Terry Gilliam is without Arguing the most important of the pythons: he did all the animated scenes and would play roles that no one else wanted to play. He really had balls in order to do what he did in this sketch. Hint: look for the half-naked cross-dresser
Probably the greatest comedy sketch of all time. Like most undiscovered gems, it doesn't suffer from the overkill and over familiarity of many of the well known ones. You just have to think of the dead parrot skit which suffered the indignity of Thatcher and the bloody Tories using it at their conference.
the first time i saw this sketch, something in me broke and i was no longer able to laugh, it was Cleese's line to Carol Cleveland after he had assaulted her the first time.
After shooting Victor, Brian randomly fires off another shot while they're all singing 'Ding Dong' - gotta love those wacky Equatols. Big gin, please...
Bloody marvelous.Growing up in London in the 60sI knew so many people who were like the Python upper class twits.I used to think CarolCleveland was a hot bit of crumpet.Python even after 40 years on is still relevent.
@Simbabbad I agree. It works on both levels. That's what makes this one. All the Python films had this dual terror/hilarity quality only hinted at in this sketch.
The "poof" character played by Terry Gilliam is actually dressed very high fashion for the period. Designer Rudi Gernreich was pushing bikini briefs as the everyday clothes of the future for men and women the year this aired, 1969-70; he called them monokinis. And Gilliam's silver face makeup is almost straight out of designer Andre Courreges's 1969 collection. The cigarette holder, cape, and bow on the bikini briefs make it comical, though.
@whatuswattingat Hello. I have all the Monty Python on DVD. I absolutely love their stuff and I even have a colleague from Eastern Europe who can recite Life of Brian word for word! My favourite sketch at the moment has to be the Ken Shabby one.
@tabitha501 I have the episodes on DVD too. I HAD an autograph from Michael Palin, wishing me a Happy Birthday, but it was unfortunately lost. BUMMER! The Cheese Shop is my all time fav. Watching John Cleese calming going down the list, watching him explode for that brief moment! LMAO!
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This is what we find humorous after years of blowing hundreds of thousands.. no, wait.. millions.. of people up in WW2. After we hit rock bottom, here's what we came up with! I find it similar to the craziness of Japanese comedy (it's absurd!). Love it.... !!!!
I find this to be one of their most hilarious sketches. A man and a woman are trying to have a romantic evening in, but they get interrupted, first by a man who the lover met 3 years ago in a pub, then by a rather odd bachelor couple whose wife is addicted to beans seemingly and whose husband is portraying the personality and interests of a pervert which later sits on a lumpy seat only to find he was sitting on the cat, then his poof friends arrive with a goat, and basically it's just hilarious
I'm thinking Terry Gilliam's character, my fave of the skit, is imitating David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character. This skit was aired around '69 when Stardust and glam-rock was making inroads. Rocky Horror was around '75.
This was one of the first skits I ever saw by Monty Python, and even now I cry watching it. I love the utter chaos!
Some random trivia: 4:33 you can see Terry's cigarette about to burn John's coat, so John has to wave Terry's hand away. I don't think that was planned, but it just added to all the mayhem!
that sucks, I have a good one, what if a man goes to a resturent and getting ready to at a delicious meal, but he hears toilet sounds from the other door?
I have to agree..hard to find better...inspired lunacy as they say..Idle and Cleese at their brilliant best and the usually insane Chapman playing a straight role for a change....bravo pythons! bravo!
lol this is one of my favourites, it never gets old. "the soft toy department" lol and I love the way graham falls when shot. "lets have a ding dong!"
According to a MP docu I saw years ago, Cleese/Chapman usually wrote the edgier-louder-authoritarian type skits and this definitely looks like a Cleese/Chapman driven piece. Either way it's a remarkable skit and one of my fav's.
I have a request: The last 3rd series sketch with Eric hosting an awards show, and for one of the winners, a video camera goes to his home. The lights come up and it's John and Michael in bed together, totally in shock. Sort of a fitting end to John's time on the show, especially since all of Monty Python came about from John wanting to work with Michael.
Also, the Farm Club report on Tchaikovsky where Michael's a gossipy hairdresser with a princess phone. It's great.
