That was in 1979, Graham was still alive. Rowan was in the sketch to replace Eric Idle, who couldn't make it. Rowan was only 24 years old, and he had to perform with the legendary Monty Pythons. It was really extraordinary for him.
@@alexandrataylor1007 eyelids? You had luxury. Back in my day we didn't have eyes. We had to use second hand marbles in our sockets... if we were lucky
Weirdly enough, Bill Hader does exactly the same thing when he plays the character of Stefon on SNL. He actually built it into the character because he could never keep a straight face while doing the sketches.
This was originally performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman in At Last The 1948 Show. The best known version is probably the one on Monty Python's Live at Drury Lane album, with Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle. It says much about the greatness of Rowan Atkinson that he is not out of place alongside his heroes.
+Colin Baker It was also performed by the same Python team at Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. I never knew why Cleese didn't reprise his role in the Monty Python versions, but Idle did a great job in his place.
"26 of us in a room, no furniture and half the floor was missing" XD. I'll never get tired of this version. It's like the often-imitated Aristocrats joke, just constant one-upsmanship. This version is stil lthe best, IMO.
Cleese is so clearly enjoying how he destroyed poor Terry. That triumphant look on his face before he utters his final "no" is savage. And so, so funny. He sure had a knack for driving his colleagues over the edge. Terry had already resigned and given himself away to silent despair at that point, trying hard not to cackle. With an almost pained expression on his face. Well. I'll be glad to do the cackling every time I come to revisit this wonderful sketch. R.I.P. Terry Jones
The one being most stressed about this conversation is obviously John Cleese's character 😂😂 Omg this is a classic I will laugh to until the end of my life.😅
In my opinion this is the best version of this sketch and the funniest! Poor Terry Jones trying so hard to keep a straight face during John Cleeses rant at the end, just priceless! 😂😂
Getting soon to write memoirs of being homeless, I remember standing in the dark twilight looking at the alcove that was out of sight, covering on 3 sides but, but the rain wouldn't come down on me . As I traveled around in a circle looking for the best place to lay down on the floor ,,the cheerful words came to mind " We used to dream of living in a corridor" as I tried to make myself as comfortable as possible , thinking, your right at this time I am actually dreaming of living in a corridor. I did try to stay in sort of a boiler room with heat but was told to move along. Thank you monty python, peter cook ect for being there, The absurdity of the comity combined with the absurdity of the situation made the situation survivable
This is what makes rowan the greatest actor, like he doesn't over do it, he's being less loud, and talking like he's in a real conversation, not like at 3:26 when john Cleese over doing it just to make it more dramatic.
I don't think he was overdoing it. He had top everything everybody else said before him. He just drove the words home by being angry and the loudest of the bunch. I think it was a better choice than just be all calm and toned down. My two cents (a luxury).
If you listen to all versions of this starting from the original in 1967, Cleese renders this particular hardship the best, justifiably being irritated by the other snowflakes who thought they had it tough.
The first time I ever heard this sketch was this version, back in the early 80s when I had a video tape with the Secret Policeman's Ball on it. I really prefer the delivery on this version than the one on the Monty Python album I bought years later.
We didn't 'ave Twitter. We 'ad to make do wit' Facebook. There were hundred and six of us, no hashtags, and all the comments were telling us to kill ourselves.
When I was a boy, I had to walk to school, in the snow with no shoes on and shorts and the teacher would beat us if we even took a breath out of time… BRING THE GOOD OLD DAYS BACK!!!!!!
Lo hallé. Primera versión de este sketch. Es de:At last the 1948 show. Con Cleese, Chapman, Marty Feldman y Tim Brooke Taylor. Justo un par de años antes que se formara Monty Python. La mejor sigue siendo la del Hollywod Bowl. Con Chapman,Idle,Palin y Jones. 😃😙
Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl is still my favourite version of this sketch But I love how there are different versions of it, like different singers interpreting a folk song. Everyone has their favourite
Creo que Jones más bien parece llorar. Todo preparado. Seria cuestión de ver la versión original.En el Hollywod Bowl cuando estuvo Graham fue muy bueno.
