REACTING TO MONTY PYTHON | The Four Yorkshiremen & SPAM
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And this is why junk e-mail is called "spam".
I miss the days when the Internet was just a load of geeks who were into Monty Python.
@@140cabins that’s what my A level computing class is like. It lives on. When coding in python we all cheer when Idle is mentioned
The Four Yorkshireman dates back to 1968 and never actually featured in Monty Python's Flying Circus itself. But things have a life of their own. It's become part of the furniture in the UK; mainly because it plugs into British nostalgia for when things were truly awful. It's inexplicable but true.
This sketch originates from 1967 and was featured in "At Last The 1948 Show", a forerunner to "Monty Python", two of the writers were Graham Chapman and John
Cleese, who later found fame in "Monty Python"
Yes and I seem to remember that the other two were Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor
The spam skit is like a dream where things just happen for no reason.
The Four Yorkshiremen is a masterclass in oneupsmanship
one downsmanship ;)
It's a really easy sketch to do your own of. I must have seen half a dozen of them at various scouting expeditions in my youth. "Rain? When we went camping, the Earth wasn't fully formed yet! It rained rocks. We called 'em meteors. And we liked it!"
Hormel, the actual makers of Spam, originally hated this sketch. But sales actually increased because of it, causing Hormel to realize their mistake. They eventually got so on board with the sketch, that they incorporated parts of the sketch into their advertising.
When I worked at Lotus Software there was a group of us in the warehouse who were Python fans and we had a session of doing the Spam sketch. The office manager came out to ask something and just stopped and stared us shouting SPAM at each other, shook his head and went back in the office.
Spam, Dirty Fork, Dead Parrot, Nudge Nudge, People Falling out Of High Places, Argument Clinic, Ministry Walks, Hells Grannies, Spanish Inquisition, Funniest Joke In The World, Cheese Shop, Bicycle Repair Man, How To Defend Yourself With A Piece Of Fruit are some of the most memerable sketches
The use of the term spam for unsolicited electronic communications is derived from this sketch.
The excessive amount of Spam was probably a reference to the ubiquity of it and other imported canned meat products in the United Kingdom after World War II (a period of rationing in the UK) as the country struggled to rebuild its agricultural base. Thanks to its wartime ubiquity, the British public had grown tired of it.
(Wikipedia)
Shoulder Pork & Ham, I buy the odd tin occasionally.
you can thank the American GIs during ww2 as meat at that time was rationed and in short supply in the UK it was most welcome at first but over the years it became unpopular although surprisingly spam can still be found in most supermarkets today
I always felt a keen kinship with the Four Yorkshiremen. There was also 150 of us living in a shoe box in the middle of the road. And we did have to get up in the middle of the night to lick the road clean with our tongues.
You were lucky
I got an apron with the "Spam"monologue on it recently when I went to the "Spamalot"musical with my aunt and uncle.
Love when the Vikings begin singing "spam"and the waitress screams "SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" XD
'Bloody Vikings!!'
in the spam sketch you see john cleese enter reading dirty comments from a book. earlier in that spam episide cleese enters a shop reading from a book of incorrect english translations for foreign visiters. the book replaces the real translations with dirty english words. that's what that was all about.
the first sketch is recorded live, probably, from their hollywood bowl performance from 1982 and never appeared on the tv show. its hard to say which python sketches are the "best." its best to watch them in context through full episodes of their show. one of my favorites was a rare episode with a running plot and theme called "mr neutron." it was from their last season on tv without john cleese but the whole episode is hilarious. thanks for the video.
My hovercraft is full of eeeels.
I can only speak for us, the gentle Dutch people who used to live 26 feet under water. We were not worthy primitives before the kind-hearted vikings came along, killed our elders, ducks and geese and gave us deliverance and wonderful spam.
@theglanconer6463 You were lucky. We had to donate our fingers to plug up holes in't dykes, get fattened with Spam then get eaten by the Vikings twice a day and three times on Sundays, but try telling that to the young people of today and they won't believe ya!
Yes, those were the days alright (sigh)
Actually, that sounds like a distorted folk memory of WWII.
Look up 'Girls und Panzer Spam song'. The Japanese remember Monty Python with great fondness.
