Well pardon me your highness, you had a candle? We used to have to come down off roof of factory we lived on and lie in a skip full of hot metal turnings to keep warm, and if we laid in there too long our dad would shoot us in t' chest wi a blunderbuss.
‘We used to get up in morning, at half past ten at night, half an hour before we’d gone to bed.’ I strongly believe that is the greatest line in the history of British comedy lol.
@@zindi1138 Ah but ............. If you get a mirror, drop your pants bend over and hold the mirror between your knees you can see *where* to shove your opinion.
When I was a boy, we couldn't afford air. I couldn't take my first breath until eight years old, when I got a paper route and had enough money to buy a lungful a week.
eenavid Luxury. When I was a young lad, only 3 years old, my father had me get up from the humid temperature of venus from the pile of manure I slept in to carry in a large pile of boulders for 15 hours a day, in which he would afterwards stab me with a shovel for not being fast enough. IF I was lucky!
shovel ,,you had money for a ,,shovel ,,my old man made me go find an old stick from the woods ,,and i handed it to him, so he could stab me several times with the pointy end ,,,luxury indeed,,@@nathanwong6751
Time and chance happeneth to all. In Tim Brooke Taylor's case the Corona Virus. I have recently been watching a number of 1970s comedy series famous and popular in their day. 'The Goodies' starring Tim Brooke Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie is the only one that is still funny.
@@redstep-child3096 He might be correct but back in the day, we couldn't afford to be correct. All we could be was wrong and when we was wrong our father would beat us to death with a rusty Austin A40 bumper he stole from the junkyard. Happened every day after working at the turd mill for 30 hours a day and tuppence a year. And the old man would steal our tuppence and spend it on whisky made from fermented dead dogs.
When John Cleese says "Right..." and tries to rise up to the challenge of coming up with some more nonsense is one of the best moments in the history of comedy
Right.. We used to get up and work at t mill for 32 hours a night. We slept in a shoe and only got our vitamins from an old 1786 sock that we used to suck on. That's all 32 of us. And the youth of today..... They wouldn't believe us
I'm a Yorkshire man ..I can safely say this is what it's like at xmas time with my grandad and family friends sat moaning like this...you young end dont know the meaning of cold I'd be onto moor top on a tractor no cab ploughing in blizzard with a sack as a coat 🤣🤣
Had a sack t wear int tractor?! He were lucky We used to have to put werr sack under tractor's wheels to stop it sinking further inter bog on t'moor until us could borrer the set of dentures as Vicar had for Sundays so as we cud pull tractor our of marsh wi us teeth!
Back in MY day when you wanted to change the TV channel you had to walk over to the TV, change the channel, and walk back to your chair--both ways through shag carpet.
The reason I was allowed to lie on the floor right in front of the TV as a kid was in exchange for being the one to change channels and adjust the volume :-)
Kids today, think they're funny with their tikkytoks n OoToobs, this is what we had for comedy in my day and we was bloody grateful for it n all. Nowt but one black and white channel that were on for 10 seconds a year, showing nowt but a picture of the Queen (god rest her soul). None of this colour malarkey.
luxury,we didnt have T.V.we used to watch next doors tv through a rolled up newspaper from a hole int road,we used to get run over by the milk man and shit upon from ken dodds horse from his coal cart.
@@janbaer3241 Big deal- there were no garbage trucks when I was a lad. It just piled up and we would build additions on the house with it. Nothing to eat but asbestos sandwiches seasoned with cat pee.
That's a very interesting comment to which I'd reply that I agree that a state of perfection- as you term it- cannot exist in creative work because entertainment and comedy can't be measured in quantitative absolutes (this is as opposed to, say, a quiz where someone getting 10/10 would constitute a perfect score). I'd also say that words and the definitions of words mould themselves to different contexts and situations. As comedy is subjective, the word 'perfect' in this context is generally understood to reflect that fact- and saying 'one of the most perfect' is an acceptable alternative to 'one of the best imaginable'. In other words, since literal 'perfection' cannot exist in a creative work, if the word is used, its meaning is understood as the subjective equivalent of a 10/10, and it is churlish to claim that a statement whose meaning is universally understood is 'stupid'. And... wow, you must be even more of a hit at parties than me...
@@childofthe50s53 I just sent it to my 78 year old Mum after hearing her reminiscing about her childhood with her friend. I think all of us who know this sketch are reminded of it whenever we hear our elders reminiscing. It’s inevitable.
Dads?! My dad used to get up at five o'clock in the morning to fly to Paris; then back at the Old Vic for drinks at twelve; sweated the day through press and television interviews; and got back at ten to wrestle with the problem of a homosexual nymphomaniac drug-addict involved in the ritual murder of a well-known Scottish footballer. That was a full working day, lad, and don't you forget it!
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor (17 July 1940 - 12 April 2020) Graham Champman (8 January 1941 - 4 October 1989) and Marty Feldman (8 July 1934 - 2 December 1982).
Of course, back in his day batting was REAL tough. Uncovered pitches, proper spin bowlers and facing the likes of Lillee, Thompson, Holding and Marshall without a helmet!
Windows are wot you used to put your forehead on the inside to see if it would freeze to it when you did get stuck to it your brothers used to pinch your pants
When we needed to use the phone, we had to stay indoors, look up the number in a book, put our finger in a little wheel and dial the digits one at a time. Then we had to stay in the same place because the wire connecting the handset was only 2ft long while we talked to someone on the other end without knowing what they looked like. Try telling that to the youngsters of today.
True story..Our phone was bolted to the kitchen wall and Ma Bell would send her goons to the house to break our kneecaps if anyone fucked with it..or at least that's exactly what my dad told us would happen. We were too afraid to mess with Ma Bell's phones.. 😉
@@jamessweet5341 You were lucky! I would have loved to wind one of those little handles that made a tinkling noise. I never got a nice lady to say "number please" to me either. Bloody luxury!
Love this skit! One of the best written sketches in history! Shame that out of these four legends, only John Cleese is left. R.I.P Tim Brooke Taylor, Marty Feldman, and Graham Chapman.
