No matter how many times you watch Python it still makes you laugh even when you know what is coming!, i remember when it first came on TV and no one had ever seen anything like it as it's just pure madness!, i love the Terry Gilliam animations, absolutely hilarious!
Yes, this brilliant, groundbreaking show was part of my childhood (along with the equally great Fawlty Towers series a few years later) and it was a huge inspiration to so many people far outside of Britain (note: I'm from Sweden). They were an incredibly gifted bunch of people and they also had the privilege of working in a period when the limits for what you could do with the new medium were still rather fluid but social taboos were very visible.
Ah, memories! Great snorting at just after 2 minutes girl, you did well to last that long! Thanks for taking the time to upload Amanda, they make for great viewing!
I would recommend that you take a listen to The Goon Show. It was on the BBC radio in the 50's. The Pythoners grew up listening to it. It had a big influence on their comedy.
We used to listen to the Goons (PeterSellers, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan & Harry Secombe) and Round the Horn while having our family lunch. It's a very happy childhood memory and I'm so glad my Dad encouraged my sense of humour (silent movies were another family feature).
That sketch is brilliant when you get the different alarms going off! Then he confessed and wasn’t taken serious. I liked the letters at the end, so crazy. That should rerun all their programs again. Anyway… And now for something completely different…😂😂😂
Thanks for playing that Amanda, I must have seen that when it was first shown, but I have not seen it since. Brilliant as always. Love seeing your reactions 🤣
I love Monty Python Movies and skits. When I was stationed overseas, I and my squad would get together after work on Fridays and stay up all night watching his stuff over and over until tI the next morning. We'd pass out wherever we were. In the bathroom, on the kitchen counter, on the lawn. One of my friends fell asleep on the hood of his car, and with the car running, I woke up because my neighbour was yelling trying to wake the dude up. Finally, I turned on the water hose and sprayed him. I shut the car off first tho. Fun times. But that snort of yours is way funnier!
I saw one of those smuggling events going down when I caught the overnight ferry to Hamburg from Harwich around the same time as the sketch. There were loads of passengers to filter through the German customs, but the guy they stopped was a boy scout in full dress uniform, big hat, short trousers and woggle, funnier still he had a peculiar voice that reminded me of the telegoons. Fortunately I was in the disembarking queue before he was stopped for further enquiries, I found it hilarious that he was chosen. There was as much change of him being a smuggler as the vicar in the sketch.
I had forgotten all about that Monty Python sketch. Nice one. One thing, if you want to be topical, how about doing a post of Fawlty Towers with Basil. The Fawlty Towers play has just opened in the West End. Must be loads of videos you could upload and comment on.
The letters at the end were a spoof of 'Points of View' a long running BBC program where viewers would write in about BBC TV programs which were read out. One of the most notorious of these letter writers was Mary Whitehouse, - President and founder of the Viewers Association, self appointed moral guardian of the nation and serial complainer to the BBC. That she was a staunch Christian and extremely conservative won't come as a surprise That she was a sex education teacher might. She'd probably die of a heart attack if she saw TV these days, let alone social media! lol If Mary disapproved of a program, for instance because she'd heard someone had flashed a bare ankle *Gasp!*😮, etc, it was guaranteed to increase viewing figures!😁 There was even a BBC sketch show named after her called the Mary Whitehouse experience where Hugh Denis came to fame.
yes monty python is excellent and so is this man sketch.back in the 90’s i used to play the audio from there tv shows i used to drive other workers mad😊 i knew those tapes off by heart .i was amazed when it was equally as popular in america , is that where you had seen it first amanda?
I'm not sure if the overly absurdist sillyness holds up too well nowadays but some bits do, the parrot, the silly walks and of course their movies certainly do!
Not true. John and Graham were one writing team, Michael and Terry Jones also wrote together, Eric worked alone and Terry Gilliam did the animation. John and Graham wrote the parrot sketch, Michael and Terry Jones wrote the Spanish Inquisition sketch, Eric wrote the nudge nudge wink wink sketch. They all contributed their fair share of writing.
