* 1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian actor, producer, and game show host

In 1991 he performed on Broadway in the short-lived musical Nick and Nora ( based on the Thin Man film ) with Joanna Gleason, the daughter of Monty Hall.

Many riddles trick the reader into believing that they are an example of the gambler's fallacy, such as the Monty Hall problem.

* Veridical paradoxes, such as the birthday paradox or the Monty Hall paradox, which are seeming absurdities that are nevertheless true because they are perfectly logical.

** Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host ( Let's Make A Deal )

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

* Monty Hall problem

Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".

The city was the teenage home of actress Suzanne Somers ( she still maintains a second home in nearby Palm Desert ), and a winter residence for actors Robert Duvall and Martin Landau in the 1960s, and TV show host Monty Hall in the 1990s.

In addition, Monty Hall had become host in early 1958 and was still hosting when the scandal broke.

In those 11 years, Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed and made fun of these legendary stars in this order: Ronald Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O ' Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Landon, Evel Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gabe Kaplan, Ted Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Betty White, Suzanne Somers, Joan Collins, and Mr T. For nearly a decade, Martin had recorded as many as four albums a year for Reprise Records.

As a result, controversial discussions emerge from such problems, the most famous probably being the Monty Hall problem.

On Monday, June 5, 1972, Burke and his chorus sang and danced on The Monty Hall Smokin '- Stokin ' Fire Brigade special which aired on ABC Television.

* Monty Hall problem, in which an seemingly-unrelated piece of information makes a difference to a choice

In 1984, he was the announcer / sidekick for Alan Thicke during the short-lived talk show Thicke of the Night ( a role for which he has on occasion noted his confusion with Monty Hall ).

Monte Halperin, OC, OM ( born August 25, 1921 ), better known by the stage name Monty Hall, is a Canadian-born MC, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the television game show Let's Make a Deal.

Because of his work on Let's Make a Deal, Hall's name is used in a probability puzzle known as " The Monty Hall Problem ," which examines the counter-intuitive effect of switching one's choice of doors, one of which hides a prize, if " Monty " reveals an unwanted item behind a door the player did not choose.

* CBC Digital Archives profile of Monty Hall ( 1970 )

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The Monty Hall Problem, also called the Monty Hall paradox, is a veridical paradox because the result appears impossible but is demonstrably true.

The Monty Hall problem, in its usual interpretation, is mathematically equivalent to the earlier Three Prisoners problem, and both bear some similarity to the much older Bertrand's box paradox.

Nonetheless, despite his loose pursestrings, Monty repeatedly demonstrates a strong moral character.

Texas farm boy Monty Stratton ( Stewart ) demonstrates a knack for throwing a baseball.

In various sketches, Cleese demonstrates exactly what the title suggests — how to irritate people, although this is done in a much more conventional way than the absurdity of similar Monty Python sketches.

In some films, knitted string spray-painted with a metallic paint is used instead of actual mail in order to cut down on cost ( an example being Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed on a very small budget ).

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

The Knights who say Ni are a band of knights from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, feared for the manner in which they utter the word " ni " (, like knee but clipped short ).

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

On New Year's Day 2007, and again on New Year's Eve, UK television station Channel 4 dedicated an entire evening to the Monty Python phenomenon during which an hour-long documentary was broadcast called The Secret Life of Brian about the making of The Life of Brian and the controversy that was caused by its release.

The Monty Python Live at Drury Lane album features a live version of the sketch, which is slightly different from the TV version.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

In Monty Python, Palin played various roles, which ranged from manic enthusiasm ( such as the lumberjack of the Lumberjack Song, or Herbert Anchovy, host of the game show " Blackmail ") to unflappable calmness ( such as the Dead Parrot vendor, Cheese Shop proprietor, or Postal Clerk ).

A comedic " precursor " to this concept occurred in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which Terry Jones began performing a striptease while giving a fast-paced rundown of economic news.

* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.

Through a Monty Python sketch, in which Spam is portrayed as ubiquitous and inescapable, its name has come to be given to electronic spam, including spam email.

It is named for Spam, a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is included in almost every dish.

After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Later that year, he was commissioned by the BBC to write and star in Q5, the first in the innovative " Q " TV series, acknowledged as an important precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus, which premiered several months later.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Grace's fame has endured and his large beard in particular remains familiar ; for example, Monty Python and the Holy Grail uses his image as " the face of God " during the sequence in which God sends the knights out on their quest for the grail.

Until Christina was well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, to which producer Gloria Monty readily agreed.

* The Full Monty ( 2000 ) is an Americanized stage adaptation of the 1997 British film of the same name, in which a group of unemployed male steelworkers put together a strip act at a local club.