Enables you understand the stiff upper lip enabling an Englishman to face these ordeals with so much aplomb. A Roman once said the Anglo Saxons were inhuman as when at sea they faced shipwreck without a care treating it like some sort of exercise. To be called inhuman by the Romans is a compliment few people can hope to achieve. Of course they ended up with an even bigger Empire.
@@michaeld5888 Since the Angles were from what is now Denmark, I suppose they would have had a seafaring side to them. Its a surprise to me to learn that the Romans met the Anglo / Saxons (two different peoples, but both Germanic) at all. However, you learn something every day.
I love the Philosophers World Cup Final. Where a load of German and Greek philosophers stand or walk around philosophising rather than showing any interest in the football. Then one of them has a Eureka moment !! 😂😂😂
And his name was very nearly John Cheese (but his father changed surname to avoid the silly jokes --- only to produce a son who became absolute KING of silly jokes)
That scene was from the only episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus that wasn’t all sketches but was a running story from start to finish. I think it was called “ the Cycling Tour” & was about Mr Pither (Michael Palin) taking a cycling tour of north Cornwall but ending up having to take a concussed guy who intermittently believed himself to be Leon Trotsky/Clodagh Rodgers back to Russia - really out there for the mid 70’s but very funny
That whole sketch about the bicycle trip is insane. The cycle tour I think it’s called. You can clearly see that they went way out of script during filming. It’s hilarious. It starts off with a voiceover reading from the cyclists diary. August 18th. Fell off near Bovey Tracey. The pump caught in my trouser leg
On a similar note michael palin was also part of the cast for the satirical black comedy film 'The Death of Stalin' based on his death and the scramble for power afterwards. It's hilarious, got awards and rave reviews by everyone except Putin who banned it.😁 None-the-less millions of Russians downloaded it anyway.😀
@@goodmisanthrope How do you know? Why did they download it in the first place? Did you download it? I think your resentful & humourless crap should be spat at and deleted.
If you don't know your history and have never read a book, than yes, "The Death of Stalin" is probably a satirical account of WWII-era Stalinist USSR power dynamics. But since book-readers account for roughly 0.5 of a percent of U.S. movie audiences (and probably movie reviewers too), that movie is probably studied in American think-tanks as a valid account of history. And then they wonder why the sanctions and "isolation" still hasn't worked on Russia. That movie is American Pie with Soviet-era costumes. Oh, and the performances looked like crap too, given that all of the actors were playing made-up characters. Oh well, at least Americans now think that they defeated the nazis single-handedly since Stalin was obviously incompetent. Obviously. The same people that gave crap like Barbie a good review gave awards to that masterpiece. The same "reviewers" that people today are sick and tired of and are in the pocket of the Oscar committees and establishment media, basically.
Just discovered this channel & nice to rewatch some clips I'd forgotten about.........nostalgia and all that! Here are some suggestions of the more "slapstick & farcical whimsy" me and my mates used to watch while we should've been doing exams: Ministry of silly walks Sticks & stones may break my bones Hell's Grannies & while I remember these, it makes sense to mention Spike Milligans Q show which I'm sure must have influenced the Pythons as it is just as random, made less sense, yet made you question "why am I crying with laughter?" For instance: The Irish O'lympics Irish Noughts & Crosses Championships Prepare to meet thy doom..................and many more! I've just noticed your vid on Bo Selecta (another forgotten classic IMO). So I'm probably gonna spend the night laughing until my brain hurts, which is a welcome treat with all of the 'doom & gloom' in the world at the moment. And, for that I Thank You!
John Cleese Michael Palin (the prisoner in this one) Eric Idle (mother in his dream) Terry Jones (dec.) Terry Gilliam (the American one, animator, film director) Graham Chapman (dec.)(he played King Arthur and Brian in the movies) Michael is the only one knighted so far, although Cleese was up for one and he declined. He talked about it when we saw him in Anaheim last month (“Last Chance to see me before I Die” tour).
