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No one expects the Crimson Permanent Assurance!
Watching them talking about having nightmares during the organ transplant section... everyone is thinking "just wait until Mr Creosote turns up"
The Galaxy Song should be the world's national anthem.
@CowmanUK
10 күн бұрын
International anthem. If it was the world's. Just saying.
@tonygriffin_
10 күн бұрын
@@CowmanUK Yes, the world would have to be one nation to have a national anthem!
You lose 200 points for stopping the intro and tripple checking you were watching a Monty Python film.
@ericj166
Ай бұрын
- that was hilarious, I agree
@philwilde5076
Ай бұрын
Rutles. John Lennons favourite film.
@TerribleEnglish
Ай бұрын
Nobody should have to suffer through that tedious, unfunny bit, to be fair.
@charleshowie2074
Ай бұрын
@TerribleEnglish Not merely tedious, but unfunny, too? Remarkable! Are you a non-adult, who is also a child? Or a Chinese person who is simultaneously Asian by any chance?
@andywrong3247
Ай бұрын
It's got pythons hallmark written all over it the last of the trilogy, is it a bird , is it a plane no its Spencer being daft again ,I pity the fool,what I'm I watching,lets half pretend we get it.the boys are back in town. Omg.
That opening is sooo Terry Gilliam.
@neilsun2521
Ай бұрын
They said it was like an acid trip and Gilliam would later direct Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas...
I know it's disjointed, but this is actually my favourite of the 3, uncommon opinion!
@Paul_1971
Ай бұрын
Mine too!
@andywrong3247
Ай бұрын
You got to be in the right frame of mind,isn't one the guy fighting no limbs funny only bit I remember as a young lad,second film didn't see the relevance @ the time,third aged 17 I thought was the funniest but overall life of Brian grew on me.
@nightowlnzab
Ай бұрын
I think we’re a small club, but this is absolutely my favourite of the films too!
@tomleslie6668
Ай бұрын
Me three!
@kelvinmeneely3116
Ай бұрын
Me foreplay!
1:18:07 “We’ll, that’s cast rather a gloom over the evening, hasn’t it” is my favourite line of the film.
@MrEAus
Ай бұрын
The GRIM REAPER! Hardly surprising in this weather 😁
@RenaissanceEarCandy
28 күн бұрын
"Hey! I didn't even eat the mousse"
you've got Terry Gilliam's Pythonesque movies such as Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil, Baron Munchausen, usually have Cleese, Palin and Idle popping up in them. John Cleese's Robin Hood in Time Bandits is hilarious. The films are all bonkers but a lot of fun.
@markcutting6504
Ай бұрын
Everyone forgets yellowbeard.mixture of old & new comedians/commediennes.not the greatest but Brian& grail would be hard to beat in anyone's old top 10.saw time bandits etc in my teens & thought they were more fantasy than comedy which goes with gilliam s animation.whereas fish called Wanda was cleese/Palin comedy
@KevPage-Witkicker
Ай бұрын
@@markcutting6504 I'd also add Erik The Viking to that list, has a few of the crew present.
@vandalfinnicus1507
Ай бұрын
Yeah, but now that Gilliam's been mentioned, I say his great 90's movies must be included; Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
@dcanmore
Ай бұрын
@@vandalfinnicus1507 I do like his 90s output but I left them out as they are less 'python' as the earlier movies. First Gilliam flick I saw at the cinema was The Fisher King.
@raifthemad
29 күн бұрын
@@markcutting6504 Us Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we're dead.
Best use of slow-mo in a film. And 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
@harrymarshall
29 күн бұрын
42 is the total number of spots on a duo of d6 die 🎲🎲 dont throw yr life away
Sorry it curdled your brains before it really got started! 😀
Imagine seeing this at the cinema in 1983. Absolutely mental. I'm crying 🤣🤣🤣
@ftumschk
Ай бұрын
I did. My friends and I were totally thrown by the opening feature, and thought the cinema had loaded the wrong film!
guy who jumped out of the window was also Max Headroom (Matt Frewer).
@neilsun2521
Ай бұрын
For maximum head room?
