This is probably my favorite Monty Python sketch of all time...can you imagine how long it must've taken them just to get the lines right without cracking up every second?!
This one is pretty good but i can’t find it that funny cause it is very hard to understand naturally but the sketch where they are police officers and each one speaks in a different frequency is in my opinion just as brilliant and hard to execute but way funnier and easy to understand
I think it’s impossible to ignore how pioneering they were for comedy even if you don’t find it particularly funny now. I’d argue it still has stood the test of time far more than any other comedy from that day and age. Some of their skits and bits are significantly more clever than anything today, especially given the time
You already had me when monty made a sketch about a guy who only speaks the ends of words, but then you just killed me when you got the guy who only speaks the middle of words
@@David-ud9juand @markaitken. You’re both 100%. This kind of wordplay has been done brilliantly by a few of the best British comic writers, including Ronnie Barker, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. There were smatterings in Black Adder too.
@@LeoDragon34they’re both right but wrong as well. Those others did the same or similar, true. Python did it first and were the only to do such in their day. Ronnie soon followed but the track had been laid. End of the day, word play and absurdism are both quintessentially British traits in humour.
@@henridelagardere4584Is that confirmed? "Ni" is said frequently on one of their LPs, although chronologically I'm not sure which one could be considered the original "Ni" source
I read a lot of skits they did were inside rips on the BBC/ I'm guessing the BBC hierarchy was bitching about cutting the skits too quickly/the pythons were really pissed off that how they were push back so late in the evenings program they started about 10:00 pm so BBC said they were acting like children so they put together that art Linkletter bit of cleese interviewing them as little children w can laughter
@@alvallac2171Why are you correcting a minor issue (that could arguably be a correct way to spell it due to the sheer commonality of it) on a 10 year old comment?
@@Gandhi_Physiquethis kid is extremely pathetic and lonely, look at his comment history, just miles of grammar corrections and nothing better to do lol even correcting obvious typos on 15 year old comments
Eric Idle does in the Holy Grail movie, during the witch trial scene. John Cleese takes just a little too long to say his line, causing Eric to bite his scythe to keep from laughing.
I wish I didn't have to read this comment under every single older piece of media. Not being able to find modern comedy (or music, or literally anything else) to your liking is a skill issue. The landscape is far too large for it not to exist in large quantities, unless your preferences are exceptionally niche.
brian lucore well for a start, having seen this sketch way too many times I can tell you that their names are the ends, beginnings, and middles of "Jon Smith" respectively. They're not saying terribly complex things so it's easy to piece together. The first thing that the first guy says is "good evening"for example. I could probably transcribe the whole thing but I have a life.
I love it when there sketches start relatively simple and uneventful, and then escalate completely. xD It reminds me of the "reporting a burglary" sketch! 😁
This is pretty much how my 20 month old daughter speaks. She only uses the last syllable of most words and skips the first consonant of the rest. Very cute and completely intelligible to the rest of the family.
I love this sketch and so wanted to share it on FB. But I got an error message "This dialog has been passed a bad parameter" instead. Sounds like Monty Python has gotten hold ofTH-cam.
LOL. This sounds like the basic premise of the sketch of the grumpy intellectual father (iirc played by Palin) deriding the coal-miner son (Chapman), with dismayed wife/mother (Jones) caught between. Another classic Python reality twist. Amiright? *Correction, I found the sketch, it's Chapman who plays an Elite Playwright Father, Eric Idle is the Coal Miner Son from Yorkshire, I was correct about Jones. 😆
did you konw taht you can slitl raed and unatsrednd a scentnee wrehe the lrettes in ecah of the wdros are jelbmud ? As lnog as the frsit and lsat ltetres of ecah wrod are in the ccrreot pacels.
I didn't know who Edward Heath, Reginald Maudling, MP's, Tories and many other British things were before watching Python. how enlightening a comedy show can be!! As for people in the US, they tend to put blinders on people here at a very early age to make you conformist and complacent, and sadly it works for a lot of poeple. A lot of people here are so xenophobic it overpowers their natural curiosity.