God has never placed upon His beautiful Earth a creature more hideous in appearance than Terry Jones in drag. In this clip, in the Poets sketch, and in many others, he is ugly as sin and funny as hell.
I love Graham Chapman in this sketch. He's too much of a pushover to take control of the sitution until things are well out of hand, then gets shot when he finally does speak up. In the words of Michael Palin, "I think there's a lesson there for all of us." :D
Wow. Definitely one of the nastiest Python sketches. Probably written by John Cleese to vent his anger at all the vulgar idiots he hated. (like the Upper Class Twits all shooting themselves in another Cleese sketch).
Terry Jones in this is hilarious. Like a gorilla in drag, shambling around and cackling.
shut up you silly bitch its only a bit of fun
Phantom2232 5 hours ago
took a minute to process that one
NagaJolokiafied 2 days ago
i remeber the two of them meeting. know what i mean? knudge knudge? a nods as good as a wink to a blind bat know what i mean?
MrRexel14 3 days ago
What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dunnnngggg lmao
XDKX101 6 days ago
LOL
RazielFallenAngel 1 week ago
was rather witty wasn't it? - I use that line all the time...
hogwashsentinel 1 week ago
Terry Gilliam is without Arguing the most important of the pythons: he did all the animated scenes and would play roles that no one else wanted to play. He really had balls in order to do what he did in this sketch. Hint: look for the half-naked cross-dresser
punisherman1000 3 weeks ago
I just love how Graham is always the romantic male lead - even in Life of Brian. Heeheehee.
CCNuck 3 weeks ago 3
"Silly, isn't it?" Haha.
Ved000000 4 weeks ago
Probably the greatest comedy sketch of all time. Like most undiscovered gems, it doesn't suffer from the overkill and over familiarity of many of the well known ones. You just have to think of the dead parrot skit which suffered the indignity of Thatcher and the bloody Tories using it at their conference.
flaxonx3 2 months ago
Probably the greatest comedy sketch of all time.
flaxonx3 2 months ago
the first time i saw this sketch, something in me broke and i was no longer able to laugh, it was Cleese's line to Carol Cleveland after he had assaulted her the first time.
pc2611 2 months ago 2
@pc2611 Ditto.
CCNuck 3 weeks ago
After shooting Victor, Brian randomly fires off another shot while they're all singing 'Ding Dong' - gotta love those wacky Equatols. Big gin, please...
Vincek88 2 months ago
@Vincek88 I think the random shot was supposed to be him shooting Carol Cleveland. We never did see what became of her.
SockBoy65 2 months ago
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I don't much like the tone of your voice
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MultiEvule 3 months ago
Love the Equators! Cleese is awesome..
keijimuto 3 months ago
@keijimuto I'm scared of them ; Brian is a homicidal maniac. I prefer Arthur Name ; Name by name, Name by nature !, Lol
TheKenfig 3 months ago
Oh! I wet 'em! Cracks me up everytime!
Tsamsiyu1 3 months ago 2
Alone And Asleep - Oh Sam Bin Laden; controversial new publication.
garyw930 4 months ago
british.. better at everything.
rock, movies every fucking single thing
gsk1LLz 4 months ago 3
the knight is so dejected XD
megaslaythraxica 6 months ago 3
"I told you to lay off the beans, you whore!"
"I ONLY WANT THREE CANS."
Best bit.
BangYoureSoVicious 6 months ago 4
Fantastic!
Cadpig47 6 months ago
...as his wife's just died, he's somewhat distraught...poor chap. classic!
unclebud99 7 months ago
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flaxonx3 9 months ago 3
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flaxonx3 9 months ago
When the wife said "I wet 'em" I nearly joined her!
intrepolo 9 months ago 3
"A bit lumpy...Ohh, I was sittin' on the cat."
mikero08 9 months ago 2
The ultimate p(r)oof that the Brits are crazy people :D
Love it! Duunng!
Soilwar 10 months ago 3
rather witty wasn't it
metaguru 10 months ago 3
The first time I saw this I was gasping for breath. Monty Python is unmatched in unpredictable comedy.
Loseirdo 11 months ago
I told you to lay off the beans you whore! I ONLY WANT 3 CANS!
scomo599 1 year ago
second kiss for michael at 5:35 xD
OlaNaTungee6 1 year ago 3
"I told you to lay off the beans, you whore!!"
