The Argument Skit

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2007
  • From Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 29.
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  • @tnekkc
    @tnekkc 10 месяцев назад +1938

    "I could be arguing in my spare time." That line has been with me for 47 years.

    • @_skyraider_
      @_skyraider_ 10 месяцев назад +115

      no it hasn't

    • @tnekkc
      @tnekkc 10 месяцев назад +21

      @_skyraider_
      no it hasn't
      :)

    • @geargrinder5182
      @geargrinder5182 10 месяцев назад +9

      @@another2133No it isn't.

    • @Jimothy10
      @Jimothy10 10 месяцев назад +6

      Ha! Me too!

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@Jimothy10 no, you specifically not

  • @friskecrisps8038
    @friskecrisps8038 10 месяцев назад +1136

    “Oh I’m sorry. This is abuse”. God that line delivery is hilarious

  • @salopiansessions8326
    @salopiansessions8326 10 месяцев назад +1210

    Just £1 for a 5-minute argument? Times have changed! I'm paying upwards of £18.99 these days.

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle 10 месяцев назад +120

      I get my arguments free on RUclips, it's not as high quality but there's plenty to go around.

    • @redinabloogs8477
      @redinabloogs8477 10 месяцев назад +6

      🤣

    • @redinabloogs8477
      @redinabloogs8477 10 месяцев назад

      😂

    • @hendrik42
      @hendrik42 10 месяцев назад +90

      No you don't

    • @Gurrehable
      @Gurrehable 10 месяцев назад +50

      ​@@hendrik42yes he does

  • @_letstartariot
    @_letstartariot 7 месяцев назад +244

    I like how he immediately employs gaslighting. That will keep an argument going for ages.

  • @aCivilServant
    @aCivilServant 10 месяцев назад +489

    2:14 "I came here for a good argument", "No you didn't, you came here for an argument". Probably the best line for me, so subtle and implies that they could start an argument about the quality of the argument. 🤣

  • @simontabony
    @simontabony 10 месяцев назад +767

    I’ve always loved that last hand on Cleese’s shoulder before the cutaway. All he says is “hold it”, implying a never ending line a coppers waiting to nick the one before.

    • @FerutElCampeador
      @FerutElCampeador 10 месяцев назад +68

      At some point in the series you can actually see the line of coppers through some random street

    • @kerryedavis
      @kerryedavis 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@FerutElCampeador Unless those were just the gas cooker people...

    • @cmans79tr7
      @cmans79tr7 10 месяцев назад +36

      Yep. And the last sentence of the clip "It's a fair cop" is also brilliant. Someone elsewhere clarified that the phrase is a British-ism meaning something to the effect that someone made a good point Also that the "arrest" was justified, playing upon the fact ther were three "cops" in the room, one-upping each other. Until I had read this comment section, I was unaware of any significance to that ending, and until now, I did indeed consider that a cheap way to end the skit.

    • @kerryedavis
      @kerryedavis 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@cmans79tr7 You know who else said that? The witch in "Grail."

    • @placeholdername0000
      @placeholdername0000 10 месяцев назад +5

      Well, eventually they are out of view of the camera, thus making it harder to argue that they wilfully participated in the sketch.

  • @benw4409
    @benw4409 10 месяцев назад +574

    The perfect Python sketch. Cleese and Palin bouncing off each other, the satire on language, the commentary on the way arguments are structured, the layered word play, the one liners, the timing, the delivery, the premise, Chapman, Idle and Jones' bit parts. If they'd made just this one sketch, they'd be legends.

  • @bdmayhem3391
    @bdmayhem3391 9 месяцев назад +348

    "Mr. DeBakey's free, but he's a little bit conciliatory" is a wildly underrated line.

    • @johangambleputty7658
      @johangambleputty7658 9 месяцев назад +7

      I've always thought the same thing.

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +38

      ​@@johangambleputty7658no you haven't

    • @johangambleputty7658
      @johangambleputty7658 9 месяцев назад +20

      @@ghdwk5596 Yes I have.

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@johangambleputty7658absolute nonsense

    • @johangambleputty7658
      @johangambleputty7658 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@ghdwk5596 I most certainly have.