Facebook exploding once in a while in the Netherlands when parents post a topic about giving their children an e-bike for their 12 miles trips to and from school... Reactions à la Yorkshiremen... 😄
Lots of terrible living conditions described here but the most troubling of them is the appalling idea that someone could live in a lake. Has anyone thought for a moment how something like that would even work?
You realise Britain's economy was inevitably gonna decline relative to other countries in the face of WW2 debt and the collapse of the empire? Every country has to face globalisation, why not innovate instead of just moan and fuck things up for the rest of us who understand the positives of globalisation and free trade?
Its fairly obvious that the majority of people don't want globalization. And for a good reason. Globalization would rob countries of their individual identities. Free trade deals are necessary, sure, but lately the world is going insane with them. Almost everything is manufactured in China. Nothing is made in England, US, Canada or Australia anymore, or a lot of other countries for that matter. It's costing people jobs as well as costing the countries as a whole from having productive manufacturing industries and economies.
Gee, this was so much WORSE than the original. It's hammy, the accents are nowhere near as strong or accurate. Cleese's final rant was totally out of character for this shetch -- ie, a Yorkshireman simply exagerating his hardships in a believable voice, but was an overdone cliché in a Basil Faulty style rant. He knows that style is his popular trademark and always good for laughs but here it is pure egotism inappropriately taking over the sketch. Shame.
Imagine pretending to be a Monty Python fan and taking these sketches seriously + gatekeeping the way you think they should deliver it. Every Monty Python would laugh in your face hearing you being so self-righteous and stuck up
@@stephanociraptor I can still be a (40 year) fan and take their comedy seriously, especially when, some 40 years after the original, the comics ham it up for posterity and money. Get over it. Not everything an artist does is always as good as each other. This was nowhere near as authentic as the original, and therefore less funny, imo.
@@stephanociraptor And besides, Cleese is really overlaying the Basil Fawlty shtick here. His "Right!" is a Fawlty trademark, never appropriate in the original -- because they weren't trying to consciously outdo the other but just being classic Yorkshiremen.
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That was in 1979, Graham was still alive. Rowan was in the sketch to replace Eric Idle, who couldn't make it. Rowan was only 24 years old, and he had to perform with the legendary Monty Pythons. It was really extraordinary for him.
He is so good!
He did great!
He, along with Michael Palin, has the sharpest comic timing of the group.
Great timing, as ever, but with a Geordie accent (!)
see, back then they didn't have it easy..and today's comedians won't even believe it! (all in good spirits)
Terry Jones is dying with laughter at the end, and Cleese is just smirking at him so evilly.
God, I forgot how much I loved this sketch.
Great revenge by Cleese. Jones was notorious for messing with the others and making them corpse when they were live.
You can't die from laughter
John nearly lost it too at 3:42, but he looked away for a few seconds and got it under control.
@@swanningabout Yes you can actually.
Lucky he didn't have any more lines at that point ;D
'Reminds me of the misery of my childhood. I wish I could recall it now, but back then we were so poor, I couldn't afford to pay attention!
57levity good one 😆
We were so poor that we couldn't afford memories.
attention, we used to dream of attention...
@@VCYT At least you had dreams. We couldn't even afford the backs of our eyelids!
@@alexandrataylor1007 eyelids? You had luxury.
Back in my day we didn't have eyes. We had to use second hand marbles in our sockets... if we were lucky
"I used to get up in the morning, half past ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed"
That delivery always gets me
great line :)
I love how 40 years later, this is still every bit as relevant, and we still have parents telling us how hard they had it "back in our day".
I love how Terry starts cracking up when John goes on his final rant. He has to cover his face to not show it.
Weirdly enough, Bill Hader does exactly the same thing when he plays the character of Stefon on SNL. He actually built it into the character because he could never keep a straight face while doing the sketches.
Love how he glares directly at him too lmao
R.I.P. Terry Jones. You were absolutely brilliant.
This was originally performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman in At Last The 1948 Show. The best known version is probably the one on Monty Python's Live at Drury Lane album, with Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle.
It says much about the greatness of Rowan Atkinson that he is not out of place alongside his heroes.
