Michael Palin and Terry Jones - Hendon sketch

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • Monty Python's Michael Palin and Terry Jones perform their "Hendon" sketch on Comedians Do It On Stage, a 1986 Channel 4 special (British TV) charity show in aid of the Oncology Club Fund. Followed by "Paranoid Society" sketch by the whole cast. I had this clip on an old VHS tape. I couldn't see it elsewhere on RUclips, so I put it up so Python fans could enjoy it.

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  •  5 лет назад +29

    With both Terry and Graham in Heaven, it's suddenly a much sillier place. No need for Spike to be lonely any more.

    • @GalapagosPete
      @GalapagosPete 5 лет назад

      Dennis Moore I gave you a vote up for the joke, but of course if the Christians are right both of them are in Hell, where I would expect to meet them myself, along with Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Steven Hawking and a host of other far more interesting, intelligent and decent people than will ever be found in heaven.

    • @GalapagosPete
      @GalapagosPete 5 лет назад

      Dennis Moore It wouldn’t be Hell without him!

  • @TombstoneHeart
    @TombstoneHeart 5 лет назад +86

    I can empathize with the members of the Paranoid Society. I used to drive taxis for a living once, but I had to give it away - people kept talking behind my back!

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 5 лет назад +2

      @ecky1965 Will you please stop making that noise! The poor chap can't concentrate on driving his taxi with you making that stupid stupid noise.

    • @hornetobiker
      @hornetobiker 5 лет назад +2

      give it up

    • @iancurtis1152
      @iancurtis1152 2 года назад +1

      Newspaper taxi?

    • @DreadX10
      @DreadX10 2 года назад +1

      So...you became a bus-driver? Oh, wait!

    • @pauljohnson4758
      @pauljohnson4758 2 года назад

      Jonas Kaufman

  • @WeerdMunkee
    @WeerdMunkee 5 лет назад +43

    When I see these two together, or any of the six in question, it’s not about Monty Python. It’s about the friendship they shared in real life. That’s what makes the comedy so good. That’s what makes any entertainment team as good as Python was, no matter the medium. It’s a bond. Nuffsed.

    • @JaneDoe-ci3gj
      @JaneDoe-ci3gj 5 лет назад +1

      Agreed!

    • @alkatrask2704
      @alkatrask2704 2 года назад +2

      Only 5 we’re friends, they’ve never told which of the 6 wasn’t a “one of the chums” as they put it, but I know they’d often prise apart his sandwiches and wipe their bottoms on his bread. Filthy horrible beasts.

  • @bevmaxey8968
    @bevmaxey8968 5 лет назад +10

    Greetings from Hendon, Michael you are welcome anytime 😉

  • @Elitist20
    @Elitist20 5 лет назад +23

    This was originally written for The Frost Report in 1967, where it was done by John Cleese (the interesting man) and Ronnie Corbett (the man from Hendon). Then it showed up in The Two Ronnies in the 70s, this time with Ronnie Corbett as the interesting man and Ronnie Barker as the man from Hendon.

    • @kenlieck7756
      @kenlieck7756 4 года назад +2

      So I hear.*
      *(Since that's all one can do, given that the BBC wiped the f---ing Frost Report video!)

  • @gfrkiss
    @gfrkiss 5 лет назад +4

    Well well well.....I live in Hendon....and have done for a long long time...This is most amusing.....

  • @JessGBFC
    @JessGBFC 2 года назад +4

    Hendon FC are well worth watching at Silver Jubilee Park. Their old Claremont Road ground was lovely too (I picture the man in the sketch as a proud season ticket holder).

    • @johnmurray8428
      @johnmurray8428 2 года назад +1

      A bunch of young Spurs fans in Canada had been to London on their first trip. I asked them where they had been apart from the old WHL and Wembley. They described this really welcoming club that they got to on the train. The lightbulb in one of the heads went on “Hendon!” Hendon obviously made an impression on them.

  • @bobbysands6923
    @bobbysands6923 5 лет назад +2

    I lived in London, in Finchley, during the mid 2000s, not so far away from Hendon. I miss London a lot.

  • @dovegrey1
    @dovegrey1 5 лет назад +16

    Good old Terry....he was so handsome

  • @SpaceCattttt
    @SpaceCattttt 5 лет назад +28

    This Hendon sounds like a magical place.

