Monty Python - Language Lab

[TheHasanMurat]

"Kill the blacks within five principles." LOL

[SavatageBeast]

Graham Chapman teaching Michael Palin, a yorkshireman, how to speak yorkshire lol

[TheMrcrazy711]

Well that's just silly.

[piglatin123]

Oh my goodness, great sketch.

It actually made a sort of sense until the clown at the end! :D

[ukamerica8]

@piglatin123 loved it,except the clown absolutely

[darkroomromance]

the song was absolutely SWEET :DDD

[Sabohaque]

lol at the South African accent "kill de blacks"

[classicalhero7]

This is not about language, but about accents.

[flutewarrior1]

@classicalhero7 no way dude <3 its about the different language that people use depending on where they are from, what they do as a job, etc… the accent is part of the language… if you know what i mean.

[schutzenhaus]

Eeeeeeeee ecky thump!

[cmh17a]

is this an MKULTRA party?

[amelb8]

Eee ecky thump!

[dondopa]

python programming language?

[loqutor]

I spotted the Looney! 2:08

[ClassicHolic]

DEE DEE DEDEE DEE!

[ChopMax2]

This makes do much sense.

[jbeer82]

that's why love Monty Phython is has no sense. It is so funny.

[bowiewondergirl]

I WANT TO LIVE IN THEIR WORLD!!!!

[mazeman90]

HEEEDEEDEDEDEEE HEEEDEEDEDEDEE!

[cve70]

Is Michael Palin any relation to Sarah Palin.......?

[CavePanem]

@cve70 No, Micheal Palin is British and Sarah Palin is.... unfortunately.

[over9000reviews]

@CavePanem Actually, Micheal Palin is American. but you are right about him not being related to Sarah Palin

[jesusavnasareth]

@over9000reviews Er... Michael Palin is born in Broomhill in Sheffield, England.

[hardtaill70]

@over9000reviews Michael Palin is British... your thinking of Terry Gilliam.

[over9000reviews]

@hardtaill70 am i? I thought by his diluted accent, it was Palin. strange...

[progrockcoffee]

First of all, Michael Palin is speaking Lancashire slang terms. Secondly, it reminds me of The White Stripes' final album.

[bleedblueandpurple]

Language lab and a musical number?

Well this is monty python.....

[kooshila]

Well that was...silly

[IGotYumph]

Well, that was... random. LOL

[Sabohaque]

What was Palin supposed to be?

[fishingguy2010]

What up with the clown?

[HirumiKato]

What??????

[pretorious700]

Graham Chapman was just too cool to live to be an old fart

[kitschetc]

what series was this?

[JimTLonW6]

"pint of wallop" I wonder what you'd get if you asked for that in a pub today?! A quick boot out most likely, I think!

[JohnLennonLover9]

Graham is such a cutie :)

[heyyouthere4]

Two pints of wallop love! Are you still driving the Jensen? Wor!!! This never gets old. Russia Today trains its TV personalities in this same exact manner. The many faces of global English.

[CusterFlux]

Skit does a great job hi-lighting Chapman's acting skills - the guy was gifted.

[cmh17a]

rhodesian, rhodesian, smith, smith, kill the black, kill the black.

Today, it would sound like

zimbabwean, zimbabwean, mugabe, mugabe, kill the white, kill the white, down with america, down with america, steal the farm, steal the farm

what a world

[thevideogamenerd100]

for all of these 6 years of wondering, I will never understand why the clown is there

[SamhainTheDark]

1:52 The one in blue kinda looks like Mr. Lucas from Are You Being Served

[monkeylala1000]

Start again...

[Ugleskjegg]

clown at the end

[ClockworkComputer]

@bastlake South African. He's saying 'kill the blacks' in quite a bad South African accent, this was at a time when the apartheid and segregation in SA was in the news a lot.

[wtfan]

Graham Chapman said "pusillanimous." That is awesome and hilarious!

[loqutor]

Thumbs up if you spotted the loony.

[Laurelindo]

LMAO at 0:20, awesome laugh.

