Monty Python - Literary Football
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2007
- footballer Jimmy Buzzard (John Cleese) discusses his "almost Proustian display of modern existentialist football... "
Voice Over: Dear Sir, I'm sorry this letter is late, it should have come at the beginning of the programme. Yours, Ivor Bigbottie, (age two).
Interviewer: From the plastic arts we turn to football. Last night in the Stadium of Light, Jarrow, we witnessed the resuscitation of a great footballing tradition, when Jarrow United came of age, in a European sense, with an almost Proustian display of modern existentialist football. Virtually annihilating by midfield moral argument the now surely obsolescent catennachio defensive philosophy of Signor Alberto Fanffino. Bologna indeed were a side intellectually out argued by a Jarrow team thrusting and bursting with aggressive Kantian positivism and outstanding in this fine Jarrow team was my man of the match, the arch-thinker, free scheming, scarcely ever to be curbed, midfield cognoscento, Jimmy Buzzard.
Buzzard: Good evening Brian.
Interviewer: Jimmy, at least one ageing football commentator was gladdened last night by the sight of an English footballer breaking free of the limpid tentacles of packed Mediterranean defence.
Buzzard: Good evening Brian.
Interviewer: Were you surprised at the way the Italians ceded midfield dominance so early on in the game?
Buzzard: Well Brian... I'm opening a boutique.
Interviewer: This is of course symptomatic of a new breed of footballer as it is indeed symptomatic of your whole genre of player, is it not?
Buzzard: Good evening Brian.
Interviewer: What I'm getting at, Jimmy, is you seem to have discovered a new concept with a mode in which you dissected the Italian defence, last night.
Buzzard: I hit the ball first time and there it was in the back of the net. (smiles and looks around)
Interviewer: Do you think Jarrow will adopt a more defensive posture for the first leg of the next tie in Turkey?
Buzzard: I hit the ball first time and there it was in the back of the net.
Interviewer: Yes, yes - but have you any plans for dealing with the free-scoring Turkish forwards?
Buzzard: Well Brian... I'm opening a boutique. 
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John Cleese may play whichever simpleton he likes: His clever eyes give him away.
I was thinking the same thing.
This is why the Gumby has evolved the remarkable handkerchief head plumage, to camouflage it's natural intelligence.
pity you didnt show the bit when they return to his interview where he says "iv fallen off my chair brian" This sketch is still as funny as when i 1st saw this as a teenager
When I'm feeling dumb I frequently say something like "I kicked the ball, and there it was in the back of the net!" I totally forgot what sketch it was from, but I knew it had to be Python.
see my comment above! it's a really useful existentialist comment on the world, and Sports Interviewing.
Is Wayne Rooney a time traveller?
Eric is my absolute fave. He delivered words, lines, thoughts, etc in a remarkably funny way.
His going to the Travel Agency is his best skit along with the 4 Yorkshireman and many others i can't think of.
And the way Palin builds up to the line ‘will you shut your bloody gob!’ gets me everytime 😂
I pictured both of them on Conan when Cleese said he wouldn’t mind one of his ex-wives being dead and Idle said in the nicest possible way.
At the match?
Hungry?
Fancy a snack?
Try.. Walkers ready-salted.. the snack of choice for all Kantians..
Makes your epistemology drier than ever.
For such an intelligent man, John Cleese could depict "incredibly slow" brilliantly. It's almost scary how utterly stupid he could act.
The same goes for Sergent Schultz. And Otis Campbell.
only when his eyes are somewhat obscured. The man looks naturally smart.
He's opening a boutique, you know. 😅
Many people say the same of me.
No, that was real John Cleese, unscripted.
This was written and performed over half a century ago, and yet it still feels relevant to some modern footballers.
Both Eric Idle and John Cleese are brilliant in this sketch!!!!!
and 4 people are opening a boutique.
Somewhere, Jonathan Wilson is saying "Actually, catenacio was popularised by Helenio Herrera, not Alberto Fanfino."
I fell out of my chair Brian!!!
"I'm opening a boutique!"
Still waiting to hear that from Tom Brady. 😂
At least one aging football fan was gladdened by this sketch.
Comedy -- like the sense of smell -- is closely related to the memory.
Otherwise 1991 wasn't such a good year for me, but it was the first time I saw the All-England Summarize Proust Competition.
