No, but I have thought of placing the action in a used DVD shop. "I wonder, do you have a copy of Minty Pylon and the Growly Hail?" "Ah, you mean Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
I loved this better with Cleese, too. But not that "Cleese" that's John Cleese, but spelled J-o-n K-l-e-e-z. Now, does anyone have a book on Danish Red Parrots. No, not Norwegian Blue, but Danish Red Parrots?
@@commandert5 On the record version it was Terry Jones as the customer and Cleese as the bookshop owner, I don't recall Connie Booth, Cleese's American wife ever in a sketch, only Fawlty Towers... I would say this is a Chapman/Cleese authored sketch though they borrowed some of the Jones/Palin escalation style
I first saw a different version of the sketch with John Cleese and Marty Feldman on Marty Feldman’s Comedy Machine in 1971, a summer replacement show I saw before Monty python was shown on American TV.
I saw another version of this long ago: The differences were that it was a woman asking for the books and she asked for " Barstows Book Of British Birds" and she wanted the edited version because some of the names were obscene.
First saw this sketch on At Last the 1948 Show and loved it. A few years later, i bought the soundtrack LP album which also had it on it. Unfortunately the BBC disposed or wiped its tapes of the show and it no longer exists in video form. But it's wonderful to see this recreation with Marty Feldman again. Thanks a lot! (The 1948 Show really was the blueprint for Python and a wonderful show).
It would have been fairly hard for the BBC to have wiped At Last the 1948 Show as it was an ITV show courtesy of Paradine Productions, better known as David 'Hello, good evening and welcome.' Frost. Just saying, seven years after your post.😊
@Titus Warwick, this was Marty's sketch, not Python! Great to see this again - have many fond memories of this - we re-enacted it ourselves in a school revue in 1975, gulp
A masterful example of Feldman's humor. The first time I saw this sketch, Charles Nelson Reilly (or was it Dean Martin? No, I think it was Reilly on Martin's Gold-Diggers show) played the bookstore manager.
I believe Feldman and Reilly did perform together on Martin's show, but I'm pretty certain the version of the bookshop sketch Martin used was this one. (I just watched it on a VHS tape a week or so ago...)
Ha! I have the "1948 Show" audio recording of this sketch, with Marty Feldman and John Cleese. I had no idea this later video version existed! I love Marty.
@@frankmurphyburr3598 There is an audio LP version made by the cast of "At last the 1948 show" I believe. The original videotape version from ALT1948S turned up in 2014. The Python versions are all later.
1948 show predated Python and before 1948 was I'm sorry I'll read that again still have that record always crack up at and the winner of eaten an arrow race was.
@@ElvarMasson The original was in 1967 or 1968, with Marty Feldman as the customer and John Cleese as the bookseller. Available as audio and in abbreviated video (black and white of course). John Cleese did a version with Connie Booth as the customer in the early 80s for the Amnesty International benefit shows but I've not yet seen it on YT.
I doubt that very much. No bookshop seemed to have that book. 'It's rather old'. But no doubt Marty's character wanted the book whose title used PH's instead of F's ... and written by Charles Dikkens, the Dutch author with two K's
@@kiwihib yes, there have been multiple versions. It’s not quite the whole sketch, but this clip captures much of the version with Marty Feldman and John Cleese from At Last The 1948 Show: ruclips.net/video/ZYlOV7K-xOU/видео.html John Cleese and Eric Idle recreated and updated this skit again for their Together Again At Last For The Very First Time tour. It’s understatement to say it was brilliant. RIP Marty Feldman. I was lucky enough to see them in San Francisco.
he is so funny i like this clip marty was so cool he made me laugh long time ago.i am so sorry he died long time ago i remember when i was over my gram house and someone told me that he died hes going to be missed in god we trust was good and the lastremake was also good movie and yfrankestin was cool.
"The Lovely Aimee McDonald." I have it on vinyl somewhere. Used to put it on repeat when I was a teenager in my room. This is one of my favourite sketches from the whole album.
