This and 'Silly Job Interview' are the 2 funniest sketches I've ever seen/heard by anyone anywhere ('The Pope and Michaelangelo' is a close 3rd). I have a 10 and a 16 year old, and they know them by heart. I've seen both sketches 100s of times, and still lmao every time I see them. The exaggeration(s) are hysterical, and I try to work them into my work days with co-workers and customers whenever possible. It NEVER gets old.
Arthur Bishop I agree, except I would put the Death of Mary Queen of Scots up there with it. Along with the Penguin on the Television sketch that immediately followed. At one time I could quote that entire piece word for word. 😂
@@kaymuldoon3575 my favorites are Up Your Pavement and Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticoleensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -ggutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönenddanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. I have a shirt with that on it.
Ohhhhhh, we used to dreeeeam about watching Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl. We used to hear about it from stories passed from our auntie's gran's neighbour, told to us by our dead cat, via the skills of a medium...... IF WE WERE LUCKY!
We used to wish we had the luxury of an aunty. We were sold to an old alcoholic gypsy when we wert three, used to beat us with cane, collected our tears in old jam jar…and make us boil our shoes for dinner. When i say shoes, it was more like roadkill we found at side of road…and that was furt special birthdays only
Luxury! Our dad used to wake us up with a rusty knife straight into our hearts in the middle of our previous working day where we cleaned toilets with our tongues to send us to our next shift of digging tunnels to Mongolia with our bare teeth, and god forbid if we missed a single minute. We had nothing but we had to work at one job to have the money to pay them to allow us to work at the second job.
It’s not the joke the joke is how much northerners particularly Yorkshiremen complain and constantly completing who had the worse life, victim mentality before victim mentality era. Living in Sheffield the past 15 years they are all still exactly the same up here. Never stop complaining.
When I was a kid, the years didn't even have numbers, we just used to call it "hard times..." We had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, 365 days a year, uphill in both directions... When we got home, our father would give us each a quarter if we'd agree to skip dinner (so there'd be more food for him and Mum), and he'd tell us to put it under our pillows so that we wouldn't lose it... Then, when we were asleep, he'd come in and take the quarters back, and the next morning, he'd ask us if we'd lost them... When we couldn't find them, he'd give us a whippin' for losing them, and send us off to school without breakfast to do it all over again... And you try to tell the young people today about it, and they don't believe you!
@@sandpiperr I said "the years didn't even have numbers." We weren't allowed to ask questions like that, we weren't even allowed to ask why the quarters looked just like the nickels...
@@tuxguys Luxury! Our dad used to send us out at one in the morning to steal copper wire from surrounding homes, melt it down in a homemade crucible we had to build from stones recovered from under the railroad tracks, forge the hot copper into pennies with our bear hands - using our youngest as a rolling pin to get the metal flat enough, with our only sustenance the slag snagged on his nappy - and then our father would take those pennies away right in front of us to teach us a lesson about thrift before we went off to our shift in the mines.
You were lucky to only have to go to school! When we finished school for the day, we had to go back up the hill, fighting off the wolves with our bare hands, straight to the mines, where we'd work the night shift, digging coal (also with our bare hands), go back up the hill again, to arrive at home at 6 am just in time to wake us up to go back to school!
@@seanryan3020 Ha! We used to DREAM of affording hands! We were so poor we had to roll the coal with our noses into the barrels, after which we'd have to crawl home, through a pit of burning lava, all the way to the other side of the world, to the discarded candy bar wrapper that my family shared with 100 other impoverished families, and we were lucky if our father didn't tie us to a rocket and shoot us directly into the sun before splitting a single stale breadcrumb for our month's supper!
You're lucky. We had to walk all the way to the next town over, and then we had to beg random people to pay to use their internet (at only 50 Kbps) right in their own homes.
@@tlatosmd Oh, you lucky bastards! We first had to develop speech and how to connect words in a comprehensible way for people to understand us that we were begging them to pay for the internet!
Andrew James me too. Eric did alright, but not near as good as Cleese did on the Secret Policeman's Ball version. He made Terry nearly lose it on that one.
