Monty Python The Bishop

[BOCHARLTON]

New Years Eve costume sorted!

[Nisse1988a]

HA HA HA HA HA Love it when they smoke and look cool on the street.

[SubjectAlpha100]

IT'S THE BISHOP!!! O_O

[NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

the hysterical laughing coming from the audience is enough to make me laugh out loud, even without the video to go along with it.

[trainyjack]

THE BISHOP :O

[tsartodd]

michael palin is prob my favorite Monty Python performer ... but my two favorite Monty Python characters (The Bishop and Mr Creosote) are Terry Jones.

[trainyjack]

@tsartodd John cleese and michal pailin THEY ARE BEST

[trainyjack]

AHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA­HAHHAHA

monty python the most amazing

[cornishphilosopher]

We was too late, the reverent Nuke, saw the light.

[juntaothesecond]

Much like a Saturday Night Live The Saint.

[bmiltonb]

Does anyone have any idea of the magazine Michael Palin is reading at the beginning (and the end?) It looks like it's called "Idea," but I can't find any references to that particular one on line. Anybody heard of it or know what it's about?

[stelos485]

@bmiltonb The book Palin is reading is more than likely a prop. The book is actually called IDE"Ass" ,a visual pun. And they liked to sneek things past the BBC Censor for their own amusement. And ours of course. lol

[dancinkindofguy]

Funny, I've seen this a hundred times, but I never noticed on the checker/chess board he went 3 steps forward and one to the side just like a bishop in chess. Guess I'm not too observant!

[whotaughtyou]

GREEN SQUARE CROP SQUARE DATE RELEASE HOWIE HOLMES BUSTAMANTE

[snoopygirl68]

I love this sketch! Love the part at .2:21 and 2:33

[Bikutolu]

The Bishop!

[Diogenes1360]

The Catholic Church desperatly needs "The Bishop" today, more than ever!

[NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

I think the best part of this clip is how the audience can't control themselves they're laughing so hard.

[gabsylv]

@NameNotAlreadyTaken2 Pretty sure it's a laugh track

[tricesimo]

Anybody know what version of the Peter Gunn theme is played during the sketch?

[stelos485]

@tricesimo Its not Peter Gunn , The music is called 'Superperformance'

By The David Lindup Big Band like a lot of the music used in Python its from a

music library

[tricesimo]

@stelos485 I found the song you mentioned, but that wasn't the one I was thinking of. I think the Peter Gunn theme is played as the Bishop and his men are walking down the street at 2:38.

[stelos485]

@tricesimo Yes apologies. The version of Peter Gunn used would be hard to find.Monty Python was made on a tight budget so they used music librarys like KPM & De Wolfe

[amcint01]

Who knew there was so much corruption in the catholic church?

[shitsumeilegumovitch]

@amcint01 The Bishop's not Catholic, he's Anglican (Church of England).

[Doommaster677]

by far the best Terry Jones sketch ever....

[axw820]

i love how the entire set collapses at 3:31

[Amobb481]

Old school Firebird driving clergy... should have been a 70's British crime drama. Along the lines of Special Branch, The Sweeney, and Red Cap, it would have been cool.  Oh well...

[MsPandaRosa]

Forget the Swiss Guard, Pope Benedict would do well to hire -- The Bishop!

[dergeier117]

"And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards"

-Leviticus 3:14

[MsPandaRosa]

@dergeier117

Any may it anoint the burgers and yeah also the buns, And let not a drop be wasted, for lo, the fat be-eth? be-ath? (oh the heck with it!) IS the most delicious thereunto of both the burger and the hotdog. For Lo, is not the grilling of the meat, and the coleing of the slaw and the icing of the tea the most worthy of outdoor meals, a feast far beyond the decedent and over-priced those of kings of four stars?

[P1votG33k]

This is definitely my favorite Terry Jones sketch. "We wuz...too late."

[karrongeiger]

I was thinking about this skit last nite and couldnt stop laughing, I used to watch this show in the middle of the nite with my brother because we werent allowed to watch it because of the nudity we had to sneak to see it, we always got caught because our laughter would wake the whole house up, I miss those days....

[DaveDaShrubber]

Robert Stack IS ..... THE BISHOP.

A Quinn Martin Production.

[17primemover]

Don't say dah kid's name Vic!

[implantdnb]

thank god for monty python :D

[LestatdeVladimir]

2:21 OMG

[Greenhornet270]

LMAO!!! FIVE stars!!

[JakeRichard72]

All you guys dream about butt sex with the bitter dorks who made this crap that only atheists and secular drug addicts with no friends watch :)

[LestatdeVladimir]

@JakeRichard72 Aha, you're using being atheist as an insult... And liking butt sex. Interesting...

Well, you forgot to mention sophisticated, silly, funny, intelligent, marvelous, amazing, amusing, etc. people.

This humor is to be enjoyed by those, who have a brain. Not like some "comedy" who you only think is funny, 'cause you're supposed to think so...

Yes, Monty Python is very silly. But it's funny as hell!!! Maybe you gotta be intelligent to think so. Is that why you don't like it?

[jacobrford]

@LestatdeVladimir

No, you're right! Millions of pedophiles (yes including the homosexuals who invaded the Catholic priesthood) were reared on this kind of humor.