Michael Palin did some great travel documentaries "around the world in 80 days" and "pole to pole" if you want to see how much the world has changed since the late 80s early 90s.
@markcutting6504
Ай бұрын
Don't think Pilkingtons idiot abroad was as intelligent & thought provoking.but I reckon Karl could have been a python member.sooorted!😂
@stevensauer8539
16 күн бұрын
Full Circle was also excellent.
There's a fourth Monty Python movie, gentlemen. It's called And Now For Somethhng Completely Different and it consists of lots of the sketches from their TV shows that were re-recorded for cinema. It's well worth a look. Also, congratulations on 120,000 subscribers. Seems like it's only five minutes since we were celebrating 100,000!
@paxillusinvolutus5213
Ай бұрын
Would it be utter sacrilege to include ‘Yellowbeard’ as a half 5th film?
@MosquitoCreative
16 күн бұрын
If you include Yellowbeard, you'd also have to include Jabberwocky, which I'd be fine with.
At last - The whole thing in context - Thank you for doing this!
25:43 The most British joke, ever.
Back when I was in college, we had a nice lounge with a big screen TV and a VCR. I had an extensive movie collection, and every Friday would show three movies with a common theme. One night it was Monty Python. This movie had its turn, and right before the Mr. Creosote scene (wafer thin mint) I put out snacks for everyone. People helped themselves to the food. Half the crowd (the ones who'd seen it before) started smiling truly evil grins, while those not in the know munched away, oblivious to what was to come. But the best part was not one person spoiled the surprise. XD I was lucky enough to see this in the theater when it came out, and did not realize that the Permanent Crimson Assurance was part of the film. So when they returned part way through I was completely unprepared. And the sheer insanity of Find The Fish on the big screen cannot be understated. I still have Christmas In Heaven on my holiday playlist.
If you liked this movie, you'll LOVE the TV series :)
Poor Jenkins finds out his mother died in the public announcements. That's the where the British private schoolkids get their stiff upper lip from!
This Film was proper out there when it came out ! Ace !!!!
so under rated , art....true art. FACT
This film is great I think life of Brian was the best though.
The middle of the Film sequence (Oh fishy fishy fish!) Was re-enacted in Family Guy XD Yeah this is definitely the most.... TRAUMATIC Python film XD They wanted to upset EVERYONE with this one.
The Crimson Permanent Assurance was supposed to just be a short sketch in the film, but Terry G can only be stopped from filming by armed men pulling him away and locking him up. And so the sketch grew into its only little movie
Michael Palin was always my favourite, superb playing that Drill Sergeant
@Griexxt
Ай бұрын
Best actor of the lot, IMO.
"And would sir like a wafer thin mint?" BRILLIANT! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All the Monty Python films & the sketch show are good.
@neilsun2521
Ай бұрын
The sketch show's dated though, compared to the movies which are timeless.
19:03 *Cartwright Hall* in *Lister Park* in *Manningham, Bradford.* A building I used to walk past every day, which has been used in at least 15 films and TV shows, plus even 1 or 2 computer games. *Ed Sheeran's* dad *John Sheeran* (who is a *Chelsea* fan) was the art curator at the museum until 1996, and used to take *Ed* to watch *Bradford City* at *Valley Parade* less than a mile down the road, which is why *Ed* is a *Bradford City* fan contrary to what most people and the media believe. 19:25 *East Riddlesden Hall* in *Keighley, Bradford.* It's been used in at least 5 film and TV productions.
@johnloony68
Ай бұрын
Cartwright Hall was named after my great-great-great-great-grandfather.
@user-en1zl7ii4h
18 күн бұрын
I'm from Bradford. I have been to cartwright Hall many times. Nice.
