Reminds me of a Victor Borge sketch. His father came home to find him sitting in front of a roaring fire (which was strange, because they didn't have a fireplace) and had a man to son talk with him. He said "Victor, how old are you?"
"5, sir."
"That's ridiculous! When I was your age I was 10!"
oh that's nothing. i used to walk ten miles a day to school thru a foot of snow with comic books tied to my feet AND worst of all, it was uphill both directions.
@1gadena — Well, when I was 21, my parents and grandparents would moan and complain, and then they WOULD let you forget it. JUST so they could remind you again!!
Possibly the best one ever... Sadly, very young people won't get it, not having had either parents or granparents of teh old generation, eternally bragging nonsense about "how dire life wath in the olden days" etc.
@Strophal Well im 21 and i got it so would everyone else my age as my dad and grandads are just the same with any generation it was always a much much harder life then yours and they dont let you ever forget it, its a timeless sketch
And I know what you're all thinking... he's keen to know the ways of the electronic transactions of the day. Hah! Back in the day to comment on a silly video, we used to run to the telegraph office to have our comments sent by a telegraph officer. He was often asleep and we had to kick him again and again, why it's still called rebooting. And by golly, he couldn't read or write, so we had to spell it out for him. In code. Dots and dashes and all.
What do you mean that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Monty Python? John Cleese, who plays in this, also became a member of the Monty Python troope!
Brilliant and orginial, but the Pythons had the advantage of honing the material, though few actual changes were made. I give the Pythons a slight edge.
Amazing how some things never get old... This sketch we did in our high school, I had to translated from English, make couple small changes, and we did in front of 350 High school students in Belgrade Serbia...2008... Some 50 years after the original was done, and it worked just fine...
I mean, comedy has no barriers, no time, no distance....
@firefight77 Luxury. Back in my day we had to dial the phone by hand, then put the headset on the modem, and get connected, then try to guess the password you'd forgotten to login to a unix account, run the browser (with no bookmarks mind you), and express our displeasure by flooding the comments with pointless banter.
@firefight77 A screen? You were lucky. When I were a lad I used to have to make my own screen out of bits of broken milk bottles with my bare hand. Ay, bare hand, not hands! t'other hand was still down t' pit working 29 hours a day for a penny a month.
@1982jhc A hand? God, you were privileged. My full-time occupation used to be dragging my deformed torso on top of an old warm-infested wooden box and mimicking all the videos for the entertainment of the general public. And as I hobby I used to dry out the salt of my tears and supply the local supermarket which paid me back in....salt.
Gawd I'm Australian and even to me Cleese's accent sounds terrible (I can hear Basil Fawlty in there). Though I think a few of the others are slipping in and out too. Still, a great sketch. Think I've seen it done many times over the years.
@sangolt88 No, it was 1967. The 1948 of the title was a joke refering to the BBC allowing shows to sit on the shelf a long time before transmitting them.
This has been bugging me for ages "we used to get up at half 10, half an hour before we went to bed" swear that means he gets 23 and a half hours sleep... still love the sketch though :D
"nothing whatsoever to do with Monty Python."- despite two of the writers and actors already working on material they would later perform in Monty Python, whose seeds had already been planted at this stage. And despite the so-named troupe later performing this same sketch (tighter, with better performances and small edits, to well-deserved audience acclaim). And despite your own curious meta-tag on the video... I appear to have foolishly misplaced my specs, but does that tag say "Monty Python"?
@thekorker63 - Saying that this is Monty Python is like saying that Buffalo Springfield is Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, or that butter and flour is cake.
He realises this himself, which is why he was left out of the Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl version of the sketch. But on other occasions there was no one else available, so he had to be in the sketch. Obviously practice didn't make perfect !
Eric Idle always had the best Yorkshire accent. Better than Michael Palin who actually was from Yorkshire. But Also there was a Python scetch whitch featured a debate between Welsh Miners and Terry Jones had the worst Welsh accent of them all(despite being Welsh).
What a great version. Marty Feldman is amazing here, uglier than ever *LOL*
Oh and it's not ancient just because it's in black and white, guys. This is made in 1967, the SHOW was called "At least the 1948 show" - that doesn't mean it was MADE in 1948...