TheExLeper 1 year ago 2
Bloody marvelous.Growing up in London in the 60sI knew so many people who were like the Python upper class twits.I used to think CarolCleveland was a hot bit of crumpet.Python even after 40 years on is still relevent.
heywoodejerblowme 1 year ago 2
I say, you've got a nice pair, haven't ya love?
rollo131 1 year ago 2
"What's brown and sounds like a bell?
Dung"
Koolked96 1 year ago 7
@Koolked96 First time I heard that I laughed for six months.
alpha18412 1 year ago
Let's have a Ding Dong!!
batoms 1 year ago
beyond genius
Crashoverall 1 year ago
Best Monty Python sketch ever !
vikingraider1 1 year ago
5 feminists took the hump when Cleese grabbed Carol Cleveland by the tit
Sou1defiler 1 year ago
@Sou1defiler I would have given my right nut to have grabbed her tit.
heywoodejerblowme 1 year ago 4
On some level it's funny, on some other it's terrifying. Which makes it funnier, I guess.
Simbabbad 1 year ago
@Simbabbad I agree. It works on both levels. That's what makes this one. All the Python films had this dual terror/hilarity quality only hinted at in this sketch.
KahnBB6 1 year ago
Monty Pythons machen die beste Comedy, die ich je sah.
Best comedy of the world
at least
apart from
some others maybe
which are also rather good
so as
[pls fill in]
lieberso 1 year ago
"Well how are you, you great poof?"
The way John Cleese said that line is just absolutely hilarious. And his and Terry Jones' laughing is just brilliant.
This is what I call real comedy :D
xiloveRiverphoenix 1 year ago 55
The "poof" character played by Terry Gilliam is actually dressed very high fashion for the period. Designer Rudi Gernreich was pushing bikini briefs as the everyday clothes of the future for men and women the year this aired, 1969-70; he called them monokinis. And Gilliam's silver face makeup is almost straight out of designer Andre Courreges's 1969 collection. The cigarette holder, cape, and bow on the bikini briefs make it comical, though.
colibri1 1 year ago 2
@colibri1 Why is the bright future always associated with gays?
vef444 1 year ago
Nudge Nudge man :-)
gietek 1 year ago
Is that Terry Gilliam with the mask and cape on?
csibatmanfan 1 year ago 2
@csibatmanfan I was wondering that too!
LoveHateSensation 1 year ago
@LoveHateSensation Certainly is!! He's wicked :D
BrokenMemory87 1 year ago
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL..... I shited my pants.
vef444 1 year ago
This is my favourite sketch!
RaptorChick 1 year ago
I TOLD YOU TO LAY OFF THE BEANS YOU WHORE!
mossyfawn 1 year ago 12
@mossyfawn I ONLY WANT 3 CANS!!
MrBasilGanglia 1 week ago
This skit is like a vision of Hell. Perhaps the two lovers had... the salmon mousse!
racookster 1 year ago 2
My favourite: "I don't much like the tone of your voice *BANG*" lol and then the way Graham falls :D
BrokenMemory87 1 year ago 4
Oh no wonder, I was sitting on the cat.
Theoverseer95 1 year ago
Note to self: Do NOT drink any liquids while watching Monty Python!
brainmachine04 1 year ago 3
How are you doing, you great poof?
loqutor 1 year ago 3
silly people, transvestites, permicuiousley dressed homosexuals and unnesisary murder, classic monty python
chacalacaboom54321 1 year ago 5
DAAAAAAAANG!!!!! hahaha
SerbianMonsterBreee 1 year ago
Button your lip, you ratbag! Brilliant.
tabitha501 1 year ago 4
@tabitha501 LMAO!!!!
whatuswattingat 8 months ago
@whatuswattingat Hello. I have all the Monty Python on DVD. I absolutely love their stuff and I even have a colleague from Eastern Europe who can recite Life of Brian word for word! My favourite sketch at the moment has to be the Ken Shabby one.
tabitha501 8 months ago
@tabitha501 I have the episodes on DVD too. I HAD an autograph from Michael Palin, wishing me a Happy Birthday, but it was unfortunately lost. BUMMER! The Cheese Shop is my all time fav. Watching John Cleese calming going down the list, watching him explode for that brief moment! LMAO!
whatuswattingat 8 months ago
I'd seen this on the night that Queen Mother had died, and never again until now. That one part really haunted me.