@@blueoystercultforevs I saw it when it was first broadcast with John Cleese and Marty Feldman and it's stuck with me ever since. I think that, having worked in retail, one does come across really weird characters like Feldman's. I've used "Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying." on occasions,. I've always wanted to go into WH Smiths and ask for it, or maybe Waterstones. Maybe I'll go into a Barnes and Noble in the USA and as for it. 😂
Marty, a superstar and sadly missed, RIP Marty.
This is the second Marty Feldman bookstore skit RUclips recommended to me.
John Junkin, very underrated comedy performer. Doing very well here.
Met him once , in Ellesborough,
@@neilfranklin5644 with two L’s.
I think it’s is even better than the version with John Cleese , and that’s saying something
@NoMudinJoyville yes, he played "Shake" in that movie.
I remember seeing this year's ago. I love it!
I love how in the beginning the customer says he's in a but of a rush. Nice little detail.
Pythons' later versions on the 'Contractual Obligation Album' and 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl'.
John Cleese going mad was good on the Contractual Obligation
Raise your hand if you've ever fantasized about staging this in an actual bookshop
about half way through the video, yes.
No, but I have thought of placing the action in a used DVD shop.
"I wonder, do you have a copy of Minty Pylon and the Growly Hail?"
"Ah, you mean Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
I love this better with Cleese but I gotta say: Marty is perfect as the customer
@MichaelKingsfordGray Sure?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I loved this better with Cleese, too. But not that "Cleese" that's John Cleese, but spelled J-o-n K-l-e-e-z.
Now, does anyone have a book on Danish Red Parrots. No, not Norwegian Blue, but Danish Red Parrots?
Fantastic with the black time-code smack bang in the middle of the bloody picture!
As a bookseller, I can attest that this is very true to life; obviously we can't treat the books like that, but boy, with some customers we'd love to!
Marty was cast perfectly as IGOR in Young Frankenstein, he was brilliant 👍👍👍
I remember this as a radio piece with John Cleese and Marty Feldman, and on Monty Python with Graham Chapman.
And then even later with Cleese opposite Connie Booth
@@commandert5 On the record version it was Terry Jones as the customer and Cleese as the bookshop owner, I don't recall Connie Booth, Cleese's American wife ever in a sketch, only Fawlty Towers... I would say this is a Chapman/Cleese authored sketch though they borrowed some of the Jones/Palin escalation style
THAT'S how I know this. So odd to not nnow both voices but still nnow what they're going to say knext.
I first saw a different version of the sketch with John Cleese and Marty Feldman on Marty Feldman’s Comedy Machine in 1971, a summer replacement show I saw before Monty python was shown on American TV.
@@drewperkins2078 There is one with Booth opposite Cleese. That's the first version I saw. Probably made in the early 80s.
Superb acting by Marty Feldman, my favorite comedy actor. 👌
I never tire of watching this
Worthy of a rainy-day rewatch. :3
Darles Chickens is a very underrated author.
I saw another version of this long ago: The differences were that it was a woman asking for the books and she asked for " Barstows Book Of British Birds" and she wanted the edited version because some of the names were obscene.
When he said he can't read, I shat myself in laughter
Marty Feldman's TV Show was Shown "StateSide" And was watched regularly in our Home.
Marty was brilliant!
I love the works of Edmund Wells. Rather difficult to come by these days.
Not as hard as finding originals from Mmmmarles Pickqens with 4 M's and a silent Q.
wow... I was only familiar with the monty python version from one of their tapes... Marty Feldman's great in this!
The original version with Marty Feldman and John Cleese is brilliant.
Take a look at this from way back, with Marty Feldman and John Cleese: ruclips.net/video/ZYlOV7K-xOU/видео.html
Wonderful hilarity! Thank you for posting!
Now you see where Walliams got his idea for the customer who is a bit picky about his books in Little Britain
First saw this sketch on At Last the 1948 Show and loved it. A few years later, i bought the soundtrack LP album which also had it on it. Unfortunately the BBC disposed or wiped its tapes of the show and it no longer exists in video form. But it's wonderful to see this recreation with Marty Feldman again. Thanks a lot! (The 1948 Show really was the blueprint for Python and a wonderful show).