[bl4ze20uNcEs]

0-10 is funny... tehe

[Procket12]

Way to poke fun at the Rhodesian Apartheid regime of the time Python!

[bbrake]

lol, I love the "start again" guy.

[D2L3TH4L1]

E ecy Thop!!!!!!

[lcozzarelli]

@D2L3TH4L1 From the British dictionary of slang: Ecky thump ! Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or shock. Often used to mock the Northern dialects of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

[bastlake]

the hell is Eric Idle on about at the beginning there?

[lcozzarelli]

@bastlake Sounds like some sort of South African dialect...

[Teebonemendez]

There is almost nothing I like in this world more than finding an incredibly funny Monty Python sketch that I haven't seen before

[TankTaur]

This sketch must be one of the best introductions to Monty Python I've happened upon so far. I must put it away, should I feel inclined to bless someone with silliness later on.

"For it is up to people like you and me, who are out of our tiny little minds, to help them overcome their sanity."

[dharmaseed]

@TankTaur You can start in small ways, with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice....

[batmanofni]

Nice to see Terry G getting some screen time.

[PC336]

Monty Python. The epitome of silliness, randomness, and ROFLness.

[StaraziaSelin66]

Ecky thump :D aka, for those of you who dont know the goodies, the crazy kung-fu style selfdefense style.

[loqutor]

"While there is no cause for concern, there is certainly no room for complacency."

Sounds like a line lifted from Yes, Minister.

[csibatmanfan]

Terry Gilliam with the gay voice...classic!

[sousaphonist]

...even within the realm of Monty Python's own brand of nonsense...THAT MADE ABSOLUTELY NO BLOODY SENSE AT ALL!!!

[organfairy]

@sousaphonist - That's because the subject of the sketch - the late 1960's language laboratories - have been out of use for decades. So only few people know what it is.

In real life they were used for training students in pronouncing foreign languages. The student heard a sentence in the earphones and then repeated the words into the microphone. Everything was recorded on tape so progress could be observed.

[Pippin76]

@sousaphonist Well, this IS deep in the decadence of the TV series.

[russinhouse]

@sousaphonist no man! as in ( a man for all seasons ) it's a voice for all occasions. i think they call it gravitas.

[CrimsonToast]

Why did those peculiar things just happen?

[SamLovesFriemds]

how come I hardly see terry gilliam in the sketches or the movies of monty python :o

[thijsmolenaar]

@SamLovesFriemds he was very busy making all the animations!

[NBCrashdummy]

0:46-0:51 is the best part :O

but I like

0:00- 2:08 too :D

[A1R5N1P3R]

I speak American.

[dubmywub]

KILL THE BLACKS!

[nate556]

K. Usually I get Monty Python. I don't get this one...

[shaldana]

@nate556

The fact that you didn't get it is actually leading to that you finally did get it. Good job!

[doctorwhom1]

CLIVE JENKINS!!!

[Maphysto]

Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about...

[19ThePurplePython93]

Ee ecky thump!

EE ECKY THUMP!

Excellent.

Oh thank you.

Can you smell gas or is it me? xD

[alexgernand]

I must be loosing it, is that John Lennon in the blue shirt at the end?

[Ashley5ash]

@alexgernand Oh my God! IT IS! Thank you. That made my day...

[MrHansBeckert]

@Ashley5ash Is it really? Or just a guy who really looks like him?

[sheld0n]

@MrHansBeckert Terry Gilliam was always a Python. That's how he started his career.

[MrHansBeckert]

@sheld0n What? I know that Gilliam was always a Python . . . I was commenting on the fact that the guy in the blue shirt at the end looks a hell of a lot like John Lennon. If it is him, I'll be deleriously happy.

[VideoFan0112]

@alexgernand i wouldnt be surprised if it was

[IStehSHIT]

@alexgernand no its only that they all looked alike back in the days

[Floobegusted]

the bit at the end when the clown waves is so blooming funny!

[welshperson123]

LOL his welsh accent is good!

i love monty python!

[brismike65]

Terry Gilliam's army comment LOL

[chrisjt86]

@brismike65 Jones, Gilliam was the gay one

[brismike65]

@chrisjt86 spot on thanks chris

[joshaf26]

This is how Congressmen in America are trained.

