Aww, the sketch was cut short. I would have wanted it to continue a few more lines:
"I'm a Coward, sir. My father was a Coward and his father was a Coward before him, sir. I come from a long, healthy line of Cowards, sir. My grandfather, Henry S. Coward, left the army before the big civil war."
"Well that's no reason to leave the army, private. How fast can you run?"
"Well that depends on what I'm running from, sir. I've been running from personal issues all my life, but nothing makes me run quite as fast as the sound of a starting gun. I bet I'd be the top of my PE class if I would ever dare to show up."
"You sound like a natural. Have you considered the 5th Batallion of Strategical Retreat?"
See the humorous but true story, of a Monty Python-like "Arthur '2 sheds' Jackson" owner, who has had a Council "Show Cause" notice served on him for building an invisible shed, at:
h t t p://w w w[dot]youtube[dot]com/watch?v= ETS5iigwqV8
You didn't listen clearly; he said a very silly LINE; the Colonel was known to point out when things got too silly and abruptly end sketches that got too silly.
in 1969 a mr. F. Gumby was arranging flowers when he choked on a chrymanthesum. Five years later his neighbour, D.K. Gumby went into the room and instantly exploded. Now that you've read this, you must wear a knotted handkerchief on your head, or you too will explode. Oh and post this video to five other messages.
In 1969 a mr. F. Gumby was arranging flowers when he choked on a chrymanthesum. Five years later his neighbour, D.K. Gumby went into the room and instantly exploded. Now that you've read this, you must wear a knotted handkerchief on your head, or you too will explode. Oh and you must post this video to five other messages. Sorry!
I think, if you cant grasp the sheer humor of this with absoloutely bizzare and off the bat punchlines and scenes, its probably not the humor for you. the best way to look at it is, a protection racket would go round small shops and threaten them, but when someone says they have tanks and soldiers, its completley barmy. then they haggle at the end lol also a division of paratroopers cant catch fire lol, so its like they have scripted a few gangsters and changed the things they threaten lol :)
Eric Idle is obviously paranoid. Still, the Health and Safety Exec must surely be concerned about the Army - and warfare in general. I suspect that they'll stop people going to war without a license.
ROFL!!! Monty Python practicly started the random sketch phenominon (if that made sense) they are geniuses and the 1st tym ya watch this ya never in a million yrs would have guessed how it turned out XD
The budget from just one of Harry Enfield's over produced, under written sketches would pay for a whole series of this kind of clever comedy. The BBC is hopeless these days, commissions any old crap.
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lol In real life, the army wouldn't tell you any of this information because they're think your a spy. And if they do tell you, then they would have to shoot you. Like CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), or MI6 and MI7 etc. (Cancel all of this if you are already in the army. Then they may tell you).
this is the last time i'm telling u guys to take your political 'jaw jacking' to the chat boards not to the comments&responces board on u tube. PS Monty python still the best XD!
hey this is to post comments on the video clips not to debate polotics and what-not. So take it to the chat boards. PS Monty Python=greatest comedy show ever.
Can the pro-military nutjobs that can't argue worth crap and are either too jaded to read up and understand liberalism or just repeat what their parents and local party leader tell them kindly throw their computers out through the window?
Or at least show they have some balls and instead of being armchair soldiers actually sign up and get their asses kicked in the real army?
pssst... hey it's a STUPID MONTY PYTHON SKETCH NUCKLEHEAD, get over yourself. Oh, and I think that two responses below were reaserched and points argued.... Also, there is a necesity to defend our troops from liberal's libel and slander on the homefront. (General Betray us....)
Errr, no, the two points below were examples of zealotry only the most fanatical party members are capable of. As for defending your troops... America ain't is a state of war, so the right to the freedom of speech still stands uncurbed.
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another example of a liberal dodging a well researched question. Want to confuse a liberal? Move form the realm of theory into the realm of real life fact. I think I now understand why liberals get the impression that conservatives don't argue with them.... it's just not worth the energy and effort to argue with people who don't know how the world really works
Okay, realm of reality: modern democracy is called a liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is founded on the principles of freedom. Freedom includes freedom of speech.
