still do. That old Internet doesn't really live on anymore. All those flash animations, all those early artefacts that were burnt from cd to cd and circulated among friends.
I too saw those Python films early. I think I didn't understand them at first, the animated interludes, the language and the way it was used.
It wasn't until a few years on that I could really sit back and laugh at the films and the Pythonesque comedy.
It may have something to do with culture, too - I'm Australian, and our humor is very dead pan, dark, and direct. The British humor is often more slapstick, boring, and quite ... unsophisticated?