Made me think of gilliam s 80's movies.so I just googled yellowbeard which I hadn't seen since I was a kid.knew it was mostly python,but Peter cook,Nigel planer,Madeleine khan,beryl reid,spike milligan.hope Boomer reacts to this & i also vaguely remember baron munchausen & was it time travellers?& Jabberwocky?python team is a very long winding silly rabbit hole which ever bottle you drink from(alice😂)rip all those crazy funny actors
You saying that you were not sure the sketch had ended reminded me that when the programmes were first shown, we'd keep watching after the credits because they'd throw an extra bit in when you thought it was all over. 😊🇬🇧
The Bicycle Tour is the closest the Monty Python's Flying Circus show itself got to a movie. It's the only time the whole episode has a single plotline.
😂😂😂 Upper class twit of the year for me is one of the best, the Yorkshire men sketch and the 'Is this the right room fof an argument' all classics.😅😅😅❤❤❤
And now for something completely different: the man with three buttocks. Also love the episode where the cast was informed that Queen Elisabeth will be possibly watching the show that evening. The cast would immediately stop their ongoing shenanigans and stand at attention. HILARIOUS!
Just got back from surgery and this is the perfect treat :) A buddy of mine is a former Soviet and Ukrainian Air Force colonel and he has some wild stories about the Soviet military. For instance the coolant on a lot of Soviet planes consisted of a mixture of ethanol and water, so basically (disgusting) vodka. It was pretty common for the ground crew to get absolutely shitfaced on the stuff and the pilots getting pissed off because they were sweating their nuts off up in the air. Crazy to think he was in charge of nuclear armed jets that would've bombed my home country 40 years ago and now we're hanging out, having a few beers and play some table tennis. Have a great weekend :)
Yes, The Mayflower sailed 400 years ago, and in the meantime, those pesky Americans have evolved their own way of pronouncing certain words. It should be banned, otherwise Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Geordies, Bristolians, Cockneys, Liverpudlians, Mancunians, The Scottish, Welsh, Irish and untold numbers of other English speakers will be tempted to do the same.
@Kerlumsyboy Hardly. You clearly can't comprehend simple comments and have babbled on imparting nothing new, let alone germane to what I said. Hilarious how it's always the mongs that consider themselves all knowing and all powerful lol.
@@Kerlumsyboy It's still a retarded way to say it. Americans sometimes expend too much energy saying a simple word. It's "Pythn" because it evolved to be said like that, since the emphasis was always on the first syllable, but Americans can say "Py-THOOOOON" in order to be "basic-bitch-level unique" in a devolution of an English word that makes no sense, but at least its 'Murican.
King Boom ! when are you going to watch ' The Meaning of Life ' Their 3rd and by far best film by the Pythons ? So looking forward to your reaction , as ever.
Monty Python sketch suggestions - The Spanish Inquisition (my favourite), The Cheese Shop, Dead Parrot/Lumberjack Song, Upper Class Twit Of The Year, Spam/Bloody Vikings, Postal Blackmail, The Piranha Brothers. I was a teenager in the early seventies in the UK and Python was a "must watch" on TV at the time. I'm glad to say their bizarre and surreal sense of humour has stayed with me all these years.
And ministry of silly walks, and now...the larch, now for something completely different, Denis Moore, etc. There were occasional flop skits, but they were always watchable.
Yes, John Cleese has a wonderful "painfully restrained" flip out style in certain skits. You can hear his blood pressure going up. Such as in the Cheese Shop skit, which has a long and painful escalation. He uses his Russian in the movie "A Fish Called Wanda" with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Back in the 70s we had to search the u.h.f. channels to find Monte Python every week. Imagine our delight when The Holy Grail started playing at the art house theater
This scene is from one of the few episodes that follows a single storyline rather than being a stream of conscious, The Bicycle Tour. Not sure it's a fan favourite as such and it only features one short Terry Gillian animation which is saved until the very end but I've always liked it. If I had to recommend a Monty Python sketch I'd recommend The Brain Specialist. It's not on their official channel but there are a few fan uploads here on TH-cam, I'd go for the one uploaded by John G as its it's the best quality and features about 60 seconds of bonus footage before the sketch.