It's like potty mouthed schoolyard humor..it really is hypnotizing if you allow yourself to become obsessed with laughing at it.

We have many representatives of the next generation: pathetic 34 year old men who rave about Southpark and attack people who think it's juvenile like you do for these kooks.

[jacobrford]

@LestatdeVladimir

By the way, they only seem smart because secularists have done such a thorough job of dumbing us all down so we'll follow their wild pipe dreams.

Any dork obsessed with finally getting respect can get into Oxford. The Monty Python guys were C students, yet we all pretend they're brilliant because they spent their adult lives perfecting an eight year old's humor (a very cultured eight year old I admit, one who says all the right things for pedantic jaded secularists).

[MsPandaRosa]

@JakeRichard72

Oh com'on, there's plenty of Christians willing to laugh at themselves over this, butt sex or no. And no, I would just assume not watch.

More power to THE BISHOP!

[holloloh]

OMG, TEH BISHOP!

[PrimalCaterpie123]

111 were blessed by the bishop

[VaatiPownsNoobs]

we was..to late

[AngryBlakMan]

THE BISHOP!!!!!!

[DejectedPanda]

david caruso is....  The Bishop!

"We was too late! The Reverand Duke saw the light."

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[MrBuch169169]

I can't tell you how funny I find that one screen with "Special effects by THE MODERATOR OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND".

[AlantheOttoman]

Okay, Devious. Don't move!

The Bishop!

C. OF E. FILMS in association with THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS BOARD PRESENT "THE BISHOP"

Starring THE REVEREND E. P. NESBITT

And introducing F. B. GRIMSBY-URQHART-WRIGHT as THE VOICE OF GOD

Special effects by THE MODERATOR OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

Directed by PREBENDARY "CHOPPER" HARRIS

[LestatdeVladimir]

MONTY PYTHON 4-EVER!!!!!! XDDD 2:21 is just HILARIOUS!!!!!!! I'm laughing too much, gotta see a doctor!!!! WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHAHAH

[amcint01]

This segment was too much. I almost hyperventilated from laughing.

[ZackTheGopher]

The Bishop!!

Now this is a C of E with no place for faggy Bishops!

[cbak12sg]

When the knock the door down with the guy's head, the whole set almost collapses!

[northernsteel1]

We was TOO LATE !

[clineshaunt]

This is awesome.  Great stuff.

[jlk792]

I think the only I liked better than the skit was the Bishop's them song. It kicked so much butt!!

[flapdoodle64]

If this was a real TV show, I would watch it every week...

[MrMonsterstiffy]

@flapdoodle64 It was a real TV show douche.

[flapdoodle64]

@MrMonsterstiffy No, idiot. The Bishop was not a real show, it was a one-time spoof of 'The Saint', which was a real show.

Now, Monty Python's Flying Circus, that was a real show.

[DejectedPanda]

@flapdoodle64 I'd like to find that theme song.

[tsangari]

@DejectedPanda "David Lindup Big Band - Superformance" Its on a CD called "Girl in a Suitcase", which I downloaded somewhere. The CD version is even BETTER :-)

[onlyrock1]

@analogforever1960 good call!

[thePENGUINandBISHOP]

This is my new favorite TV charater!

[lonelysith66]

2:38 - 3:16 - How would you react walking down the street seeing this?

LOL XD

[teencomment]

"Leviticus 3:14." *BOOM* XD

[lonelysith66]

@teencomment If that happened, I'd go to church more often!

LOL XD

[JTC545]

This deserves more views one of the funniest sketchs

[quizmaster85]

"Don't say the text!"

[wowcrap]

My favorite Python sketch. Love the shaky hand held camerawork during the "Peter Gunn" part.

[harryc1971]

This should go to series.. :)

[WelshDood]

Awesome Sketch!! The Bishop!!! I find Michael Palins face after he says that hilairious

[Gorboduc]

They knock the whole set over at 3:32!

Also I love it when Palin plays scumbags.

[neosoc]

Could someone please explain what exactly the joke is here?

[alexiaNBC]

@neosoc It's the fact that a bishop is being portrayed as a cop trying to protect targeted clergymen

[zotimmons]

@neosoc There was a TV show on at the same time called "The Saint" starring Roger Moore, about a debonair crime-fighting playboy, the Bishop is Monty Python's over-the-top parody.

[sparty115]

@zotimmons sweet! i always wished there was a show like this, who knew there already was one!?! lol

[taffwob]

The opening titles bit is epic.

[beyondbeyondness]

Never seen this skit before.

[flanneryged]

"We was too late,the Renerend Grundy saw the light" Oh Man a brilliant sketch or what!?!?.

[vince065us]

The Peter Gunn Theme in this is cool:)

[twittlebug1]

THE BISHOP!

[raksana0]

INSANELY HYSTERICALLY FUNNY

it only gets funnier with time, maybe because comedy today is SO uncreative, unoriginal, and stupid

[OldBobMcCoy]

Oh god, the cannon in the grave! AHAHAHAHAHA!

[vince065us]

@OldBobMcCoy He got a bang out of that one,didn't he?

[OldBobMcCoy]

@vince065us IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD A BLAST.

[vince065us]

@OldBobMcCoy He went to pieces:)

[DevoShire]

One of the best Monty Python skits Ive seen - Makes me laugh almost 40 years later!