+Colin Baker It was also performed by the same Python team at Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. I never knew why Cleese didn't reprise his role in the Monty Python versions, but Idle did a great job in his place.
NewhamMatt Cleese isn't in the Drury Lane version either. It was Chapman, Idle, Jones and Palin.
Colin Baker Sounds right - it sounds like that was the line up Python always used until the recent reunion where Cleese sat in Chapman's place.
This is a great comment.
For me, this one is the definitive version. But of course everyone has their own preference.
I love how John's smile at the end as he spots Terry trying not to laugh :)
“We were all ‘uddled in one corner fer fear o’fallin.” 😂
It's been done so many times but this is the definitive version, three Pythons and a huge young talent from the next generation of British comedy.
I don't agree. I prefer the older (the first one I think) version of it. Every answer, like "paradise", "luxury", and "right" is so well said...
John Cleese gives the best performance ever in this version
Fredrockroll the rage he seems able to unleash on a whim Is one of his greatest assets
"Cardboard Box?"
"Aye"
"You're Lucky."
we used to dream of living in a box :D
The Four Yorkshiremen of the Apocalypse...
I wasn't sure who would get "Luxury."
Rowan nailed it.
"26 of us in a room, no furniture and half the floor was missing" XD. I'll never get tired of this version. It's like the often-imitated Aristocrats joke, just constant one-upsmanship. This version is stil lthe best, IMO.
Absolutely agree.
It's awesome how John Cleese is killing poor Terry Jones near the end of this. They must have had a great laugh afterwords.
It's so precious to see xD
1948 show original is better
Idle and Chapman were no doubt great, but Cleese’s delivery was often peerless!
Terry Jones is so precious, I miss him even though I've never met him
OMG, Seeing Terry J's reaction is priceless. There is the Parrot Sketch with John destroying Michael Palin. Palin struggles to not burst out laughing.
yeh so sad his decline ,sadly dont think he has much longer left :( glad we have these vids
Palin got his revenge as pilot in life of Brian though.
Cleese is so clearly enjoying how he destroyed poor Terry. That triumphant look on his face before he utters his final "no" is savage. And so, so funny. He sure had a knack for driving his colleagues over the edge. Terry had already resigned and given himself away to silent despair at that point, trying hard not to cackle. With an almost pained expression on his face. Well. I'll be glad to do the cackling every time I come to revisit this wonderful sketch.
R.I.P. Terry Jones
Terry Jones trying not to laugh at the end of the video made my day.
Not only was this hilarious, it's even funnier watching the subtitles attempting to decipher the Yorkshire dialect!
The one being most stressed about this conversation is obviously John Cleese's character 😂😂 Omg this is a classic I will laugh to until the end of my life.😅
Rowen Atkinson and Monty python together at last, WHY DIDN'T THIS HAPPEN MORE OFTEN??
1 Yorkshireman (Palin) and 3 others. Still great though and my American stepson loves this sketch
In my opinion this is the best version of this sketch and the funniest! Poor Terry Jones trying so hard to keep a straight face during John Cleeses rant at the end, just priceless! 😂😂
Getting soon to write memoirs of being homeless,
I remember standing in the dark twilight looking at the alcove that was out of sight, covering on 3 sides but, but the rain wouldn't come down on me . As I traveled around in a circle looking for the best place to lay down on the floor ,,the cheerful words came to mind
" We used to dream of living in a corridor" as I tried to make myself as comfortable as possible , thinking, your right at this time I am actually dreaming of living in a corridor. I did try to stay in sort of a boiler room with heat but was told to move along.
Thank you monty python, peter cook ect for being there,
The absurdity of the comity combined with the absurdity of the situation made the situation survivable
John Cleese's "rrright...." in the closer is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen after all these years!
Most comedians take pleasure in making the people in the audience laugh. Not Cleese. He took pleasure in making the people on stage with him laugh.
This is my very. favorite version of this brilliant sketch
michael palin is fuckin amazing man, but them all together are brilliant
I love how Terry Jones starts cracking up at the end ❤️
This is the best version of this sketch
“You try telling the young people of today that, and they won’t believe you”
“Ok boomer.”
