The first part is so incredebly well-written it hurts me. I can always see the sheep, even tough the camera never-ever shifts. Geniuses, I say, geniuses.
I think the thing I love most about Monty Python is their ability to think up things that are completely random. For example (although you don't need one after watching the end of the sketch) the Frenchmen sharing the mustache of inspiration. Too funny. Hey I've got it, I'm half French, so maybe if I grow a mustache I will have good, perfectly random, ideas too. ^_^
@@ParasocialCatgirl Funnily enough, since then I have actually grown a full beard. After all, if a mustache is inspiring, more surface area should amplify the effect, right? Right? Actually... uh... what was I saying?
I wish I knew what they were saying.. As you may have guessed I do NOT speak French.. I can say Sacha Distel.. Marcel Proust and Charles Aznavour tho so I can speak a little.. Oh I missed out jaques costau
I think it's a standard riff on a rural accent, a way of talking that would mark you out as a hayseed. Cook did it best, though, I agree with you there.
This is the first sketch of Monty Python Flying Circus filmed in front of an audience on studio. The first thing they filmed was "Bycicle Repair Man", but it was on film at locations.
This is satirizing the Concorde project first and foremost.. as with most Python sketches it's chock full of other clever references to philosophers, silly habits, etc.
@Zoras88 They mentioned the peanuts in the 'Funniest Joke in The World Sketch': "There were zwei peanuts walking down the strasse, und one was a salted....peanut".
I have always loved this skit particularly for the moment where Michael Palin is trying to put the moustache on John Cleese and is obviously cracking up. That large gesture with his hands and the turn of his head to cover it up makes me loose it everytime!
There is two kinds oh humour: one makes you laugh, the other "resets" you by it's situation absurdity. They're both funny in the end. Excellent sketch BTW.
This sketch is great, one of my favourite. "The bl(O)ind leading the bl(O)ind"!!! Nothing but a serious monologue and their sights that makes you see... A boundless Graham.
D'accord, d'accord, d'accord. Maintenant, je vous present, mon collegue, l'poof celebre! Jean-Brian Zatapathique! By far my favourite Monty Python moment.
This is kind of philosophical about the metaphor of people following blind like sheep do and then when one seems clever like a politician with a stupid idea when really thought about it that seems like a glorious thing if it is successful like Harold but the sheep follow and plummet I should really get some sleep
2:52 Monsieur Trubshaw ( alias Brian Trubshaw ) was the first British test pilot for Concorde so who better to take a passenger carrying sheep to the skies in a European collaboration.
That might be because neither of them are in the sketch. The City Gent is played by Terry Jones, and the Yokel by the late, great and forever sadly missed Dr Graham Chapman.
The part with Palin and Cleese, is pure nonsense, but it's one of the funniest things they've ever done. This is what I liked about Python; they took chances.
The other Pythons said that Terry Jones was the one who would do anything - playing the organ naked in a field, for example. He did the things the others wouldn't do. He was a great straight man as well as an outrageously funny comedy actor, as witness by his female characters.
Well for the first bit, you can tell that Monty Python was not exactly big-budget, due to the lack of sheep in a sheep sketch. Still, it's as funny as hell
Having the pleasure of watching all of the Python stuff when it first cme out I am an out and out Python fan. So are my kids aged 21 and 15. They love it too and their friends thing they're mad. I feel sorry for all you Americans as so much of it is just pure British humour. Keep on laughing.
I'd have said Graham was more west counrty but nevermind. in the scrips he's just descrbied as a 'rustic' i love that bit with john and michael being french, classic!
Hopefully you have all seen the alternative footage of John and Michael speaking French where they are unable to keep the mustache on and it keeps falling on the floor. Most unhygenic. In any case the two of them are plunged into such hysterics at one point Cleese loses his place in the sketch and says, "J'ai perdu ou nous sommes."
