Which python was the most pythonesque?

Oh fuck a duck this is like wow.

John Cleese was my fave.

Farting in peoples general direction.

What a great question. I don't know why you didn't get more answers. Maybe nobody watches Monty Python any more. Funnily enough I was watching Fawlty Towers last night so I didn't answer then because it would have skewed my viewpoint (Fawlty Towers is, without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest sitcom ever written and while I don't like John Cleese as a person, his work with Connie Booth is exceptional).

Anyway, Pythons. It's hard to say because they weren't strictly individuals. Palin and Jones were a team who had similar ideas. And Chapman, Cleese and Idle often worked together. And Terry Gilliam's input was huge and unique. He gave them a visual style.

I'm very fond of Palin and Jones, who comport themselves very gracefully, but their comedic style is very much different to - in particular - Graham Chapman. To be Pythonesque, you really need all the elements (including Cleese's utterly superb physical comedy). I'm tempted to say Michael Palin (in my mind I can see the Spanish Inquisition) but I'm going to say Chapman because his ideas are everywhere. He's a kind of glue which binds it all together (as does Gilliam to an extent). Yes, okay, Chapman.

THIS is a hard question. I would rule out Gilliam, though his animations were a huge part of their comedy, he didn't act most of the time. Cleese and Idle, although they wrote a lot of the material, also did other types of comedy later. Jones, Palin and Chapman are the top 3 for me, but I think Palin and Chapman are slightly better. And between them I'd say...Chapman. That's my final answer.

Even though I don't know pythonesque really means. Did you mean who looked most like a python? That's Eric Idle.