"I don't much like the tone of your voice" and then ends the dude.
I wasn't paying the strictest attention, so I was like... Did that REALLY just happen?
GreenGearMood 1 year ago
'this is my wife Audrey she smells a bit but she has a heart of gold'
my favourite line
andrewblastoff 1 year ago 2
Ahahaha! "I don't much like the tone of your voice." *shoots*
So random hahah.
Zeanu 1 year ago
"This is my wife, Audrey. She smells a bit, but she has a heart of gold!" I love their laughs. XD
TPrower 1 year ago 3
Here's a good one heard it in a pup (puts on the Washington post march) I doubt he even heard that track before he put it on that day.
TheFalloutNerd 1 year ago
@TheFalloutNerd He was talking about the joke, not the march, lol.
ryrodye 1 year ago
"The goat's done a bundle!!"
:)
picklerwoof 1 year ago 5
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This is what we find humorous after years of blowing hundreds of thousands.. no, wait.. millions.. of people up in WW2. After we hit rock bottom, here's what we came up with! I find it similar to the craziness of Japanese comedy (it's absurd!). Love it.... !!!!
roryhawk 2 years ago
I find this to be one of their most hilarious sketches. A man and a woman are trying to have a romantic evening in, but they get interrupted, first by a man who the lover met 3 years ago in a pub, then by a rather odd bachelor couple whose wife is addicted to beans seemingly and whose husband is portraying the personality and interests of a pervert which later sits on a lumpy seat only to find he was sitting on the cat, then his poof friends arrive with a goat, and basically it's just hilarious
MichaelPalinFan2008 2 years ago 23
I think America was watching The Brady Bunch at the time.
ysbaddaden2003 2 years ago 6
the Nudge Nudge is also here epic..
Trying to be romantic but pervets crowding the place
just like when I am having my nice breakfast my father is in the toilet ,making fart noices next to my room,
goodluckpeace44 2 years ago 10
モンティ・パイソン 日本語吹替
Search with the words over (meaning "Monty Python, Japanese stand-in"), and you will find the Japanese version of the sketch.
Another charm in that !
GoAccount 2 years ago 2
I've just watched the Bicycle Repairman Sketch in Japanese. Hee!
HeatherRawriee 2 years ago 7
Whats brown and sounds like a bell? -Dung...lol :)
TNitroxT 2 years ago 6
@TNitroxT= That actually brought a smile to my face. I needed that one.
vigo894 1 year ago
Superb. Brilliantly daft.
Froghood1 2 years ago 3
This is one of my favourite sketches and I ADORE Terry Gilliam in it :D
SYLVIACOHEN 2 years ago 6
Oh, they won't mind, they're very broad-minded!
murielsartre 2 years ago
"Button your lip you rat bag, hahaha yes was rather witty wasn't it"
1CCHH1 2 years ago 4
Bilmey, she don't go out much, don't she?
ErnieandBert1 2 years ago 3
Shut up you silly bitch, it's only a bit of fun.
ErnieandBert1 2 years ago 6
Have you noticed the way Michael caresses Terry's chest at the end of the skit ? And he seems to like it...
667BadSeed 2 years ago 5
@667BadSeed Yeah haha what's up with that?
Zeanu 1 year ago
Poor knight... He looks so sad ! :p
667BadSeed 2 years ago 2
I'm thinking Terry Gilliam's character, my fave of the skit, is imitating David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character. This skit was aired around '69 when Stardust and glam-rock was making inroads. Rocky Horror was around '75.
DaveFromBrooklyn 2 years ago 4
@DaveFromBrooklyn bowies ziggy phase was 3 years away in 69 just so you kno
motherbrain86 1 year ago
@DaveFromBrooklyn no, ziggy stardust was three years later.
pogopogopogo3 1 year ago
This is one of their best skits.
PumpDog99 2 years ago
This was one of the first skits I ever saw by Monty Python, and even now I cry watching it. I love the utter chaos!
