Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl - Philospher's Song

[Nosehairman0]

where is my top comment? :(

[ladycplum]

Best part-American Beer vs. Australian beer

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

Lol Australians calm down, listen to John Cleese's rant about Belgians....

I'm a Belgian and laughed like a 8y old

[Xanthyke]

@Tw1St3DSt33L Same here. At least Belgians have a sense of humor :)

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

Belgians are awesome with beer. FUBAR at the night, barely a hangover after

[EdDeRs3]

@Tw1St3DSt33L naa you want Welsh beer, a pint of Brains SA in Cardiff cant be beat (cos its right next to the brewery)

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

Subjectively, for me, a Belgian, Belgian beer is just awesome...there was a "beer-fest" of sorts, they had 80 different kinds of Belgian beer, just as a happening, but wow....I had eleven different kinds of beer that day...the rest is a blur. Although I remember seeing 2 friends ride home on a tandem bike..they kept falling and singing..Twas a great day! (Fuckall how I got home, no idea. Could have been Valkyries for all I cared)

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

Australia...lots of Bruce's and some pooftas's

I love you Monty Python

[EdDeRs3]

i have tried American beer and there fucking right

[ArticulatingMadnessY]

@EdDeRs3 *they're

Learn to spell before you criticize, moron.

[EdDeRs3]

@ArticulatingMadnessY now Bruce, this is the rare creature known as the troll, its known habitat are comment sections on the internet, and the most common breed is the rabid american patriot, who will critisize any comment that mocks america or points out how fucked up the nation is by makeing a rude comment about there spelling and/or grammer and then calling them a moron, as shown below, this one was captured on the "philospher's song" monty python video

[Trekfreek]

@ArticulatingMadnessY Please read what I wrote to EdDeRs3. Calling people names and criticizing people for their lack of ability to spell is no way to win an argument. Just so that you know lots of highly educated people can't spell even Americans. It's called Dyslexia, Look it up.

[prophetchannel]

Throwing beer cans into the audience... This was way before the health and safety police.

[Icanhasoboe]

i could go for a fosters right now

[CharlesR1141]

Socrateas died of drinking.....hemlock

[savagejeans]

I sing this in the car with my dad.

[bobafruti]

"It's fucking close to water".... I can never remember that punchline.

[TappedOutCY]

I'd like to see them try to throw a beer cans to a crowd today ...

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

lol tried a Budweiser once, when the waitress came back I asked for some beer to go withthis water.

Seriously, Americans are missing out on beer.

[teamsleep24]

... its fucking close to water

so true

[whouston8]

immanuel kant was a real piissant and was very rarely stable

[TheSpiritofZero]

22 people were drunk under the table by Heideger.

[klrose11]

Eric Idle sounds just like my friend from Australia. Plus my friend went to college in warrnambool.

[sjlemmon]

@klrose11 ceebs loading that bit but dont they say woolamaloo? and i know that warnambools a real place

also that canoe ones my favourite joke in the world. and i now plan to write this song out in someones book tomorrow. and eventually to drink it while pissed. So many plans, so little time.

[sunshowers92]

@sjlemmon They do say Wooloomooloo, which is a suburb of Sydney. It doesn't have a university though! (The name comes from the Indigenous language of the area).

[sjlemmon]

@sunshowers92 sydney?! poofta capital of australia!

[coxda100]

Australia's capital is Canberra not Sydeny

[sjlemmon]

@coxda100 "poofta capital"

its a quote from wolfs creek or some shit. Heard it in passing. And believe me, I know the capital of my own country.

[coxda100]

@sjlemmon My bad

[coxda100]

@sjlemmon my bad

[rajisama]

@coxda100 It's Sydney. If you're going to to defend Australia, at least SPELL it right.

[SymbolicWords]

22 people don't get Monty Python.

[shortypingi]

my favorite song EVER!!

[dylad]

YAY! He's got an Ovation! :D

[EarthBoyJakobus]

I hope the 22 people who disliked this fucking die a horrible death....

[chippaa]

@EarthBoyJakobus They just missed the like button in their drunken state, don't worry about it.

[RedQueen112]

This got me through my A-level lol

[NoirFan01]

Philosophy is often nothing more than mental masturbation.

