Monty Python - Bookshop Sketch (Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album)

[FlamingoKicker]

This is one of the Pythons' funniest sketches. It doesn't get nearly enough attention over some like the Dead Parrott sketch or Lumberjack or Spam to boot.

[Deuterium2H]

Does anyone happen to have the first 2 volumes of "The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Amongst the Giant Pygmies of Beckles". I only have Volumes 3 thru 8, but need to complete my collection. And I understand Luscasfilm has bought the rights to "Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying", and soon will be a major motion picture.

[dravin815]

i work at a book store and this happens once a day

[MearickLee]

A Sale Of Two Titties. Awesome book.

[pjskss]

it's jones and cleese. only jones could do that customer voice

[galipooh]

@pjskss its Chapman and Cleese.

[colinclarke1000]

Ha ha I luv python...the way cleese is getting more and more irate but trying not to lose his temper...but obviously failing

[JapaninArmeija]

Now I'm 100% sure it is Chapman, he uses that same voice in some other sketches too, like in the Interesting People as the man who throws cat into bucket.

[SufferingFoolsMusic]

@JapaninArmeija It's also exactly the voice he uses in the mechanical brain sketch as the man who throws the dummy salesman from Curry's into Mrs Zambesi's flat.

[denisethepainter]

"They wet their nests!"

[HappyHippoShit]

edmund wells lol

[CrimsonToast]

"Sale Of Two Titties."

-- Best spoonerism ever.

[demonsbutterfly]

sounds like graham Chapman to me....

[mssinatra]

It's ERIC IDLE and John Cleese :)

[taariqtaariq]

this Palin and Cleese from the contractual obligation LP, the best version.

[scriltist]

Oh, do go on, please!

[themostawesomesstguy]

aww this is so funny i did in skool for drama no offence but our version is way better the voices we do and plus my friend was laughing so hard she farted hyahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha­hahaha

[lalahland]

"B.I.R.D.S." <--- I lolled SO HARD at that XD

[adamtzsch]

Fantastic

[ianjohnson614]

Fantastic!

[pursehappygal]

Thank you for sharing this! I couldn't find it anywhere.

[mugenfan99]

are you sure its not my quonty nython the well known dutch groups with 2 Z's and a silent r? XD

[agentolshki]

i always assumed it was michael palin and john cleese.

[Morgorahir]

"Well we don't have Ronaby Budge by Charles Dickkens with two K's the well-known Dutch author and perhaps to save time I should add that we don't have Karnaby Fudge by Darles Chickens or Farnbary Sludge by Marles Pickens or even Stickweed Staples by Farles Wickens with four M's and a silent Q! Why don't you try W. H. Smiths?"

"I did, they sent me here."

"...Did they...?"

[Kasuga1]

So pleased you put this up!!! I used to listen to this when I was much much younger :)

[1beerguzzler1]

What an awful excuse for a bookshop. I'm glad for these hidden microphone reports by top radio journalists which were first championed by the magnificent Tony Blackburn & Terry Wogan.

[kimhansen72]

One of my favorite Phyton sketches.

Hilarious!!!

[mkarmam]

I can't buy that, it's torn. lmao

[JapaninArmeija]

Is that customer Marty Feldman? This sketch does predate the Pythons...

[HarvestGod]

@JapaninArmeija Yeah, the customer is Marty Feldman. According to Google, the sketch was written by Cleese and Chapman for "At Last the 1948 Show".

[JapaninArmeija]

@HarvestGod

Thank you. I thought it could be Chapman too but the recording date was not mentioned on my disc (the Final Rip Off).

[JapaninArmeija]

@HarvestGod

Sorry to trouble again but it has now turned out that this was a re-enacted Bookshop sketch where Graham was imitating Feldman. There does exist a 1948 version as well.

[HarvestGod]

@JapaninArmeija Huh, well my bad then, I didn't know there were 2 seperate versions. Man, Chapman's pretty good though. o.o

[club33az]

@JapaninArmeija It's not Graham Chapman. It's Terry Jones as the annoying customer.

[JapaninArmeija]

@club33az

It indeed does sound like Jones, too.

[PookaDude42]

@JapaninArmeija Indeed there is! There was a 1948 album released with this sketch performed by John and Marty. Thanks to the folks over at PythoNet, it can be download here:

orangecow[dot]org/pythonet/aud­io/zipped/At_Last_The_1948_Sho­w_-_Bookshop_-_John_Cleese_and­_Marty_[dot]zip

[HarvestGod]

@PookaDude42

Thanks, I uploaded the original version too. I gave credit to the site, of course.

[PookaDude42]

@HarvestGod So you did! Frickin A, man!

[Thefog666]

@JapaninArmeija yes this is a diff version i always assumed it was michael palin, cause he sounds a bit like Auther pewty in this Sketch.

[Thefog666]

@Thefog666 and john cleese

[smautomat]

@JapaninArmeija : It's definitely John Cleese and Michael Palin.

[SkateHomeless]

HarvestGod, I apologize for all of my fellow youtubers complaining about your description. I myself think it's hilarious.

[HarvestGod]

@SkateHomeless Thank you, kind sir! :)

[crazymonkey8888]

monty python are BRITISH

[HarvestGod]

@crazymonkey8888 O RLY?

[Thefog666]

@crazymonkey8888 apart frm terry Jones hes american

[Thefog666]

@crazymonkey8888 apart frm terry gilliham sorry

[blunklaura]

i have been looknig for this sketch for AGES!

I thought i was going mad, because i couldn't find it anywhere!

i have the complete set of the flying circus, plus all the live concerts, movies they did,etc. but i couldn't find THIS and i KNOW i've heard it SOMEWHERE so thanks for posting this and saving my sanity (or what's left of it,at least) !!!!!

monty python will live on, unlike the dead parrot (he's not dead, he's pining for the fjords!)

[scriltist]

Better than the more famous Parrot Sketch in my humble opinion.

[fenris2180]

Brilliant silliness. It's amazing that a comedy sketch so dependent on spelling and pronounciation survives the translation from the native switzer-ish :)

[SBUProductions]

I wanted to note that the person posting this video said this is from Ponty Mython A Swiss group when this is indeed a sketch from MONTY PYTHON A BRITISH GROUP! such foolishness! You're welcome.

[HarvestGod]

@SBUProductions

... did you listen to the sketch?

[ph1lanthrope]

"Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying" Chapman & Cleese at their surreal best!!

[Magamaguitam]

...."David Coperfield with one P"....ha, ha, ha! So witty & GENIAL!!

...."right, I'll buy it for you, there you are, there's a change, there's some money for the taxi other way home, there's your book....wait.....wait.....what­, what, what, what.....

I can't read...you can't read...right, sit down, sit, sit, sit down, are you sitting comfortably, right, "Ethel The Aardvark Goes...."

Both are genially MOST BRILLIANT!!

I shall always enjoy it endlessly! Many, many thanks, Phil!

M ^-^ M

[jmacbops]

This sketch made me laugh so hard I nearly dropped my copy of Knickerless Knickleby by Edmund Wells. Jolly good show!

[euphoria47]

amazing adventures of captain gladys stout pamphlet and her intrepid spaniel stig amongst the giant pygmies of beckles, volume 8

fav part lol never gets old this skit

[aartvegan]

aargh! ,cut short.

[HarvestGod]

It's not actually, that's the whole sketch. I just seem to have cut the "fading away" of the voice at the end, so it ends abruptly. My bad.

[aartvegan]

You're pardoned. :)

[Kw9mtr]

it's their best sketch ever! xD!!!