  • @jend8759
    @jend8759 10 месяцев назад +144

    “Malodorous pervert” and “stupid git” are two of my favorite insults.

    • @VuotoPneumaNN
      @VuotoPneumaNN 8 месяцев назад +12

      I fart in your general direction sir

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 8 месяцев назад

      Vacuous malodorous pervert, in fact!

    • @Restorationshopyt
      @Restorationshopyt 4 месяца назад +9

      No they aren’t.

    • @Pikashockdragon
      @Pikashockdragon Месяц назад +1

      Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of elderberries!

    • @paulsarnik8506
      @paulsarnik8506 Месяц назад

      Shut yer festering gob, you tit!😮. 🤓😎✌🏻🇬🇧

  • @mikekolokowsky
    @mikekolokowsky 10 месяцев назад +163

    Monty Python unintentionally invented the term “spam” for “something unwanted and asked for”. This sketch is a tutorial for social media arguments, plus the rooms of abuse and complaint.

    • @david8157
      @david8157 10 месяцев назад +8

      Actually Spam was originally a brand name for canned spiced ham (spam) from 1930s US

    • @neoneapolitan2122
      @neoneapolitan2122 10 месяцев назад +15

      No, I think you're wrong. It simply can't be from the 1930s. They would have pulled Spam off the store shelf by now if it was that old.

    • @bradleynewall7541
      @bradleynewall7541 10 месяцев назад +4

      Spam spam spam spam bake beans and spam...
      Can I have the bake beans without spam...
      Without spam, ewe

    • @david8157
      @david8157 10 месяцев назад

      @@neoneapolitan2122
      Instead of thinking you know what you are talking about.. and being wrong... there is a thing called google search... use it and find out the facts... Spam was a canned pork product made in USA

    • @hogenmogen8545
      @hogenmogen8545 10 месяцев назад +8

      @@david8157 Yes, "spam" is "spiced ham", but the Monty Python reference in the internet age turned it into "something unwanted and unasked for".

  • @Penrodyn
    @Penrodyn 10 месяцев назад +365

    One of their best sketches, a unique piece of comedy that never fails to make me laugh.

    • @keco185
      @keco185 9 месяцев назад +15

      No it’s not

    • @mis4nthr0p3
      @mis4nthr0p3 9 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@keco185
      "Yes it is!"

    • @captainjames4649
      @captainjames4649 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@mis4nthr0p3no, it's not

    • @atheistidiot
      @atheistidiot 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@captainjames4649yes it is

    • @FistandFootMartialArts
      @FistandFootMartialArts 6 месяцев назад

      I would venture that MP had SO many that would fall into that category as to make the statement meaningless. ;-)

  • @MrSophbeau
    @MrSophbeau 9 месяцев назад +110

    Probably the best television comedy sketch ever done. I'm 65 and this has been in my brain for 50 years. All Python is good but this is brilliant.

    • @Eny963
      @Eny963 8 месяцев назад +6

      no it isnt

    • @elonif4125
      @elonif4125 7 месяцев назад +5

      Yes it is

  • @DavidMcCoul
    @DavidMcCoul 9 месяцев назад +50

    The ending is brilliant, if this sketch wasn't amazing enough. Breaking the fourth wall, then regressing into an infinite loop

  • @DParkerNunya
    @DParkerNunya 8 месяцев назад +47

    "Oh no this is abuse" followed immediately by gaslighting is such an amazing one-two

    • @AesirUnlimited
      @AesirUnlimited 4 месяца назад +4

      That’s not how gaslighting works.

    • @Restorationshopyt
      @Restorationshopyt 4 месяца назад +3

      @AesirUnlimited Yes it is

    • @AesirUnlimited
      @AesirUnlimited 4 месяца назад +3

      @@Restorationshopyt You have no idea what gaslighting is.

    • @Restorationshopyt
      @Restorationshopyt 4 месяца назад +3

      Um… guess that went waaaaaaay over your head, friend.

    • @AesirUnlimited
      @AesirUnlimited 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Restorationshopyt No it didn’t.

  • @Chessrook44
    @Chessrook44 9 месяцев назад +22

    Watching this sketch again, I came to an incredible realization.
    Someone heaping abuse on you for no reason?
    Arguments aplenty?
    Trying to complain, only to have other people complain with or to you?
    This is just Twitter!

