Monty Python's budget was pretty tight for this film, hence the reason why they used coconut shells instead of real horses. It turned out to be a masterclass in comedy and enhances the film to a different level.

@raistlin122000

3 жыл бұрын

This movie was bankrolled by led zeppelin, pink floyd, george harrison, and a few other bands.

@StockportJambo

3 жыл бұрын

But where did they get the coconuts from? Coconuts are tropical. This is clearly a temperate zone.

@DidntExpect

3 жыл бұрын

@@StockportJambo Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

@phoebusapollo8365

3 жыл бұрын

@@DidntExpect yes, I believe he is suggesting that, my good sir

@peroskarstorholm4196

2 жыл бұрын

None of them knew or wanted to know how to ride a horse. I believe Terry Jones was afraid of horses too, so they had to come up with something to replace them. At least that’s the story I heard.

Speaking as an Englishman, this is the peak of our comedy genius.

@Optikification

3 жыл бұрын

Have to agree, i grew up on Phython ;-)

@jackmyers8687

3 жыл бұрын

@@Optikification He's not the Messiah.....

@bodan1196

3 жыл бұрын

Tied with Blackadder, imho.

@wendellford6334

3 жыл бұрын

Truth!

@emaayan

3 жыл бұрын

Umm faulty towers?

The Black Knight displaying the very British art of understatement and downplaying the seriousness of the situation as a "mild inconvenience" 😂😂

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yes 🤣🤣

@onceuponarevenant9409

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like me from a wording level, coming from a non english commoner like myself.

@garymiles484

2 жыл бұрын

That's why WW2 alert level went from a mild inconvenience to a bloody nuisance.

@scrp6638

Жыл бұрын

Barely an inconvenience

@Lord_Skeptic

Жыл бұрын

@@garymiles484 the same with the Coronavirus pandemic

British humour is particularly silly, and that's why we all love it.

@simonkevnorris

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting fight scene but surely the killer rabbit scene is up there as is Sir Lancelot attacking the wedding party in the castle?

@ultrademigod

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonkevnorris The entire wedding massacre(or not) scene is hilarious from start to finish.

@ju4408

3 жыл бұрын

If it gets too silly, the Colonel shows up.

@fkez0510

3 жыл бұрын

And mainly consists of insults, but that's also general conversation for us too

@davehunt5847

2 жыл бұрын

And yet.....three of my four favourite stand up comedians of all time are American. But (unless you count South Park) I can't think of an American sitcom I can bear to watch

"I'll bite your legs off" wasn't in the original script, but I'm glad that they put it in.

@warriormaiden9829

3 жыл бұрын

Saw a YT vid from a HS play that added to it. Halfway through, a kid came across the stage with a basket and picked up the limbs, calling 'arms for the poor'! 🤣🤣

I love how he's guarding essentially a ditch that you could just step across.

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Right?! 🤣

@SatchAlways

3 жыл бұрын

That's half the joke!

@scrubduuken7755

3 жыл бұрын

No one every mentions the size of the bridge.

@warriormaiden9829

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK I think the funniest bit about this is the fact that apparently the sense of humor hasn't changed over the years. Monty Python is lauded as a classic and an inspiration for comedy (and it really is), but recently a manuscript from the 1400's was found...that had a very similar punchline! XD No matter what century one is from, this type of humor is still funny. 🤣 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999695/amp/Tis-inspiration-Famous-Monty-Python-Black-Knight-sketch-depicted-text-1400.html

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

That’s brilliant! 🤣

"What are you going to do, bleed on me?" is one of my favourite lines in all of Monty Python's.

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

It’s so funny!

@gregc2467

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK Please watch 'The Two Ronnies' fork handles sketch,it will blow your mind,honestly,peace :)

@insomniacbritgaming1632

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregc2467 That two Ronnie's sketch is amazing, but Biggus Dickus blows it out of the water

@russwatson8713

2 жыл бұрын

"He turned me into a newt." "A newt?" "I got better."

@bertrandronge9019

2 жыл бұрын

I think the funniest one in that scene is the conclusion "We'll call it a draw"

"Alright then! We'll call it a draw!" I still think however, John Cleese's best line is in Life of Brian as the Roman Centuarian where he says "You're f@ckin' nicked!" like an old British copper 😂

When John Cleese was asked to read the eulogy at the funeral of his friend and fellow Python actor Graham Chapman he did it in true Python style, " Good riddance to the free loading Bastard I hope he rots. "

The witch scene is also worth watching, the logic involved concluding she's a witch brilliant

@Lord_Skeptic

Жыл бұрын

That is what is called insane troll logic

@paulbrown6464

11 ай бұрын

It was a fair cop

They were without any doubt the funniest cast of guys I ever watched as a kid. (Although Benny Hill and his friends came close at times.) The clacking coconut shells instead of horses still cracks me up to this day.