Libel and slander are heavy words, usually thrown around by people who either don't understand their meaning or don't know the law. Usually both.
So far there were no defamatory messages in these comments, and you'd be unable to find any.
Oh, and to help you understand: pointing out the pointlessness of Iraq is not defamatory.
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On free speech...of course it is unrestricted, and in that case feel free to demeane our troops who protect inoocent civilians (in Iraq and other countries) and defend those who slander our soldiers. If that is the situation, I would practice my "uncurbed" right to free speech by saying that insulting our brave troops is disgusting, insulting, shows no concern for the well being of others, is ignorant, and shows a complete lack of competance of how the world really works.
Yes, you can do that. I'll counter that with the fact that the US invasion of Iraq has destabilized the region thoroughly, galvanized the Islam rebels and united them under a common banner and led to gas prices soaring.
Not to mention the cost of the war is taxing the USA dearly, leaving Iraq a messed up hellhole no matter how much money you pump into it and America in a weakened state, going straight into recession on a car fueled by conservatives.
Finally, the day any American takes any kind of political or military advice from a liberal polish weenie (WWI, WWII....) is the day Satan skates to work.
Too bad respected historians agree that it was the USSR that won the war, not America. Until the fall of Berlin, the amount of Reich military engaged against the Soviets on the Eastern Front was far greater than the one facing the Western Allies.
Not to mention the superior numbers of Soviet troops to those of the West.
In short, America helped win the war, but it was the Soviet Union that actually won it (and screwing Poland in the process, with help from America and it's allies).
I didn't mean that America had superior power, I meant they benefited most from the war. The USSR lost great numbers of people, but America received a massive boost to its economy. I also don't dispute that the Soviet Union was almost certainly Germany's biggest foe, but that was not what I meant.
True. One of the sources was the immense demand the war-torn Europe created and the supply America could provide.
Though Soviet Union didn't really lose: it earned a lot of land and influence in Europe, taken Poland, east Germany, Czechoslovakia, giving it the ability to position large amounts of troops and ordnance that can invade the west at moment's notice.
Sorry for my initial hostility, I can be a little on the edge sometimes.
The USA and Britain won the war, their associate, and (former Hitler semi-ally) USSR got the most out of it They had a lot of troops on the ground, their war effort was propped up by the mighty US industrial production.
Whats so hard about this? Whats it doing in a Python board would be a better question, tho.
anyone arguing politics over a monty python sketch needs to get a life. seems like not even monty python is sacred to the blame america first wing of the looney left. anyone arguing for our soldiers to desert is not fit to kiss thier boots, let alone has an appriciation for the sacrifices made for liberty and freedom. get a life after you move out of your parent's basement you ignorant piece of liberal crap "betweenlakes" more like between brain transplants
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I think it's fair to ask if this sketch was an (but only an) inspiration to Lt. Ehren Watada to effectively desert, given that this sketch is such a favorite of the so-called "anti-war" Left.
It's a shame there aren't any similar comedians nowadays. They could convince more soldiers to "desert". All soldiers should desert, because they are not fighting a war. A war is fought between two armies. not between one army and a nation of civilians. You want to stop terrorists? Filling their homeland with foreign troops and foreign mercenaries is NOT the way to do it. ALL SOLDIERS SHOULD DESERT.
Are John Cleese's chevrons on upside-down?
Somehow that just makes the sketch complete.
Stonegolem42 1 week ago
That's a very nice military base you've got there... Would be a shame if something were to... Happen... To it...
PaisGreenapple3 2 weeks ago
"Oh sorry Colonel..." XD
ComradeRichey 2 months ago
michael palin's character reminds me of danny from withnail and i
hulmedogcity 3 months ago
....thats a very nice house you have there ;) (creeper voice)
thebigbadwolf96 4 months ago 2
@thebigbadwolf96 I am Dave!Yognaut *Salutes*
Halofanbiggest 1 month ago
Nice video you got 'ere, Colonel! Be a shame if someone were to... dislike it, eh, Colonel?
