Palin & Cleese: How to be an icon comedy sketch - Science of the Human Face - BBC

[kittfaust]

can i ask as an outsider what the following questions have to do with the sketch above?

[lotten16]

0:46

when John Cleese holds a gun in his hand, with a face like that

you know you're gonna die

[NikNovi]

@lotten16

you bastards!

[degrassigrl]

He's not completely dead....

[MoultonProductions]

"Ex Monty Python stars Michael Palin and John Cleese...'' Um, ex?!? They are still Monty Python stars, and will always be stars, even years after their deaths. Live long Monty Python, and R.I.P Graham.

[BlandBoy]

can somebody please compile all new sketches with (pythons) from 1983-2011?

[SaerdnaOoOoo]

Fix our selves? What about fixing our species, people with deficiencies tend to make babies for sport while beautiful people feel the need to contain their beauty rather than pass it on. We're so self-important and egoistic that we sacrifice the future for our own convenience. We need to start caring more about what happens after we die and less about self convenience.

[SaerdnaOoOoo]

@SaerdnaOoOoo OMG it wasn't here I intended to post my comment. xD What happened to the function that allowed one to remove ones own comment?

[auntbecky]

@SaerdnaOoOoo That's a bit of a eugeniscist remark dont you think? Who is to decide who is "beautiful" and who is "deficent?" And what type of beauty are you referring to the physical or the true beauty of what's inside?

[onwebcameron]

Brilliant, great to see they still have it, hope they do more.

[tnekkc]

Cleese was not born with talent of a Palin or an Atkinson, but he made up for it in his early years with hard work.

Now Cleese is old, tired, untalented, and lazy.

And his politics are über stupid, too.

[ifureadthisdie]

@tnekkc Shut your stupid conservative ass up.

It's just satire you fucking twit.

[tnekkc]

@ifureadthisdie

Satire? or Shlock?

[auntbecky]

@tnekkc his politics is not anymore stupid than anyone elses and he most certainly not untalented or lazy.

[matt2house]

@tnekkc well did you expect spanish inquisition?

[tnekkc]

@matt2house

After the great work in 1971, Cleese should have got out of show biz.

But no one expects someone like him to give up the spot light.

[matt2house]

@tnekkc of course not, if he did get out of show biz then there wouldn't be shows like fawlty towers and later on making the monty python films and of course making other films beyond monty python. Cleese is also a renown writer as well as a comedic actor.

[tnekkc]

@tnekkc

Renoun liberal.

[Titaniacy]

Even in their old age, Cleese still manages to abuse poor Mikey! Love 'em!

[tnekkc]

For Cleese to display such an immature handling of a gun displays a lack of understanding how the world works.

I think he is in liberal la la land.

[auntbecky]

@tnekkc that was not the point of the sketch.

[tnekkc]

Remember is the early 70's when Cleese and Palin were good together?

[tnekkc]

No recoil, it was a blank.

Cleese is an anti gun liberal who does not know how to properly hold a revolver.

And it was a very good revolver, too, an N frame. I have one of those.

[auntbecky]

@tnekkc who really gives a rat's behind how he holds the stupid thing? this is a comedy sketch. Not an intructional video from the NRA.

[tnekkc]

@auntbecky

Political power comes out the barrel of guns.

It does not come from kind, considerate, intelligent words.

[auntbecky]

@tnekkc Really?

[auntbecky]

@tnekkc And what exactly does this sketch have to do with politcal power. It's about "icons" and the idiocy of our obsession with them. the bloody gun doesn't enter into it.

[Thundermonk99]

@tnekkc i too get my self esteem and sense of masculinity from handling guns. It helps me feel like rugged and powerful.

[tnekkc]

@Thundermonk99

I just killed 3 deer.

It boils down to 75 pounds of meat is in the freezer.

[xhaze8]

@tnekkc "For Cleese to display such an immature handling of a gun displays a lack of understanding how the world works."

Its a comedy sketch...

Are you just trolling? you can't be serious. I know this is youtube comments the place common sense comes to die but come on.

[Thundermonk99]

@tnekkc just another day in desperate struggle for survival...

[auntbecky]

@tnekkc you sure don't know how to dress a dear if all you got out of that is 75 lbs.

[crazytosh1]

@tnekkc of course it was a blank, this isn't a film of John Cleese actually murdering Michael Palin. :|

[tnekkc]

@crazytosh1

Cleese was good 40 years ago.

Now he is an opinionated and repulsive old liberal with nothing left to entertain.

But Palin is hot stuff, right now.

She shoots animals.

She stands up to liberals that would steal everything and every right we have.

[crazytosh1]

@tnekkc There's nothing wrong with being opinionated or liberal, and what do you mean 'steal every right we have' liberals are all about freedom, are you American? Liberals gave you the right to have a gun. You do realise that Sarah Palin and Michael Palin are two different people by the way?