Every time some old coot at your table would sound off about how hard it was when he was a kid, he would be cut short with the cry of "Luxury!" in a Yorkshire accent by someone at the table and everyone would fly into a part of this skit or variations on it. "Lived in shoe box in middle of road...walk 55 miles through snow to mill...work 96 hours at mill for less than nothing a lifetime...etc." Whoever wrote this skit did the world a great, great service!
Maybe it's a generation thing, but so many of my mates and I regularly manage to get into a re-enactment of this skit somewhere in a conversation,usually accompanied by much eye-rolling from the females present.
Females?! Luxury! We could only DREAM of meeting females, and we could only do that once a month when we were allowed one hour a month to sleep! So, females really have eyes?
@Agent Fungus yeah, keep up with the good work. There is also an amazing "kids" show in UK called " Horrible Histories " series 1 to 5 is the best as it had the best cast, (where as the continuing show is good , but without this original cast it doesn't work as well.) This amazing cast has Python humour all over, really funny, fascinating facts, clever songs, Monty Python the next generation. You can check the sketches on TH-cam. You and Your younger friends won't be disappointed. 😂😂😂
If you were a kid having a rough life in the seventies 'The Goodies" and Monty Python were often your only escape. Humour can make the unbearable bearable so I will sorely miss Tim Brooke Taylor and those of his era.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 If you wore hand-you-downs, it means you wore quiality stuff. My soviet made school boots barely survive winter, and I got wet and cold feet after first autumn rain. And winter minus 10-15 celsisus in such bloody boots were bloody cold.
Barry Cryer, the actual Yorkshireman pouring the drinks, died this week. Only John Cleese is now left. The only other person in this who came from anywhere near the North was Tim Brooke Taylor, who was from Buxton.
Hard times! I were an only child. No elder brother, so no hand-me-downs and we barely had money for food. Luckily, dad's best mate ran a surplus store and he'd give us stuff he couldn't sell. I went to secondary school for 2 years dressed as a Japanese admiral.
Okay, so I just had to come back here and share the most ridiculously Yorkshiremen-esque conversation I've ever heard before I forget it. So, I'm out here in the park, having a subway, when these two old men came up and sat down on the bench next to me because one of them had a pebble in his shoe. From the top of my head, their conversation went something like this: Man1: There's something wrong with society these days. Would you believe that my pension is so small, I haven't been able to afford new clothes in 18 bloody years? Man2: I don't own any clothes at all, personally. The ones I'm wearing right now? I have to ask my neighbour to let me borrow them every time I go outside. Man1: I haven't been able to afford a duvet either, so this winter I was forced to use the doormat as a blanket when I went to bed at night. Man2: You've got a bed? All I've got to sleep on is my wife's broken old bicycle. The memories of her have to keep me warm at night because I haven't been able to afford a doormat. Man1: I cannot afford toilet paper either, I have to wipe myself using the Yellow Pages. Man2: I can't afford that, I have to wipe myself with the cat. Man1: For the last couple of week or so, the only thing I've been able to afford eating every day is a single piece of crispbread with a squirt of tubed cheese on top. Man2: Oh, what I wouldn't give for a piece of crispbread. I've nourished myself by licking the inside of a cap of a cheese and ham tube that I finished back in 2007. Man1: At the moment I live in a 2ft² 1-room apartment -- without either electricity or water. Man2: I live in an empty tuna can that I rent second hand in place of my childhood home that was torn down in 1969 in order to make room for a new Real Estate office. Man1: And I haven't been able to afford going to the doctor in 3 years, even though I've got lung cancer and mets are spreading like wildfire throughout my whole damn body. Man2: I had Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Ebola and Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease, but then I suddenly caught covid, had a stroke and died a couple of years ago. My sides fucking hurt! How did they manage to get through this entire conversation with completely straight faces?! Fucking legends! XD
@@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment Or something like it at least... I mean, I didn't think super much about it at the moment because, after the line about the cat, I just figured they were joking, but the first guy actually said things that were depressingly real: Many old people don't have enough money to afford stuff that everyone should have access to... hell, depending on where you live in the world, that line about not being able to afford going to the doctor can go for almost anyone who's not a part of the upper classes... :/
@@postscript67 Who cares? When I was young, no one could afford to own a Yorkshireman. At thruppence apiece that was out of our price range of half a farthing and a rotting dog turd.
It's Sunday April 12th 2020. I've just heard that Tim Brooke-Taylor has died as a result of COVID-19. Gutted. Only John Cleese left now. There's nowt like a bit of hot gravel in T'morning for breakfast.
@@monitorcomputersystemsltd2375 Michael Palin is still alive yes but of the people in the original sketch here Marty Feldman, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke Taylor have passed away. Only John Cleese is left.
@@wrekkingcru I say toe nail clippings... We didn't even have feet let alone toes. it was really the scabs off our amputated leg stumps... But we used to pretend!
See Brian Cox twitter feed for his hilarious rapport with Eric Idle. (8th January 2016) Brian: Another beautiful day in Norway, but minus 27 degrees C now. The locals say 'ahh that's nothing' :) Eric: Don't they say you were lucky Brian: It were -273.15 degrees centigrade, absolutely bloody freezing, and mother made us sleep in't shed Eric: Oo we used to dream of avin a shed it would ave bin a palace to us Brian: All atomic motion had ceased. There were no kinetic energy at all and still wi laughed Eric: All protons ad decayed and a supermassive black ole ad evaporated Brian: The very fabric of spacetime itself ad evaporated plunging t'universe into an eternal timeless void. But yoo tell em that today
I have lived in Yorkshire since the 1960s. 'Tis a sad fact that they just don't make rose-tinted specs like they used to. You try telling t' young ' uns o' today that though!
@@HoIIandC Not quite my era, as your dad would have been leaving school by the year I was born; but I know what you mean! If you are 19, anyone born in the 20th Century must seem ancient! You can still find good quality rose-tinted spectacles, if you search second hand shops in small Yorkshire market towns such as Malton or Helmsley, I think.
@Deb Deb When I say a newspaper, I really mean a tattered ragged remains of a 1841 Times with holes and rat shit all over it. But to US it was a NEWSPAPER.