Only two of them seem to remember their Yorkshire accent throughout the entire thing.. ;) But one of the greatest sketches of all time, no argument there!!
I seem to remember seeing a programme where it was said that the idea for this sketch was Tim Brooke-Taylor's - but the litany of hardships he had come up with for the characters were thought a little tame. So the others came up with the more extreme ones.
first performed in 1967, monty p started in1969 and the sketch was used in their live performances, for me, one of the best sketches ever made. Im sorry, this was the 5 minute argument wasn't it?
first performed in 1967, monty p started in1969 and the sketch was used in their live performances, for me, one of the best sketches ever made. Im sory, this was the 5 minute argument wasn't it?
Oh yeah, I used to have to get up 1:00 AM, eat my breakfasts with the pigs sharing the same trough, work barefooted 23.5 hr a day, then get a whippin' from the grandfather...then be made to run up & down a steep mountain road, barefooted still. ...
It's quite simple, th At Last The 1948 Show guys have written it, Cleese&Chapman just re-introduced it in MP's Flying Circus... Blimey I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Inquisition...
Gosh, that's a long time since I saw Marty Feldman. Probably in the early 1970s on British TV. Checking Wikipedia, I see he died aged 48 in 1982. The entry says he co-wrote the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. He was a very funny man, bless him.
@benandkasia Absolutely, the best one in the sketch, and better than the Pythons in the later sketch. What a great shame he died while still young. I remember a classic sketch of his which involved him playing a golfer who kept hitting the ball out of bounds, including into a bathroom, and ended up playing the same hole in the dark. Wonder if this is on youtube.
i used to dream of being a participant in this sketch on the left side as we look at it. That would have been luxury. I'd still be alive now, dad wouldn't have sliced me in half with a bread knife.
Marty Feldman is the man on the far right! What a great show, great cast, great British humor. Check out "Peep Show" on HULU for some newer British comedy. I watched all 6 seasons (I think it is 6) over the weekend...& of course, "Ab Fab" (not on HULU :-( - c'mon, HULU...get with it!!). The ditzy secretary from Ab Fab made a GREAT movie with Michael Caine called "LIttle Voice"; she is an amazingly versatile and gifted singer/actress. Also "Shirley Valentine" & "Millions" are great!
Arguably a sign of great things to come. There has been some mystery as to who wrote this, with Cleese saying that he can't remember doing so, but that he assumes he and Chapman must have, since the writers never sued Python for using it in the stage shows. As Tim Brooke-Taylor once said in a documentary about comedy: "I wrote it. Of course at the time I was going by the name 'John Clese and Graham Chapman'..."
At last the 1948 show, The Frost Report and TW3 were the shows where Python met.
thanks for posting this - I'm surprised that this famous sketch was not originally monty python & it's interesting to see Marty Feldman before he went to America, and Tim Brooke-Taylor before he did the Goodies. I might download some of the 1948 show and have a look at it.
Reminds me of a Victor Borge sketch. His father came home to find him sitting in front of a roaring fire (which was strange, because they didn't have a fireplace) and had a man to son talk with him. He said "Victor, how old are you?"
"5, sir."
"That's ridiculous! When I was your age I was 10!"
acynicalgentleman 2 weeks ago
Great video.
neckleaper 2 weeks ago
so funny. but would you really be happier if you were eating pioson and gravle?
B00mbox100 2 weeks ago
My Grandparents.
zuziako 3 weeks ago
@zuziako how rude!
B00mbox100 2 weeks ago
MARTY FELDMON!!!!!!
johnnytestsuxz 3 weeks ago
@johnnytestsuxz was gonna write the same !!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
MonkeyHunch 3 weeks ago
Three dislikes? Luxury. I had to deal with 100 dislikes when my video had 10 views, and will the kids believe me?, NO!
MaverickJimBob 3 weeks ago 4
Trumping everyone else's woe is the only thing that cheers me up.
Barkermush 1 month ago
The wine must have been free 'nall...
alinvan 1 month ago
2 dislikes? They were fortunate.
TielPearce 1 month ago
that's nuthin'. You try to understand a Yorkshire accent through use of smoke signals...in those days.