Britons, correct me if I'm wrong, but John Cleese's character looks like Hitler. The three characters were all named 'John Smith'. Wasn't John Smith a code word for Hitler back in WWII? Amazing what you can learn from watching Python sketches.
Monty Python were freaks of nature. Skits like Eric's epic shop rant that lead him through the audience and Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern etc etc etc of Ulm would be impossible feats of memory and articulation for regular humans.
Hope no one complains about the inserted laughs that tell you you're supposed to laugh, because nowadays you can't watch a video without sounds and inserted memes.
It could have been a studio audience, sorry if you got that and were just joking. I don't like those complaints either... mainly because they're usually said on clips where it really is a studio audience laughing (and I like the laughter personally, and never felt like it was telling me to laugh.)
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This is probably my favorite Monty Python sketch of all time...can you imagine how long it must've taken them just to get the lines right without cracking up every second?!
This one is pretty good but i can’t find it that funny cause it is very hard to understand naturally but the sketch where they are police officers and each one speaks in a different frequency is in my opinion just as brilliant and hard to execute but way funnier and easy to understand
@@drewd2522 I WISH TO REPORT A BURGLARY
@@Scientist93 yes lol
@@drewd2522 link?
@@MegaMech th-cam.com/video/AhvEpr8akqw/w-d-xo.html
Monty Python will still be simply the best for decades and decades ahead.
We used to watch it faithfully, every week. Not funny anymore.
@@tooyoungtobeold8756 Because...? Just wondering.
@@tooyoungtobeold8756 I never found Python stuff very funny, but it's interesting to hear of someone who used to but doesn't anymore.
I think it’s impossible to ignore how pioneering they were for comedy even if you don’t find it particularly funny now. I’d argue it still has stood the test of time far more than any other comedy from that day and age. Some of their skits and bits are significantly more clever than anything today, especially given the time
@@wheedler I used to find monty python funny. I still do. But I used to too
"..who not only lives in Essex, but also only speaks the ends of words."
I see what you did there, Monty Python.
What's the joke
Don’t replace the m in Mexico with S 💀
@@WigglyStufI did it. I died.
@@bidoofismyking8962 idk
@@vithar00 💀
You already had me when monty made a sketch about a guy who only speaks the ends of words, but then you just killed me when you got the guy who only speaks the middle of words
Yes. I figured the beginning and end chaps was it!
Can you believe they got all three of them together in one interview? Incredible
A few years late, but i agree 😂
Are you still here?
Sorry about your death
that must have been some skills to do that end bit haha
They probably had a hundred tries at it, like Angry Birds 8-)
***** lol
This must have been a bitch to rehearse
'een a itch..to hearse'..
@@millicentsquirrelhole582😂
Th mu ha be a bi t reh.
The linguistic, performing, and writing abilities of John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin will forever be high tier creativity.
Imagine, just having this idea. I'd be dead.
u missed one out
This is insane and utterly brilliant at the same time. Only Monty Python could have come up with this.
I disagree. Its very much the sort of thing which Ronnie Barker did so well.
Mark Atkin Or Stephen Fry even. A Bit of Fry and Laurie often had ingenious word play.
@@David-ud9juand @markaitken. You’re both 100%. This kind of wordplay has been done brilliantly by a few of the best British comic writers, including Ronnie Barker, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. There were smatterings in Black Adder too.
And Winifred Crankgherkin, poet laureate of Uttlesford and unrepentant smirksmith.
@@LeoDragon34they’re both right but wrong as well. Those others did the same or similar, true.
Python did it first and were the only to do such in their day. Ronnie soon followed but the track had been laid.
End of the day, word play and absurdism are both quintessentially British traits in humour.
I've watched this sketch about a million times and am just now realising that they're all named John Smith.
Definitely an Eric Idle sketch. Great stuff.
Yes, and the origin of The Knights Who Say Ni.