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ive never seen anything from Benny Hill, ill have to check it out

@DavidBrianPaley

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK More "slap-stick" British humor, sometimes a little more "risque" (I believe might be the appropriate term). But funny at any rate.

I don’t know how many times I have watched this but I still laugh. The first time I saw it as a teenager nearly fell off my chair in the cinema laughing.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 🤣😊

It's a good job Arthur and his knights had a good supply of coconut shells when horses were in short supply.

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Haha 😂

@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025

3 жыл бұрын

my favorite bit in the movie, besides this one, is the "My name's Dennis" sketch - the sheer word play and sarcasm of Michael Palin just kills me, over and over and over again. "If some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd take me away!"

@dieterkoch6563

3 жыл бұрын

@@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 "Supreme executive power is derived by a mandate from the masses"

@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025

3 жыл бұрын

... not by by some watery tart in a farcical aquatic ceremony!

@kopwolfGaming

3 жыл бұрын

The budget wouldn't allow for horses so they used coconut shells

Did anyone else notice that the bridge is over a very shallow depression that is completely dry. They could just ignore the knight and "ride" around him.

Apparently, when they were casting for the film, the Pythons advertised for an armless and legless actor to do the last segment, and the part was won by a friend of a friend who was a victim of thalidomide.

"One day lad, this will all be yours." " What? The curtians??? "

@robertcartier5088

3 жыл бұрын

...no, the HUGE tracts of land!

@johnhorse5551

3 жыл бұрын

Stay here,and make sure......he doesn't leave😂🤣😂

@gloomy_nightflower7007

3 жыл бұрын

BuT I DonT wAnT aNy oF tHaT

@jimmyjimmy1601

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnhorse5551 Uhm uh uh uh.. can he leave with us?

Greatest film ever made. “ we require a SHRUBBERY!”.

Drops to the ground as just a head and torso- "all right then we'll call it a draw". LOL

King Arthur had a team of men backing him up but he still fought the Black Knight one-on-one. He deserves more credit for this!

@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed he never dismounted his horse.

Only those with a certain sense of humor appreciated them. My dad loved them. We used to watch them together on National Public TV.

Love how the Black Knight is guarding a bridge across a stream that can be easily walked across at any point

There’s actually some hidden brilliance to this. One thing you might notice is The Black Knight’s animal sigil is a boar 🐗. Boars are well known to continue fighting until LONG after it’s hopeless. That’s what makes them so dangerous. They’ll sustain serious, and ultimately fatal injuries but will fight as hard and recklessly as ever until they drop dead. I thought that was really clever.

The French taunting sketch is even more funny

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard that one is hilarious!

@davidfriend9042

3 жыл бұрын

Even the Camelot song bit is really good

@freddieh5539

3 жыл бұрын

I fart in your general direction.

I liked especially the scene, where they meet the almtighy magician... Where John Cleese should give a tremendous name, but forgot his line and said instead: Call me... Tim..." And the cast just goes with it, if nothing happens... Hilarious

MP was humor like no other before or since. Some of their television sketches were completely off the scale and their two films, Holy Grail and Life of Brian were comedy gold.

@andrewkerr3836

2 жыл бұрын

The Meaning of Life was a bit strange but still funny. 😆

The nostalgia these 50 year old timeless clips are creating-all the buddies over listening to the LP-bags of weed being consumed singing all the songs-those were the days my friend.

The Yorkshiremen sketch always gives me a stitch from laughing no matter how many times l watch it.

@digitig

3 жыл бұрын

Though of course, that preceded Monty Python.

Monty Python Crew . Lunatics all . Just next level funny , to this day .

Tis but a scratch 😂😂😂

@SpeccyMan

3 жыл бұрын

'tis but a scratch

@fedup08

3 жыл бұрын

I've had worst

The guy playing "Patsy" with the coconuts is Terry Gillian.. the animator/artist for Monty Python who would become famous director later on.

@robertcartier5088

3 жыл бұрын

His film, "Brazil" (1985) was brilliant!

@rthompsn2007

3 жыл бұрын

"Gilliam", not "Gillian" (maybe just a typo). The only American with the Python troupe, co-directed Holy Grail along with fellow member Terry Jones.

