Monty Python RAF Banter

[MrNickoUK]

Is it odd that I actually understand most of this?

[StarCraftPilot]

Ponies brought me here

[MrEvilronald]

Slower banter sir!?

[The1andOnlyCG]

QUIET, CRITIC!!!!

[The1andOnlyCG]

Reverend Charlie Trooper Hypersquawk Smith

[JimTLonW6]

One of the classic MP sketches, what kind of mind could produce this stuff I wonder?!

[dharmaseed]

8 people are terminally squiffy.

[IAmJerkingOff]

8 people had cabbage dropped on them.

[jammage132]

8 people should face the soft cushions

[Zanite]

Reminds me of text chats in MMOs

[madouc1]

@thenewfyman & Kinghambranch - get a life both of you - it's a fucking parody you knobs

[TheNewfyman]

was anybody else thinking "what the hell are you saying?" at 0:29 to 0:42?

[braeduin]

Yet again Python strikes closer to the truth than we give them credit for. During the Crimean War the British General Lord Raglan kept referring to the Russians as the French and was constantly having to be reminded that the French were our allies.

[pml22]

What ho!

[TheVoltaron]

Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father;hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

[halfNERD17]

4:26 needs to be a meme

[ataturkwashomo]

This should be titled the "Telepath Banter."

[Kinghambranch]

Unfortunately the Hawker Hurricane in the opening sequence has the early form of fuselage roundel. By 1944 "somewhere in England" all RAF aircraft sported a different form of roundel with much less white showing don't cha know. Also, by 1944, the Hurricane was considered obsolete as a fighter, being replaced by the Griffon engined marks of Spitfire and also Mustangs. Jolly good show though!

[peggyea2k8]

@Kinghambranch You have possibly just killed Monty Python for generations to come

[BrucknerMotet]

@Kinghambranch Don't cha know the only way Charlie Drooper Hypersquawksmith could have begun to paint all those cabbage crate kills on his "old" Hawker Hurricane was to start flying that thing earlier in the war before the Hun began to deploy their fairy wands and spiders in match boxes.

[53rdAndThird]

Isn't that Mellchett's office from Black Adder Goes Forth at 3:00?!

[CanadianStereotype]

I died when Churchill popped out.

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

gupta chopkra

/watch?v=44dg9n8_BxA pilot scriff thursto howell !!!

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

it is the wish called fonda

dont call me stupid

but it might wink wink be a goer with squadronleader bluesteel camp crystal lake chhh hahahhahhahaa

[ovresmot]

What kind of deviant dislikes a monty python skit?

[Jemmer1000]

What ho, Squiiffie!

[DontForgetToSmileXD]

8 people cant get it out of their hows your father

[Atheist88mphPirate]

Should I be worried if I understand it? :s

[MrJackStill]

@Atheist88mphPirate Yes

[mustang6172]

I think I understood 20% of that banter, and it's very cruel to laugh at it.

[Guncams]

classic. Humor these days can barely touch this level of lulz.

[Fireemgine3]

were gunna show these Chinese...

Germans...

were gunna show these Germans that no bristish soldier is gunna decende to there level......hahahahha

[vintagereproguitarra]

Terry Jones actually got to sit inside a Hurricane .. lucky chap !!

[AlexB4455]

BANTER !

[Daisiethecrazy]

QUIET, CRITIC!!!!!!!

[bmwluvr2003]

Lol, Chapman's look at the end... priceless

[caleb54565]

""Gentlemen its now quite aparent that the enemy is not only fighting this war on the cheap. But they also arent taking it seriously."

"BASTARDS"

[UpgradedWorld]

Did anyone else see that RAF woman get out from under the table?

[trevpr1]

@UpgradedWorld

She's a WAAF

[manw3bttcks]

I always wondered if the banter used was really stolen from real lingo from WW2 and just tweaked a bit or if they completely faked this up

[griffin16tg]

Top Bant.

[welchi93]

in this they talk alot like how they do in that part in austin powers goldmember, just pure genious

[harponercam]

long Way to Tipperary?

That's good! That's good!

Arrange a holiday!

Get on with it!

[JollyRodders]

I see the template here for Stephen Fry's General Melchett in "Blackadder Goes Forth"...Almost a clone in fact.

[LiamLuis96]

bored and typed in banter?

