'I'm a senior officer and I haven't had a funny line yet' 🤣🤣😂😂

@lauriecook2399

10 ай бұрын

*it's only 'cause you couldn't think of a punch line*

@derycktrahair8108

10 ай бұрын

Lower ranks do Comedy. Officers do Tragedy. Sir.

@robertmayfield8746

10 ай бұрын

@@derycktrahair8108 Yes, what kind of senior officer he is, if he doesn't know that.

@derycktrahair8108

10 ай бұрын

@@robertmayfield8746 EXACTLY. well done that man.

@cv507

10 ай бұрын

you wouldnt vvänt sämsüng tv häppen tv yör... happkäppce döyöö -:-

"Watkins, are you a pacifist?' "No, sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir, I'm a coward"

@robertclive491

11 ай бұрын

The most predictable line in the sketch which is why it's made fun of immediately after.

@gallantcavalier3306

11 ай бұрын

“That’s a very silly line, sit down.”

@gallantcavalier3306

10 ай бұрын

@@rex-up9ln “No, the whole premise is silly, not to mention it is very badly written.”

@robertclive491

10 ай бұрын

@@rex-up9ln Any hack comedian in England could've written that, that's not why Monty Python were great.

I don't know how many times I have seen this but I still have to watch it again and laugh. Thank you so much guys your humor is top shelf and timeless. Rest in peace Terry Jones.

@richardsalazar17

11 ай бұрын

😂😂11111 is ?a 😂is 11😂😂11

@enkisdaughter4795

10 ай бұрын

And Graham Chapman

@AdminAntitask

2 ай бұрын

same, Monty Python are my heroes and the have enriched my life in many ways, and I thank them for that.

- ARE YOU THREATENING ME, master Jedi? - Oh, no, no, no! - Whatever made you think that, chancellor? - The chancellor does not think we're nice people, master Windu. - We are your buddies, chancellor. We want to look after you. - It's treason then. The Jedis are taking over. - We can guarantee you that not a single star destroyer will get done over... for 15 bob a week.

@Kris.G

10 ай бұрын

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

@veramae4098

Ай бұрын

President F.D.R. paid off the Mafia to leave the harbors alone during WW II.

Most comic writers would think how funny it would be if the army operated a protection racket. Python have a couple of London-Italian spivs trying put the frightners on the British Army: soldiers, tanks, artillery, paratroops and all. Genius.

@laurenceseale

11 ай бұрын

They'd probably get away with nowadays if they threatened to misgender a few squadies!

@jimjam51075

11 ай бұрын

I think it's somewhat borrowing from the aesthetic of the Kray brothers.

@anothertime1282

11 ай бұрын

@@jimjam51075 Who, of course, broowed from a long line of criminality. Except that they were not funny.

“That’s it! This is getting too silly.”

Such a funny, brilliant, splendid idea to mix the English army with the Italian mafia 'Fires happen...things burn...'

You never mess with The Colonel. He ALWAYS has the last word. lol.

@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732

10 ай бұрын

My favorite character through the series. "Stop the sketch - it's too silly."

@JamaicanCastle

9 ай бұрын

"It's only because you couldn't think of a punchline." "Not true!"

_"I can guarantee you that not a single armored division will get done over for 15 bob a week."_ lol

@u.v.s.5583

10 ай бұрын

"Aides? Give me Dino and Luigi Vercotti immediately!" (V.V. Putin. 2022/23)

@melchiorvonsternberg844

9 ай бұрын

@@u.v.s.5583 Uhm... One of them is dead and the other one is 80 and retired...

@u.v.s.5583

9 ай бұрын

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 They will still perform better than Russia's military, which isn't living or young either.

@melchiorvonsternberg844

9 ай бұрын

@@u.v.s.5583 No sympathy for the Russians. Greeds from Germany...

@kozmon0t

7 ай бұрын

how much is 15 bob? I never heard of a British King Bob, whose picture is on it?

This is my all time favorite Monty python skit. Thanks for uploading this.

@randymillhouse791

11 ай бұрын

Be a shame if somethin' were to happen to it.

@raypenny9013

11 ай бұрын

@@randymillhouse791 I just hope that none of the divisions get done over.

@randymillhouse791

11 ай бұрын

@@raypenny9013 "oops! somethin' got broken."

@randymillhouse791

11 ай бұрын

@@raypenny9013 "Things catch fire Colonel..."