MrBuch169169 6 months ago 13
man, what model are those glasses? i want those! anyone know? : D
heeerro 8 months ago
Things burn....
dukeon 8 months ago
thumbs up if you would appear in a frontal nude scene
Kaiyou1691 9 months ago 7
Aww, the sketch was cut short. I would have wanted it to continue a few more lines:
"I'm a Coward, sir. My father was a Coward and his father was a Coward before him, sir. I come from a long, healthy line of Cowards, sir. My grandfather, Henry S. Coward, left the army before the big civil war."
2hakkabakka 10 months ago 5
@2hakkabakka oh you made my day!
Sovietsam1 10 months ago
@Sovietsam1
"Well that's no reason to leave the army, private. How fast can you run?"
"Well that depends on what I'm running from, sir. I've been running from personal issues all my life, but nothing makes me run quite as fast as the sound of a starting gun. I bet I'd be the top of my PE class if I would ever dare to show up."
"You sound like a natural. Have you considered the 5th Batallion of Strategical Retreat?"
"Strategical Retreat, sir?"
"Yes, let's view an instructional video:"
...
2hakkabakka 10 months ago 4
That guy could learn much from the Gurkahs. "Better to die than be a coward." Pacifist is simply out of the question.
LivingCrusader 11 months ago
@LivingCrusader which is where the humour comes from
tvc18 9 months ago
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kallepellereino 11 months ago
Shut up, you eye-tie!
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regina4968 1 year ago
Right I'm ending this sketch, no, no, Its been five minutes and I havn't heard a funny line in the whole thing.
Wowfang 1 year ago
@Wowfang It's only 'cause you couldn't think of a punch line!
dharmaseed 7 months ago
this is really bad quality it needs re-uploading, but other than that its a great sketch when it works.
HeeroYuy911 1 year ago
our lads don't have enough kit to be destroyed!
fragman08 1 year ago
My favorite sketch of the pythons
Jigen25 1 year ago
Look, I stopped your sketch five minutes ago, so get out of shot!
murielsartre 1 year ago
what if the colonel actually took the deal??
GFAWJ 1 year ago
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7Inform 1 year ago
what is the name of the song of the intro ??? 0:19?
josephslb 2 years ago
The Beer Barrel Polka
richrauch 2 years ago
You just couldn't think of a punchline.
Quiet.
ErichoTTA 2 years ago
@ErichoTTA It's still funny without a punch line. And I am not even british.
MsPwain 7 months ago
Me bruvver's clumsy!
Villagejonesy 2 years ago 4
I have a request. Could you put all the monty python-clips that you put up here, in a playlist so they are easier to find?
Nice initiative!
SolanderJuggler 2 years ago
I agree.
WarhawkMLKA 2 years ago
...cause'.....'fings break, dunnay?...
ahahah my favorite skit
mammers11 2 years ago 8
I love michael palin in this...
Tinne07 2 years ago 6
"I'm not a pacifist. I'm a coward."
coolmccool5 2 years ago 72
"That's a very silly lie"
Finnishbastard 2 years ago
its as though you think we are all deaf? we watched the video...
littlemonty94 2 years ago
@Finnishbastard
You didn't listen clearly; he said a very silly LINE; the Colonel was known to point out when things got too silly and abruptly end sketches that got too silly.
frankydman 2 years ago 5
line
Crossbowman 2 years ago
@coolmccool5 im a pacifist and a coward!
WIN/WIN!
amohotepv 1 year ago
Okay! Cue the cartoon.....
No more of yours! I've ended your too silly sketch. Now continue!.......
Novazi74 2 years ago
Genius...
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pjev93 2 years ago
I love graham c in this!
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themontypythonmuseum 2 years ago
lol this is one of the best sketches they made! doe anyone know the music at 0.26 - 0.34?
kool1678 2 years ago
tis 'Roll Out The Barrel'
middenrat 2 years ago
thank you!
kool1678 2 years ago
The chap who had this concept dreamed up should get a medal of honour.
RasMajnouni 2 years ago 2
"No sir, not a pacifist sir, I'm a coward."
Love that line. :)
MajorWoeButWhy 2 years ago 7
I answered that when I was asked if I was joining Civil Service for ethical reasons, such as pacifism.