[rafboy92]

the fact that an armstrong and miller sketch is the top suggestion on this video is an insult. nothing against armstrong and miller but just not the same caliber

[AlbertonBeastmaster]

@rafboy92 The Armstrong and Miller sketches are completely different and bare no comparison to this.

[rafboy92]

@AlbertonBeastmaster yes, completely different and bare no comparison because they are terrible.

[AlbertonBeastmaster]

@rafboy92 Interesting... In the space of one comment you have gone from having nothing against Armstrong and Miller (taken to mean no fixed opinion) to thinking they are terrible. I can only assume you are looking for an argument, in which case you need to try another Monty Python sketch.

[unclebud99]

Caribou nibbling at the croquet hoops!

[arhoptt]

@unclebud99 CARIBOU...GOOOONE 

[jamieson12O]

Thumbs up if you just searched 'banter' and this was the first video that came up

[weinerkat]

There must have been some German code breakers somewhere going "right...."

[mysteryshrimp]

The six people trivializing this sketch will face the supreme penalty that military law can provide!

[wildwolf111]

@mysteryshrimp Now 8!

[matt4270]

@mysteryshrimp 8 people Sir!

[gcpropertymanagement]

Irrational exuberance

[LastBastion9999]

Six people are still having trouble getting their can out of the Bertie.

[RCH45ACP]

Thank you, Shirley!

[DarthKieduss43]

"Say it slower."

"slower banter sir? It's just not the same, sir."

[MrGlobalcarrot]

6 people like slow banter

[bettercall2]

This is still hilarious!

[TheRunawayjew]

my favorite monty pithon sketch

[thecooldude0071]

i'm afraid i dont understand your banter squadron leader

[tissot233]

1.55

Lol

[mona1lov]

We'll show these Chinese....Germans.....Love the banter <3



[mona1lov]

We'll show these Chinese....Germans.....Love the banter <3

[coxwain255]

Absolutely hilarious always laugh at them!

[DasFuhrerinagstring]

Lol the best thing is by 1944 all Germany afford to bomb with was cabbages

[mangobanan]

Graham Chapman was one hell of an actor!

[civilwarcorporal]

God I love this, one of my favorite scenes ever

[glassaghman]

where's john ?

[LorchTLG]

gotta love monty python

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[1339LARS]

Farking brill!!

[caderly123]

@LadyScaralett

No. I also was able to infer what they were trying to say.

[independantnight]

All I heard was bacon, and custard...

[PzVIE43]

6 don't understand that banter at all

[callumk5]

"Get me the Prime Minister."

"Sir!"

"Not the quickly!"

"Sir"

[Titaniacy]

*bursts in* "Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg and fours and let's get the bacon delivered!" Classic comedy! Doesn't get better than this!

[FairFerret]

Kaiser´s flys came vorticisming Vikki´s skys? ...no?

Bloody skilless banter...

[elvisSighting]

One of the fly-rods has gone out of skew apparently on the treadle

[SuperCactusman]

@DrSpamMD Yeah, I love the bit where they make fun of the disabled widowed orphans in this sketch, /sarcasm. I usually take the "war is a travesty" side of an argument, but for this video? I think you're overreacting.

[Merv59]

Thanks for posting this. Proof I was still reciting it perfectly 35 years after first seeing it!

[wotrabbitfish]

dirty japs, i thought this was the battle of borodino

[DrSpamMD]

this Python sketch seems extraordinary when you think that for many people (injured, disabled, orphaned, widowed or driven mad as a result of the war) the events mocked would have been nightmarishly recent; as recent say as Hillsborough or Piper Alpha would be to us, give or take a year

[oldskooliain]

Love this sketch. "Something up with my banter chaps?"

[DiligentSleeper]

The face on Graham Chapman at the end!! blahahahahaha

[SCE2AUX]

And thus was born "International Talk Like a Pilot Day."

[austoful]

6 people hairy blighter dickie birded featherd back on there samie and cought there can on the birtie

[TariqAlSuave]

I love this bit because the banter manages to sound so plausible. Its overdone, to be sure, but some bits are understandable ("feathered back on his sammy" = got behind him, "sausage squad up the blue end" = germans are in the sky).