[SunFireDragon]

22 people don't get this song because they have no idea who they are talking about, and they also don't realize that most philosophy is a bunch of old buggers chattin back and forth with one another about how things use to be in the old days, then saying how they actually are, and how they should be more like the old days yet the old days really weren't all that great save for in your mind. Mainly cause your and old bugger and the mind goes in the end they say. What was I talking about again?

[Sewblon]

Heraclitus was so hammered that he thought that everything was made of fire, and Parmenides was so drunk that he had no sense of time.

[JuniusFaction]

@Sewblon

I thought it was water. It was the Stoics who made such a big deal about the primordial fire from which all things sprang. GOd I'm pissed.

[ValentinaSL]

I want this song play at my funeral!^^ ;)

[JesseRay89]

Haha, silly Nigels

[1987Bateman]

The Doors played at the Hollywood Bowl on July 5th, 1968. That's almost 40 years ago! Anyway great song

[vebjj2]

It's fucking close to water:)

[Ruscull]

Who cares how they represent Australians? They got the most important part down, the fact that we have better beer.

[kiuhy8]

rene descarte was a drunken fart 'i drink therefore i am'

[TheFordham1]

Oh no, they are being racist and prejudice to Australians. They really have no idea what an actual Australian is like, what will they ever do..... rubbish! I myself am Australian and think Python are the funniest people under the sun! Anyone who disagres can throw themselves out of a window like an unsucsessful encyclopedia salesman.

[p0ooo0p]

@TheFordham1 Or a member of the Queen's Own Kamikaze Highlanders...

[DantesTear]

@TheFordham1 or like the 4 or 5 people who jumped from the top of that tall building while idle and cleese were at work :D

[rockingKitten]

Oh dear, the two people with Gumby handkerchiefs on their head at 00:16! So much WIN!! :D

[mazeman90]

The only reason they're cheering is cause they handed out free beer at the beginning.

[timicus2]

@mazeman90 That and the fact that they're friggin' hilarious!

[helen1908]

classic sketch

[wickedpissa25]

best. skit. ever.

[nosehairman]

socrates really died of drinking you know :D

[RedQueen112]

@nosehairman lol yeah drinking hemlock LOL

[BrunetteNinja12]

@nosehairman Yeah drinking poison, straight, no alcohol in it. And he was forced to. also what the hell is with the smiley face at the end?

[VoltaireActNow]

@BrunetteNinja12 That's what was meant by "drinking"; aaaaaaaaand, why so serious?

[Yamibee]

@BrunetteNinja12 Thank you for unnecessarily expanding on his point. And hey, he's allowed to be happy.

[stevray98]

@nosehairman *knee slap*

[AbsoluteRinsage]

@nosehairman no he died of hemlock, he was executed.

[iggysoccer20]

@AbsoluteRinsage Read what nosehairman wrote again and think on it.

[AbsoluteRinsage]

@iggysoccer20 I'm sorry, what do you mean? Are you referring to the colon then D? I don't get them.

[arpakyna]

@AbsoluteRinsage

Yes he _drank_ an infusion of hemlock. See?

[ConstantineChernabog]

@AbsoluteRinsage he was allowed to choose his method of execution, so in a way he died the way he lived, drinking!

[KatayokoNoTenshi]

@nosehairman Too soon!

[bombshellblonde544]

@nosehairman dat hemlock!

[1001orpheus]

@nosehairman Hemlock?

[mdenizyildirim]

@nosehairman he drink poison not beer. lol

[gvbezoff]

@nosehairman Yeah, drinking hemlock.

[Nosehairman0]

@gvbezoff

i know..that's the whole joke.

[ArticulatingMadnessY]

@gvbezoff Way to suck the funny out of a good joke, moron.

[MySweede]

Classic... I have been reciting that ever since I first heard it back in the day. Good way to remember the philosophers. Almost as good as Decomposing composers.

[HRPuffNStuff933]

22 people like american beer

[crazyirishsk8er]

@HRPuffNStuff933 American beer is good, but imported beer is better.

[loqutor]

It's a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

[angas0311]

i kno no one named bruce n im aussie!

[mandy199422]

am i the only person who can NOT hear the australian great white off "Finding Nemo" go "m'names BRUCE" and burst into fits of hysterical laughter because of this sketch???