Luxury....The delivery of that line was absolutely on point. How he held his facial expression only God and himself know. The whole skit is genius.But that Entry line had me in pieces 😭😭😭
I still laugh when I hear the word used on it's own ike that in conversation, usually at the most inappropriate times... It's a genuine problem which has led to more than one awkward moment!
I used to live in a hole...in a hole that was filled with nitric acid & broken glass & we were thrashed to sleep every night & had to eat barbed wire,razor blades & a cup of cold sick for breakfast!!...Still,...we were happy!
I love this sketch because it keeps me in check, sometimes I start thinking like this and then realise it's all bollocks. It's not easier for young people today, in many ways it's harder, our parents had it hard who live through the war sure, but we really didn't we had full bellies and an active economy. Young people today have fancy phones sure, but have to work every hour god sends to rent a shithole with no chance of every owning anything.
+Henri de Feraudy to be fair john cleese and graham chapman did write it with tim and marty, so atleast some of them where involved so its not really stealing it, however i actualy didint know untill recently that it was not originaly done by python..
+Ewenya p I read once that Tim Brooke Taylor had a hard time explaining that he contributed to the writing of this script. Anyway, it's an absolute classic!
i would believe that, i have been an avid fan of comedy and sketch shows for over 30 years, and as i said, i didnt know until recently, so its far from a well known fact.. and its ashame really because its probobly one of the best scetches ever made. atleast IMO :)
+Henri de Feraudy Because the Pythons did the sketch during Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Most people nowadays don't know about At Last The 1948 Show. I didn't until recently.
I knew Tim from the Goodies was doing comedy theatre around the same time as the Pythons but had no idea he was part of this classic sketch.... this is awesome!!!
As far as I understand the sketch was originally created by Tim and Marty. It just shows the wealth of comedy talent at the time, and the power of television!
Thanks for sharing all this info, I too remember Tim from The Goodies, he was the funniest by far out of the 3. And Marty was really funny too, this humour is so silly and clever at the same time. 😁👏
Written by the four of 'em (maybe with input from Barry Crier who was the wine waiter in the original apparently). Broadcast in 1967 on the 'At Last the 1948 Show' I feel *old* .......... but stil amused
Key and Peele (Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele) were heavily influenced by Monty Python and other British comedy of that genre. You can see here the formula they borrowed, where things get progressively more absurd, like in their hat label sketch.
Not sure if I like Graham Chapman saying “luxury“ or John Cleese saying “right.” Each of those single words delivers so much. I think I like this version of the skit more than the one I have seen hundreds of times from “live at the Hollywood bowl.“ It is brilliant.
For the sake of some people on here commenting - the clip is from a show called "At Last The 1948 Show" which aired in 1967-8 (I think). It's a joke, y'see.
I was so poor that I only just got dial up and this is the first thing that was recommended to me. Only took 4weeks to download on me zx81. Luxury this internet. Don't know yet born lad.
Many years ago in Australia i met an American chap who talked endlessly about this sketch. He'd only heard it once and couldn't find a copy of it in the USA. I sent him one when I got home to NZ. He reported that he played the cassette in his car and had had to stop his vehicle for fear of running off the road laughing.
I see that our now trendy boomer jokes have reached their pinnacle long before our time. There is nothing new under the sun, really, not even postmodernist mockery.
We were so poor as a kid, at Christmas Grandad would suck a peppermint and would all sit around his tongue for fear of freezing from the cold. No fire in our house,... noooo.
Bit of an obvious one, that. Given the quality of the recording - and that's me being polite and assuming that you don't recognise any of the actors. I mean, like, John Cleese was not acting in 1948.
All twelve of us kids had to huddle around a candle in mid-winter to keep us warm. If it got really cold dad used to light it
BRILLIANT
You were lucky, we didn't have candles!
Paradise
Well pardon me your highness, you had a candle? We used to have to come down off roof of factory we lived on and lie in a skip full of hot metal turnings to keep warm, and if we laid in there too long our dad would shoot us in t' chest wi a blunderbuss.
@@billMcLatentspace Luxury!
‘We used to get up in morning, at half past ten at night, half an hour before we’d gone to bed.’ I strongly believe that is the greatest line in the history of British comedy lol.
ikr its so stupid ! lmao
@@zindi1138 Ah but ............. If you get a mirror, drop your pants bend over and hold the mirror between your knees you can see *where* to shove your opinion.
Partial to lick road clean with tongue
Agreed!!
I cry laughed just reading this comment. it is so damn great! 😂😂😂😂
When I was a boy, we couldn't afford air. I couldn't take my first breath until eight years old, when I got a paper route and had enough money to buy a lungful a week.
when we were young we had no heat ,dad would suck a mint and we would breathe in the hot air ,,!!
eenavid Luxury. When I was a young lad, only 3 years old, my father had me get up from the humid temperature of venus from the pile of manure I slept in to carry in a large pile of boulders for 15 hours a day, in which he would afterwards stab me with a shovel for not being fast enough. IF I was lucky!
shovel ,,you had money for a ,,shovel ,,my old man made me go find an old stick from the woods ,,and i handed it to him, so he could stab me several times with the pointy end ,,,luxury indeed,,@@nathanwong6751
Luxury. We had to breathe poison. If we were lucky.
@@rojaws1183 poison ..!!..when we were born our lungs were removed and sold to a rich celeb ,,we had to replace with tesco bags for survival ,,,
RIP Tim Brooke Taylor who co-wrote this iconic sketch. A British comedy great.
Et war lookshery!
@@davidgraham2907 And now only John Cleese is left..sad.really sad.
Looks like Barry Cryer as the waiter.
Time and chance happeneth to all. In Tim Brooke Taylor's case the Corona Virus. I have recently been watching a number of 1970s comedy series famous and popular in their day. 'The Goodies' starring Tim Brooke Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie is the only one that is still funny.
@@legalvampire8136 There are some Two Ronnies sketches that definitely hold up. Check out th-cam.com/video/CNTM9iM1eVw/w-d-xo.html
The best line in this sketch is when Graham Chapman says 'Luxury'. One of the funniest sketches I have ever seen.