Parmesana 1 month ago
oh that's nothing. i used to walk ten miles a day to school thru a foot of snow with comic books tied to my feet AND worst of all, it was uphill both directions.
jen8933 1 month ago
US Comedian Rosanne Barr was right when sh said "They left all the funny people behind, when the English came to America"
DamnNative1976 2 months ago 6
@1gadena — Well, when I was 21, my parents and grandparents would moan and complain, and then they WOULD let you forget it. JUST so they could remind you again!!
zenfox6 2 months ago
@zenfox6 HAHAHA that sounds about right!
1gadena 2 months ago
Possibly the best one ever... Sadly, very young people won't get it, not having had either parents or granparents of teh old generation, eternally bragging nonsense about "how dire life wath in the olden days" etc.
Strophal 2 months ago 2
@Strophal Well im 21 and i got it so would everyone else my age as my dad and grandads are just the same with any generation it was always a much much harder life then yours and they dont let you ever forget it, its a timeless sketch
1gadena 2 months ago
@verbussen luxury! We had to live many years under new Labour!
valicourt 3 months ago
Luxury!
alexkk6 3 months ago
And I know what you're all thinking... he's keen to know the ways of the electronic transactions of the day. Hah! Back in the day to comment on a silly video, we used to run to the telegraph office to have our comments sent by a telegraph officer. He was often asleep and we had to kick him again and again, why it's still called rebooting. And by golly, he couldn't read or write, so we had to spell it out for him. In code. Dots and dashes and all.
pryletoncyo 3 months ago 2
MARTY FELDMAN!!!!!!!!!
TheReidman22 3 months ago
"and nothing whatsoever to do with Monty Python" - Well, a bit. What with there being John Cleese and Graham Chapman in it. But, I see what you mean.
Thanks for posting this.
cpome7 3 months ago
you were lucky i had to pay for fuel and fight for a job before we ate or lived anywhere yesteryear 2011
brickslayer67 3 months ago
you were lucky
brickslayer67 3 months ago
What do you mean that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Monty Python? John Cleese, who plays in this, also became a member of the Monty Python troope!
ButterflyRebekah 3 months ago
@ButterflyRebekah And Graham Chapman (He was the fabled King Athrur and Brian, amongst others)
WookieeLover101 3 months ago
Simply brilliant!
JoZZaTOnI 3 months ago
Brilliant and orginial, but the Pythons had the advantage of honing the material, though few actual changes were made. I give the Pythons a slight edge.
hfelton 4 months ago
Amazing how some things never get old... This sketch we did in our high school, I had to translated from English, make couple small changes, and we did in front of 350 High school students in Belgrade Serbia...2008... Some 50 years after the original was done, and it worked just fine...
I mean, comedy has no barriers, no time, no distance....
God bless the Pythons....
MrDimateo 4 months ago 2
@MrDimateo - that's nothing...back in my day,
JustSomePerson888 4 months ago
I've watched this vid over 2000 times now and it's still bloody ridiculous
MrBloodyRidiculous 4 months ago
MARTY FELDMAN.
kelseyhm 4 months ago 4
Nothing to do with science :John Cleese, Graham Chapman,? i think it has something to do with monty python
TheScarletcrusader 4 months ago
You Brits sure do complain a lot!
Why I'm living under Obama as my President!
Beat THAT!
verbusen 4 months ago
@verbusen It must be tough - paying less taxes than at any time in the nation's history.
JeremiahClayton 4 months ago
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verbusen 4 months ago
This is so funny. I have heard so many people say similar things - trying to compete with who had it worse.
ComedicInstincts 5 months ago
look the the MAD EYES at 1.30
glassaghman 5 months ago
@glassaghman His eyes are like that due to a rare genetic defect. Can't remember the name of it, but Marty Feldman was well-known for it.
Murderdogs 3 months ago
Whos the guy all the way to the left.
sallygirl2066 5 months ago
@sallygirl2066 Tim Brooke Taylor
Just1Just 5 months ago
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sallygirl2066 5 months ago
This is really funny.I swear to god this is the most funniest thing I have seen in ages
sallygirl2066 5 months ago
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RedJoe10 5 months ago
I remember when there was no "dislike" button, We just had to punch the screen to display our displeasure....
firefight77 5 months ago 87
@firefight77 Screen? We never had a screen...or displeasure.
