I'm kind of overwhelmed by the cozy atmosphere they develop while communally reading the book. It's funny and all, but I'm so much more happy to see all those people gathering and doing something together.
Exactly this! Yes, it's a struggle to read, but they're all in it together, and no one is making fun of anyone else for having a hard time - they're all enjoying themselves and having fun. It is possibly the best spin on a joke about people reading aloud poorly I've ever seen - normally it's cruel, but it's not here. I suppose that's what the man on the floor is about at the end - you can either perish from frustration when someone's struggling to read aloud, or you can cheer them on and help them out.
its just occurred to me that there can't be too many other sketches where all of the members of monty python, including Terry Gilliam and Carol Cleveland (an unofficial python) all in the same sketch at the same time
I was never in a lot of plays, but I loved reading, and a lot of my classmates read excerpts from our books like this in a dispassionate voice. I was devastated and vented my disappointment by hitting my head against the wall.
Nothing infuriated me more as a kid as having to listen to people read like this in class. I know it was probably mean of me at the time, as not everyone is suited to reading out loud (or can read the same way) but it sure brings back those IRRITATING memories ;)
I don't know about you blokes, but I think "The sunset was dying over the hills of Solway Firth. The lone piper on the battlements of Edinburgh Casde was silhouetted against the crimson-streaked sky" sounds like a bang-up opening for a novel.
I am sooooo glad I inherited my mother and father's sense of humor. Neither are British but their must be some British that came down our lineage. Some of the best humor ever! I remember growing up and my parents watching Monty Python on PBS while I was a kid. I started taking notice as a teen. They still watch a ton of British programming on BBC America.
driven by the will to help reading, they were gathering first from the whole studio, then from the garden (the gardener with the bird), then from more distant locations like Scotland... :)
Engimatic a bit why this is so funny, but it is. The BBC-ish pomposity starts it off, and the effortless superiority as John Cleese takes over from Michael. But then the unexpected twist as competition turns to cooperation, they start egging each other on, and could not care less if anybody (more erudite than them) is watching. And they are actually galvanised by the joy of the reading experience (which would be the real point in real life). Key note: it wouldn't have been so funny if it hadn't been so NICE. Total warmth! Clearly the Pythons can mock if they choose, but the typical determination not to actually hurt anybody at all here is stunning when looked at from the 2020s. There is something special about this.
Dear Sir, I strongly object to the stupidity of the people who disliked your comment. Obviously they do not have the sense of humor or sense of sarcasm to comprehend the joke you made. I, on the other hand, have a very wide sense of humor and find your joke hilarious. Sincerely, Arthur B. Tightarse, Willchester
Dear Madam, I wish to complain about the nature of your complaint regarding the previous complaint. It is the right of complainants such as myself, yourself and the previous person, who's self complained and thus became the subject of your subsequent complaint, to complain when and where we perceive good reason to lodge a complaint...
@Kahli21 - LOL, that can be said for every single language. All languages derive and change over time. Modern-English developed in England. End of. But having said that. It's only because of Webster that Americans spell different. The English used to spell COLOR as COLOR. It's THEM that changed it. Ironically. Color was spelled Colour to be similar to the french spelling as that was fashionable. Also standard American English accent is closer to Shakespeare than "Estaury English".
A lot of bits they wrote or created were direct shots at the BBC / Im guessing this one was about pythons not pronouncing the words in the skits correctly by some BBC executive
Number thirty-two: the lady lies with her left leg planted firmly on the ground and the right hand waiting. The gentleman with the melon switches on the battery and places his left thigh on the edge of the swivel table. Keeping the neck of the stuffed goose absolutely still...
Every time one of our foreign language teachers misguidedly thinks we should read aloud, it's like this. I kid you not. Especially in the lower grades, but there are still some people who just can't learn/read/pronounce other languages. I guess I did this to some extent too, when I was younger (I'm from Germany, so English isn't my first language).