"The Tobacconist" / "Hungarian Phrase book" sketch is hilarious too ( the original TV version is the best.) And "The World's Funniest Joke" is also highly recommended 😂
Alas Smith & Jones: "Henderson" ( the missing airman) is super hilarious 😂 AS&J is a spinoff from the famous "Not the Nine O'clock News" ( which btw. also included a certain young Rowan Atkinson of later "Blackadder" & "Mr. Bean" fame ). See if you can find their equally hilarous sketch called "Gerald the Gorilla" - it may be hard to come by though.
Flying Circus is one of my favourite things ever. The sketches blend into each other so it's good to watch full episodes too! "Fortunately, my Crunchie was still intact" 😂
My best ones are : the dead parrot sketch and I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok , which I didn't remember are 2 sketches which lead on from each other, eg at the end of dead parrot he say I didn't want to work in a pet shop , but wanted to be a lumberjack .
The Four Yorkshire Men, Parrot Sketch, Argument Room, The Cheese Shop, Ministry of Silly Walks, Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit. The best of the funniest show ever.
Note the large poster relating to an earlier part of ‘A Cycling Tour’ not included here: ‘Sunday Night at the Moscow Praesidium’ (entertainment in the Kremlin, imitating the television variety programme ‘Sunday Night at the London Palladium’), with the singer Eartha Kitt, Marshall Bulganin (Premier of the Soviet Union 1955-58) and ‘Charlie’ (a ventriloquist’s dummy), Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (two of the Cambridge Five spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War), and the inimitable Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
This episode from Season 3 , 'The Cycling Tour', was the first time the Pythons attempted a story that ran for an entire episode instead of simply isolated sketches. One of my favourites from the entire run of the TV series.
Another Monty Python sketch in which John Cleese goes into a full-on rant is 'self defence against fruit'.
and the dirty fork sketch and the architect sketch.
After Monty Python, Michael Palin and Terry Jones wrote a comedy series called Ripping Yarns, it's well worth watching.
Ripping Yarns is a classic of its time. 😂😂😂
Enables you understand the stiff upper lip enabling an Englishman to face these ordeals with so much aplomb. A Roman once said the Anglo Saxons were inhuman as when at sea they faced shipwreck without a care treating it like some sort of exercise. To be called inhuman by the Romans is a compliment few people can hope to achieve. Of course they ended up with an even bigger Empire.
Especially his time as a sailor serving on HM Greasy Bastard
"8 bloody 1" 😂
@@michaeld5888 Since the Angles were from what is now Denmark, I suppose they would have had a seafaring side to them. Its a surprise to me to learn that the Romans met the Anglo / Saxons (two different peoples, but both Germanic) at all. However, you learn something every day.
The fish-slapping dance ix a must watch😂😂
There's a huge statue of a fish in the park where they filmed it!
@@pahtar7189 just the greatest,,, so simple and so stupid,,, my fav,,,
It’s the best sketch ever.
Don't show up for finals without a tuna.
I love the Philosophers World Cup Final. Where a load of German and Greek philosophers stand or walk around philosophising rather than showing any interest in the football. Then one of them has a Eureka moment !! 😂😂😂
Hilarious
The dead parrot sketch is an absolute classic
It was also stolen by the otherwise brilliant Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.
It's not dead
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition......
My favourite
This is from one of the best episodes of the series - The Bicycle Tour.
I think you’d really like the Fish Slapping Dance
You should also look at the Blackadder Goes Forth "We're your execution squad" clip
We're your firing squad 😆
We aim to please !
@marmite1076 no one likes getting shot first thing in the morning do they lads?
@@bigkuriboh3814 Can you aim ... about a foot above my head?
@@bigkuriboh3814Can you aim .... above my head?
And his name was very nearly John Cheese (but his father changed surname to avoid the silly jokes --- only to produce a son who became absolute KING of silly jokes)
The Silly Olympics is brilliant, especially the 100m for people with no sense of direction..😂😂😂
That's a deffo.😂
My favourite 🤣
My husband would win a medal ,he has no sense of direction ,thank heaven for sat nav
And the gloriously incontinent...