"Paradise."
One of my favs too
You are correct.
@@redstep-child3096 He might be correct but back in the day, we couldn't afford to be correct. All we could be was wrong and when we was wrong our father would beat us to death with a rusty Austin A40 bumper he stole from the junkyard. Happened every day after working at the turd mill for 30 hours a day and tuppence a year. And the old man would steal our tuppence and spend it on whisky made from fermented dead dogs.
@@lawrencelewis2592 opulence
When John Cleese says "Right..." and tries to rise up to the challenge of coming up with some more nonsense is one of the best moments in the history of comedy
Right.. We used to get up and work at t mill for 32 hours a night. We slept in a shoe and only got our vitamins from an old 1786 sock that we used to suck on. That's all 32 of us. And the youth of today..... They wouldn't believe us
I can't fault you for this highly accurate opinion.
Exactly!
his Yorkshire accent was shite though!
I love Cleese, and of course this is the original, but I'll always have a special appreciation for Idle doing that part
I'm a Yorkshire man ..I can safely say this is what it's like at xmas time with my grandad and family friends sat moaning like this...you young end dont know the meaning of cold I'd be onto moor top on a tractor no cab ploughing in blizzard with a sack as a coat 🤣🤣
And your grandma had to push the tractor.
Had a sack t wear int tractor?!
He were lucky
We used to have to put werr sack under tractor's wheels to stop it sinking further inter bog on t'moor until us could borrer the set of dentures as Vicar had for Sundays so as we cud pull tractor our of marsh wi us teeth!
A TRACTOR! Your grandad must have been rich. That would he a dream for us.
Grandad? Family? You must be royalty. Happy Christmas, you ponce.
@@Farweasel these fucking Irish counts again. Merry Christmas
Back in MY day when you wanted to change the TV channel you had to walk over to the TV, change the channel, and walk back to your chair--both ways through shag carpet.
LUXury...!
The reason I was allowed to lie on the floor right in front of the TV as a kid was in exchange for being the one to change channels and adjust the volume :-)
Paradise.
So you had to actually shag the carpet??
You had a CHAIR?
We had to squat on the floor.
Kids today, think they're funny with their tikkytoks n OoToobs, this is what we had for comedy in my day and we was bloody grateful for it n all. Nowt but one black and white channel that were on for 10 seconds a year, showing nowt but a picture of the Queen (god rest her soul). None of this colour malarkey.
luxury,we didnt have T.V.we used to watch next doors tv through a rolled up newspaper from a hole int road,we used to get run over by the milk man and shit upon from ken dodds horse from his coal cart.
@@antonycrowley3604 Luxury! We had a cardboard box with a cat in it dressed like the queen!
@@BGNOLA What a bunch of wimps! We here in Canada had nothing and we were glad to have it.
You were lucky to be born. I'm still waiting.
@@johnhiggins2685 Lucky! My parents haven't even had sex yet, and mother says they might not ever!
So good to see Marty Feldman! People seem to have forgotten about his genius...
Abby normal….
Whenever I want a laugh I watch Young Frankenstein. Marty was so damn hysterical in this😂😂😂
@@davethomasatemyhamster "Eyegor, will you help me with these bags?". "Certainly! You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban."
Forgotten comedy genius
I met one celebrity in my 72 years and it was Marty Feldman during a studio tour. He was great!
They had it easy. I grew up in Appalachia where the garbage truck didn’t pick up at our house, it delivered.
Luxury. We had to live in the garbage truck.
@@rojaws1183 paradise, we were carried away in the garbage wagon.
@@Noarcs pampered i live in scotland
Garbage truck? We had to crawl our way to the city dump and fetch our own garbage.
@@janbaer3241 Big deal- there were no garbage trucks when I was a lad. It just piled up and we would build additions on the house with it. Nothing to eat but asbestos sandwiches seasoned with cat pee.
Truly one of the most perfect comedy sketches ever written in the English language.
Absolutely, no question, and the best version of the sketch.
Happy that I'm the 100th 'liker' for this comment :D
That's a very interesting comment to which I'd reply that I agree that a
state of perfection- as you term it- cannot exist in creative work
because entertainment and comedy can't be measured in quantitative
absolutes (this is as opposed to, say, a quiz where someone getting
10/10 would constitute a perfect score).
I'd also say that words and the definitions of words mould themselves to
different contexts and situations. As comedy is subjective, the word
'perfect' in this context is generally understood to reflect that fact-
and saying 'one of the most perfect' is an acceptable alternative to
'one of the best imaginable'. In other words, since literal 'perfection'
cannot exist in a creative work, if the word is used, its meaning is
understood as the subjective equivalent of a 10/10, and it is churlish
to claim that a statement whose meaning is universally understood is
'stupid'.
And... wow, you must be even more of a hit at parties than me...
"A bit of an idiot himself"? There is no degrees [sic] of idiocy. Something is idiotic and that is that. There is no more, or less, in idiocy. OK?
spidrawebster i
Unbelievably I am 70 this year and I still hear people taking off this sketch now....timeless genius
Ditto
@@childofthe50s53 I just sent it to my 78 year old Mum after hearing her reminiscing about her childhood with her friend. I think all of us who know this sketch are reminded of it whenever we hear our elders reminiscing. It’s inevitable.
"we used to get up half an hour before we'd gone to bed" gotta be one of the best lines
It ranks right up there as a "best line" along with Moe slapping and saying either to Larry, Curly or Shemp: "Wake up and go to sleep."
And the way he says, "RIGHT!" in preparation for his next effort.
And our father would murder us every night and dance on our graves singing glory hallelujah
paradise!
Most indeedy !
Their accents become progressively more Yorkshire as they one-up each other 🤣🤣🤣
It's a great touch, they're making a mental journey back to the "good old times"
cleese is the worst.
well, prithee mr donovan; the funniest thing about this sketch is cleese's attempt at a yorkshire accent.
@@blackbob3358 yes, i think Marty was from Essex and even he managed it.
They're all shit.
I were so poor as a lad, me soles on me shoes were so thin I could put me foot on a penny and tell yer if it were heads or tails.