Love your laugh. Its infectious. Monty Python has its funny moments. I rememeber the Dead Parrot sketch, but also check out the Upper Class Twit of the Year and How Not To Be Seen sketches. The Snortometer will go into overdrive
Dear Madam Amanda,thank you so much for next great,interesting and funny video! Well, Monty Python is absolutely perfect,specific,sarcastic,unique British humour (my personal humble opinion).Warm greetings from the Central Europe (the Czech Republic). Have a nice,pleasant,beautiful spring-time and take care.
G'Day Amanda,i just subscribed to your channel & love the way you react in your video's,i'm an old fossil from Australia & would love to see your reactions to some of our comedy acts,like Rodney rude,Kevin Bloody Wilson etc,plus our NRL,it's like Rugby but a better game,NRL stands for National Rugby League,most of our retired players go to our mother Country England,as they play the same game over there,but it's called Super league i think,Aussie's & the Poms have always had a rivalry between us lol,so please consider including Australia in some of your video's,it's great to see a young lady not being offended at humour or the way another culture speaks,Kind Regards Graeme.
Hey! I'm so glad you're enjoying the reactions :) I will absolutely put your recommendations on my list :) I don't think I've ever watched any of them. :) i hope you've had a lovely weekend
It’s timeless because we laugh at ourselves and British pomposity. More nations need to take themselves less seriously, I think it would make the world a better place 😊
There's nothing to get with Monty Python. It's absurdity at its finest. It's timeless as you say Amanda. If you don't get it, you get it. Thank you for the uploads.
Amanda ... checkout Monty Python Execution In Russia. the firing squad scene was filmed at Fort Regent and the white house is at the bottom of Beaumont Hill here in Jersey.
Monty Python were just pupils of the real greats of "The Goon Show". This was a radio show very popular in the 50s. If you ever want to listen to creative chaos comedy, there is none better. Neddie Seagoon, Spike Milligan and of course Peter Sellers (of Pink Panther fame) were the main culprits. It's the funniest and most creative thing you'll ever listen to. Sadly many people now have never heard of it. Their loss.
Fortunately, a Canadian tape recorded many if not most of the Goon shows (as the BBC in their inimitable wisdom destroyed the original tapes - clearly Philistines) and these can now be obtained online. BTW, Neddie Seagoon was a character of Peter Sellers, the third member of the troupe was Harry Secombe. All British comedy legends with an enviable impact on British culture. Python followed. Ingenious comics all.
Have a look for the 100 metres for people with no sense of direction sketch (part of a skit about the Olympics). Short but you won't stop laughing for a good while. One of my personal favs 👍 🖖
It is of course sad that a couple of people in this are dead. ('Two down, four to go' as Cleese has put it). On that point, you should react to Graham Chapman's eulogy. It should be sad, but is a great tribute to a flawed by fascinating character.
Was certainly some funny clips. Didn't believe he was a smuggler when he admitted it. Then the minister had not done anything and he got took off to be strip searched lol!
Hi Amanda, have you seen John and Michael in the film "A Fish Called Wanda" with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline, or them all in the not really a sequel, "Fierce Creatures"?
@@LADYRAEUK In my opinion yes, Kevin Kline as a deranged gangster is hilarious. Plus, if you watch Fierce Creatures, you also get Ronnie Corbett from the Two Ronnies.
@@LADYRAEUK .. Parrot, silly Walks, Lumberjack, Nudge nudge, spam, spam ,spam and spam, and most of the films. I now live in the Philippines, where spam is one of the basic food groups, and I crack up when anyone says What do you want with your spam.
It's brilliant because people talk to their animals and think they understand? I think animals know direction but vocabulary no. Hark at me? I'm getting such a wa*ker lately. Oh hold on I might have been all the time? Luv Yer. ❤
How did the UK indeed the Western world get from where we were then to where we are now? Somewhere along the line comedy died along with music and popular culture. If you lived through that time of chaotic irreverence it seems that Hitler won WWII after all. They may have been dark days especially if you were British in the early 70s but the future looked so bright that we all needed shades. Our parents had every reason to be jealous of the fun and sense of freedom we used to have. Where did it all go and why did it go there? Virtually no parents these days envy their own children. I certainly don't envy my 6. Being born between 1950-1965 was the best time possible, and it has been going downhill ever since. Having children these days should be considered an act of child abuse, and it seems that many potential parents very much agree, judging by the current birth rate. My Lord, we had it so good in every possible way.