Digitaaliklosetti 2 years ago 4
I think, if you cant grasp the sheer humor of this with absoloutely bizzare and off the bat punchlines and scenes, its probably not the humor for you. the best way to look at it is, a protection racket would go round small shops and threaten them, but when someone says they have tanks and soldiers, its completley barmy. then they haggle at the end lol also a division of paratroopers cant catch fire lol, so its like they have scripted a few gangsters and changed the things they threaten lol :)
expurgatetor 2 years ago
this is silly
byteresistor 2 years ago
Eric Idle is obviously paranoid. Still, the Health and Safety Exec must surely be concerned about the Army - and warfare in general. I suspect that they'll stop people going to war without a license.
DavidMJordan 2 years ago
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its a shame that eric idle is dead
sbk06 2 years ago
he isn't
Bahutsauvage 2 years ago 3
oh yea whoops thats the guy who was gay
sbk06 2 years ago
"Set fire to them??"
"Fires happen, colonel..."
"Things burn..."
haha =) they look so cool in this scene <3
But I really like Eric Idle in the beginning too
gottalovePython 2 years ago 13
"you've got a pretty nice army and don't want anything to happen to it!!":)))
Medora12 2 years ago 63
@Medora12 Isss that a referenccce?
CreeperPootis 2 months ago
AND THE FRENCH RESISTANCE
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Alisonfsweetheart23 2 years ago
Oh, you're no fun anymore!
ridingisasport 2 years ago 7
Right, these comments are getting too silly. I'm stopping them :D
bo0kw05m 2 years ago 8
Stopping, eh? So you want to stop them...what a foolish idea...I'd be afraid then that something really might break near you...
:D
Myrmelie 2 years ago
Are you threatening me? :D
bo0kw05m 2 years ago
Who, me?
Oh, no, no, nooo....I'd _never_ do such a thing.... Just a friendly warning, that's all
:D
Myrmelie 2 years ago
Okay, this is getting far too silly. It started as a nice little joke, but now it's gone too far. I'm stopping this.
bo0kw05m 2 years ago 2
Ok, allright.
:)
Myrmelie 2 years ago
Oh, you're no fun anymore!
GreetingsFromFinland 2 years ago
Bring the chicken
Myrmelie 2 years ago
Welshman with bronze 1927 halfpenny wants to exchange for one exactly the same. Write to Pointless Swaps, Ltd., Pants, Hants.
FrankLJ 2 years ago
So what sort of accent is it when Brits replace "th" with "f" (like "fings break")?
anon2999 2 years ago
Lower income areas of London seem to have it.
thewickedfae 2 years ago
Cockney
tawtu 2 years ago
Thanks :)
anon2999 2 years ago
Set fire to two divisions of paratroopers!
lieutenanterrrrrrrr 2 years ago
Palin at his finest!!!Please up "The Cycling Tour" if you have it!
creamween 2 years ago 8
water skiing and travel - that's what they emphasise when recruiting.
jesoby 2 years ago 5
ROFL!!! Monty Python practicly started the random sketch phenominon (if that made sense) they are geniuses and the 1st tym ya watch this ya never in a million yrs would have guessed how it turned out XD
kimbob5 3 years ago 4
"I'd like to leave the army please sir"
"Good heavens man why?"
"It's DANGEROUS!" LOL
Terry & MIchael look so damn cool here!
Oh, Michael! I love you <3
AutumnxMeadows93 3 years ago 5
"...be a shame if something happened to it"
possibly my favorite monty python sketch
mammers11 3 years ago 4
My God, I love this sketch.
hauntinghouse 3 years ago 2
"tank"s break colonel" classic comedy
Demogogue6866 3 years ago 2
lmao i love Graham xD
oOYourNotMeOo 3 years ago 4
im sure he loves you to (nudge nudge wink wink no wat i mean!)
dagiantpoo2 3 years ago
oh yes i can imagine :P LOL
oOYourNotMeOo 3 years ago
2:31 'what do we want' their laughter is priceless
SingHouse 3 years ago 7
"Could save you a lot a bovver."
jackiechampion 3 years ago
"It's only 'cos you couldn't think of a punch line" HAHA MICHEAL PALIN!
cartridgeboxers 3 years ago 17
at 0:31 , wouldnt it be funny if one of them hit the guy in front of them?
virginianthrashmetal 3 years ago
*Throws mug onto floor*
Dino: Aww, sorry, Colonel!