You had a penny ?!
I never even had a mite.
@@bobdownes162
Nay lad. I never ad the penny, it were lyin on t' ground.
@@SuperFerdie1965 And I bet yer whole family made you share it with them.
@@bobdownes162
Eee lad, th 'whole street were tryin to get in on th' act...
You 'ad shoes. You were lucky
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor. His delivery in this sketch is immaculate
When i were a kid , we were so poor my parents couldn't afford shoes , so they use to blacken my feet with shoe polish and tie my toes together
lol
I want to live where you do! 🤣
You know this is old yorkshire because their dads were around... luxury
Ouch!
@@aquatarkus2022 Exactly what I thought. 😳
Dads?! My dad used to get up at five o'clock in the morning to fly to Paris; then back at the Old Vic for drinks at twelve; sweated the day through press and television interviews; and got back at ten to wrestle with the problem of a homosexual nymphomaniac drug-addict involved in the ritual murder of a well-known Scottish footballer. That was a full working day, lad, and don't you forget it!
@@AlanPalgut
Tungsten carbide drills!? What the hell's a tungsten carbide drill?
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor (17 July 1940 - 12 April 2020) Graham Champman (8 January 1941 - 4 October 1989) and Marty Feldman (8 July 1934 - 2 December 1982).
Spoilt they was. Our pm didn't even have sky tv
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor, I came to watch this again to remember him.
Geoffrey Boycott's entire broadcasting career is basically a one-man version of this sketch
Of course, back in his day batting was REAL tough. Uncovered pitches, proper spin bowlers and facing the likes of Lillee, Thompson, Holding and Marshall without a helmet!
@@portcullis5622 Luxury......! 😃
Pass The Butter Robot I could imagine those shrinking violets Close, Trueman, Boycott and Illingworth arguing bloody mindedly like this.
@@colinbaker3916
And how Boycott's girlfriend were so nasty that she'd run into his fist.
Francis Artanis Well yes. When I heard about that, it gave me some satisfaction to know that Close once pinned him to the dressing room wall.
when i was young we had no money for clothes, we were naked, we never left the house. Then Father bought us a cap so we could look out t'window
What are windows...?
What's a cap?
Luxury!
Windows are wot you used to put your forehead on the inside to see if it would freeze to it when you did get stuck to it your brothers used to pinch your pants
@Chris.f Your man. 😂😂😂😂
When we needed to use the phone, we had to stay indoors, look up the number in a book, put our finger in a little wheel and dial the digits one at a time. Then we had to stay in the same place because the wire connecting the handset was only 2ft long while we talked to someone on the other end without knowing what they looked like. Try telling that to the youngsters of today.
True story..Our phone was bolted to the kitchen wall and Ma Bell would send her goons to the house to break our kneecaps if anyone fucked with it..or at least that's exactly what my dad told us would happen. We were too afraid to mess with Ma Bell's phones.. 😉
I actually had to crank a phone and talk to some bint who was to connect me to some unseen person. Not even a selfie!!
@@jamessweet5341 You were lucky! I would have loved to wind one of those little handles that made a tinkling noise. I never got a nice lady to say "number please" to me either. Bloody luxury!
They won't believe it
how my parents were too
Shoe box?
Cardboard?
Aye.
Luxury!!!
Genius, just genius😁😁😁
“We were so poor we couldn’t afford malnutrition “
@@mikemorgan7893 Malnutrition? Luxury!
We could only afford two-syllable words, so we were always just hungry.
Two syllable words? We had no words at all! Had to communicate with signal flags.
Signal flags? We had to wave at each other, in the dark
Love this skit! One of the best written sketches in history! Shame that out of these four legends, only John Cleese is left. R.I.P Tim Brooke Taylor, Marty Feldman, and Graham Chapman.
As well as Barry Cryer - the fellow serving the wine at the beginning - who passed away early this year (2022).
John Cleese probably agrees with this sketch as a GB News Guide To Non Woke family life!
One Goodie, two pythons and the peerless Marty!
Marty did stuff for Monty Python didn't he?
Aye, that's right, lad
What luxury!
@@zoicon5 it really is!
SHEER GREATNESS
When Graham says "Luxury." Slays me.
Looxury
"Hapenny a lifetime"!? Our family took three generations to earn hapenny!
🤣
I had to pay the boss to let me work!
You rich bugger.
My family is on its 7th round of reincarnations, and we ain’t even close to earning a hapenny yet.
Our fumuly ‘ad to borrow a ha’penny.
ooo - lookshuri
the "right" from John Cleese gets me every time.
This sketch is part of the cultural comedy lexicon in England. It is often imitated, mostly by people who are unaware of its origins. Priceless!
If you got off the beaten TV path in America you would have seen this on PBS in the '70s
This was DEFINITELY part of my teenage years in the 70’s! Enough that I noticed some lines were added or tweaked over the years.
Not only in England, mate... and not only by older people. 😀
When I were kid our ouse were so small ye ad to go outside to change yer mind ........
Yer lucky! I never had a mind!
AND we had to walk to school, in waist deep snow, bare foot, uphill, both ways.
English? That's Yorkshire to you lad!
At least you could walk to school. We had no feet and had to crawl.
What is a school?
@@portcullis5622 what's a "walk?!" Lol
😂😂
Timeless because it's universal. I'm one of the old geezers now, living in Wisconsin and lying about how hard farm life was when I was a kid.
You were lucky to have a hard farm. We nought had but a soft farm, in the marshes, wot!?
@@vangroover1903 Luxury! We only had an ant farm, and we lived in the ground with all the ants. We had no water, like those who lived in the marshes!
@@jayhache5609 we were lucky to have it ;@
@@jayhache5609 all the ants in OUR farm got eaten by termites, lad!
A Yorkshireman ... luxury we was only a Scotsman.
Irish was even worse.
A dead Scotsman.
Angus Podgorny!
Scotland! Glasgow that’s where rich Yorkshire people go on holiday
Haven't seen that for years ... cried with laughter I did.
Luxury...
matoko123 Hmm! Commented like Yoda you did.
