Rowan Atkinson wasn't part of the original sketch. In fact, it isn't even a Monty Python original sketch, although they re-did it. It was written for At Last, The 1948 show. The original 4 were John Cleese, and Graham Chapman who went on to appear in Monty Python, Tim Brooke-Taylor later of the Goodies and Marty Feldman.
Barry Took may have had a hand in writing it.
There are clips of both the original 1948 show one as well as the Monty Python one somewhere on youtube.
@kemptonite It's actually ironic because when you see the original compared to the Python's it's Michael Palin who makes it arguably better and more iconically Python. Though this isn't surprising I guess as he's from Sheffield. Cleese's Yorkshire accent is rather...thin. :P
@Ditypo What do Americans think? I thought it was darn funny when I saw it in the movies when it came out, "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" -- and I still think it is!
Its great seeing Terry Jones cover his face trying so hard not to laugh at Cleese, and Cleese looked right at him and just keep going...how he managed to hold it together is beyond me
PLEASE DON'T READ THIS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. NOW YOU'VE STARTED READING THIS. DON'T STOP. THIS IS SO FREAKY. 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck
@bastlake in northern English the word "the" is not simply "removed from sentences" as you put it. If you listen a bit closer you will hear that the speaker actually says "We used to live in t' corridor". This is an integral part of northern English which in some cases would be reduced to "th" as in "Where's me tea? It's still in th'oven".... I love the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch but want to stress that northern English is a way of speaking for many people and not something to be made fun of...
@TroyTempest0 thats interesting, i know in french the vowel is often removed from an article, so 'le entudiante', becomes l' entudiante, its pronounced the same, but the vowel is taken off...wonder if they are related
@DaytonaRoadster glad you found my comment interesting. Dialect is something you just grow up with and don't really think about. With French I reckon they just wanted to prevent the two vowels just like "an egg" and not "a egg". The reduction of "the" to "t'" in northern English is probably a typical dialect shortening of words just like in southern German dialects (the only other ones I know).
@TroyTempest0 LMAO I am a yorkshireman through and through and I have been known to use the odd Glottal Stop. I don't know a single person among my friends and family that would finf this anything other than hilarious. Please don't jump to the defense of those that need no defending. THAT is insulting and patronising. Ee by eck lad, get to foot of our stairs tha great soft balmcake.
@lemlin1967 ... ah think tha's got me wrong lad ! I am also a born and bred Northerner...(not born in white rose county but with enough Skipton blood in me)... I just couldn't let the canadian lad's comment stand that Northerners "remove "A"s or "The"s"... havin an interest in linguistics and dialect t'temptation were 2 strong...and if you had tekkun t'time 2 read me comment yer woulda read that I really love the 4 Yorkshireman sketch. The ability to laugh at onesel is a great trait....
@lemlin1967 .... by t'way if you are talkin about "insultin an patronisin" or trolling... "great soft balmcake" is uh reet insult specially as it's "barmcake" wher ah'm from !
yorkshire is the best place in britain, the ppl are the most friendly, and the scenery is beutifull in the dales, london is full of kebbab and curry houses and is a concreate jungle full of foreigners, yorkshire born n bread 1
Anyone knows the show Rowan Atkinson performed with his three other friends but they're reading a book and Rowan was talking shit language? Maan, i just like that one so much
there were already 6 pythons weren't there, terry jones, eric idle, micheal palin, graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. If atkinson was a lost python, he would be the 7th.
The translation is atrocious. At 2.51 he says "If we were lucky" The Dutch translations takes it as "If we were looking" and translates it accordingly. Bad. Bad.
This was one of the late 70s Amnesty International benefit gigs - probably the Secret Policeman's Ball. (The first one.) Cleese organised a lot of these gigs and the DVD set is worth checking out, because he plays an absolute blinder whenever he's performing. His live version of the Parrot Sketch is soo much better than the original (which is great) that it's hard to believe.
lol, sort of. I just moved to Leeds, and they tend to say things like "I'm ont' bus" or "I'm off tuht' shop" or whatever. I'm from the North Yorkshire/Teeside border though, so I get the Geordie-esque accent, with a little bit of Yorkshire thrown in for the fun of confusing Southerners :-p
As an American, I must say it took time for me to learn the cultural facets of Britain. But it's easy to understand the appeal of regional dialect, at least from a linguistic standpoint.
