'Golf's not very popular round here.' Kills me every time.

@u.v.s.5583

7 ай бұрын

Golf is but a fleeting passion, but Proust is immortal!

A closeted man attempts to recount his childhood, how he became able to write, his several female lovers who he was always jealous of, all the gossip he ever heard, and how events and time change people and art. Boom give me a prize.

@troutmask6800

5 жыл бұрын

You win!!!

@emilyrobbins3238

7 ай бұрын

Give @404Dannyboy a madeleine!

@demonicsquid7217

7 ай бұрын

No prize for you, your tits aren't big enough.

@mustafa1name

7 ай бұрын

Sure, sure, just one more technicality - what's your bra size?

Count on Graham to play a character who sounds entirely dignified and serious, then to drop something like "[My hobbies outside of reading Proust are] strangling animals, golf, and masturbation."

@dixonpinfold2582

7 ай бұрын

Bit far-fetched though, really. I've tried doing all three of those and failed completely. I can only do them one at a time. Have a go yourself, though. It's a ripping good afternoon and that night you get the best sleep of your life.

@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv

7 ай бұрын

@@dixonpinfold2582 Sure do at least two, choking the chicken and masturbation.

@davistoa

7 ай бұрын

​@@dixonpinfold2582It's easy, you just go out to any golf field and start choking the chicken.

@u.v.s.5583

6 ай бұрын

@@davistoa And in what part of this course of action did you complete the simultaneously required masturbating procedure?

A friend once said to me "Summarize Proust!" and while I understood he was making a joke I did not know the Python skit and so responded "A guy ate a cookie, kind of brought back old times."

@Cancun771

7 ай бұрын

A clear winner if ever I've seen one.

@dixonpinfold2582

7 ай бұрын

@@Cancun771 But that's the point innit? You _haven't_ seen him. You've gone and made him the winner and maybe he's flat-chested. Nit.🙄

@u.v.s.5583

6 ай бұрын

@@Cancun771 Indeed, dear friend, your judgement is too fast. The contestant must appear in both swimming suit and evening dress. To many a promising candidate one of them or even both of them have turned out to be fatal blows to their chances for victory.

"Man eats pastry and remembers stuff"

@Hereford1642

7 ай бұрын

Nice try, but a madeleine is not really a pastry.

@emilyrobbins3238

7 ай бұрын

@@Hereford1642: True. Is there an adequate translation in any language for a madeleine? I believe this could be a longer court case than the one about whether a Jaffa cake is legally a cake.

@DerEchteBold

7 ай бұрын

@@emilyrobbins3238 It's classed as a cake Oh, and the English translation for madeleine is ...madeleine!

I don’t care how long it takes them to get through it - I’d pay good money to hear a men’s a cappella group sing summaries of a LOT of classic novels.

"Strangling animals, golf, and masturbating." "Well, he must have let himself down there a bit. Golf's not very popular round here."

@u.v.s.5583

6 ай бұрын

Well, two hits out of three, still pretty good!

A friend of mine told me that she had to take a French exam on Proust, that she hadn't prepared, and that this sketch helped her -- though I hardly see how that could be true. P'r'aps the "strangling animals, golf and masturbating" line scared her prof. into giving her an A.

@TornadoCAN99

7 ай бұрын

Or, she knew she had the biggest TaTa's in the class and he'd give her the top marks.

@NesconProductions

7 ай бұрын

Late response: She had the biggest tits.

@daibonehead

7 ай бұрын

Maybe she had massive tits?

@angelacraw2907

7 ай бұрын

Lol

@NoahSpurrier

7 ай бұрын

Or maybe she has the biggest…

A worthy winner.

"Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about..." my favourite bit :D

@hexonatapeloop

7 жыл бұрын

Fa la la la, fa la la la

@foxymoto

7 жыл бұрын

*DING* Start again!

