The Fish License sketch.

That one was one of the classics that is always remembered. In a later show, during a street scene, he can be seen in the background, passing by, just as a trow away. His ultimate refinement was in an episode of Fawlty Towers, called The Germans, when he goose steps from the dining room to the foyer and back again. It's the climax of a side splitting episode. It's all great stuff.

@CharCanuck14

Жыл бұрын

That was my favourite episode of Farty Towels.....errr.....Faulty Towers.

@markmosley3547

11 ай бұрын

​@@CharCanuck14 I prefer Flowery Twats. The breakfast buffet is delicious.

@CharCanuck14

11 ай бұрын

@@markmosley3547 LOL! To quote PC Doris Thatcher (Hot Fuzz): "Oh, dirty bastard!"

Monty Python have dozens of brilliant skits that were featured on their four year TV show. Silly Walks had me on the floor the first time I saw it.

You can try the cheese shop, the dead parrot, I'm a lumberjack, "Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint the Last Supper", etc

@MissAstorDancer

Жыл бұрын

please please, YES to that entire list!

One of their best sketches

All Proust Competition...unedited version

One of the Frenchmen mentioned Brian Trubshaw who was the test pilot for concorde.

Famously, John Cleese hated the Silly Walks sketch. When they started going on tour and he performed it on the first night, nobody laughed. At the end of the sketch, he went off and demanded that it be taken out of the show because it wasn’t funny, but they other Pythons asked him to do it again the next night and if the audience don’t laugh then, then they’d remove it. So, John did the sketch the next night and the audience fell about laughing, so it ended up staying in all their stage shows. But John really resented this and he said that on some nights, while he was throwing his legs around, over all the laughing, he would whisper to Michael Palin ‘You write this sketch Mike, it’s shit’.

@MissAstorDancer

Жыл бұрын

Did not! 🤣😘

@MrEAus

Жыл бұрын

​@@MissAstorDancer You just contradicted him - an argument isn't just contradiction..! 😉😉

@MissAstorDancer

Жыл бұрын

@@MrEAus - No, I didn't!😆

@MrEAus

Жыл бұрын

@@MissAstorDancer yes you did! (Is this just a 5 minute argument or the full half hour?)

@MissAstorDancer

Жыл бұрын

@@MrEAus - I did no such thing! (and it's have to be the 5 minute session, as I cannot afford the full half hour!🤣

I just love you for doing Python. It used to be an old young-Hippie Saturday Night Ritual, that went on almost undisturbed in my then-circle, for about 3 years. Our local PBS station started broadcasting the BBC releases of Python (as did PBS in general, which the U.S. became very grateful! ) So yeah, Saturday nights we gathered to watch the double-header of "Saturday Night Live" on NBC, and then change the channel to the PBS station for "Monty Python;s Flying Circus"!! I'll tell ya that the first time we saw them, we were all just blown away just from the crazy animations in the opening!! This was fun today, as was your "controversy" video!!!!

Visions that you will never get out of your head. This truly is classic comedy. You can't just walk away.

The brain surgery "My brain hurts" - one of my favs.

Monty Python were absolutely brilliant; to fully understand them you have to watch not just a single sketch but a whole episode of them because the sketches were often connected in totally unpredictable ways. We recommend the episode with the Spanish Inquisition (season 2 episode 2). In this episode there are two people arguing in every sketch, and then one says "well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition", whereupon members of the Spanish Inquisition pop up with one of them being Michael Palin who says "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"! It is one of the most hilarious episodes of them, and this is saying something because Monty Python were always brilliant.

Please seek out Fawlty Towers which is a 70s, short-lived TV show that was written by and starred in by John Cleese. Only 12 episodes but every one is comedy gold. I promise you'll love it.

@robertpearson8798

Жыл бұрын

Just don’t mention the war.

If you keep going down the Monty Python Sketches rabbit hole, you are in for a treat

@MissAstorDancer

Жыл бұрын

Fact!😆😘

@Lightmane

Жыл бұрын

@@MissAstorDancer 🙂

A very short but hilarious Monty Python clip to react to is the Fish Slapping Dance.

The Argument sketch is hilarious

@dhfenske

Жыл бұрын

No it isn't. (Thanks, @MissAstorDancer!)

@darrencooke4207

Жыл бұрын

@@dhfenske Yes it is! :)

Monty Python has become so ingrained in British culture that certain sketches and jokes have become part of common language and cultural reference. There is is even a specific word, Pythonesque, to describe that type of humour.