This is one of the great sketches of English comedy, like Atkinson's Schoolmaster and Joyce Grenfell's Nursery School (both on YouTube). A pity that when you hear a lot of Cleese you notice he's apt to mock working people rather too often.
Rowan's schoolmaster is one of my all-time favorites. Watching it never gets old. It's amazing how well he kept his composure - not even a crack of smile while the rest of the crowd was dying of laughter.
...This has got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen on YouTube, I literally cried with laughter for like five minutes, paralysed on my bed, and when I got up it felt like my insides were going to burst. The 'Eat a lump of freezing cold poison' just set me off before I could even hear the rest of it XD
Videos? We didn't have videos in my day. We had to draw every frame by hand on absorbent toilet paper while t'producer beat us to death with two foot of bicycle chain. It were the happiest days of my life.
Oh, we used to dream of drawin' on toilet paper. We had draw every frame on used tissue usin' a broken pencil stub between our toes and the producer decapitated us with a garden hose.
You were lucky to have a pencil. We had to draw on sandpaper in our own blood in the dark. 'cause we 'et our only candle, t'source of light an heat for all 60 of us, on Christmas day two year previous.
i had syphallis... & so did my dog but i still had to go hunting buffallo with a sawn off shrimp net & 5 cockroaches tied to my nasal hair 2 act as bait for el chupacabra the goat sucker
Oh we used to dream of havin' 5 cockroaches tied to our nasal hair. We lived in a matchbox that was constantly lit on fire. Every day we'd get up, smacked back to sleep before we could wake up, dragged out of bed,set on fire, had to work 39 hours a day on the sewers, clean it with our tongues,and then havin' two russian thugs clean our ears with butcher knives.Those were the best years of my life...
luxury! our home was the small intestines of a dung beetle. every day me & my 96 siblings had 2 fight a family of rabid brazillian ladyboys 4 the piece of chalk mother would leave for breakfast in the mouth of a nile crocodile, then plait the pubic hairs of 50 albanian shepherds b4 7am or we didnt get our shins broken... happy days
Well, when i said matchbox i meant a 100 of us would be paralized, painted in a cigar shape, and shoved up the arse of a crazed amoeba. We'd take turns every night, while we were fondled by a bunch of sheep and got AIDS from apes. I miss those days...
It's like that game where you go from person to person.. one says A, the next says A and B, the first does A, B and C and so on to Z and remember what the last person said or you lose... But... With worse sounding results... And a hell of a lot funnier!
It's Terry Jones, Terry Giliam is the American. And as John Cleese once said because of that, he can't speak normal, so that's a good way to remember who is who. ;-)
I don't know when this was done, but it was quite possibly after Chapman died, and Idle lives in the U.S. a lot I know, he had to make a broadcast contribution to a Monty Python day once, so maybe it's that.
Concert from the early 80's called The Secret Policeman's Ball. Python skits live - cheese shop, dead parrot, this one and others. Music mixed in as well with Pete Townsend, Bob Geldof, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck together and others. Great movie. Also did sequal called Secret Policeman's 'Other' Ball. Filmed live in London as charity events.
Timing is not necessarily anwser fast. On this version they're giving a little more time to the audience to think. It's hard to notice that when you know all the lines but I think it's better this way. ;)
I love Rowan's snarkiness, but Cleese steals the show at the end!
manjiimortal 1 month ago
Love it! "And dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle... if we were lucky" :D
totalshowman 2 months ago
Freezing cold poison lol
robthesamplist 2 months ago
This couldn't be 1971, as Rowan Atkinson was only 16 that year.
GeoffBlackmore 4 months ago
this just lifted my mood, thank God for rowan and the monty python crew
notanfningain 6 months ago
classic!
kiuhy8 7 months ago
When Terry's laughing at the end there .. does he not look A LOT like DeNiro?
Mayna00 9 months ago 4
@Mayna00 haha never thought about that before, but after you said it, i agree!
Erajka 9 months ago
Never seen this version of the sketch, Anyone know where it comes from ???
WhaGoSon 10 months ago
@WhaGoSon Secret Policeman's Ball, year 1979.
Shantari 10 months ago
Rowan Atkinson wasn't part of the original sketch. In fact, it isn't even a Monty Python original sketch, although they re-did it. It was written for At Last, The 1948 show. The original 4 were John Cleese, and Graham Chapman who went on to appear in Monty Python, Tim Brooke-Taylor later of the Goodies and Marty Feldman.