@docdaneeka3424

6 жыл бұрын

I want to hear the whole song

@shack8110

6 жыл бұрын

the least successful contestant, didn't even get as far as the 1st volume. XD I like how the 2nd contestant can barely remember anything and he gets through 3 volumes.

I'm reading Proust at the moment because of Monty Python, and I have not been disappointed

@whamases

7 жыл бұрын

Keith Bellew I'm strangling small animals at the moment because of Monty Python and I have not been disappointed.

@lucyhurst2534

7 жыл бұрын

whamases I'm masterbateing at the moment because of money Python and I have not been disappointed.

@MarxistKnight

7 жыл бұрын

Keith Bellew Proust was a loony.

@fredkaboom

7 жыл бұрын

I'm playing golf at the moment because of Monty Python, and I have never been more disappointed.

@Discrimination_is_not_a_right

7 жыл бұрын

Currently masturbating, wondering why I put up with that sex rigamarole for so long. Wonderful activity.

I met this woman online who was a Proust fanatic and could tell you everything about him and his works. I figured she must have seen this sketch but I sent her this clip anyway and, surprisingly, she had not. Her response was, "OMG!! That was freaking hilarious!!"

@shack8110

8 жыл бұрын

+Kirke182 what's so great about proust? why is he considered great?

@nhmooytis7058

7 жыл бұрын

yu stu Ever hear of GOOGLE? This ain't a literature class, bud.

@garygramm6533

7 жыл бұрын

Dude, that was a great move! To paraphrase Scroobius Pip in 'Thou Shalt Always Kill': Don't use poetry, art or music to get into girls' pants - use it to get into their heads!' I hope it worked!!

@n0denz

10 ай бұрын

Was she the girl with the biggest tits?

@MrFtge

8 ай бұрын

So did you get it in or what

We had Proust summarised in evening dress, but not swimwear. Great sketch though.

I've read the entire thing twice and I couldn't even begin to do it. I love his writing style and his manic verbosity. The torrent of words and the passion underlying them. The actual plot is almost beside the point, to be honest. His talent for self-expression and his way with words is so rich and eloquent that it doesn't matter to me WHAT he is writing about. I focus on HOW he wrote about whatever subject he happened to be discussing even if that subject was of little relevance or interest to me personally ... How did he write about everything? In a word: Beautifully.

@RalphBrooker-gn9iv

7 ай бұрын

À la recherche is often itself hilarious, eg. the beginning of Sodom & Gomorrah when the narrator stumbles upon the ‘liaison’ between the Baron and Jupien!

@morningstar9233

7 ай бұрын

I'm guessing you don't have big tits.

@nbk5389

7 ай бұрын

Ahem… this was more than 15 seconds. So I am going to award…

@Zzyzzyzzs

7 ай бұрын

I got to "I focus on..." and the gong sounded. So I'm afraid you failed to really summarise Proust.

@shawnpurcell5424

7 ай бұрын

I'm curious: did you read it in French or English?

Just finished writing an essay on 'Swann's Way'... 3.20am in Uni library. Had to watch this again. I should have just submitted Graham Chapman's lines over again to make up the word count.

@u.v.s.5583

6 ай бұрын

You should have submitted a recording of choral interpretation of this essay.

For those who labored through "Swann's Way" and then know the terror that there are 6 more volumes to go

@seanomatopoeia

7 ай бұрын

Worst book I've ever read. This sketch is the only joy the book gave me!

@wellesradio

7 ай бұрын

@@seanomatopoeiaWorst? You need to read more. I’ve read tons of terrible books.

I received the complete Monty Python's flying circus DVD as a gift.I have been a fan of the show since the 70's when it was first broadcast in the states. This particular sketch was and is one of my favorites. the DVD put out by A&E television states that it is unedited but the punch line is missing the masturbation.So I guess strangling animals and golf are alright with A&E.just no wanking.I just wanted to alert fans to this weaselly behavior .

