The Argument Skit

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @friskecrisps8038
    @friskecrisps8038 Год назад +2010

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

  • @tnekkc
    @tnekkc Год назад +2966

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

  • @aCivilServant
    @aCivilServant Год назад +1000

    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 Год назад +1208

    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 Год назад +116

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

    • @kerryedavis
      @kerryedavis Год назад +15

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

    • @cmans79tr7
      @cmans79tr7 Год назад +49

      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 Год назад +10

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

    • @placeholdername0000
      @placeholdername0000 Год назад +8

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

  • @jend8759
    @jend8759 Год назад +412

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

    • @VuotoPneumaNN
      @VuotoPneumaNN Год назад +27

      I fart in your general direction sir

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Год назад

      Vacuous malodorous pervert, in fact!

    • @Johnfisher12345
      @Johnfisher12345 Год назад +19

      No they aren’t.

    • @Pikashockdragon
      @Pikashockdragon 9 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @paulsarnik8506
      @paulsarnik8506 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @benw4409
    @benw4409 Год назад +828

    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.

  • @salopiansessions8326
    @salopiansessions8326 Год назад +1932

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

  • @wolfgangallanalhazred802
    @wolfgangallanalhazred802 Год назад +166

    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!

  • @_letstartariot
    @_letstartariot Год назад +642

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

  • @mikekolokowsky
    @mikekolokowsky Год назад +345

    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 Год назад +12

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

    • @neoneapolitan2122
      @neoneapolitan2122 Год назад +28

      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 Год назад +10

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

    • @david8157
      @david8157 Год 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 Год назад +12

      @@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 Год назад +449

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

    • @keco185
      @keco185 Год назад +17

      No it’s not

    • @mis4nthr0p3
      @mis4nthr0p3 Год назад +6

      ​@@keco185
      "Yes it is!"

    • @captainjames4649
      @captainjames4649 Год назад +4

      ​@@mis4nthr0p3no, it's not

    • @AnAtheistIdiot
      @AnAtheistIdiot Год назад

      ​@@captainjames4649yes it is

    • @FistandFootMartialArts
      @FistandFootMartialArts Год назад

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

  • @robertzio
    @robertzio Год назад +143

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

  • @bd_mayhem
    @bd_mayhem Год назад +504

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

  • @MrSophbeau
    @MrSophbeau Год назад +175

    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 Год назад +12

      no it isnt

    • @dazzaboy04
      @dazzaboy04 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@elonif4125no it isn't

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 3 месяца назад +3

      @@dazzaboy04 It most certainly is

    • @fjl4797
      @fjl4797 2 месяца назад +1

      This isn’t even an argument, it’s just contradicting.

  • @DarkBrickCreations
    @DarkBrickCreations Год назад +59

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

  • @eriklight6164
    @eriklight6164 9 месяцев назад +40

    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?

    • @philojudaeusofalexandria9556
      @philojudaeusofalexandria9556 2 месяца назад +4

      that's why it was just contradiction to start, and it was never 5 minutes. That was the free sample. The inconsistency in argument availability and cost was further argument material for the staff.

  • @robpawlikowski4020
    @robpawlikowski4020 Год назад +440

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

  • @quantumleap359
    @quantumleap359 Год назад +268

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

  • @ricardokobe3350
    @ricardokobe3350 Год назад +86

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

  • @occamraiser
    @occamraiser Год назад +57

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

    • @childofthe50s53
      @childofthe50s53 Год назад +1

      That part of the sketch gets me every time

  • @DavidMcCoul
    @DavidMcCoul Год назад +95

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

  • @ahobimo732
    @ahobimo732 Год назад +80

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

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 Год назад

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

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj Год назад +5

      No, he wasn't.

    • @ahobimo732
      @ahobimo732 Год назад +1

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

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj Год назад

      Yes it is.
      @@ahobimo732

    • @kingofcards9
      @kingofcards9 Год назад

      @@ahobimo732 yes it is.
      (Pay afterwards)

  • @roelandb.1433
    @roelandb.1433 Год назад +14

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

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 22 дня назад

      I am superintendant Lookout of the Yard and I find my colleague Mr. Gazelle not funny.

  • @niamhoconnor8986
    @niamhoconnor8986 11 месяцев назад +32

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

    • @ReiseLukas
      @ReiseLukas 11 месяцев назад +9

      No he didn't

  • @susanb8354
    @susanb8354 Год назад +70

    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 Год назад +2

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

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer Год назад +1

      ​@@blackbob3358No it isn't.

