Merchant Banker

[l33tshinobialchemist]

this sounds like a great way to troll f2ps in tf2 who ask for free weapons :D

[Pat0p]

I wonder if I mention anything about the trap door, my commernt will get thumbs up.

[Dascalmer]

I love how John Cleese is able to mess up his line without anybody really taking notice.

[lafkdjay]

John Cleese works for Goldman Sachs?

[DarkIye]

Nobody's got OCD and complained about the knot in the telephone wire at the start yet, then?

[jawa64ify]

@DarkIye shit I might need help I saw that but did not complain.

[suze2012]

Chamran Knebter!

[dharmaseed]

@suze2012 If anybody else pinches my phrase, I'll throw them under a camel!!

[Nocon6]

anyone else notice his name is an anagram of merchant banker?

[Spudm1key]

Some things never change.

[MetroActiveTV]

Read about the Banker Who Killed His Uncle - google "Banker Kills Uncle For Bank Business"

[ItalianBandit]

"And its gone..."

[atmadick]

A solution for Financial crisis.. Brilliant!!!

[o0gman0o]

thumbs up if you saw the guy in the trap door in 4:03

[ExecutorArkanis]

@o0gman0o What man? There was no man*wink wink*.

[onomartopeica]

dzięki Panie Karol

[Dillingerman1]

"Hello yes? Ahh Mr. Victim."

[manowar8899]

sadly there are people like that banker

[alexeisvensayle]

Question. Slater- Nazi plc ='s which British high street bank(s).?



[Yownanymous]

@alexeisvensayle Every one?

[dodger1508]

@alexeisvensayle - Hi, Slater-Nazi is a reference to a company called Slater - Walker from the 60s / 70s. Really agressive assett stripping company.

[Fakeblad]

Did anyone notice the guys head in the trap door?

[pagan7419]

@Fakeblad

Yeswe did, who cares

[Fakeblad]

@pagan7419 I was merely pointing out a fact, wasn't any need for the immature remark was there?

[Fakeblad]

@pagan7419 I was merely pointing out a fact, wasn't any need for the immature remark was there.

[JallaJay666]

20 people lost their bungalows

[SuperBabu321]

@greg5566

Because greedy bankers don't have an inner life.

[greg5566]

This skit is truly brilliant.

[greg5566]

"inner life." Why was John looking up "inner life"? I didn't get that joke.

[TriMiro8107]

Who saw that stage worker working in the whole?

[thevideogamenerd100]

@TriMiro8107 I did

[Darktan2112]

I just realized - Chamran Knebter = Merchant Banker

[Nocon6]

@Darktan2112 oops guess you beat me to it

[TheRadical42]

An excellent video! Like many Python videos. HEY FANS! Or actualy Pythons if you're out there. I've long wondered if @ 1:16 when John Cleese forgets his name if he REALLY forgot his name. Or was it scripted? I do have the "Python All the Words" books but I don't know if they're the scripts or made after the shows.

-In another sketch ("The A. T. Hun sketch?") Terry Jones is having trouble with his moustache. So he takes it off, puts it in his hat, and puts his hat back on. Scripted or ad libbed?

[gloomysundaydementia]

MERCHANT BANKER .... One of my favorite sketches btw ;)

[cartmann94]

Lots of people give me money. Just like that? Must be sick lmfao

[MrVordas]

Mr. Victim XD

[JimTLonW6]

Another of MP's very best and most original sketches. John Cleese seems made to be a banker too.

[EmmaThePrincess]

I love the guy down the pit at 4:03. He's so random.

[TheRadical42]

@EmmaThePrincess I hope you know the complete sketch. If not, check it out! (DVD or Netflix - whatever.) It gets very goofy and random after this: Pantomime horses come in and then there's the BRILLIANT nature documentary. Ah, a great episode. I laughed my butt off.

[joshaf26]

Seriously? Is no Python video safe from a political argument?

[NishinTheGreat]

@joshaf26 Nothing is sacred anymore. Except sperm. 'Cuz every sperm is sacred.