[bitesh]

@TariqAlSuave everything Palin says at the end can be easily interpreted as German planes approaching, but I'm surprised you knew what "feathered back on his sammy" meant

[bitesh]

@bitesh and I'm particularly curious about the meaning of catching one's can in the bertie.

[premieresoldat]

It's the Dambusters March from the film of the same name. All about 617 squadron

[johnsmithfsx]

Anyone happen to know the name of the march that begins at the beginning of the video?

[Thisismyusername1010]

Sometimes Grahm Chapman reminds me of the head pastor at my church. It's kind of disturbing...

[OneMorePelican]

What kind of building is it that they're in?

[MidnightSkyline]

Ther You Go!

Bally Jerry Pranged His Kite Right In The How's-Your-Father. Hairy Blighter, Dicky-Birdied, Feathered Back On His Sammy, Took a Waspy, Flipped Over On His Betty Harpers And Caught His Can In The Bertie!

See? Perfectly Ordinary Banter!

[Tareltonlives]

@MidnightSkyline The scary thing is that I think I know what this means.

[2349DF]

@Tareltonlives strange that. I dunno whether to be proud or not xD

[barryrrab]

@Tareltonlives that is scary

[bitesh]

@MidnightSkyline what's with the capitalisation?

[MidnightSkyline]

@bitesh Yeah... I do that when I like the stuff... Can't help it...

[ManaYuGiOhGX5Ds]

This is great XD! this is brill XD!

[ladyvallug]

omg! i'd never seen this one before its epic!! and as all monty python sketches very well written and acted

lol "they arent taking this war seriously" thats just classic

[JimTLonW6]

A veritable script writing tour-de-force! I'm amazed that anyone could remember their parts.

[Ki55Meh4rse]

American song*

[Ki55Meh4rse]

The general's speech with an American. Then again, I could be inaccurate and it's also British.

[mmikeironhorse]

6 people do not understand his banter

[zomgtehrei]

aww yeah that girl in the blue

[FlgOff044038]

Absobloody lootly spiffing eh! what. Sausage Chompers at six, whacko the diddlyoh!

Get orf me bum Bruce yer a wingman not a poofter.

[Cl0taire]

Could someone tell me what is the title of the music that starts at the end of the video, please?

[GowanBray]

@Cl0taire It's Land of Hope and Glory by Elgar and Benson

[heywoodejerblowme]

@GowanBray It is the Dam BusterMarch.From the movie of the same name.Starred Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson.

[Modified67]

@Cl0taire Pomp and Circumstance.

[ferdinand12390]

sausage squad up the blue end.. lol

[BlckComb]

Get me the Prime Minister!

" 'Sir!!"

"NOT THAT QUICKLY!!!!"

[esmikd]

Comparing this to Armstrong and Miller is a bit weird...?

[MrBuch169169]

We're going to SHOW these ChinESE!!

Germans, sir.

[leopertinax]

@sanska If you don't find this funny you must be dead or something. Either that or you lost your funny bone when you were a child and have been seerching for it ever since.

[tashlovesmightyboosh]

6 people obviously have no brain or funny bone :P x

[fragman08]

here's some proper RAF banter:

"Gerald, the air conditioning has broken"

[Gaaranymphis]

Right, what the first said was he hit turbulence, tried to correct it, and the centre of pressure went up and the bloody plane stalled and fell into an aggressive slipstream at such an angle that the wings snapped up and I think the fuselage just fell right into a spiral dive, then. Makes sense of a sort, really. Next guy says there's some enemies overhead, so they need to get the sammy-hell out of there, and make an attempt at retaliation.

[onceadad]

@Gaaranymphis I knew that...

[roewedge]

@Gaaranymphis completely wrong!

[Spambladders]

Cabbage crates over the briney? !

[moyadapne]

@Spambladders Cabbage crates...German planes . German Cabbage = Sauerkraut.  Briney...brine= sea water.

[danpayne118]

we used to use the term banter in the army, but now i see a new generation of young girls using the word on facebook etc and it sickens me greatly. Come down the naafi and you will learn that i am the archbishop of banterbury muhaha

[isawacat]

banter's not the same if you say it slower.

[fartsalotafterbeans]

@isawacat no it isn't

[barryrrab]

@fartsalotafterbeans yes it is

[Michael200664]

Excellent

[KidMillions]

This is actually Eddie Izzard's favourite Python sketch.

