Reviewing Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969-1974. EXPURGATED version.
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
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Reissued version. The original had too many naughty bits for RUclips. Sorry for any confusion. It had been 50 years since I saw all the original shows. I decided to rewatch them. Are they still great?
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The German killer joke was
"My dog has no nose"
"how does he smell"
"awful"
"Two peanuts were walking down the strasse and one of them was assaulted peanut." was the one on the radio.
@@juddgoswick2024haw haw !
I would repeat the deadliest joke ever written, but I only have the punchline. 🙁
@@dave3657 Is it "Rectum? It damned near killed 'em!"
@@dave3657 as aGerman speaker I feel safe only knowing the setup by heart („Wenn ist das Nunstück etc...)
Pythons were crazy popular here in Poland, especially in the nineties and early 2000. I still remember burning pirated episodes into my first CD-roms. Good times. I remember most sketches by heart.
I watched this twice and it's still good!
“Angus, how’re you going to get 48 million kilts into the van?”
“I’ll have to do it in two goes.”
When I was a kid, dad was in the USAF and we lived in England from 69-72. We saw the premier episode of Monty Python in the fall of 69, and could not believe what we were seeing. Absolutely bonkers, we were immediately hooked. Relatives visited from the States, and literally pounded the floor in laughter. Of course when we returned to States, we were utterly jaded by the sheer lunacy of British humor, and we sneered at SNL in 75. Typical clumsy American attempt to mimic genuine craziness. We bought the Python records, glumly watched the first movie, rejoiced at the Holy Grail. The Circus will never be equaled. For me, one of the direct precursors to the Pythons was the goofiness of the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, and the British music hall tradition, similar to American vaudeville, was an influence on both.
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!” - RUclips
Still a great breakdown, even without the Victorian postcard breasts.
That was a real expression at the time. After Python, people stopped using it because it always triggered the joke response.
Ah the non- naughty bits, version!!!
The first frames of Python I saw on PBS were a Terry Gilliam animation.
The animated Tommy helmets caught my eye.
Then Carol appeared.
Just purchased the complete series DVD set. The Goodies and Benny Hill were the predecessors I remember.
For the algorithm!!! Well done on the repost!
As a Canadian the Lumberjack song was my favourite!
Best Line EVAR..."Intercourse the Penguin!"
Glad I have multiple copies backed up OFFLINE! The Goon Show, I used to listen to on Australian radio in the 70's!
The first Python sketch I ever saw was "boxer documentary" (already in progress) on PBS in 1974, on a 12" B&W TV. I was seven years old. It was my first (completely unexpected) step into a larger (and much sillier) world of comedy. I still remember it like it was yesterday.
This review make me want to sail the seven seas for Blu-Ray Monty Python
Carol Cleveland isn't in the TV version of the milkman sketch, it's Thelma Taylor (as seen in the still used). Carol Cleveland does however appear in the movie version featured in And Now For Something Completely Different, as by that time she was firmly established as the main Python female, with Connie Booth running second.
I did toss up a text graphic crediting Thelma.
Back in the 80s Edmonton, AB had a local easy listening radio station that went rogue late on Friday night. You could tune in for the original Goon Show, Dad’s Army and a host of other British radio comedy. When I finally saw the Albert memorial on a trip to Britain I started laughing at the memory of how the Goons turned it into a rocket ship in one of their shows. It made perfect sense once I saw the memorial. I tried explaining it to the people I was with, to no avail. I also discovered that as someone who had studied British history I ended up getting more out of the Python jokes, especially the social commentary. If you go find the tv drama Robin Hood from the 60s you find the root of the Denis Moore sketch, including the theme song. 😁
I saw the original but I'll post a comment anyway to stick it to the algorithm.
You are a noble person.
I have the series on DVD, as well as Faulty Towers. Don’t watch them much lately, but I don’t have to worry about a subscription channel playing it.
It is a shame that YT made you do a repeat. Pathetic.
Get On With It!
Well, I certainly enjoyed the non-expurgated version earlier. Sorry that you had to post an expurgated version, Paul.
"I object to all this sex on the telly...I mean, I keep falling off"! Nyuck nyuck nyuck!
Starting high school in 69 in a small city where our tv antenna could pick up Detroit and Cleveland channels, my friends and I awaited every copy of the Lampoon, and every episode of Python. Sorry to all of my teachers.
Now as an old bugger in a small Alberta town, I have my DVD sets of Python, Reggie Peron and Black Adder along with the 3 Stooges (they kick started my sense of humour in grade school) to keep me relatively sane over the long winter.