[tnekkc]

@crazytosh1

We are having some trouble with definitions here. The liberals that started this country were libertarian. They wanted to limit gov to a tiny part of our lives.

The liberal that started WWII wanted to increase the size and power of government and pushed gun control and single payer gov paid health care.

The democrats of today are not in the libertarian camp, but the NAZI camp.

Stealing our guns rights is the voting record of liberals like Cleese.

[theherooftime4]

@tnekkc

>the liberal that started world warII

I don't think you know how World War II started.

It was an extension of an earlier conflict called World War I. Look it up.

[tnekkc]

@theherooftime4

You can look at it that way if you want to... but it is not a fact, but an interpretation.

I used to go out with a girl who's uncle was a history prof... he talked like that.. history is an interpretation.

[theherooftime4]

@tnekkc

No... Certain events led to other events, which in turn caused a war which caused conditions which caused another war. It is a fact.

[tnekkc]

@theherooftime4

I am an engineer.

We have higher standards for cause and effect.

WWI causing WWII is not up to engineering standards.

But it works great in YOUR dreams.

[theherooftime4]

@tnekkc

I don't believe you are an engineer. I'm a historian. The treaties that concluded World War I, which were really more like harsh restrictions forcing many nations to cease to grow economically, and socially, ultimately caused civil unrest, which led to nationalist parties rising to power, and continuing a war of conquest. And, no, it works great in YOUR dreams.

[tnekkc]

@theherooftime4

Not only am I an engineer with an engineering degree from the Univ of Wash, so is my father, uncle, wife, cousins, and son.

I have eaten lunch with other engineers that are not related to me for 35 years.

When I as in college, many people said they did no believe I was studying engineering. Engineers are nerds, and I looked normal.

Where I live most guys are 1) attorneys, 2) engineers, 3) doctors, 4) etc.

I can spot the engineers from across the street.

[theherooftime4]

@tnekkc

Yeah well I bet you're a communist or something. Most engineers are communists.

[0FireMaiden0]

Love these two together - Python forever <3

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

Lol so much graham chapman in this sketch it's awesome!

[bourbondream]

Twitter on Verizon is not cool.

[Notebooked]

Oh dear god. XDDDD

[mysticpamela]

Miss you love you, OMG I'm so glad you are still around!!

P.S.

Never, ever mention the female monstrosity who randomly shares Michael Palin's second name. I'm sure the family is horrified enough.

[AshLuvsJonnyStew]

OMG when he brings the gun out is so funny to me!

[profaneLakeman]

i'm always delighted to see how gracefully the members of monty python age <3

[LemmingD84]

That's pretty cool! They should do more sketches again!

[KulaAShaker]

haha..predictable..but still funny..these 2 old buggers should do more stuff like this

[DISHOFTHEDAY69]

still funny

[mrsdylan77]

After all these years michael still acts the same as some of his characters on MP and he is still amazingly sexy.

[hihi0]

Hahaha!  It's really weird cause I never saw them old before, but they're the same people yet SO different...

the mustache.

Where'd it come from.

The mustache.

Do not offend the mustache.

[0zimmerman0]

Totally cool. !!

[VNTuongLai]

After watching this video, I've changed my mind to want to be famous. __ Sing me a Happy Birthday song for my 99th birthday, will you.

[mishmishthe1]

lol wow he should of just said no

[WKaliber1]

where is Sarah Palin?

[TheHarrow1989]

Cop on man, u seem as thick as a ditch, there was no mention of sarah palin anywhere.

[oman54321]

Ex Monty Python stars Michael Palin... not Sarah Palin

[ketmaniac]

Kaliber Lager > WKaliber1

[curb1510]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHA!!

You're kidding right. Pleeeeease tell me your kidding!

[cricfanaticz]

who??? Sarah Palin??? those 15 minutes of fame are long gone. :)

[Erunno89]

She's in Alaska, I believe.

[grnlfe01]

its like Monty Python 2009 fantastic

[fani5000]

Haha, excellent!

[cougarfan1341]

genious as always

[dudeofmagic]

What an idiot

[Erunno89]

Haha, ingenius "You have to die young" to become famous.

[isawienilmen]

haha! Brilliant! I love those two :)

[ccosterg]

British humour at its best. Never boring, always funny.

[MercuryMay94]

Haha, very funny :D

[TracyLalonde]

Hahahahaha.

[elefou]

What year is this from?

[palmmate]

i don't know, but it's new-looka at the computer on his desk (:

[elefou]

Yeah,I think it could be 2003 or so.

[dudeofmagic]

It looks like a newish apple or maybe a pc.

[KajiCarson]

Hilarious! XD

[pedroatlarge]

Social comment at its best.

[Shirley260584]

Whoa! Owch with the gun! But ahhhh, brings back memories...

Python Rocks!

[conejolua]

gracias saludos

[trancebynature2]

very funny typical monty python stuff great