Later...
Luigi: Well, everythin' breaks, don't it, Colonel?
*Sweeps porcelain piece from desk onto floor*
Luigi: Oh dear!
Dino: Aww, see ma' brother's clumsy, Colonel!
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meblin78 3 years ago
The budget from just one of Harry Enfield's over produced, under written sketches would pay for a whole series of this kind of clever comedy. The BBC is hopeless these days, commissions any old crap.
sunbeam11 3 years ago 8
hahaahha its only cause you couldn't think of a punchline
LOL
happyprincess456 3 years ago 3
If it were a big war, SOMEONE COULD BE HURT! lol, Hawkins, are you a pacifist? No sir, I'm a coward. lol.
angelmarine1292 3 years ago 14
amazing!!
this is one of my
all-time favorite sketches!
i ablsolutley adore
Graham Chapman!
What a terrible loss
for the comedy
world.
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nizanchan 3 years ago
Think!
Knowledge is Power!
system0system 3 years ago
whoah, Michael is hot in this.
communiqation 3 years ago 7
yeah... those feathers in his hair... and the white wig... just gorgeous, eh? LOL.
but yeah, he's definitely an eye candy... even as he's threatening the "general" for bubblewings (winks?).
blckprljin 3 years ago
"-its only caouse you couldnt think of a punchline.
-not true, not true"
i think im in love with luigi
smalltalkNchips 3 years ago 9
F'ings BREAK, don'ey?
murielsartre 3 years ago 5
Fire's happen' Cornol - Fings burn!
Mandosami 3 years ago 8
That's one of my favourite sketches!
thompompey32 3 years ago 3
"we can guarantee you that not a single armored division will get done over... for fifteen bob a week"
Comedy gold, can truly say LOL.
optikman8 3 years ago 6
For some reason, Eric messed up his "proper ones, not toy ones!" line a teeny bit.
FishTitan64 3 years ago
How so?
AceKing47 3 years ago
One of my favorites of all time. Awesome.
usnationalist 3 years ago
I'm not a pacifist, I'm a coward
HarryShec35 3 years ago 11
thats a very silly comment. Awfully bad.
usnationalist 3 years ago 8
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lol In real life, the army wouldn't tell you any of this information because they're think your a spy. And if they do tell you, then they would have to shoot you. Like CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), or MI6 and MI7 etc. (Cancel all of this if you are already in the army. Then they may tell you).
BothtaweeKelly 3 years ago
One of my favorites!
servantofLoviatar 3 years ago
You've got a nice army base here, colonel.
Yes.
we wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
It would be a shame if someone was to set fire to 'em.
I love this sketch ssooooooo much and Michael and Terry are very sexy and slick in this sketch.
backwardswhalebone 3 years ago 5
i request man turns into scotsman if u havnt already uploaded
jenica2000 3 years ago 2
if u could meld all the Gumby bits together, that would be sweet.
flibideegibbit 3 years ago 2
This is my favourite episode, well at least in my top three :), good show Chadner!
madseadog 3 years ago
STOP THIS! THIS IS SILLY!
OnlySanePerson 3 years ago 7
Hello callie! (:
bwhahrhr 3 years ago
hello matthias...seriously...you and i were born out of the same nutshell...
rcalliec 3 years ago
Stop this, this is silly. No human being is born in a nutshell!
bwhahrhr 3 years ago 2
ok then...seashell;-)
rcalliec 3 years ago 2
This is silly.
dharmaseed 3 years ago 4
Well, yeah. :D
JonnySegment 3 years ago
It's Monty Python - that's sort of the point.
lodger111 3 years ago
Yep sillyness at it's best.
