Writers (Wilde, Shaw) - Monty Python's Flying Circus

[popsnorman]

Graham is soooooooooooooo hot with Black hair

[shawnanthony1992]

"Come on Shawry!"

[imadude113]

It's always so awesome when you find out that your comedy idols have satirized your author idols.

[theartofbeinglovely]

@imadude113 yes, yes, exactly!

[julunatic1]

"All of us are lying in the gutter - BUT - Some of us are looking up Womens skirts". Oscar`s distant 'accident' ~ Julie Wilde.

[Blackadder125]

"There is only one thing worse than playing squash together, and that is playing it by yourself." - Truer words have never been spoken.

[monkeysoulpoet]

One nitpick: The real Whistler was born in the US moved to England in his teens. He probably wouldn't have had an English accent.

[monkeysoulpoet]

I fricking love this sketch, because I love Wilde. 

[hanson666999]

lol

[BassaiDai123]

"We've got him, Jim"

[PhilCAFC]

My favourite ever Python sketch - Brilliant

[sugarfreelemonade]

Veddy witty.

[Malaikat31]

you bastards.

[ricarleite]

The chery on the top is Terry Jones moving to shake Palin's hand.

[RustyBanks]

4 people are like a dose of clap

[ShimmyPilates]

C'MON SHAWRY!

[BelatedCommiseration]

This upload is like a jelly and ice cream atop an enormous wobbling breast of plenty...covered in bats piss. What I mean by that is that even though we may be as blind as the proverbial bat we are still get over excited when we encounter paradise at a tangent. Yeah...thats what I meant...ahem...there's only one Wilde themed sketch as good as this and that's by Alexi Sayle, featured in Alexi Sayles merry go round t.v show. Maybe someone uploaded it? Maybe I'll go and have a rapturous gaze...

[SuperWolsey]

@BelatedCommiseration What? lol

[blindthrall]

There is only one thing worse than being a flaming homosexual, and that is disliking this video.

[ronoc9]

@blindthrall Oscar Wilde wish he had said that.

[statethatiamin]

There's only one thing worse than a stream of bat piss, and it's the 4 blokes who disliked this video

[mrracy]

Brilliant

[Monaqute]

you bastards

[davenuttall1958]

Absolute top drawer - I've watched it a million times and still laugh out loud!!

[wingnutofcoolness]

I've heard this many times on "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" but this is the fist ti. Great stuff.me I've seen it

[wingnutofcoolness]

@wingnutofcoolness I did'nt type it like that!

[snarkus63]

There is only one thing worse about doing a sketch about Oscar Wilde,and that is.....doing a sketch about an insurance adjuster in Leeds.

{sorry,all the good ones were taken}

[elleoneiram]

I laugh every time.

[MUFC127]

@axellllle I agree.

[mendelbot]

@axellllle From Google translate, this is what you said:

is intriguing: it is invariably the same, it seems to print a young person and a travesty. His neck is quite peculiar and hairy.

According to the people of the aviation club with which I cose then it often goes into space evec a girl beside her, she drives herself

axellllle 2 months ago

[mm2ijojo]

your majesty is like a dose of clap. lol

[ThePinkFloydPig]

The Best Sketch Ever!

[tufftiddy]

lmao

[ILikeMilk09]

Chapman's Wilde is F A B U L O U S ! ; )

[CrimsonToast]

"You Bastards!"

[MontyPython246]

OMG, Graham Chapman in this wig (without the lipstick) looks a lot like John Entwistle!

[thefishyswa]

there is only one thing in the world worse than being on youtube. And that is not being on youtube...

[N4psteryy]

Some people got VERY rare sense of humor..

[gatadandy]

@N4psteryy And I see some people don't have sense of humor at all

[DarkTider]

@N4psteryy There is only one thing worse than having a rare sense of humor, and that is having no sense of humour

[yourdefeated]

You bastards.