[bs22343]

@megan130 well its a good thing then that you dont know anything about finance and banking, otherwise you might have actually had something useful to say instead of "bankers are greedy" rambled out in 100 words or so.

[bs22343]

@megan130 i love how all the idiots think they "get" that this sketch is some kind of deep social commentary. People, it's a simple joke about bankers. shut the hell up, quit your damn theorizing, and have a sense of humor for once

[ziggy8392]

@bs22343 well, it is social commentary, but it's funny

[pearlearring17]

haahaha this sketch is so harsh

[temite80]

20 bankers watched this..

[loois]

i lol'd so hard that i completely forgot about my mortgage on my flat. oh wai-

[Diamondmaster93]

Haha at 4:02 you can see someone in the trap door.

[Evertale1]

@Diamondmaster93 That's just one of the unfortunate loaners, he threw down there xD

[NebojsaAlexandrovsk]

Here at Slater-Nazi... lol

[Roronoa2zoro]

John Cleese and Scrooge McDuck are now equals when it comes to finance.

[ncat2ncsu2psu]

The sad part is that this sketch is even more true now even though it has been done years back.

[Jagasaurus]

Mr Burns is blatantly based on this sketch!

[vef444]

Genius! 

[MouthingWords]

I liked the techie under the trapdoor :)

[Jinggley]

I kept expecting the banker (Cleese) to be a complete arse. I suppose he was in a way but it's hilarious how he's not "evil," it's just a completely foreign concept to him.

[Buddha2112]

Hehehe you can see a guy under the stage when the trap door opens.

[kylecoolio12]

i cant wait to be a banker!

[m2a2n2o2n]

oh good terry jones plays soooo well, that I felt so sorry for him ;) john cleese is brilliant as always!

[Dolbsha]

its funny because its true

[gravitycatnotamused1]

20 bankers dislike

[kommonzenze]

"We could do with someone like you to feed the pantomime horse. Very smart." - wow!!! these little lines that Cleese slips in....brilliant!

[Drsatan9]

ROFL a trap door ftw

[lejistar]

It's Monty Python meets the Farengies!

[OyVey666]

Got a selection of good things on sale, strangea!

[MoviezScape]

At 1:29 did he say 'Slater nazi'?

[egapnala65]

@MoviezScape Yep, it was a running gag. The Slater part was referring to a ruthless business man called Jim Slater who was the pioneer of hostile takeovers. The rest is self explanatory I think.

[egapnala65]

@egapnala65 Google "Slater-Walker" for further information.

[plungerdrum]

Haha! The desk is backwards!

[emer50n]

in 4:03 you can see a guys head under the ground! =P

[sialababamak537]

It's a gift.

A what?

[oldtowndude]

There are clearly 19 stupid people in the world :)

[OrontesRM]

who are the 19 persons who didn't like it??? go watching meet the spartans!!!

[djsmeg]

They were prescient in so many ways...

[alkaline71]

timely

[PalleRasmussen]

If Cleese was a woman here, it would be an accurate description of my bank contact.

[flameuser10]

theo was here

[ferrari250tr]

is it the new fad to hate on Monty Python because its good on so many people like it? Or maybe they just don't like it because it doesn't have Seth Rogen?

[BBMix]

How perceptive in the lighrt of our current Bankers. Bravo Python.

[JimTLonW6]

What a gem of a sketch; nobody but John Cleese could do something like this!

[oldaardvark]

Timely.

[freeform83]

Send in the Pantomime Horses.

[intermender]

ah yes, i've seen this recently: bank bail out lol

[Apollyon511]

4:03 I guess he wasn't the first, I see more down there.

[stokepogue]

I have such a warm feeling inside.

[sketchydc]

Chairman Knebter is his name.

Its on his desk =)

[liquidminds]

Chamran Knebter... not Chairman...