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 8 месяцев назад

      No its not

    • @GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf
      @GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf 8 месяцев назад

      Yes it is

    • @SomeOne-gm5md
      @SomeOne-gm5md 7 месяцев назад

      @@GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf No it's not

    • @ONDAxHENNY
      @ONDAxHENNY 2 месяца назад

      ​@@SomeOne-gm5md it most certainly is

    • @user-ks5cg5cd7m
      @user-ks5cg5cd7m 8 дней назад

      I was thinking Facebook. People keep posting political memes on the Monte Python fan page I joined. Seriously, those people ARE the sketch! The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking and hilarious sometimes.

  • @robertzio
    @robertzio 10 месяцев назад +43

    The delivery oh “oh I’m sorry this is abuse” kills me 😂

  • @wolfgangallanalhazred802
    @wolfgangallanalhazred802 5 месяцев назад +39

    A place you can willingly subject yourself to where you can have arguments with total strangers about nothing. Kind of like the internet! Love this sketch!

  • @DarkBrickCreations
    @DarkBrickCreations 8 месяцев назад +16

    A 5 minute argument never costs £1. It costs thousands... And she never forgets.

  • @ricardokobe3350
    @ricardokobe3350 10 месяцев назад +27

    “I could be arguing in my spare time” 😭😭😂😂😂

  • @robpawlikowski4020
    @robpawlikowski4020 10 месяцев назад +396

    My favorite sketch! So well constructed - alarmingly simple, but delivers the laughs every time!

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 10 месяцев назад +17

      No, this is abuse.

    • @munchaking1896
      @munchaking1896 10 месяцев назад +18

      No it isnt.

    • @CDWCAULDRON
      @CDWCAULDRON 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@munchaking1896 I told you Once ..

    • @joshjwillway1545
      @joshjwillway1545 10 месяцев назад +11

      @@CDWCAULDRONno you didn’t

    • @CDWCAULDRON
      @CDWCAULDRON 10 месяцев назад +11

      @@joshjwillway1545 Yes I have .

  • @quantumleap359
    @quantumleap359 10 месяцев назад +233

    Possibly the funniest skit ever recorded. I've seen it many times and it still makes me roar with laughter!

  • @noahbody9782
    @noahbody9782 8 месяцев назад +5

    The genius of John Cleese.

  • @kerryedavis
    @kerryedavis 10 месяцев назад +14

    Just left an "argument" room, and "I came here to complain!" "Oh, that's next door! It's being-hit-on-the-head lessons in here!" "What a stupid concept!"

    • @douglassun8456
      @douglassun8456 4 месяца назад

      IIRC, that's where it ends in the album version. I had forgotten about the infinite regression ending with the police detectives.

  • @ahobimo732
    @ahobimo732 10 месяцев назад +42

    John Cleese was incredible in this skit. His poker face is flawless.

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 9 месяцев назад

      But not as flawless as the coffee nosed, malodorous pervert's snotty faced heap of parrot droppings.

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 9 месяцев назад +4

      No, he wasn't.

    • @ahobimo732
      @ahobimo732 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@sevadaj Contradiction is not argumentation!
      (Also... Do I pay now, or afterwards?)

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 9 месяцев назад

      Yes it is.
      @@ahobimo732

    • @kingofcards9516
      @kingofcards9516 7 месяцев назад

      @@ahobimo732 yes it is.
      (Pay afterwards)

  • @lefkytheshin
    @lefkytheshin 10 месяцев назад +26

    Most people, especially these days, claim to think outside of the box. These guys actually did that very thing and quite well.

    • @supersniffer9632
      @supersniffer9632 8 месяцев назад +6

      No they didn't.

    • @lefkytheshin
      @lefkytheshin 8 месяцев назад

      @@supersniffer9632 Yup, they did. Given the thug crap you're watching, I'd expect as much. Miserable prick.

    • @elonif4125
      @elonif4125 7 месяцев назад

      @@lefkytheshinNo, they didn’t

  • @SilentHotdog28
    @SilentHotdog28 10 месяцев назад +20

    "I already paid." "No you didn't". haha, love it.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 8 месяцев назад +2

      Then why are you arguing? Since you are arguing with me, I must have paid.