What do you mean - Silly? ? It looked as orderly as the synchronised drowning at the Olymips
"No, dear. This is the dream. You're still in the cell."
Hells Grannies and the baby snatchers and of course the milkman sketch and The funniest joke in the World😂
Silly olympics or Upperclass twit of the year. 2 of the funniest sketches ive ever seen them do
That scene was from the only episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus that wasn’t all sketches but was a running story from start to finish. I think it was called “ the Cycling Tour” & was about Mr Pither (Michael Palin) taking a cycling tour of north Cornwall but ending up having to take a concussed guy who intermittently believed himself to be Leon Trotsky/Clodagh Rodgers back to Russia - really out there for the mid 70’s but very funny
Not the only one - the sci fi show with the invading space blamange is one story
@@keithewright of course, I’d forgotten about that one
Hi Boomer ! I'm a boomerang because I keep coming back !!🤣😂
That whole sketch about the bicycle trip is insane. The cycle tour I think it’s called. You can clearly see that they went way out of script during filming. It’s hilarious.
It starts off with a voiceover reading from the cyclists diary.
August 18th. Fell off near Bovey Tracey. The pump caught in my trouser leg
On a similar note michael palin was also part of the cast for the satirical black comedy film 'The Death of Stalin' based on his death and the scramble for power afterwards.
It's hilarious, got awards and rave reviews by everyone except Putin who banned it.😁 None-the-less millions of Russians downloaded it anyway.😀
Скачали,посмеялись с уровня знания истории у вас.плюнули 3 раза через плечо,что бы к нам это не приципилось и удалили это гавно.
@@goodmisanthrope How do you know? Why did they download it in the first place? Did you download it? I think your resentful & humourless crap should be spat at and deleted.
If you don't know your history and have never read a book, than yes, "The Death of Stalin" is probably a satirical account of WWII-era Stalinist USSR power dynamics.
But since book-readers account for roughly 0.5 of a percent of U.S. movie audiences (and probably movie reviewers too), that movie is probably studied in American think-tanks as a valid account of history. And then they wonder why the sanctions and "isolation" still hasn't worked on Russia. That movie is American Pie with Soviet-era costumes. Oh, and the performances looked like crap too, given that all of the actors were playing made-up characters. Oh well, at least Americans now think that they defeated the nazis single-handedly since Stalin was obviously incompetent. Obviously.
The same people that gave crap like Barbie a good review gave awards to that masterpiece. The same "reviewers" that people today are sick and tired of and are in the pocket of the Oscar committees and establishment media, basically.
Just discovered this channel & nice to rewatch some clips I'd forgotten about.........nostalgia and all that!
Here are some suggestions of the more "slapstick & farcical whimsy" me and my mates used to watch while we should've been doing exams:
Ministry of silly walks
Sticks & stones may break my bones
Hell's Grannies
& while I remember these, it makes sense to mention Spike Milligans Q show which I'm sure must have influenced the Pythons as it is just as random, made less sense, yet made you question "why am I crying with laughter?" For instance: The Irish O'lympics
Irish Noughts & Crosses Championships
Prepare to meet thy doom..................and many more!
I've just noticed your vid on Bo Selecta (another forgotten classic IMO). So I'm probably gonna spend the night laughing until my brain hurts, which is a welcome treat with all of the 'doom & gloom' in the world at the moment. And, for that I Thank You!
John Cleese made a brilliant Q in James bond !!
The best Q 👍🏻👌🏻
But didn't he even tell us in the Bond movie that his letter was 'R'? I mean he goes 'AAHHH! Bond!'
John Cleese
Michael Palin (the prisoner in this one)
Eric Idle (mother in his dream)
Terry Jones (dec.)
Terry Gilliam (the American one, animator, film director)
Graham Chapman (dec.)(he played King Arthur and Brian in the movies)
Michael is the only one knighted so far, although Cleese was up for one and he declined. He talked about it when we saw him in Anaheim last month (“Last Chance to see me before I Die” tour).