RedJoe10 5 months ago
@firefight77 Luxury. Back in my day we had to dial the phone by hand, then put the headset on the modem, and get connected, then try to guess the password you'd forgotten to login to a unix account, run the browser (with no bookmarks mind you), and express our displeasure by flooding the comments with pointless banter.
pryletoncyo 3 months ago 2
@firefight77 PMSL.
Razamabaz 3 months ago
@firefight77
Of course we did things properly, we used to track down t'uploader, go to 'is address an post half a pound of fresh manure through 'is letterbox.
CowLunch 3 months ago
@firefight77 try telling that to the young people of today, and they won't believe you!
darrell31316 2 months ago
@firefight77
oh that's nothing! i've been on the net so long i used to have to hit the computer with rocks and sticks.
jen8933 1 month ago
@jen8933
That's hardly the tip of the iceberg, I had to throw the computer in a pond and p*** on it.
LNER4771 1 month ago
@firefight77 A screen? You were lucky. When I were a lad I used to have to make my own screen out of bits of broken milk bottles with my bare hand. Ay, bare hand, not hands! t'other hand was still down t' pit working 29 hours a day for a penny a month.
1982jhc 1 week ago
@1982jhc A hand? God, you were privileged. My full-time occupation used to be dragging my deformed torso on top of an old warm-infested wooden box and mimicking all the videos for the entertainment of the general public. And as I hobby I used to dry out the salt of my tears and supply the local supermarket which paid me back in....salt.
LottieMillheaven 1 week ago 3
Gawd I'm Australian and even to me Cleese's accent sounds terrible (I can hear Basil Fawlty in there). Though I think a few of the others are slipping in and out too. Still, a great sketch. Think I've seen it done many times over the years.
zaniac100 5 months ago
These are my family members.
taraj123 5 months ago
Timing is too quick. Nice to see the original though.
bryonlape 5 months ago
This is 1948?!
sangolt88 6 months ago
@sangolt88 No, it was 1967. The 1948 of the title was a joke refering to the BBC allowing shows to sit on the shelf a long time before transmitting them.
zaniac100 5 months ago 3
A Yorkshire man with a sadder story disliked this video.
BGH122 6 months ago 5
Thinking about doing this in a talent show...
hobbitgirl26 6 months ago
Somebody couldn't understand the dialect, complained and pressed the dislike button... no-one cared
666jimmysmusicgirl 6 months ago
This has been bugging me for ages "we used to get up at half 10, half an hour before we went to bed" swear that means he gets 23 and a half hours sleep... still love the sketch though :D
Leachy567 6 months ago
Don't be so critical of the accent, for God's sake!! It's more about the creativity of the comedic genius, than it is about the Yorkshire accent!!
Slainte50 6 months ago 3
@Slainte50 And the Yorkshire accent isn't bad!! I should know!
666jimmysmusicgirl 6 months ago
Pure comedy genius.
BossPanzer 6 months ago 2
zez
tomekpalasz 6 months ago
ahhaahhaahaha this is so funny
thecupcakegirl13 6 months ago
"nothing whatsoever to do with Monty Python."- despite two of the writers and actors already working on material they would later perform in Monty Python, whose seeds had already been planted at this stage. And despite the so-named troupe later performing this same sketch (tighter, with better performances and small edits, to well-deserved audience acclaim). And despite your own curious meta-tag on the video... I appear to have foolishly misplaced my specs, but does that tag say "Monty Python"?
thekorker63 7 months ago 17
@thekorker63 - Saying that this is Monty Python is like saying that Buffalo Springfield is Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, or that butter and flour is cake.
Foamsworth 7 months ago
great and i thought it was monty python
ABTheSubject 7 months ago
i use to say i use to live in cardboard box to my kids because of this sketch i did not know till they grew up that one of them thought i did lol
wellbeing100 7 months ago
Words can't describe how fantastic I thought this was when i first saw it!