@baldieman64

8 жыл бұрын

+lord funkbottom A lot of it is funnier on audio only. The Llamas sketch being a prime example.

@doublelxp

3 ай бұрын

It was BBC's edit when it originally aired.

Yes, it really was Bill Bailey. As a then 8 year old he was quite the prodigy when it came to television set lighting.

@jamiewilson3599

7 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, his mother is stuck wondering when he's coming home.

I was in Scholastic Bowl in High School. I tried pulling this challenge on my teammates. Their reply? In perfect unison, a resounding "PROUST SUCKS."

This sketch is uncensored on the UK DVDs, but sadly all the other "lost" bits (Python fans will know what I mean) have not been restored, probably because they no longer exist.

I'm drawn to women who deserve a Proust trophy.

@richardott3706

7 ай бұрын

a man of taste

One cannot argue with the logic of the awarding of the prize

dammit she always wins.

In high school me and my mates would play cassette tapes of this and other sketches in the hallways during breaks. Me mate would always crank the volume to max at the hobbies line ;-) I made the tapes off Monty Python vinyl records....had a bunch, including "Contractual Obligations", "Another Monty Python Record", "Live at Dury Lane" , "Previous Record Album" , "Instant Record Collection". These were all uncensored, including this very Proust skit....albums sold in Canada in the 1970's. They, for the most part, are different performances than what was showing on the actual TV episodes....so there are nuanced differences in the scripting, the comedic timings and verbalizations...

ya gotta love the way Chapman looks stunned and disoriented after failing to fully 'encapsulate'...

If you're calling the author of À la recherche du temps perdu a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

Sheer comedy genius. One of my favourites from them.

The funniest thing about this sketch is that strangling animals is perfectly fine by the censors, but masturbation? Well. That's another thing entirely!

@Harambae613

7 ай бұрын

It’s acceptable for the censors to actually choke your chicken instead of euphemistically?

@razieldumas

7 ай бұрын

@@Harambae613You can spank your monkey, but don’t you DARE SPANK your MONKEY!

@mustafa1name

7 ай бұрын

A careful process of elimination reveals that they turned a BLIND eye to the bunny-throttling due to excess wanking and a disgusting golf habit

And twenty minutes of episode follows on after the competition, with the Summarising Proust Choir having a second go at the end.

We got the uncensored version one in Canada on TV in the 70s.

One can imagine why the powers that be thought they should censor references to self abuse. but surprisingly they left the golf reference in.

Never seen this before. I love Proust. Love Python.

It's what Proust would have wanted.

Why does this crack me up every single time I watched it since it was aired? Only Monty Python can do that. Geniuses.

A few interesting facts I just noticed: 1. The choir were the only ones to get 15 seconds - the two others got 20; 2. The showy music at the end is the same as in At Last The 1948 Show opening :)

@silvasilvasilva

10 ай бұрын

I believe it's the Flying Circus opening.

@torgman

10 ай бұрын

No, that was the Monty Python theme.

@JaneXemylixa

10 ай бұрын

@@torgman Look, I know what the Liberty Bell March sounds like, and that is NOT Liberty Bell March

@torgman

10 ай бұрын

@@JaneXemylixa By "showy music," you meant the music that played when the award was given. That wasn't clear.

@JaneXemylixa

10 ай бұрын

@@torgman Gotcha

“….golf isn’t very popular round here….”😂

A worthy winner, I'd say.

It looks like Proust was a fan of Moliere, and that he referenced him in his works fairly often. "Le Malade Imaginaire" is a Moliere play.

Bloke smells a bun. Gets nostalgic.

I can’t believe I’d never seen this one before. Genius.

Bless you for posting this!

Ah, I wasn't aware the new set had it uncensored. That's good to hear.

For Proust fans, author Shelby Foote of "The Civil War" fame was also a fan. He said that he'd had read it 9 times (he then near 80 yo) as reward for accomplishments across his lifetime/career.

