I remember listening to the original record and at 1.52 minutes Eric Idle says 'what a silly.bunt'. But it's not on this recording. I grew up watching the Monty Python show on Thursday evenings. The highlight of.my week!
I love how Eric says "I can't say the letter 'B,'" of course meaning the letter "C." However, in that sentence he already said it... I forgive him though, because I do love this sketch.
@@bd_mayhem you're quoting that line (which as teenagers we thought was the funniest line in the sketch, or perhaps in comedy at large, I forget which) from memory, but I notice that in this clip, it has been snipped out (at 1:45)
Teletran nope, it was on bbc forever and even made it to PBS in the 70s. Some silly bunt just edited it recently for You Tube. Its the best line in what is an incredible skit. Fucking ridiculous and I cant find an uncensored original.
Those who have been on a bus tour somewhere in Europe will understand. I've never drunk Watney's Red Barrell and I have no idea who Enoch Powell is, nor do I want to, but still... i feel I understand what's going on in it's overall (wink wink nudge nudge *thrust* )... about as well as a greengrocer from Luton would anyway.
To be honest, the photo was photoshopped. Extensively. Heavily. Like they do with ALL their event images. To be honest. (Inside joke) So do you hate Eric Idle now that he's disowned your Scientology dating site? More than once? 😂 The real question is, why do you care what people say?. If Scientology is da shite, the way, the truth, the life, what difference does it make what I think? Again, I wish you the very best. I feel sorry for you guys. Scientology has your bwain messed up. And that is honest!
Yes, I quite agree with you, I mean what's the point of being treated like a sheep, I mean I'm fed up with going abroad and being treated like a sheep, what's the point of being carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their 'Sunday Mirrors', complaining about the tea, 'Oh they don't make it properly here do they not like at home' stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg and sitting in cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh cos they 'overdid it on the first day'! And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes and their Watney's Red Barrel and their swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in to the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some big fat bloated tart with her hair Brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners. And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with diarrhoea and flabby white legs and hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel, and then, once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman ruins where you can buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel, and one night they take you to a local restaurant with local colour and colouring and they show you there and you sit next to a party of people from Rhyl who keeps singing 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'Oh! It's so greasy isn't it?' and then you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's 'Daily Express' and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres. And sending tinted postcards of places they don't know they haven't even visited, 'to all at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an "X". Wish you were here.' 'Food very greasy but we have managed to find this marvellous little place hidden away in the back streets.' 'Where you can even get Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion crisps and the accordionist plays "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner"' and spending four days on the tarmac at Luton airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dried Watney's sandwiches and there's nowhere to sleep and the kids are vomitting and throwing up on the plastic flowers and they keep telling you it'll only be another hour although your plane is still in Iceland waiting to take some Swedes to Yugoslavia before it can pick you up on the tarmac at 3 a.m. in the bloody morning and you sit on the tarmac till six because of 'unforeseen difficulties'. i.e. the permanent strike of Air Traffic Control in Paris, and nobody can go to the lavatory until you take off at eight, and when you get to Malaga airport everybody's swallowing Enterovioform tablets and queuing for the toilets and when you finally get to the hotel, there's no water in the taps, there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the bog and there's a bleeding lizard in the bidet, and half the rooms are double-booked and you can't sleep anyway...
Well, despite being comedians, the Pythons were extremely educated. In college, they had a mastery of memorizing long speeches. One stellar example of this was the "Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfurn..." sketch where the composer they speak of has an extremely long name.
Also, by the way, the ENTIRE FUCKING POINT of that five-minute sketch is to get in the "c" word. It's like the interesting people sketch, the whole point was so John could say "I'm much more interesting than a wet pussy!" And Graham Chapman as the doctor saying "What a great slit!" Yes, this version IS different than the album version, but that doesn't mean they didn't try to get it into the show. You really aren't proving your assertion at all.
I would have thought that was a special line added only when it was performed live on stage, therefore free from the censorship normally applied to TV But it might have been an edit, I suppose. The BBC even censored Michael Palin's use of the word "bitch" to describe a female ant, so there's that.