Tears.... Looksury!!
Every time some old coot at your table would sound off about how hard it was when he was a kid, he would be cut short with the cry of "Luxury!" in a Yorkshire accent by someone at the table and everyone would fly into a part of this skit or variations on it. "Lived in shoe box in middle of road...walk 55 miles through snow to mill...work 96 hours at mill for less than nothing a lifetime...etc."
Whoever wrote this skit did the world a great, great service!
We would add to the walk in the snow ‘uphill, both ways’.
Honestly, the best comedy sketch I’ve ever seen. Nothing comes close, makes me crack up every time
Pete and Did's one-legged man sketch and Two Ronnies Four Candles??
💯❤❤❤
@@pr4442 I'm quite fond of the Alan a Dale song too.
in my day we had proper comedy, luxury
Maybe it's a generation thing, but so many of my mates and I regularly manage to get into a re-enactment of this skit somewhere in a conversation,usually accompanied by much eye-rolling from the females present.
I'm a female and this humour is fantastic, a lot more of us girls love this type more than you know.👍😁
Females?! Luxury! We could only DREAM of meeting females, and we could only do that once a month when we were allowed one hour a month to sleep!
So, females really have eyes?
@Agent Fungus yeah, keep up with the good work. There is also an amazing "kids" show in UK called " Horrible Histories " series 1 to 5 is the best as it had the best cast, (where as the continuing show is good , but without this original cast it doesn't work as well.) This amazing cast has Python humour all over, really funny, fascinating facts, clever songs, Monty Python the next generation. You can check the sketches on TH-cam. You and Your younger friends won't be disappointed. 😂😂😂
@@Salena905 Horrible Histories is brilliant!
@@oabuseer yay! Another fan 😄👍
If you were a kid having a rough life in the seventies 'The Goodies" and Monty Python were often your only escape. Humour can make the unbearable bearable so I will sorely miss Tim Brooke Taylor and those of his era.
What was the rough life in the seventies? In UK?
@@BoneyMB the coal strike was pretty grim. Three day work week was common place. How do you think Thatcher got elected?
@@BoneyMB Rough? I wore hand- me- downs, from my big sister; most lads hated the school uniform, but I loved it.
They had to balance Mr Nosey Bonk ( from the jigsaw tv program ), by god he was scary.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 If you wore hand-you-downs, it means you wore quiality stuff. My soviet made school boots barely survive winter, and I got wet and cold feet after first autumn rain. And winter minus 10-15 celsisus in such bloody boots were bloody cold.
Barry Cryer, the actual Yorkshireman pouring the drinks, died this week. Only John Cleese is now left. The only other person in this who came from anywhere near the North was Tim Brooke Taylor, who was from Buxton.
Hard times!
I were an only child. No elder brother, so no hand-me-downs and we barely had money for food.
Luckily, dad's best mate ran a surplus store and he'd give us stuff he couldn't sell. I went to secondary school for 2 years dressed as a Japanese admiral.
LOL!
Ha ha 😂
Wish the pythons could read all these comments I know they weren't just pythons doing this, but I still wish they could read them
@Aierek 😂😂
Thank you Les Dawson!
When i was young i was so thin i had to put matchsticks in my ears to stop me falling down wormholes.
RIP Tim - I grew up watching you in your Union Jack waistcoat on the Goodies you are a legend in British comedy
" I used to dream of living in a corridor " Funny stuff
My favourite comedic line of all time. Kills me to this day.
The comments section is just as funny as the sketch - well, almost.
Yes, almost...till your comment!
We were so poor that we could only afford one bed. With so many kids in the family I made a point of coming home late to sleep on top of the pile.
Luxury! We would have given anything to have a pile!
@@brianarbenz7206 Hope that's not haemorrhoids?
@@johneagle1855 hemorrhoids? You were lucky. We were so poor we could barely afford Preparation A.
Came here for t'video, ended up reading all t'comments instead.
Definition of a Yorkshireman is a Scotsman stripped of his generosity
A born and bred Bradford lad. Love the definition
'Ear all, see all, say nowt; Eat all, sup all, pay nowt; And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt - Allus do it fer thissen
It's like my granddad's come back to life!
neer went away ! agnes x
You had a grandad?? Luxury.
I love the subtle fourth-wall-breakage before the last one when John Cleese says "Right..."
Okay, so I just had to come back here and share the most ridiculously Yorkshiremen-esque conversation I've ever heard before I forget it. So, I'm out here in the park, having a subway, when these two old men came up and sat down on the bench next to me because one of them had a pebble in his shoe. From the top of my head, their conversation went something like this:
Man1: There's something wrong with society these days. Would you believe that my pension is so small, I haven't been able to afford new clothes in 18 bloody years?
Man2: I don't own any clothes at all, personally. The ones I'm wearing right now? I have to ask my neighbour to let me borrow them every time I go outside.
Man1: I haven't been able to afford a duvet either, so this winter I was forced to use the doormat as a blanket when I went to bed at night.
Man2: You've got a bed? All I've got to sleep on is my wife's broken old bicycle. The memories of her have to keep me warm at night because I haven't been able to afford a doormat.
Man1: I cannot afford toilet paper either, I have to wipe myself using the Yellow Pages.
Man2: I can't afford that, I have to wipe myself with the cat.
Man1: For the last couple of week or so, the only thing I've been able to afford eating every day is a single piece of crispbread with a squirt of tubed cheese on top.
Man2: Oh, what I wouldn't give for a piece of crispbread. I've nourished myself by licking the inside of a cap of a cheese and ham tube that I finished back in 2007.
Man1: At the moment I live in a 2ft² 1-room apartment -- without either electricity or water.
Man2: I live in an empty tuna can that I rent second hand in place of my childhood home that was torn down in 1969 in order to make room for a new Real Estate office.
Man1: And I haven't been able to afford going to the doctor in 3 years, even though I've got lung cancer and mets are spreading like wildfire throughout my whole damn body.
Man2: I had Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Ebola and Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease, but then I suddenly caught covid, had a stroke and died a couple of years ago.