Mr Creosote is one of the funniest scenes ever
*Monty Python's* manager from 1979 to 1997 is the *Oscar, BAFTA* and *Cesar* award winning producer *Steve Abbott* from *Bradford.* *Steve* also co-owns *Monty Python's* film and TV production companies, plus he has produced a lot of *Michael Palin's* documentary series. *Monty Python* filmed *Meaning of Life* and *Flying Circus* in at least 15 different locations across *Bradford* (no doubt many more as someone who has only seen occasional sketches). *Monty Python* is where *Monty Python* super fan *JK Rowling,* got a lot of her stuff for *Harry Potter,* yet barely anyone realises. She got the idea for the name *Harry Potter* from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Pudsey, Leeds.* She got the idea for the *Dursley family* introduction from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Pudsey, Leeds.* She got the idea for the *Gryffindor* colours from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Manningham, Bradford.* Plus many more things from other sketches, such as the various names for the sweets. The *Sci-Fi Sketch* also filmed on some streets less than 1 mile West of me.
@ericstorr9880
Ай бұрын
I wondered why they filmed a lot in Bradford. I'm from there and often think about Python as I drive past Cartwright Hall 👍
@neilsun2521
Ай бұрын
Outside Creosole's restaurant looked like Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill.
Every Sperm got to be the most underappreciated musical number ever
The Galaxy Song is my favourite Python tune. Death snapping at the Americans with "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING" 😂 Genius
Just go with it, FFS
Your "cutting room floor" remark was on point. Gratuitous upchuckery.
That scene at the start with the old people becoming pirates on a moving building was so creative and fun, and just hilarious. The first time I saw it I was so confused but also could not stop laughing.
Hitchhiker's Guide is worth a watch
@DiceSully
24 күн бұрын
Talking of Hitchhikers, is that Arthur Dent in the death scene?
I saw this in the cinema when it first came out. Hilarious!! Almost missed my last bus home. They blew most of the budget on dance scenes for Every Sperm …..
You can get a album with all of pythons songs on it.its called monty python sings. Highly recommended
The dude from “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” was Rick Moranis.
I went school with a lad who sang Every sperm is sacred.
@neilsun2521
Ай бұрын
How's he doing now? Hopefully not sold off for medical experiments?
Some things are just sacred 🤣
@user-sh6gz8ms6w
Ай бұрын
couldn't have put it better my self.
It's quite normal in the UK to eat toast with a knife and fork if is used to absorb the beans and egg at breakfast. I suspect this was fried bread, which used to be popular to have with a fried breakfast and was eaten with a knife and fork.
Regarding the Officer Corps, something which might change your perception of how it might have been: In WWI the life expectancy of a junior officer was 6 weeks.
Part VI - "How does it make it's way through the cutting room": This ist the best scene ever. When I saw it in the movie theater, the three girls next to me hid on the floor behind the chairs for 4 minutes and didn't dare to look out. I had to laugh like never before... for over 4 minutes :)
This movie got a ton of flak for being so much more gratuitous and outrageous than anything Monty Python had done before. But honestly, I bet the only thing preventing them from having produced this kind of thing all along was the constraint of Flying Circus’s daytime TV PG rating. I bet they’d always wanted to make glorious filth like this.
Pretty much there is left to be proud about in being British is Monty Python..
As a Yorkshire lad, it cracks me up every time they say, "Now to the third world, Michael Palin is from Yorkshire. Well, we don't like waste in Yorkshire.
So many movies and tv shows. Always loved catching them whenever I can. They originally had a show calked Do Not Adjust Your Set begore they became the Python crew we now know. Other movies (mentioned or not), Search For The Holy Grail, And Now For Something Completely Different, Jabberwocky, Live At The Hollywood Bowl, Yellowbeard and Life of Brian. Probably missing a couple, but all worth the watch!
@markcutting6504
Ай бұрын
Not python but check out the secret policemans ball.saw it early teens but I think cleese,atkinson,petercook.& Many others with live skits
My parents stopped playing the Monty Python album in the car when I told my year 2 teacher (age 6-7) that Every Sperm is Sacred was my favourite song :D
My favourite Python film. Also, you guys should check out "Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl" next.
From an interview with Terry Jones at the time it was released: "Its a bit gruesome in parts isn't it?" "Yes it is" "You like things to be really gruesome then?" "Yes" "What's the most gruesome thing you like from the film?" "Terry Gilliam."