I've watched Monty Phython clips on your channel before, it's probably just me but I struggle to find Monty Phython funny. I love all your other comedy clips though.
how how on earth did you get to enjoy our very strange British humour, you must have an ehglish mind some where x (meant in the nicest possible way)) x
No matter how many times you watch Python it still makes you laugh even when you know what is coming!, i remember when it first came on TV and no one had ever seen anything like it as it's just pure madness!, i love the Terry Gilliam animations, absolutely hilarious!
i can imagine ! :)
It started out as 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' then 'At Last the 1948 Show'.
Yes, this brilliant, groundbreaking show was part of my childhood (along with the equally great Fawlty Towers series a few years later) and it was a huge inspiration to so many people far outside of Britain (note: I'm from Sweden). They were an incredibly gifted bunch of people and they also had the privilege of working in a period when the limits for what you could do with the new medium were still rather fluid but social taboos were very visible.
Ah, memories! Great snorting at just after 2 minutes girl, you did well to last that long! Thanks for taking the time to upload Amanda, they make for great viewing!
Thanks Dave, I'm so glad you enjoyed it :))
I would recommend that you take a listen to The Goon Show. It was on the BBC radio in the 50's. The Pythoners grew up listening to it. It had a big influence on their comedy.
The Goons were also on the BBC.
We used to listen to the Goons (PeterSellers, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan & Harry Secombe) and Round the Horn while having our family lunch. It's a very happy childhood memory and I'm so glad my Dad encouraged my sense of humour (silent movies were another family feature).
That sketch is brilliant when you get the different alarms going off! Then he confessed and wasn’t taken serious.
I liked the letters at the end, so crazy. That should rerun all their programs again. Anyway…
And now for something completely different…😂😂😂
lol!
When Oscar Wilde was asked if had anything to declare, he said ' I have nothing to declare other than my genius'
And he proved it times many.
Yes, we all know that.
‘I have nothing to declare except my genius’, if you’re quoting let’s not paraphrase.
He just wanted to be frisked.
the definition of a bore is someone who talks about themself when you want to talk about yourself.
Alternative comedy at its best. Love your sense of humour and your laugh. Can’t wait until the next episode Xxxx
thanks so much :)))
Yes great sketch, John's rant (Blimey!)killed!Thank you Amanda😍
Of course! :))) hope you're ok
I think that was an early incarnation of the Gumbys.
Thanks for playing that Amanda, I must have seen that when it was first shown, but I have not seen it since. Brilliant as always. Love seeing your reactions 🤣
Glad you enjoyed it! ))
I love Monty Python Movies and skits. When I was stationed overseas, I and my squad would get together after work on Fridays and stay up all night watching his stuff over and over until tI the next morning. We'd pass out wherever we were. In the bathroom, on the kitchen counter, on the lawn. One of my friends fell asleep on the hood of his car, and with the car running, I woke up because my neighbour was yelling trying to wake the dude up. Finally, I turned on the water hose and sprayed him. I shut the car off first tho. Fun times. But that snort of yours is way funnier!
hahah tahs brilliant !!
The added enjoyment of listening to the now famous snort laugh.
aha :)) im glad you enjoy it
She is a butter cookie.... Riiight..
Such a beautiful voice, love seeing all these classics again
THank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying it :)
The ministry of silly walks always had me in stitches
☺️ ill have a look
@@LADYRAEUK also, "how not to be seen".
for dessert, the fish-slapping dance 😎
And "Why accountancy is not boring..."