[bridgetthewench]

@mandy199422 I'm wondering if they named him Bruce because of Python.

[SecretlyDead]

21 people had straws up their noses.

[xen32]

What's that? Forever alone figures in the background?

[Trekfreek]

The puppeteer controlling the cartoon Australians in this is very good.

[dracoslover123]

Doing a project on Hume and Kant...this song was particularly educational.

[Roadtryppyr]

@titostacos you do realize Monty Python wasn't "American Culture" right?

[jayantasodekar]

jrj4u.com

[titostacos]

The Seventies was the last hurrah of American culture.

[TheN00bdrummer]

I'm Aussie, and I have NEVER heard anyone say bruce

[ashoftomorrow]

@TheN00bdrummer you sure, bruce?

[titostacos]

@TheN00bdrummer good on ya.

[sano0311]

20 dislikes are other dead philosophers who didn't make it into the song o_O

[sano0311]

I miss so much Australian beer

[guitarpick678]

best. drinking song. ever

[ferretyluv]

Shouldn't it be "sheilas and bruces"?

[mikeUNC1]

These "Bruces" are the Best!!!

BTW..Fosters was a great beer.

Spent 4 years overseas and they are EXACTLY RIGHT about American Beer!!!!!

[CainmosniMirrored]

@mikeUNC1 Yeah, they may be right about Budweiser and similar garbage but try some of the microbrews and then judge American beer.

[mikeUNC1]

@CainmosniMirrored  My reference about theEuropean beer is from 1977 to 1981... There were no microbrews back then.....I WISH THERE HAD BEEN!!!

[jvemPiRe14]

darn those australians with their australium

[uhddh]

@jvemPiRe14 Even though theyre british

[jws1272]

@Cluebert

Eric repeats that joke when they do this song in the Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python special!!! Hilarious!!

[ePhilosopher9]

define timeless, my wallamaloos

<3

[ahampster2]

Hi Mrs. Douchant !!!

[MegaNeilFan]

LOVE this song!!!

[TheChiliDragon]

That canoe joke applies to American coffee as well...

[0860888080]

@TheChiliDragon

According to Bagdad Café, it's just brown water :P

[LagMasterSam]

@TheChiliDragon

That depends. I seriously saw a guy use "rip its" in place of water to make his coffee.

[barkpeeler2000]

i get this song stuck in my head all the time

[javakogan]

I just love this to bits. When seeing an Eric Idle show here in Philadelphia several years ago, I could sing along with no trouble...

[Quiltfish]

Howls...Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!

[MilesB1975]

Apart from the fact that the learned Professors are drinking bloody Fosters, this is exactly what living in Australia is like!

[stacygallagher]

lmao!!

[FandPrulethesky]

Does watching this class as revising for my philosohers exam?

[Superduperminime]

It only counts if you learn the lyrics:D

[FandPrulethesky]

@Superduperminime That I did, and when asked about Aristotle's theory on God all I could think of, is he is a bugger for the bottle. :)

[EireGoon]

Here's hoping- might help fix a few names in place.

I'll probably end up watching this before my exam:)

[FandPrulethesky]

@EireGoon very gd idea

[toastysock]

One of my favourite Python songs ever.

[JulieQ150]

In the end we must always go back to the Python oracle: and not take anthing bloody too seriously. Great way to finish up our Australia day long weekend, cheers!

[MARSH0L0MEW]

i love when he said our beer is close to water; he's absolutely right! XD

[Gawaine687]

"american beer is rather like making love in a canoe; it's fucking close to water!"

OMFG I LOVE THAT LINE!!!!!

[rexsteel]

2:22 LMAO!

[candlelightatnight]

This might be my favorite Python bit!

[RHNarrator]

I saw this at The Hollywood Bowl!

[graciethegoalie]

we find your american beer a bit like making love in a canoe:)

[Skogula]

The Truth in Advertising laws should force them to re-label it "bottled water"

[sublimepenguin47]

@graciethegoalie as an american, I agree! I ONLY drink Guinness! (My mother is full bloodied Irish, her parents came to the U.S. in the 20's) I tell this joke constantly!

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

@graciethegoalie It's fuckin' close to water!