    • @peteloaf0
      @peteloaf0 Год назад

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

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer Год назад +1

      @@peteloaf0 No she isn't.

    • @christopherweber9464
      @christopherweber9464 4 месяца назад

      You want to complain, I've only had these shoes three week, and my back hurts.

  • @FistandFootMartialArts
    @FistandFootMartialArts Год назад +18

    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.

  • @snickpickle
    @snickpickle Год назад +170

    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 Год назад +16

      No it isn't

    • @damjanresek395
      @damjanresek395 Год назад +7

      ​@@larshollander8659Oh it absolutely is

    • @Malarky49
      @Malarky49 Год назад +8

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

    • @kerryedavis
      @kerryedavis Год назад +1

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

    • @burgundian-peanuts
      @burgundian-peanuts 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@kerryedavis Everyone has to have a first time :) Maybe OP is young and discovering Python for the first time.

  • @Jay_SUBZ3R0
    @Jay_SUBZ3R0 Год назад +15

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

  • @williamdemourajose5163
    @williamdemourajose5163 Год назад +56

    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.

  • @georgemoore7186
    @georgemoore7186 Год назад +15

    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

  • @tinowichura8965
    @tinowichura8965 Год назад +24

    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!

  • @lefkytheshin
    @lefkytheshin Год назад +36

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

    • @supersniffer9632
      @supersniffer9632 Год назад +5

      No they didn't.

    • @lefkytheshin
      @lefkytheshin Год назад

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

  • @SilentHotdog28
    @SilentHotdog28 Год назад +28

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

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Год назад +2

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

    • @Oneminuteman38
      @Oneminuteman38 8 месяцев назад

      What are you arguing about

  • @DParkerNunya
    @DParkerNunya Год назад +67

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

    • @Johnfisher12345
      @Johnfisher12345 Год назад +3

      @AesirUnlimited Yes it is

    • @Johnfisher12345
      @Johnfisher12345 Год назад +3

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

    • @Zypemaytro
      @Zypemaytro 10 месяцев назад

      @@AesirUnlimitedyes it did

    • @TheDeathMedic
      @TheDeathMedic 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@AesirUnlimitedNo, he's not

  • @cheeseheadfiddle
    @cheeseheadfiddle Год назад +14

    They were-still are-surrealist geniuses.

  • @glnnchrstphr9717
    @glnnchrstphr9717 Год назад +8

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

  • @plywoodcarjohnson5412
    @plywoodcarjohnson5412 Год назад +31

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

  • @alexanderSydneyOz
    @alexanderSydneyOz Год назад +14

    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.

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads Год назад +115

    Never, ever gets old.

  • @FireLordJD
    @FireLordJD Год назад +10

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

  • @curtispalmer7569
    @curtispalmer7569 Год назад +16

    Brings back great memories watching these in the 70s!

  • @noahbody9782
    @noahbody9782 Год назад +12

    The genius of John Cleese.

  • @d.lafollette
    @d.lafollette Год назад +15

    With a hand on a shoulder they reached infinity.

  • @BabyBoomerChannel
    @BabyBoomerChannel 8 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @kjeldpedersen666
    @kjeldpedersen666 10 месяцев назад +5

    “Ohh, I’ve had enough of this!”
    “No, you haven’t...”😂

  • @harrynking777
    @harrynking777 Год назад +13

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

  • @kerryedavis
    @kerryedavis Год назад +33

    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 Год назад +1

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

    • @saltedmutton7269
      @saltedmutton7269 6 месяцев назад

      It's not a stupid concept!

  • @potterpotty01
    @potterpotty01 Год назад +18

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

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 Год назад +3

      Have you seen how recent political debates are like? 😵

    • @garygray8226
      @garygray8226 4 месяца назад

      @@luisreyes1963 sept. 10, 2024- just watched one; and it isn't funny; i'm sick

    • @philojudaeusofalexandria9556
      @philojudaeusofalexandria9556 2 месяца назад +1

      @@garygray8226 yes it is. And no you're not.

    • @stryqx
      @stryqx 8 дней назад

      At which point Chapman et al could have joined them and then it would have been a mass debate 😂

  • @Eye_can_see_you
    @Eye_can_see_you 7 месяцев назад +5

    For me this is the most enjoyable Monty Python sketch. I remember watching it as a youngster and utterly enthralled. 🦶

  • @Chessrook44
    @Chessrook44 Год назад +51

    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!