@johnb1150

11 ай бұрын

We want to look after the sketch colonel

0:14 that marching!! "15 bob a week , 12 and 6 8 and 6"

I never ever ever get sick of this stuff, when python was on form it was superb, the parody of British patriotism with cleeses narrator who then just undermines it all by diverting from what would normally be an intro to some top secret mission story to instead going to a sketch taking the piss out of army advertisements we still see today which promote how you can do all sorts of stuff if you join the forces but make no mention of the murder aspect and how terrible it really is and then that quickly followed by a parody of the Mafia who are offering protection to an institution that doesn't need protection with it nicely capped off by the colonel who became their way out of the sketch. All in the space of less than five minutes. Nobody today can write like that.

One of the top 5 indeed.

@u.v.s.5583

11 ай бұрын

Would be a shame if something happened to it.

One little nitpick: the Colonel claims they are extremely careful - so why on earth is he giving information on troop strength to a couple civilians? Must be because he couldn't think of a punchline!

@randymillhouse791

11 ай бұрын

Army base strength is a general known. No, not the famous General Known from WWII.

@ethzero

11 ай бұрын

General Known's general whereabouts was a closely guarded secret during the war from all but General Whereabouts, said Caption Dunno.

@johnb1150

11 ай бұрын

Doesn't that just make the comedy more apt that a general is giving away troop strength to a couple of Mafioso?

@AURON2401

Ай бұрын

Because it's False Information. He's trying to make the army base look more operational than it really is to get more cred. Colonel must've been in the underground for quite a while to know that trick.

That's actually the reality of the Russian army.

@u.v.s.5583

10 ай бұрын

This British Colonel has much more tanks and paratroopers than the Russians though.

@thePronto

10 ай бұрын

The crooks are the officers. It's ludicrous to think that petty crooks could out-muscle the army. Except for Wagner, of course: so I guess Russia is a parody of itself...

@sugandesenuds6663

10 ай бұрын

Historically true, after the soviet union fell bases got visits from the mafia

@rickrandom6734

10 ай бұрын

Not really. In Russia, mafia people are in charge of the army where they are stealing.

@daanvos194

10 ай бұрын

Cold war

I think most sketches in that episode were stopped by Graham Chapman's colonel insisting that they were silly, including a back to nature sketch with everyone dressed in animal skins.

@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732

10 ай бұрын

Monty Python admitted that when they started they had trouble with closing off skits and transitions. Therefore props like the colonel and cartoons were tried. They turned out to have created the best transitions between skits in the history of sketch comedy.

@matejpintar446

9 ай бұрын

​@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732ok0❤1

Don't let this distract you from the fact that he wouldn't appear in a frontal nude scene unless it was valid.

For those who don't get it, it's probably better to watch the whole episode.

“Are you threatening me?” “Of course not, we’re extorting you, there’s a difference”

I thought they were going to turn out to be insurance salesmen

500 tanks on ONE base ? The British army has maybe 200 in total nowadays

@DeltaJazzUK

10 ай бұрын

Not true. Actually we've about 50.

@goodshipkaraboudjan

10 ай бұрын

@@DeltaJazzUK Be a shame if something were to happen to them...

@stalhandske9649

9 ай бұрын

@@goodshipkaraboudjansomething obviously has already. Someone didn't want to pay Luigi and Dino their very reasonable 15 bob a week and look what happened.

@awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481

4 ай бұрын

@@DeltaJazzUK The UK has 213 Challenger 2s and 3,207 "Key Land Platforms". (Ie AFVs)

This is my favorite. Thanks

Krays!

@smautomat

10 ай бұрын

Exactly!

Our general public's not going to understand this, are they?

Classic, classic.

I like to think this was inspired by Heller's Catch-22. Milo Mindbender in particular.

@o00nemesis00o

10 ай бұрын

Was that, "you have to be insane to want to be a soldier, therefore seeking to be relieved on grounds of being insane is proof of sanity"?

@glen1555

10 ай бұрын

He arranged for the air force to bomb their own airfield, then sent the Germans an invoice for cost plus 15%, no one on either side got hurt

Supreme comedy.

15 bob is maybe 3/4 of 1 pound. Haha.

@gewglesux

10 ай бұрын

whats that "8 and 6" is the some kind of new math?

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

@johnb1150

11 ай бұрын

I think you want the Fawlty towers videos, this is Monty python so totally irrelevant...

@fredflintstoner596

11 ай бұрын

@@johnb1150 NO I DON'T SO JUST PROVES HOW STUPID YOU ARE SHERLOCK !

@Jon77Levy

11 ай бұрын

@@johnb1150 It's not "totally irrelevant"... it's just "something completely different"! Ba-dum tshhhhh...

@johnb1150

11 ай бұрын

@@Jon77Levy well done on the laboured reference, I duno why people plaster great slabs of dialogue on these pages, he doesn't make any comment about the vid and then quotes another show of which we know the dialogue too, pointless.