  • @tortysoft
    @tortysoft 2 года назад +3

    I could look at this lineup and I say, oh, he's dead, dead, disgraced, another dead one, what every happened to him and oh, what's that one's name - or I could just enjoy their brilliance and laugh. 🙂

  • @michaelmouse4024
    @michaelmouse4024 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful piece of comedy but also an example of how some people are always on transmit & not receive

  • @brunozeigerts6379
    @brunozeigerts6379 2 года назад +4

    'She came from Hendon..' LOL... good think I wasn't drinking anything...

  • @bobbysands6923
    @bobbysands6923 5 лет назад +3

    brilliant, as usual.

  • @hirundine44
    @hirundine44 5 лет назад +8

    Born and raised in Hendon... long time since

    • @sen5i
      @sen5i 5 лет назад

      same here June 63 left it 23 years later

    • @hirundine44
      @hirundine44 5 лет назад

      @@sen5i Started in 49, left around 1970, Mom lived there until 2002, still. Visited her from N/A, every year until then... The place is really messed now,.IMO.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 лет назад +1

      @@hirundine44 "really messed up now" So that makes Hendon the same as the rest of the UK, then?

    • @hirundine44
      @hirundine44 5 лет назад +1

      @@DieFlabbergast I guess? You tell me...

  • @neilwilson5785
    @neilwilson5785 5 лет назад +11

    The RAF museum in Hendon is rather good. Head for Colindale tube though.

    • @liamkirk3565
      @liamkirk3565 2 года назад

      And the Police College on Aerodrome Road (I think).

  • @markjames4110
    @markjames4110 4 года назад +8

    Great comedians - Jimmy Mullville/Rory McGrath from ‘Who dares wins’ - Mel Smith / Rhys Jones who replaced Chris Langham on ‘Not the nine o’clock news’ - Palin and Terry J - brilliant.

    • @markjames4110
      @markjames4110 4 года назад +5

      And Neil Innes. RIP.

    • @alkatrask2704
      @alkatrask2704 2 года назад

      I could add France & Saunders, Lenny & Henny, Lord Steven Fry & Rowan Aitkinson, Sir Prince Andrew

    • @Mudge07
      @Mudge07 2 года назад +1

      Rob Buckman in the red sweater, another real doctor of medicine blessed with working with Palin, Jones and Cleese; who enjoyed acting and writing in such programmes as, “The Pink Medicine Show” and “Don’t ask me”.

  • @carvcom1
    @carvcom1 5 лет назад +30

    R.I.P. Terry.

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 5 лет назад +2

      Suppose it's a good thing MP had two Terry's.
      Sorry, that was inexcusably Pythonesque.
      RIP TJ.
      Fred

    • @JaneDoe-ci3gj
      @JaneDoe-ci3gj 5 лет назад +2

      RIP Terry and thanks for the laughs!

    • @alkatrask2704
      @alkatrask2704 2 года назад +1

      @@ffggddss RIP Fred. You wrote some of my favourite comments on RUclips. I shall miss your wit, your panache and your succinctness. God bless you and keep you laughing up there in the giant RUclips commentary in the sky. Mallelulia

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 2 года назад +1

      @@alkatrask2704 ???

  • @marcomalo02
    @marcomalo02 5 лет назад +17

    Goddamitall...the Pythons should live forever. Goddamitall anyway.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft 2 года назад

      They already do live forever - with all five Goons.

  • @JaneDoe-ci3gj
    @JaneDoe-ci3gj 5 лет назад +7

    That version of the prayer Our Father!
    I bet God laughed!😂👍

  • @beakeral
    @beakeral 5 лет назад +5

    I'd forgotten the wee thing in the top right corner that told you the adverts were coming on.

  • @frankie3041
    @frankie3041 2 года назад +2

    Joke’s on him. Our accountant could now sell his house in Hendon and buy TWO converted monasteries in the Outer Hebrides. Who’s looking all smug now, eh?