My sides fucking hurt! How did they manage to get through this entire conversation with completely straight faces?! Fucking legends! XD
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PARADISE.
@@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment Or something like it at least... I mean, I didn't think super much about it at the moment because, after the line about the cat, I just figured they were joking, but the first guy actually said things that were depressingly real: Many old people don't have enough money to afford stuff that everyone should have access to... hell, depending on where you live in the world, that line about not being able to afford going to the doctor can go for almost anyone who's not a part of the upper classes... :/
That's funny
Wonder how many people notice that british comedy legend Barry Cryer plays the wine waiter at the start of the sketch.
The only real Yorkshireman in the sketch!
@@postscript67 Who cares? When I was young, no one could afford to own a Yorkshireman. At thruppence apiece that was out of our price range of half a farthing and a rotting dog turd.
I think I heard him say this was his TV debut ,,,almost 99% sure ,
Aye and when I wor a lad I wor so thin a used to have te dance about int shower just te get wet. Nd when a say shower it were really a waterin can.
With hydrochloric acid in it!
Luxury.
It's Sunday April 12th 2020. I've just heard that Tim Brooke-Taylor has died as a result of COVID-19. Gutted. Only John Cleese left now.
There's nowt like a bit of hot gravel in T'morning for breakfast.
Michael Palin?
@@monitorcomputersystemsltd2375 Michael Palin is still alive yes but of the people in the original sketch here Marty Feldman, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke Taylor have passed away. Only John Cleese is left.
They were lucky. When I was a kid, the only "social media" we had was two soiled dixie cups and a frayed length of thrice-used dental floss...
Dental floss??? You had dental floss??? I had to use my own toenail clippings!!!
@@fishyc150 - You had toenail clippings??? Paradise... We didn't have toes...
@@wrekkingcru I say toe nail clippings... We didn't even have feet let alone toes. it was really the scabs off our amputated leg stumps... But we used to pretend!
Actually sounds better than social media
One of the great comedy routines of all time.
See Brian Cox twitter feed for his hilarious rapport with Eric Idle. (8th January 2016)
Brian: Another beautiful day in Norway, but minus 27 degrees C now. The locals say 'ahh that's nothing' :)
Eric: Don't they say you were lucky
Brian: It were -273.15 degrees centigrade, absolutely bloody freezing, and mother made us sleep in't shed
Eric: Oo we used to dream of avin a shed it would ave bin a palace to us
Brian: All atomic motion had ceased. There were no kinetic energy at all and still wi laughed
Eric: All protons ad decayed and a supermassive black ole ad evaporated
Brian: The very fabric of spacetime itself ad evaporated plunging t'universe into an eternal timeless void. But yoo tell em that today
LOL thank you!
I will look this up, that is GOOD! John, Australia.
Guðmundur Ingi Guðmundsson ICELAND!!!
@zytigon. Thanks for sharing this 😁😁👍
This is brilliant, thanks for sharing
I have lived in Yorkshire since the 1960s. 'Tis a sad fact that they just don't make rose-tinted specs like they used to. You try telling t' young ' uns o' today that though!
I'm a 19 year old Yorkshire lad but my dad's from your era, he's born in 1950. I'll ask him about these rose-tinted specs
@@HoIIandC Not quite my era, as your dad would have been leaving school by the year I was born; but I know what you mean! If you are 19, anyone born in the 20th Century must seem ancient! You can still find good quality rose-tinted spectacles, if you search second hand shops in small Yorkshire market towns such as Malton or Helmsley, I think.
Aye lad, nostalgia isn't what it used to be....
Marty Feldman was so incredibly funny. He had great delivery.
Delivery? He was spoiled. We used to have to fetch it ourselves, barefoot in three feet of snow!
@@johnhughes2653 😆
“We used to get up early in morning, at half past ten at night half an hour before we’d gone to bed”
😂😂
Jesus Christ it's like being in my local pub
Pub? You are lucky. We are drinking in the middle of the road from rolled up newspapers.
@Deb Deb When I say a newspaper, I really mean a tattered ragged remains of a 1841 Times with holes and rat shit all over it. But to US it was a NEWSPAPER.
Wetherspoons?
Why do you have to blaspheme?
@Who is doing this. "the"??
we used to get up, an hour before we went to bed. and eat two pieces of poison......xD
I wish we were that fortunate.
Luxury....The delivery of that line was absolutely on point. How he held his facial expression only God and himself know. The whole skit is genius.But that Entry line had me in pieces 😭😭😭
I still laugh when I hear the word used on it's own ike that in conversation, usually at the most inappropriate times...
It's a genuine problem which has led to more than one awkward moment!
The great Tim Brook-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
I was one of the lucky ones --- I lived in a corridor.
Lived? I lay dead Under the floorboards for forty years ayebyegummelad🙄
I lived in a corridor so thin I had to sleep standing up
I was luckier I guess. My family had a room.
I used to live in a hole...in a hole that was filled with nitric acid & broken glass & we were thrashed to sleep every night & had to eat barbed wire,razor blades & a cup of cold sick for breakfast!!...Still,...we were happy!
@@iancannon2825 Not surprised you were 'appy, living in such luxury. We used to dream of such conditions.
I love this sketch because it keeps me in check, sometimes I start thinking like this and then realise it's all bollocks.
It's not easier for young people today, in many ways it's harder, our parents had it hard who live through the war sure, but we really didn't we had full bellies and an active economy.
Young people today have fancy phones sure, but have to work every hour god sends to rent a shithole with no chance of every owning anything.
This isnt Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and David Jason....
Its John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke Taylor! Sort it out!
+Sirius Gaming Yes, it's often misattributed to Monty Python.
+Henri de Feraudy to be fair john cleese and graham chapman did write it with tim and marty, so atleast some of them where involved so its not really stealing it, however i actualy didint know untill recently that it was not originaly done by python..
+Ewenya p I read once that Tim Brooke Taylor had a hard time explaining that he contributed to the writing of this script. Anyway, it's an absolute classic!
i would believe that, i have been an avid fan of comedy and sketch shows for over 30 years, and as i said, i didnt know until recently, so its far from a well known fact.. and its ashame really because its probobly one of the best scetches ever made. atleast IMO :)
+Henri de Feraudy
Because the Pythons did the sketch during Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Most people nowadays don't know about At Last The 1948 Show. I didn't until recently.