    • @Oneminuteman38
      @Oneminuteman38 13 дней назад

      What are you arguing about

  • @occamraiser
    @occamraiser 10 месяцев назад +23

    'I want to complain' - "YOU! Want to complain!" Got to adore Monty Python.

    • @childofthe50s53
      @childofthe50s53 9 месяцев назад +1

      That part of the sketch gets me every time

  • @georgemoore7186
    @georgemoore7186 8 месяцев назад +11

    The poms have a special knack for making the ridiculous, funny, very funny, hysterically funny, rolling on the floor funny, all the while being serious, how did they keep a straight face? would love to see some of the bloopers for a show like this

  • @luawyf9037
    @luawyf9037 10 месяцев назад +26

    wow, monty python predicted twitter!

    • @ArmyJames
      @ArmyJames 5 месяцев назад +1

      No they didn’t.

  • @susanb8354
    @susanb8354 10 месяцев назад +55

    This is my favorite Monty Python sketch. I have many favorites but this one is Number One! Monty Python enabled me to appreciate the utter insanity of the world.

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 9 месяцев назад +2

      Well said, Susan, a profound statement, if there ever was one. All the rest is bollocks !!

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@blackbob3358No it isn't.

    • @peteloaf0
      @peteloaf0 6 месяцев назад

      Hi Sus! You're Right! Much Love~!😘

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@peteloaf0 No she isn't.

  • @harrynking777
    @harrynking777 9 месяцев назад +12

    The argument sketch is quite educational. It puts forward the idea that an argument need not be contradictory.

    • @philipk9783
      @philipk9783 9 месяцев назад +7

      No it doesn't

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@philipk9783Yes it does

    • @LoveToRelax
      @LoveToRelax 9 месяцев назад +3

      No, it doesn't

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@LoveToRelax Yes it does

    • @philipk9783
      @philipk9783 9 месяцев назад +3

      This is getting silly. You're in the wrong comments .

  • @snickpickle
    @snickpickle 10 месяцев назад +163

    Oh, my goodness, this is funny! The way these guys can take such a simple concept and create comedy magic is priceless! I’ve never seen this one before, but I’ll be back for a few more bonks on the head!

    • @larshollander8659
      @larshollander8659 10 месяцев назад +16

      No it isn't

    • @damjanresek395
      @damjanresek395 10 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@larshollander8659Oh it absolutely is

    • @Malarky49
      @Malarky49 10 месяцев назад +8

      That's not a good argument, that's just a contradiction!

    • @elonif4125
      @elonif4125 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@Malarky49No, it isn’t

    • @kerryedavis
      @kerryedavis 4 месяца назад +1

      Never before? It's been around for like 50 years.

  • @tinowichura8965
    @tinowichura8965 6 месяцев назад +7

    The moment when Palin says himself "No it isn't!" is genius! The subtly of it's facial movements and implications of realisations are perfect!

  • @jasWerner-qt5wj
    @jasWerner-qt5wj 9 месяцев назад +3

    The complaint department follows up with Eric Idle

  • @SailorMaxie
    @SailorMaxie 9 месяцев назад +6

    I feel everyone on the internet must watch this video at least once in their life.

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +2

      No you don't

  • @bertferri-5685
    @bertferri-5685 10 месяцев назад +14

    John and Michael have spent their entire career arguing. This one, the Fish License, the Parrot sketch, the Cheese shop, the Lion Tamer, the Fish Slapping dance....what else am i forgetting?

    • @melaniefowler8841
      @melaniefowler8841 10 месяцев назад +2

      The Watch Smuggler 😀

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@melaniefowler8841he didn't forget that one

    • @Bellpipe41
      @Bellpipe41 21 день назад

      @@ghdwk5596Yes he did.

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads 10 месяцев назад +109

    Never, ever gets old.

    • @richardrice8076
      @richardrice8076 10 месяцев назад +17

      Yes it does😉.

    • @keithmills778
      @keithmills778 10 месяцев назад +13

      @@richardrice8076No it doesn’t.

    • @richardrice8076
      @richardrice8076 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@keithmills778 😀😀😀😀😀😉🤪.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 10 месяцев назад +3

      Yes, this sketch is more than 50 years old!!!