    • @FruityPassion
      @FruityPassion Год назад +3

      No its not

    • @GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf
      @GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf Год назад +3

      Yes it is

    • @SomeOne-gm5md
      @SomeOne-gm5md Год назад +2

      @@GarrisonValentinelli-pk1bf No it's not

    • @ONDAxHENNY
      @ONDAxHENNY 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@SomeOne-gm5md it most certainly is

    • @user-ks5cg5cd7m
      @user-ks5cg5cd7m 8 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo Год назад +32

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

  • @dylanparker1659
    @dylanparker1659 Месяц назад +2

    Offenses against the getting out of sketches without using a proper punchline Act. So damn good.

  • @FranssensM
    @FranssensM Год назад +7

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

    • @FruityPassion
      @FruityPassion Год назад +2

      Not at all

    • @FranssensM
      @FranssensM Год назад +1

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

  • @bryank3500
    @bryank3500 Год назад +39

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

    • @sevadaj
      @sevadaj Год назад +2

      No, It Isn't.

  • @luawyf9037
    @luawyf9037 Год назад +41

    wow, monty python predicted twitter!

  • @tomfrankiewicz4030
    @tomfrankiewicz4030 Год назад +14

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

  • @gregstewart6429
    @gregstewart6429 Год назад +20

    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.

  • @philojudaeusofalexandria9556
    @philojudaeusofalexandria9556 Год назад +53

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

  • @bertferri-5685
    @bertferri-5685 Год назад +20

    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 Год назад +3

      The Watch Smuggler 😀

    • @FruityPassion
      @FruityPassion Год назад

      ​@@melaniefowler8841he didn't forget that one

    • @Bellpipe41
      @Bellpipe41 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@FruityPassionYes he did.

    • @burgundian-peanuts
      @burgundian-peanuts 7 месяцев назад

      Ha, I didn't notice that it always those two :)

    • @johnmanning5568
      @johnmanning5568 5 месяцев назад

      It’s a British show so the sketch was called “The Fish Licence” not license.

  • @rockahbilly76
    @rockahbilly76 4 месяца назад +4

    Brilliant. This is why they were the greatest comedy troupe of all time.

  • @99bulldog
    @99bulldog Год назад +16

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

    • @abrarahmed1888
      @abrarahmed1888 Год назад

      Should also add “Vocational Guidance Counsellor”

    • @philh8288
      @philh8288 Год назад

      No he shouldnt

    • @ElvarMasson
      @ElvarMasson 6 месяцев назад

      No, it isn't

  • @barney6888
    @barney6888 7 месяцев назад +4

    silliness with an existential catastrophe for the punch line

  • @Mystikk666
    @Mystikk666 11 месяцев назад +3

    "Acts of a self-conscious behaviour contrary to the Not In Front Of The Children act …"

  • @roughtakes7271
    @roughtakes7271 22 дня назад +1

    The part at 2:30 when Palin says, "But it isn't just saying "No it isn't!"....." and Cleese's answer of "Yes it is!" and thus making Palin say "No it isn't" (followed by the brief look of confusion) is absolutely masterful writing!!

  • @blackbob3358
    @blackbob3358 Год назад +5

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

  • @KieranKelly-o9s
    @KieranKelly-o9s 9 месяцев назад +4

    This is intellectually superb. An argument is a collective series of statements intended to establish a proposition
    Classic

    • @AttilatheNun-xv6kc
      @AttilatheNun-xv6kc 7 месяцев назад +2

      I thought it was the automatic gainsaying of a previous assertion.

  • @johncrawfordpiano
    @johncrawfordpiano Год 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

  • @glnnchrstphr9717
    @glnnchrstphr9717 6 месяцев назад +2

    After watching Python for these 50 years now, i still openly guffaw at this particular skit. Its still my favorite.

  • @darrylguerrant5101
    @darrylguerrant5101 10 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @spotswoodthenewt
    @spotswoodthenewt 17 лет назад +66

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

  • @thatcanadian6698
    @thatcanadian6698 Год назад +5

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

  • @saifonlawrence2044
    @saifonlawrence2044 Год назад +34

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

  • @kerryedavis
    @kerryedavis Год назад +2

    Anyone else notice how many of these classic videos, posted up to SIXTEEN YEARS AGO or even longer, didn't turn up in searches for so long, until just the past few weeks?