[phemyda94]

Lols I just noticed Graham is holding a daffodil

[Hrothgar01]

I wish I didn't say that.

[whatuswattingat]

Been a fan of Python since it first hit PBS in the 70's. My mom HATED that I watched this show, but I snuck and watched it anyway! VIVA LA PYTHON!

[TubeTolo]

I thought I have seen all MP sketches. Unfortunately I was wrong!

[Vlevlad]

@TubeTolo Fortunately*

[DeliciousBubbleTea]

Come on Shawry, come on!

[PrichardLeighann]

Huh? O.o

[soniday4444]

que el diablo los castige por su burla

[movement26]

"Your majesty is like a stream of bat's piss"............."I merely meant your majesty that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark"...............Shaw would have been proud of that.

[274blake]

@movement26 so true

[Calucifer13]

YOU BASTARDS!!!

[msudreaming]

your majesty is like a dose of clap

[Operapenguin]

Why is this sketch so awesome

[soniday4444]

que lean echo wilde

[grai]

your majesty is like a streak of bat's piss

[GROMINBLX]

@Bestmanme08 u proabably dnt understand M.P humour -.-'

[fyeJack]

@ZennXPaladin oh the irony

[ZennXPaladin]

@fyeJack ...true...

[argetlamgirl711]

1:12

Awww Oscar... they can't all be gems...

[phemyda94]

"IT SODDING WAS NOT!"

hilarious moment, especially coming from oscar wilde

[whatuswattingat]

@phemyda94 OMG! I'M LAUGHING RIGHT NOW AT THAT PART! OVER AND OVER AGAIN!

[JapaninArmeija]

This is a much better sketch than the infamously titled "best Python skit ever" with three million youtube hits.

[Dodo251]

@JapaninArmeija You're right. I was just about to say that.

[JapaninArmeija]

@Dodo251

There's only one thing worse than just being about to say that, and that is that someone else has already said that before.

[Dodo251]

@JapaninArmeija hahahahaha

[bobosmokey]

@Dodo251 I wish I had said that

[Dodo251]

@bobosmokey You will Bob, you will.

[EdLoveFilms]

another masterpiece.

[Merseyrock]

Fab sketch. I see it as an allegory. These artists and the Sovereign? Wilde wrote about artistic freedom and conceived the artist as being antinomian - i.e. "as being above the law," so to speak. And that is clearly happening here: Oscar, George, and James are slapping one another with lilies in front of the King - for whom one feels rather sorry: for Him to be at their mercy, incapable to keep up with their duel of wits.

[floatingtrains]

I love Wilde. And this sketch was brilliant.

[browndog1980]

My favorite python sketch ever.

Shaw: You bastards!

[Apollo580]

"You bastards."

[pidepiperer]

smart ass ha ha 2:16

[Dandyincursive]

Wilde is superior because Wilde dressed better.

[Aeoen]

Why don't they give Wilde an Irish accent? he was from Dublin, after all.

[ColdLittleAshes]

@Aeoen

When Oscar started going to Oxford he quickly began speaking with an English accent because the other boys made fun of his Irish accent ^___^

[tomatoherb]

Can we hunt down the one person who disliked this and kill him?!

[MrJayismusic]

@tomatoherb Seconded.

[BobbyReed]

Just found this in Frank Harris's book on Wilde:

Oscar sat at his feet and imbibed as much as he could of the new aesthetic

gospel. He even ventured to annex some of the master's most telling stories

and thus came into conflict with his teacher.

One incident may find a place here.

The art critic of "The Times", Mr. Humphry Ward, had come to see an exhibition

of Whistler's pictures. Filled with an undue sense of his own importance, he

buttonholed the master and pointing to one picture said:

[BobbyReed]

@BobbyReed "That's good, first-rate, a lovely bit of colour; but that, you know," he went on, jerking his finger over his shoulder at another picture, "that's bad,

drawing all wrong . . . bad!"