After coming out the cinema I think there were a few hundred people singing or humming Every Sperm is Sacred. Now whenever somebody is really full after a big meal, it's almost mandatory in the UK to ask them, in a french accent of course, 'would you like one wafer thin mint?'. Seeing Mr Creosote in action on the big screen was almost vomit-inducing, it's not as effective on TV.
@commonsense9176
Ай бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one 😂
This was made back when movies were shown in theatres with a small supporting film being shown beforehand. Terry Gilliam (the Pythons' animation man) basically blew almost the whole budget on the opening film...
Definitely Python's most experimental and 'out there' film, apparently it was promoted as "guaranteed to offend absolutely everyone". 😆
I remember watching this for the first time at a friends house where we smoked a joint. I almost had a panic attack in confusion 😂
Monty Python makes you scratch your head, but then (sometimes years later) you say, "Oh shit... I understand that now".
Meaning of Life is my favorite.
The movie budget was completely devoured by the costs of the "Every sperm" sequence. The production was on the brink of shutting down. Enter George Harrison, ex-Beatle and co-producer of "Life of Brian". Once again, he stepped up and put up all the money they needed to keep shooting the rest of the film.
Yes!!! Watch 40 more times. I have!!!
The sperm song is a big parody of the musical film Oliver too!
An acting friend of mine was in the "Every Sperm is Sacred" scene when he was a kid. What an accolade!
Try this one too: "Brazil" - by Terry Gilliam (from the Pythons) - another legenadary one with Robert De Niro
I love Monty Python! It's amazing how they foreshadowed the future at the beginning, saying to the new mother that it's a bit early to be imposing roles on the baby. Maybe that is what all midwives say nowadays
"Well, whatever it is, we're about to do a full reaction to it, because im digging whatever the fuck this is" is exactly the right way to approach it if it were the WRONG movie XD
Amazing. What a great video to wake up on my birthday and watch.
I was won/lost at the "Get that will you Deirdre?" moment . Followed by the Sergeant Major marching up and down the square... Then the "A tiger in Africa?"" and I lost it completely!
The dance sequence for "Every Sperm is Sacred" blew the entire budget for the film, so they had to re-finance with some difficulty
There was another interview with Terry Jones where he was called out over some of the content and he said they had filmed a lot of sequences they had expected to be cut from the film by Universal. However Universal decided to release it uncut. He said he and the others were appalled by the decision and regretted a lot of what they did onscreen. Though as Jones wrote the Mr Creosote sketch and Eric Idle says he's proud of the film because of its "punk" nature and the fact its still upsetting people today, I think you need to take it with a pinch of salt. The liver doners sketch is the one I used to skip because it was too gratuitously nasty and more disturbing than funny especially with the gore being foregrounded and Gilliam's screams being far too realistic to be funny. I see where the joke is meant to be but they could have filmed it differently. It casts a shadow over the rest of the film for me. I guess that's why they are the first two people we see in the heaven sequence.
Check out "Erik the Viking." It's a Monty Python movie, although it wasn't billed as one. It stars Tim Robbins (Shawshank). It's about an awkward Viking hero that goes off on a quest to end the age of Ragnarok. It's directed by Terry Jones (Mr Creosote) and has him, John Cleese and Micky Rooney in it. I loved it. ••• PEACES!!!
@markcutting6504
Ай бұрын
Good one.forgot about erik.watched yellowbeard a year or so ago.both not hilarious but not many films are after 40 years later bunking off school.imagine going to blockbusters & renting blues brothers with cheap lager.oh the 80's😂😫
@Calumetto
Ай бұрын
@@markcutting6504 Oh man -- Yellowbeard. Yeah. I remember the guy who played Dr. Bombay and Col. Crittenden getting his foot nailed to the deck. His whole part was basically one line, and then standing silently in the rain where he was nailed -- his British demeanor saying "I say... This hardly seems cricket." Loved that. ••• PEACES!!! Or was that "The Corsican Bros"? I'm not sure.
@haps2019
Ай бұрын
Erik the Viking is not a Monty Python Movie.