The recent DVD/Blu-ray reissue has outtakes from the Palin/Cleese Frenchmen bit and the fake mustache was evidently a nightmare, which explains why the audience goes nuts when they successfully pull off the transfer here.
I've got to get that! I would love to see outtakes. Re: the mustache, I notice Palin rubbing his upper lip and after putting it on Cleese, as if the adhesive was irritating him.
@gertmenkel problably just gibberish, like their "lethal joke" sketch; the german doesn't translate to anything-- within the sketch, it keeps the joke secret, but outside, it makes it easy for them to not have to write something so hilarious it could actually kill you (and, acording to history, it IS physically possible to die (possibly from a stroke or aneurmerism or something) from laughter).
Television could have stopped after Guys Pretending to be French Pretending to be Mechanical Airplane Sheep While Prancing Around Gaily and the world would have been fine.
@SenseOfFailure for a second, I thought they were speaking gibberish until I actually heard the words and yes, it got quite hilarious understanding them xD
Goats do climb trees; in fact, they are remarkable climbers. They've even been seen to climb nearly-sheer faces of dams or cliffs to graze on stray vegetation growing there.
Sheep behaving like birds and trying to flee because an ambitious sheep who wants to escape the slaughterhouse is alone an idea only utterly mad persons could develop; and so the Pythons must be; alone to thing of the concept of such a thing as a ringleader ship is more than I can endure.
...and for Chadner, here's a request....Would you happen to have the sketch of Cleese strongly suggesting a certain infamous German dictator...? :::grins::: I haven't seen that one in ages.
+ he directed LoB and co-directed Holy Grail and MoL and whoever doesn't think he is hilarious, please, check him as Herbert in Holy Grail. YAY for Jonesy!!!
They should have called Confuse-A-Sheep to bring Harold back to a relevant sheep behaviour... or the Spanish Inquisition, since Harold probably wouldn't expect them.
@neale61 Its quite odd that I can see the exact opposite than you from the very same sketch. How do you not see that sheep cannot evolve into something they were not made as? Even ending the whole sketch with the statue that is "thinking that he 'is' " and the pencil comes in and pops that thought balloon because its rediculous.
If Harold was clever enough to expect the spanish inquisition when nobody can, he would be clever enough to invent jet propulsion instead of jumping from trees.
@gertmenkel About half is gibberish and half makes sense. Here's the translation, as accurate as possible : - Goodnight, here we have the modern diagram of an anglo-french sheep. This is not (gibberish), now when the ear (…), like this, we have, inside the head, the cockpit where we find the little English captain Mr Trubshawe. - Long live Brian, [wherever you are (in English)] - Okay, okay, okay and now I introduce you to my colleague, the famous [poof] Jean-Brian Zatapathique.
I love that line "Notice they do not so much fly, as plummet."
The first part is so incredebly well-written it hurts me. I can always see the sheep, even tough the camera never-ever shifts. Geniuses, I say, geniuses.
Take an absurd situation, make two british people talk about it an a casual, nonchalant manner. Instant comedy!
These days it’s called Brexit 🤣🤣🤣
@@Deepthought-42too bad Monty Pithon didn't have the opportunity to comment brexit!
I think the thing I love most about Monty Python is their ability to think up things that are completely random. For example (although you don't need one after watching the end of the sketch) the Frenchmen sharing the mustache of inspiration. Too funny. Hey I've got it, I'm half French, so maybe if I grow a mustache I will have good, perfectly random, ideas too. ^_^
How goes the moustache-growing/inspiration?
@@ParasocialCatgirl Funnily enough, since then I have actually grown a full beard. After all, if a mustache is inspiring, more surface area should amplify the effect, right? Right? Actually... uh... what was I saying?
I love that in this skit Micheal actually speaks French with an Italian accent.
John Cleese and Michael Palin nearly killed my wife and I from laughing with this one 😂😂😂 especially cause my wife understands french!
This is without a doubt my favorite skit of theirs!