Golfs not very popular round here....classic line!!!

I taped every episode off of PBS also, (Even the German language ones). The next time PBS ran MP, all the nauty bits wereblurred and the bad words disappeared. PROGRESS! :p

Ha, they've got the name of the sixth volume wrong. It's not "The Sweet Chear Gone" (and what's a "chear", anyway, other than a misspelling of "cheer"), it's "The Sweet Cheat Gone".

@Elitist20

7 ай бұрын

Or "Albertine disparue", now usually translated as "Albertine Gone". And "Cities of the Plain" is "Sodome et Gomorrhe"/"Sodom and Gomorrah".

I have the only recently released flying circus box set and that's uncensored :D I was so glad to be able to hear it as it should be.

@raymondm.9954

10 ай бұрын

This didn't seem any different from what they used to show on the local PBS station.

@PavelJagen

10 ай бұрын

@@raymondm.9954 The BBC broadcast version cut the word "masturbating" from the hobbies.

@bazpearce9993

8 ай бұрын

@@PavelJagen that's apt, as it's as tantemount to admitting the BBC is a bunch of wankers.

This was on british tv in the 70s and they couldn't do this on tv now in the states.

@Queinty

7 ай бұрын

Couldn't do this on TV anywhere now, more's the shame.

thx for the non-censored version!

When it was aired in Brazil in the early 1990s (Multishow cable station) it was uncensored. I remember this clearly.

The thing that makes you think is why they censored "masturbating" and yet kept in "strangling animals" lol

@TryTheBLT

7 жыл бұрын

Aren't they the same thing?

@jacksonkliewer5199

7 жыл бұрын

TheTubePortal Oh god...

@synthonaplinth5980

6 жыл бұрын

or 'tits'....

@marquisewilliams3904

5 жыл бұрын

Because sex is super icky.

Since Eric Idle comes from Wolverhampton, nearish places sometimes get a mention in Python sketches: Bromsgrove and Droitwich, for example.

The Python chaps would never have spelled Summarise with a Z.

@Naddig74

9 жыл бұрын

They clearly did.

@NickHarman

9 жыл бұрын

Naddig74 Illiterate stage hand perhaps, or an American

@Naddig74

9 жыл бұрын

English python enthusiast who can see its - spelt that way on the set-.

@Naddig74

9 жыл бұрын

Oh wait, I see what you mean :p sorry. Possibly.

@BFBCFTW

9 жыл бұрын

Being Oxbridge chaps it makes sense they'd use the Oxford English Spelling of a Z.

Proust rarely went out. All that writing, I expect. Jean Cocteau said that he 'had the look of an electric light bulb left on during the day'. And I remember a 1960s photograph of a cat looking at a bookshelf, captioned, 'No Proust! No Sartre! This place is a mental slum!' I prefer Python - It's all I can take.

I’ve never even heard of Proust. Now I have to go look it up. Oh, and I like the contest winner 😊

@u.v.s.5583

6 ай бұрын

I can tell you: he is not worth it. (Proust, not the contest winner, but the latter one is a she, not a he, so there is little danger of confusion anyway.)

Yay! I have the same hobbies as Harry Baggat. (Except for golf)

I can win the Summarize Proust contest. "It's boring."

He just shoves him off stage. I love it.

I just want to thank you for this post I recently purchased the python box set and was livid when I got to this sketch witch iv'e known by heart since i was 12 and found it censored it's not mentioned on the box anywhere that the collection is in any way censored there's a&e all over the place witch is strange because the circus predates cable tv by decades but to anyone else who wants to buy the box set look around don't get taken don't buy a&e's one very truly yours mike two sheds

When an American TV network aired a Python special in the 1970's, even thought it was at 11:30 PM et, they insisted on bleeping the words "naughty bits".

@simonsimon325

9 ай бұрын

did the girl with the biggest tits make it in though?