    • @richardrice8076
      @richardrice8076 10 месяцев назад +4

      @u.v.s.5583 no it isn't 😉🤪.

  • @jjaassppeerr1791
    @jjaassppeerr1791 8 месяцев назад +3

    Just love the cop out at the end

  • @cheeseheadfiddle
    @cheeseheadfiddle 5 месяцев назад +7

    They were-still are-surrealist geniuses.

  • @potterpotty01
    @potterpotty01 10 месяцев назад +7

    If he wanted an intellectual argument he should have said I want a debate.

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 4 месяца назад +1

      Have you seen how recent political debates are like? 😵

  • @williamdemourajose5163
    @williamdemourajose5163 10 месяцев назад +53

    I have watched this for at least twenty times, and it never failed in getting me at full laughter.
    God, Monty Python will last for the next centuries ahead. It's superb.

  • @FireLordJD
    @FireLordJD 8 месяцев назад +8

    What golden comedy. So smart, so unbelievably well timed, just incredible.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 7 месяцев назад

      No, sir, this is abuse. You want 12 A next door.

    • @jasobres
      @jasobres 5 месяцев назад

      No it isn't.

    • @Restorationshopyt
      @Restorationshopyt 4 месяца назад

      @u.v.s.5583 Stupid git!

  • @alexanderSydneyOz
    @alexanderSydneyOz 6 месяцев назад +9

    So many repeatable lines in one sketch.
    It is brilliant in every single line, execution, and concept, from beginning to end.
    It is THE funniest MP sketch for me, but of course there are dozens (at least) which could attract that accolade for others.

  • @ihatespam2
    @ihatespam2 4 месяца назад +4

    The Greatest Skit of All Time!!!
    Being hit on the head lessons…
    “I came in here for a good argument”
    “No you didn’t, you came in here for an argument.”

  • @SevenTheJester
    @SevenTheJester 5 месяцев назад +4

    Just for the sake of _argument..._ the first encounter went from the 1:29 mark, when Palin says "Is this the right room for an argument?" to the 2:42 mark, when Cleese hit the bell.
    So once and for all, Palin was right. It wasn't five minutes, it was only one minute thirteen. 👍😆

  • @d.lafollette
    @d.lafollette 10 месяцев назад +9

    With a hand on a shoulder they reached infinity.

  • @niamhoconnor8986
    @niamhoconnor8986 3 месяца назад +4

    That bloke who said you can grow concrete actually used to work here as an intern in his youth

  • @Jay_SUBZ3R0
    @Jay_SUBZ3R0 4 месяца назад +5

    “I told you, I’m not allowed to argue unless you pay.”
    “I just paid.”
    “No you didn’t.”
    “I DID!”
    😂

  • @bryank3500
    @bryank3500 10 месяцев назад +34

    This is great.. the full skit as it should be😊

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 10 месяцев назад +2

      No, It Isn't.

  • @FranssensM
    @FranssensM 8 месяцев назад +4

    Whoever wrote this deserves a nice prize. It’s really very good.

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 8 месяцев назад +2

      Not at all

    • @FranssensM
      @FranssensM 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@ghdwk5596 no, no, no. Oh I’m sorry is this just the 5 minutes?

  • @roelandb.1433
    @roelandb.1433 4 месяца назад +3

    "Allow me to introduce mysmelf" by Flying Thompson's Gazelle of the Yard cracks me up so hard.

  • @FistandFootMartialArts
    @FistandFootMartialArts 6 месяцев назад +10

    I loved this sketch back in the mid-70s when I was in HS, and I loved it just now!!!
    Thanks Monty's Boys for all the years of humour, RIP to those time has taken, and a BIG THX to the folks who posted this.

    • @jasobres
      @jasobres 5 месяцев назад +1

      No you didn't

    • @FistandFootMartialArts
      @FistandFootMartialArts 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, I did.
      Times up. Thank you for your patronage. @@jasobres

  • @plywoodcarjohnson5412
    @plywoodcarjohnson5412 10 месяцев назад +27

    Feels like something new even to this day! Twists, turns and no punchline. Genius!