batmanofni 3 years ago
this is the last time i'm telling u guys to take your political 'jaw jacking' to the chat boards not to the comments&responces board on u tube. PS Monty python still the best XD!
fullonrepublec 3 years ago 2
I love how every Python Italian/con man is named Luigi Vercotti!
iluvcheezitsheyhey 3 years ago 2
No barley-crossed fingers
jemmer100 3 years ago 3
hey this is to post comments on the video clips not to debate polotics and what-not. So take it to the chat boards. PS Monty Python=greatest comedy show ever.
fullonrepublec 3 years ago 4
thank you
kweinelt 3 years ago
Can the pro-military nutjobs that can't argue worth crap and are either too jaded to read up and understand liberalism or just repeat what their parents and local party leader tell them kindly throw their computers out through the window?
Or at least show they have some balls and instead of being armchair soldiers actually sign up and get their asses kicked in the real army?
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago
pssst... hey it's a STUPID MONTY PYTHON SKETCH NUCKLEHEAD, get over yourself. Oh, and I think that two responses below were reaserched and points argued.... Also, there is a necesity to defend our troops from liberal's libel and slander on the homefront. (General Betray us....)
kweinelt 3 years ago
Errr, no, the two points below were examples of zealotry only the most fanatical party members are capable of. As for defending your troops... America ain't is a state of war, so the right to the freedom of speech still stands uncurbed.
Unless some right wing nutjobs try to limit it.
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago
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another example of a liberal dodging a well researched question. Want to confuse a liberal? Move form the realm of theory into the realm of real life fact. I think I now understand why liberals get the impression that conservatives don't argue with them.... it's just not worth the energy and effort to argue with people who don't know how the world really works
kweinelt 3 years ago
Okay, realm of reality: modern democracy is called a liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is founded on the principles of freedom. Freedom includes freedom of speech.
Libel and slander are heavy words, usually thrown around by people who either don't understand their meaning or don't know the law. Usually both.
So far there were no defamatory messages in these comments, and you'd be unable to find any.
Oh, and to help you understand: pointing out the pointlessness of Iraq is not defamatory.
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago
"Libel and slander are heavy words, usually thrown around by people who either don't understand their meaning or don't know the law. Usually both."
You're lucky. In Singapore the opposition gets bankrupted and made jobless by libel and slander suits.
rajasmasala 3 years ago
I can't assume the courts are neutral, can I?
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago
I can't assume the courts are neutral, can I?
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago
No, Singapore's administration is a family operation.
rajasmasala 3 years ago
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On free speech...of course it is unrestricted, and in that case feel free to demeane our troops who protect inoocent civilians (in Iraq and other countries) and defend those who slander our soldiers. If that is the situation, I would practice my "uncurbed" right to free speech by saying that insulting our brave troops is disgusting, insulting, shows no concern for the well being of others, is ignorant, and shows a complete lack of competance of how the world really works.
kweinelt 3 years ago
Yes, you can do that. I'll counter that with the fact that the US invasion of Iraq has destabilized the region thoroughly, galvanized the Islam rebels and united them under a common banner and led to gas prices soaring.
Not to mention the cost of the war is taxing the USA dearly, leaving Iraq a messed up hellhole no matter how much money you pump into it and America in a weakened state, going straight into recession on a car fueled by conservatives.
Real world ain't pretty.
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago
Finally, the day any American takes any kind of political or military advice from a liberal polish weenie (WWI, WWII....) is the day Satan skates to work.
kweinelt 3 years ago
And I assume you live under the delusion that America won World War II?
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago 2
No respectable historian disputes that, at least.
snypylo 3 years ago
Too bad respected historians agree that it was the USSR that won the war, not America. Until the fall of Berlin, the amount of Reich military engaged against the Soviets on the Eastern Front was far greater than the one facing the Western Allies.
Not to mention the superior numbers of Soviet troops to those of the West.
In short, America helped win the war, but it was the Soviet Union that actually won it (and screwing Poland in the process, with help from America and it's allies).