@emillyyelen5169

11 ай бұрын

@@johnb1150 dont be so anal ffs...

"Fings braik, dunnae?"

Did they come for the 5min argument or the full half hour?

Luigi Vercotti - looks and sounds like the prototype of Danny the Dealer from Withnail and I... "Very, very foolish words man. I'll have to give you a dose of medicine and if I spike you you'll know you've been spoken to. If I medicined you you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present...."

Semprini.

@Lattamonsteri

11 ай бұрын

Right, what's all this then?!

@zacharyboni1118

11 ай бұрын

@@Lattamonsteri Nothing, officer! I swear!

@Zzyzzyzzs

11 ай бұрын

OUT!

@painkillerjones6232

11 ай бұрын

Semprini?????

@MrDannMann

11 ай бұрын

My hovercraft is full of eels!

0:20 that was the WORST to the rear ever!!!

I wanted to see the cartoon

E-4s getting brave

fings break, Colonel,

When you needed 10 seconds to get the film projector up to speed..

Ha ha ! ..superb !!

500 tanks? A British tank regiment is usually about 56 tanks

it's funny that this pretty much actually happens in russia.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

1:31

I was intending to make a comment on this video, but KZread has banned me from making comments. Sorry about that, chaps.

The Kray twins?

hi

God. Ch

Chapman reminds me of what a British WW2 might have been like.

This is literally the Russian Army

@user-oo8xp2rf1k

10 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking .

@thePronto

10 ай бұрын

And the crooks putting the squeeze on the officers are called Yevgeny, not Luigi.

@thichinhphan4010

3 күн бұрын

Is it? I've seen videos of youtubers showing foreign men being surprised and complaining that fighting for Ukraine is far more different from playing CoD. They even said it would be lucky to return home safely instead of dying in Ukraine. 🤔

The colonel was right, this was very bad written. 😎

Its like Prigozyn and Putin

Why provide subtitles in the same language they're speaking? Utterly pointless.

I'm a Python fan, but I always thought breaking the dramatic reality device had been overused and looked like a cop-out.

@michaellavery4899

11 ай бұрын

No it hasn't.

@deanronson6331

11 ай бұрын

@@michaellavery4899 Your eloquence is stupe(d)fying. Let me guess your answer: "No, it isn't."

@michaellavery4899

11 ай бұрын

@@deanronson6331 It could be.

@lastburning

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. Breaking the fourth wall is easy. Meta is easy.

@wehosrmthink7510

10 ай бұрын

In 1970, 4th wall was very rare and therefore NOT overused at all. Maybe in 2023. Context.

Set it in Russia and it's a documentary not a comedy sketch

"unoccupied britain " well since when was britain occupied anyway in ww2 ?

@melchiorvonsternberg844

9 ай бұрын

The channel islands...

This is pretty much what the Wagner group did in Russia 😂

A lazy way to end a sketch. Meta is easy. It's easy to break the 4th wall. The other way, is hard.

@zlatanibrahimovic8329

8 ай бұрын

its only because they couldnt think of a punchline

@shannonkohl68

6 ай бұрын

@@zlatanibrahimovic8329 Which is a big part of why this sketch is terrific. Even the great Monty Python could not think of a punchline every time, and they weren't afraid to admit it on TV.

He's right, that was painful. It had promise, but just didn't develop.

@marcokite

10 ай бұрын

it was genius

This is like life in the Russian army before the invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian colonel is visited by the west and then the Russians…..

E-4 Mafia be like this.

I don't get it. What's supposed to be funny about this?

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Not ! Comical not ! Entertaining. Lame ! Nonsense ! With fake laugh tracks or people laughing that don't know any better.

@Hereford1642

11 ай бұрын

Yehhhhs. Nohhnseeense. Naughty naughty nonsense. Come along Eccles, let's get out of here.

@u.v.s.5583

10 ай бұрын

It is extremely poorly written, but the playing is even worse. This sketch is too silly and should have been cancelled. Also, it does not have a punchline.

Why is there subtitles in English, there speaking the damm language

@pavelsarneki354

11 ай бұрын

I like it. For over 40 years I thought the I tides name was Fercotti!😮🇬🇧🤓😎✌🏻🇺🇲😂

@pavelsarneki354

11 ай бұрын

Besides the general public wouldn't understand it!

@Millbrook1974powderedwater

11 ай бұрын

It's for the blind.

@christophermcdougall8811

11 ай бұрын

@@Millbrook1974powderedwater Lol I think you mean the deaf haha

@Millbrook1974powderedwater

11 ай бұрын

@@christophermcdougall8811 This is Python....