Barry Took may have had a hand in writing it.
There are clips of both the original 1948 show one as well as the Monty Python one somewhere on youtube.
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@kemptonite It's actually ironic because when you see the original compared to the Python's it's Michael Palin who makes it arguably better and more iconically Python. Though this isn't surprising I guess as he's from Sheffield. Cleese's Yorkshire accent is rather...thin. :P
baldrick44 8 months ago
FUCKINGH HILARIOUS STUFF! JESUS, THIS SHIT WA HOTTER THAN ANY CHARILE CHAPLIN! FUCK, I WANT MORE! MORE! MORE!
or, as Rowan atkinson wuold say in "Amazing Jeus", GIVE US ANOTHER ONE!
LankanTVPresenter 1 year ago
Love watching Jones stifle a laugh at Cleese's aggressive Yorkshireman. Excellent.
CrocodileRocker 1 year ago 2
How thick am I? I just realised that Rowan Atkinson was part of this time ever-memorial sketch! Seen it many times and only now just realised! DOH!
GhostAholics 1 year ago
oh my good that was just an amazing acting....i mostly loved the last part.
netwiz2 1 year ago
Reading some of the comments ,some Yorkshiremen have no sense of
humour . When the kids come to visit ,we have these " history " sessions
around the table .Just one thing in 60+ years I have never heard anyone replace " the " with a " T " . Apart from that - T"was reet gradely tha nose .
mark7325 1 year ago
i hope americans think wha??? tha??? fuck???
Ditypo 1 year ago 3
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@Ditypo Well, I'm from stateside and I think this is RUBBISH. It isn't a patch on shows like Cheers and Friends...
pretendmosquito 1 year ago
@pretendmosquito Well you wouldn't know rubbish from garbage, so who cares.
8DX 1 year ago
@pretendmosquito ok
Ditypo 1 year ago
@Ditypo What do Americans think? I thought it was darn funny when I saw it in the movies when it came out, "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" -- and I still think it is!
lhcarter 9 months ago
Rowan Atkison + Monty Python = EPIC WIN
TheHateYouHATEYOU 1 year ago 5
@TheHateYouHATEYOU you mean double epic win
neithere 1 year ago
Its great seeing Terry Jones cover his face trying so hard not to laugh at Cleese, and Cleese looked right at him and just keep going...how he managed to hold it together is beyond me
DaytonaRoadster 1 year ago 3
Proud Yorkshiremen here - people like this still exist!
Shalashaska8636 1 year ago
ROFL lmao
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PLEASE DON'T READ THIS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. NOW YOU'VE STARTED READING THIS. DON'T STOP. THIS IS SO FREAKY. 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck
Deathbydruid09 1 year ago
This sketch is on page 1 of the comedy bible.
DeathSlayer2 1 year ago
I'm fascinated by this english accent, the way they removed words like "A" or "The" from sentences
"Slash us in half with bread knife", "We used to live in corridor", "Go down to pub"
Simulaneously charming, and irritating ;)
bastlake 1 year ago
@bastlake in northern English the word "the" is not simply "removed from sentences" as you put it. If you listen a bit closer you will hear that the speaker actually says "We used to live in t' corridor". This is an integral part of northern English which in some cases would be reduced to "th" as in "Where's me tea? It's still in th'oven".... I love the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch but want to stress that northern English is a way of speaking for many people and not something to be made fun of...
TroyTempest0 1 year ago
@TroyTempest0
Agreed, not to be made fun of. And thanks for the info!
bastlake 1 year ago
@TroyTempest0 thats interesting, i know in french the vowel is often removed from an article, so 'le entudiante', becomes l' entudiante, its pronounced the same, but the vowel is taken off...wonder if they are related
DaytonaRoadster 1 year ago
@DaytonaRoadster glad you found my comment interesting. Dialect is something you just grow up with and don't really think about. With French I reckon they just wanted to prevent the two vowels just like "an egg" and not "a egg". The reduction of "the" to "t'" in northern English is probably a typical dialect shortening of words just like in southern German dialects (the only other ones I know).