For anyone who is saying that they censored 'bunt' and blow job', this sketch as done nine years before the Hollywood Bowl performance. When the Pythons toured America, they would fit in names of nearby cities. They may have thrown in 'blowjob' and 'bunt; for American audiences. They even changed 'Purley' in the 'Nudge, Nudge' sketch to 'Glendale'.
If you look carefully there has clearly been an edit done just after the "I never thought of that" followed by a massive laughter response from the audience. So perhaps he did say it but it never got past the censors.
You may ask how he remembered all that, but he's an actor! Talk to anyone who's played Jerry in "The Zoo Story". He has a monologue that is 8 solid pages! I've done it. You have to memorize block by block. Also, this is classic, and I had it stuck in my head today.
While brilliant as comedy, this sketch also conceals tragedy: the tragedy of only discovering that "going upstairs" was an option after we've turned it down. In a sense, this is the fundamental tragedy of human existence. It's impossible not to share in the boundless inconsolable grief, stoically endured of course, of Mr Smoketoomuch as it dawns on him what he has just said no to.
Oh my god and it's Mrs. Anne Elk right after that. Oh I'm sorry, Miss. Miss Anne Elk. That's Miss Anne Elk, she's not an elk. And her theory. Brackets miss Brackets.
How......? I can't even recite the ABC's properly from memory... Phenomenal! Probably one of the funniest skits I've seen to date, We all know people who actually act like this and would cross a busy highway to avoid contact with..
Hmmm ... I can't help wondering if I would have gone upstairs with Carol Cleveland. Certainly, I would have to think about .... nah! I would NOT have to think about it... not least of her many attributes being that intoxicatingly alluring voice... just gotta play her again, hang on...
How did Idle remember all that? In the midst of the speech was a mention of a waiter from Barcelona named Manuel? Maybe that's where Cleese got the name for Fawlty Towers.
🤔😉🙄guess I'll have to take a vacation from myself 😜😯 but the bloomin' travel agency said they were all booked up because, everyone else in Fayetteville NC was trying to get away from me 😮😂😂😂
@yugrusretep You might be refering to what came out as a double LP ,(of course) voices of great sketches around 1977.I'd drive the wife crazy the way I laughed hysterically on that.They spent much more effort vocalizing the lines.Carol Cleaveland's "Would you like to come upstairs?" "What" was then drawn out to "Would you llllike to come uuuupstairrrrsss? Oh,sorry sorry" "What a silly bunt"
@TalentedToast but in the hollywood bowl version he has nearly the same lines, so big part of it must be written down... anyway: it's f***ing amazing! :D
Eric deserves an award for being able to perfectly remember & recite that entire monologue
maybe there isn't even a script, he just makes it up on the stand
Script? You seriously think this is from a script??? Heh. Monty Python, you do not know well.
He improvised this, it was one of his specialties.
He was able to re-recite if for the record version.
honda civic eric deserves an eric
How did Eric Idle manage to memorise such a lengthy monologue of a script, and hardly miss a beat ? Amazing !
"A waiter called mañuel" that sounds like a good character for a dysfunctional hotel based sitcom.
I'd much rather have gone upstairs
Who wouldn't? I mean, it's Carol Cleveland, for Pete's sake!
Garaki Akumari
so would I !!
🤔🤒🙃😉🆒😂😂
Well said 😉😜🆒♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️
Genius at work 😉
I absolutely love the running gag of the phone operator asking the callers for their shoe size.
ikr it`s brilliantly bizarre, the next spam phone call I get I`m so going to ask that
"What a silly bunt." They edited out the best line.
I ban't think of a decent reason.
That was the whole reason I was here.😢
He said Campbell's Soup, not Bambell's.
Eric Idle is terrific but Michael Palin is equally brilliant here. The perfect foil.
"Drunken Greengrocer from Luton" -- sounds like the title of a Morissey Song.
I remember listening to the original record and at 1.52 minutes Eric Idle says 'what a silly.bunt'. But it's not on this recording. I grew up watching the Monty Python show on Thursday evenings. The highlight of.my week!
Anj it sounds like there was an edit done. the laugh after "I never thought of that before" is pretty abrupt.
1:47
I love how Eric says "I can't say the letter 'B,'" of course meaning the letter "C." However, in that sentence he already said it... I forgive him though, because I do love this sketch.
What a silly bunt
Monty Python often does this. The Knights Who Say "Ni" frequently used and heard the word "it" before it suddenly became harmful to them.