[sketchydc]

you are right =p

my mistake

[N3ppyZ]

Chamram Knebter it is! Which is also quite fittingly an acronym for Merchant Banker. Lovely find, innit?

God, I love Monty Python. :D

[Darktan2112]

@N3ppyZ Acronym...? You mean anagram.

[RCinPAWA]

The banker's name is Ben Bernanke.

[johote]

"Its a gift" "Oh a tax dodge" best phrase ever

[MrTwiky]

so that's when charity died.

[communistrecords]

I see a man's head in the trap door.

[kdcruz75]

must be gordon brown

he started early working for the banksters ..

they trained him well on using the trap door and with tony blair's sleight of hand tricks learned form Rome ....the banksters have now britain bankrupt ready to run into the arms of papal Europe...

but the story has a sad ending for them because Europe wont be able to run the carbon credit dog and pony show anymore

[communistrecords]

That sucks.

[joness105639]

It's funny because it's true.

[meanmanturbo]

Heh, funny thing, if all bankers were as obsesive about securities as this one, the financial crisis would not have happened, I dont realy see him giving out sub-prime loans;)

[shamickgaworski]

On the other hand, out of 1 million people, 1 would have house ... not so good either :-)

[meanmanturbo]

True that, demand would be very low, and we might have a financial crissis from that instead, tricky thing economics, anything can happen;)

[shamickgaworski]

Without going into "left" or "right" "economics theories" sometimes I have serious doubt either one (anybody) truly understand economics at all ... :-)

I mean - tax cuts or gov spending, decentralization vs centralization, regulation vs deregulation ... there is always some way to see the side you want ... and then one true subjective honest man should ask him/herself ... maybe it is all not either? :-)

[phileasfogg07]

@meanmanturbo:

Mr. Victim from the begging of the sketch is "cause" of our global financial crisis, not Mr. Ford and his pound.

[meanmanturbo]

Never said otherwise now did I;)

[hallavast]

@meanmanturbo I do. See, the money he would give out isn't his until he gets a sucker that promises to pay it to him. He then uses this "money" to buy something (like a house). When the buyer then cannot make the payments, the bank forecloses, the seller gets a bunch of made up "money", and the bank gets a very real and valuable house. This scam's been going on for years.

[MrMrmike5]

@meanmanturbo so true

[DrevlinToxx]

Anybody else notice the back to front desk?

[MarijnvdZaag]

I didn't :D

[goodluckpeace44]

what does it symbolize?

[SuperPitaBread]

hilarious but sad...

[distortion4ever]

haha i never noticed until now that you can see another person under the floor when the trapdoor opens =P

[mikey1646]

ha... ya can see can see a guy already in the trap door waitin for him to fall. class sketch

[evisceratedcake]

Quite odd to see the actor who played Mr. Creosote so humble and pathetic.

[expardisi]

oh...Terry Jones often played this kind of character, he's lovely! :D

[LostCenobite]

One of my all time favorite sketches. "Oh a gift, a tax dodge!"

[queenredspecial]

This is so brilliantly tragic...

[Crazy8Edd]

you guys need to post How Not To Be Seen, the De Ja Vu sketch, and the Killer Cars sketch. those are some of your best!!

[monserrat28]

happy? you quite sure you get this right? LOL

I loooooove this sketch

and since Eric Idle is answering some comments, I may ask, are you ever coming to mexico?? p p pleeeease? Oh and congrats for Spamalot I get to see it at san diego and it was AWESOME! perhaps you could do it in mexico? tacosalot.... xoxo

[robinamarie007]

Is it weird to say that Terry Jones is so cute here?

[shinonchan]

I have to agree that he is oddly adorable here.

[arctos7]

What an insinuation! Bankers are just fine fellas just trying to provide us with houses and cars and things. I never knew that Mr Python could be so offensive.

I want my money back!

[ShaiMyst]

u are kidding right?

[arctos7]

Yes, I say let's print some more money and give it to all those fine fellas! They can put it to better use than we can!