TroyTempest0 1 year ago
@TroyTempest0 LMAO I am a yorkshireman through and through and I have been known to use the odd Glottal Stop. I don't know a single person among my friends and family that would finf this anything other than hilarious. Please don't jump to the defense of those that need no defending. THAT is insulting and patronising. Ee by eck lad, get to foot of our stairs tha great soft balmcake.
lemlin1967 5 months ago
@lemlin1967 ... ah think tha's got me wrong lad ! I am also a born and bred Northerner...(not born in white rose county but with enough Skipton blood in me)... I just couldn't let the canadian lad's comment stand that Northerners "remove "A"s or "The"s"... havin an interest in linguistics and dialect t'temptation were 2 strong...and if you had tekkun t'time 2 read me comment yer woulda read that I really love the 4 Yorkshireman sketch. The ability to laugh at onesel is a great trait....
TroyTempest0 5 months ago
@lemlin1967 .... by t'way if you are talkin about "insultin an patronisin" or trolling... "great soft balmcake" is uh reet insult specially as it's "barmcake" wher ah'm from !
TroyTempest0 5 months ago
Brilliant!
arschpirate 1 year ago
yorkshire is the best place in britain, the ppl are the most friendly, and the scenery is beutifull in the dales, london is full of kebbab and curry houses and is a concreate jungle full of foreigners, yorkshire born n bread 1
british123able 1 year ago
@british123able inbred
; )
"dampcloth" lol
natmanprime 1 year ago
i used to get up in the morning half past ten half an hour before i went to bed...
love it!!! XD
uzaricanin07 1 year ago 5
3:39 john cleese ALMOST laughs hahaha
Guratza 1 year ago
Luxury
max200223 1 year ago
these buggers were lucky
blobby1972 1 year ago 6
Ha ha! Yeah your on about 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' minhmeo - That's a brilliant sketch as well ;)
PsychV 2 years ago
my favourite comedy sketch to date
frankyh101 2 years ago 3
Anyone knows the show Rowan Atkinson performed with his three other friends but they're reading a book and Rowan was talking shit language? Maan, i just like that one so much
minhmeo1209 2 years ago
Blackadder?
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sensmeggingsation 2 years ago
to minhmeo1209 i think its not the nine o'clock news the show you're talking about, and yeah its hilarious =D
sensmeggingsation 2 years ago
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The subtitles think Mr. Atkinson saind 'If we were looking' insead of 'If we were lucky'. :p
brabbosc 2 years ago
They're all hopeless at yorkshire accents but this is really good! :D
ClockworkDuck 2 years ago 4
Palin should know the right accent, since he's born in Sheffield, shouldn't he?
dbmozart 2 years ago
He is talking with a yorkshire accent.
celticghirl88 1 year ago
1:48
madmanmapper 2 years ago
Brilliant excellent
JoFooka 2 years ago
Hahaha. That was hilarious.
Pineapple5064 2 years ago
Is Terry Jones corpsing at the end?
therivierakid 2 years ago 6
yep
FandPrulethesky 2 years ago
AWESOME!! singin aallelujah...thanks a lot for this one
shashwati 2 years ago
Luxury!!! The translation we had was far worse.....
carstb 2 years ago
hahahaha, rowan should do more stuff with them
ExtraReview 2 years ago
I love British humour :)
oncsaba 2 years ago 3
3 pythons and a black adder!!!
gieposc 2 years ago 140
@gieposc very good :D
NickXDDX 1 year ago
Simply the best.
DontLoseTheLesson 2 years ago
Atkinson is the long lost fifth Python!
kinsmed 2 years ago 6
there were already 6 pythons weren't there, terry jones, eric idle, micheal palin, graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. If atkinson was a lost python, he would be the 7th.
EmperorHarold 2 years ago 8
The translation is atrocious. At 2.51 he says "If we were lucky" The Dutch translations takes it as "If we were looking" and translates it accordingly. Bad. Bad.
rotterdam1953 2 years ago 2
It is pretty bad is it? I can't stand it either:D
naomibeijer 2 years ago
surely if you were dutch and knew nothing about british culture this wouldn't even be funny anyway? =/
NPM92 2 years ago
Old people moaning about "how tough it was in their day" can be found the world over.
Admittedly the yorkshire humour (down mill) stuff would be lost, but the sketch is a great example of universal humour...
wizarddrongo 2 years ago 5
young kid moaning about school is actully much more commen it makes people feel better or at least thats the theiry
megen1996 2 years ago
Lick road clean wit' tongue!
rayflute 2 years ago 5
sounds fun/painful
1qaud 2 years ago
This was one of the late 70s Amnesty International benefit gigs - probably the Secret Policeman's Ball. (The first one.) Cleese organised a lot of these gigs and the DVD set is worth checking out, because he plays an absolute blinder whenever he's performing. His live version of the Parrot Sketch is soo much better than the original (which is great) that it's hard to believe.
lexo30 2 years ago
hahaha, great!