He Bant say the letter B... and Bampbell'a Bream of Mushroom Soup, which is the first item on the list of international Buisine
@@bd_mayhem you're quoting that line (which as teenagers we thought was the funniest line in the sketch, or perhaps in comedy at large, I forget which) from memory, but I notice that in this clip, it has been snipped out (at 1:45)
This is what real bomedy looks like!
"i was attacked by a 🅱️at" "a cat?" "no, a 🅱️at"
This is first-blass bomedy!
even when I was a little kid, I knew that going upstairs would have been a very good idea.
If you look closely behind the bar in Fawlty Towers you can see a Watney's Red Barrel. Basil pulls a few pints from it in one episode.
He wouldn't have 'pulled' as it was keg.
4:17 Who hasn't wanted to say this to someone?
My absolute favourite monty python sketch
Why do they not have medals for this?!
I'm actually writing this from Torremolinos. haha. The reason I came was because of this scetch.
I'm going to Torremolinos tomorrow, and I just keep singing it over and over in my head!
“What a silly bunt!” I realize they couldn’t use that line in the TV version, but it’s one of the best lines in the whole sketch.
The first part of the skit is how he says "B" for "C" so quite a few other C words are said with B.
Watneys Red Barrell. That takes you back!
I couldn't even imagine how much it took Eric Idle to rehearse all of that speech.
they censored out the part where he says 'what a silly bunt'
70s British TV censors are such bunts
Teletran nope, it was on bbc forever and even made it to PBS in the 70s. Some silly bunt just edited it recently for You Tube. Its the best line in what is an incredible skit. Fucking ridiculous and I cant find an uncensored original.
So true of package tours these days . . . but these days its Amstel or Stella instead of bleedin Watneys Red Barrel!!
Those who have been on a bus tour somewhere in Europe will understand. I've never drunk Watney's Red Barrell and I have no idea who Enoch Powell is, nor do I want to, but still... i feel I understand what's going on in it's overall (wink wink nudge nudge *thrust* )... about as well as a greengrocer from Luton would anyway.
The woman blankly staring and trying to ignore all of this is one of the most hilarious things in this sketch.
I really wish I knew what was upstairs ;)
Sometimes it pays not to ask questions...
Arctic Howler I think Carol Cleveland is a bit of a giveaway. ...
Arctic Howler +Everyone knows what is upstairs. It is the worst thing in the world.
Sometimes, it's better not to find out.
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P D and she has a lovely bolour supplement
In the days saying "big arse" makes the audience shriek with shocked laughter :D
Sir Mixalot had not yet put us all on game
If I has a punk band it would be called The Silly Bunts
Edited out "bunt"? I'm shocked!
John Wood Well spotted, Bruce.
To be honest, the photo was photoshopped. Extensively. Heavily. Like they do with ALL their event images. To be honest. (Inside joke)
So do you hate Eric Idle now that he's disowned your Scientology dating site? More than once? 😂
The real question is, why do you care what people say?. If Scientology is da shite, the way, the truth, the life, what difference does it make what I think?
Again, I wish you the very best. I feel sorry for you guys. Scientology has your bwain messed up. And that is honest!
+John Wood I loaded this to show a friend the skit because of that very word. And it was missing. As was Kellogg's Born Flakes. :/
I'm pretty sure that was just in the live version.
Bloomin watneys red barrel n two veg.
Missing the line from the audio version: "oh! What silly Bunt!" After he realizes he can say Kolor. LOL
A truly amazing stream of words
So good it makes me cry. It's like music.
Wish there was a script for the whole of Eric's part...