@@henridelagardere4584Is that confirmed? "Ni" is said frequently on one of their LPs, although chronologically I'm not sure which one could be considered the original "Ni" source
Remain voters want to tank our nation and sell it to Saudis
Yes Eric Idle is my favourite personally. He loves the word sketches. Like the man who only speaks in anagrams
First guy sounded a bit German at first.
Also this is probably where the Knights who say Ni came from.
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Ni! Ni! Ni!
No, they got their shrubbery, now they are the knights who say..... However you say that. The one before you couldn't say "it" but after ni.
AlphaBiggitz I think both were written by Idle, so maybe that's why
Modern knight who say ni-word
I'm simultaneously dying of laughter and very sad 'cause my wife keeps on asking what's so funny in this sketch and generally in the pythons...
You mean your ex-wife 😂
Thank God and Greyhound she's gone
Have you considered divorce?
Maybe he likes the arguments.
@@GeneralChangFromDanang He? At least last time I checked she still was was she.
These guys are comedic legends, they improvise alot of stuff and this would have taken them 3 shots maximum.
*a lot
Two words, not one. Think of it like this: a few, a little, a bunch, a _whole_ bunch, a lot, a _whole_ lot.
I read a lot of skits they did were inside rips on the BBC/ I'm guessing the BBC hierarchy was bitching about cutting the skits too quickly/the pythons were really pissed off that how they were push back so late in the evenings program they started about 10:00 pm so BBC said they were acting like children so they put together that art Linkletter bit of cleese interviewing them as little children w can laughter
@@alvallac2171Why are you correcting a minor issue (that could arguably be a correct way to spell it due to the sheer commonality of it) on a 10 year old comment?
@@Gandhi_Physiquethis kid is extremely pathetic and lonely, look at his comment history, just miles of grammar corrections and nothing better to do lol even correcting obvious typos on 15 year old comments
@@alvallac2171 You are a massive loser.
I love their "dry" humor. These guys are hysterical!
One of my favourite python sketches. Michael palin wearing a kilt is so random and brilliant
Throwing a banana doesn't help much: they've seen Self defense against fruit.
+Shogun Pilot SHUTUP!
If somebody comes running at you with a bunch of loganberries DON'T COME CRYING TO ME!
Extremely creative skit, level of difficulty, 10 out of 10.
I've never seen a Python break, but John Cleese comes pretty close in this sketch.
Eric Idle does in the Holy Grail movie, during the witch trial scene. John Cleese takes just a little too long to say his line, causing Eric to bite his scythe to keep from laughing.
Christopher Woods If you haven't seen it yet, watch the Secret Policeman's Ball version of the parrot sketch. :)
+Christopher Woods Take Michael Palin in the brain surgeon sketch, "No, the brain in my head."
Palin has to stop himself laughing when confronting a soldier in the Biggus Dickus scene
Christopher Woods in The Meaning of Life war sketch, Idle breaks very slightly. He covers for it by grimacing in pain after being shot
Can you imagine how hard it was to film this sketch? Brilliant!
"The man who speaks only the ends of words.....Mr ohn ith."
"ood ing."
Love it! Absolutely LOVE IT!
Their originality and wit are still unsurpassed after all these years.
Seems a bit silly. Unsurpassed? Well, I could name a few. Push on.
@@jorgefiguerola1239 picky, picky.
There's always a pain in the ass guy who intends underrating the masters.
Foil Arms and Hog have many sketches that are even funnier and cleverer. But clearly influenced by them
I'm 15. I grew up with these guys. My dad grew up with these guys.
How's 27 treating you?
yeah, you still alive?
I wish we had this kind of brilliant comedy today.
Forget. We live in a politically correct, brain washed, stupidfied, homersimpsonied, blind, self humiliated society.
@@williamdemourajose5163Boo hoo. Get over it.
I wish I didn't have to read this comment under every single older piece of media. Not being able to find modern comedy (or music, or literally anything else) to your liking is a skill issue. The landscape is far too large for it not to exist in large quantities, unless your preferences are exceptionally niche.