Gigguli 2 years ago 2
Luxury.
netenute 2 years ago 15
My Dad really did tell stories like that !
webpendragon 2 years ago 12
We used to live in a shoe box in the middle of the road, with nothing to eat but gravel.
Oooh, you had gravel? How lucky!
DonMeaker 2 years ago 2
Absolutely brilliant. Poor Terry Jones didn't stand a chance of keeping his laughter hid,sitting next to Cleese. And Cleese KNEW it!! Timeless stuff.
sgguitar77 2 years ago 85
at 3:44, does it look like the guy on the right is trying to keep from laughing?
firesyde424 2 years ago
"Ah...we used to dream of livin' in corridor!"
Absolutely first rate. This never gets old no matter how many times I watch.
usmcfutball 2 years ago 5
My grandad speaks like this, I love it. My favourite English accent!
crazypianolady 2 years ago
Rowan's accent is best.
kez0208 2 years ago 5
Michael Palin is actually a Yorkshireman.
hugboxx 2 years ago 8
True. Palin is from Sheffield.
lexo30 2 years ago
HA! do i really talk like that...? oh dear.
kez0208 2 years ago
Well it's a bit difficult to follow with this accent, though this makes it a good sketch.
EmperorAst 2 years ago
The translator has it wrong too I think, at 2:52 he says "if we were lucky", while the translation says "if we were looking".
yolin75 2 years ago
Yes you're right. I thought he said "if we were looking" but he said "lucky".
EmperorAst 2 years ago
I love at the end, the guy trying to hide the fact that he's cracking up.
mf2101 2 years ago 7
where were Graham and Eric?
britboyal 2 years ago
this is the best one of "Four Yorkshiremen".... by golly I think I will have a genuine Yorkshire Tea....
finalnexus 2 years ago
lolllllllllllllll
jemmakidd 3 years ago
It's a bit hard for someone who's not a native English speaker to understand the dialect at first, but it's a great piece of comedy!
OskeMadafaka 3 years ago 2
'our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt'
lol
sayhellotomybeastie 3 years ago 3
I think i like this version with rowan atkinson the best. The others are good but this one just seems way better lol.
canadiankid67 3 years ago 2
lmao! fawlty towers all over. Every solo rant cleese does theres always someone who creases laughing, kills me lol
johnnyjohn2005 3 years ago
this is great. but its not the same without eric idle
joiseygirlsrock 3 years ago 5
rowan atkinsons great though
roboimp 2 years ago 2
this is art
Seabass1980 3 years ago 4
Y'know I think this sketch has a place in everyones hearts. I just LOVE it!
tsimon1234 3 years ago 2
Especially if your'e a Yorkshireman. It makes me reight proud!
YorkshirePride08 3 years ago
I've been up to Yorkshire to do a scout hike (3 Peaks) It was great fun and everyone we met was really friendly. I love to go again.
Still gotta go. From down here in southern England, C'ya!
tsimon1234 3 years ago
its not an official python sketch, it was first show on "at last the 1948 show" with marty feldman
jimbo271uk 3 years ago
Terry trying to stifle his laughter makes it much more enjoyable because you know they are having fun doing it.
godspal1 3 years ago 4
egt leuk
Angelavspanje 3 years ago
Terry lost it at the end :D
Flickerfly 3 years ago 7
my life was worse than yours but i still made it "right".
rafcosford 3 years ago
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F***,i can't understand almost anything at all,that's a weird accent.
johnnaraspanathas 3 years ago
@johnnaraspanathas, this is a strong yorkshire accent.
marmaduke90 3 years ago
absolute genius. need i say any more
malibudollparts 3 years ago
Is the word "the" forbidden in Yorkshire?
Greenandscaly 3 years ago
lol, sort of. I just moved to Leeds, and they tend to say things like "I'm ont' bus" or "I'm off tuht' shop" or whatever. I'm from the North Yorkshire/Teeside border though, so I get the Geordie-esque accent, with a little bit of Yorkshire thrown in for the fun of confusing Southerners :-p
Dan
dan892k7 3 years ago 3
Itd be hilarious to see say, an American watching this. MOST wouldnt have a clue.