Some random trivia: 4:33 you can see Terry's cigarette about to burn John's coat, so John has to wave Terry's hand away. I don't think that was planned, but it just added to all the mayhem!
ericco79 2 years ago 8
This is my favorite Monty Python skit, hard to choose because there are so many good ones.
"Remember me in the pub, about 3 years ago?"
lifeseeker1 2 years ago 5
that sucks, I have a good one, what if a man goes to a resturent and getting ready to at a delicious meal, but he hears toilet sounds from the other door?
goodluckpeace44 2 years ago
so, how are you, you great poof,,wonderful stuff.
fabios66 2 years ago 4
Let's have a Ding Dong!
Novazi74 2 years ago 2
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JohnnyMarsden 2 years ago
omg the nudge nudge guy!!!
lioweif 2 years ago 3
their best skit.
period.
jealouscardinal 2 years ago
I have to agree..hard to find better...inspired lunacy as they say..Idle and Cleese at their brilliant best and the usually insane Chapman playing a straight role for a change....bravo pythons! bravo!
terrythekittie 2 years ago 7
A pint of creme De Menth for my friend...classic...
bigaid22 2 years ago
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JohnnyMarsden 2 years ago
4:47 - 4:52 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jojjo450 2 years ago
doesn't get better than this.
ever.
bulldrumm 2 years ago 2
soft toy department kicks ass
atlasz84 2 years ago 3
I thought it might be Terry Gilliam, but i didn't think it looked like him.
So thank you so much for your help=)
pjev93 2 years ago
Well, this is the first time he's gone all Frank N. Furter on us, so it's a bit of a shock. :)
Tareltonlives 2 years ago
Who's the half-naked man? I can't recognize him
pjev93 2 years ago
I love her face just before Eric says Duuung! Classic.
EuskaltelEuskadi 2 years ago 2
This Python sketch has a little bit of everything that made them great.
The goat and Michael Palin clinch it though. Classic.
usmcfutball 2 years ago 7
lol this is one of my favourites, it never gets old. "the soft toy department" lol and I love the way graham falls when shot. "lets have a ding dong!"
BrokenMemory87 2 years ago 4
This is so Pinteresque.
giarcnella66 2 years ago
remember i was in the pub... three years ago
drahoop 2 years ago 3
That's Sousa's "Washington Post March" on the gramophone.
comrademarxist 2 years ago
I first didn't like this one, but now it's one of my favorites.
Tareltonlives 2 years ago
Love how they all have "taken the liberty to invite some friends". Such libertines!
b00mhauer 2 years ago 7
Do one has done Non sequiturs better than Monty Python.
That last sentence made me sound snob, doesn't it, using a big phrase like non sequitur?
Oh, well.
*smacks self with rubber chicken and then walks away*
shadowplayer1980 3 years ago 2
Sorry, I meant "No one". I apologize.
*Smacks self with rubber hammer then walks off*
shadowplayer1980 3 years ago
My all-time favorite sketch! Really showcases the characteristic Monty Python absurdity.
patton1138 3 years ago 10
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patton1138 3 years ago
...the goats done a bundle.
This skit showcases the extent of British lunacy.
Devver08 3 years ago 5
"I told you to lay off the beans you whore!"
"I ONLY want 3 cans!"
lucelli1chivas 3 years ago 3
John Cleese fat..... Wooooooo @-)
invitationtoflop 3 years ago
what's brown and sounds like a bell ?
DonnnnnnnnG !
:)
djbanizza 3 years ago 5
No, it's "dunnnnng" :p
Totally different!
Demonwulf 3 years ago 4
this is my favourite sketch!!
"let's have a ding dong"
NickeyNoodles 3 years ago
this is one of my favorite sketches and they never play it!
rainydaywoman1957 3 years ago
righto, sorry about that. pretend the comment below came from this user.
i also absolutely love terry jones here.
danceswithpigs 3 years ago
i do love when terry gilliam pops into sketches. makes things a little stranger.
gimmiefriedchicken 3 years ago 10
'I dont much like the tone of your voice' - genius!!
eoieduff 3 years ago 4
"Shut up, you silly bitch. It was only a bit of fun."
bjjolley 3 years ago 14
I absolutely love Terry Gilliam in this. He should have been in a lot more sketches.
hiiqk9s 3 years ago 12
one of my favourite scetchs lmao
willwazere 3 years ago 2
According to a MP docu I saw years ago, Cleese/Chapman usually wrote the edgier-louder-authoritarian type skits and this definitely looks like a Cleese/Chapman driven piece. Either way it's a remarkable skit and one of my fav's.
zavida 3 years ago 3
Just GREAT !