[MKoumjian]

and Monty Pythons RAF pilots banter!

[SCE2AUX]

OTOH, there is a lot to be said for; "Sighted sub, sank same."

[bakerco502]

@joebstarsurfer

I'm sorry, what?

[varleyjd99]

@bakerco502 good banter

[321clara123]

@bakerco502 yea it didn't really make much sense...

[utubeworms]

@joebstarsurfer Their speaking proper British slang!

[karinosai]

@joebstarsurfer lrn2english.

[queenastilon]

I see a model here for Stephen Fry's later General Melchett.

[Slazfreska]

i get it lmao

[gedster666]

"anyone found trivializing this war... will face the supreme penelty that miltry law can provide !"

"yes... we shall TICKLE.. THEIR FEET !!! "

[sabaton1231]

NOT THAT QUICKLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrDBRADLEY14]

Balley Jerry pranged his kite right in the hows your father. hairy blighter dicky birded feathered back on his sammy took a waspey flipped over on his betty harpers and caught his can in the birdie.

[MrJoeSchmoe1]

@MrDBRADLEY14 Damn German, nailed his bird right in the ass! Mean bastard feinted around, cut the power, stalled, wound up upside-down and splashed down in the drink!

[DerekBayRoberts1]

@MrDBRADLEY14 I got banned from a message board for saying that. no kidding..true story, hehe.

[joebstarsurfer]

As British as kebabs lol cabag creates over the briney.

[murilospecht]

Let's get the bacon delivered!

[Zeamus634]

I understood the first time he said it.

[JWL65]

It's in the "how's your father".

[datzfast]

i like british birds and would like to have a go at thier bottom. it might pleasure my old fellow but would never give me a sticky wicket. Afterwards smoking a faggot would seem the thing to do right round. but smoking too may fags would land a bloke in hospital.

[LuckyNinja99]

Thumb up if you understood the banter perfectly

[omotherfuckenr]

i wish i understood english slang?

[jandorus]

balley jerry, prand its kite right in the house of ya father.

Hairey blighter dickey birded featherd back on his sammey took a wospey.

Fliped over on his bitty hapers and caught his canon aboutey...

eeeeh.... i'm afraid i don't quite follow you squadron leader...

[RickyboyH]

@jandorus its "pranged his kite" it basically means that his aircraft got shot up. (Kite = aircraft)

[krakhaid]

What about the bombs?

GOOD LORD, they are expensive!

[Fatmanmi]

I understood Michael Palin's banter perfectly.

[BPhoenixProductions]

@Fatmanmi

Oh, good, I'm not the only one that can understand what they're saying.

[RebLJ]

QUIET CRITIC!

[RS250Squid]

Get me the Prime Minister.

NOT THAT QUICKLY!

Hehehe.

[mkIIrtv05]

Nooo, don't understand that banter at all

[dharmaseed]

What ho, 'Squiffy'?

[arbeitsscheuer]

Love Monty Python, but this is nowhere near their best. Armstrong & Miller's RAF sketches are so much better

[bakerco502]

@arbeitsscheuer Both are funny for different reasons and shouldnt be judged as one better or worse.

The Python sketch is universally funny due to the period banter used, while Armstrong and Miller are only funny to those versed in current day lingo of whatever group they are mocking.

[Kyuss87]

They're not comprable. At all.

Python's RAF sketches will always be funnier to me. they don't need to fall back on the obscurity of modern slang and cussing. It's just generally funny, that's pretty evident if I find it amusing and it's 30+ years old.

[tarapinkerton]

@bakerco502 thats great you can tell us whats funny. thanks.

[bfdhvcnvvbjdn]

@arbeitsscheuer This is not meant to be seen as similar as that.

[philosophyweb]

@arbeitsscheuer I think Armstrong and Miller were probably 'influenced' by the Python sketch - i.e. they ripped it off!!

[MasseyKY]

@arbeitsscheuer but this is the original Squiffy.

[gomptwoky]

@arbeitsscheuer that is a joke right? i didn't even know they were supposed to be comedians.

[KameSama77]

I understood cabbage crates coming over the briny...

[supah1337B]

monty python is the beginning of all comedy today.

really

[Garvain66]

@supah1337B that's if you discount the Goons