But this will never get old, brilliant stuff!
britpilot 3 years ago
As an American, I must say it took time for me to learn the cultural facets of Britain. But it's easy to understand the appeal of regional dialect, at least from a linguistic standpoint.
AMcGrath82 3 years ago
your right about most of us not getting this but I understood it and i laughed my ass off
moosespuncher78 3 years ago
After 30+ years of watching British comedy, and other exposure to British culture, I have a clue.
Now... understanding Colonel Grapple in "How I Won the War"... THAT is a challenge.
BTW, this is one of my favorite Python skits.
jjnonken 3 years ago
They all used to work int' mill! :)
MarxistKnight 3 years ago
Great job! I hope they will do more collaborations like this in the future!
ILoveTeaDogs 3 years ago
my favourite version of this sketch. superb!
kiuhy7 3 years ago
them yawkshire men new aw tough it was especialy when they went tu pit
9mej 3 years ago
Nostalgic!
This from "Secret policeman's other ball"?
Gemyxaman 3 years ago
Palin, Atkinson, Cleese & Jones are shining the whole sketch through
ApostelAvIngenting 3 years ago 9
Terry Jones is cracking up at the end, can't blame him though, I would probably be as well :D
Turbokanamies 3 years ago 14
this is the first time ive seen it in action, i used to listen to it on the radio
alexMarinick 3 years ago 3
awsome!
verbeek69 3 years ago
This is one of the great sketches of English comedy, like Atkinson's Schoolmaster and Joyce Grenfell's Nursery School (both on YouTube). A pity that when you hear a lot of Cleese you notice he's apt to mock working people rather too often.
johnorford1931 3 years ago
Rowan's schoolmaster is one of my all-time favorites. Watching it never gets old. It's amazing how well he kept his composure - not even a crack of smile while the rest of the crowd was dying of laughter.
completelybonkers 3 years ago 2
Ohhhh! lol "You can't tell the young people of today to believe that."
Good Job, Rowan!
sisyphusorianus9787 3 years ago 5
i believe them...
sturmtigerDMW 3 years ago
lmao! I use to get up 10o'clock at night half an hour before i went to bed. :P lmao
dante561 3 years ago 2
we use to dream of living in a corridor LMAO !!!
takirstarkilx 3 years ago 2
one of the most funny things i have seen! and it has a lot of truth about people like that
XAVIvsputostortolini 3 years ago
lol this is nice!!! DUTCH SUBTITLES ^^ Happy to see that :)
btw very very funny!!
Mjattie 3 years ago
that line as well as the "our dad would murder us IN COLD BLOOD" are out of this world.
AphroditesChild 3 years ago
...This has got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen on YouTube, I literally cried with laughter for like five minutes, paralysed on my bed, and when I got up it felt like my insides were going to burst. The 'Eat a lump of freezing cold poison' just set me off before I could even hear the rest of it XD
Ke2 3 years ago
Hilarious video, and the laughing bit of Terry is pretty funny too. Good to see that comedians are also only human.
JorisDumspieker 3 years ago
this is a priceless piece of footage. Four of the men that made British comedy what it is, through Blackadder and the Flying Circus, together.
TylerAAADurden 3 years ago
haha, Terry Jones starts laughin at the end!! no wonder, John Cleese is hilarious!!! "When we got home, our dad would murder us in cold blood!!"
Laurieca 3 years ago 9
Superb to see that even after all those years they still crack each other up :)
FulchesterUnited 3 years ago 2
Videos? We didn't have videos in my day. We had to draw every frame by hand on absorbent toilet paper while t'producer beat us to death with two foot of bicycle chain. It were the happiest days of my life.
ketmaniac 3 years ago 12
Oh, we used to dream of drawin' on toilet paper. We had draw every frame on used tissue usin' a broken pencil stub between our toes and the producer decapitated us with a garden hose.
cybawatt 3 years ago 6
You were lucky to have a pencil. We had to draw on sandpaper in our own blood in the dark. 'cause we 'et our only candle, t'source of light an heat for all 60 of us, on Christmas day two year previous.
rail11389 3 years ago 5
Was that a wax candle?
cybawatt 3 years ago 2
Yes
rail11389 3 years ago 2
You were lucky.
cybawatt 3 years ago 2
i had syphallis... & so did my dog but i still had to go hunting buffallo with a sawn off shrimp net & 5 cockroaches tied to my nasal hair 2 act as bait for el chupacabra the goat sucker
dansbiglog 3 years ago 3
Oh we used to dream of havin' 5 cockroaches tied to our nasal hair. We lived in a matchbox that was constantly lit on fire. Every day we'd get up, smacked back to sleep before we could wake up, dragged out of bed,set on fire, had to work 39 hours a day on the sewers, clean it with our tongues,and then havin' two russian thugs clean our ears with butcher knives.Those were the best years of my life...
