It's always great to see these sketches escalate and completely abandon their original topic lol

@JaQuicker

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Show carried that tradition well

@MerlijnDingemanse

7 жыл бұрын

Yourson Isold I didnt pay attention for 10 seconds and suddenly theres SS officers...

@srldwg

11 ай бұрын

​@@JaQuickerYes!

@brianarbenz1329

5 ай бұрын

Indeed, right down the toilet!

@oakroyal

Ай бұрын

The Python troupe always said they were not good with transitions.

2016 and there are still plenty of things NOT on top of other things. Will humans ever learn from history?

@NeidalRuekk

8 жыл бұрын

You're just trying to scare us!

@KingOfSciliy

8 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, nobody is able to put things on top of other things, considering the matter that everyone is surrounded by film 24/7

@pop9095

7 жыл бұрын

Respectfully Theodor Rikardson II, I am unsure the idea of punchline is well understood by you.

@Colddeed

7 жыл бұрын

Um, well, Mr Piero della Francesca, it's just that most of the......commenters on youtube feel.....whole things a bit silly.

@tommyhaynes521

7 жыл бұрын

This is just another "Not enough things on top of other things " false alarm.

"Right, ok, meeting adjourned forever." Possibly a very awesome line.

Dear Sirs, I am a part of the Canadian Chapter of Removing Things On Top of Other Things. I feel this is shameless promotion of Putting Things On Top of Other Things. We demand a skit to make a counter point. Sincerely, Vice Admiral Peter Huntington-Smith Paget, VC, MP, PhD, Doctorate of Silly Letters

@HowardSalwasser

8 жыл бұрын

(All other places in Canada except Medicine Hat) :D

@leftcoaster67

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@BrucknerMotet

8 жыл бұрын

+1954774 The Staffordshire branch could learn a thing or two from you

@mikekilo9476

7 жыл бұрын

@David; Your comment applies only to the south Staffordshire branch - since they deaffiliated from the Staffordshire County Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things but Not very Much ; however, the north Staffordshire branch (which includes Cannock Chase and Rugeley) remain, to this day, firmly committed to not putting too many things on top of other things. I hope that clears that up.

@BrucknerMotet

7 жыл бұрын

I am very much relieved to learn from Martin Kearns that the good people of North Staffordshire have not grown too complacent in their duties to the Society. And even if their members were to merely put one thing on top of another thing over the course of an entire year, that dutiful act would stand them in good stead in comparison to their slothful neighbors to the south. Good sir, I commend you for pointing out this crucial distinction, and may your branch thrive and succeed in placing no fewer than 1 thing on top of another thing and of course no more than too many things on top of other things. Because if your branch membership were to place more things on top of other things than just enough things, then the branch would be in great danger of being seen as an organization consisting of nothing but a bunch of silly persons.

When I become obscenely rich I'm gonna start a Royal Society of putting things on top of other things.

@jimmyboy131

7 жыл бұрын

That would be, "The Department of Things", "Things On Top" bureau, which will always try to take jurisidiction from the State-level Departments of Things. Bet on it. Heavily funded by our tax dollars, of course.

@tommyhaynes521

7 жыл бұрын

I'm in ..if fact I just put a thing on top of another thing..so I have some experience

@jimmyboy131

7 жыл бұрын

Tommy Haynes Do you have a permit to do that...?

@tommyhaynes521

7 жыл бұрын

***** Well..It's in the application process

@jimmyboy131

7 жыл бұрын

Tommy Haynes Just be sure you place your fee check on top of the application, which should be properly placed on top of that other stack of papers which are on top of each other. It's all good and proper that way.

"We're trapped!" "We shall have to tunnel our way out...!" "I'll get the horse!" WTF?? xD

@sorenmine7765

6 жыл бұрын

jozilife they need something ontop of the ground in the tunnel

@Gruntol5

6 жыл бұрын

Vaulting Horse - as used in escapes from German POW camp. See the film "The Wooden Horse."

Would they be any less hostile to the cameras if they were stacked one on top of the other?

@V0YAG3R

8 ай бұрын

That IS the question!

I lived in London and attended college there in the early 70’s. This sketch, and all the comedy of MP, was a satire of British society and culture. What a great time to have been alive and in London. It’s a shame what they have done to old England.

I have no idea what is happening, but I love it.

@Yoshimitsu4prez

9 жыл бұрын

GreatWonderMoose it's a commentary on the not-entirely-inaccurate view that groups of scientists are just old men sitting around smoking pipes and bantering about useless experiments

@TheInCreDIblEMaReKU

8 жыл бұрын

+WondrousMoose Also how they are surrounded by cameras that shoot in 16mm film, rather than magnetic tape cameras when they are indoors (due to the limitations of said cameras)

@simontay4851

6 жыл бұрын

Why can't they use magnetic tape cameras outside.

