![]() Monty Python’s coconuts are horses, except that they absolutely are not horses, but coconuts. The Emperor’s nakedness is eternally comedic. Comedy points out what can’t be commented on, the unspoken, and even the unspeakable. ![]() The coconut sketch unpacks the work of comedy. (“Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?”) The grail remains all but forgotten as the guards on the castle walls uproariously tear down his explanations. The put-upon straight-man of the film, Arthur, gamely tries to explain the existence of coconuts in medieval England (“they could have been carried”). The whole scene concentrates on those coconuts. Arthur and Patsy are very, very serious about their quest. His faithful servant, Patsy, accompanies him, banging two coconut halves together to make the sound of the horse’s hooves. ![]() The pillar of chivalry, Arthur, King of the Britons, appears riding an imaginary horse like a child on a playground. Forty years old this year, the coconut sketch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail may be one of the most iconic opening scenes in film history.
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