SonjaTheBlond 3 years ago
I can recognize most of them...but who is the guy in the cape, Michael Palin?
esoraleak 3 years ago
It's Terry Gilliam.
murielsartre 3 years ago 4
Wow, that's Gilliam?!!! Then where does Palin come in, is he the last one to enter?
esoraleak 3 years ago
Oh, I see it now...Gilliam's in the cape, and Palin is the one who comes in after him. It's unusual to see Terry Gilliam in a skit.
esoraleak 3 years ago
he's only ever there if it requires unpleasant makeup - or if none of the others want to do it
xsqueefluffx 3 years ago
Ahahahahahahahahahah...........OH ! I wet 'em !
peter97624 3 years ago 5
"Shut up you silly bitch, its only a bit of fun."
lmao
thecrowcsplayer 3 years ago 21
This is absolutely one of the best moments in comedy throughout all of history...thank you so much for uploading!
mattironiic 3 years ago 7
Let's have a ding-dong! LMAO!!!
jgdesign 3 years ago
"We wanted a quiet evening on our own!"
":D Oh they won't mind! They're very broad-minded!"
That was brilliant!
Android2137 3 years ago 4
Every good comedy writer should be forced to watch this.
jkoff76 3 years ago 14
are there any good comedy writers today?
WonderKidCopperfield 3 years ago 5
"whats brown and makes a bell sound...Dung!"
ClassicRock1212 3 years ago 3
just heard it-
"Together for so many months in the soft toy department.
A small detail that made python awesomer than it already is
jessiethegeek 3 years ago
what an awesome sketch.Terry G reminds me so much of franknfurter lol.
And i just noticed but mike has a kiss mark on his cheek.
Oh how i wish i could have been carol cleaveland lol.
This is such a great sketch definitely in my top ten
Smile,God loves you
jessiethegeek 3 years ago 3
I have a request: The last 3rd series sketch with Eric hosting an awards show, and for one of the winners, a video camera goes to his home. The lights come up and it's John and Michael in bed together, totally in shock. Sort of a fitting end to John's time on the show, especially since all of Monty Python came about from John wanting to work with Michael.
Also, the Farm Club report on Tchaikovsky where Michael's a gossipy hairdresser with a princess phone. It's great.
murielsartre 3 years ago
come on me love drop em lolololololol so so so funy
happymanabc 3 years ago
God has never placed upon His beautiful Earth a creature more hideous in appearance than Terry Jones in drag. In this clip, in the Poets sketch, and in many others, he is ugly as sin and funny as hell.
majerjack 3 years ago 3
I suppose you mean Terry Jones, Gilliam's not in it
tudor1485 3 years ago
Yeah he is, he's the one in teh cape and pants.
batmanofni 3 years ago 4
What a party!
elgiexyz 3 years ago 3
a bit lumpy, oh no wonder i was sitting on the cat. luv that bit
matt2house 3 years ago 2
I love Graham Chapman in this sketch. He's too much of a pushover to take control of the sitution until things are well out of hand, then gets shot when he finally does speak up. In the words of Michael Palin, "I think there's a lesson there for all of us." :D
CaribDevist 3 years ago 8
To be fair, there was little he can do. He'd have to get a gun to get these creatures out once they open the door
Tareltonlives 2 years ago
Wow. Definitely one of the nastiest Python sketches. Probably written by John Cleese to vent his anger at all the vulgar idiots he hated. (like the Upper Class Twits all shooting themselves in another Cleese sketch).
Terry Jones in this is hilarious. Like a gorilla in drag, shambling around and cackling.
betweenlakes 3 years ago 9
Oh?
And who's that then?
ifuckinglovescience 3 years ago
"What's brown and sounds like a bell?
DUNG!" xD
I love John and Terry J in this one :D They kinda remind me of someone in my family xD
MyMoi93 3 years ago 2