Unchainedballad 3 years ago 5
luxury! our home was the small intestines of a dung beetle. every day me & my 96 siblings had 2 fight a family of rabid brazillian ladyboys 4 the piece of chalk mother would leave for breakfast in the mouth of a nile crocodile, then plait the pubic hairs of 50 albanian shepherds b4 7am or we didnt get our shins broken... happy days
dansbiglog 3 years ago 6
Well, when i said matchbox i meant a 100 of us would be paralized, painted in a cigar shape, and shoved up the arse of a crazed amoeba. We'd take turns every night, while we were fondled by a bunch of sheep and got AIDS from apes. I miss those days...
Unchainedballad 3 years ago
Oh that's genius. I'm laughing at this comment so much
Ke2 3 years ago
I do hope that wasn't sarcasm. And if it wasn't indeed, and you were talking about one of my comments,,,which one was it?=P
Unchainedballad 3 years ago
The one about nasal hair and being lit on fire, I think it just followed on perfectly from what they were saying
Ke2 3 years ago
It's like that game where you go from person to person.. one says A, the next says A and B, the first does A, B and C and so on to Z and remember what the last person said or you lose... But... With worse sounding results... And a hell of a lot funnier!
slytherinsheirx 3 years ago
Is that Terry Jones or Terry Giliam? always get those two mixed up.
SiMags 3 years ago
It's Terry Jones, Terry Giliam is the American. And as John Cleese once said because of that, he can't speak normal, so that's a good way to remember who is who. ;-)
florisarjan 3 years ago
Lol @ Terry not keeping a straight face at the end XD
beckytheinsomniac 3 years ago 3
Yeah lol, and John Cleese also trieds to make him laugh by looking at him lol
florisarjan 3 years ago 3
This is my favorite version ... Cleese, Atkinson, AND Palin!
Idraena 3 years ago
In a cracked cup n' all !!!
mashamorgan 3 years ago
Michael Palin is the best ever!
NaBa6taTiHuq 3 years ago 4
Where are Idel and Chapman.
batmanofni 3 years ago
I don't know when this was done, but it was quite possibly after Chapman died, and Idle lives in the U.S. a lot I know, he had to make a broadcast contribution to a Monty Python day once, so maybe it's that.
Prophaniti666 3 years ago
This is the best version of all.
applecross20 3 years ago 3
"wala kayo sa lolo ko" english version. hahaha
agnusdei11 3 years ago
Where is this from.? I´ve never seen it before.
Of course i have seen - Four Yorkshiremen at the Hollywood Bowl. When was it filmed?
It´s brilliant
Snefaruramses 3 years ago 2
Concert from the early 80's called The Secret Policeman's Ball. Python skits live - cheese shop, dead parrot, this one and others. Music mixed in as well with Pete Townsend, Bob Geldof, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck together and others. Great movie. Also did sequal called Secret Policeman's 'Other' Ball. Filmed live in London as charity events.
yukiyofure 3 years ago
This is my favourite version,sheer brilliance.Watch Terry lose it at the end of Johns closing speech.hehehe
GunnerGraham 3 years ago 10
The timing of this version is better than on Hollywood Bowl.
dimitreze 4 years ago 8
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I think the timing was better at the Hollywood Bowl. Timing means answering fast. It's the most important rule of comedy.They were quite slow here...
vetery1 4 years ago
Timing is not necessarily anwser fast. On this version they're giving a little more time to the audience to think. It's hard to notice that when you know all the lines but I think it's better this way. ;)
dimitreze 4 years ago 2
haha being fast has nothing to do with timing, waiting for the right moment must be the hardest ..
Captainzoom666 3 years ago
this is brilliant. thanks.
Funnygirl335 4 years ago
Best version! Hilarious
GrandPrix55 4 years ago 2
its the only version you can get of this particular one.
Erajka 4 years ago