  • @archaicsoul4597
    @archaicsoul4597 2 года назад +1

    I didn’t know the torture assistant from “Princess Bride” was a British comedian

  • @frankhooper7871
    @frankhooper7871 2 года назад +6

    Had to watch this, as someone born in Hendon 🤓

  • @Mazeppa6
    @Mazeppa6 2 года назад +1

    The shade of Peter Cook informing Palin’s character here……

  • @notvalidcharacters
    @notvalidcharacters 2 года назад

    "I hear a pretty Ganja how many freaking closed", quote the Closed Caption...

  • @ProjectFlashlight612
    @ProjectFlashlight612 5 лет назад +3

    Epic sporran on Terry there

  • @2wayplebney
    @2wayplebney 5 лет назад +4

    Brilliant Hendon conclusion!

  • @TallSilentGuy
    @TallSilentGuy 2 года назад +4

    PLOT TWIST: The woman Terry was talking about was Michael's wife.

  • @MsBonzodog
    @MsBonzodog 9 месяцев назад

    RIP Neil and Terry Jones.

  • @bluesque9687
    @bluesque9687 2 года назад

    Brilliant

  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 2 года назад +1

    Why was Terry wearing a kilt?

    • @Mudge07
      @Mudge07 2 года назад +3

      Because he wasn’t wearing underwear and he didn’t want to compromise the punchline. Why not? He also could secrete the prayer shawl neatly and present it without rummaging in a trouser pocket, some people!

  • @tuttt99
    @tuttt99 5 лет назад +4

    Nine people nearly got in at Hendon

  • @probablygraham
    @probablygraham 2 года назад +6

    I'm offended. I was born in Hendon in the 50s and it was very exciting. Your chances of being caught by Teddy Boys and being thrown down a pit were very high, and you had to cry really loud before they would give in and let you go home for tea..............
    In the Wesh Harp, which most people call Brent Reservoir, there were fish (some say they were pike and some say catfish) which would pull ducks underwater and swallow them.

  • @MrExEssex
    @MrExEssex 5 лет назад +3

    Rory McGrath, Michael Palin, Neil Innes (?), Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Jimmy Melville, Terry Jones, Bearded Guy in Red Sweater, Chris Langham (?)

    • @tomkent4656
      @tomkent4656 5 лет назад +2

      Jimmy Mulville.

    • @fluffyfour
      @fluffyfour 5 лет назад +2

      I think the Bearded Guy in Red Sweater is Dr Rob Buckman? He started off doing medical stuff on TV but expanded into comedy.

    • @kevinmothers904
      @kevinmothers904 5 лет назад +1

      fluffyfour...certainly is Rob Buckman, he co-wrote for the secret policemans ball amongst other things and died far too young at 63 on a flight to Canada where he lived in later years.

    • @kristianTV1974
      @kristianTV1974 2 года назад

      Definitely the disgraced Chris Langham unfortunately.

  • @MikeKup-x8n
    @MikeKup-x8n 2 дня назад

    Brits are the best entertainers… and produced the best Rock Bands

  • @ron1martens
    @ron1martens 5 лет назад +2

    My goodness. I remember the not the nine o'clock news. The paranoid society.

  • @chuckwagon5518
    @chuckwagon5518 5 лет назад +1

    What's all this then?

  • @TheSeafordian
    @TheSeafordian 2 года назад

    The reservoir is nice.

  • @js2749
    @js2749 3 года назад +8

    Amazing thing about Hendon is that if you spell it backwards it spells Nodneh, which is The Queen’s favourite word

    • @alkatrask2704
      @alkatrask2704 2 года назад +1

      Her favourite word is Nodneh, her favourite son’s a nonce.

    • @Fuzcapp
      @Fuzcapp 2 года назад +5

      Stop that. It's silly.

  • @avalonjustin
    @avalonjustin 3 года назад

    Poisonous snails? LUL

  • @MrBawdry
    @MrBawdry 2 года назад

    Thumbnail looks like Mickey Flanagan and Rob Brydon.

  • @BubbaZen10
    @BubbaZen10 5 лет назад

    Shit, now i wanna go there.

  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 2 года назад +1

    Is Hendon a real place?

    • @chagadiel
      @chagadiel 2 года назад +2

      lol yes. my nan and grandad lived there a long time ago

    • @seamusoflatcap
      @seamusoflatcap 2 года назад +2

      I think it's more a state of mind than an actual place.