Don't forget the other one that was knighted: Sir Not Appearing in this Sketch.
You can get the John Cleese voice for your gps. It’s hilarious when he tells you off for going the wrong way or ignoring him.
“The first man to jump the channel” sketch
"Mister Creosote", you'll laugh so much...
laugh and puke at the same time!!! 😂
Waffer thin mint
@@markcutting6504 it's just a very thin one...
Made me think of gilliam s 80's movies.so I just googled yellowbeard which I hadn't seen since I was a kid.knew it was mostly python,but Peter cook,Nigel planer,Madeleine khan,beryl reid,spike milligan.hope Boomer reacts to this & i also vaguely remember baron munchausen & was it time travellers?& Jabberwocky?python team is a very long winding silly rabbit hole which ever bottle you drink from(alice😂)rip all those crazy funny actors
Better get a bucket
It's a sketch that lasts a full episode of Monty Python about a hapless cyclist.
His actual name was John Cheese. But he changed it to Cleese. Btw, just about to watch A Fish Called Wanda. You guys would love it.
I think it was actually his Dad who changed from Cheese to Cleese. John is on video saying he once considered changing it back.
One of the funniest movies of all time....top 1000 atleast.
hahahaha - I live within earshot of the Okehampton Bypass 🙂
It wasn't the end, but you've just watched genius. 😄
Also the Queen Victoria handicap is great.
You saying that you were not sure the sketch had ended reminded me that when the programmes were first shown, we'd keep watching after the credits because they'd throw an extra bit in when you thought it was all over.
😊🇬🇧
This was one of the only Python episodes that wasn't a series of randomly connected sketches. This time, the whole half hour was one complete story.
Hi King Boomer. I recommend the Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch which is silly and hilarious ! xx
Try checking out the argument sketch. "I've already told you once"
no you haven't
@@sueshortall1617 "Oh I'm sorry, is this the 5 minute argument or the full half hour????"
"Thank you, good morning "
Fun fact. The exterior shots were filmed in my home island of Jersey - Channel Islands. The Olympic sketches too.
'MARCHING UP AND DOWN THE SQUARE'
Have a look for "Bicycle Repair Man" - a personal favourite of mine
The Bicycle Tour is the closest the Monty Python's Flying Circus show itself got to a movie. It's the only time the whole episode has a single plotline.
Have you ever watched Fawlty Towers? Even today its hilarious.
Listen, don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.
The single, most perfectly written and performed sitcom ever made. Just 12 episodes, each a perfect gem.
I love the skit "4 Yorkshire Men"
😂😂😂 Upper class twit of the year for me is one of the best, the Yorkshire men sketch and the 'Is this the right room fof an argument' all classics.😅😅😅❤❤❤
And now for something completely different: the man with three buttocks. Also love the episode where the cast was informed that Queen Elisabeth will be possibly watching the show that evening. The cast would immediately stop their ongoing shenanigans and stand at attention. HILARIOUS!
The Bicycle tour, that's where this is from, better watch the total sketch
Just got back from surgery and this is the perfect treat :)
A buddy of mine is a former Soviet and Ukrainian Air Force colonel and he has some wild stories about the Soviet military. For instance the coolant on a lot of Soviet planes consisted of a mixture of ethanol and water, so basically (disgusting) vodka. It was pretty common for the ground crew to get absolutely shitfaced on the stuff and the pilots getting pissed off because they were sweating their nuts off up in the air. Crazy to think he was in charge of nuclear armed jets that would've bombed my home country 40 years ago and now we're hanging out, having a few beers and play some table tennis.
Have a great weekend :)
This is just a section from a complete 30 minute episode. The show was normally made up of short stretches, but they made this one a full half hour.
Their Kilimanjaro expedition skit is definitely worth a go. And the Gumby brain specialist, with some fabulous Cleese/Palin interplay.
Michael Palin is a magnificent actor
He also appeared to be a lovable person,
Cleese has also voiced another American pronunciation annoyance, which I share. The way they say 'Monty PyTHON' emphasising the final syllable lol.