  • @Inlinetodie
    @Inlinetodie 10 месяцев назад +20

    I'm convinced, without these fellas, we wouldn't have humor

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 8 месяцев назад +3

      Yes, we would!!!

    • @douglassun8456
      @douglassun8456 4 месяца назад +1

      Seriously, though, it is useful to know that all of them wrote and acted in TV comedy before Python, just not all as one group. The Goon Show in particular was a big influence on them.

  • @99bulldog
    @99bulldog 10 месяцев назад +13

    Imho this and dead parrot are probably the 2 best skits they've ever done.

    • @abrarahmed1888
      @abrarahmed1888 10 месяцев назад

      Should also add “Vocational Guidance Counsellor”

    • @philh8288
      @philh8288 10 месяцев назад

      No he shouldnt

  • @spotswoodthenewt
    @spotswoodthenewt 16 лет назад +65

    One of my all-time favorite moments in comedy! Just...brilliant! 5*****'s

    • @peterbrown6224
      @peterbrown6224 11 месяцев назад +5

      No it's not.

    • @00bikeboy
      @00bikeboy 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@peterbrown6224 Yes it is.

    • @AmyWinehouse.914
      @AmyWinehouse.914 10 месяцев назад +3

      Is this the 5min argument or the full half hour?

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@AmyWinehouse.914 Neither

    • @AmyWinehouse.914
      @AmyWinehouse.914 9 месяцев назад

      @@ghdwk5596I'm sorry you haven't paid/

  • @snarflatful
    @snarflatful 10 месяцев назад +12

    Me arguing with the cable company.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 7 месяцев назад +2

      Oh, I am sorry, this is not cable company, this is abuse.

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 10 месяцев назад +27

    I used this sketch in a class with a group of students in Tokyo - businessmen, students, housewives, etc. - and they absolutely loved it!

  • @curtispalmer7569
    @curtispalmer7569 10 месяцев назад +11

    Brings back great memories watching these in the 70s!

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 10 месяцев назад +1

      No, It doesn't.

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@sevadajYes it does

  • @glnnchrstphr9717
    @glnnchrstphr9717 6 месяцев назад +5

    All the many times I've watched this particular skit, it still gets me every single time!

  • @ROCKINGMAN
    @ROCKINGMAN 9 месяцев назад +3

    The best of British....bloody brilliant....first heard this one of their albums.

  • @RalphBrooker-gn9iv
    @RalphBrooker-gn9iv 3 месяца назад +4

    Insanely, deliciously brilliant.

  • @darrylguerrant5101
    @darrylguerrant5101 2 месяца назад +2

    They broke so many conventional comedy concepts and were aware of it at the same time.

  • @BabyBoomerChannel
    @BabyBoomerChannel 17 дней назад +1

    This is perfection. The language. The timing. Even the secondary character’s dialogue is spectacular.

  • @elliottprice6084
    @elliottprice6084 Месяц назад +3

    One of the the very best Python Sketches 🤣🤣

  • @Mugruncher
    @Mugruncher 10 месяцев назад +26

    I saw this for the first time at uni in a class called “argument and critical thinking”
    Whole lecture theatre was cracking up

    • @bobblowhard8823
      @bobblowhard8823 10 месяцев назад +8

      No you didn't.

    • @simontay4851
      @simontay4851 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yes he did...

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 7 месяцев назад

      My dream is to teach "Advanced abuse".

  • @sevadaj
    @sevadaj 8 месяцев назад +2

    John Cleese's dead pan responses to Michael Palin's arguments are so funny!! And before anyone says, "No It isn't". Yes, it is!!!!!!

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 8 месяцев назад +1

      No it isn't

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 8 месяцев назад

      @@ghdwk5596 Yes it is!!!!!!

  • @eriklight6164
    @eriklight6164 Месяц назад +3

    Probably my favorite Monty Python sketch, although it is hard to decide. Two nits though: (1) Michael Palin never paid for the first five minutes (?) of argument, and (2) the choice given by the secretary was a single 5-minute argument or a course of 8 arguments, whereas John Cleese asks Michael Palin if he's there for the 5-minute argument or the full half hour. The secretary never offered Palin a full half-hour argument. Maybe I should take make a visit to the complaint department?

