Trivia

The funniest joke in the world is what Eric Idle refers to as "German gibberish". But for those who can handle it, it is, "Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! "

When translated into English, the Funniest Joke in the World is complete nonsense. When entered into Google Translate, it comes out as [FATAL ERROR].

There are at least two documented cases of someone laughing themselves to death. In an odd twist, both incidents have a Python connection. In 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old Scottish man living in Norfolk, England suffered a fatal heart attack after laughing almost continuously for half an hour. Mitchell had been watching "Kung Fu Kapers," an episode of the long running show The Goodies (1970). The Goodies starred Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor, who both appeared in the Cambridge Footlights revue alongside Graham Chapman and John Cleese. The Goodies were naturally upset, but Mitchell's widow thanked them for making him happy even in his last moments. 14 years later, a Danish man named Ole Bentzen suffered a fatal heart after watching A Fish Called Wanda (1988), written by Cleese and starring Cleese and Michael Palin. Bentzen was at dinner with his family when he recalled the scene where Otto (Kevin Kline) tortures Ken (Palin) by shoving chips up his nose.

The Japanese dub mentions cyclists who have been long gone by 1969, such as Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo Da Vinci and Katsushika Hokusai. This was because Japanese audiences wouldn't be as familiar with artists such as Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock or Robert Delaunay.

Asteroid 13681 is called "Monty Python".