My hoodlum friends used to gather to watch the Frantics and the Goodies while we were imbibing but they are still in Ontario and my liver has enjoyed recovery.
Thanks for what you do.
I didn't get where I am today by not watching Reginald Perrin! (It's so odd to see Reggie in the opening of 2001, isn't it?). Fellow Albertan here too, BTW.
Being 50 now, I connected more with their movies. (The Oliver Twist spoof in Meaning of Life!)
I do have the album (compilation of songs from the series and the movies) in the car.
Netflix doesn’t deserve Python.
What did Python ever do to deserve having to wallow in Netflix?
Growing up MPFC introduced me to my [CENSORED] for dry British humor, but then MST3K came along and [CENSORED] midwestern humor [CENSORED] my heart.
"Intercourse the penguin!"
Has to be delivered in a higher register as loudly as possible
TIL what "expurgate" means, the sign of a great writer is using a big word from time to time that challenges their audience to learn something.
I like how Ameri-CANS and Canadi-ANS emphasise the final syllable of Python as Py-THON instead of Py-thun. All-WAYS sounds weird, as if there’s different species of Thons, of which the Py is one of them 😊
62 here, as a young American at the time, Python was an epiphany to me. I remember laughing until I cried and wondering, “why isn’t all comedy like this?”
I would like to thank my parents for not caring that as a young boy I sat in the living room and watched reruns of Benny Hill that were played on a local independent TV station every Saturday.
Also, I didn't appreciate Python until I got a little older, I was still stuck on Are You Being Served? level humor.
Commenting for the algorithms.
Thanks for the support
I cut my teeth on Monty Python both the flying circus and their movies, not as a comedian or comedic actor but an audience member. It forever changed my view of comedy and shaped my taste for British comedy vs classic American comedy. Which is not to say American comedy suck, it doesn't but I find British humour better. One of the reasons I love Kids in the Hall is that their unique takes on subjects was so influenced by British sketch comedy that while Canadian it was truly British comedy with a Canadian flavour.
I was "allowed" to join my Dad watching the Pythons in the early 70s on TV when I was maybe 10 years old. Most of what I saw went WAY over my head, but I did appreciate how offbeat and unusual it was. Good memories.
I WATCHED IN THE U.S. IN 1973......SPECTACULARLY FUNNY TO A KID.....
I finished rewatching Flying Circus on Sunday, I love the series cause it's random as hell, I'm working my way through the films and live shows now.
I love how years have passed, the Western Culture has shifted from "conservative" to "liberal" yet Monty Python is still as offensive now as it was back then.
Censoring Historical Artistic Teetas as Ordered by Ridiculous Useless Layabout Eejits Sucks.
Love the video. Always appreciate your analysis work here. Really makes me want to revisit _Python_ myself. Especially since I've just gotten back into listening to _The Goon Show_ recently. 😂 The Cheese Shop sketch is still my favourite. I've been learning it off and it's become my version of reciting Pi. _"Reciting Cheese",_ if you will.
The Mr. Neutron sketch, featuring the greatest CIA agent Teddy Salad as a dog, "I gotta go walkies". That line, the delivery, may be my favorite in the series. I loved learning it and have been using it, or a version of it, ever since.
Brilliant! I have 27 of their sketches in my Top 10 too. Don't know this guy but what a great video❤
Just like SCTV, not all sketches very funny but enough were to keep me coming back for more.
So glad I grew up here in Australia, we got ALL those great show from the UK. Still collecting them on disc when I can. BTW have you see Hancock's Half Hour? Check it out if not.
I'm enough of a fan to get the complete box set of 14 DVDs. And have often repeated silly lines (and walks). Being a spry 70 years old, I watched much of the original PBS Python broadcasts.
"I don’t care how fucking runny it is, hand it over with all speed!"
I realize my sense of humor is twisted but I find it a bit funny that people, the British and American networks will lose their minds hearing a swear word but are perfectly fine with shooting the shopkeeper.
Trying for a third time. Saw your original mini-series length that went on & on & on that Tim, the Echanter, & God said to move on. Even Mr. Creosote came back for seconds since that video was so long. Mr. Creasote even kept in his wafer thin mint this time around.
I have such great memories of Monty Python from when I was a kid seeing this videos title was a pleasant surprise thanks
Great summation of a hilarious series! Cleese and Chapman were also hilarious in the predecessor to Monty Python called "At Last the 1948 Show". Super funny sketch bits! It's up here on good ol' RUclips...
