The walk was made famous by John Cleese's character Mr. Teabag, and requires 2.5 times as much energy as normal walking, per a study Monty Python were pioneers in sketch comedy, but their impact ...

Behold the Monty Python workout. It’s silly! It’s walky! It works, according to an important — or, at least, actual — study published today in the annual holiday edition of the BMJ ...

By Rachel Feltman The 2022 holiday issue of the British Medical Journal had a real Christmas cracker of a study: An investigation into the biomechanical implications of the Monty Python “silly ...

More than half a century after first airing on the BBC, Monty Python’s famous “silly walk” sketch has inspired a group of researchers at Arizona State University to see how effective it ...

For anyone not familiar with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and silly walking, the sketch first aired in September 1970, on BBC One and opens with Mr. Teabag (Cleese’s character) picking up the ...

If everyone would take the time to to walk in a silly an inefficient manner as shown in an iconic 1970 Monty Python for just a few minutes each day, it can help the world reach global physical ...

Glenn Gaesser. Inspired by the classic “Ministry of Silly Walks” skit featured in “Monty Python,” researcher Gaesser decided to look into what the caloric payoff was for walking in the ...

The walking styles in question were performed by Mr Teabag and My Putey, characters played John Cleese and Michael Palin, in the 1971 Monty Python sketch “Ministry of Silly Walks." For sports ...

The study is based on the silly walk from the British television show, "Monty Python." After all the measurements were completed, the silly walk did in fact make a difference in burning calories.

Forget busting out your best silly walk. Don’t bother racing a double decker bus, either. It’s time for Monty Python fans to grab some coconuts and hit the road, because later this year they ...