Watched it live, as a teenager, with my mum and dad. When Palin went into the lock, I had tears running down my cheeks. I looked over, and my mum and dad were watching, stony faced. For a short while I thought I was going to pass out because I couldn't breathe.
As Matt Hancock's Cold19 fear-mongering slaps us all in the face, Britain joins the people of Hereford, North Somerset and Leighton-Buzzard in doing nothing at all
I believe Michael Palin's memory of the Fish-Slapping Dance involves how cold and filthy the water was. Rather like his memories of making Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Although making the Holy Grail was more like cold, filthy, and drunk. And not so much fish.
People beating each other senseless with cricket bats is still the funniest thing ever. The fish slapping dance equals the cricket beating match in humor.
I try to imagine what it must be like in rehearsals for these crazy sketches. It must’ve been at least as funny, if not funnier, than the end products.
Love Chappell and watch everything but this guys are extraordinary! I’m here because I’m looking for all of their scotches and select the most suitable for my English class lessons. They are perfect! Teaching and learning should be lots of fun!
I once went to a Monty Python day at Doune Castle (Castle Anthrax / Swamp Castle) as a fish slapping dancer. For my act I recited 'Find the Fish' from Meaning of Life.
@MrBusker As Mr Bronson said, this was just a repackaging of regular sketches from the series.The Fish Slapping Dance for example was in episode 2 of Series 3, while the Batley Townswomen's Guild was in Series 1 episode 13.
Probably 15 years before 300 baud dial-up modems, 20 years before 2400 bps. I don't know why it's so bad. VHS is better quality than this, and broadcast TV (and the 3/4" U-Matic cassettes or 1" and 2" reel to reel tapes) of 1970ish were *much* better than this.
@@rjamsbury1 not to mention, a single photo from a modern smartphone is bigger than the entire hard disk we had (if we were lucky) back then. Video was right out. You couldn't store it. You couldn't copy it to the screen quickly enough. QuickTime 1.5 in 1992 could *just* play 320x240 video at 30 FPS on a 25 MHz 68040. Most people had much slower machines than that and before 1992 that wasn't possible at all.
All we can claim in America is that we celebrate Cinco de Mayo; a celebration that isn't ever celebrated or recognized in the Mexican town in which the commemorating event took place.
@@miklosernoehazy8678 Monty Python IS an argument. How can you guys have an argument about an argument? You both need more Spam with that argument! Lol!
I saw this sketch on a two pixel screen and the picture was so sharp it cut right through my prefrontal cortex. Now I can't seem to stop laughing, but somehow I don't know why; it feels like
I remember bits and pieces of this from the TV show -- the "Fish-Slapping Dance", the Women's Guild, the goalies, and the "all-in cricket" -- but I don't recall ever seeing this extended version. What was this taken from?
I agree, I don't think this was in the original show. The fish slapping sketch, and the ladies fighting in the field I remember as part of the original show. The ladies fighting in the field were a league reenacting famous battles as I recall.
I really kind of want to visit Hereford, where "nothing happens at all". After all, I'm just watching RUclips videos, which means that I'm doing...very little...at all.
There actually is something called digital restoration. It basically makes very blurry pictures and indistinct audio tracks harder to follow, as details that earlier were not meant to be discovered now suddenly can be. This might be embarrassing to some, so before digitally restoring old film, video or photo, be aware and remember that there still also is something called dignity and discretion. So people don't necessarily have to see what used to be up people's noses, or by the sound be able to guess what they had for lunch. Thank you.
Where the heck did this come from? I thought have them all. Am I missing episodes? Was this never used? Some bits were recycled, but into this or from this? I'm curious, where did this come from?
May day is about ..................................Getting the F back into the word Fish, of putting the S back into the word Suasage, of getting the F back into the word F.......ck !!!! in other words may day spring rituals no matter how sedate or christianised are about getting it on !
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The Fish Slapping Ceremony is still one of the funniest sketches ever on television I still find it hilarious
Why it was shite then and it's still shite now.
Fish Slapping: Come on, its a serious sport and situation, I blame the Brexit bunch for sending the fish over seas.
pro trick: you can watch movies on flixzone. I've been using them for watching all kinds of movies lately.
@Antonio Stanley Definitely, been watching on flixzone for since november myself =)
After all these years the "fish slapping dance" is still the funniest thing I've ever seen.
The Minister for Silly Walks a close second.
I know exactly what’s coming and yet I still laugh.
