Monty Python in the Netherlands - Sketch recorded for Dutch TV 18-1-1973.

[tjodolF2]

What happens at 0:42? Even when the British leaders go to Europe, a joke is never far away, the narrator says, and then we see ... what exactly? A woman throwing a glass of water at someone?

[themontypythonmuseum]

@tjodolF2 It must have been some incident that people recognised at the time.

[formerutuber]

isn't this history of the joke?

[jufmi9]

... so why is is called ''... in the Netherlands''?

[MsMoonTheLoon]

oh the live version of thid from the hollywood bowl is the GREATEST thing in the world you HAVE to watch it!

[MattInTheWallet]

Is it MIchael Palin or Terry Gilliam (or perhaps Terry Jones) on the right?

[Alainainthesky]

@MattInTheWallet Palin :)

[MattInTheWallet]

@Alainainthesky Thanks! After rewatching it, I wonder how I didn't see that before... Oh well, that's life! :D

[weeweemonsieur]

Whoa, when was this made?

[themontypythonmuseum]

1973...

[JonathanSloman]

Funny to see Cleese and Idle doing the Custard Pie sketch, even though they're too tall for the joke to work properly.

[nak54222]

Ha ha. I know, right? I love them both, though.

[JonathanSloman]

What on earth was this produced for??

[tjodolF2]

It was produced for something called "Ha-Ha", the opening credits say. Some sort of variety show, probably? Anyone Dutch and more than 45 years old who remembers anything about a show called "Ha-Ha"?

[JonathanSloman]

It's from a variety show Leisbeth List made for Dutch TV called Leisbeth, airing on KRO on 18 Jan 1973. Directed by Tineke Roeffen it was songs sung by Leibeth List interspersed with 4 short films featuring with Jacques Brel, Harry Bär, Ton van Duinhoven and Monty Python. The Python section was repeated in a retrospective on List in 2002, De Koffer Van... Liesbeth List which aired on AVRO on the 20 Aug 2002. The entire 1973 show was released as part of a 5-DVD set of List's work on 10 Nov 2008.

[themontypythonmuseum]

That's Liesbeth List actually.

[themontypythonmuseum]

The "Ha-Ha" is with 99% certainty merely some sort of intertitle from the dvd. It's just the sound of laughter. There was no show of that name.

[JAVAGOIL]

Wow, looks like I'm first!