What made cheese so great were his macaroni legs! so unique and ingenious and SO funny. they were my favourite! And his thin cruel lips !! Nothing like it.
the guy losing it in the garden, is the funiest comedy moment ever... I've seen it so many times over the past 30 years or more and if still makes me cry laughing...
I agree! Oh man, he remakes myself in moments when I (often!) realize that so many people are idiots. People are so stupid! Or BASTARDS!!! He does it very near how I feel then.
John Cleese is one of those guys that can just sit or stand there, not say anything...and I'm already cracking up in anticipation of what he's gonna do. He's got some comedy voodoo about him.
Agreed. Like Chris Farley, John Belushi, Red Skelton, Roberto Benigni, Michael Richards, Rowan Atkinson, Will Ferrell, Stan Laurel. These are all amazing slapstick comedians, so they can do physical shtick. But they're all funny just standing there. (I didn't forget the ladies, but it's a more nuanced list and I didn't have time to think about it.)
Part of Cleese's genius was that he was so tall and dignified, and could do deadpan so well, it made his stuff even funnier. Ministry of Sill Walks is a prime example. What made it so funny wasn't the walking, it was that he was doing it while talking about the Ministry's funding absolutely stone faced. The other part of his genius was that no one could do rage nearly as well as he could, and he could play the straight man in equal measure. 'Vocational Guidance Counselor' is a great example of his straight man skills, or 'Exploding Penguin' against Chapman.
My stepfather looks just like John Cleese, and he's very intelligent, but he doesn't realize how FUNNY he is when he gets serious about things. he's nearly the real world version of Cleese' funniest characters.
What made Python so funny was that every one of them brought something unique that the others didn’t do as well. They bounced off each other like a bunch of hilarious, drunk high schoolers too. Even in interviews now they’re always good naturedly jibing each other and being inappropriate and hilarious. Lots of good comedy skit troups out there but few have ever been so consistently funny. Cleese was the master of the freak out and he could do the straight man thing nearly as well as Chapman. He’s hilarious because he always plays a ‘proper British’ person being utterly insane and the contrast never fails to amuse.
The Cleese rants are my favourite moments from Monty Python: the architect sketch; the dead parrot sketch; the Frenchman in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; etc.
Its the way he could say stupid or act in strange ways without cracking the slightest smile that made him so good. Or seeing him lose his cool and go nuts and in the next act straight and calm. He was dry as hell.
I can remember meeting John Cleese at the Queen's Coronation Celebration last year, He was talking to this man and I was going to try and get a photo of him. I was just struck at how tall he was, and he just looked at me and went, "I don't do photographs." and continued to talk to this other gentleman. I just walked away thinking, "John Cleese just talked to me!!" Never been more thrilled in my life.
Made a similar experience a few months ago. Saw him walking the streets of our town with the promoter of a reading he did the other day. I was with my teenage son and we asked JC doing a photograph with us. He just hurried away with his walking stick, almost in panic, shouting: "No, no, I don't do photographs!" I had the feeling, he actually was just afraid looking old and terrible on a non authorized photo. And man, yes, in reality he really looked old and a bit sick and not so slim anymore. BTW the promoter apologized for John not willing to do the photo.
Michael is the most naturally funny. I want to laugh just looking at him. He reminds me of a cousin of mine who made me laugh just by a raised eyeball.
To me, my first favorites right off were Michael and Eric. Slowly came to love Terry Jones. Ultimately worshipped Graham. Now I realize I’ve just taken John for granted.
Always the first thought in my head when I think of Python is Palin in Life of Brian doing the bouncy ex-leper bit. That and "Come see the violence inherent in the system" bit in Holy Grail. He was the beating heart of Python for me.
I recall Eric Idle writing that Palin was a rather talkative fellow. So much so they couldn’t shut him up when he was carrying on about one obscure topic or another that only he was fascinated by. He does seem to be a person of wide ranging interests and is obviously well read, but I got a good laugh from Idle’s skewering
@@pjmlegrande Cleese makes mention of that in the forward of one of Palin's books ... how Palin would just go on and on and on. I had no idea that was based on reality.
The choice of the transparent rain coat for the fish license sketch was brilliant. You'd have to be blind to social convetnion and reality in a certain way to wear it as a garment when it is clearly something you carry around if there is a sudden unexpected downpour. I think he wears it in the parrot sketch too.
That last? remark by Terry Gilliam? "You don't need to spend your money on psychiatry" is so earlr 20th century British, even though he's American (if I've guessed right). At that time, crazy people were accepted as eccentrics.