One thing is for sure.. A sheep is not a creature of the air.. What a killer line lol
There is an old Soviet line: "The hedgehog is a proud animal. It won't fly unless you kick it"
HAHA! This sketch is about twice as funny if you actually do speak french. They have a pretty good accent, too! Monty Python rocks.
I wish I knew what they were saying.. As you may have guessed I do NOT speak French.. I can say Sacha Distel.. Marcel Proust and Charles Aznavour tho so I can speak a little.. Oh I missed out jaques costau
The first Python sketch I ever saw, and still love it even after what must be nearly 100 times since then!
According to Cleese's autobiography, also the first one ever recorded!
First one they ever made
Ministry of Silly Walks, the Argument Clinic, Fish Slapping Dance & Bovine Aviation... you put Cleese & Palin together & it's TROUBLE.
You forgot the Cheese Shop sketch.
Michael and John are the best Frenchmen in the bunch! John's accent is quite outrageously hilarious.
Maybe that's how he ended up playing the French Taunter in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And also voiced Jean-Bob, the French frog Prince, in The Swan Princess!
I see an homage to Peter Cook in Chapmans accent and phrasing. Delightful from start to finish.
I think it's a standard riff on a rural accent, a way of talking that would mark you out as a hayseed. Cook did it best, though, I agree with you there.
This is the first sketch of Monty Python Flying Circus filmed in front of an audience on studio. The first thing they filmed was "Bycicle Repair Man", but it was on film at locations.
This is satirizing the Concorde project first and foremost.. as with most Python sketches it's chock full of other clever references to philosophers, silly habits, etc.
nonsense
@Zoras88 They mentioned the peanuts in the 'Funniest Joke in The World Sketch': "There were zwei peanuts walking down the strasse, und one was a salted....peanut".
The killer joke.
I have always loved this skit particularly for the moment where Michael Palin is trying to put the moustache on John Cleese and is obviously cracking up. That large gesture with his hands and the turn of his head to cover it up makes me loose it everytime!
The "I think therefore I am" thing at the end was hilarious. I LOVE BRITISH HUMOUR!!!! WOOO!!!
this was actually the first sketch that they ever recorded. and a good one to start with.
There is two kinds oh humour: one makes you laugh, the other "resets" you by it's situation absurdity. They're both funny in the end. Excellent sketch BTW.
Vintage stuff, lads.
What shining brightness when these were new... and still.
Love from Yank fan for decades and decades.
😂🇬🇧🌍🔭✨🌙
This sketch is great, one of my favourite. "The bl(O)ind leading the bl(O)ind"!!! Nothing but a serious monologue and their sights that makes you see...
A boundless Graham.
The sheep sounds were imitated by Monty Python actors, recorded and edited (sped up, slowed down, etc.)
Some sheep think they can fly and some men thing they can get pregnant. Another visionary scene by the Pythons.
D'accord, d'accord, d'accord. Maintenant, je vous present, mon collegue, l'poof celebre! Jean-Brian Zatapathique!
By far my favourite Monty Python moment.
"They don't fly so much as.. plummet" Best line in this one!
This is kind of philosophical about the metaphor of people following blind like sheep do and then when one seems clever like a politician with a stupid idea when really thought about it that seems like a glorious thing if it is successful like Harold but the sheep follow and plummet
I should really get some sleep
If you actually saw the sheep, it would kill the humor! The humor is in the slow, narrative revelation of what the two guys are seeing.
"Bon ! Les wheels ! Ici ! C'est formidable, n'est-ce pas ?"
"les wheels! sont formidables!" hahahaha.
"fantastique!"
2:52 Monsieur Trubshaw ( alias Brian Trubshaw ) was the first British test pilot for Concorde so who better to take a passenger carrying sheep to the skies in a European collaboration.