01985212823 8 months ago
LUGSHAREEE
EveryTimeShred 8 months ago 4
I almost pissed myself laughing :D
FRUMADZIEK 8 months ago
@FRUMADZIEK I did !
theslice2 6 months ago
Thanks for uploading but that description is wrong, considering the sketch had Cleese and Chapman.
m00nuranus 8 months ago
IM Yorkshire Yorkshire born and bread....strong in the arm....and good in bed!!!!!!!!
dandan30003 8 months ago
If you look closely you'll notice that Barry Cryer is the waiter!
itakesmack 9 months ago
Well, this does have something todo with Monty Python, seeing as two people from Monty Python are in this...
khetti2006 9 months ago
John Cleese has been doing this scetch for over 40 years and he still can't do a yorkshire accent
cornishphilosopher 9 months ago 84
@cornishphilosopher
He realises this himself, which is why he was left out of the Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl version of the sketch. But on other occasions there was no one else available, so he had to be in the sketch. Obviously practice didn't make perfect !
roddy76to86 5 months ago
@cornishphilosopher agreed lol
DirtyMosha 4 months ago
@cornishphilosopher Can't do a Yorkshire accent, or won't do a Yorkshire accent?
MetroAdventures 3 months ago
@cornishphilosopher
none of this lot in the video sounded the slightest bit like they're from yorkshire, cheapens it a lot unfortunately..
frostygaz 3 months ago
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman - gorgeous xo
68bondgirl 10 months ago
one person was from Lancashire
PotionsOnAMonday 10 months ago
@PotionsOnAMonday Oi! Peeper, watch it. :P lol
The Red Rose Forever.
dAcAoAc 10 months ago
@dAcAoAc lol, well its a rose but its not the yorkshire rose is it lol.
glad you took it as the joke it was intended to be :)
PotionsOnAMonday 10 months ago
@PotionsOnAMonday
John Cleese- Weston super Mare, near Bristol
Tim Brooke Taylor- Buxton- close to Manchester and not far from Sheffield
Graham Chapman- Leicester/ Melton Mowbray
Marty Feldman- London (East I think).
anonUK 9 months ago
is that tim brook taylor on the left?
rwestonb 10 months ago
How can anyone not like this ???
5355vbxjbj76rvn 11 months ago
Eric Idle always had the best Yorkshire accent. Better than Michael Palin who actually was from Yorkshire. But Also there was a Python scetch whitch featured a debate between Welsh Miners and Terry Jones had the worst Welsh accent of them all(despite being Welsh).
sundayliein4 11 months ago
@sundayliein4 Michael Palin can do a Yorkshire accent ( the Testing of Eric Olthwaite )- I think he was just exaggerating.
baldrick44 9 months ago
I love John Cleese but what on earth is going on with his accent?
hippyfriend 11 months ago 2
"Luxury."
1066anglophile 11 months ago 2
the original and the best version - unbeatable.
pistachioguy 11 months ago 2
this sums yorkshiremen up perfectly
kennyboy900 1 year ago
What a great version. Marty Feldman is amazing here, uglier than ever *LOL*
Oh and it's not ancient just because it's in black and white, guys. This is made in 1967, the SHOW was called "At least the 1948 show" - that doesn't mean it was MADE in 1948...
TrekkieGrrrl 1 year ago 4
@TrekkieGrrrl At LAST the 1948 Show. With the lovely Amy MacDonald.
td12308 8 months ago
@td12308 No, I'm pretty sure she was on the other show: Do Not Adjust Your Set.
Weesnauh 8 months ago
AAAAAHHHHH YOU WERE LUCKY !!!!!
Dutchplumber56 1 year ago
Quality
markod2002 1 year ago
this is really funny but i think the pythons one is funnier
pinkyellowblackred 1 year ago
One of the best sketches this mob ever did! Thanks for posting!
tachuman 1 year ago
An absolute classic. A timeless comedy bit that's absolutely hilarious!
asambrano1 1 year ago
Only two of them seem to remember their Yorkshire accent throughout the entire thing.. ;) But one of the greatest sketches of all time, no argument there!!