    • @deathspasm9
      @deathspasm9 Год назад

      yup, been looking for this full scene for ages

    • @deathspasm9
      @deathspasm9 Год назад

      shut up@elonif4125

  • @jasWerner-qt5wj
    @jasWerner-qt5wj Год назад +4

    The complaint department follows up with Eric Idle

  • @jjaassppeerr1791
    @jjaassppeerr1791 Год назад +4

    Just love the cop out at the end

  • @berserkley
    @berserkley 6 месяцев назад +3

    Probably the definitive Python sketch

  • @SevenTheJester
    @SevenTheJester Год назад +7

    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. 👍😆

  • @snarflatful
    @snarflatful Год назад +16

    Me arguing with the cable company.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Год назад +4

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

    • @ElvarMasson
      @ElvarMasson 6 месяцев назад

      No, it isn't

  • @SailorMaxie
    @SailorMaxie Год назад +7

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

  • @95rossc
    @95rossc 4 месяца назад

    This was one of the first Python sketches I remember seeing, and I think it’s the perfect balance of everything that makes them amazing all in one pretty simple concept

  • @pelimies1818
    @pelimies1818 Год назад +2

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

  • @Suchwerewolf
    @Suchwerewolf Год назад +29

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

  • @track1219
    @track1219 Год назад +6

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

  • @houssamassila6274
    @houssamassila6274 11 месяцев назад +1

    the last hand on the shoulder always gets me the timing is perfect and abrupt.

  • @elliottprice6084
    @elliottprice6084 9 месяцев назад +5

    One of the the very best Python Sketches 🤣🤣

    • @timcarnell5133
      @timcarnell5133 6 месяцев назад +1

      No it isn’t

    • @elliottprice6084
      @elliottprice6084 6 месяцев назад

      @@timcarnell5133 I'm not allowed to argue unless you pay

  • @hauskalainen
    @hauskalainen Год 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!

  • @OneTrueVikingbard
    @OneTrueVikingbard 10 месяцев назад +4

    This sketch is so brilliant, both Peter Jackson and the writers of Rings of Power used it to create dialogue for Desolation of Smaug and the aforementioned TV show.
    You doubt me? These lines here are ripped from this sketch:
    DoS
    Legolas: “It is not our fight.”
    Tauriel: “It *is* our fight.”
    RoP
    Galadriel: “You have not seen what I have seen.”
    Elrond: “I *have* seen what you have seen.”
    Galadriel: “You have *not* seen…what I have seen.”
    😂😂😂🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @craigappleton938
    @craigappleton938 5 месяцев назад +1

    Lifelong Python fan here. It always amused me that they never knew how to end a sketch. Cheeseshop is a great example. Reduced to shooting Palin.

  • @RalphBrooker-gn9iv
    @RalphBrooker-gn9iv 11 месяцев назад +7

    Insanely, deliciously brilliant.

  • @AllTheFasteners
    @AllTheFasteners 9 месяцев назад +2

    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.

  • @roxanne_george
    @roxanne_george Год назад +6

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

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 Год назад

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

  • @petepanozzo6854
    @petepanozzo6854 5 месяцев назад +1

    Graham Chapman as Abuse is fabulous! One of his Best.

  • @johnrussellpelt9091
    @johnrussellpelt9091 Год назад +8

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

  • @johnbristow8099
    @johnbristow8099 11 месяцев назад +2

    An absolute classic. We just don’t get humour like this any more.

    • @TidanLikida
      @TidanLikida 10 месяцев назад +1

      Do we get any humour anymore? Seriously...so much entertainment has kind of died off because so much is considered offensive now, even though it was considered a lot of fun a couple of decades ago.

  • @evilborg
    @evilborg Год назад +5

    One of the best skits.....

  • @JohnSmith-el2nj
    @JohnSmith-el2nj 6 месяцев назад +2

    When this video was uploaded YT was just 2 years old. By that time the sketch itself was already 35, and will be 52 on November 2 this year (2024).

  • @terryurquhart2413
    @terryurquhart2413 Год назад +14

    Comedy gold …nothing beats it !

  • @ivanfavarin6044
    @ivanfavarin6044 7 месяцев назад +1

    From brainy quarrelling to slapstick comedy, it’s just a shot away.

  • @sevadaj
    @sevadaj Год назад +3

    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!!!!!!

  • @joeofoysterbay7197
    @joeofoysterbay7197 2 месяца назад

    Way back, I heard this on an audio channel of an old plane. I had no idea who or what this was but I was all in for more. It took me days to fully process as it was unlike anything I'd heard. Things have been different ever since that flight.