Thank you for sharing this history, it's like learning who influenced your favorite rockstars and musicians. Like going in depth on Pink Floyd before Syd had to leave the band, haha.
I've watched the Python's movies, but haven't watched the original show. I hope the circus continues on physical media for long into the future. I know they will probably always circulate in torrents, but I love books and discs.
If you've never read the scripts in All the Words, do so. They're often just as funny as the episodes.
I have the complete set of scripts.
I’ve purchased any and every Monty Python dvd/VHS and will never relinquish them!
Excellent review!
I didn't see Python until '91 that I can recall. As a kid though, I loved Benny Hill, he cracked me up. All my pals couldn't understand how I saw Hill as a kid but not Python- but I just didn't catch it. 🤷🏻♀️
Good times!!
When I was a teenager, back in the 80s, someone gave me the audio version of The Holy Grail on cassette. It starts off with a warning... "We wish to inform listeners that this material contains language that some people may find offensive. There are 4 f*#$s, 3 c@#ts, 1 foreskin and a cli#@$$oris, but as they only occur in this opening warning you will pass them now".
To my mid-teen ears it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
I listened to that tape so many times, until it was worn out and my walkman ate it
Thanks for making this video Mr Chato, it brought back fond memories of a simpler time.
😑Seriously, RUclips needs to come up with a better system. I get that there has to be a certain amount of censorship and screening on the platform. But the hoops they make content providers jump through sometimes, feels like Monty Python logic at it's finest. For me Monty Python's Flying Circus was like nothing I had ever seen before when it aired and I was allowed to watch it. Like you Mr. Chato, I did not always get some of the jokes because I was not up on the going ons in the U.K. at the time. That just meant in later years as I grew up and learned more about the world. I could enjoy watching the shows again. Thanks for this deep dive into this comedy classic Mr. Chato! 👍
That Eric Idle "nudge nudge" sketch was, according to a BBC radio interview Idle gave, written by him for Ronnie Barker but Barker didn't see where the joke was in it so Idle used it himself.
Too many naughty bits? From a show that's more than 50 years old? Heck yeah!
"The expergated version of Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds!?!!"
I can’t thank you enough for this expurgated version. You must’ve known I can’t stand the Gannet.
Having grown up listening to the "The Goon Show", in the fifties, "That Was The Week That Was", in the early sixties (which was ended by the Kennedy Assassination) then it's successors "The Frost Report", and "At last the 1948 Show", this was a richly Anarchiac time in Comedy, while Spike Milligan rightly deserves a lot of the credit (or blame) the rest of the Goons (Michael Bentine, Peter Sellars, Harry Secombe and their supporting cast) all deserve a lot of credit for creating a whole new genre of Comedy. Spikes series of Books on WW2 and his part in winning it are all well worth a read, starting with "Adolph Hitler my part in his downfall", Python built on these foundations and was the refined end product of them all however while T.W.T.W.T.W. was powered by very targeted sketches and monologues on the News of the day the Pythons satire was more general against Class, Prejudice and Stereotype's i.e. upper class twits, Aussies called Bruce and for no particular reason the Camp Drill Squad and the Philosophers football match and drinking song.
If my memory is correct, Eric Idle wrote Nudge Nudge for The Two Ronnies. The script made zero sense on paper, it's just random words not even double entendre as written. The sexual suggestivity of the script came purely in delivery, showing just how freaking genius these guys were!
I still laugh like a madman when I see the Musical Mice Sketch. It's MANIC!
It truly is “Something completely different “
Loved it and The Goon Show. Comedy that actually made you lol. 😂
my nephew, when he was 5, had his sides torn off (polish version of LOL) during a skit with a parrot
I can only add “Johann Gambolputty…..” off the top of my head. I heartily agree with you on this show, having watched it at the same time you did. I guess you missed the Bravo channel’s rerun of it in the 90s. I wish I could find the complete The Frantics: Four On the Floor series; I haven’t seen it since the Comedy network, or Global TV ran it in the early 2000s.
Your wish is my command. ruclips.net/p/PLUSK55Lf-65IT4opq1ODuzt_e_u2Pc44R&si=hnqMHh496oZ7knDF
The EXPURGATED Version????
Did you wet your nest???
it's just pining for the fjords
I was a big fan of the series as a kid, as it showed in the uk. Watching it years later I thought much of it had dated. The movies are still funny however, Brian and Meaning are still especially clever and funny.