Python, never bettered or equaled. We'll never know their like again.
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brian lucore well for a start, having seen this sketch way too many times I can tell you that their names are the ends, beginnings, and middles of "Jon Smith" respectively. They're not saying terribly complex things so it's easy to piece together. The first thing that the first guy says is "good evening"for example. I could probably transcribe the whole thing but I have a life.
hamish rattray john?
I co, i i g
@@janeyrattray544 ...fun sponge!
I love it when there sketches start relatively simple and uneventful, and then escalate completely. xD It reminds me of the "reporting a burglary" sketch! 😁
by the way I don't know why I just love Terry Jones' voice, I think it is perfect, so nice
These guys must have been the evolutionary product of the Budweiser frogs.
this is the evolutionary product of *fetal alcohol syndrome*
C O R N
Such brilliant scriptwriters and perfect timing by the performers. 😊
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ....that's genius :-)
I'm Finnish but I still understand what they're saying, I must be a true Python fan then! Yay for me :3
I like the little touch that Mr. "Oh I" is Scottish 😂
Wait a minute, he is a fraud! He didn't speak normally with his 3rd and 4th sentences the second time around!
+Adam Kratos It's the 3rd and 4th sentences he can speak normally, not *every* 3rd and 4th sentences.
Fair enough
does that imply that the first sentence he spoke in the skit was the first sentence he ever spoke?
on what basis does the number of sentences reset?
I would assume it's when he talks to new people. (keep in mind he talked to the host for most of this, not the other newly introduced people)
You lot should do a sketch about people who over-analyse jokes.
This is brilliant, I wish the whole sketch was here.
That is why they were hilarious, huge comedic creativity AND all the hard work to back it up.
Unique comedy.
I doubt we will ever see the likes of this again unfortunately. Geniuses like this don't come around too often.
There was a Finnish radio sketch where they spoke alphabetically: A alphabetically Finnish radio sketch spoke there they was where.
Patralgan PERKELE!
Nice
This is pretty much how my 20 month old daughter speaks. She only uses the last syllable of most words and skips the first consonant of the rest.
Very cute and completely intelligible to the rest of the family.
What a very odd and specific condition: speaking only the ends of words except for the 3rd and 4th sentences.
I love this sketch! Thanks for uploading.
This is every bit as brilliant as the Queen Victoria Handicap and the 27th Silly Olympiad! 😂
Now we only have to find the people who upload the middle and end of skits!!
lol
Once I discovered these GUY'S I no longer felt alone. thank you a 1000 MUCHLY's ✌️SPACE Ranger JYM 🚀
Monty Python will never be equalled.
This must be how they recorded dialogue for Pikmin.
Classic, these guys are a huge inspiration for our group!
And now for something completely different.
I love this sketch and so wanted to share it on FB. But I got an error message "This dialog has been passed a bad parameter" instead. Sounds like Monty Python has gotten hold ofTH-cam.
I was watching Python videos recently and TH-cam recommended a Monty PYTHON video to me. Gotta love the algorithm
Imagine the knightmare of writing the script for this 😂😂😂
God damn I love Monty python
We may be British but at least we have this one is to be proud of
As an Italian, I love not only MP, but British humour in general. The.kind of humour that requires intelligence and subtlety.
The hatching of the Knights who say *Ni*
Oh no, I can speak these third and fourth sentences perfectly normally.
Ah, Monty Python, the pinnacle of all humor.
We will never see the likes of such originality again.
Therapist: your dreams have meaning
My dreams:
This is very original and funny.
Those middle class Python boys made millions from acting daft. None of them ever did a day's work in their lives. Lucky bastards.
LOL. This sounds like the basic premise of the sketch of the grumpy intellectual father (iirc played by Palin) deriding the coal-miner son (Chapman), with dismayed wife/mother (Jones) caught between. Another classic Python reality twist. Amiright? *Correction, I found the sketch, it's Chapman who plays an Elite Playwright Father, Eric Idle is the Coal Miner Son from Yorkshire, I was correct about Jones. 😆
Good grief! That sketch must have taken so much practice! It's bloody brilliant....