What a fantastic video, Amanda. I absolutely love MP and I'm so glad you're saying Python correctly!😊
Don't get comedy like that anymore,up for more of these🎉 truely timeless
I saw one of those smuggling events going down when I caught the overnight ferry to Hamburg from Harwich around the same time as the sketch. There were loads of passengers to filter through the German customs, but the guy they stopped was a boy scout in full dress uniform, big hat, short trousers and woggle, funnier still he had a peculiar voice that reminded me of the telegoons. Fortunately I was in the disembarking queue before he was stopped for further enquiries, I found it hilarious that he was chosen. There was as much change of him being a smuggler as the vicar in the sketch.
lol!! brilliant
Sounds like it could have been Ruxton Hayward, the real life person Peter Sellers based Bluebottle on.
First watched this as a teenager and it is still as whacky now as it was then. Brilliant team!
IM glad you enjoyed it :)
I tried to stifle laughing, but then he said “Just vests.”
Try the "Dirty Fork" sketch.
Has the distinction of being one of the only sketches with a punch-line.
The only other one I remember "Nudge-Nudge"
It can't have been an alarm clock it must have been a vest... What a killer line 😅
Laughed my ARSE OFF. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
(cool, measured voice) "Where they make the watches" 😁 - epic line and so well delivered!😀
Taking me back to my childhood lol Your right this is still funny afer all this time .
:))
I had forgotten all about that Monty Python sketch. Nice one. One thing, if you want to be topical, how about doing a post of Fawlty Towers with Basil. The Fawlty Towers play has just opened in the West End. Must be loads of videos you could upload and comment on.
i will definitely be checking them out :)
The letters at the end were a spoof of 'Points of View' a long running BBC program where viewers would write in about BBC TV programs which were read out.
One of the most notorious of these letter writers was Mary Whitehouse, - President and founder of the Viewers Association, self appointed moral guardian of the nation and serial complainer to the BBC.
That she was a staunch Christian and extremely conservative won't come as a surprise That she was a sex education teacher might. She'd probably die of a heart attack if she saw TV these days, let alone social media! lol
If Mary disapproved of a program, for instance because she'd heard someone had flashed a bare ankle *Gasp!*😮, etc, it was guaranteed to increase viewing figures!😁
There was even a BBC sketch show named after her called the Mary Whitehouse experience where Hugh Denis came to fame.
I love the old TV show Fawlty Towers with John Cleese that show was hilarious
As a Brit in his 40s I love watching people appreciate what we watched….but the snort is even better. Thanks, needed that today
You're so welcome :)
yes monty python is excellent and so is this man sketch.back in the 90’s i used to play the audio from there tv shows i used to drive other workers mad😊 i knew those tapes off by heart .i was amazed when it was equally as popular in america ,
is that where you had seen it first amanda?
I've never seen any of this until i moved here :)
I'm not sure if the overly absurdist sillyness holds up too well nowadays but some bits do, the parrot, the silly walks and of course their movies certainly do!
:)))
Don't forget Graham.. Eric and the two Terrys.. Although we only saw the one here Terry Jones.. It's John and Graham who write most of the sketches
Not true. John and Graham were one writing team, Michael and Terry Jones also wrote together, Eric worked alone and Terry Gilliam did the animation. John and Graham wrote the parrot sketch, Michael and Terry Jones wrote the Spanish Inquisition sketch, Eric wrote the nudge nudge wink wink sketch. They all contributed their fair share of writing.
Love your laugh. Its infectious. Monty Python has its funny moments. I rememeber the Dead Parrot sketch, but also check out the Upper Class Twit of the Year and How Not To Be Seen sketches. The Snortometer will go into overdrive
I'm glad to reacted to something completely different
:)))
Dear Madam Amanda,thank you so much for next great,interesting and funny video! Well, Monty Python is absolutely perfect,specific,sarcastic,unique British humour (my personal humble opinion).Warm greetings from the Central Europe (the Czech Republic). Have a nice,pleasant,beautiful spring-time and take care.
You're very welcome! Im so glad you enjoyed it :) I hope youre well !
Oh lordy what nearly fifty years on and you can still laugh yourself silly.
i love it :)
Watch John Cleese’s eulogy for Graham Chapman at his memorial service. Only the pair of them could have come up with that.