@@alasdairwatson712
... it's funny because we all know that dance has this element of truth -there's always a bigger fish... 🐋
Watched it live, as a teenager, with my mum and dad. When Palin went into the lock, I had tears running down my cheeks. I looked over, and my mum and dad were watching, stony faced. For a short while I thought I was going to pass out because I couldn't breathe.
@@BenjWarrant ...that happened at Edington lock, right?...
The fish slapping ceremony is well worth the trip to Lowestoft.
filmed at teddington lock Middlesex
Here in the States, we have a similar ceremony....
The running of the Squirrels!
nothing is worth a trip to Lowestoft.
Bleeping out parts of the unintelligible Swedish was a stroke of genius.
Inte roligt alls. Så det så djävla engländare😅
@@peterdammeliusosterode3424 WHAT? MY AUNT NEVER DID THAT WITH A CODFISH!
@@bretthess6376
Codfish? uh. Amateurs. We Viking descendants do it with surströmming.
@@peterdammeliusosterode3424 In an unopened can, I hope. Phew.
@@peterdammeliusosterode3424 måste vara ett Norlänning :)
In the insanity of 2021 we need this madness to keep us sane !!!!!
As Matt Hancock's Cold19 fear-mongering slaps us all in the face, Britain joins the people of Hereford, North Somerset and Leighton-Buzzard in doing nothing at all
All in cricket at the royal albert hall....brilliant LMAO, nearly 50 years after broadcast. Encore!
And here in the America's in 2021 we celebrate May Day by doing......bugger all!
As a Bristol boy I can confirm that we do like a nice boiled nun. Yummy!
Oh yes!
And who doesn't love a fried Catholic missionary too? After all...they're Friar's!!!
In Québec (if I may) we eat Christ's ears (oreilles de Christ) and nun's farts (pets de soeur). Delicacies from the maple sugar shacks in spring.
@@grodard9 What? No elephant balls(peanut butter w/ molasses[etc] covered in chocolate)? They're not religious, but Heavenly good!
@@THE-HammerMan 😁
And indeed, in nearby North Somerset, they're still doing bugger all!
What a great video! Monty Python doesn’t get old. And nothing will ever beat the fish slapping dance. :)
In the insanity of 2021 we need this madness to keep us sane !!!
I don't know, all in cricket looks pretty entertaining.
Except The Parrot Sketch!
Have any of you learned the Value of NOT being seen?
Sound Wisdom these days!
townswomen's guild of battley always makes me laugh
This is the best quality I could find.
I’ve never seen the whole piece in one go, the quality is fine considering when it was 1st made.. Thanks! :)
I’ve seen it for the first time. Thank you! We needed the last chord for full resolution.
Thats a relief I thought it was the brandies
"Spring dance of the futures brokers" -- hilarious!
And in Hereford nothing happens at all. 🤣
Certainly not hurricanes.
@@WhiteCamry Well, hurricanes hardly happen.
In Bournemouth nothing ever changed ... for 40 years.
@@fremsleysballoon
We had best have our picnic there then, rather than at Hanging Rock! Less venomous snakes and poison ants, I hope! 😱😉👍
@@michaelkemp128 well spotted Michael!
Waiting a million years - just for us!
I believe Michael Palin's memory of the Fish-Slapping Dance involves how cold and filthy the water was. Rather like his memories of making Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Although making the Holy Grail was more like cold, filthy, and drunk. And not so much fish.
People beating each other senseless with cricket bats is still the funniest thing ever. The fish slapping dance equals the cricket beating match in humor.
It's time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man
Edward Woodward would.
@@LeeGee
People in the industry used to refer to him as "Ed 3 Woods."
Unlike me, this never gets old. Cheers!
Never seen such high quality video on YT before, bravo!!!
The fish slapping, and the all in cricket had me like🤣🤣🤣🤣!!! Omg,stick me with a fork....I'm done 😷🤣🍹🌳👊✌💞
That was hilarious! The fish dance was always my favourite and ‘All in cricket’. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I try to imagine what it must be like in rehearsals for these crazy sketches. It must’ve been at least as funny, if not funnier, than the end products.
That's not a camera! You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together!
Fabulous documentary.
Really need to bring back the fish slapping dance.
And All in Cricket!
Although here in the States, we would have All in Baseball!😉
This, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd. Man I grew up in the best of times. Feel sorry for kids today.
You haven't seen Outcast or Chappelle probably.