  • @saifonlawrence2044
    @saifonlawrence2044 10 месяцев назад +33

    Near died laughing when i first saw this sketch nearly 50 years ago...still kills me !

  • @davidkendall1614
    @davidkendall1614 9 месяцев назад +3

    I usually have no issue finding a FREE argument! Or even free abuse 😢

  • @OhNoNotAgain42
    @OhNoNotAgain42 8 месяцев назад +2

    Monty Python invented social media debate decades before the invention of the internet

  • @ryanhasagirl11
    @ryanhasagirl11 9 месяцев назад +3

    2:18 “*pause* can be” that gets me everytime

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +3

      No it doesn't

    • @ryanhasagirl11
      @ryanhasagirl11 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@ghdwk5596yes it does

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@ryanhasagirl11 nonsense, it most certainly does not

    • @ryanhasagirl11
      @ryanhasagirl11 9 месяцев назад +1

      Let’s get one thing quite clear, it most definitely did

  • @johncrawfordpiano
    @johncrawfordpiano 7 месяцев назад +2

    Yes definitely my favourite Python sketch- so many memorable and brilliant lines. Years ago I translated it into Spanish for my actor friends in San Sebastian, as we couldn't find, at the time, the TV series in Spanish

  • @jackdog06
    @jackdog06 10 месяцев назад +8

    In classic Monty Python style the skit hits something most people would consider a punchline, then it kinda…. Keeps going…

    • @ghdwk5596
      @ghdwk5596 9 месяцев назад +1

      It doesn't

    • @GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf
      @GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf 8 месяцев назад

      It does

    • @douglassun8456
      @douglassun8456 4 месяца назад

      In reading the comments to these Python clips on RUclips, I get the feeling that there are people who don't understand that part of what they were about was playing with and subverting traditional sketch structure. That's why watching clips in isolation actually hinders you in appreciating them. You don't see how the links and the running gags tie everything together.

  • @veljkodragovic2175
    @veljkodragovic2175 9 месяцев назад +2

    I just love how Chapman delivers legal definitions of the offences.,:)

  • @kralik394
    @kralik394 8 месяцев назад +2

    This guy got his money's worth. He got 3 arguments!

  • @philojudaeusofalexandria9556
    @philojudaeusofalexandria9556 10 месяцев назад +7

    Luckily nowadays you can get arguments for free on the internet just by posting innocuous comments on youtube.

  • @roxanne_george
    @roxanne_george 10 месяцев назад +5

    Now why does it remind me so much of Twitter discussions? Especially the "Abuse" part 🤣

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 7 месяцев назад

      Just hope some police detective don't come around their homes arresting those suspected of posting controversial matter. 🧐

  • @tomfrankiewicz4030
    @tomfrankiewicz4030 8 месяцев назад +2

    I would rather watch a Monty python sketch from almost 50yrs. ago rather than a lot of anything on modern television

  • @gregstewart6429
    @gregstewart6429 10 месяцев назад +16

    Absolutely priceless. Me and my best mate did zero work in Science classes. Instead we had memorised every sketch we could lay our hands on. LP's at the time. We tried to do the exact voices. We were pretty good. We carried it on after class. And then when we were offered we joined drama club and from there we learnt about beyond the fringe, the Goon show and much else. Thank you dear Monty Python. All those sketches were so very good. Eternally grateful.

  • @thatcanadian6698
    @thatcanadian6698 10 месяцев назад +4

    I love that final hand that slaps on John Cleese's shoulder at the end.

  • @terryurquhart2413
    @terryurquhart2413 10 месяцев назад +14

    Comedy gold …nothing beats it !

  • @blackbob3358
    @blackbob3358 9 месяцев назад +3

    I watch, what i deem funny skits over and again. But this one, i could'nt count the times !!

  • @hauskalainen
    @hauskalainen 10 месяцев назад +2

    my favourite was I think the travel agency sketch where the woman at the desk asks the man "have you come to book a holiday?" and then in a quite and suggestive manner follows it with "or do you want to go upstairs?". Well of course we never got to find out what happens upstairs!

  • @evilborg
    @evilborg 10 месяцев назад +4

    One of the best skits.....