    • @jamesbyersmusic
      @jamesbyersmusic 2 года назад +2

      Hendon is not a place one can visit, it is a higher dimension that one should aspire to enter!

  • @karlaguerrero4312
    @karlaguerrero4312 5 лет назад +4

    Palin is handsome

  • @garethmorgan3665
    @garethmorgan3665 2 года назад

    Hendon, BRAP !!!

  • @paulkirton8945
    @paulkirton8945 2 года назад

    Didn't the 2 Ronnies do this first?

  • @WillScarlet16
    @WillScarlet16 5 лет назад +5

    Say no MORE!

  • @isammolina4842
    @isammolina4842 5 лет назад +1

    Estos dos...😈😆😲😉

  • @danvincent2600
    @danvincent2600 2 года назад +1

    This is Boris Johnson. Such a cool idea: a society for paranoid people. Also, a society for people who wish to be hermits

  • @aldito7586
    @aldito7586 2 года назад

    I can't laugh too hard !!!

  • @JessGBFC
    @JessGBFC 2 года назад

    Can a Freeman of the City of London get free into library exhibitions in the other 32 London Boroughs??

    • @drat6627
      @drat6627 2 года назад +1

      As long as you drive your flock of sheep to the library with you

  • @bigmacstack3468
    @bigmacstack3468 2 года назад

    10,000 cattle is a bit unrealistic

  • @yozlet
    @yozlet Год назад

    Like others here, I’m from Hendon and can confirm that it really is that boring. It’s SO boring that the only two places it’s known for - the police college and the RAF museum - are actually in Colindale.

  • @michaelhanrahan5349
    @michaelhanrahan5349 5 лет назад

    I'm a massive Python Fan and I've never been to Hendon, so this is bullshit.

  • @isammolina4842
    @isammolina4842 5 лет назад +1

    Palin con problemas con el pelo...como yo😑

  • @Urlocallordandsavior
    @Urlocallordandsavior 3 года назад +1

    This makes you wonder if Graham already peaked prior to his death in 1989. Just a thought.

  • @MrPomdownunder
    @MrPomdownunder 2 года назад

    I have been to Hendon lots.... There are worse places...

  • @ianofliverpool7701
    @ianofliverpool7701 5 лет назад

    I couldn't really see them doing a gig at a working mans club

  • @kezzaman
    @kezzaman 5 лет назад

    hello birds hello trees

  • @rossmcl1776
    @rossmcl1776 2 года назад

    In the paranoid sketch the sex offenders were put at either end.

  • @alexanderteuman7273
    @alexanderteuman7273 5 лет назад

    ORDER! goodbye, why? I love mp, mb, gb, and and and.was für ein blödsinn, ich bin denn da

  • @simontaylor2319
    @simontaylor2319 5 лет назад +1

    Nothing wrong with Hendon....well not much, except the....

  • @lpsp442
    @lpsp442 6 лет назад +4

    I did not know Rory McGrath was capable of being funny

    • @tomkent4656
      @tomkent4656 5 лет назад +1

      Surely you jest!

    • @fluffyfour
      @fluffyfour 5 лет назад

      Have you never seen any episodes of Who Dares Wins? Classic 80s comedy. Rory trying to sing a folk song without mentioning sailing ships and 'never to return' was a killer.

  • @mikemorgan7893
    @mikemorgan7893 5 лет назад

    First done on tv by The Two Ronnies.

    • @TheGemDoctor
      @TheGemDoctor 5 лет назад +1

      most of the cocktail party sketches The Two Ronnies did were written by Terry Jones.

  • @peterjames37
    @peterjames37 2 года назад

    When comedians are no longer allowed to make fun of people with schizophrenia, there will no longer be anything or anyone to laugh at.

    • @tomallen5837
      @tomallen5837 2 года назад +1

      What did you just say to me?!

    • @jamesbyersmusic
      @jamesbyersmusic 2 года назад +1

      Well speaking as a schizophrenic, we both agree with you!

  • @trollop_7
    @trollop_7 5 лет назад +1

    Ben Elton was rubbish in this.

  • @CailenCambeul
    @CailenCambeul 3 года назад

    Bloody Oncologists!

  • @Byronik
    @Byronik 2 года назад

    Not many laughs in it.