@spankflaps1365 Which is better ! This one is good, but "paradise", "you were lucky", "luxury" and "right" are spot on on the first version. But your link is not the best one, since the beginning and the end are missing.
The funny thing is that Michael Palin was born in Ranmoor, South Yorkshire. Eric Idle was born in South Shields, then part of County Durham, after his Mum had been evacuated there from the North West, during WWII.
Luxury! Here in Wolfsburg, we´re having the Volkswagen diesel scandal, the former CEO called Martin Winterkorn, who actually ignores and refuses justice, while he´s celebrating his life in pure wealth.
Original sketch with original actors (only Graham Chapman is in both) at th-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/w-d-xo.html. No Yorkshiremen among them! (though Tim Brooke-Taylor, born in Derbyshire, came close). Barry Cryer (Yorkshireman par excellence) appears early on in the sketch as a waiter and no doubt helped with the accents and probably the dialogue as well.
Wow this has like 4 versions, it's all before my time (80s kid) I just watched the original John, Tim, Chapman, Feldman line up, I love all versions except the Atkinson version.
I'm American and I totally get it. Our parents' generation grew up in the depression, and they had to... you know, lick the road clean and get sliced in half with a bread slicer etc. (Well, not that bad, but when we would complain about difficulties, we'd hear that we should appreciate how much better things were.)
One of the greatest pieces of hyperbole ever written for a comedy.
This and 'Silly Job Interview' are the 2 funniest sketches I've ever seen/heard by anyone anywhere ('The Pope and Michaelangelo' is a close 3rd). I have a 10 and a 16 year old, and they know them by heart.
I've seen both sketches 100s of times, and still lmao every time I see them. The exaggeration(s) are hysterical, and I try to work them into my work days with co-workers and customers whenever possible. It NEVER gets old.
Arthur Bishop I agree, except I would put the Death of Mary Queen of Scots up there with it. Along with the Penguin on the Television sketch that immediately followed. At one time I could quote that entire piece word for word. 😂
'Greatest'? Now you're just exaggerating.
@@kaymuldoon3575 my favorites are Up Your Pavement and Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticoleensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -ggutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönenddanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. I have a shirt with that on it.
Oneupsmanship 100
The final point: "Young people of today won´t believe you!"
Ohhhhhh, we used to dreeeeam about watching Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl. We used to hear about it from stories passed from our auntie's gran's neighbour, told to us by our dead cat, via the skills of a medium...... IF WE WERE LUCKY!
We used to wish we had the luxury of an aunty. We were sold to an old alcoholic gypsy when we wert three, used to beat us with cane, collected our tears in old jam jar…and make us boil our shoes for dinner. When i say shoes, it was more like roadkill we found at side of road…and that was furt special birthdays only
@@ScantSquad Luxury!
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock in the night, half an hour before I went to bed.
That's my favorite part
"before you went to bed"?
You were lucky, you had a bed.
Luxury! Our dad used to wake us up with a rusty knife straight into our hearts in the middle of our previous working day where we cleaned toilets with our tongues to send us to our next shift of digging tunnels to Mongolia with our bare teeth, and god forbid if we missed a single minute. We had nothing but we had to work at one job to have the money to pay them to allow us to work at the second job.
I grew up in Yorkshire in the 1960's - this is fact! The more pain and suffering, the better your life! "Kes" (Ken Loach) is pure realism.
It’s not the joke the joke is how much northerners particularly Yorkshiremen complain and constantly completing who had the worse life, victim mentality before victim mentality era. Living in Sheffield the past 15 years they are all still exactly the same up here. Never stop complaining.
When I was a kid, the years didn't even have numbers, we just used to call it "hard times..."
We had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, 365 days a year, uphill in both directions...
When we got home, our father would give us each a quarter if we'd agree to skip dinner (so there'd be more food for him and Mum), and he'd tell us to put it under our pillows so that we wouldn't lose it...
Then, when we were asleep, he'd come in and take the quarters back, and the next morning, he'd ask us if we'd lost them...
When we couldn't find them, he'd give us a whippin' for losing them, and send us off to school without breakfast to do it all over again...