    • @timothywilliams1359
      @timothywilliams1359 10 месяцев назад +1

      No it isn't.

    • @evilborg
      @evilborg 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@timothywilliams1359 sure it is

    • @timothywilliams1359
      @timothywilliams1359 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@evilborg It isn't!

    • @evilborg
      @evilborg 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@timothywilliams1359 so what skits you think are the best?

    • @timothywilliams1359
      @timothywilliams1359 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@evilborg (You didn't catch what I'm am doing here?)

  • @charles2241
    @charles2241 9 месяцев назад +3

    One of the most brilliant things of this sketch is the camera work when they're arguing back and forth. I think the first time I saw I just went "WOAH"! Too bad the sketch didn't call for more rapid-fire back and forth, because it was funny seeing the view switch back and forth so much. I guess it would've been funny, to do what they did early portion of the argument, and then at some point the camera gets in a back and forth rhythm despite the fact by that point the argument wasn't going that quickly back and forth. It's almost a disappointment now that I think of it, because the show frequently loved to get into camerawork going amiss.

  • @pelimies1818
    @pelimies1818 6 месяцев назад +2

    Groundbreaking stuff.
    Thanks to MPFC for the decades full of "light comedy act.."

  • @dominictarrsailing
    @dominictarrsailing 9 месяцев назад +3

    I actually couldn't remember how this sketch ends although I've seen it so many times

  • @childofthe50s53
    @childofthe50s53 10 месяцев назад +8

    How did they think this up.Brilliant.

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 9 месяцев назад +1

      No, It Isn't!

  • @track1219
    @track1219 10 месяцев назад +6

    I used to listen to this on the Dr. Dimento radio show way back in the 70s. Still funny!

  • @johnrussellpelt9091
    @johnrussellpelt9091 10 месяцев назад +8

    When they performed this at the Hollywood Bowl, the "I've got you" line received great applause.

  • @carl_anderson9315
    @carl_anderson9315 10 месяцев назад +19

    For me, Monty Pythons Flying Circus represents one of the pillars of comedy, along with legends like Chaplin, the Marx brothers, and Billy Wilder. Their scope went from social commentary to plain nonsensical humor, always breaking the line of reality to jump straight to absurdity and surrealism.

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 10 месяцев назад

      No, they don't!

    • @gabbygator1637
      @gabbygator1637 8 месяцев назад +2

      What i love about them is the level of education they all received as well. All of them were scholars, in the higher echelons of academia, looked around and thought "none of these people do anything other than take themselves too seriously" and then they somehow honed a distinct style of absurdism.

    • @carl_anderson9315
      @carl_anderson9315 8 месяцев назад

      @@gabbygator1637 There’s a Argentinian group called Les Luthiers, that are the same level of professionalism and education. They speak Spanish and they do stage comedy.

  • @necromancer_eatmypantzer
    @necromancer_eatmypantzer 10 месяцев назад +6

    I would honestly pay for a service like this

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 10 месяцев назад

      Now who would choose the topic?

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj 10 месяцев назад

      No, you wouldn't.

    • @mis4nthr0p3
      @mis4nthr0p3 9 месяцев назад +1

      Try marriage.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 7 месяцев назад

      @@mis4nthr0p3 Only if you want a combination of abuse and argument the whole time until you finally are delivered by your timely death.

  • @littlejimmycratner3762
    @littlejimmycratner3762 10 месяцев назад +14

    When entertainment was actually entertaining 😮😂

  • @billyidol2115
    @billyidol2115 10 месяцев назад +8

    I could be arguing in my spare time 😅😅😅

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 9 месяцев назад +1

    Long before The Far Side, there was this particular Monty Python sketch. 😆

  • @metalucid
    @metalucid 11 месяцев назад +7

    And now, one more minute of Monty Python's flying circus

  • @FreakingRandomName
    @FreakingRandomName 10 месяцев назад +4

    This is incredible.

  • @gregreynolds5686
    @gregreynolds5686 Месяц назад +1

    The idea of some strange goverment ministry somewhere, full of such peculiar departments amuses me almost as much as the actual content of this sketch.

  • @peterm3964
    @peterm3964 10 месяцев назад +3

    Inspector Thompson’s Gazelle .