[whoareyou2me]

@joshaf26

LOL You've nailed it! Now THAT's funny.

[wotrabbitfish]

I'm afraid I must shut down this sketch as it has become rather silly.

"ee ecky thoomp"? I suppose that's Rhodesian for "tungsten carbide drills"? Yer all fancy talk since ye left London!

[ProcolHarum1967]

@wotrabbitfish You had to go poncing off to Barnsley.

[LadyAneh]

he looks a bit like john from the side, I guess.. ._. I've had a crush on john lennon for the longest time. but he'd be too much for every day. maybe just on the weekends, and ringo for the rest of the time. ;) if I had to pick a python, palin (michael) for sure. grey hair suits terry jones, though, you know. if he got back into shape, he'd be the kind of guy you'd want to be married to when you're over 50 and sensible.

[Wanderlustus]

This was new to me. Thanks a bunch.

[the400rabbits]

That clown at the end is the stuff of nightmares.

[AngelicRobotDevice]

@missesgabriel Oh yes, I see it. You mean the guy in the blue shirt? I googled and it doesn't say anywhere it should/could be him, but it could be the same guy, people mistook for John Lennon in "Quest for the Holy Grail" as Sir Robin's flute playing minstrel. Turns out it was MP's costume designer ^^

[ejhonda]

@AngelicRobotDevice MP's costume designer was a woman - Hazel Pethig.

[AngelicRobotDevice]

@ejhonda I see. D*mn, so much for trusting WikiAnswers O.o

Sorry Hazel, love.

[AngelicRobotDevice]

Epic, just epic @ Sandy Wilson's version of "The Devils" ------------------------------­--- "Boo boo-bee doo Boo boo-bee doo Scuby duby duby doo Oo! Hello operator, Is that the central line? Give me the Piccadilly number, Nine one o nine Mr. operator, now that number's wrong So come on everybody, let's sing this song... ... Prouse in his first book wrote about...wrote about.. wrote about

[G3n3r1cUsername]

I'm not sure I understand this sketch very well. But it's still funny.

[krullboll]

2:05 WTF

[AerosmithAngel31]

spot the loony! ;-)

[UberMan5000]

1:45 What the hell?

[ShnuckFuckle]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­ha

[j0njn]

@UberMan5000

It's Monty Python. 'nuff said.

[lisambofoh]

Graham's got a really terrible haircut here.

But it sort of made the skit funnier.

[Gjeorje]

-It was "The Arthur Scargill" -We all had it then -Until the Thatcher cuts.

[BriBri897]

wut the hell

[chaircreature]

vv. vv. vv.

[00WolfSpirit]

Hmm... not seeing this on regular Flying Circus... is this from the German version?

[NoTimeForComplacency]

No, this is definitely on the regular series. Not sure which one though.

[00WolfSpirit]

Thats odd... cause I have the dvd set and just watched all the episodes over recently....

Hmm... Well I have from the library that 'all the words' set... i'll look up the sketch there. if should tell me which episode it was in then.

[John6yt]

It's from season 3, the one with the hairdressers who try to climb Mt Everest, and the Travel agent sketch with Eric Idle as Mr Smoketoomuch

[00WolfSpirit]

I noticed. I went to go check Monty Python All the Words... and saw it was in that episode. I was cussing myself out the rest of the night. I have no idea how I missed that.

a) I rewatched all of the episodes not that long ago

b) the Travel Agent sketch is one of my absolute favorite sketchs ever.

I fail at life lol

[connoret]

Ep. 31 - All England Summarize Proust Competition is the name of this episode.

[Wribbet]

HEE DEE DEE-DEE DEE!

:D

[BrohemianRhapsody]

Chapman had the craziest eyes I've ever seen, his expressions were punchlines unto themselves.

[MrJeppelin]

@BrohemianRhapsody Ian Andersons brother perhaps?

[floppetylove]

goodies reference? 'eee ecky thomp'

[sirrealism]

Eric idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin have headphones on. The rest, I believe, are singers. I didn't see Terry Gilliam.