Yes, I quite agree with you, I mean what's the point of being treated like a sheep, I mean I'm fed up with going abroad and being treated like a sheep, what's the point of being carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their 'Sunday Mirrors', complaining about the tea, 'Oh they don't make it properly here do they not like at home' stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg and sitting in cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh cos they 'overdid it on the first day'! And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes and their Watney's Red Barrel and their swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in to the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some big fat bloated tart with her hair Brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners. And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with diarrhoea and flabby white legs and hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel, and then, once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman ruins where you can buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel, and one night they take you to a local restaurant with local colour and colouring and they show you there and you sit next to a party of people from Rhyl who keeps singing 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'Oh! It's so greasy isn't it?' and then you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's 'Daily Express' and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres. And sending tinted postcards of places they don't know they haven't even visited, 'to all at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an "X". Wish you were here.' 'Food very greasy but we have managed to find this marvellous little place hidden away in the back streets.' 'Where you can even get Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion crisps and the accordionist plays "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner"' and spending four days on the tarmac at Luton airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dried Watney's sandwiches and there's nowhere to sleep and the kids are vomitting and throwing up on the plastic flowers and they keep telling you it'll only be another hour although your plane is still in Iceland waiting to take some Swedes to Yugoslavia before it can pick you up on the tarmac at 3 a.m. in the bloody morning and you sit on the tarmac till six because of 'unforeseen difficulties'. i.e. the permanent strike of Air Traffic Control in Paris, and nobody can go to the lavatory until you take off at eight, and when you get to Malaga airport everybody's swallowing Enterovioform tablets and queuing for the toilets and when you finally get to the hotel, there's no water in the taps, there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the bog and there's a bleeding lizard in the bidet, and half the rooms are double-booked and you can't sleep anyway...
he's right you know
Rob Rophside marvellous! 😁
i have incorporated this into my life
Still stands up after all theses years.
i wonder how long it took him to memorize that whole rant.
From what I've heard, Eric does this off the top of this head. He can on for hours.
Well, despite being comedians, the Pythons were extremely educated. In college, they had a mastery of memorizing long speeches. One stellar example of this was the "Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfurn..." sketch where the composer they speak of has an extremely long name.
No, it was memorized from a script written by him, with the assistance of John Cleese.
They cut out the line about what a silly Bunt didn't they. There is clearly an edit there.
Yes. Very disappointing, isn't it.
+greg55666
Probably edited by an American.
That's one big fucking laugh for "I never thought of that." But I'm sure you're right. After all, you spell your name with Greek letters.
Also, by the way, the ENTIRE FUCKING POINT of that five-minute sketch is to get in the "c" word.
It's like the interesting people sketch, the whole point was so John could say "I'm much more interesting than a wet pussy!"
And Graham Chapman as the doctor saying "What a great slit!"
Yes, this version IS different than the album version, but that doesn't mean they didn't try to get it into the show. You really aren't proving your assertion at all.
I would have thought that was a special line added only when it was performed live on stage, therefore free from the censorship normally applied to TV
But it might have been an edit, I suppose.
The BBC even censored Michael Palin's use of the word "bitch" to describe a female ant, so there's that.
Members of the Bloods street gang do the exact same thing substituting the letter C with B.
Eric Idle needs to book a plane ticket to Bompton
For anyone who is saying that they censored 'bunt' and blow job', this sketch as done nine years before the Hollywood Bowl performance. When the Pythons toured America, they would fit in names of nearby cities. They may have thrown in 'blowjob' and 'bunt; for American audiences. They even changed 'Purley' in the 'Nudge, Nudge' sketch to 'Glendale'.
If you look carefully there has clearly been an edit done just after the "I never thought of that" followed by a massive laughter response from the audience. So perhaps he did say it but it never got past the censors.
I prefer the version where he goes, "If you don't shut up, I shall have to shoot you." The phone call to the police seems weak by comparison.
You may ask how he remembered all that, but he's an actor! Talk to anyone who's played Jerry in "The Zoo Story". He has a monologue that is 8 solid pages! I've done it. You have to memorize block by block. Also, this is classic, and I had it stuck in my head today.
Eric is AMAZING. How can he go on and on like that?
The thing is that he says numerous words with a C in it prior to the "bolour" supplement, and many after.
What a silly bunt....
Fact is everything he said makes sense and is in fact true.
2:47
He’s on the very edge of bursting into laughter.
😂 love English humor 😉🤠👍.... it's so funny 😂
It's the best 🏴
there are so many funny lines here, it's outrageous
oh to think he wanted really to be writting instead of acting just makes this more perfect
While brilliant as comedy, this sketch also conceals tragedy: the tragedy of only discovering that "going upstairs" was an option after we've turned it down. In a sense, this is the fundamental tragedy of human existence. It's impossible not to share in the boundless inconsolable grief, stoically endured of course, of Mr Smoketoomuch as it dawns on him what he has just said no to.