It would have been fairly hard for the BBC to have wiped At Last the 1948 Show as it was an ITV show courtesy of Paradine Productions, better known as David 'Hello, good evening and welcome.' Frost. Just saying, seven years after your post.😊
Yes produced by the ITV company Rediffusion London and not the BBC.
Wonderful Pythonesque sketch. I'd never come across this before either here or in Monty Python form.
Thanks for uploading.
SO. SO. FUNNY
WHEN. I. WATCH
MARTY I. LAUGH. SO
HARD. I'M. ALMOST. IN
TEARS. EVERY. TIME
Marty was, is , always will BE. A. LEGEND !!!!!
best version of this sketch; mr junkin's growing madness and exasperation are what's funny.
Great to see this scetch again' this was my favourite tv show as a kid.
Paul Bacchus esq
Brilliant!
@Titus Warwick, this was Marty's sketch, not Python!
Great to see this again - have many fond memories of this - we re-enacted it ourselves in a school revue in 1975, gulp
Not seen that before, lmao.. good effort Marty, needed Eric Morecambe in there:-) Closest to the record track for humour, Thanks for the upload!
John Junkin's performance certainly stands up against the better known Cleese.
Funny really coz England has a lot of comedians ...
A masterful example of Feldman's humor. The first time I saw this sketch, Charles Nelson Reilly (or was it Dean Martin? No, I think it was Reilly on Martin's Gold-Diggers show) played the bookstore manager.
I believe Feldman and Reilly did perform together on Martin's show, but I'm pretty certain the version of the bookshop sketch Martin used was this one. (I just watched it on a VHS tape a week or so ago...)
Classic Marty Feldman! Poor book shop owner! He's about to go off the deep end! :o)
Ha! I have the "1948 Show" audio recording of this sketch, with Marty Feldman and John Cleese. I had no idea this later video version existed! I love Marty.
in the audio recording by Monty Python it was Terry Jones, not Marty
@@frankmurphyburr3598 There is an audio LP version made by the cast of "At last the 1948 show" I believe.
The original videotape version from ALT1948S turned up in 2014.
The Python versions are all later.
@@martinhughes2549 oh? Wow thank you.
great guy x
I first heard Python do this, but Feldman is brilliant with it.
1948 show predated Python and before 1948 was I'm sorry I'll read that again still have that record always crack up at and the winner of eaten an arrow race was.
This is classic comedy right here. I loved it when Monty Python did it and Marty Feldman does it just as good.
Bit late here: however the original version is Marty Feldman and John Cleese from "At last the 1948
Show".
Titus didn't mention anything about an original version
@@ElvarMasson
The original was in 1967 or 1968, with Marty Feldman as the customer and John Cleese as the bookseller. Available as audio and in abbreviated video (black and white of course). John Cleese did a version with Connie Booth as the customer in the early 80s for the Amnesty International benefit shows but I've not yet seen it on YT.
@@anonUK What's that got to do with me?
@@ElvarMasson
Sorry, I thought you had indirectly asked about the original version of this sketch.
Genius..
This also reminded me of The Pythons Cheese shop sketch
Great remake
Final line: "i'm not comfortable" 😂
John Cleese is a bloody Genius!
It’s not John Cleese
@@ianandmaria-ozphiladventures that’s who wrote it!!
Very funny sketch. Marty Feldman was very talented. What a shame he died so early. I
Cigs and Barbs..
I have an uneasy feeling that I've had the same effect on certain shopkeepers over the years.
I kept joking with my best friend in high school that we should find a bookstore and do this. Somehow we never went through with it. :D
Both good comedians
One of the funniest comics ever
I guess this may have been the inspiration for the Little Britain skits.
You know, you can get "1948" on DVD now.
Genius.
Cheers Peely
This does miss John Cleese- it's really his sketch.
Originally python.
RIP TIM.
I wonder if the bookshop had "Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley in stock?
I doubt that very much. No bookshop seemed to have that book. 'It's rather old'.
