Monty Python - Literay Football Discussion

[kisbie]

Eric's character now writes match reports for the Guardian. Cleese's character now works on Soccer Saturday.

[badboybaal77]

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE CREAM OF BRITISH COMEDY.I HOPE SOME OF THE PERFORMERS WATCH THIS,JUST TO APPRECIATE HOW POPULAR THEY WERE,AND STILL ARE.I FEEL FOR MONTY PYTHON THE SAME WAY AMERICANS ARE ABOUT THEIR SPORT.THIS IS ONE REASON I'M PROUD TO BE ENGLISH.LONG LIVE MONTY PYTHON.VERY INTELLIGENT BRITISH COMEDY AT ITS BEST.

[MrBuch169169]

@badboybaal77 ..... good evening, badboybaal77!

[listen2meokidoki]

@badboybaal77 Personally I thought it was of a pretty poor standard, as sketches go. Clease clearly does get the mentality of the typical soccer player playing for England against the vastly more intellectually handicaped Turks.

[makeiteasyable]

i love football

[bigrider2806]

got a footballer off perfect !

[ionean]

I think John Cleese can play the role of Frankenstein without any makeup whatsoever!

[deadstillcurious]

@ionean I think you mean Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein was the scientist.

[ionean]

@deadstillcurious I stand corrected.

[Vermin298]

i doubt John ever got drunk and physically abused a strange woman in a bar.

[yoochoobb]

David Beckham, anybody?

[jasobres]

Good evening, Brian.

Well, Brian....................I'm opening a boutique.

I hit the ball first time and there it was in the back of the net.

I've fallen off my chair, Brian.

[CrystalHunter1989]

"Dear Sir, I apologize that this letter is late. It should have come at the beginning of the program."

[GoblinXXX]

I've often wondered why they bother interviewing sports stars of any kind, or at least ask them things like "what are you going to do in the game?" They always have the same cliche' answers, and it's kind of like asking an artist how he's going to paint a picture.

[JimTLonW6]

Those of us not interested in football are pretty well mystified by what football people say anyway.

One gem that came my way from an intense discussion was 'The real problem is a lack of creative play in the midfield'. I don't know what it means, but if you find a couple of football fans and interject this into the discussion the amazing thing is that they will agree with you!

[haristhec]

@JimTLonW6 pretty good, and i'm a football fan myself!

[drumsterZ]

GOD BLESS JOHN CLEESE!!!! Jimmy Buzzard is a Bristol City fan you know...

[thefogster61]

The title for this video is just perfect

[krstcmjns]

'I've fallen off my seat Brian' xD

[Jonc101]

more in his 'poofy' mode than a soccer playing thug :-)

FJ

[TheTinTrooper]

I've fallen off my chair, Brian!

[movement26]

Buzzard is actually spelt incorrectly. It should read Jimmy Bullard.

[queenastilon]

Jimmy Buzzard opening a boutique (we don't use the word anymore for popular fashion shops) reminds me of when Johan Kruijff was a big Dutch football star. He decided to cash in on his fame by launching a line of fashion sportswear. An interviewer asked him what, in his opinion, was the most important item of clothing. He said "Well, I'd say: clothing."

This was all in Dutch so it wasn't a translation error.

[19ThePurplePython93]

What I love is that further on in this episode, an announcer says, "We now take you back to the Jimmy Buzzard interview, where we understand something exciting's just happened." and it shows Jimmy on the floor saying "I've fallen off my chair, Brian", holding a random banana in his hand. I mean that and the letter at the beginning are so wonderfully random, it's brilliant. MP ftw.

[cianen]

john cleese is ma favorite!!!!!! xD

[kwpndressur]

Literature and football. Ohhh yeah :)

[ytvoice1]

@kwpndressur ...but only monty python could get away with it...

[Moagise87]

"I'm opening a boutique" LoL

[queenrocks21]

I think you can tell at about 2:11 that John is startiing to corpse :) Python Lives On

[xemily91]

took me a minute to realize that they were talking about European Football--Soccer, not American football. But pretty funny in any case. XD

[Moagise87]

Euopean football as you call it is Football, what you play can be best described as

American Rugby

[goldroad7]

I've fallen off my chair Brian!

[OrontesRM]

this is not a parody. footballers are exactly like that.

[stegatops]

You can tell he's not a real footballer...............he's too articulate.

[nak54222]

Does anyone else think their eyes are hot? I adore Eric's deep blue eyes and John's grey eyes! My eyes are like a perfect mixture of them... weird. Maybe that's why I like them!

Vive les Pythons!!!

[romibodoni]

Reminds me somehow of Christiano Ronaldo

[gluups]

Hello Brian, he is opening a boutique!

10000/5*

[Falru]

I'm opening a boutique~

[myehpate]

I love how satisfied he looks after giving a response that's more than 3 words lol

[Phangaea]

Good evening Brian... hahaha i love it, can watch it over and over again =D

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Does anyone else think Cleese almost cracks up at the end?

[kyritachiii]

his voice cracks a bit lol

[dapanzy]

I think that was on purpose though

[back2frinky]

Yes, he did well to keep a straight face throughout this gem of a sketch!

[Pseudologic]

When you practice, after a while the joke gets stale on you and its not funny anymore, especially if you wrote the joke, so you're able to keep a straight face. I think most of these guys are starring in the jokes they were responsible for.

[Tay0aut]

Cleese has such a poker face, he's great!