Thing is, apart from Watney's Red Barrel, nothing has changed
I most certainly DO want to go upstairs!
Oh my god and it's Mrs. Anne Elk right after that. Oh I'm sorry, Miss. Miss Anne Elk. That's Miss Anne Elk, she's not an elk. And her theory. Brackets miss Brackets.
I believe you're referring to THRUST. XD
"Would you like to come upstairs?" XD
If I was 10 years younger, yes x
He had that rant memorized. Amazing.
Err yes I'd go up stairs.
0:55 He's a fraud! He said the words "cut" and "actually" just fine!
How......? I can't even recite the ABC's properly from memory... Phenomenal! Probably one of the funniest skits I've seen to date, We all know people who actually act like this and would cross a busy highway to avoid contact with..
@farmersboy70 The BBC made them cut it out on original transmission. The most common prints are the ones where it's cut.
"torremilinos torremilinos"
Erica Idle is the only Python who could do this. He must have a photographic memory. He isn't normal.
I would have just responded 'Yes' to the first question by the lovely lady.
The edited out 'What a silly bunt'
Yes, I'd like an aeroplane ticket to Bompton to meet my good friend YG.
Eric Idle is such a silly bunt
Hmmm ... I can't help wondering if I would have gone upstairs with Carol Cleveland. Certainly, I would have to think about .... nah! I would NOT have to think about it... not least of her many attributes being that intoxicatingly alluring voice... just gotta play her again, hang on...
..... phwoar!
Bambell's Bream of Mushroom Soup?
How did Idle remember all that? In the midst of the speech was a mention of a waiter from Barcelona named Manuel? Maybe that's where Cleese got the name for Fawlty Towers.
I had the same thought.
🤔😉🙄guess I'll have to take a vacation from myself 😜😯 but the bloomin' travel agency said they were all booked up because, everyone else in Fayetteville NC was trying to get away from me 😮😂😂😂
4:17. Gets me every time 😆
Spell bolour with a k? Oh, I never thought of that. What a silly bunt!
"What a silly bunt."
Watching this while on vacation in the Dominican Republic
You have to react quickly Mr Smoketoomuch and say "Yes !"
A lot of Americans bought Watney's Red Barrel because of this sketch!
+SweetSweetWaldo ...a barely memorable, dull, cold, boring brown beer.
+goofyfish What a silly bunt!
I like this bit for Hollywood bowl
...bleedin' lizard in the bidet!...
@AJQueen Did you notice MIchael is trying to keep from laughing as he says it?
Steve Goggins...there's no apostrophe in gets.
yes indeed it was an album not anne album - but it was before 78 wasnt it? just shows how the (my) aging mind plays tricks ....
b or c its the difference that putsthis ina cclass of its own
Talk about “carrying on without a comma”…..
(Frank Zappa)
WARNING: Do NOT attempt to eat a pretzel when watching this!
:0) You are right Steve! Have a great day!
@yugrusretep You might be refering to what came out as a double LP ,(of course) voices of great sketches around 1977.I'd drive the wife crazy the way I laughed hysterically on that.They spent much more effort vocalizing the lines.Carol Cleaveland's "Would you like to come upstairs?" "What" was then drawn out to "Would you llllike to come uuuupstairrrrsss? Oh,sorry sorry" "What a silly bunt"
1:00 "I suppose you get people making jokes about your name all the time, eh?!" "No, no...actually it never *struck me before"
And sadly things haven't changed
I would have gone up stairs! know what I mean know what I mean! say no more say no more!
Psychotically brilliant---Eric's trademark.
Eric is #1 Python, Michael is #2 Python
Equl #4 is Chapman and Cleese
I'd like to go upstairs !
@TalentedToast but in the hollywood bowl version he has nearly the same lines, so big part of it must be written down...
anyway: it's f***ing amazing! :D
Yes it is with Graham Chapman and John Cleese as Mrs. Anne Elk!
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What a silly bunt!
Mr.SmokeTooMuch cant you see you cant smoke here! OH
I never thought I would see political correctness infect Python but the line "What a silly bunt" was removed.
How is that political correctness...?
One person is a travel agent.
Good heavens... did he breathe during all that?