@HawkKing2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertcartier5088 I can't pass up a Brazil shout out. It is one of my favorite movies...

Tis but a scratch. I've had worse. Seen this movie at least 100 times. Never gets old

@davidhughmiller

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately never seen it 😆 seen clips but never the full movie.

@horace9341

3 жыл бұрын

It never seems to wear thin either. I often search the French taunts scene on here. Cleese was magnificent as the Frenchman. I’m laughing as I write this 😂

Being a child of the 70's and a 80s kid I grew up watching and hearing everything I see in reaction videos. So seeing someone discovering these gem some of us loved. On a side note Graham Chapman the one who plays Arthur it's been said he was drunk the whole shoot.

Next, the taunts of the French, the Knights who say "Ni" and the rabbit/Holy Hand Grenade.

@misterprecocious2491

3 жыл бұрын

You missed "she's a witch"

@theinquisitorisamage1653

3 жыл бұрын

That whole bit at the bridge with the old riddler as well

@Ahonya666

3 жыл бұрын

Ni

@Optikification

3 жыл бұрын

@@theinquisitorisamage1653 The bit with the "What is the terminal wing speed velocity of a swallow?"

@theinquisitorisamage1653

3 жыл бұрын

@@Optikification African or European?

2:21 a good example why this movie is so good he puts his foot on hes head, when he coulda just push him from the shoulder

"You make me sad." Amazing

Mr Creosote "jUST ONE MORE WAFER" from "The Meaning of Life"

The hardest I ever laughed in my life was the first time I saw the Dead Parrot Sketch.

@martinputt6421

3 жыл бұрын

Look mate, that parrot wouldn't "voom" if you put 4,000 volts through it

Amanda, watch this whole movie, and take in the epicness of the joke they start in the first scene with the conversation about the flight patterns of swallows. They keep this joke going through to the end and the payoff is the best punchline in the history of movies.

One of the things I love about this is you can tell it's John Cleese under the helmet for most of the scene, even though it doesn't need to be

It’s incredible how Monty Python has spread across the world. I was in international business manager for two decades and you could guarantee when you met a new distributor one or more people would recite a Monty Python joke or phrase. I have heard them recited to me in every accent now… Cantonese (funny in itself), German, French, Arabic… Funny thing was; I was never into Monty Python so initially I did not know any of the phrases and they were horrified that a Brit didn’t get MP… but through my foreign colleagues I have learnt almost every phrase and clip from all of the movies.😂 The thing is… I still have not watched any of the Monty Python films… none of them.😂

They are so funny! I love these vlogs. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

You’ve very welcome, thank you so much for watching them 😀

Being somewhat accident-prone, 'I've 'ad worse' is my stock answer on returning home from my business bloodied and the children would scream; 'Daddy! What have you done now!" which will be incised on my grave marker.

@SamuelBlack84

3 жыл бұрын

As opposed to the idea you've murdered someone

they actually do this sketch live on there stage show "Spamalot"

Only found your channel recently, I love how you're breathing new life into sketches I've known for years. Keep it going yankee beatch!

“JUST A FLESH WOUND”

Patsy (the little guy with the coconut halves - they had to use coconut halves because the production couldn't afford horses) is one of the directors of The Holy Grail, Terry Gilliam. He later directed "12 Monkeys" with Brad Pitt and an amazing film called "Brazil" that you should watch. He is the only American in Monty Python.

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

I lost it when he was clapping the shells, It wouldn’t have been nearly as funny with horses! 🤣 I’ve heard 12 monkeys is amazing!

@HawkKing2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK 12 Monkeys was great, The Fisher King was greater, and Brazil is one of my favorite movies (and a quick shout out to The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen)... But first please watch the entire Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That scene was only the tip of the iceberg...

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

12 monkeys was amazing! Absolutely loved it, i think I remember watching the fisher king years ago, did it have robin williams in it, where his wife was killed in a restaurant?

@HawkKing2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK I think so. It's been a while since I've see it, too. But Williams performance was amazing...

One of the funniest movie scenes of all time!

I always enjoy the way Americans pronounce "Monty Python" with an emphasis on "thon" In the UK the "thon" is pronounced almost as "thn" so its "Monty Pythn"

@welshskies

3 жыл бұрын

Strangely I noticed this too, in English English it is more like Monty Pythun or if you come from the county of Essex, Monty Pyfun. One American English pronunciation which always throws me is MossCow which in English English is Mossco and in Russian Moskva of course.