The term for unwanted or unsolicited email , "SPAM"; came from this Monty Python sketch.
that's so interesting!
The Monty python group all individually had the fish slapping dance as one of their favourites. Not ideal for a reaction video seeing as it is only about 30 seconds long, but well worth a watch for anyone that has not seen it.
Spam is responsible for most of the evil in the world. The sooner it's banned the better. The 'meat' that is, unwanted Emails are great.
I could have sworn the spam sketch ended with 'Bloody Vikings!'
Have you seen the Nudge, nudge sketch? Nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat. Know what I mean?
"Are you insinuating something?"
"Oh no no no....YES."
Originally done in 1967 on the 'At Last The 1948 Show' and titled "Good Old Days"
And co written by two non python’s .
John Cleese gave most of the credit for the sketch to Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Can see you pulling a face, Ruth. An earlier sketch in episode 25 was 'Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook' about mistranslation.
I prefer the At Last the 1948 Show version, but tell that to the young people today that and they won't believe ya.
Two of my favorite MP bits!!!
When the Spam sketch was first broadcast I was eleven years old and thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen in my life. When the Vikings started chanting I literally shook uncontrollably with laughter. Something which had never happened before and hasn't since.
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but spam email is named after this sketch...spam spam spam...etc
I first encountered 'Four Yorkshiremen' on their1975 'Live at Drury Lane' album (imo best one), This version is from the Hollywood Bowl, much later. It was never part of their 'Flying Circus repertoire. Beaurifully scripted with spot-on accents. 'Looxureh!' still gets me every time. As for 'Spam', it gave me one of those 'bladder-control challenge' moments, a not uncommon experience watching first-run Python. It was TerryJones's waitress that did me in. Sheer madness. Bloody Vikings! RIP Terry, and Graham too. Great choice, Megan,
Fun Fact: The building used in the ‘Spam’ sketch still stands at the junction of Toller Lane & Cross Road in Bradford.
In fact a lot of Monty Python was filmed in / around Bradford, the Aire Valley & Wharfedale. This includes parts of the ‘Hells Grannies’ sketch, the ‘Turning Into a Scotsman’ sketch, the Hearse Race & one of the many ‘Hermit’ sketches to name but a few; plus the exterior footage for ‘Every Sperm Is Sacred’ song in The Meaning of Life.
Also, part of Michael Palin’s post Python series Ripping Yarns was filmed in Saltaire.
I tell my kids every time they is nothing on the hundreds of channels when I only had 3 channels (no remote). Walk and queue to use a phone box. Much more harder than today. The reason I say this to youths because they really don't know how lucky they have things today.
At our house, us KIDS were the remote! "Hey, son, put it on channel 6. Wrestling is coming on!"
You young whippersnapper!
Our telly had only 2 channels and a channel changer that clunked when you changed channel
Good old 405 lines
@@g8ymw I just got telled off. Lol.
@@g8ymw You had a telly? We only had a cardboard box with a picture of a clown on it, drawn in crayon!
"Baked beans are off." "Can I have spam instead?" "Do you mean spam, spam, spam, spam 🎶🎶🎶🎶" 😂
Two classics! Spamity spam spamity spam!
Spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs...and spam!
I was born in Skipton,a market town in Yorkshire.We had our own 10th century castle,Skipton Castle natch..but when my English-Scottish-Irish family moved to Noth America,I was teased until death because of my accent.Now,of course,you can only hear a faint touch of something...unless I'm tired..or I've had a few too many.
marvelous storytelling there.
I am not much for spam but still receive it by mail occasionally.
I think it's a global traditions for parents to tell their children how bad they had it. My parents for example had to walk 20km to school when they were young and it was always a snowstorm, even in the summers. On top of that it was uphills both to school and back home again. :D
There is a Anime called Girls and Panzer that did a version of the Spam sketch.
The book shop sketch is great.
Whilst the four Yorkshire men is from 'Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl', it's not actually a Monty Python sketch. It was originally on a show called 'At Last the 1948 Show' - which predated Monty Python but featured a number of the same actors and writers. If you like that kind of surreal British humour, can I suggest you check out 'The Goons' 'What's the Time, Eccles?' th-cam.com/video/ctM_Rvgjfpo/w-d-xo.html
I wasn't expecting to like that as I never got into The Goons but yeah, that was a really good little sketch - I loved the circular logc. I like a bit of Spike Milligan, esp the Pakistani Daleks but I guess we can't get away with that now.