But no doubt Marty's character wanted the book whose title used PH's instead of F's ... and written by Charles Dikkens, the Dutch author with two K's
". . . the well-known Dutch author."😂
Me in a DVD shop
Anyone seeing where the Little Britain Pirate Memory Game sketches were lifted from?
This is rather like the cheese sketch but with book replacing cheese
Also recreated on a Dom DeLuise comedy special...
I love british humor
this skit was written for john cleese..lol just imagine the sales guy as him..lol
Cleese performed it with Eric Idle on their tour a couple of years ago.
Better yet. You can see it here on RUclips with Cleese and Marty. I think much better then this one. Just search it.
It was written by John Cleese.
Ah, this is a redo of The Bookshop Sketch by Gram Chaplemann and Jon Qleeze.
Are you sure because I remember At last the 1948 show before Monty's.
@@kiwihib yes, there have been multiple versions. It’s not quite the whole sketch, but this clip captures much of the version with Marty Feldman and John Cleese from At Last The 1948 Show:
ruclips.net/video/ZYlOV7K-xOU/видео.html
John Cleese and Eric Idle recreated and updated this skit again for their Together Again At Last For The Very First Time tour. It’s understatement to say it was brilliant. RIP Marty Feldman. I was lucky enough to see them in San Francisco.
Amazed the BBC didn't wipe this.
Horrifying, isn't it? A few gems managed to slip past their 'erase everything' policy.
They may well have done. It looks very much like and an off air recording.
he is so funny i like this clip marty was so cool he made me laugh long time ago.i am so sorry he died long time ago i remember when i was over my gram house and someone told me that he died hes going to be missed in god we trust was good and the lastremake was also good movie and yfrankestin was cool.
There actually was an author who published book with misspelt dickens titles....
It reminds me at little britains Mr. Mann.
Now, some fine commenter, tell me how this became a Monty Python sketch?
I remember paper books.
"giant pygmies?"
With that hat, those glasses and that coat Marty looks a bit like John Lennon.
SeanVplayer I noticed that.
The utterly weirdest John Lennon you would ever have wished to meet.
Much better than peter sellers in my opinion
Costimors......AM I RIGHT?
Seems like "Little Britain" based their book shop sketch on this.
This is not done properly. Please see the original. Thank you.
Giant Pygmies of Corsica 😂
Cheese shop sketch?
Oh my goodness, that punchline....
What, _that_ doesn't say ‘Ethel the Aardvark’! 4:45
This sketch is hu-larious with any actors and comedians. Not sure where it got it's start. Might be like the vaudeville "Slowly I turned..." sketch.
"The Lovely Aimee McDonald." I have it on vinyl somewhere. Used to put it on repeat when I was a teenager in my room. This is one of my favourite sketches from the whole album.
Fact: Edmond Wells is a John Cleese impersonator.
Didn't John Cleese do a very similar scetch?
John Cleese wrote it (with Graham Chapman).
@@darganx that makes more sense 👍
Giant pygmys of Corsica.
I'm confused, who did it first, cleese and jones, or these two?
+Andrew Balfour Feldman and Cleese did it first on the 1948 show.
@@blueoystercultforevs I saw it when it was first broadcast with John Cleese and Marty Feldman and it's stuck with me ever since. I think that, having worked in retail, one does come across really weird characters like Feldman's. I've used "Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying." on occasions,. I've always wanted to go into WH Smiths and ask for it, or maybe Waterstones. Maybe I'll go into a Barnes and Noble in the USA and as for it. 😂
Not sure why they would make an inferior verion of thhe skectch. The Cleese one was awesome.
Ha ha
I miss Marty's humour.
Same as cheese shop
Michael Anstis It’s the opposite of the cheese shop.
not quite the same.
I don't like gannets - they wet their nests .....
😂
I can’t read
Magical
Too fast a pace. Still good, though
John Cleese did it better
What a senseless waste of human lives...!
The Thing Is There Are People Out There Like This I've Seen Them!😆🥸📚🇬🇧