"My dear fellow," cried Whistler, "you must never say that this painting's good

or that bad, never! Good and bad are not terms to be used by you; but say, I

like this, and I dislike that, and you'll be within your right. And now come

and have a whiskey for you're sure to like that."

[BobbyReed]

@BobbyReed

Carried away by the witty fling, Oscar cried:

"I wish I had said that."

"You will, Oscar, you will," came Whistler's lightning thrust.

[floatingtrains]

"There is only one thing worse than playing squash together, and that is playing it by yourself." *Silence* Hahaha.

[cnankive]

James Whistler was not actually a writer. He was a painter. He was known for being a sharp talker though. He ran rings around the art critic John Ruskin when he brought him to court on charges of libel. He was just very witty but was not a writer.

[Covertwalrus]

@cnankive The bit of dialoguie about Wilde wishing he said it is actually taken from rela life - Wilde was notorious for quoting other people's lines in polished versions in writings and on social occasions. Whistler made the jibe as he was the victim of this theft frequently.

[ryandenki]

I never saw this Monty Python-very witty.

[dreamevil32]

Ironinc how Graham Chapman played Oscar Wilde :p it was probably like an inside joke for the Pythons cause they knew of Chapman's homosexuality but the rest of us didnt

[maxpowers518]

Shawy! Shaaaaawy!

[free0fight]

well said, goodluckpeace44! yeah, that quote is from Lady Windermere's Fan...i think you got it down pretty well...=)

[lisambofoh]

Graham Chapman looks *exactly* like Oscar Wilde.

[goodluckpeace44]

both gay ...

[lisambofoh]

Both bisexual, to be precise.

[free0fight]

wow, im reading Wilde's works right now, matter of fact(Dorian Gray, Windermere's Fan, Salome, Being Earnest, and just downloaded Reading Gaol...)...he was always known for being witty, and this sketch makes fun of his witty remarks...brilliant!

[goodluckpeace44]

actualy that "not being talked about" is very witty. Imagine you were an artist like in the book Dorian Gray and you were saying "oh I am emberassed to show my work i put too much of myself in to it," and so on..then that is the very saying you must apply to yourself.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and don't know the value of anything.

A sentimentalist is a man who knows some absurd value of anything and knows the market price of nothing.. something like that

[mapache11]

@free0fight... "..this sketch makes fun of his witty remarks." Really. Thanks for clearing that up for all of us. We didn't know what it was about or who any of the WORLD FUCKING FAMOUS writers they were imitating.

[free0fight]

oh, sorry, didnt mean to point out the obvious...sorry man...

[MrShakeable]

it"s

[beckenbauers]

Hysterical funny!!!

[missgreeneyes56]

Come on Sharie! Michael Palin was always my favourite. He's a great actor and he really makes you feel sorry for him. George Bernard Shaw was a bit of an arrogant bastard IMHO.

[mairyjhinge]

My fave ever Python sketch. Agree with retread01 about audio version seeming funnier... after each shocking line's delivery there was a pause then audible gasps followed by relieved sighs when each clever riposte was explained. I used to be near tears with laughter; perhaps I imagined it better than I can explain it lol

[TheOdderOne]

"Gotta get back up palace." Love that line for some reason.

[retread01]

There is an audio only version of this recorded for an album they put out. I think the delivery is better in that version. Cleese says "Your majesty, is like a stream of bat's piss!" much more like a grand proclamation than the way he almost mumbles it here.

I think they were wary of saying it in that way on TV, on records you could get away with practically anything.

[anneathletic11]

haha, thanks a lot! I got to do research on Oscar Wilde for a school project, and this cracked me up!

[8825TWO]

The absurdists mocking the sarcastic.

I love it!

[XtalGameVids]

ive loved this scetch for years,such a intelligent piss take

[MacKlaus71]

"There is only one thing worse than playing squash together, and that is playing it by yourself".

