The writing of "The Cheese Shop" sketch from "Monty Python - Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut"

[newagemisfit]

I thought he was talking about the D Day landings - turns out he was pretending to be a pepper pot

[optimuspriime02]

"The Cleese Shop"

[ChopMax2]

@Picnicl It may not be as clever or origional as many sketches but I think that every once in a while it's nice to be able to laugh at something that is simple "sillyness" as monty python would say.

[Picnicl]

I'm afraid that it wasn't actually that funny a sketch by Monty Python standards. It's overrated and saved, if that, by a few little touches (the musicians and Cleese's reactions to them, Cleese's choice to decline Palin's offer to tell him which cheeses that he actually has, the audience's realisation that he has been a gunslinger who presumably wouldn't care too much about cheese in any case).

It's not in the same league as the Playwright sketch or the sketch about 'woody' and 'tinny' words.

[indysoundman1]

being forced to watch a commercial forces a thumbs down

[Obelisk2290]

AWESOME



[Agadalif]

best monty python sketch

[Lasse2112]

Venezuelan beaver cheese.

[ClownenJac73]

@Lasse2112

Not today, Sir. :(

[blitzerrhames]

Pepper Pot? He was a love interest of Tony Stark?

[darklinkwillkill666]

cheese? thats a very woody word! not shop though, very tinny, i feel thats a very tinious word that is.

[SamPabloKuper]

Botox?

[mollysangelique]

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[flyingsaucer0619]

Best sketch ever. period.

[ThomasJAckerman]

@flyingsaucer0619 Explain the logic underlying that conclusion!

[salvadormarley]

I could watch this stuff for ever and ever.

[Stormwern]

love that sketch

[zeppy13131]

Goodness, what's happened to all of your apostrophes? They've gone the way of the cheese.

[Kloshmi]

kraaaalj!!!

[PrudenceNumberNine]

I love his pepperpot voice.

[Titaniacy]

Great story! The part about Michael falling off the chair always gets me! John has mentioned it in a number of interviews!

[00bikeboy]

If you can get Michael Palin to fall off his chair laughing you really have something. Definitely one of their best sketches ever, and Michael was the funniest Python.

[chcetwojqubek]

Graham saying 'funny funny mhm, come on' hahaha, I wish i could see it

[mongorich]

Yes, John did a good impersonation of Graham, I could easily visualise the whole scene.

[JasonL77]

Throwing up three times. That had to suck. Come to think about it, the idea of haveing cheese when I get sick does not sound like I good idea. I don't know why.