Totally. And our cartoons were better as children.
Love Chappell and watch everything but this guys are extraordinary!
I’m here because I’m looking for all of their scotches and select the most suitable for my English class lessons. They are perfect!
Teaching and learning should be lots of fun!
Many find our ancient customs quite strange. Foreigners usually.
I am a foreigner, (in most countries, except in the Netherlands) and haven't noticed anything strange here.
The Brokers Dance! LOL even more relevant now
Nice to know that beekeepers from Dumbarton are considered English.
I will edit that. Nice to know that Dumbarton is considered "England".
Nice to know that English BeeKeepers are Considered English.
In the City of London, they celebrate by travelling in their Rolls Royces where it is so quiet they can hear their bank accounts ticking over.
I once went to a Monty Python day at Doune Castle (Castle Anthrax / Swamp Castle) as a fish slapping dancer. For my act I recited 'Find the Fish' from Meaning of Life.
"NUN-BOILING WEEK"!!!!! I had TOTALLY forgotten that!!! BAAAAAAHAHAHAAAA THANK YOU! I wonder which one came up with that gem?!
I liked the all in cricket, so much more lively than the real thing.
Cricket needs more violence. Otherwise the commentators starts remarking about movement from seagulls as nothing else is happening.
My girlfriend from Sweden stubbornly kept insisting that Mayday in rural Sverige was just a pretext to "give the genetic pool a proper shakeup".
the pythons are still so funny. Remember Rutland, the lost shire county.
Very British, very bloody funny after all these years
Theresa May day...they have foreseen this all along before ? :)
Very English you mean?
Can't beat our British comedy
Hadn’t seen this since the seventies, it’s now put me in the mood to celebrate mayday tomorrow. Must get some fish 👀😂😂
Greetings to all of you. Except in Spain.
Poor Spain!
@@papercup2517 No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
@@WiFiWombat True...
Greetings to Spain....
But only Asturias!😉
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
But why
All in cricket. Could catch on.
MMA Cricket,I'd pay to see that
From Euroshow '71 May Day broadcast
Thank you. Wondering it’s origins.
Don’t remember this sketch at all, except the funny bits, ie the fish 🐟 slapping dance. But.....thanx for sharing 👍
I see a strong bond of absurdity between this and the early movies of Peter Greenaway, like "A Walk Through H" and "The Falls". SOOO funny!
Truly educational!
"To the sound of fiddle and flute"
... it's a melodeon, I think you'll find!
The Nun Boiling is right up there with The Fish Slapping Dance.
I so loved the world before pc. Hillarious.
Monthy Python makes high-quality content.
This was inspirational
"This is England."
Ah I do miss our traditional British Nun boiling.
This must be one of the first videos on youtube...
@MrBusker
As Mr Bronson said, this was just a repackaging of regular sketches from the series.The Fish Slapping Dance for example was in episode 2 of Series 3, while the Batley Townswomen's Guild was in Series 1 episode 13.
So the Pythons were doing clip-shows, before clip-shows were a thing -- way ahead of their time...
And weren't the Batley women re-enacting the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This, boys and girls, was video quality in the age of dial-up modems
Probably 15 years before 300 baud dial-up modems, 20 years before 2400 bps. I don't know why it's so bad. VHS is better quality than this, and broadcast TV (and the 3/4" U-Matic cassettes or 1" and 2" reel to reel tapes) of 1970ish were *much* better than this.
You are showing you didn't live through that time - video was not an option! A single image took several minutes to download
@@rjamsbury1 not to mention, a single photo from a modern smartphone is bigger than the entire hard disk we had (if we were lucky) back then. Video was right out. You couldn't store it. You couldn't copy it to the screen quickly enough. QuickTime 1.5 in 1992 could *just* play 320x240 video at 30 FPS on a 25 MHz 68040. Most people had much slower machines than that and before 1992 that wasn't possible at all.
My favourite Monty Python sketch.
All we can claim in America is that we celebrate Cinco de Mayo; a celebration that isn't ever celebrated or recognized in the Mexican town in which the commemorating event took place.
We should start ALL IN BASEBALL. Particularly in DC.😉
As it should be.
I'd like to have an argument about Monty Python.
No you wouldn't.
If I can't slap you in person with a fish, there's no argument to be had now, is there? Think about that next time you're having Spam.
...would you like the five minute, or the ten minute argument?...
@@miklosernoehazy8678 Monty Python IS an argument. How can you guys have an argument about an argument? You both need more Spam with that argument! Lol!