I mean, sometimes in my head I might start harmonising 'Proust in his first book wrote about wrote about' but that only goes offa seeing repeats in the 80's. I'm only 46 ffs and I only like one of Mr Barrett's hobbies.

Now i know where Swansway the band got their name

"Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about..." Superb.

It's about damn TIME somebody uploaded the uncensored version! Thank you!! Any chance of uploading the 'Army General As Clown' sketch in it's entirety?

English humour. No country can surpass it. Long live Monty Pythons!

@emmarose4234

5 жыл бұрын

Λαυρέντιος Ψαροκάηκας You just wrote a haiku!!! English humour. No Country can surpass it. Long Live Monty Pythons!

Could you imagine the BBC making anything like this nowadays 😂

I agree: golf is a filthy hobby!

this is one of my favorites for whatever reason haha.

"Golf's not very popular around here." XD

« La malade imaginaire de recondition et de toute surveillance est bientôt la même chose. »

What a coincidence...that's how I plan to spend the upcoming holiday weekend.

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

For some reason, the judges don't seem to be amused.

Most Americans have no idea who Proust is. I first saw this sketch on PBS in the mid 70s when I was 10 and I certainly didn't. I only learned about him out of curiosity for this sketch!

@davidjordan9759

7 ай бұрын

In Britain, Proust is often mentioned but rarely read.

Where is the swimsuit round?

@u.v.s.5583

6 ай бұрын

The winner was the same. She had the handsomest mustache of all.

According to the MP "Just the Words" script site, it's "la malade imaginaire de recondition et de toute surveillance est bientôt la même chose"

My question is: What revolves forty-two times per minute?

I think Australia's Region 4 DVD has *that* line intact.

The 'strangling animals, golf, and masturbating' line will always be one of my all-time favourite Monty Python lines. It's the contrast of a despicable act, a (at the time) highly taboo word, and the most bland and inoffensive pastime known to man. They were also right to put golf in the middle, not sure why. It wouldn't have been as effective at the beginning or at the end. Apparently the BBC were shocked and appalled though, and I think I remember Eric Idle once saying they even bleeped it out when it first aired. But not the part about strangling animals, rather it was the masturbation part that offended them! So when I first joined facebook many years ago and was asked to fill in my hobbies, I thought I'd pay homage to one of my favourite Python sketches, and put these three hobbies. My sister saw it, laughed, and told our mother about it. She then rang me and said 'What's this about you masturbating?' So it turns out my mother has the same skewed view on right and wrong as the BBC, and lives in a world where it's better to make a monkey suffer horrendously than to spank it.

what would I do without Monty Python?

Those were happy days in England, when we were free to spell summarize with a Z!

@gregoryeatroff8608

7 ай бұрын

And Mazturbate! And Ztrangle! And Gzolf (the zed is silent in that one).

Thank you so much!

@Tareltonlives I wouldn't consider Proust obscure.

What's the point in having a panel of judges if the host can single-handedly award the winning prize?

have read proust. the impressive thing is the attempt itself.

i love this sketch :)

I have the complete monty python series on dvd and i dont recall ever seeing this clip

@coolgamer1677 Monty Python Flying Circus: The Complete Boxset to give the full title, looks like one of them retro television sets of the 60's (at least the UK boxset does, not sure if it differs in other countries)

8 people are Marcel Proust.

hey -- this is the uncensored version -- kool!

Why were they holding the All England finals in Newport?

Golf's not very popular around here 😊

Bong! Start again! /clown waves/

@richards9407

5 жыл бұрын

Mount Everest.......

It's probably a quote from one of Proust's works.

I'm french, but I don't understand what he say...

@19ThePurplePython93 which one is that? I need to get the right version.

A worthy winner 😊

I think this came uncensored on a recent Region 4 DVD set

Other than the masturbating part, I like how they make such a big deal on a French novelist which many Americans may not really know about

I love Marcel Proust.