(silence... see the face of Chapman, LOL XD XD XD !!!)

[gar137]

"I sodding did NOT!!!!" Great scene- thanks for posting.

[cecilyalgernon]

I love the pretentious laughter... so genius.... so Graham Chapman..

c'mon shawry

[jevalles]

A minor point, but just another example of Monty P always getting it right--The Prince of Wales was a very short man, and here he is just that! There is a wax figure of him on display at Warwick Castle that matches the character here completely, down to the sash and buttons. Well worth a visit!

[jevalles]

This skit was in direct satire of the BBC production, "Lillie", about the life of Lily Langtry, which featured all these characters, and was then on the air. Watch that and then come back to this and you'll double your pleasure!

[svengalistudios]

Thank you! I am a BBC fan from the U.S.

[Sam666gelber]

Is Cleese suppose to be James Joyce?

[adr40361]

Cleese is James Mcneil Whistler.

[VariedInterest]

I thought originally that it was Mark Twain, hahaha.

[ParrryHottter]

Twain would have made more sense

[iamamannow]

i dont think you know who oscar wilde is then...

[goodluckpeace44]

Parry Hotter

ha ha hahahah

[PoutinePete]

The thing I love about Python is that their comedy

skits are both intelligent and silly at the same time.

[thespacebandito]

i couldn't have said it better

[AnnoyingLittleShit]

"Your majesty is like a dose of the clap"

Hahhahaha

[Dodo251]

"Before you arrive is a pleasure and after is a pain in a dong."

[SickFoxBand]

Can't watch this without cracking up. and its even funnier having performed 'the importance of being ernest'

Excellent stuff

[Rottenriguez]

You batards! lmao

it sodding was not!

[disrealixgears]

haha chapman's wilde

[ferdelance618]

Yes it is quite ironic that Chapman plays Oscar, lol.

I do like how they are able to do a comedy skit involving Oscar Wilde that doesn't use any reference to him being homosexual. Very funny.

[thischarmingmartin]

Haha. Yes indeed. Good old Matthew Creasy.

[thischarmingmartin]

This is hilarious. I'm an English Literature student, and have been studying Wilde, and one of my lecturers showed us this the other day in a lecture. Almost entirely irrelevant to my course, but freaking hilarious nonetheless.

[adzik1410]

Would that be Glasgow Uni, and would the lecturer be Creasy?

[weikko79]

You don't know what "clap" is? Were you born in 1992 or something?

[happysmellyfish]

I don't think the term is used in america. Correct me if I'm wrong?

[shawnmcghee1]

No, it's called that here too.

[murielsartre]

I'm an American from the Midwest and I've heard that term many times. In health class, no less, when learning about STDs in high school.

People under 35 or so might not use it anymore.

[laughingMorphinist]

"You bastards!":DDD

By the way, Palin almost busted out laughing.

[weikko79]

Where exactly?

[laughingMorphinist]

After he says: "You bastards!"

It is barely noticeable, but if you see it a a couple of times, it will pop out.

[weikko79]

His smiling is obviously part of the role, not an indication that he was about to burst out laughing.

[leavesofautumn]

To be fair, Palin used to corpse all the time. And considering the fact that this would have been broadcast very infrequently, they probably didn't consider it worthwhile to do another take.

[weikko79]

He doesn't even corpse in this one.

[monachos81]

corpse?

[joopiterjoe]

2:32 Not sure that it's a slip, but I think so. Maybe he's thinking about the raspberry that's coming up.

[Jamesisfoshiz]

This is awesome. I showed it to a bunch of ppl while we were doing 'the importance of being earnest' as a school play and they all loved it. Absolute genius

[murielsartre]

The "clap" is gonorrhea.

[bl00b3rry]

some disease like syphilis i believe. but dont quote me on that.

[alhertz]

Classic!

[Raffle08]

Come on, Shaw-y!