And you try to tell the young people today about it, and they don't believe you!
How did you know it was 365 days a year if you didn't have numbers?
@@sandpiperr I said "the years didn't even have numbers."
We weren't allowed to ask questions like that, we weren't even allowed to ask why the quarters looked just like the nickels...
@@tuxguys Luxury! Our dad used to send us out at one in the morning to steal copper wire from surrounding homes, melt it down in a homemade crucible we had to build from stones recovered from under the railroad tracks, forge the hot copper into pennies with our bear hands - using our youngest as a rolling pin to get the metal flat enough, with our only sustenance the slag snagged on his nappy - and then our father would take those pennies away right in front of us to teach us a lesson about thrift before we went off to our shift in the mines.
You were lucky to only have to go to school! When we finished school for the day, we had to go back up the hill, fighting off the wolves with our bare hands, straight to the mines, where we'd work the night shift, digging coal (also with our bare hands), go back up the hill again, to arrive at home at 6 am just in time to wake us up to go back to school!
@@seanryan3020 Ha! We used to DREAM of affording hands! We were so poor we had to roll the coal with our noses into the barrels, after which we'd have to crawl home, through a pit of burning lava, all the way to the other side of the world, to the discarded candy bar wrapper that my family shared with 100 other impoverished families, and we were lucky if our father didn't tie us to a rocket and shoot us directly into the sun before splitting a single stale breadcrumb for our month's supper!
“Luxury” 😂
“Paradise” 🤣
Aye, you were lucky. When I were a lad, we have to live with flash games and a landline
Ha! Had your own landline, did ya? We had to go up the road and use the one at the public library!
You're lucky. We had to walk all the way to the next town over, and then we had to beg random people to pay to use their internet (at only 50 Kbps) right in their own homes.
+Tyler Tourk
Luxury ! We had to *invent* the internet :)
And we had to invent *MONEY* to even be able to beg other people to pay the internet for us!
@@tlatosmd Oh, you lucky bastards! We first had to develop speech and how to connect words in a comprehensible way for people to understand us that we were begging them to pay for the internet!
'Eat a lump of cold poison'
Subtitles: Drink a cup of sulphuric acid !!??!!
yeah, the subs suck. Three o' clock in the morning is also subbed as 6am.
Now that's what I call a game of one downmanship! lol
Oh we used to dream of being able to call anything anything
@@mrloop1530 Being able to dream? Must have been a luxury!
Chapman's "Luxury" is the best. Palin's "Dream of living in a corridor" is the best. But I always preferred Cleese's "Right"
Andrew James
Cleese?
In another version of this skit. Not this video.
I find the ``Paradise'' that the original Marty Feldman retort even better.
Andrew James me too. Eric did alright, but not near as good as Cleese did on the Secret Policeman's Ball version. He made Terry nearly lose it on that one.
I prefer Eric Idle in this one. His tone and facial expressions own this one imo.
I got suspicious near the end.
Nonsense. I've always found you quite suspicious...
Even in Germany we used to develop humble brag dialogues out of the blue when I was a child. Took me fifty years to discover that original template😃
Just out of curiosity, how many of you in America have heard of Yorkshire? You should come and visit, you will be made most welcome.
Oh we used to dream of being invited to anywhere
@Ahajqjkw Njwkwkwk anw yes it is.
I worry these gentlemen's dads will slice me in half with a bread slicer if I come!
Obviously not all at the same time.
I’ve heard of the pudding
We were evicted from our hole in the ground 😂😂😂
The sound of a family reunion
Am i the only one wanting to hear them practice this before they got it right?
Here’s the original version from 1967:
th-cam.com/video/DT1mGoLDRbc/w-d-xo.html
@spankflaps1365 Which is better ! This one is good, but "paradise", "you were lucky", "luxury" and "right" are spot on on the first version. But your link is not the best one, since the beginning and the end are missing.
The timing and delivery is so much better in this version than in the original with Feldman, Cleese, Brooke-Taylor and Chapman.
That's yer opinion. Wrong as it may be.