[ejhwatching]

He looks like that guy on Fawlty Towers....and the guy on the right from a Fish Called Wanda.

[Gruntol5]

Wow - thanks so much for that great observation.

[kachachas]

gee....i wonder why....

[willmac1966]

LOL ffs

[DerekBayRoberts1]

@ejhwatching John Cleese (the guy on the right) was the only that was in both.

[antejenn]

The limpic tentacles of packed Mediterranean defense!!!!!

[Shadowhog]

I'm SO going to his Boutique :D

[fgth1984]

Sky Sports News 1969

[mrtyles]

midfield moral argument. lol.

[soulgnasher]

surely i'm not the first to see that literay is spelled wrong. . . :)

[JakeAnti]

John cleese's timing, so perfect!

[pepomk123]

Good evening Brian...

[murielsartre]

I don't care how many big words and erudite references to great literature this sports commentator uses, I laugh at the "thrusting and bursting."

'E likes being around athletes, then, wot?

[derangedband]

HAHAHAHA!! reminds me of my high school PE teacher

[Jemmer1000]

He hit the ball first time and there it was in the back of the net.

That is the existential essence of the message, the Kantian suppository, which brings the entire thrust of human existence to a point at which we can all admire the DeCartian dualism with which the fnord of Russian exellence is regarded, the foo fighter who denies the existence of dog, the nasty runaround with which we all must deny. In fact, the absolute rennet of random sunshine with which this word salad is evoked.

[golbezomega]

win

[DragonSporks]

Yes.

[LuxNocturnus]

yes we can. love it. and english isnt even my native lang:D pythons are legends

[strawberryfields08]

does anyone have the bit where he is sitting on the floor and he says 'i fell off my chair brian' ??? i love that bit

[RachiruJakotsu]

Holy crap. Eric + Pink shirt? I BELIEVE SO.

Haha, anyway, holy crap, I laughed so hard. I can't even list my favourite parts.

[edaines]

ahah the pythons were ahead of their time:P

[GeneralGrey]

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Good Evening Brian!

[gccoley]

Well, Brian, I'm opening a boutique.

[brokenboy07]

Damn pull out those ears a bit more and it's Rooney.

[BlueEyedCat75]

An almost Proustian display of modern existentialist football...LOL!!

[YinYan7]

is this sketch about footballers as stupid or soemthing?

[lordjosef]

Lol

[fenderkid6]

the fact that you can't string out a sentence properly makes you stupid.

[YinYan7]

was that to me? cause if it was, all i need was spell "something" wrongly. nothing wrong with that.

[robthorn]

A REQUEST:

Do you have the animated bit of the lady at the lively, trendy, crowded cocktail party going to the lavatory?

[jagdwurstmadl]

somehow it reminds me of real footballplayers, definitly most of the german footballplayers are really this stupid.

PS: Before I get any complaints, I'm german.

[nandoaires]

Brazilian and portuguese football players as well, don't be ashamed to say so... :)

[lapislazuli7]

Wer gut spielen kann, muss ja nicht auch noch eloquent sein. (Wäre schon gut, wenn man wenigstens in einem Gebiet etwas drauf hat.) Du kannst hier ja mal "Versteh den Ailton" eingeben... Aber der ist eindeutig gesprächiger als John Cleese in seiner Rolle ;)

[HakunaMatata27]

is the rest of this sketch anywhere? does anyone know what series or episode this is?

[dorekatja]

look a little better next time...

it's Season 1 - Episode 11

[Horizontalvertigo]

i fell off my chair brian

[earendur6]

what is he sayin' at the very end and at 1:24 ?

[Australia19911509]

haha, he says, this is of course symptomatic of a new breed of footballer as it is indeed symptomatic of your whole genre of playing is it not??  annd but have you any plans for dealing with the free-scoring Turkish forwards?

[earendur6]

I meant "I'm opening a boutique" I already found what he said but thanks anyway dude

[Australia19911509]

Last night in the stadium of light jarrow we witnessed the recussitation of a great footballing tradition when jarrow united came of age, in a european sent, with a proustian display of modern excestentialist football. hahaha awesome!

[earendur6]

it is resuscitation not 'recussitation' and its existencialist not 'excestentialist'

[Australia19911509]

Yes, I knew it was wrong... but I couldn't really think of the right way to spell it.. thank's anyway!

[sabanefes]

no it's "existentialist"

[murrmac]

actually, it's "existentialist", not "existencialist"

[crazyclive]

Actually, you're both wrong: it's 'existentialist'. :)

[Kain456]

Good Evening, Brian.

[Squeev]

have u got the sketch with the Irish african witch doctor???

[Australia19911509]

hahaha!!  Love monty Python...

[latiasandlatios4ever]

haha fun

[ChrisCummins]

Is it Eric Idle as the interviewer?

[Australia19911509]

yeah!

[terrestre86]

Look for "Science fiction episode or something like that"

[floydian18]

hahahahah fucking love this show!

[Mois52]

I don't suppose you've got the episode where all of London becomes a blemange? And it's up to a scotsman to win Wimbledon?

[Sukriti]

Oh, lol.. "Science Fiction".

Its on youtube in 3 parts: search Monty python science fiction

[Mois52]

Thanks

[Sukriti]

No problem!

[SlAyErPaTh117]

"I kick the ball the first time and there it was in the back of the net". LMAO

[Crusader1987]

Well Brian, ... ... ... I'm opening a boutique.

Absolutely brilliant.