My mom and I always jumped around saying "BAAAH" when watching this sketch. XDD
Tsuki Neko fucking cringe
hahahah
Oh the holy Grail, my stomach still aches, beyond funny. Thank goodness they're our allies. They could easily kill us with laughter.💗
I'm Dutch, I can speak some french, but I can understand most of it, but it might just be because I too see the huge possibilities of avine aviation.
Thank you so much for uploading this!!!
That might be because neither of them are in the sketch. The City Gent is played by Terry Jones, and the Yokel by the late, great and forever sadly missed Dr Graham Chapman.
It's all in the cut-out. Brilliant work, that!
notice they do not so much fly, as plummet. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA.
The part with Palin and Cleese, is pure nonsense, but it's one of the funniest things they've ever done. This is what I liked about Python; they took chances.
The other Pythons said that Terry Jones was the one who would do anything - playing the organ naked in a field, for example. He did the things the others wouldn't do. He was a great straight man as well as an outrageously funny comedy actor, as witness by his female characters.
Classic comic geniuses, the lot of them.
Brian Trubshaw was an actual Concorde pilot.
-waves hands like flying and goes-
mamamama-mamamamama
-gets in tree jumps and plummets to earth like the sheep-
Well for the first bit, you can tell that Monty Python was not exactly big-budget, due to the lack of sheep in a sheep sketch. Still, it's as funny as hell
only comedy genuises can make a hilarious skech out of two people talking and sound clips
The high pitched Baaahhhing is actually Carol Cleveland! It was her first work on Monty Python!
@neale61, Thanks, you've given me a whole new way of looking at it!
they don't so much fly, as plummet. lol. i love that part.
Do the sheep remind anyone of the plot of "Chicken Run"?
no
I'm more reminded of that one moment from Rover Dangerfield.
Having the pleasure of watching all of the Python stuff when it first cme out I am an out and out Python fan. So are my kids aged 21 and 15. They love it too and their friends thing they're mad. I feel sorry for all you Americans as so much of it is just pure British humour. Keep on laughing.
I have loved Monty Python since it first appeared in the States in 1970 on PBS.
It is now under my impression that the French designed the A380 from a flying sheep.
I was just thinking that!! 😂😂
that is a big sheep to fit that many people in it
I'd have said Graham was more west counrty but nevermind. in the scrips he's just descrbied as a 'rustic'
i love that bit with john and michael being french, classic!
So this is how dinosaurs turned into birds. This happened for millions of years until they got it right.
This is just brilliant
the first half of the radio version is slightly funnier I think, but that bit where they swap moustaches is so funny!
Hopefully you have all seen the alternative footage of John and Michael speaking French where they are unable to keep the mustache on and it keeps falling on the floor. Most unhygenic. In any case the two of them are plunged into such hysterics at one point Cleese loses his place in the sketch and says, "J'ai perdu ou nous sommes."
they all look so young ! :-)
One of my favorites!
The recent DVD/Blu-ray reissue has outtakes from the Palin/Cleese Frenchmen bit and the fake mustache was evidently a nightmare, which explains why the audience goes nuts when they successfully pull off the transfer here.
I've got to get that! I would love to see outtakes. Re: the mustache, I notice Palin rubbing his upper lip and after putting it on Cleese, as if the adhesive was irritating him.
"Where to put the bags? Where to put the passenger." Not really exactly what they are saying, but its makes me smile.
i cant stop laughing since 3:49, Cleese is being just so silly i could die choking of the laughter
@gertmenkel problably just gibberish, like their "lethal joke" sketch; the german doesn't translate to anything-- within the sketch, it keeps the joke secret, but outside, it makes it easy for them to not have to write something so hilarious it could actually kill you (and, acording to history, it IS physically possible to die (possibly from a stroke or aneurmerism or something) from laughter).
Television could have stopped after Guys Pretending to be French Pretending to be Mechanical Airplane Sheep While Prancing Around Gaily and the world would have been fine.
monty python was a huge inspiration for the creators of worms :D
@SenseOfFailure for a second, I thought they were speaking gibberish until I actually heard the words and yes, it got quite hilarious understanding them xD
How could I find the episode where he is trying to teach the monk how to read a book?