@SpeccyMan

3 жыл бұрын

Except their awful habit of not pronouncing the T as a T in Monty - which is just as bad as their not pronouncing the T in often. 🤣

@SpeccyMan

3 жыл бұрын

@@welshskies Oi. I was born in Essex mate and I pronounce it Python. We're not all backward Essex born. Some of us developed proper diction in our youth. I also pronounce all of my H's. 🤣

@Bjowolf2

2 жыл бұрын

@@yt45204 and with a "ue" vowel for the "y" in "Python" ( a la the word "rue" (street) in French ) in the worst cases 😂

the french guy on the castle wall is even funnier. But the Black Knight is the best :D

The character 'Patsy' behind the tree is the American Terry Gilliam.

@robertcartier5088

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Poor bastard was relegated to doing sound effects, and other menial tasks... Shameful how these brits treat their colonists! ;-/

@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421

3 жыл бұрын

He's also one of the pythons, you know? It's possibly the first thing people associate with him aside from Brazil

@DrunkenCoward1

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertcartier5088 Actually, in this movie Gilliam also played the VERY prestigious role of "Man Dying of Heart Attack".

@ploppysonofploppy6066

3 жыл бұрын

The only Python to have a Star Trek shuttle named after him.

Amanda, I love your reactions to this one! you made me laugh, best wishes.

Going back to The Life of Brian, the scene where the commander of the guard gives a lesson on writing Latin graffiti 'Romans Go Home!' to Brian.

@lonelyp1

3 жыл бұрын

I like when Brian is thrown into the cell, and hears "You lucky basterd

@Twirlyhead

3 жыл бұрын

English public school joke. English _public_ schools would be called private schools in USA. Latin still taught in many much like that scene which I agree is excellent.

I watched this movie repeatedly and the funnies never cease...

Oh, the memories. Me and my brother used to quote dialogs from this movie. "Come and watch the violence inherent in the system"

"Alright, well call it a draw" - lol !

there is a guy called Guru that does little music videos often using Pythons material but also shows like Black Adder.This scene is used in one tune along with video and one of my faves is Flash By Name with Rick Mayal in Black Adder .You might find these fun

My 10 year old daughter's favourite scene is the one with "She's a witch".

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

That’s brilliant your daughter is into it!

One of my favorite scenes ever... Think I was 5 when I first saw this... Classic

I love the fact that you've seen some of our crazy 70's monty pythons. And if my memory serves me correctly,you did a great video on British football chants! I never forget a beautiful face 😉

The first time I saw this, when he said "I'll bite your legs off" I laughed for a week, every time I thought of it.

Love Your Reviews Amanda ❤

Been watching alot of your reaction videos. You are wonderful. Just gotta say

I'm getting cross eyed - one eye on the clip and one eye on you. Good stuff, Hon, keep it up.

You need to watch the Life of Brian and the scene where Stan wants to be called Loretta (its almost prophetic).

@simonkevnorris

3 жыл бұрын

Also the whole of the 'what have the Romans ever done for us' scenes.

Hi Amanda, I thoroughly recommend that you check out another Monty Python classic, The Life of Brian, utterly hilarious, you will be in hysterics, love The Holy Grail as well!! 😀 😀

Discovered Monty Python as a 12 year old in 1983 in Canada...loved it since

Every python fan can quote this entire scene from memory.

Just found your channel - love it!

I remember this when it was fresh 1960s and 70s, i used to sneak out late at nigh and put tv on to see it. I was still at school then. Its still hillarious even now,

So much comedic gold in this short clip. If you haven’t watched it yet, you need to watch the French taunting scene from this movie. It will have you rolling.

"Patsy" is Terry Gilliam, one of the directors of this movie, along with fellow Python Terry Jones. Check out Mr Gilliam's other films - Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, The Fisher King...he's one of my favorite directors.

Fish slap dance, dead parrot, Spam Spam Spam, and Lumberjack are my recommendations

@Siathuan

3 жыл бұрын

The Cheese Shop sketch is also great! Oh, and the one with the old men bragging about how difficult their childhoods were.

@vanjavalavanja

3 жыл бұрын

I would add "do you have any books?" That one really escalates :)

@warriormaiden9829

3 жыл бұрын

And the Philosophical Soccer match... XD

One of my favorite Monty Python films following Life of Brian and Meaning Of Life... it's so good that I memorized most of the scenes...

Again an absolute classic!!!

Hilarious , I used to watch Monty Python on TV in my school days uniquely brilliant !

I really enjoy your gentle American voice. Classy!!