One of my favourite films, and you two getting your melons messed with, is hilarious 😅
Thier final show is a must
This really is the meaning of life. Philosophy made clear.
I love that you guys made it through this bucket of LSD. Well done.
The reason the 'Mr Creosote' section got past the sensors is because it's British humour & It's disgustingly funny. You either get it or you don't. Oh... spoiler alert, the vomit wasn't real!
The kids from Every Sperm is Sacred were interviewed and said they loved it because they could say rude words 😁😁
The roman emperor didn't even appear in "Life of Brian". Do you mean Pontius Pilate?
"A waffer thin mint?"
Oh the teenage me has great memories of watching this when it came out😂😂😂
Mr Creosote is a satire on gluttony, greed and conformity.
I think you would enjoy the various Micheal Palin travel programs. Starting from ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ to ‘Whatever the Most Recent One is’. His trip to North Korea maybe…?
In the Mr Creosote scene, the fake puke used was condensed minestrone soup. By the fourth day of shooting, the set was apparently filled with the most outrageous stench! 🤮
Your release of this film is just a perfect sync here, lads. 1983. I watched a midnight premiere in Leicester Square, London with my BFF. It confused us too! Just a couple of days ago we were all talking about the birth of our first son (26th of June) and how I, in full labour, threw lethal weapons at my husband. It was a cardboard bowl to pee in. Bloody Sperm!!!!!! :o)
Mr. Creosote is one of my favorite scenes ever since it actually made someone throw up. I was watching the movie with a couple of friends, one who hadn't seen it before. He's the one who threw up.
American member of Monty Python, filmmaker Terry Gilliam, directed the opening sequence. It's like a grander version of his animations in the original show. The other Terry (Jones) directed most of this film.
Monty Python: *makes 'Life of Brian' Fundamentalists and other idiots: *Get angry for no bloody reason Monty Python: "Oh, really? Hold my f***ing beer and watch this." *makes 'Meaning of Life'
Rick Moranis was not harmed during the making of this film.
that american actor you saw was also Max Headroom from the eightess. that robotic looking guy on the television
I saw this when it was released and I can't wait to see you react to the Fishy Fishy Oh bit 😅
It has some of the best and most polished Python moments, but as a cohesive film I prefer the previous 2 for enjoyment.
This was the movie that, when I first saw it 35 years ago, turned me from a dutiful church going lad into a confirmed atheist. Thank God!
This video made me realise how much I miss Terry Jones. He was a bonafide legend.
Lovely, guys! I discovered Python in the mid-90’s, when I was about eleven. This one was always considered to be the lesser movie of the three (if you would exclude ”And now for something completely different” (1971) and ”Live at the Hollywood Bowl” 1982). It is slowly growing into a masterpiece, I feel, and I know I’m not alone in feeling this. It’s so fucking vile and gruesome in parts that it’s hard to imagine this gang made ”Flying Circus” 14 years prior. I heavily suggest you to check out the documentary called ”Monty Python: Almost the truth - The lawyer’s cut” from 2009. It’s fan-bloody-tastic! I love your stuff, boys! Wrap up your Christmas Specials of ”The Office” and PLEASE get to the second Gervais/Merchant masterpiece that is ”Extras”. 🤟🥂🔥
"The meaning that of life" by the Month python crew and the classic song "every sperm is sacred" Not having a pop at the Roman Catholic Church, HONEST!
Not quite ‘The Trilogy’. Monty Pythons first film was: ‘And Now For Something Completely Different’ which was a collection of sketches from their BBC TV Series, recreated as a feature film.
(Sir) Michael Caine cameo appearance at 45:25
Great video guys. I thought the start would confuse you. It's my favorite python movie, Life of Brian coming in close second place.
I’d love to see you guys watch The Holy Mountain - but the edit and cleaning up the blown minds, I don’t know?
This film is not as good as Holy Grail and Life of Brian, but it does have a lot of great comedy. You can't get very far in life without the Machine that goes PING!
Glad for the Bob Mortimer nickname
42 in base 13. What does 42 mean in the Hitchhiker's Guide? You may ask, watch the film to find out.