AllieMarat 1 year ago
I seem to remember seeing a programme where it was said that the idea for this sketch was Tim Brooke-Taylor's - but the litany of hardships he had come up with for the characters were thought a little tame. So the others came up with the more extreme ones.
greekyboy123 1 year ago
Marty Feldman... yes... Is that Tim Brooke-Taylor?
gymknickers1 1 year ago
The greatest comedy sketch of all time, hands down. And such an amazing showcase of future successes
BstrangerUK 1 year ago
Was this written my Cleese and Chapman, because this sketch is more famous for being performed by Python.
batmanofni 1 year ago
That looks like Marty Feldman!
davidknoerr 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
first performed in 1967, monty p started in1969 and the sketch was used in their live performances, for me, one of the best sketches ever made. Im sorry, this was the 5 minute argument wasn't it?
xxVulcan45 1 year ago
first performed in 1967, monty p started in1969 and the sketch was used in their live performances, for me, one of the best sketches ever made. Im sory, this was the 5 minute argument wasn't it?
xxVulcan45 1 year ago
All comments notwithstanding, this gem brought a tear to my eye.
pizzaboy399 1 year ago
Oh yeah, I used to have to get up 1:00 AM, eat my breakfasts with the pigs sharing the same trough, work barefooted 23.5 hr a day, then get a whippin' from the grandfather...then be made to run up & down a steep mountain road, barefooted still. ...
MultiCgp 1 year ago
were learning stuff like this but its in skool wich is diffrent.... anyways i k33p watching it so i can learn 8I but its still funny XD
chicks411kid 1 year ago
OR TEA, XD I UV MONTY PYTHONS SKETCHES
chicks411kid 1 year ago
in "Making of The Four Yorkshiremen by Comedy Masterclass" it is said, that indeed Chapman and Cleese wrote it. QED
trillian1964 1 year ago
At least I know that Chapman wrote a lot for Python, so it is possible that he wrote this, too.
trillian1964 1 year ago
John Cleese; Right.............. lol classic
chuzzwozzer 1 year ago
Pretty wacky if you ask me.
vaccineshurtbabies 1 year ago
LOLOL... pretty funny
LemurMan2008 1 year ago
1 dislike?! Who the fuck would dislike this, this is pure entertainment!
ScottyDogRS 1 year ago
Hmmm. I actually prefer the later version of this sketch. But it is great to see all this old stuff!
Gubbywubby 1 year ago
Work 29 hours a day at mill for ...... a lifetime. Can anyone tell me what he says there in between.
ArnarStyr 1 year ago
@ArnarStyr
It's "an 'apenny", i.e. a half-penny: not very much money!
slaggshire 1 year ago
@slaggshire Thanks:)
ArnarStyr 1 year ago
Love Marty Feldman, didn't know he was one of the original performers of this.
fullofroubles 1 year ago
In loving memory of Derek Brook
KIMINCA 1 year ago
Original's always best...
KoH4711 1 year ago
The Python version was in effect a cover...
simonatford1 1 year ago
Tim has SO the best Yorkshire accent. And, yes, I think he did write it.
yetanothergoodyfan 1 year ago
The original Four Yorkshiremen - it makes you proud!
dnemert 1 year ago
No reference to living in a paper bag?
simonhalstead 1 year ago
With great 'oles in 'oof.
ChrisZimny 1 year ago
accurate sketch, people from yorkshire are miserable
justbeforedusk 1 year ago
Classic stuff.Marty Feldman was an absolute genius.The other three weren't bad either. ;-)
listerone 1 year ago
Awesome had never seen that before.
shonuffido 1 year ago
Absolute quality
clsleamington 1 year ago
the eyes...wtf
mammers11 1 year ago
Yes, the days before the Full Monty when it was 1984
all the time, over and over. Orwell that ends well and
why does it matter?
danger0usknowledge 1 year ago
It's quite simple, th At Last The 1948 Show guys have written it, Cleese&Chapman just re-introduced it in MP's Flying Circus... Blimey I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Inquisition...
Fafifoeni 1 year ago
@Fafifoeni NO-ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapons are fear and surprise...
geordy58 1 year ago 2
Bloody amazin' thanks for the upload ! I'm afraid Cleese is the furthest away from a yorkshire accent on this one...