@chasleask8533

Жыл бұрын

You are correct . It's now Labour party policy .

@tommcewan7936

Жыл бұрын

Conversely, you need to be pretty au fait with British culture to get the underlying point of this sketch: the big joke is that prior to about the 1980s, the British government used to officiously have seemingly a gazillion different individual ministries for formally managing absolutely everything, no matter how esoteric and trivial.

I saw this when it first aired. The impact of the sign at 1:34 is lost on YT because you have already seen the clip title. Glad to see that you are now watching the full shows. As with MSW half the fun is that nobody expects the unexpected ...

Proust in his first book wrote about, he wrote about, he wrote about.......

@MissAstorDancer

Жыл бұрын

The problem with watching these out of order is you miss some of the many references to other sketches. For instance, the long line of delivery men that Cleese passes in the street is a callback to the first sketch in the show. Maybe once these greatest hits have pulled you in, you'll be interested in watching the whole series.

4:38 - that walk has always perplexed me...

Fell in love with MPFC at 12. So much to check out.

This is a satire on government vanity projects at the time, which had little to do with managing the country and more for international prestige - in particular the Anglo-French SST Concorde - which was regarded as an uncommercial prestige project. This is given away by the French segment at the end.

"Mrs Two Lumps" !!

You are reliving my childhood. 😅

Argument Clinic or Cheese Shop sketch

This is what keeps the British sane.

Hard to believe sometimes these guys were educated at England's most prestigious universities .

They learned everything from *Spike Milligan* (who was a famous Goon, almost as famous as The Famous Eccles - whose hobby was to go up to people and say, "Hello dere, Oi'm da Famous Eccles"). Spike was one of the few people to call the then Prince Charles a "grovelling little bastard", when receiving a compliment from him. He also managed to win the battle to have the epitaph, "I told you I was ill" put on his tombstone (although the compromise was that it had to be in Irish). And yes, that's the very Spike Milligan who was also known for his coverage of The First Irish Moon Rocket. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJqum7GYnba_Ybg.html

“I think the French guy called him a poisson at some point?” - No, that was “Mon colleague, le pouff celebre”….The famous poofter. You can also see the two French characters in one of the first episodes, explaining how to improve the aerodynamics of flying sheep. 🐑

!!!WARNING!!! Too much Monty Python, can lead to. 1) Prolonged bouts of laughter, leading to lunacy. 2) Permanent grins, resulting in 'rigor humorous'.3) Tearing of cheek tissue, from hysterical guffaws. And #4) Frequent fit's of frenetic frivolity!😂 ✌&❤

Oh, please do their Kilimanjaro expedition!

I have to say, I haven’t watched Python in…decades? And I was CRYING laughing.

Love Monty Python...and do a pretty silly set of walks my own self. I will not pass up any Monty Python, or Firesign Theater, for that matter. "Four Yorkshiremen" and "Meaning of Life" are some favorites. I needed this laugh. Cheers!

"My cheeks hurt." The surest sign that a comedy routine was a success. Expect lots more sore cheeks watching these guys.

people mostly seem to know the films, and they do stand up, Grail in particular for me, but so much of their best stuff was in the Flying Circus series. sometimes you do need to zoom out and catch the sketches in context, as the episodes always have a flow to them. you occasionally also have to be a little careful who you watch with, as there are some bits that are seriously politically incorrect in today's fragile culture. well worth the tradeoff though... one of the high points of western civilization. I'm not even kidding. ;-)

Monty Python = ART

Apparently, this was one of John Cleese's least favourite sketches. (He probably said that so that he'd never have to do it again!)

@kevind4850

Жыл бұрын

He did include a silly walk in his _Fawlty_ _Towers_ episode "The Germans" however. So I'm guessing that he did like the laughs it got.

Monty Python - Dead Parrot

Enjoyed your reaction!

@justjpplus3191

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Rosalie!

This was a prediction for the future, and it appears to be coming through today. 😄 Glad you enjoyed it.

Cheese shop. Totally bunkers...

I've been wanting for over half a century to know what the Israelis were working on.

The full episodes might still be on Netflix -- the skits all blend together, for more zaniness!

Argument Clinic.

class !

Dead Parrot please!

The real joke is not the daft walks , but the fact that there is a ministry . It's a comment on the waste that government permits . We are reaping that particular harvest right now . eg. Trans men ARE women , and the rest of the twaddle .

@sexysadie2901

Жыл бұрын

Trans men are men, you transphobic douche