We're reading Romeo and Juliet in my lit class, and most of the students in my class sound exactly like this when they read Shakespeare...
Same thing when people read Macbeth. I was pretty infuriated.
Lit means on fire, and this is what it shall always mean to me. Burn the fuckers.
Don't say McBeth. It's the Scottish Play, or the Bard's play, if you please.
in my class it was always the one guy who VOLUNTEERED to read.
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Micheal Palin's timing is the best. I lost it during this skit! This is the 1st time I have seen it. Now, it's one of my favorites
and Spike Milligan. Look up Spike Milligan Q. The Pythons often pay tribute to him.
Cleese looks so confident when he takes the book, then just stops at "crimson" HAHAHA
Yeah, he's perfect as long as he's remembering what Palin got through.
I actually had the idea that Cleese had difficulty making mistakes 😅
What it's like learning a new language
I'm kind of overwhelmed by the cozy atmosphere they develop while communally reading the book. It's funny and all, but I'm so much more happy to see all those people gathering and doing something together.
Exactly this! Yes, it's a struggle to read, but they're all in it together, and no one is making fun of anyone else for having a hard time - they're all enjoying themselves and having fun. It is possibly the best spin on a joke about people reading aloud poorly I've ever seen - normally it's cruel, but it's not here. I suppose that's what the man on the floor is about at the end - you can either perish from frustration when someone's struggling to read aloud, or you can cheer them on and help them out.
Hannah I think this episode had a running joke about exploding Scotsman, that’s the one jittering about on the floor.
Wholesome comment
when that ends, the same crew do the Shipping Forecast, which'd end at approx 03.26.
Who knew that reading a book could be fun for the whole family.
i swear to god this was what it was like in my highschool english class where people took too long to read a damned page .----.
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its just occurred to me that there can't be too many other sketches where all of the members of monty python, including Terry Gilliam and Carol Cleveland (an unofficial python) all in the same sketch at the same time
Interestingly, Carol's character seemed to be the only one in this who actually could read. They should have given the book to her.
I taught some college history courses, and this was the level of reading ability I encountered. I gave up teaching.
Perhaps you were teaching in the wrong country.
Lesson learned. Don't try to teach Americans.
Lol!! At 2:18 someone in the audience shouts "Albatross!"
I hadn't noticed that before. They were clearly getting rowdy fans in by this point!
Must be the Albatross vendor. I don't know if he's in the same episode or not, though.
engdingbugger
"..towards the Russian bolder."
And when you go there, they are.
I like how Google helpfully offers to:
Translate to English
and fails miserably.
What makes it funnier is how Cleese and Idle have such great reading voices.
I was never in a lot of plays, but I loved reading, and a lot of my classmates read excerpts from our books like this in a dispassionate voice. I was devastated and vented my disappointment by hitting my head against the wall.
that's one of the sketches i never get tired of watching.
and reading (trying to)
That's why I love Monty Python. It's so random that it starts to make sense.
Nothing infuriated me more as a kid as having to listen to people read like this in class. I know it was probably mean of me at the time, as not everyone is suited to reading out loud (or can read the same way) but it sure brings back those IRRITATING memories ;)
Forget having to suffer through this as a kid... I had kids in my Grade 11 class that couldn't read half this well!
@@NeptunesOrcamy ex brother in law reads like this, and he’s 32
Another day at the average high school final exam.
michael is so cute. he's like a little boy struggling to read his first book
I love this skit so much! A true ensemble effort from the whole cast, I even see Terry the American there in the crowd. Love them all ❤😂🎉
I don't know about you blokes, but I think "The sunset was dying over the hills of Solway Firth. The lone piper on the battlements of Edinburgh Casde was silhouetted against the crimson-streaked sky" sounds like a bang-up opening for a novel.
So it's not ? I'm curious whether this is an actual Book. Doesn't seem to be Redgauntlet
Way ahead of it's time. Fast forward to 2024.