[lapislazuli7]

hmmm, maybe you are right and he only resembles Terry Gilliam!! I need to watch it again on DVD.

[FaridehSh]

He's the one who said "You want a nice time?"

[murielsartre]

Terry G's doing the "homosexual" tape @ 0:41.

[lapislazuli7]

But who is the last one after Terry Gilliam? Does anybody know?

[dharmaseed]

I think he was one of the Fred Tomlinson singers. He also appears in the Dirty Books/ Sir Philip Sidney sketch.

[paleteroman5567]

they dont make comedy like this anymore

[CigarStudLasVegas]

its Terry Gilliam

[BartBassist]

Who is the camp guy 0:41?

[andytom]

Anyone else thinks the guy in blue at 1:53 looks like John Lennon?

[Aervane]

He certainly does, at least from that angle. Good catch.

[4fitter27]

I noticed that too!

It's possible actually...

[TeoTorriate]

Yes, it sure looks like John Lennon.. it's just that at that time John had hair down to his shoulders and a beard xD. It sure does look like him in the mid-sixties, though.

[murielsartre]

Re Eric:

"Smith" is Ian Smith, the white Rhodesian PM who broke completely from the UK in 1965 and took over the colony. There was civil war when this was sketch was taped in 1972. It was a long and bloody story. Too long to tell here. Ian Smith wasn't a fan of black nationalists, let's put it that way.

Phonetically, Eric says:

Bleck people. Bleck people. Rhodesian. Kill the blecks. Kill the blecks. Rhodesian. Smith. Smith. Kill the blecks within the five principles.

[4fitter27]

thank you... That really allows me to put it into context. Boy, I didn't know the Pythons had such a strong political conscience.

[agnamaracs]

Start again...

[InTecknicolour]

HEE HEE HEE HEE!

[4fitter27]

Listen to what Eric Idle is saying!

You could NEVER get away with that on tv today.

[fuzzboo]

what does he say?

[AnastasiaCaine18]

What did he say? I didn't understand what he was saying.

[4fitter27]

I can't write it here, but it is something extremely racist!

[Aervane]

Oh wow. I never would have caught that unless I was listening to it.

[ladyj2502]

Graham's hair is fantastic! :D

[pelusas82]

...Your bloody pusillanimous behaviour MAKES ME VOMIT!!! XD

[El135o]

'Aven't seen you for a while either, Beryl!

[loqutor]

Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about~

[william59glersh]

DANG Start again - lmfao then the clown waves HAHA

[caseyeleson]

Ee..Ecky Thump

[loqutor]

No. EE! Ecky thUMP!

[Vault101Reject]

"can you smell gas or is it me?"

[RudieCantFail123]

Haha. Gilliam.

[Killerclownmeat]

Mr Smarmy, So-called Harold Wilson, can call himself pragmatic 'till he's blue in the breast!!

greatest quote ever!!!

[Humanophage]

Fun fact: Rhodesia's per capita GDP now is lower than it used to be at the time this sketch was made.

[cmh17a]

@Humanophage Mugabe is a killer, he wants to kill the white with the five dollars

[esplob]

There's an argument for Esperanto here!

[basserase]

Quite funny; yes quite funny indeed. Reminds me of the time I asked Nixon a question about Kissinger and he told me a story about how he and Hoover got stuck in traffic and phoned Kissinger but Kissinger told him never to call him when he'd been drinking. Then he told Kissinger something else and suddenly the Washington Post started asking questions. That's why I love Monty Python so much.

[7677890]

lol im so buying this

[ClareLovesLife]

I can't stop laughing at 1:14!!!

Mr Smarmy So Called Harold Wilson ...

Ha!

[ClareLovesLife]

This has just become my favourite :)

[Snorkelsson]

Je parle cinq langues différentes

[douro20]

You are saying that you speak five different languages...

[Snorkelsson]

haha what the fuck, i dont remember that i wrote that :D

[bulldrumm]

graham the GREAT.

[BjornAbbahot]

0:50

LOL

[JAVAGOIL]

"You smell gas or is it me?"

[CharlotteC94]

One of my new fave Python sketches =D