Yo creo que john fue la cara de monty python porque , como dice mike , su cuerpo era largo y raro , tenia cara sería y hacia personajes serios , locos ,etcétera. De todas formas todos los personajes que hacía le quedaban bien porque era una persona muy especial , tenia rasgos muy especiales para hacer ese tipo de cosas . Entonces cuando ves MP el primero que llama la atención es el ,es el más llamativo justamente por esas cosas.
I think Terry is pretty spot on... I do like John Cleese, but he is not a nice person. And he's best moments is probably when he actually play's himself :-) John never ever bothered to be nice... and that is he's greatness somehow.
He seemed very kind in that televised discussion he did with the Bishop and Christian Journalist over the sacrilege, or lack thereof, present in Life of Brian. Never lost his cool, was very patient and did his best to reasonably portray his perspective on the matter.
He's always been an arsehole. He bullied Terry J back in the day and goes off on trans phobic, sexist and generally bigoted rants on twitter all the time.
Until now, I didn't realize how much Terry Gilliam sounds like Penn Jillette in voice and vocal mannerisms. They have a lot of double consonants as well.
You need some people in this world to go out of their way to make a sense of it all, and you need some people to go out of their way to show how little that sense makes. John and Terry Gilliam strike me as men who accomplish both of these tasks, in their own ways, though with a distinct lean more one way than the other - and for that I'm grateful.
Just a point worth making: If we don't placate the psychiatrists they'll slate the Earth for demolition to allow a new galactic bypass through. Let John keep them complacent, blissfully lapsed. It means he's doing his job to protect the species.
@alienbodies It's from Monty Pythons Flying Circus. As well as Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Now for Something Completely different, and muuuuuuuuuuuch morrrrre
3:28 - "Coming over here and taking our jobs and our women and acting like they own the feckin' place!" Except if you look close, you can see she's smiling through it.
Terry G's last words, "You don't need to spend your money on psychiatry" came back to haunt poor John! Man had to organize a speaking tour just to pay his ex-wife!
Gilliam has it right on. Cleese is desperately trying to offer explanation for the world's absurdities, and never able to do so. That sort of mentality forces one into comedy, perhaps, as a profession, where the recognition of absurdity is central to the sensation of humor....Terry's probably on the other end of the spectrum, already there immersed in the absurd, reveling in it..:)
True, Cleese is the "face" of Python, sort of like a lead singer for a band. But IMHO, Cleese is much funnier when surrounded by other loonies rather than just straight men/women. They all made each other funnier by the combination of distinct personalities. IMHO, Python is virtually unimaginable w/o Palin, Idle, and Jones. Chapman and Gilliam are probably replaceable with other talents, but Cleese shouldn't be given too much credit- he didn't make Python great all by himself. The show that could have been called "Owl Stretching Time" is much funnier overall than Fawlty Towers, where Cleese is the star of the show, Manuel is the goon and everyone else plays the straight part. Cleese is a living treasure, but he played a role just as Idle, Palin and all the others. Cleese without the other Pythons- whether in Fawlty Towers, interviews or movies gets a bit tiresome at times- kind of like if Robert Plant were to go out alone w/o the rest of Led Zeppelin. Can you even *imagine* how annoying that would be after about 5 minutes? ((shudder)) I say "kind of" because comparing Plant's screechy wailing (which is entirely well-placed within LZ's style) to Cleese's comedy is a purposely stretched analogy. Sadly, analogies need to be over-drawn these days just for people to get what one is talking about. Maybe we should call our age the Era of Opinion Inflation? Everybody has lots of strong opinions, but few really listen carefully to what you're actually saying. (?)
aww i don't think Chapman and Gilliam are replaceable! they all had their issues and differences, but the end product was beautiful. Chapman was hilarious, he is seriously underrated
@Caroline-me6xy Absolutely agree. Cleese wrote with Chapman and said he had the best sense of what was funny of anyone he's ever known. And them meeting Terry Gilliam was absolute serendipity. His animations were wonderful and an essential part of Python. And he was good in sketches as well. All 6 were vital to me. And I'm not knocking the deliciously funny Carol.
I'm the opposite of John. I hate psychiatry and what it does to the human spirit and refuse to use it. I think that my sensitivity and sadness helps with my art.
+Linny Crocus Maybe art has the role in your life that some people use psychiatrists for. Everybody has everyday psychotic thoughts, it is only when these take over ones life that it should be considered a mental disorder.
It has helped some and done harm to others. It's been said anyone who sees a psychiatrist needs his/her head examining; the same could be true of many psychiatrists too.
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What made Cleese so good was that he did the most outrageous things while maintaining a persona that was so properly British.