A Yorkshire man is actually a Scots man with every last drop of generosity squeezed out of him
😂😂😂 that's very clever
😅😂🤣
Not quite true. It’s well known that the strongest force in the known universe, is a Scotsman’s grip on a five pound note! 😂😂😂
@@petcatznz a five pound note me arce,a penny
This lot have lived like kings l tell you.
Aye, and we were glad of it!!!
A sketch that is true comedy genius and not widely known that tim brooke taylor - who very sadly passed away today - co-wrote it
😢RIP Tim Brook-Taylor.....
A comic genius taken from us too soon!
British comedy today is nowhere NEAR as funny as it was back then....😢
I knew Tim from the Goodies was doing comedy theatre around the same time as the Pythons but had no idea he was part of this classic sketch.... this is awesome!!!
And he cowrote it.
As far as I understand the sketch was originally created by Tim and Marty. It just shows the wealth of comedy talent at the time, and the power of television!
Thanks for sharing all this info, I too remember Tim from The Goodies, he was the funniest by far out of the 3. And Marty was really funny too, this humour is so silly and clever at the same time. 😁👏
@@andreaduncan1042 It is credited to all four.
@@TryptychUK It's almost word for word a copy of a sketch by Stephen Leacock written many years before.
As a Yorkshirefolk I still meet people like this now. Made me laugh though.
As a middle aged Yorkshireman, I am trying hard not to turn out like this! Such an easy trap to fall into; such a cleverly written sketch!
As a middle aged Yorkshireman, I am making it my life mission to turn out like this! ;-)
You were lucky, you could have been born in Lancashire!
@Repeat After Me: Scarborough's a lot safer now savile's dead I'll bet
@@portcullis5622 dont be ashamed of where you come from! and if tha does owt fo nowt! do it fo the sen!.
By 'eck...in my day, online gaming were all about writin' down binary on scraps o' old newspaper and sendin' em' by carrier pigeon.
its unbelievable, I tuned into this decades later and I'm rolling over in laughter. This ages like a good red wine. What a gem.
Written by the four of 'em (maybe with input from Barry Crier who was the wine waiter in the original apparently).
Broadcast in 1967 on the 'At Last the 1948 Show'
I feel *old* .......... but stil amused
@@Farweasel you were amused we'd be happy to be amused
Like a Château de Chasselas?
Gross Bigotry Fake News comes close.
Red Wine!? We used to get punched in the face by local Bobby and drink our own nose bleeds, if we were lucky
Key and Peele (Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele) were heavily influenced by Monty Python and other British comedy of that genre. You can see here the formula they borrowed, where things get progressively more absurd, like in their hat label sketch.
Marty Feldman always makes me smile x
So it is him.
@British Comedy UK. Marty was really very talented, and I heard he was a nice guy too.
@@mikeoleary1723 only he could be him.
That's nowt! One time, my WiFi went off fur two hours!!
(Stunned silence from the rest of the group)
Not sure if I like Graham Chapman saying “luxury“ or John Cleese saying “right.” Each of those single words delivers so much. I think I like this version of the skit more than the one I have seen hundreds of times from “live at the Hollywood bowl.“ It is brilliant.
A Yorkie is a Scot with all the generosity wrung out of him.
Oy! We Scots like and respect Yorkshire people but don't forget, you're still English. Tread carefully.
Living in North Wales when I was a kid, with 16 brothers and sisters, my mum used to feed us all at meal times with A CATAPULT. ! Real hard times. 😉
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor one of Britain's finest and most overlooked comedy performers.
I didn't overlook him.
RIP Tim, a sad day for us all who grew up watching the Goodies.
For the sake of some people on here commenting - the clip is from a show called "At Last The 1948 Show" which aired in 1967-8 (I think). It's a joke, y'see.
yea we kno! its called taking the piss!
I was so poor that I only just got dial up and this is the first thing that was recommended to me. Only took 4weeks to download on me zx81. Luxury this internet. Don't know yet born lad.
Good grief, so long ago. And now what do we get..... Wallaims, Harry Hill, Corden? Back then it were luxury and we didn't know.
I respectfully disagree. And we loved the goons
John Cleese is now the last man standing, so sad.
Well Aimi MacDonald who was also in the show is still alive but she hasn't been remembered anywhere near as much as the 4 men have been :/
Perhaps t'other 3 are waiting for 'im to recreate this sketch.
Many years ago in Australia i met an American chap who talked endlessly about this sketch. He'd only heard it once and couldn't find a copy of it in the USA. I sent him one when I got home to NZ. He reported that he played the cassette in his car and had had to stop his vehicle for fear of running off the road laughing.
Crying laughing, the timing of …..”luxury”, kills me everytime
A halfpenny a lifetime lol
I see that our now trendy boomer jokes have reached their pinnacle long before our time. There is nothing new under the sun, really, not even postmodernist mockery.
Luxury! These Yorkshire men don't know how easy they had it. They could of been further north in Scotland where it is proper rough 😅
Aye. In Scotland, they haven’t even a King, have to borrow one from t’neighbors.
We were so poor as a kid, at Christmas Grandad would suck a peppermint and would all sit around his tongue for fear of freezing from the cold. No fire in our house,... noooo.
The 4 Yorkshiremen of the Apocalypse
Not shown in 1948. The show was "At Last the 1948 Show" and it was broadcast in 1967.
Who said it was? It's quite clear in the description
Aye , this what happens when you get up half an hour before you go to bed . . . if you're lucky !!
Bit of an obvious one, that. Given the quality of the recording - and that's me being polite and assuming that you don't recognise any of the actors. I mean, like, John Cleese was not acting in 1948.
@@Turquoise412 he certainly was acting in 1948...in his sixth grade production of Hamlet if not mistaken.
I think you need to go back to school professor, since you clearly don't read.
The Bradford conservative club
When we loose people like TBT, they take a little piece of us with them or at the very least a piece of our childhood... and we feel it.