[dAkshEN3]

@graciethegoalie Awkward and cramped, yet strangely exciting?

[TJCuffe]

@dAkshEN3

No, what they said in the video was right.

Fucking close to water.

I'm serious, American Beer is like drinking piss coloured water.

[6020e3]

@graciethegoalie fucking close to water.

[allaboutdmagic]

Christopher Hitchens loves this song.

[coconutgrove8]

I like Palin's Aussie accent!

[madcatgolfer]

This has to be one of their best skits and my favorite for sure!

[OrontesRM]

"Good evening ladies and bruces" XD everytime, I laugh - everytime ! It's not possible XDD

[LittlebunnyakaPygmy]

lol at 2:20 great.

[WICHEESE1]

Brill. Clearly Gervais' forefathers in comedy. Beer gags for some, Philosophy for others. (plus tits on bruce.)

[halfsara666]

omg can't believe you dared to put that smug unfunny tit Ricky Gervais in the same league with Python...shaaaame on you ^^

[WICHEESE1]

Gervais is NOT in the pantheon of Brit comedy yet, but I stand by my comment that he took some inspiration from the Pythons. Come on....

[peacemtn]

Funny

[Hegebabe]

Frankly over here we find your American beer a little like making love in a canoe.... it's fucking close to water! :-D

[MumboMoose]

i loled

[RUBENSolol]

@Hegebabe Why do you just repeat whats in the video? :)

[Hegebabe]

@RUBENSolol why not? :P I want to enfesis(?) that it's funny :-)

[RCH45ACP]

@Hegebabe Right, no point watching the video and appreciating the jokes as they happen. We'll just write them out in the comments. Brilliant!

[aussie1689]

Im in a philosophy class right now in school and there's an australian guy in my class and everytime he talks i loose all concentration and jump right to this song!!! Very distracting, very funny!!

[Hegebabe]

Last time in my history class my teacher started listing all theese philosophers and I thought of this song and couden't stop laughing :-D

[SohoDelights]

Lol @ 2:23

[samadriel]

Sheep dip as in, the bath farmers put sheep through to delouse them. Christ...

[mcfrolas]

... Are you Australian?

Because in all my LIFE i have never heard that phrase hear... maybe its some fantasy land Australian term Mmmm Interesting!

And its NOT a reference to POO.. Its a reference to the station or DEPO... Sigh * palm face *

[suppen133]

I wish i was there!! Even though it was 8 years before my birth...

[gonace]

American beer is water!! nothing else!

[Nicecatholicgirl]

"And Bruce here is in charge of the sheep dip"

[mcfrolas]

Sheep DEP, As in Depo

[ferglesnerk]

Sheep dip! Dip is an Australian word for shit. When you walk through a paddock of sheep you will step in sheep dip.

depo..lol ... well, at least you had a go ...

[1onevideo1]

Both of you are wrong. A sheep dip is something which sheep are forced to walk through which contains some kind of chemical to kill disease and bacteria which they may be carrying on them.

[brupey]

@ferglesnerk Where did get that idea? Sheep dip is a liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide which shepherds and farmers may use to protect their sheep from infestation against external parasites such as itch mite (Psorobia ovis), blow-fly, ticks and lice.

[martybow1]

@brupey Noooo, it's a lamb-flavoured condiment for breadsticks!

[googlyeyes34]

it's fucking close to water. i laugh out loud EVERYTIME i hear that!

a lovley little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed! lol. i want this as my ringtone

[smiley4theworld]

My favorite sketch from Hollywood bowl. Possibly my favorite Python sketch of all. My husband was shocked that I knew all the words : D

Thanks for posting and making my day.

[wittyvegan]

American beer is the successfull try to water down water ;)

[poorman369]

this is bruce from the biology department

[LordIeuan]

LOL @ 0:58

[TeamHawkesey]

I love it... just when I do my philosophy exam on tuesay... that's gonna keep popping into my head. Especially as we have to quote Hume, Kant, Socrates and John Stuart Mill!

[ThoriaBladecadas]

I got that exam too mate, and this song will be in my head the WHOLE way through.

[TabbzMoo]

we find that american beer is like making love in canoe, it's fucking close to water! XD

[Livinitupuk]

So damn true lol

[TabbzMoo]

yah!