You might want to check out "Every Sperm is Sacred" and the scene right after that.
ITV 4 in UK is showing Monty Python Meaning Of Life Film
Easter Saturday 10.05pm
As a 40-ish person I think the youth have it way harder now.
This looks like the Hollywood Bowl version. There are later versions of the four Yorkshiremen that have been slightly altered to suit the audiences which I dont think have the same impact.
I don't know the order they were made but I was always under the impression the first version was the one with Marty Feldman (the guy with weird eyes also in Young Frankenstein) and Tim Brooke-Taylor, (who was also in The Goodies) - Not sure though. My favourite version at the moment though is one I did for my own entertainment - I did a "bad lip reading" type video of THE OSBORNES doing the four yorkshire men sketch but not sure whether it's worth uploading. I enjoyed seeing Sharon and Kelly talk with men's voices deeper than Ozzy's. I shoulda used AI but I'm not clever enough so did it the old fashioned laborious way of vaguely matching the words to lip movements. Almost finished making David Attenborough and Chris Packham do the dead parrot sketch as well but that was trickier and some others. It's becoming an obsession.
@@stephenbrough8132correct & they got a co writing credit.
I recommend reacting to Brain Surgeon, Chemist Sketch and The Travel Agency by Monty Python. Its really good.
The Four Yorkshiremen sketch goes WAY back to even before Monty Python existed. Here's one from "At Last the 1948 Show" some years before Monty Python, but you'll see some familiar faces such as John Cleese and Graham Chapman: th-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=U3V7mSLbVjjPrwKI Marty Feldman (Igor from Young Frankenstein) on the far right and Tim Brooke-Taylor (the computer guy from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).*
* If you're trying to visualize who I mean, here's that clip: th-cam.com/video/tMZ2j9yK_NY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SLuPCXd_h2PoMAYM
You've got good taste Megan!
Thank you! 😊
I hate you (but not really): you just reminded me of the taste of fried spam on toast spread with ketchup. Must be more than 50 years since I had that pleasure. It might have been better than luncheon meat - damn, now I've remembered that too.
Have you done the cheese shop sketch yet? That's probably my personal favourite.
I have! :)
That was a new one for me. Fracking hilarious!
Thanks mam 🍺
It was! You're welcome 😊
Nobody get away from spam now.
YES I'M FROM YORKSHIRE,WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUE, BUT THEY HAD IT EASY COM PARED TO ME,I WAS POORER THAN SOME ONE WHO WAS REALLY POOR.
I like The Dead Parrot and the Lumberjack Song.
nb: us yorkshire folk prounounce it .. yawkshuh
Watch the one with Tim-Brooke Taylor and Marty Feldman
Spam, spam, spam, spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam.
Specially Pressed American Meat
The joke is 1up-manship
But... but... we did have it worse.. lol
You should definitely listen to *The Secret Policeman's Ball* I still have the vinyl record. ha ha
Try this sitcom - It is the best-ever episode from the SitCom that is Rising Damp = Rising Damp "Stage Struck" 3 x 2. You will love it. Please trust me on this. You will love it Love it love it
Have you seen the price of Spam these days?
All I can say is SPAM...
I don't understand why you don't watch the whole episodes.
Have you watched the argument stretch yet from python really good.
It's probably sacrilege, but as much as I like the original Four Yorkshireman, I find the one with Harry Enfield, Alan Rickman, Eddie Izzard, Vic Reeves funnier. Since everyone knows the sketch/joke they're able to go more ridiculous with it
I like them both better than the Monty Python versions.
I'm certain there are place names in England you have no chance of pronouncing
Bromley?
Such a disappointment. Not the original four Yorkshiremen.
Not nearly as funny.
You need to know how to pronounce Monty Pyhon correctly. It's Monty Pyth'n
Baked Beans on (buttered) toast - England's best kept secret.
And as they would say “ and now for something completely different “ 😂
A Scotsman on a horse!