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago 2
I didn't mean that America had superior power, I meant they benefited most from the war. The USSR lost great numbers of people, but America received a massive boost to its economy. I also don't dispute that the Soviet Union was almost certainly Germany's biggest foe, but that was not what I meant.
snypylo 3 years ago 2
True. One of the sources was the immense demand the war-torn Europe created and the supply America could provide.
Though Soviet Union didn't really lose: it earned a lot of land and influence in Europe, taken Poland, east Germany, Czechoslovakia, giving it the ability to position large amounts of troops and ordnance that can invade the west at moment's notice.
Sorry for my initial hostility, I can be a little on the edge sometimes.
MikaelGrizzly 3 years ago 2
The USA and Britain won the war, their associate, and (former Hitler semi-ally) USSR got the most out of it They had a lot of troops on the ground, their war effort was propped up by the mighty US industrial production.
Whats so hard about this? Whats it doing in a Python board would be a better question, tho.
FrankLJ 2 years ago
ummm hello... and Canada!
andreya133 2 years ago
Whether or not it's on a python board, it happens to be utterly, utterly, wrong. You should read some history.
plevyman 2 years ago
now can we all just laugh at a silly monty python sketch, please?
kweinelt 3 years ago 7
anyone arguing politics over a monty python sketch needs to get a life. seems like not even monty python is sacred to the blame america first wing of the looney left. anyone arguing for our soldiers to desert is not fit to kiss thier boots, let alone has an appriciation for the sacrifices made for liberty and freedom. get a life after you move out of your parent's basement you ignorant piece of liberal crap "betweenlakes" more like between brain transplants
kweinelt 3 years ago 4
Shut up you eye-ties.
dacrlit 3 years ago 2
"This is silly and very badly written"
danvinesexgod 3 years ago 4
"paratroops dino."
"it would be a shame if someone was to set fire to them."
i dont know why, but i always laugh so hard at that part
blender7 4 years ago 3
I wish i was the matchstick Michael's got...
Squee!
Sukriti 4 years ago 2
Have you noticed that all the Italian people in Python are all called Luigi Vercotti?
Its hilarious....
Sukriti 4 years ago 7
Hey, can someone please tell me how much a "bob" is?
=]
Sukriti 4 years ago 4
1 bob = 1 shilling.
A cupronickel coin and former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the 20th part of a pound, equal to 12 pence: retained in circulation equal to 5 new pence after decimalization in 1971.
smaakjeks 4 years ago 5
Shut up, you Eye-tie!
Cut at the very ned.
Jemmer1000 4 years ago 3
I love MIchael to death@@
Sukriti 4 years ago 9
This sketch is BRILLIANT>..
Michael and Terry J. look SOOOO damn cool...
anukriti 4 years ago 6
MIchael at 2:10... Yummy.
Sukriti 4 years ago 6
'I'm the senior officer here and I haven't had a funny line yet.'
hooweelewis 4 years ago 2
bein italian i can say we all dont act liek that but this skit is hilarious i love the suits
Malibunightrider 4 years ago 2
i love michaels suit! lol
foreverWHOfan 4 years ago 2
you've got a nnice army base here, it would be a shame if something happended to it. wink wink, nudge nudge, say not more
slushy50254 4 years ago 5
This is one of the best ones ive ever seen.
jsantiii 4 years ago
"Are you a pacifist?" "No sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir; I'm a coward"
Terry and Michael make great mafiosos, but Graham steals the scene as the "straight man"
Tareltonlives 4 years ago 9
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I think it's fair to ask if this sketch was an (but only an) inspiration to Lt. Ehren Watada to effectively desert, given that this sketch is such a favorite of the so-called "anti-war" Left.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
Possibly. It's not nearly as anti-war as some of the other sketches.
Tareltonlives 4 years ago
Given that this was only from their first series, it could be said they were just starting . . .
wmbrown6 4 years ago
It's a shame there aren't any similar comedians nowadays. They could convince more soldiers to "desert". All soldiers should desert, because they are not fighting a war. A war is fought between two armies. not between one army and a nation of civilians. You want to stop terrorists? Filling their homeland with foreign troops and foreign mercenaries is NOT the way to do it. ALL SOLDIERS SHOULD DESERT.
betweenlakes 3 years ago