What made cheese so great were his macaroni legs! so unique and ingenious and SO funny. they were my favourite! And his thin cruel lips !! Nothing like it.
the guy losing it in the garden, is the funiest comedy moment ever... I've seen it so many times over the past 30 years or more and if still makes me cry laughing...
I agree! Oh man, he remakes myself in moments when I (often!) realize that so many people are idiots. People are so stupid! Or BASTARDS!!! He does it very near how I feel then.
Reminds me of some bizarre Kubrick character.
The thing is, there are many people who hold the same paranoid hatreds IRL ... it's just that John is one of the very few funny ones.
The master of when subdued rage goes off the rails.
The polite little laugh that Graham Chapman gives at 1:05 is a thing of genius.
Absolutely. It almost goes under the radar but it's such a subtle bit of Englishness....truly brilliant.
These kids were pretty good. Made me laugh several times. I doubt we will still be talking about them in 2024 though.
John Cleese is one of those guys that can just sit or stand there, not say anything...and I'm already cracking up in anticipation of what he's gonna do. He's got some comedy voodoo about him.
Agreed. Like Chris Farley, John Belushi, Red Skelton, Roberto Benigni, Michael Richards, Rowan Atkinson, Will Ferrell, Stan Laurel. These are all amazing slapstick comedians, so they can do physical shtick. But they're all funny just standing there. (I didn't forget the ladies, but it's a more nuanced list and I didn't have time to think about it.)
Part of Cleese's genius was that he was so tall and dignified, and could do deadpan so well, it made his stuff even funnier. Ministry of Sill Walks is a prime example. What made it so funny wasn't the walking, it was that he was doing it while talking about the Ministry's funding absolutely stone faced.
The other part of his genius was that no one could do rage nearly as well as he could, and he could play the straight man in equal measure. 'Vocational Guidance Counselor' is a great example of his straight man skills, or 'Exploding Penguin' against Chapman.
My stepfather looks just like John Cleese, and he's very intelligent, but he doesn't realize how FUNNY he is when he gets serious about things. he's nearly the real world version of Cleese' funniest characters.
"I'm the tallest and the most handsome.." Lol. Seriously, when I think of Monty Python, I always think of Mr. Cleese first.
'..his long, thin, strange body'. Hahaha.
Not only the hilarious silly walks. But those facial expressions. Killer
A massive legend in his own time. John Cleese is a rare comedic genius. Thank you thank you for years of laughter! He’s the BEST!
What made Python so funny was that every one of them brought something unique that the others didn’t do as well.
They bounced off each other like a bunch of hilarious, drunk high schoolers too. Even in interviews now they’re always good naturedly jibing each other and being inappropriate and hilarious.
Lots of good comedy skit troups out there but few have ever been so consistently funny.
Cleese was the master of the freak out and he could do the straight man thing nearly as well as Chapman. He’s hilarious because he always plays a ‘proper British’ person being utterly insane and the contrast never fails to amuse.
The Cleese rants are my favourite moments from Monty Python: the architect sketch; the dead parrot sketch; the Frenchman in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; etc.
“I fart in your general direction” is a saying that has lived on through the years in our family. Brilliant.
Its the way he could say stupid or act in strange ways without cracking the slightest smile that made him so good. Or seeing him lose his cool and go nuts and in the next act straight and calm. He was dry as hell.
I can remember meeting John Cleese at the Queen's Coronation Celebration last year, He was talking to this man and I was going to try and get a photo of him. I was just struck at how tall he was, and he just looked at me and went, "I don't do photographs." and continued to talk to this other gentleman. I just walked away thinking, "John Cleese just talked to me!!" Never been more thrilled in my life.
BronyDan haha nice way to seeing it. I would've been very disappointed on him if he had done that to me. Is that real?
Chase Sandman Yeah he said it a lot of times that he doesnt like photos at all. He wasnt mean thats just who he is
I don't like when random strangers to me want to take photos with me either.
so what, just because he is famous doesn't entitle you or any other bum licker to have your photo taken with him. Get over yourself
Made a similar experience a few months ago. Saw him walking the streets of our town with the promoter of a reading he did the other day. I was with my teenage son and we asked JC doing a photograph with us. He just hurried away with his walking stick, almost in panic, shouting: "No, no, I don't do photographs!" I had the feeling, he actually was just afraid looking old and terrible on a non authorized photo. And man, yes, in reality he really looked old and a bit sick and not so slim anymore. BTW the promoter apologized for John not willing to do the photo.
Michael is the most naturally funny. I want to laugh just looking at him. He reminds me of a cousin of mine who made me laugh just by a raised eyeball.