2023 and still the lads are best

It is my duty, as the President of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Putting KZread Comments on Top of KZread Comments, to put this KZread comment on top of another KZread comment. Thank You.

@saxoungrammaticus9132

9 жыл бұрын

***** It is my job as the presiding member of the Collective of Like-minded Individuals Who Enjoy Butting Into Other People's Jokes (CLIWEBIOPJ) to butt into this joke

@saxoungrammaticus9132

9 жыл бұрын

Russell Miller Right stop this series of comments it's silly!

@HowardSalwasser

8 жыл бұрын

+His Most Gracious Excellency Saxo Ungrammaticus I I think you're the silly one. Unless you're a colonel.

@isabellabornberg2153

7 жыл бұрын

HowardSalwasser +

@htf5555

6 жыл бұрын

SILLY???!!

So in other words it is the Royal Society of Structural Engineers.

This show was simply insane, which is part of why I love it, and why it has endured. It's beyond funny, beyond social commentary. It dared not only to push the boundaries of what was allowed on TV, but to completely remove them. So, here's to Python: may they be watched and remembered for many future generations.

I love how it all goes meta halfway through. "Gentlemen, I have bad news. This room has been surrounded by film."

Its so hard to explain why this skit is so completely hilarious. But it IS.

One of my all time favorites! I've gotta say, watching this all the time when i was very young made me a really silly person.

@LMacNeill

5 ай бұрын

And you probably have a silly walk, as well.

😂 Graham could take pompous to new heights.

The whole 35mm indoors, 16mm outdoors thing was truly iconic and a very British way of doing film and TV productions back in the day. It stopped in the early 90s as the 35mm equipment became more viable for outdoor use.

@Uraby210Incorporated

7 жыл бұрын

Surely it was videotape indoors, not 35mm film?

@ZigSputnik

7 жыл бұрын

+Clarissa McPigeon You seem to have things badly muddled there. The studio stuff was recorded on 2" quadruplex video tape from video cameras and the exteriors used 16mm film. In the early 80s they started using portable video cameras for the exteriors and these had become the norm by the 90s.

@simontay4851

6 жыл бұрын

Why couldn't video tape cameras be used outside?

@banjochris

6 жыл бұрын

You could but you had to bring multiple giant cameras and an outside broadcast van with a videotape recorder in it. VT was hard to edit in the '60s so you had to cut it "live" between a couple cameras and the recording machine was about the size of a VW bug. Much easier to take a 16MM film camera and sound equipment.

@oreokookie1000

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, your right...wally heider did alot of that shit in san fran. I believe monty used some 16mm, and alot of video. I don't recall any sit- coms using 35mm, it was wicked expensive in those days. We couldn't even afford 16 mm doin guerilla film making in the early 70's....well we were teenagers!

Meeting adjourned forever!

and that's how I learned, at my young ages, about non-sense.

The joke is about how in the 70's and 80's TV shows would be shot with magnetic tape cameras on set, and film cameras outdoors (we're surrounded by film!) and it would look and sound a little different. It... doesn't really stand the test of time

@tobiaslancel1035

9 жыл бұрын

Dirk the Pizza Jerk THANK YOU!

@ernest987987

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info... But f**k off for the spoiler pseudo ;)

@jasonneet4742

8 жыл бұрын

Its impossible to tell the difference with the low video quality on this vid

@Gaur1983

7 жыл бұрын

I think it's just that the gag doesn't work n 240p.

@40GamesAG

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I always wondered why the outside footage looked slightly different than the indoor footage. Thank you!

"Good lord, I'm on film! How did that happen?" --- dying from laughter. 😂

It took me forever to realize they were spoofing British television, how when the scenes were indoors they would be on the lesser quality tape but when outside the scenes are shot in film. Brilliant!

Very well done sirs! Hats off.

I get the impression, as an English person, that this is how a lot of people in the rest of the world see us.

. . .and I thought I was mad

@jimmyboy131

7 жыл бұрын

You are. But so are they. So that makes you normal.

@sensualbunny1

7 жыл бұрын

mioaw

One of the fantastic things about this sketch as a KZread video is that every time someone makes a comment... they are essentially putting one thing on top of another thing. :)

I don't know if this is related (I assume it is), but I once read a book about a bunch of British soldiers getting out of a prisoner camp in Germany by using one of them "horses" as disguising the tunneling. I guess one of the Pythons read the same book!