G'Day Amanda,i just subscribed to your channel & love the way you react in your video's,i'm an old fossil from Australia & would love to see your reactions to some of our comedy acts,like Rodney rude,Kevin Bloody Wilson etc,plus our NRL,it's like Rugby but a better game,NRL stands for National Rugby League,most of our retired players go to our mother Country England,as they play the same game over there,but it's called Super league i think,Aussie's & the Poms have always had a rivalry between us lol,so please consider including Australia in some of your video's,it's great to see a young lady not being offended at humour or the way another culture speaks,Kind Regards Graeme.
Hey! I'm so glad you're enjoying the reactions :) I will absolutely put your recommendations on my list :) I don't think I've ever watched any of them. :)
i hope you've had a lovely weekend
Must watch the Monty Python "The Spanish Inquisition" sketch
John Clease tryin not to laugh , priceless
haah i know it !
There's a box set of Monty Python that contains the first two series and all the films , I thoroughly recommend it 👍
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As someone who worked for UK Customs for many years this still tickles me.
For Cleese in a non Python setting : "Beekeeping" with Rowan Atkinson from the 1981 Secret Policeman's Ball.
Ill have a look :)
Amanda, you’ve got to react to the Monty Python sketch; No body expects the Spanish Inquisition
ill see if i can find it :)
Another good one is the Hungarian phrase-book sketch.
I will not buy this record. It is scratched.
funniest tv series ever. untoppable.
love it !
You should check out "The Parrot Sketch", "The Cheese Shop" and, of course, "The Argument Clinic".
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The larch. The , , , larch. lol ! You should review some Fawlty Towers. That would be hilarious .
I will do :)
Jhon Cleese &Michael Palin are so funny together they are so good in the dead parrot skit
I know the Pythons loved the Goon Show. But they changed the world of comedy itself, and opened up so many doors.
Monty Python was genius! (You're the only American I've seen pronouncing python correctly!)
It’s timeless because we laugh at ourselves and British pomposity. More nations need to take themselves less seriously, I think it would make the world a better place 😊
There's nothing to get with Monty Python. It's absurdity at its finest. It's timeless as you say Amanda. If you don't get it, you get it. Thank you for the uploads.
:))) im glad youre enjoying it
Amanda ... checkout Monty Python Execution In Russia. the firing squad scene was filmed at Fort Regent and the white house is at the bottom of Beaumont Hill here in Jersey.
Monty Python were just pupils of the real greats of "The Goon Show". This was a radio show very popular in the 50s. If you ever want to listen to creative chaos comedy, there is none better. Neddie Seagoon, Spike Milligan and of course Peter Sellers (of Pink Panther fame) were the main culprits. It's the funniest and most creative thing you'll ever listen to. Sadly many people now have never heard of it. Their loss.
Fortunately, a Canadian tape recorded many if not most of the Goon shows (as the BBC in their inimitable wisdom destroyed the original tapes - clearly Philistines) and these can now be obtained online. BTW, Neddie Seagoon was a character of Peter Sellers, the third member of the troupe was Harry Secombe. All British comedy legends with an enviable impact on British culture. Python followed. Ingenious comics all.
Very good comedy. Hilarious, thanks Amanda.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@LADYRAEUK Thank you AMANDA for your reply
Nobody does comedy like the British!
true!!
Have a look for the 100 metres for people with no sense of direction sketch (part of a skit about the Olympics). Short but you won't stop laughing for a good while. One of my personal favs 👍 🖖
Or the 'Upper class twit of the year' sketch
Cheers, from the Pacific West Coast of Canada
:))
Don't forget "The Lumberjack Song".
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Many thanks Amanda, as always much appreciated. Comment short and sweet, no poem, but bowing at your feet ... ;-D
😊 thank you
There was a program called points of view, where people write in.
oh gery cool, I've not heard abotu that
@@LADYRAEUK If you do look it up, BBC before point of view.
Not the nine o' clock news did a sketch of it.
Fawlty Towers ~ all of it. 🤗🤗
It's so silly it's hilarious 😂
ahah i know!