Yes, The Mayflower sailed 400 years ago, and in the meantime, those pesky Americans have evolved their own way of pronouncing certain words. It should be banned, otherwise Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Geordies, Bristolians, Cockneys, Liverpudlians, Mancunians, The Scottish, Welsh, Irish and untold numbers of other English speakers will be tempted to do the same.
@@KerlumsyboyYou laughably list Cockneys, Geordies, Bristolians etc.... Well they are all English so why you've included them is anyone's guess.
@rnw2739 Yes. They're all listed because English is their native language, just like the Americans. If you need any more help, just let me know
@Kerlumsyboy Hardly. You clearly can't comprehend simple comments and have babbled on imparting nothing new, let alone germane to what I said.
Hilarious how it's always the mongs that consider themselves all knowing and all powerful lol.
@@Kerlumsyboy It's still a retarded way to say it. Americans sometimes expend too much energy saying a simple word. It's "Pythn" because it evolved to be said like that, since the emphasis was always on the first syllable, but Americans can say "Py-THOOOOON" in order to be "basic-bitch-level unique" in a devolution of an English word that makes no sense, but at least its 'Murican.
For a Civil War General, you are keeping well, sir. Brilliant reaction.
I’m a boomer and watched Monty python on pbs in the seventies. Very funny.
King Boom ! when are you going to watch ' The Meaning of Life ' Their 3rd and by far best film by the Pythons ? So looking forward to your reaction , as ever.
Monty Python sketch suggestions - The Spanish Inquisition (my favourite), The Cheese Shop, Dead Parrot/Lumberjack Song, Upper Class Twit Of The Year, Spam/Bloody Vikings, Postal Blackmail, The Piranha Brothers.
I was a teenager in the early seventies in the UK and Python was a "must watch" on TV at the time. I'm glad to say their bizarre and surreal sense of humour has stayed with me all these years.
And ministry of silly walks, and now...the larch, now for something completely different, Denis Moore, etc.
There were occasional flop skits, but they were always watchable.
Check out Monty Python - Marching up and down the square.
the parrot and lumberjack sketch, like the most iconic flying circus skits. also the spanish inquisition i love
Yes, John Cleese has a wonderful "painfully restrained" flip out style in certain skits. You can hear his blood pressure going up.
Such as in the Cheese Shop skit, which has a long and painful escalation.
He uses his Russian in the movie "A Fish Called Wanda" with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Try Armstrong and Miller Show. " Hitler has only got one ball." Made up origin of of famous British rude WW2 song. It's brilliantly done. Ian Dee.
Okehampton bypass? I helped build it in 1987! Bloody hard graft
Ripping Yarns are worth having a look
If you want to see one with John Cleese going off on one try the architects scratch.
Back in the 70s we had to search the u.h.f. channels to find Monte Python every week. Imagine our delight when The Holy Grail started playing at the art house theater
I'm 73yo and never missed an episode of MP on the telly in the 70s. Was positively mesmerized by its hilarious bazarness.
I think my favourite ridiculous MP sketch is "How Not To Be Seen".
Reg Pither did occasionally feature in the Monty Python TV Series, having adventures on his bicycle.
I saw this scene so many times but i'm still laughing with you. Hahahaaaa.
being a proud Russia gun owner I strongly appreciate the fact that back in 1970s they actually use authentic Russian SKS carbin rifles in this vid
This scene is from one of the few episodes that follows a single storyline rather than being a stream of conscious, The Bicycle Tour. Not sure it's a fan favourite as such and it only features one short Terry Gillian animation which is saved until the very end but I've always liked it.
If I had to recommend a Monty Python sketch I'd recommend The Brain Specialist. It's not on their official channel but there are a few fan uploads here on TH-cam, I'd go for the one uploaded by John G as its it's the best quality and features about 60 seconds of bonus footage before the sketch.
Monty Python sketches never end. They carry on in an alternative dimension while we turn our attention to something else.
King boomer the sketch from Monty python is the fish slapping sketch even now it’s makes me cry with laughter
'I don't think they'd let you write stuff in a soviet prison' OMG is this guy genuine? Well he's had his 10 seconds of my time and I've been generous.