Sadly, I haven't figured out what Proust wrote about in his first book, which, incidentally, reminds me -- quite involuntarily -- of the first time I realized I didn't know what Proust wrote about in his first book.
If I'm not mistaken, it was in 1991.
It was the recall of the odour of Madeira cake.
Sorry to reveal the denouement.
Whoosh
@@microtree47did you just whoosh a 13 year old comment?
@@MichaelKingsfordGray Madeleine was the name of the cake, and my girlfriend while at school
Eric has such masterly way of expressing the English language.
As does Cleese, though it isn't so much on display in this sketch.
1:23 just as it cuts you see Cleese break into a smile. It must have been so difficult to keep up this act without breaking into laughter
Always loved this one!
these guys are always great
I'm in tears!! Never seen this one before. What a ripper.
Ah, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, always a complacent eventual moment.
I'm a modern existentialist footballer.
To be or not to be, to score a goal and advance to the next round or to concede a goal and disappear in the sweet void of nothingness?
His face expression is just too intelligent to play this role... I don't know how he did it.
haven't seen this sketch for a while.
made my day a lot better.
Erics hairstyle is perfect for this sketch
he plays dumb very well, the way he looks nowhere while thinking, love it
Only John Cleese could convey so much confusion in a blank stare! ;) love the pythons!
Cleese was the best actor of them all by a long shot (hey! that's an appropriate pun!) -- he played (stop it) so many different roles (--midfielder, defender, attacker, even goa--
I liked Cleese, but Chapman was the best actor of all the Pythons. Even the other Pythons felt the same.
Cleese was, and is, a marvelous actor, and personally my favorite Python. Having said that, there is a very good reason Graham played Brian in "Life of Brian" and Arthur in "Holy Grail": they all thought that Chapman was the best actor among them and could play the "straight man" parts the best (ironic to call the gay Graham the best straight man, but so be it).
nope, Palin was
I love this sketch!
This has hilarious relevance to the tumid modern day ESPN "analysts".
This skit so clever and subtle...I loved it!
You tell at 2:10 that John really wants to laugh :)
I hit the ball the first time and there it was in the back of the net! Love Cleese : )`
John Cleese is such a brilliant actor!
Amazes me how at one moment John's eyes can look keenly intelligent and the very next, completely vacuous.
That "Jimmy..." right before he starts asking questions is the funniest part of the sketch.
Listen to Stuart Hall today- still going strong- and he has developed the same style of reporting on matches as this interviewer displayed, albeit with less exaggeration. The interviewer was almost certainly based on Barry Davies, the legendary commentator and presenter.
Kantian positivism... just the best!
I always felt that the creative forwards thinking of offensive football is a categorical imperative of sorts that should be the primal mover of the soul of every active football prolet at all times. Does it make me a Kantian?
Yes this is one of my favorite episodes for that very reason lol!
Brilliant.
how not to adore Them ..
'I 'it the ball first time, and there it was in the back of the net!'
Oh, this makes me giggle
You had me at "thrusting and bursting."
'The Stadium of Light, Jarrow...'
Ah'm seethin here marra. Although my grandad was from Jarra...
@@Katy_Jones Mine too - Swan Hunters
This reminds me of American football players before they were taught how to speak in front of a camera. (They really did teach this in some U.S. universities.) No more "I felt pretty good out there today." Now it's "My teammates deserve much of the credit, although I think I did my fair share. That tackle on the 10 was rough, but I managed to recover and score the winning touchdown."
John C., despite being a stunningly intelligent man in real life, is superb at portraying the mentally-absent "gone sparrow" look. I'm opening a boutique!
I didn't know John Cleese done such a good Wayne Rooney impression!
I always take take this as american football in a nutshell.
I’ve been sitting here, video paused, laughing at “Iver Bigbottie” for 4 minutes now
both their faces are priceless...
I'm over the moon, Brian. I'm buzzin.
I'm over the moon, Brian - they missed that - it was a sitter.
Cleese's face just makes you want to reach out and hug him =p
I noticed this as well - had to check this video again. It was basically the same.
I hit the ball first time and there it were in the back of the net! haha absolute classic
HILARIOUS! LOVE IT! Monty python`s and pop music is almost the best thing that came from you brits! Love it!