Our illiteracy issues?
Being able to read is now racist.@@godzillavkk
@@josephmessina3587 What are you talking about?
@@godzillavkk You got it.
Iconic. Other shows might have thought up the same sketch, but they wouldn't have included the flamingo and the Scotsman.
One of my Pythonesque fave sketch XD . A rare occasion to see the Six together.
Classic epic and timeless Monty Python. Laughs guaranteed any decade.
Yay! They finished it! As much as Monty Python can push the envolope, they can be really childlike and cute sometimes too.
Didn't realize that dyslexia was contagious. 😂
Never, I repeat, NEVER, watch this whilst eating. I almost chocked to death.
I am sooooo glad I inherited my mother and father's sense of humor. Neither are British but their must be some British that came down our lineage. Some of the best humor ever! I remember growing up and my parents watching Monty Python on PBS while I was a kid. I started taking notice as a teen. They still watch a ton of British programming on BBC America.
There's nothing worthwhile on BBC America these days.
Gotta love this.. well I have loved these things since I born.. -79.. Monty4ever.
I loved it when late in the sketch the guy had a bird under his arm & someone shouted, "Albatross"!
Michael is so cuuuutie >.< Specially when he stands up briefly then goes out of shot
This video reminds me....when are miniskirts going to make a comeback.....? ( sigh )
Did they ever go away?
Michael's just too cute. Love this sketch.
Thank God for youtube so that we can have instantanious access to the brilliance that is Monty Python!
The guy with the flamingo at the end is pure beauty.
driven by the will to help reading, they were gathering first from the whole studio, then from the garden (the gardener with the bird), then from more distant locations like Scotland... :)
Funny how Michael looks so proud of himself after saying the word 'battley-ments'.
It's a sketch with them all in, that's nice.
Oh my God.. I love these guys.
This was oddly wholesome.
wow, the ensemble that came together by the end there was... kind of adorable!
It's ridiculous how adorable Michael is in this.
"Hullo..."
It all became a Florida high school!
Same here, to the next sketch! No time to louse!
These guys were true geniuses.
this is great. I love how they're really trying to read it. so Monty-pythonish
Oh I love this skit and I'll show it to all my teachers of English friends!
Michel is ridiculously adorable! He's one of my favorites in Monty Python.
Engimatic a bit why this is so funny, but it is.
The BBC-ish pomposity starts it off, and the effortless superiority as John Cleese takes over from Michael.
But then the unexpected twist as competition turns to cooperation, they start egging each other on, and could not care less if anybody (more erudite than them) is watching.
And they are actually galvanised by the joy of the reading experience (which would be the real point in real life).
Key note: it wouldn't have been so funny if it hadn't been so NICE.
Total warmth!
Clearly the Pythons can mock if they choose, but the typical determination not to actually hurt anybody at all here is stunning when looked at from the 2020s.
There is something special about this.
Dear Sir,
I strongly object to the stupidity of the people who disliked your comment. Obviously they do not have the sense of humor or sense of sarcasm to comprehend the joke you made. I, on the other hand, have a very wide sense of humor and find your joke hilarious.
Sincerely,
Arthur B. Tightarse, Willchester
As a teacher this is an every day occurrence for me (, not really).
Relatively rare Terry Gilliam sighting starting at 1:54.
this reminds me of of the time I taught some first and second graders how to read some more challenging words off a vocabulary list.
0:47 nailed it
Dear Madam,
I wish to complain about the nature of your complaint regarding the previous complaint. It is the right of complainants such as myself, yourself and the previous person, who's self complained and thus became the subject of your subsequent complaint, to complain when and where we perceive good reason to lodge a complaint...
Reminds me of the bank robbing scene in Take the Money and run.
I want to return this record it is scratched.
Never seen this before absolutely brilliant!
Están los seis Monty Python. ..Y un flamenco! !!😆😂😃
@Kahli21 - LOL, that can be said for every single language. All languages derive and change over time.