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

I have NEVER laughed so hard in my LIFE !!!!! That was the FUNNIEST video !!! I'm gonna watch it again !!!

This was shot in Epping Forest, just outside N.E.London into Essex. I grew up playing & fishing in it. Things were more free in the 60's & 70's

You should have seen the reactions back in the 70's when Monty Python and the Holy Grail was in the theater's.

Is but a flesh wound! Love The Holy Grail! Great British humor 🤣!

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly it’s brilliant!

@waynebenedict5785

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK I would be laughing hysterically at The Holy Grail and the wife would walk through and say, "It's not that funny!" I had to beg to differ, lol!

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!! 😂

I went to a Renaissance Faire here in SoCal dressed as the Black Knight, complete with severed arm… it was impossible to move ten feet without getting mobbed for photos. Obviously everyone throws lines at you from the movie, except everyone’s saying MY lines instead of doing King Arthur’s bit for the “true” interchange. 😂

My favorite part if the whole movie. The flesh wound never gets old.

As a former Infantry Officer in Her (now His) Britannic Majesties Army, I can confirm that any injury, no matter how severe, was met with 'Ha! Tis but a scratch' by the squaddies. Some things never change.

Hands down one of the best ever comedy scenes .. period.

Lol! An absolutely fantastic scene

I saw The Holy Grail in our local cinema near Birmingham (UK) back in 1975. I was 12 and at school, it was snowing really bad and at about 11am the head master said we could go home because most of the teachers just couldn't get in. One of my mates said, "What shall we do?" I said, "Lets go and see the new Monty Python film." The cinema was about 15 minute walk from the school, so that's what we did. The support film was "And now for something completely different", a compilation film of all the best MP sketches. What a great memory, me and eight of my school mates, the only ones in the cinema watching MP together, crying with laughter for about 3hrs. I really miss those days! "NEEEEE!!!!"

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ah I bet it was brilliant seeing it in the cinema

@karlhadley7993

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK It was, just me and my 12yr old mates with the cinema to ourselves. Great memory!

This is the greatest skit of all time.

the black knight was a go part in the film it was so great to watch and so funny as well to watch .l like it so much

I honestly thought I was going to die laughing when I saw that in the theatre, laughed so hard I could barely catch my breath

Amanda this video was so amazing and funny keep up the good work

Get yourself down to Canterbury Cathedral to the tomb of the Black Prince. He really was a prolific knight. He suçessfully fought in over 50 battles until nature took its toll and he succumbed to severe dysentry...

He had to fight to cross a bridge over a foot deep ditch. Too silly :P

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

It’s so funny! 🤣

@rembrandt972ify

3 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK I even thought it was funny when I first saw it in a theater.

I love your voice and your laugh and I'm kinda bingewatching your reactions now

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much 🙂

Your husband is a very lucky man. First time subscriber here :)

The whole movie is comedic gold!

Many thanks.

Brilliant film , I saw in the cinema when it was released in the 70`s . So many funny scenes . Try the castle scene with the french " I told them we already have one" . And we normally say it as pythen , but its just accent .

@LADYRAEUK

3 жыл бұрын

A few people pulled me up on it, I didn’t even realise! Haha

You could spend the next few years reacting to Monty Python they were well before there time.

@Womberto

3 жыл бұрын

Except they copied Spike Milligan who was genuinely ahead of his time.

@fudhater8592

3 жыл бұрын

Or she could just watch the entire movie in one sitting

@trollobite1629

3 жыл бұрын

@@Womberto Milligan aired 6 months before Python and was watched by Cleese whilst writing for Python and whilst the Pythons acknowledged the influence of Milligan it hardly amounts to the Pythons ripping Milligan off by *copying* him

@Womberto

3 жыл бұрын

@@trollobite1629 Milligan was on radio long before that writing The Goon Show, he always said that Monty Python's copied him.

@trollobite1629

3 жыл бұрын

@@Womberto A radio show isn't the same thing as a TV show which is why I referred to Milligan's TV show. I'm aware that Milligan accused the Pythons of copying him but this is a point they disagree with however the Pythons acknowledged the influence of Milligan and openly stated that because of Milligan they were able to push the boundaries of their own comedy much further. If you want to believe that influencing is the same as copying that's up to you.

If you haven't already, one other Monty Python reaction you should definitely do is the Holy Grail Killer Rabbit. I would really like to see how you react to that scenario.

We used to watch MP Flying circus on PBS when we were kids. Nothing like good solid childish humor late at night!