I always liked the hunting of the mosquito and the fish dance myself : )) I think they just felt they'd been there and done it in the end. They all wanted to try new things, the films were a new challenge which is why they did it but apart from that they all new it was time to move on.
Bought the series on blu ray some years back. So it will probably outlive me…
Now we’re back to burning books.
"Q" - one of my all time favorite theme songs - The Fresh Fruit song - The Irish O'lympics - good stuff!
I really liked the sketch “Bicycle Tour”
I bought the remastered Blu-ray Complete series a few months ago- good timing I guess.
There's a boxset I got for Christmas over 10 years that's a tower with 7 drawers in it: the first 4 drawers contain a film, drawer 5 has the Live at the Hollywood Bowl, personal best and a inflatable parrot, drawer 6 has all 4 series of Flying Circus and the bottom drawer has a t-shirt. It's the: Everything Ever In One, Gloriously Fabulous, Ludiocrousily Definitive, Outrageously Luxurious, Monty Python Boxset. The t-shirt has the same written on the back with a white line through boxset and t-shirt written under it.
Fantastic review. Thank you!
My pleasure!
Monty Python was okay for its time. Red Dwarf & Blackadder remain my favorite BritComs.
Both were great.
They were superb, in very different ways.
So they didn't have captive manatees placing idea balls into joke combines? "Laundry Date Winning Mexico Gary Coleman".
the slow bullet skit reminds me of lancelot's attack on the castle in a holly grail
Being English, I certainly have heard of Morecombe and Wise.
One of the greatest disappointments in my life is that we never got Python and Firesign together. Firesign Theater was exactly the same as Python but a few years sooner and limited to record albums and a local radio show in Los Angeles. If you are not familiar with Firesign RUclips is your friend.
This must really be the expurgated version. I'm seeing commercials for Hallmark Christmas Radio
is this the one without the Gannet?
Yes.
@@CallMeChato Good. I don't like the Gannet.
I want the Snyder cut of this video.
Haha. It's in the Members section.
So glad none of the pythons bent the knee
Fantastic review!
Glad you liked it!
"It's pinin' for the fjords..."
"Certainly uncontaminated by cheese!"
BTW, the "Dennis Moore" theme was from the old Disney TV show "Robin Hood." The tune is the same, the words were only different enough to make them funny.
Yes, Paul actually mixed in the Robin Hood original lyrics when he sang it. Not Disney though, made in the late 50's in the UK for ITV.
@@russvb6384 - Thank you for the update. I always thought it was one of Disney's "England" projects like "Treasure Island."
The version of the theme song that we all sang in grade school was:
"Robin Hood, Robin Hood
Sneaking through the grass
Little John, Little John
Shot him in the...foot"
We all thought we were so hilarious.
The programming language Python is named after them. And they gave us the term Spam for email
Referring to Chapman as Pythons, 'Own resident poofter'? Well? Well funny!
Personally, One of my favourites was Mr Pither although I reckon the episode wasn't a heavy hitter in comparison.
Wait...What?
You were with the Frantics?
I LOVED those guys!
I did, too
@@CallMeChato Dr. Demento would play clips from your shows.
I think my favorite was Boot to the head. But it's a tough call.
Naughty bits are nutritious
Didn't I just watch this a couple of days ago? I must have been submerged in the far more salacious content that YT never seems to censor or remove. 🤫
Jokes were much simpler and more subtle back then. Comedy died in this era
Great video.
If only there were people who collect old media extralegally, whom freely and anonymously give access to their libraries over the internet, which can easily be hidden by a VPN costing no more than a few dollars a month.
i want the more naughty bits...
What's for afters?
I remember they did an entire one hour special.. in German.
Also, you missed Philosopher Football.
I watched this as a kid and then the real life the Brazilian team in the 1980s had a midfielder called - and I shit you not - called Socrates…
Life is always stranger than surrealist comedy.
Great vid mate. 👍
Ok I watched this 2 times. Do I get extra credit?
Yes.
In 1971, word quickly spread among my classmates that a very funny British comedy show could be seen on the Educational Television UHF TV Channel 15 - but only after 10pm when ETV was allowed to expand its broadcast offerings. Seeing "Monty Python's Flying Circus", at age 14 on Channel 15's UHF dodgy reception during late-night hours, gave the show a real naughty vibe - like I didn't want my mom to know what I was watching. This was back when Educational Television (ETV) was in transition to the new PBS network.
"Start again!" /gong
Hey Paul Chato, is there a good book on those technicalities of comedy writing you would care to recomend?
I think there is a book by Bernie Slade.
@CallMeChato thanks!