I'm opening a boutique! Classic Cleese. Where do they come up with this stuff? It would be fun to read about the inspiration for writing some of these sketches. I know Idle wrote his own stuff, Cleese teamed with Chapman and Jones with Palin. I wonder if Idle wrote this one.
Superb sketch. 'opening a boutique' was all the rage in the late sixties, with George Best opening one. Love the taking the piss of the super analytical pundits,m. That's what the sketch is about of course, I just kicked the ball Brian and it ended up in the back of the net. 😂😂😂😂
jimmy buzzard is awesome
Cheers,mate!
I think Harry Kane was more lucid in this interview than I have ever seen him before, massive respect.
31 people have yet to break free of the limpid tentacles of packed Mediterranean defense
It's more than 10 - I'd say around 30 - but your point is taken. Indeed, repetition was part of the reason Cleese left the show after the third season. He'd noted that they'd begun to copy themselves early in that season.
The bit with the drop-down thesaurus in "What the Stars Foretell" (episode 37) was written by Terry J. and Michael as a needle of Cleese and Chapman, whose scripts tended to incorporate a lot of wordplay.
Still, most of it remains hilariously wonderful to me after 37 years.
Mr. Buzzard is one of the best, most talented forwards the game of soccer will ever see.
cleese's boat race is priceless.
Cor blimey - that's Cockney rhyming slang - "boat race" for "face".
"Good evening, Brian."
"Well, Brian.......................... I'm opening a boutique."
"I hit the ball first time, and there it was in the back of the net."
"I've fallen off my chair, Brian."
Such a muliti-layered joke at the beginning.
Still applicable today
Good evening Brian!
well brian, im opening a boutique!
lol love it
Somehow I'm just convinced that this sketch was written by Eric.
John's expressions makes me roflmao.
Somehow, I think you’re right: ruclips.net/video/2jdujUF0was/видео.htmlsi=xq0zpKQvO1RrvnUi
Genius
Class. see my comment!
damn.... I thought I understood english as a foreign language very well until I watched this video. It was basically just strange words wasn't it ? somehing something intellectual jargon mixed with football ....
Jack Harkness it is, I can only understand what Cleese says
You could say we've been intellectually out-argued.
Always good to challenge yourself with new vocabularly like that. The interviewer is using the language of philosophy to describe the Jarrow team's play.
@@AFord1981 ...while also mercilessly mocking those who ascribe to football a profundity it doesn't merit.
A stare has never been so funny.
One of the comments below show they missed a sitter: "I'm over the moon, Brian"
Good evening, Brian!
Whenever Eric Idle plays the talk show moderator he's unequaled.
I love that very posh Queen's English accent!
@Cjur It's odd, since I wouldn't describe Kant as a positivist.
I've fallen offa my chair, Brian!
I think this just illustrates how intelligence is not linear or easily quantifiable.
I've fallen out of my chair, Brian!
I'm opening a boutique!
"Well Brian..."
Well Brian .... I'm openin a boutique!
John Cleese at his best!
reminds me of a Lothar Matthäus interview
I feel like the announcer every time I talk to my nephews.....
so... I'm opening a boutique !
Pissing superb stuff
For football fans: Does anyone else get the impression that the Jimmy Buzzard character (Cleese) is a stab at the likes of Johnny Haynes of Fulham? Haynes was still lacing 'em up when this episode was filmed IIRC.
Good evening Brian!
@moggydave maybe it's because his epistemology had positivist approach, mainly his idea that reason could not be extended beyond the bounds of one's experiences
the sandbar knows
Catenaccio defense is an old tipical italian defense style , but I cannot help you about mr Alberto ( maybe he was an old player )
The interviewer was based on a journalist of the time notorious for his florid language. His surname escapes me, but his first name was Brian
Reminds me of my one day trip to the north east . Goodbye !
"Jarrow" was ironic - a sad existentially orientated gesture to the use of working-class non-stadia. The Jarrow hunger marches of the 1920s seemingly remembered by virtue of this reference. Class.
[Oh, by mistake my subconscious used a word of sublime relevance as double entendre.]
Cleese as usual letting the show down.
It's cruel - But true!
Well Bryan...I'm opening a boutique
Back of the net!!!
Idle reminds me of a young David Attenborough in this sketch.
Van Persie obviously took heed of Buzzard's tactic on the pitch.
Good Evening, Brian!