It's only allowed if it's the same az dat!
Dead parrot sketch and minestry of silly walks are a must. As well fish-slapping dance.
This is absolutely brilliant Monty Python makes me laugh out loud timeless classic
"The Tobacconist" / "Hungarian Phrase book" sketch is hilarious too ( the original TV version is the best.)
And "The World's Funniest Joke" is also highly recommended 😂
Monty Python's 'Spanish Inquisition' is a must see. Damn it, EVERY Python sketch is a must see.🤣😂
Monty Python team's 'Funniest Joke in the World' sketch is one of their best (There is more than one version.)
I think what makes Python so funny is that they are very capable of being completely serious when they need to be.
The funniest bit relating to execution is when Blackadder is sentenced to execution and has a meeting with the firing squad.
Alas Smith & Jones: "Henderson" ( the missing airman) is super hilarious 😂
AS&J is a spinoff from the famous "Not the Nine O'clock News" ( which btw. also included a certain young Rowan Atkinson of later "Blackadder" & "Mr. Bean" fame ).
See if you can find their equally hilarous sketch called "Gerald the Gorilla" - it may be hard to come by though.
"Next time, DEFINITELY" 😆
His family name was actually Cheese, but his elders decided to change it to Cleese.
Somewhat obscure Python. "Happy Valley" as far as I know only aired once, but I had seen it as a book.
Need to watch "How Not to Be Seen..." funny... Monty Phyton was on PBS here in Dallas back in the 70's
Flying Circus is one of my favourite things ever. The sketches blend into each other so it's good to watch full episodes too! "Fortunately, my Crunchie was still intact" 😂
Bit strange for John Cleese to get defensive about the pronunciation when his real name - and we're not kidding - is John CHEESE.
SEVERELY DAMAGED MY MARS BAR.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 America's version of the Snickers, without the nuts.
The whole episode was one long story about a cycling tour.
'BICYCLE REPAIR MAN'
My favourite is "The Fish Slapping Dance".....
and NEE!
My best ones are : the dead parrot sketch and I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok , which I didn't remember are 2 sketches which lead on from each other, eg at the end of dead parrot he say I didn't want to work in a pet shop , but wanted to be a lumberjack .
"...Cycling Tour, 1 aw their besst eppiseidsz, an athr beinh tha blahmanyh eppisseid vitth Angus Podgorney."
"So how many of you got injured" xDDD
That’s Reg Pither, of Reg Pither’s Cycle Tours. He got arrested when cycling in Russia.
I have always liked The Ministry of Silly Walks
The Four Yorkshire Men, Parrot Sketch, Argument Room, The Cheese Shop, Ministry of Silly Walks, Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit. The best of the funniest show ever.
After a glance at some of the other comments. I'll add: Upper class twit of the year, how not to be seen, and bicycle repair man, to name but three.
During the great purges, the sentence "10 years without the right of correspondence" was a euphemism for execution.
The Undertaker Sketch is one of the most pitch black sketches ever written.
That intro 😂 ‘an some weird people out there!!
Note the large poster relating to an earlier part of ‘A Cycling Tour’ not included here: ‘Sunday Night at the Moscow Praesidium’ (entertainment in the Kremlin, imitating the television variety programme ‘Sunday Night at the London Palladium’), with the singer Eartha Kitt, Marshall Bulganin (Premier of the Soviet Union 1955-58) and ‘Charlie’ (a ventriloquist’s dummy), Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (two of the Cambridge Five spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War), and the inimitable Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
This sketch lasts the whole episode of the TV show....it´s about Michael Palin doing a bike tour through Cornwall which ended up in Russia.
This episode from Season 3 , 'The Cycling Tour', was the first time the Pythons attempted a story that ran for an entire episode instead of simply isolated sketches. One of my favourites from the entire run of the TV series.
He's not allowed out he's been a very naughty boy !
It’s a fact that most firing squads only have one or two real bullets to alleviate guilt to the squad members. Most of the weapons fire blanks.