@@THE-HammerMan ... would that be with bacon, eggs, sausage and unfiltered, unwanted/unnecessary auto-generated E-mails?...
"blah blah blah whoooooosh shish howwwl wheeee" best subtitle ever ! (video of a boat called tally ho)
I saw this sketch on a two pixel screen and the picture was so sharp it cut right through my prefrontal cortex. Now I can't seem to stop laughing, but somehow I don't know why; it feels like
Gynecologists greetings from Leicestershire..? :)
the Fish Slapping Dance was filmed at Teddington Lock , Middlesex
Now this is an early youtube video
The sociologist is a dead ringer for Jonathan Pie
All in cricket is just quality.
What is this from? It has scenes from other sketches.
There is some celebration for May Day in North Somerset, or at least rural parts of North-East Somerset.
Nun boiling week ....
Why I visit england to do the the fish slapping dance to my family😀
What is the tune for the Stockbroker’s Dance? I know the tune but have no idea what it’s called.
I remember bits and pieces of this from the TV show -- the "Fish-Slapping Dance", the Women's Guild, the goalies, and the "all-in cricket" -- but I don't recall ever seeing this extended version. What was this taken from?
I agree, I don't think this was in the original show. The fish slapping sketch, and the ladies fighting in the field I remember as part of the original show. The ladies fighting in the field were a league reenacting famous battles as I recall.
jajaja very intro dancer bankers mens togethers python forever !!!!!!!
I really kind of want to visit Hereford, where "nothing happens at all". After all, I'm just watching RUclips videos, which means that I'm doing...very little...at all.
Taint May Day. No leaves on the trees.
Australian translation: "Mayday in Pomgolia"!😉😂
Still pretending Australia exists?
Bloody oath!!😉👍🏻It doesn't exist!!🤔🙄...so don't bother coming he...,I mean...going to that fictitious land!!!🙏🏻😋😂
More like Pomistan
The fish slapping dance is bla blablablabbalablbaba
Wasn’t in any Flying Circus episodes
I wonder what this was from/for.
There is a ancient tradition , ( I kid you not ) of taken a herd of sheep over Tower Bridge London . I wonder of they do it during rush hour ?
Guess they do it in a rush! They better!
What lens did they use for this, a teapot?
Actually funnier than the video! (And I'm a python fan)
I'm not entirely sure, but I think I saw some shapes resembling humans. Interesting abstract art this is.
All in cricket looks entertaining, if a bit painful and potentially life threatening.
Oh that's what getting battered means
Happy Mayday 2021 to everyone!
I like how there are several recent comments on a 14+ years old video 🙂
The fish slapping ha ha ha!
Geez this is funny!
Oh boy, this video quality was already abominable in 2006 when it was uploaded.
There actually is something called digital restoration. It basically
makes very blurry pictures and indistinct audio tracks harder to follow,
as details that earlier were not meant to be discovered now suddenly can
be. This might be embarrassing to some, so before digitally restoring
old film, video or photo, be aware and remember that there still also is
something called dignity and discretion. So people don't necessarily
have to see what used to be up people's noses, or by the sound be able to
guess what they had for lunch. Thank you.
Restore "THIS"!, you Bleedin' restoration guru! Lol!
After the pirates they are expecting boiled eggs to arrive
So May Day in England takes place on ... blurry, indistinguishable days?
Get that feeling Graham Chapman enjoyed that football bit.
Nothing happens in Hereford (SAS training) and nothing happens in north Somerset (ROC headquarters)
Barnaby complete !!
Would be great if we could actually see it .. or, i've now got cataracts!!
haha! So on Mayday, football in England resembles football in the rest of Europe on any other day?
What is the Little Britain? Please, explain. I live in the States and I am not too familiar with the GB habit. But I am a big admirer of Pythons.
Where the heck did this come from? I thought have them all. Am I missing episodes? Was this never used? Some bits were recycled, but into this or from this? I'm curious, where did this come from?
May day is about ..................................Getting the F back into the word Fish, of putting the S back into the word Suasage, of getting the F back into the word F.......ck !!!! in other words may day spring rituals no matter how sedate or christianised are about getting it on !
all tv was BLURRED back then? I think not sir.
Stop That! It's Silly!
...and a might bit suspect, I think...
Nun boiling week
To gynecologists every where! What's all this then?!
Hilarious 😂
Was this recorded with a "fisher Price", VCR