Oops, sorry, you were of course referring to the second part! *blush*
Best sketch ever!
Well spoken, Bruce!
4:27 Auguste Rodin’s “ The Stinker” 🤔
2:00 there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito
Yep... John Cleese even managed to make Graham Chapman's funeral oration funny (I think you can see that on TH-cam). Talk about comic genius.
Love Monty Python
"He's that most dangerous of animals; a clever sheep."
How did a SHEEP get that smart?
"That's a depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep" :D
this is the sketch the nostalgia critic used in his review "rover dangerfield"
but how did the sheep get up into the trees in the first place? inquiring minds, etc.
@neale61 Interesting ... But if Harold is Darwin, how are we doing on the flying, then? Dropping flat on our wool, I would say ...
So, the prophet among sheep.
Shouldn't he be referred to as a ram, not a sheep?
Also, where do shepherds buy their smocks from? I've never seen any for sale.
INSANITY HAS A NAME: MONTY PYTHON.
A friend of my ma said she once saw a bunch of goats up a tree.
There actually are goats that get into trees. I was just reading about them a few weeks ago.
Goats do climb trees; in fact, they are remarkable climbers. They've even been seen to climb nearly-sheer faces of dams or cliffs to graze on stray vegetation growing there.
@@Tindometari Goats are wild.
michael palin corsping a bit there lmao
Those old ladys... Hilarius !
Sheep behaving like birds and trying to flee because an ambitious sheep who wants to escape the slaughterhouse is alone an idea only utterly mad persons could develop; and so the Pythons must be; alone to thing of the concept of such a thing as a ringleader ship is more than I can endure.
...and for Chadner, here's a request....Would you happen to have the sketch of Cleese strongly suggesting a certain infamous German dictator...? :::grins::: I haven't seen that one in ages.
Mr. Hilter?
I love it when the french are simulating a flying sheep /flaparms "bah bah bah"
La mouton moderne...D'accord, d'accord, le pouf célèbre! Behh, behh behhhh, merci beaucoup!
+ he directed LoB and co-directed Holy Grail and MoL
and whoever doesn't think he is hilarious, please, check him as Herbert in Holy Grail.
YAY for Jonesy!!!
They should have called Confuse-A-Sheep to bring Harold back to a relevant sheep behaviour... or the Spanish Inquisition, since Harold probably wouldn't expect them.
@neale61
Its quite odd that I can see the exact opposite than you from the very same sketch.
How do you not see that sheep cannot evolve into something they were not made as? Even ending the whole sketch with the statue that is "thinking that he 'is' " and the pencil comes in and pops that thought balloon because its rediculous.
This is how dinosaurs turned into birds. This happened for millions of years until they got it right.
Ridiculous.
"...*Nowtice* that they do not so much *floy* as *ploomett.*"
I love that accent.
@loumag7 Yup, I'm here for this reason. Love both Fripp and the Python
If Harold was clever enough to expect the spanish inquisition when nobody can, he would be clever enough to invent jet propulsion instead of jumping from trees.
@gertmenkel About half is gibberish and half makes sense. Here's the translation, as accurate as possible :
- Goodnight, here we have the modern diagram of an anglo-french sheep. This is not (gibberish), now when the ear (…), like this, we have, inside the head, the cockpit where we find the little English captain Mr Trubshawe.
- Long live Brian, [wherever you are (in English)]
- Okay, okay, okay and now I introduce you to my colleague, the famous [poof] Jean-Brian Zatapathique.
Seeing as sheep don't fly they just plummet. How exactly did they get into the trees in the first place ? 🤔
i love the french part, i could not stop laughing. "un deux trois! mehhh mehhh mehhh!"
excellent. Thanks lots. :D
Terry Jones is the gentleman and Graham Chapman is the farmer. The two "French men" are Cleese and Palin.