Joe Pasquale is great, he also uses props, that's if you haven't been recommended or watched him already
Amanda's opening remark is the "Watch Smuggler " is timeless . No it's NOT - there are plenty of time pieces with time on every one.
It is of course sad that a couple of people in this are dead. ('Two down, four to go' as Cleese has put it). On that point, you should react to Graham Chapman's eulogy. It should be sad, but is a great tribute to a flawed by fascinating character.
ill check it out: )
would also recommend Monty Python Holy Grail the French castle taunting
Cleese wearing an RN coat.
I think you would like Spike Milligan who inspired them to create Monty python
ill check him out :)
Check out Alas Smith & Jones: "The Missing Airman" 😂
Ill have alook :)
Was certainly some funny clips. Didn't believe he was a smuggler when he admitted it. Then the minister had not done anything and he got took off to be strip searched lol!
loL!
Hi Amanda, have you seen John and Michael in the film "A Fish Called Wanda" with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline, or them all in the not really a sequel, "Fierce Creatures"?
I have not, is it worth a watch?
@@LADYRAEUK In my opinion yes, Kevin Kline as a deranged gangster is hilarious. Plus, if you watch Fierce Creatures, you also get Ronnie Corbett from the Two Ronnies.
Great reaction❤
THank you :)
Always welcome ❤
I was never really in to Monty Python. Except some very particular sketches.
which ones?
@@LADYRAEUK .. Parrot, silly Walks, Lumberjack, Nudge nudge, spam, spam ,spam and spam, and most of the films.
I now live in the Philippines, where spam is one of the basic food groups, and I crack up when anyone says What do you want with your spam.
Love Your Reviews Mandy ❤
Have you seen with the pet shop in the dead parrot check that one out
cleese and Palin are so good together
You'd like the Ann Elk sketch
Evening Amanda have you seen the Python sketch Camp soldiers on parade ?
I have not , but ill check it out :)
Clockwise do be a film what I like, with Mr Cleese
:)
Right. I feel that I must protest. This has gotten entirely too silly.
Anything to Declare sir? Nope. Nothing to Declare. Sadly i don't have the Time (Damn)
Try watching the Whizzo quality assortment skit.
snorts are cool !
:)
Yes minister?
It's brilliant because people talk to their animals and think they understand? I think animals know direction but vocabulary no. Hark at me? I'm getting such a wa*ker lately. Oh hold on I might have been all the time? Luv Yer. ❤
Just wanted to say your lovely. Enough said.
AMANDA STOP🤣🤣
😂
How did the UK indeed the Western world get from where we were then to where we are now? Somewhere along the line comedy died along with music and popular culture. If you lived through that time of chaotic irreverence it seems that Hitler won WWII after all. They may have been dark days especially if you were British in the early 70s but the future looked so bright that we all needed shades. Our parents had every reason to be jealous of the fun and sense of freedom we used to have. Where did it all go and why did it go there? Virtually no parents these days envy their own children. I certainly don't envy my 6. Being born between 1950-1965 was the best time possible, and it has been going downhill ever since. Having children these days should be considered an act of child abuse, and it seems that many potential parents very much agree, judging by the current birth rate. My Lord, we had it so good in every possible way.
Amanda is slowly picking up a British accent...
So I’m told haha
I've watched Monty Phython clips on your channel before, it's probably just me but I struggle to find Monty Phython funny. I love all your other comedy clips though.
thats no worries, its not for everyone :)
amanda have you ever watched only fools and horses the batman and robin episode
i dont think i have :)
Tis but a scratch.
😂
I always enjoy your relative Lontoon Rae
😂😂😂😂
I like a snort laugh
How about paying for a argument ???
I'll haev a look :)
5:20 - Modern day Daily Express reader
4:55 - How the hell did Michael Palin not react to that wasp?!
hahah i know, it was all aroudn his head
how how on earth did you get to enjoy our very strange British humour, you must have an ehglish mind some where x (meant in the nicest possible way)) x
haha ive lived in england for over 11 years, i suppose ive picked up a few things :)
2:13 5:35 oink
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You're definitely a Brit now - you even pronounce "Python" properly (emphasis on "py")