@ScotishChristian

9 жыл бұрын

Sounds about right. and it would explain the random Nazi's.

@joshuatownshend7366

9 жыл бұрын

You mean..the great escape?

@Lshannon90

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining that! I never understood that part of the sketch.

@JohnS1704

9 жыл бұрын

***** No, The Wooden Horse is the movie. The Great Escape did not include this method of escape.

@dehavillandvampire

6 жыл бұрын

The Wooden Horse actually predates the great escape and would have been very widely known to the British Public at the time. Oh and Stalag Luft II was not a concentration camp but a POW camp for RAF and other Allied air personel (Hence Luft)

Modern day politics summarized.

@quinnfletcher3906

6 жыл бұрын

"modern day" politics? I'd say it is pretty eternal?

This is just silly, I came here for an argument!

@lowdan666

7 жыл бұрын

...but ...but this is "abuse" you´re in the wrong clinic i am afraid dear miss xDxDxD head straight down the street to the ministry of silly walks and on the otherhandside street you´ll find the argument clinic ;P hehehe

@tassieschnappi

7 жыл бұрын

No, it isn't!

@E1craZ4life

6 жыл бұрын

This is no spot for an argument.

@E1craZ4life

6 жыл бұрын

It's a waste of space if you're just stringing out an exchange of contradictions.

@argelbargel7680

5 жыл бұрын

No you didn't.

I watched this and was immediately inspired - prior to writing this I put 3 things on top of other things.

The attack of the 16mm film!

this is the kind of absurdist humour i like to see

I am still a proud member of the royal society of taking down things that were put on other things and placing them next to an entirely different thing.

@TomFynn

11 ай бұрын

Now that's silly. So silly I might dedicate a walk to it.

I am of the American Society of Putting Things On Top of Other Things, Beverage Affiliate. I alone put 400-800 things on top of other things daily. I specialize in beer, malt beverages and Red Bull. Items range from cases to kegs.

If you've ever watched the BBC at all, the film joke is hilarious! 😂😂😂😂

Some members of this society also work in the Ministry of silly walks.

The ones who got to set out the banquet must have had a field day

The Hubert Gregg bit cracks me up every time...and then i ahve to go and listen to the song again...

@gregoryschmidt1233

6 жыл бұрын

What was the song?

@KnjazNazrath

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqJn1cuddtevcbg.html

The amazing thing is I've never seen this sketch in my entire life!

@peterbrown6224

11 ай бұрын

You should have put it on top of the things to watch, like we did.

I love how they all go to each exit and the window and consistently look for the camera, react to it, then run away.

What is this world coming to when people think that organizing for the purpose of putting things on top of other things is silly?

I see no less than 17 thumbs down... Stacked upon each other! SHAME! SHAAAAAAAAME!!!!!!!

@Insertmiddlefinger

7 жыл бұрын

I SEE NO MORE THAN SEVEN THUMBS UPS STACKED UPON THE COMMENT ABOVE... Which is actually pretty good!

The basis of every RPG ever made!

@joshy541

7 жыл бұрын

u wot m8?

Gorgeous bouquet 💐

Here, speaking on behalf of the Brazilian sector, we are delighted to put things on opt of other things, although facing some delays here and there - as expected...,

This video appears to have been put on top of others in my recommendations list.

I feel like Eric Idle would play Austin Powers really well

Brilliant sketch! Still relevant 30+ years today. despite sketch's end and being surrounded by (public scrutinizing) film, they've shown exceptional level(s) of resilience n capacity to conjure "cunning plan" on top of another, as ever. Bravo! Monty Python.

Good lord...! I'm in a comment! How did that happen?

@Mr120110

6 жыл бұрын

Gentlemen, I have bad news! This place is surrounded by comments!

I have to admit that I myself have often failed to keep up with my own goals of putting things on top of other things!

This joke wouldn't work today where the picture quality is just the same between studio and location shoot, was a very noticeable part of shows right up to the late 80s though, even into the 90s with some.

German government facing the refugee crisis.

Such societies cannot be emphasised too much. Their significance must be on the top of every list. This gentlemanly conduct with cigars is notable because it's very being is commendable, exemplary and absolute. The sounds made are Like no others. Confidence determines logic.

What a sad state of society, where the things put UNDER other things are neglected totally. I demand justice!

There, I just put my cup of pens on top of my computer tower. Bravo!

@mrbenoit5018

6 жыл бұрын

Melchior Vulpius HURRAH!

I picture this is the kind of councel i would form if i smoked weed all day xD

"...Right, ok. Meeting adjourned forever."