Gilliam has such a nice speaking voice.
"Coming dear" Sheer genius.
I just lose everytime he says "shut up!"
kory stephens No point-ed sticks?
"SHUT UP!!!"
Michael Palin has actually said that Cleese is better than anyone at saying "shut up!"
He was always my favorite. I love all the Pythons, but John Cleese is absolutely the best.
To me, my first favorites right off were Michael and Eric. Slowly came to love Terry Jones. Ultimately worshipped Graham. Now I realize I’ve just taken John for granted.
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
This guy invented flipping the switch.
I think flipping the switch must be about as old as humour itself. Possibly older.
Okay, then this guy PERFECTED flipping the switch lol
I love how every video of pythons commenting on each other is just an instant and relentless roast.
Gilliam summed him up just right
Palin is the most handsome though
Yup
Definitely the best screamer 😂
5 people's mothers are hamsters and their fathers smell of elderberries
In John Cleese's hands, his body becomes strange.
I just love John ❤
I agree that Cleese may be the face of Python but Michael Palin was always my favorite
Always the first thought in my head when I think of Python is Palin in Life of Brian doing the bouncy ex-leper bit. That and "Come see the violence inherent in the system" bit in Holy Grail. He was the beating heart of Python for me.
@@FiveSigma72For me it was the anarcho-syndicalist peasant in the Holy Grail, hands down.
I recall Eric Idle writing that Palin was a rather talkative fellow. So much so they couldn’t shut him up when he was carrying on about one obscure topic or another that only he was fascinated by. He does seem to be a person of wide ranging interests and is obviously well read, but I got a good laugh from Idle’s skewering
Crucifixion?
@@pjmlegrande Cleese makes mention of that in the forward of one of Palin's books ... how Palin would just go on and on and on. I had no idea that was based on reality.
The choice of the transparent rain coat for the fish license sketch was brilliant. You'd have to be blind to social convetnion and reality in a certain way to wear it as a garment when it is clearly something you carry around if there is a sudden unexpected downpour. I think he wears it in the parrot sketch too.
John's description of his characters: "terribly angry about something".
I think he used to be gorgeous...
He really was an utter babe
That last? remark by Terry Gilliam? "You don't need to spend your money on psychiatry" is so earlr 20th century British, even though he's American (if I've guessed right). At that time, crazy people were accepted as eccentrics.
And now for something completely different.
Yo creo que john fue la cara de monty python porque , como dice mike , su cuerpo era largo y raro , tenia cara sería y hacia personajes serios , locos ,etcétera. De todas formas todos los personajes que hacía le quedaban bien porque era una persona muy especial , tenia rasgos muy especiales para hacer ese tipo de cosas . Entonces cuando ves MP el primero que llama la atención es el ,es el más llamativo justamente por esas cosas.
yeah I always thought of him as the magnum PI of england tall dark but with a thinner moustache for some bizarre reason
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
I think Terry is pretty spot on... I do like John Cleese, but he is not a nice person. And he's best moments is probably when he actually play's himself :-)
John never ever bothered to be nice... and that is he's greatness somehow.
He seemed very kind in that televised discussion he did with the Bishop and Christian Journalist over the sacrilege, or lack thereof, present in Life of Brian. Never lost his cool, was very patient and did his best to reasonably portray his perspective on the matter.
He's always been an arsehole. He bullied Terry J back in the day and goes off on trans phobic, sexist and generally bigoted rants on twitter all the time.
"In 500 metres (or what i call half a mile but we have to call it 500 hundred metres because of that bastard Napoleon) take the third exit"
😂😂
No one ever as funny as Peter Cook ❤
Until now, I didn't realize how much Terry Gilliam sounds like Penn Jillette in voice and vocal mannerisms. They have a lot of double consonants as well.
You need some people in this world to go out of their way to make a sense of it all, and you need some people to go out of their way to show how little that sense makes. John and Terry Gilliam strike me as men who accomplish both of these tasks, in their own ways, though with a distinct lean more one way than the other - and for that I'm grateful.
I love this guy.
By far my favourite Python
Gosh he was so charming
He IS still alive and still charming, actually...
@@gutgolf74 yeah, but not that young, is it?
Johns book life and how to survive it, written with Skinner is excellent
The argument clinic is my favorite
She turned me into a NEWT!
I got better...
Just a point worth making: If we don't placate the psychiatrists they'll slate the Earth for demolition to allow a new galactic bypass through. Let John keep them complacent, blissfully lapsed. It means he's doing his job to protect the species.
He's a literal comic genius.