By a Yorkshire country mile the best version of this sketch. Brilliant
We 'ad t'go live in t'lake!
Magic Sketch.. Rowan does allreet an all
I think it's time youtube make people justify why they dislike a video.
;-)
great point cos many just hate the uploader n take it out on a great video
I'm told that most of the "dislikes" are provided by TH-cam to balance the algorithm in some way. I don't know how.
This is what makes rowan the greatest actor, like he doesn't over do it, he's being less loud, and talking like he's in a real conversation, not like at 3:26 when john Cleese over doing it just to make it more dramatic.
I don't think he was overdoing it. He had top everything everybody else said before him. He just drove the words home by being angry and the loudest of the bunch. I think it was a better choice than just be all calm and toned down. My two cents (a luxury).
That's what makes it funnier I think
Definitely he killed it! Brilliant
If you listen to all versions of this starting from the original in 1967, Cleese renders this particular hardship the best, justifiably being irritated by the other snowflakes who thought they had it tough.
How good is John Cleese at getting worked up in sketches, brilliant all round as well
This always makes me laugh until I cry!
The first time I ever heard this sketch was this version, back in the early 80s when I had a video tape with the Secret Policeman's Ball on it. I really prefer the delivery on this version than the one on the Monty Python album I bought years later.
GOLD
Just did this skit, people loved it. After everyone was gone, we did it camp! Then there was cry/laughing...soe said funniest thing they ever saw...
*some
@@Lazy_Sundae Lord...yes I made a typo
@@lisawentworth6831 You're welcome.
It's weird how this is now how Twitter functions.
We didn't 'ave Twitter. We 'ad to make do wit' Facebook.
There were hundred and six of us, no hashtags, and all the comments were telling us to kill ourselves.
@@dars5229luxury!
One of my favorites!
Poor Terry... he did his best not to laugh... :)
3 spoilt young yobs who don't know how good they have it disliked this
In my day we used to DREAM of having a Dislike button.
the best version
When I was a boy, I had to walk to school, in the snow with no shoes on and shorts and the teacher would beat us if we even took a breath out of time… BRING THE GOOD OLD DAYS BACK!!!!!!
eat a lump of freezing cold poison. kills me every time
No it doesn't
@@swanningabout yes it does, I know this
As if Room Temperature Poison would be a step-up. Great sketch.
@@gfoursux9 ROOM Temperature Poison ? You were t'lucky !
Maybe the funniest sketch ever!! Not originally Monty Python, but At last the 1948 show!!
Ed Freeman I agree hilarious, better with four Python though
Wish we'd had it so good...
Lo hallé. Primera versión de este sketch. Es de:At last the 1948 show. Con Cleese, Chapman, Marty Feldman y Tim Brooke Taylor. Justo un par de años antes que se formara Monty Python. La mejor sigue siendo la del Hollywod Bowl. Con Chapman,Idle,Palin y Jones. 😃😙
Excellent!! Watched the one with Feldman first, then this with Mr. Bean!! LOVE 'em both!! 😂😂😍
The very first motorway was in Yorkshire. Heard it here.
The very first football club, Sheffield F.C. Yorkshire an all.
They built the motorway to make it easier to escape.
Dear mercy, this reminds me of family gatherings and the lies that were told.
Pure gold
I'm german native speaker and even I can hear how they're struggling with the northern accent.
At first I wondered whether Graham would mind that he had been replaced by Rowan for this sketch but then I thought fuck him, he's dead!
I dare say Graham would've said the same thing.
I dunno, necrophilia is a step too far.
@@richardlloyd2589 🤣😂
Written by the Goodie: Tim Brooke-Taylor!
Co-written.
Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl is still my favourite version of this sketch
But I love how there are different versions of it, like different singers interpreting a folk song. Everyone has their favourite
Awesome👍🏻😄
I always wanted to see the Pythons do a version of this sketch with the pepperpots.
"RIGHT!!"
