CNET:

The Ministry of Silly Walks set a new standard for absurdity when the comedy sketch first appeared on Monty Python’s Flying Circus television show in 1970. But just exactly how silly were those walks? Extremely silly, new research suggests.

A team of scientists from Dartmouth University conducted a gait analysis on the walks performed by John Cleese (the minister) and Michael Palin (Mr. Pudey, a man applying for a grant to improve his own silly walk). The results appeared in the journal Gait & Posture.

“In the spirit of Monty Python’s humor, based on an actual gait analysis, a Dartmouth research team finds that the minister’s silly walk is 6.7 times more variable than a normal walk,” the university said in a statement on Thursday.

I think the fact that there is a journal called “Gait and Posture” is the funniest part of this article.