Modern-English developed in England. End of.
But having said that. It's only because of Webster that Americans spell different. The English used to spell COLOR as COLOR. It's THEM that changed it. Ironically.
Color was spelled Colour to be similar to the french spelling as that was fashionable.
Also standard American English accent is closer to Shakespeare than "Estaury English".
Their reading ability is even worse than you think. That passage isn't even in Redgauntlet.
if they try to read the whole thing without help, they probably wouldn't have finished this skit until... they were all dead. XD
I love this show!
This is going to take a while.
real footage of me and my friends trying to learn German
I just love how proud Michael Palin looks into the camera after deciphering "bat-tah-lee-ments" :-)
The comment was actually a quote from the "letter of complaint" sketch after this, read by John Cleese
Aberdeen
Inverness
Dundee
Perth
Glasgow
Endingbugger
Notlob
These guys are nuts! :)
This is exactly how English poetry looks like for a non native English. Even if quite experienced in English.
That's wghat I call teamwork. Helping each other read.
That's the most touching reading of Rarnaby Budge I've ever listened to.
A lot of bits they wrote or created were direct shots at the BBC / Im guessing this one was about pythons not pronouncing the words in the skits correctly by some BBC executive
We visited Edinburgh castle last week.
I swear, I always had to think about "Endin-Bugger" all of the time.
i think this is their funniest sketch
Number thirty-two: the lady lies with her left leg planted firmly on the ground and the right hand waiting. The gentleman with the melon switches on the battery and places his left thigh on the edge of the swivel table. Keeping the neck of the stuffed goose absolutely still...
Engdingbugger?
This is so good
Terry Gilliam gave himself prime position.
Reminds me of Lloyd Christmas trying to read “the”!
Great how they get progressively smugger as they take over the reading. Makes it even funnier when they too come unstuck.
Th-that was such a touching story. Now I can rest peacefully. :')
Palin went to Oxford and Cleese and Chapman went to Cambridge.
Well, to end on a positive note: the cameraman stayed and kept doing his job
pmslmfao one of the best sketches i have ever seen, and probably ever will
@ifureadthisdie Yes you did. All 6 Pythons were in the sketch by the end of it, lol. He's holding a clipboard behind the lady in the sketch :)
i love the fact that somebody in the audiance yelled out "ALBATROS!" when the guy with the flamingo walked out. lol
I do this with the grandkids and they just love hearing me stumble over some words. You have to get the facial expressions right or it is not as good.
omg i love the expression on his face after he reads battlements @ 0:47!
Every time one of our foreign language teachers misguidedly thinks we should read aloud, it's like this. I kid you not. Especially in the lower grades, but there are still some people who just can't learn/read/pronounce other languages. I guess I did this to some extent too, when I was younger (I'm from Germany, so English isn't my first language).
+Hedwig Art lol This is what it was like for me and my classmates trying to read Spanish xD
+Hedwig Art In Poland it is like this with German. English goes well unless it's a non English teacher.
Sounds like me trying to read Russian.
Sounds like me trying to read Martian. Except that's actually how Martian's SUPPOSED to sound.
Class reading historical stories in a nutshell
It's an undetonated kamikaze scottsman, which appeared in the episode in which this sketch also appeared in.
Aw, Graham's so cute with those earphones
I was that one kid who read the book for the class as everyone else was either too shy or exactly like this
He's just making a Monty Python style letter joke. If you had watched enough Monty Python, you would recognize it.
Just like us at the English lesson... And John is me, taking the book from someone and reading the damn thing correctly... for a while :D
Wow, this takes me waaaay back...When half the class couldn't read yet.
Que preciosa carita de Mike.era adorable!!!!💖💝💖💝💖💝💖💝💖💝
I loved all 32 pixels of this video.
"...ending bugger..."
😂
Gold gold gold
..love it