Oh my gosh, a reference to "The Wooden Horse!" I read that book when I was 11!

"We'll tunnel our way out!" "Good thinking Sir, I'll get the horse!" ❓❓⁉❓❓

There are sketches on top of other sketches... Oh. My. God. Impeccable sketchception.

Spoiler alert: No one puts anything on top of anything in this video

If I may, I must express my concern that the Royal Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things may encounter difficulties in putting all things on top of other things. If you put a thing on top of another thing, them that thing that is not on top of another thing, and must be put on top of another thing. But if you remove it from under a thing, then that thing is no longer on top of another thing. I fear, dear sirs, that the mission to put things on top of other things is ultimately doomed to failure.

I live for this video. Why yesterday I saw a full 10 things that were not on top of other things.

Somebody put Portuguese words on top of this sketch! Well done!

I have tried for 15 years to put myself on top of Kelly Brook with no success.

The very definition of Monty Python: The whole thing is just a bit silly

i've been thinking about the way he says "australasian branches" ALL day at work and i couldnt wait to get home and hear it. haha monty pythong has a way of doing this with me. also i may be mad (or silly)

"Oh, well I suppose it is rather silly ..."

This is so genius.. 'Putting things on top of other things.''' I love it!

In an english article on wikipedia about Oliver Philepot, part of the article is called 'The Wooden Horse'. I think the breakout using a horse is based on this story.

I've watched monthy python since... very early anyway and I can't remember ever having seen this sketch!

I am sickened by the actions of the 'Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things'. As 'Chair of the Fellowship for People Putting Things Underneath Other Things', I support a strong tradition in this country of making sure that things are to be found underneath other, higher up things; such things being above, or say "On Top" of the other... wait. OH GOD.

This sketch was a fucking trip and a half.

BRILLIANT !

I love how quick they are to dissolve the group upon hearing "the whole thing is a bit silly." If only the political process functioned in that way.

@timonsolus

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely. The Conservative Party should have been dissolved decades ago.

"It's just that most of the members in Staffordshire feel.... the whole thing's a bit silly." "SILLY?!?" LMAO

*puts a hand on top of your head saying "Good boy!"*

The Pythons, always on top of their game.

In great Python style, this starts out absurd and gets sillier from there. :P

For anyone who doesn't get the "we're on film" bit - before electronic video cameras became portable and video tape easily edited, scenes that were performed in locations outside a studio would be shot using 16mm film cameras and scanned back onto a video tape later. This was quite obvious to viewers because of the poorer quality, dirt on the film and slower frame rate compared to electronic video cameras.

only monty python could think of sketch based on putting things on top of other things

"This room is surrounded by film!"

Technically, something is always on top of something unless you're flying.

We will never have all things atop other things as long as there are cats.

I unload trucks for a retail store and I follow this video religiously.

sometimes i like to put things on top of other things and then i pretend i'm in this society

I, Chester Bufordshire, represent the Royal Society for People Putting Things Beneath Other Things and we hereby declare war on the Royal Society for People Putting Things On Top Of Other Things. They've totally missed the point and must be stopped. Sincerely, Chester Bufordshire

my all time favorite

steffordshre is being a bit silly indeed great show ya all

I am a PhD student and I am ashamed that I haven’t put anything yet on top of other thing. To graduate my committee says I have to put at least two things on top of other thing.

Ha ha, muito bom!!

I didn't expect the vaulting.

I just discovered this, but the "Good Lord. I'm on film. How did that happen?" bit is a joke based on the fact that many British TV series from the 60s to the 80s were shot on videotape (Ampex 2-inch quadruplex videotape) in their indoor scenes. However, for their outdoor scenes, they shot on film (35mm?). This is also done in this sketch, which is why the indoor and outdoor scenes look a bit different (the differences are a lot more obvious when it's being watched on a DVD, not a 14 year old 240p youtube video). This is why they freak out about being filmed outside but don't care about the fact that they're being videotaped inside.

@itismeitisi4274

8 ай бұрын

I think the film was usually 16mm rather than 35.

For all Graham's reputation for being a hard drinker, this is the only FC sketch I can think of in which he's noticeably intoxicated.

The Freemasons summarized in a comedy sketch!

A brazilian posting here! Genial!

oh, how i long for the days of the Royal Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things! It really is a pity that no more young gentleman, or gentlewomen, are interested in this historical endeavour. I'm sorry, i have to go, it's my turn vaulting over the Horse... God Save the Queen, and a toast to the Untold Joke!

directed here by yahoo answers !!

My cat belongs to this club.