This fine *honorable* man whose boots you. are. Not. Worthy. To Kiss. Oh, this makes me mad. MAD. M-A-D! 😄😄😄 Mungo, one of my fav characters!
@alienbodies It's from Monty Pythons Flying Circus. As well as Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Now for Something Completely different, and muuuuuuuuuuuch morrrrre
He looks like the villain from Meet the Robinsons.
Does anyone else think that in the thumbnail, Cleese looks exactly like Tanaka from Gaki no Tsukai?
If you're wearing headphones, don't forget to lower the volume before you go to the next video.
I'd like to see Pythons on Carol Cleveland.
I mean commenting on Carol Cleveland, not physically on her.
cepson I'm happy to watch both :)
3:28 - "Coming over here and taking our jobs and our women and acting like they own the feckin' place!" Except if you look close, you can see she's smiling through it.
Terry G's last words, "You don't need to spend your money on psychiatry" came back to haunt poor John! Man had to organize a speaking tour just to pay his ex-wife!
Good job he isn’t dead
that bastard can do some crazy shit with his legs:) (p.s. he's also nearly headless nick.)
No one does rage like John Cleese.
He`s the briliantine stick insect...
All due respect to John, but the funniest thing in this four minutes is Graham's uncomfortable laugh in the dirty fork sketch.
He really was handsome.
The only newt in the group
ohhh i coulda watched more
Why are all these videos cut short??
What is this from
Monty Python: Almost the Truth.
Basically 6 episodes counting documentary.
What do you mean "was"?
Where did this channel get this material?
What programme is this from?
Eric Idle.
I've always thought John Cleese should have been a dancer
Michael Palin for me.
I always thought Idle was the hottest Python, maybe its cause Cleese looks like my uncle :o
Gilliam has it right on. Cleese is desperately trying to offer explanation for the world's absurdities, and never able to do so. That sort of mentality forces one into comedy, perhaps, as a profession, where the recognition of absurdity is central to the sensation of humor....Terry's probably on the other end of the spectrum, already there immersed in the absurd, reveling in it..:)
Have to agree with his bit about commies.
Cleese was the funniest actor, but he couldn't write by himself.
He IS handsome....and I'm a hetrosexual man hehehe....viking there is hehe
True, Cleese is the "face" of Python, sort of like a lead singer for a band. But IMHO, Cleese is much funnier when surrounded by other loonies rather than just straight men/women. They all made each other funnier by the combination of distinct personalities. IMHO, Python is virtually unimaginable w/o Palin, Idle, and Jones. Chapman and Gilliam are probably replaceable with other talents, but Cleese shouldn't be given too much credit- he didn't make Python great all by himself.
The show that could have been called "Owl Stretching Time" is much funnier overall than Fawlty Towers, where Cleese is the star of the show, Manuel is the goon and everyone else plays the straight part.
Cleese is a living treasure, but he played a role just as Idle, Palin and all the others. Cleese without the other Pythons- whether in Fawlty Towers, interviews or movies gets a bit tiresome at times- kind of like if Robert Plant were to go out alone w/o the rest of Led Zeppelin. Can you even *imagine* how annoying that would be after about 5 minutes? ((shudder)) I say "kind of" because comparing Plant's screechy wailing (which is entirely well-placed within LZ's style) to Cleese's comedy is a purposely stretched analogy. Sadly, analogies need to be over-drawn these days just for people to get what one is talking about. Maybe we should call our age the Era of Opinion Inflation? Everybody has lots of strong opinions, but few really listen carefully to what you're actually saying. (?)
aww i don't think Chapman and Gilliam are replaceable! they all had their issues and differences, but the end product was beautiful. Chapman was hilarious, he is seriously underrated
@Caroline-me6xy Absolutely agree. Cleese wrote with Chapman and said he had the best sense of what was funny of anyone he's ever known. And them meeting Terry Gilliam was absolute serendipity. His animations were wonderful and an essential part of Python. And he was good in sketches as well. All 6 were vital to me. And I'm not knocking the deliciously funny Carol.
3:19 - 3:40 = Average Fox News viewer
I'm the opposite of John. I hate psychiatry and what it does to the human spirit and refuse to use it. I think that my sensitivity and sadness helps with my art.
+Linny Crocus Maybe art has the role in your life that some people use psychiatrists for. Everybody has everyday psychotic thoughts, it is only when these take over ones life that it should be considered a mental disorder.
It has helped some and done harm to others. It's been said anyone who sees a psychiatrist needs his/her head examining; the same could be true of many psychiatrists too.
Therapy is a scam and is absolute shit on all accounts.
@@DropTehBazz The only thing therapy has ever done for me is understanding myself and helping me cope with thoughts and feelings.