This is just perfect in every respect.
The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Marty Feldman.
But if they wouldnt have , Spike Milligan would have :)
Oh we used to dream of having any knowledge of anything
I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed...
You had a bed?
Really?
Lucky you....
Humble Brag: Monthy Python style
OOOHH We used to dreaaam of living in a corridor. It would have been a palace to us.
The funny thing is that Michael Palin was born in Ranmoor, South Yorkshire.
Eric Idle was born in South Shields, then part of County Durham, after his Mum had been evacuated there from the North West, during WWII.
This sketch was soooooo funny, soooooo good, and soooo original.
Back in my day, we'd have to work overtime at the coal mine to be able to afford to watch comedy.
Laughing my head off as if it was the first time... brilliant!!!
Head! You were lucky to have a head. We had neck cut off at the adam's apple and pour hot grease down our throat!
We used to live in a lake!
LOVE that one!!!
RIP Graham and Terry
Luxury! Here in Wolfsburg, we´re having the Volkswagen diesel scandal, the former CEO called Martin Winterkorn, who actually ignores and refuses justice, while he´s celebrating his life in pure wealth.
Original sketch with original actors (only Graham Chapman is in both) at th-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/w-d-xo.html. No Yorkshiremen among them! (though Tim Brooke-Taylor, born in Derbyshire, came close). Barry Cryer (Yorkshireman par excellence) appears early on in the sketch as a waiter and no doubt helped with the accents and probably the dialogue as well.
Gold. I want to hear more of these goofs.
well, most of them are dead
@@pitedapollo6175 Like a parrot
@@frosty6960 good one
"Luxury in Sierra Leone we used to dream of having a bath in the kitchen"
We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank.
That line has always stuck with me!! Along with the getting up an hour before we went to bed 😅 one of my favorites from python bunch
Palin under-rated/ under- appreciated. Superb in every Python movie/ sketch
"...thrash us to sleep..." ?!!! LOL
Deborah Bryant beat 'em
Beaten until you get knocked out.
Oh we used to dream of sleeping
Excellent subtitles!
Funny enough, this sounds like every British OAP on social media political debates.
Brilliant !!!
***** This is where I get my inspiration.
Luxury.
Wow this has like 4 versions, it's all before my time (80s kid) I just watched the original John, Tim, Chapman, Feldman line up, I love all versions except the Atkinson version.
Graham sounds more Welsh.
Upping each other, lol!
made a couple of GIFS from this
The greatest ever
The larch
I would like to see a version of this sketch with the Pepperpots.
@Sveavivaldi Yes it is, you just have to turn them on.
This is a bit from the goon show, right?
Footage from the Conservative party conference?
So where's the subtitles? None? Then don't say "Subtitled" in the posting!
Now this is funny, SNL never could do this. Well maybe the 70s SNL could.
It reminds me of how today certain people will trip over themselves trying to come up with ways in which they've been oppressed.
Hahaha
Funny but too many errors in the subtitles.
Lisa Greenstein "Pfft. In my day, we dreamed to have any subtitles at all!"
+Kyle Stubbs
in my days we dreamed we could dream !
In my days, we dreamed we had any letters at all!
@@tlatosmd You were lucky to have "In My Days"!!
Ye skittin'?
lôxery!
I am the 1000th like!
I am the walrus.
Kto od Arasza?
ja XD Miał racje skubany, zajebisty skecz.
I dont get this. Is it because im American?
Yes🙂
I'm American and I totally get it. Our parents' generation grew up in the depression, and they had to... you know, lick the road clean and get sliced in half with a bread slicer etc. (Well, not that bad, but when we would complain about difficulties, we'd hear that we should appreciate how much better things were.)
No.
I'm American and I get this.
😂😂😂
LOLOL!!
Having just seen the original (for the umpteenth time) this rendition doesn't work (for me) Timing is everything in comedy
This is not the same without John Cleese.
bro. you don't know what you're talking about.
You're thinking of Marty Feldman...
Cleese was there, just not in this skit.
Cleese and Feldman are missing, but the only original there is Chapman.
Not funny ...