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This is very very silly indeed.
🚔👮RIGHT! I'm putting a stop to it!
The last guy was such a curve ball but they nailed it and hit a home run anyway!! 😂
osh, hat as omplicated. I as etting onfused ust atching hat ketch!
Good. Very good. You're in.
Superior intellect
This sketch should be longer!
Yeah, it feels like the set-up, but then there's no real joke to it, other than the speech sounding funny, I guess.
This is late but the introducer should've said "he lives in Essex and speaks in suffix."
0:17 when SNL steals one of Monty Pythons sketches
These were a good few years before snl so yeah lol
They were so far ahead of their time!
{:o:O:}
Damn if this isn't pure genuis.
*genius
@@alvallac2171 Clearly I'm not a genius when it comes to speling.
this is amazing, how have i not seen this bit before? 👀
Brilliant
This is honestly one of my favorites.
did you konw taht you can slitl raed and unatsrednd a scentnee wrehe the lrettes in ecah of the wdros are jelbmud ? As lnog as the frsit and lsat ltetres of ecah wrod are in the ccrreot pacels.
this is the 1st time I've seen this sketch, I love word play but these guy's reinvented it.😂
I didn't know who Edward Heath, Reginald Maudling, MP's, Tories and many other British things were before watching Python. how enlightening a comedy show can be!! As for people in the US, they tend to put blinders on people here at a very early age to make you conformist and complacent, and sadly it works for a lot of poeple. A lot of people here are so xenophobic it overpowers their natural curiosity.
This is so stupid and brilliant. i feel like i barely understand it and i love it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
That laughing in the background is so disturbing
Britons, correct me if I'm wrong, but John Cleese's character looks like Hitler. The three characters were all named 'John Smith'. Wasn't John Smith a code word for Hitler back in WWII?
Amazing what you can learn from watching Python sketches.
Monty Python were freaks of nature. Skits like Eric's epic shop rant that lead him through the audience and Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern etc etc etc of Ulm would be impossible feats of memory and articulation for regular humans.
America u mean United States of America. Cuz on America we have Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay...
Don't forget Chile
This kind of humour won't happen again. That makes me sad. Really sad. Then I watch Fawlty Towers and I get happy again.
ood ing
😎😎👌👌👌👌
The brain that thought this sh1t up! Brilliant!
What is so funny about this? Is it really THAT intelligent?
must all humour be intelligent to be funny. you clerly miss the point.
Must all sentences have proper grammar and spelling? CLERLY not. Now that is both funny and intelligent.
This just goes to show, wherever I go on TH-cam, there will always be an argument in the comments...
jacob98ify you are being foonny, mara. Stop taking the piss.
3 years later and you still sound stupid jacob98ify
You're right; there is quality tv nowadays, but these classics are groundbreaking for what they did back in the day.
Fun fact: After this interview, Jo Smi went on to invent the French language and assassinate JFK.
My dog smells very bad, he doesn't have a nose.
So this how the british accent was created
This is why they are the best, who else would have thought of this! LOVE IT!
Clever !! I forgot I had ever seen this sketch. Thanks for the post.
You can see on John' face how much fun he's having.
Go - oo - od Ev - en - ing
Oh, the absurdity...
Oh my god...*commits the cleansing act of seppuku.
I wish these guys could have worked on shows like The Office
Wish the audience could be muted because I’m struggling to catch what they say and appreciate them in unison.
Hope no one complains about the inserted laughs that tell you you're supposed to laugh, because nowadays you can't watch a video without sounds and inserted memes.
It could have been a studio audience, sorry if you got that and were just joking.
I don't like those complaints either... mainly because they're usually said on clips where it really is a studio audience laughing (and I like the laughter personally, and never felt like it was telling me to laugh.)
This is like patting your head, rubbing your stomach and doing double dutch all at the same time.
Should they have added a knight who says, "Ni"? Discuss...
Been a while since I’ve seen a DivX logo