TroyTempest0 1 year ago
Marty Feldman, holy crap!
bastlake 1 year ago 2
Marty's ace in this!
benandkasia 1 year ago 24
@benandkasia
Gosh, that's a long time since I saw Marty Feldman. Probably in the early 1970s on British TV. Checking Wikipedia, I see he died aged 48 in 1982. The entry says he co-wrote the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. He was a very funny man, bless him.
patrickcorliss 1 year ago
@benandkasia Absolutely, the best one in the sketch, and better than the Pythons in the later sketch. What a great shame he died while still young. I remember a classic sketch of his which involved him playing a golfer who kept hitting the ball out of bounds, including into a bathroom, and ended up playing the same hole in the dark. Wonder if this is on youtube.
manygate10 1 year ago
This is amazing! I had no idea.
tryharder75 1 year ago
I love how they keep trying to top each other's sad stories.
Malfane33 1 year ago
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CNicol40 1 year ago
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CNicol40 1 year ago
i used to dream of being a participant in this sketch on the left side as we look at it. That would have been luxury. I'd still be alive now, dad wouldn't have sliced me in half with a bread knife.
CNicol40 1 year ago
"We were happy because we were poor!" Just shows money doesn't bring hapiness after all!
twocky61 1 year ago
Tim Brooke Taylor on the left, my god I haven't seen this original before. Good to see Marty again, loved him in Young Frankenstein. Awesome!
MarkySpark001 2 years ago
At last the 1948 show, and by an unhappy coincidence, Marty Feldman and Graham Chapman both died aged 48...
Kevinasp 2 years ago
Well, the audio technology was loads better than the video tech in '67, eh?
murielsartre 2 years ago
reminds me of my dad.... lol
Zebree1226 2 years ago 2
this has to be the best sketch ever
Alyaxxx 2 years ago 2
Marty Feldman is the man on the far right! What a great show, great cast, great British humor. Check out "Peep Show" on HULU for some newer British comedy. I watched all 6 seasons (I think it is 6) over the weekend...& of course, "Ab Fab" (not on HULU :-( - c'mon, HULU...get with it!!). The ditzy secretary from Ab Fab made a GREAT movie with Michael Caine called "LIttle Voice"; she is an amazingly versatile and gifted singer/actress. Also "Shirley Valentine" & "Millions" are great!
findapartmentnow 2 years ago
Arguably a sign of great things to come. There has been some mystery as to who wrote this, with Cleese saying that he can't remember doing so, but that he assumes he and Chapman must have, since the writers never sued Python for using it in the stage shows. As Tim Brooke-Taylor once said in a documentary about comedy: "I wrote it. Of course at the time I was going by the name 'John Clese and Graham Chapman'..."
At last the 1948 show, The Frost Report and TW3 were the shows where Python met.
BathandSomerset 2 years ago
g8asommthis is monty python!
chainsawlobotomy 2 years ago
"We got evicted from OUR hole in the ground," yea
cookmoore 2 years ago
This is probably the funniest thing I have ever seen. Live in a lake! He shows him up with cold gravel instead of hot... i'm glad i found this.
tommyjay83 2 years ago
Luxury xD
vjm3 2 years ago
I've been looking for this sketch! I love it! =D One of the best sketches ever IMO.
SohJinh 2 years ago
thanks for posting this - I'm surprised that this famous sketch was not originally monty python & it's interesting to see Marty Feldman before he went to America, and Tim Brooke-Taylor before he did the Goodies. I might download some of the 1948 show and have a look at it.
novocastrian666 2 years ago
I'm glad this has been reposted to YouTube, it's a classic. Unfortunately not a lot of "At Last the 1948 Show" has survived.
arwelp 2 years ago
The was long before Python...Several years before...............
craigybus1 2 years ago
glad you posted this altho to say "nothing whatsoever to do with monty python" is somewhat innacurate since 2 of the 4 are pythonites.
RainmanCT 2 years ago 22
Nothing whatsoever to do with Monty Python as it was recorded in the decade BEFORE anyone had thought of doing Python.
I rest my case.
g8aso 2 years ago 2