[TuberAber]

tis but a joke my friend :) if you have not noticed they make fun of everyone

[arctos7]

I'm making fun too. I just find this skit particularly timely. This is pretty much how bankers think and why we're all in the mess we're in.

[wrestlerguy666]

The same thing crossed my mind as i watched this.

[TuberAber]

ah lol well alright then :P

[HiMtheEvilJoker]

when he falls down u an see a small part of a staff member down there :d

[Graluini]

If you look in the hole you can see someone in it :)

[TashkentFox]

Was this sketch the inspiration for Mr. Burns' trap door in The Simpsons?

[JosipMiller]

Such a refined way to insult banks and bankers. One more reason to enjoy the sketch.

[billybobjoebob123]

"I forget my name at the moment but I am a merchant banker."

Was that part of the script, or did he just forget his line and they went with it?

[MilesBennetDyson]

His name was Chamran Knebter!

[davewatcher]

Merchant Banker

[Vincek88]

I'd wondered about that, but it's still my favorite line in the sketch. That and his reaction to people on the street donating money: "Must be sick! ...I don't suppose you have a list of their names and addresses, do you?" His benign incomprehension of charity is just hilarious!

[VioletSkies42]

I know it's completely fake....but this still made me so sad and feel terribly sorry for the guy collecting for the orphans. :(

[DeathSlayer2]

good god don't take everything so seriously.

This is just making fun of the merchant banker.

Do you watch clowns throwing custard pies and feel sorry for the starving orphans who could have eaten them instead of them going to waste?

[VioletSkies42]

you have a lovely day, hun

[James1803]

I feel sorry for the pies they have no say in the affair.

[jfpack]

sigh. This is a 40 year old skit. Don't be so obtuse.

[Finnishbastard]

Repeat 1:29 he says nazi :D

[DeathSlayer2]

Slater-Nazi is the name of his company ;)

[Finnishbastard]

Damn my bad hearing! >:(

[IEatLeetMeat]

Lol you can see someone's head in the pit at 4:04

[gulllars]

Epic. Just epic.

[FRMariposa]

Of course there's someone else in the trap door... did you think Terry was the first person dropped down there?

This is a merchant banker's office, after all.

[DANNNNNNNO]

There's probably hundreds of people in the trapdoor. In fact, I once met a carpenter who was employed by many merchant bankers to build them trapdoors...

[Fullperson]

where's that dictionary.. ahh yes... inner life...inner life...

[TheMiksi]

Yes?

[bernardosgtg]

Epic.

[TheBellTolls666]

Mr. Victim xD

[Sasuke8365]

Mr. Victim.. lol

[RsToaster]

I need a trapdoor like that.....

[karlkronean]

for your sister?

[LostUntilTomorrow]

just need to say to the banker there's a psychic income for that one pound.

[ZeLunatic]

Karma, eh? :)

[ApersonnamedAnthonyP]

resist chain mail asshole

[ErEr57]

your a fag

[paradoxy666]

thats creative... make a story outta it!

[RuFro]

Bankers haven't really changed over the years, they've just become more sophisticated...

[martinlee2]

Ha you can see a guy underneath the stage when the trap door opens lol

[coldcallinguk]

Prophetic

[Cr4ptakular]

his name Chamran Knebter is an anagram of Merchant Banker, for those who thought it might mean something..

[ImaginaryNightshade]

thehe XD

by the way: look at the trap door a 4:03, you can see someone of the crew, a stagehand perhaps? :p

[CoolCams]

yeh that's funny lol

[zombiesoiree]

Presenting: if the University of Chicago Economics Department and Objectivists ran the world ...

[Aotommo]

Are you saying that Objectivism doesn't support giving to charities for the sake of one's own enjoyment? Because it does.

[zombiesoiree]

"Are you saying that Objectivism doesn't support giving to charities for the sake of one's own enjoyment? Because it does."

You have got to be kidding. me. Go wave your little red book elsewhere.

Pity that the " how rich I am " graph on the wall has been chopped from the origina