Brilliant. Next to the original 1967 version with Tim brooke Taylor and marty feldman
12 Yorkshiremen were evicted from their hole in t'ground
Creo que Jones más bien parece llorar. Todo preparado. Seria cuestión de ver la versión original.En el Hollywod Bowl cuando estuvo Graham fue muy bueno.
_Well of course, we 'ad it toof_
4 yorkshiremen disliked this video...
Did they 'eck as like
2 Yorkshiremen disliked this!
2 people requiring humour transplants
Agreed!
Facebook exploding once in a while in the Netherlands when parents post a topic about giving their children an e-bike for their 12 miles trips to and from school...
Reactions à la Yorkshiremen... 😄
You can tell terry Jones is trying not to laugh at the end lol
The people who Disliked this video did so because they had it even harder.
Terry jones was corpsing at John Cleese, and he almost broke Cleese.
Funniest thing ever and early spprsrance by rowan atkinson
It was an early spprsrance. I'm sure Rowan cleaned it up.
This one sounds more like The 4 Geordies at times
Nope.
Darkangelzephyron you are right about teen titans go!
Lots of terrible living conditions described here but the most troubling of them is the appalling idea that someone could live in a lake. Has anyone thought for a moment how something like that would even work?
"We were evicted from our 'ole on the ground."
The best line. Hands down.
He delivers it perfectly!
Ha, Rowan can't get the accent right
only jones n palin nailed it idle was the key to that sketch
not bad though considering he is a Northener from Durham
Can we all just stop to think that 13 people 'disliked' this video.
😆
We had to lick the road with our tongues
@The FM Club glad you cleared that up for those who thought you licked the road dirty with your tongue👍👍
@The FM Club arse
@The FM Club it’s getting hit on the head lessons here, if you want an argument...
Nothing like the original - still good though.
Mr. Bean voice 😂
@The FM Club of course I have
That were nothin! Back then we were so poor that all 177 of us died of starvation.
Alternate title: The most poorly-edited scene you'll ever see.
I dont believe it
This is for the Brexit 'yes' voters and their fantasized good old days.
Ah yes. The good old days when globalization and free trade deals weren't ruining Britain's economy.
You realise Britain's economy was inevitably gonna decline relative to other countries in the face of WW2 debt and the collapse of the empire? Every country has to face globalisation, why not innovate instead of just moan and fuck things up for the rest of us who understand the positives of globalisation and free trade?
Its fairly obvious that the majority of people don't want globalization. And for a good reason. Globalization would rob countries of their individual identities. Free trade deals are necessary, sure, but lately the world is going insane with them. Almost everything is manufactured in China. Nothing is made in England, US, Canada or Australia anymore, or a lot of other countries for that matter. It's costing people jobs as well as costing the countries as a whole from having productive manufacturing industries and economies.
Now call John Cleese a racist...go on...you know you want to...
@@DeadManSinging1 3 years later and no sign of collapse........
So poor
This is literally a panel of politicians running for president of the United States, each one out-bragging the other how poor they started out.
Gee, this was so much WORSE than the original. It's hammy, the accents are nowhere near as strong or accurate. Cleese's final rant was totally out of character for this shetch -- ie, a Yorkshireman simply exagerating his hardships in a believable voice, but was an overdone cliché in a Basil Faulty style rant. He knows that style is his popular trademark and always good for laughs but here it is pure egotism inappropriately taking over the sketch. Shame.
Imagine pretending to be a Monty Python fan and taking these sketches seriously + gatekeeping the way you think they should deliver it. Every Monty Python would laugh in your face hearing you being so self-righteous and stuck up
@@stephanociraptor
I can still be a (40 year) fan and take their comedy seriously, especially when, some 40 years after the original, the comics ham it up for posterity and money. Get over it. Not everything an artist does is always as good as each other. This was nowhere near as authentic as the original, and therefore less funny, imo.
@@stephanociraptor
And besides, Cleese is really overlaying the Basil Fawlty shtick here. His "Right!" is a Fawlty trademark, never appropriate in the original -- because they weren't trying to consciously outdo the other but just being classic Yorkshiremen.
What original?
strange how he delivered his fawlty trademark years before Fawlty towers
The Beatles of Comedy
unbelievable!