Monty Python - Lifeboat - Cannibalism - Undertaker

[alexasmithy]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[motherfan55]

It's hard to tell if the "ugh" noises are the real audience members or just pretend.

[ChrisHenniker]

The Lifeboat sketch was based on a real legal case, where survivors of a shipwreck ate a fellow crew member. That said, when I die, I want to be made into McDahmers and eaten. The Undertakers sketch is one of my favourites. 

[flutewarrior1]

LOL XD

[flutewarrior1]

what is the name of the boat?! rorn?

[ciaobebbo050]

Wikipedia describes this as one of their most tasteless sketches...I found it hilarious!

[unwell333]

what the fuck do you expect from Monty Python? They do a skit on a taboo subject becayuse it's taboo! This shit is hilarious

[saeufertranse]

6 people accidently hit thumbs down...

[StrangerForever85]

AGAIN with the cannibalism!!! Good God!!!

[BrosephMG]

Wooh! Watching in Crim law

[spacecowboy5000]

If he was feeling a bit peckish he should have gone to a cheese shop.

[dbenson31]

I dont know if I should be laughing at all of this... but I did

[slariley]

'Eat me..'

'ewww...with a gammy leg!?'

lol

:)

xx

[thing2liv]

I find it funny how the tags don't show the true joke.

[twittlebug1]

stop! stop all this cannibalism XDDD

[murielsartre]

The only way the BBC would allow this sketch to be aired was to show people appearing to protest it.

If the audience were *truly* shocked, there'd have been a deep, uncomfortable silence. Had anyone actually gone to stop the proceedings, the stage crew wouldn't just stand around, they'd get people off the performers.

[MoriyaMug]

This is the single MP sketch that I can reference and get my wife to laugh at.

[pixelmischer]

makes my stomach churn XD

[JimmyLeeVanDePutte]

God save the Queen! Just don't eat her!

[JimmyLeeVanDePutte]

The claim is this show was charged by outraged audience. Go figure!!!

[awelcruiz]

That is some of the most offensive, tasteless garbage I've ever seen!

I love it! :D

[MrAmaster102]

Ha! They said something about decent human beings and i thought that monty python would be the last place to look for that! After all, they are not decent, but perfect!

[yelbec]

I particularly enjoy that it ends with "God Save the Queen"

[hafanamapa]

I'm not sure, are the audience responses genuine?? or staged??

[mateuszmattias]

@hafanamapa; it's 100% staged: a) people booing during previous cannibalism sketch followed by animations made in advance, b) frontrunner of the crowd is producer Ian McNaughton, c) the rest of the crowd is laughing at the storming part as well, d) everyone is prepared to stop rioting and stand up for the national anthem (nothing spontaneous), e) machine running the credits (maybe it even goes ping) all set up and ready to roll without editing (be sure that's not the way it was normally done)

[ILUVALEX613]

"We could eat her and if you feel guilty, we'll dig a grave and you can throw up in it."

That's awful XD

[vonbontee]

I always thought the undertaker sketch was a letdown - suffered from having to follow the lifeboat sketch (much funnier imo)

[alinemerrow]

Graham Chapman looks very good in this.

[alpha18412]

4:11 "We deal with stiffs."

[StealingSocietyFilms]

4 people got eaten.

[DunMarron]

Michael Palin is so good-looking.

[Kharthoum]

4 people didn't get a lifeboat

[NeedleHitsTheGroove]

"Have we started again?"

[whatuswattingat]

@NeedleHitsTheGroove Looked like John Cleese was trying not to laught at that point.

[Lesbomarx]

Thumps up if this made you hungry.

[disposablereligion]

"well, i feel a bit peckish"

[TheMinimums]

"eeeughh! With a gammy leg ?!"

[TiagoAngelelli]

Hannibal aproves this video!!!

[TheKingofRockMusic]

'Let's have something decent!':D:D:D

[Luthinya]

So apart from Terry Jones, all the other Pythons evidently have uncloven hooves and chew on their own cud. Delicious -I'm definitely chopping off all their ears to make hamantaschen next Purim...

[antifacistppl]

gee i want to go to a show that is in no way offensive and shows decency and taste.... i know lets go see monty python....

if they are that opposed to it then why go to see it

[gilli39]

@antifacistppl

You...you know this is a sketch right?

[antifacistppl]

@gilli39 yes i am aware of that... its called sarcasm, i was talking about people who were complaining about monty python

[lexo30]

Genius.

[Cervicconstruction]

" Look if your feeling guilty we can dig a hole and you can throw up in it ".Easily by light years to that point in tv history the most disturbing punch line ever delivered.

The first time I heard it I laughed but then said to meself did he just say that?

[SLjimbolian]

WE GOT AN EATER!

[DarkRubberDucky]

I always like when they re-start skits. And this one had one of the best opening jokes.

[greg5566]

"How long is it?" "That's rather a personal question, sir!" hahahahahahahahaha

[sekgvac]

Crown v. Dudley and Stephens 1884

[chuckiejay]

Excellent sketches !! And the animated part was so well done . Is it any wonder they`ve been so popular for all these years ?

[RasMajnouni]

I read in Terry Gilliam's book "Not in front of the Ladies", that he got the idea for the sketch from a real life incident about the sinking of the" HMS Pansy", where 1 survivor staid alive by drawing lots and eating his shipmates in the rowboat skiff.

[GereDJ]

...eugh..with a gammy leg?

...you needn't eat the leg Thompson..look at that arm... I'd ratehr eat Hodges....

I wish you'd all stop bickering and eat me....

[benow74]

From Flying Circus episode 26

[mpgorilla66]

Some of you may want to get a copy of the book "The Wreck of the Dumaru" from the Lowell Thomas Library.

[Villagejonesy]

2:22-2:24 "nonsense, sir, you're starving! Do Tuck In!

[globbo100]

Cannibalism no longer occurs in the British Navy. And when I say "no longer occurs," I mean, of course, that there is a certain amount of it. But we definitely have the problem under control. Watkins, put that down! ~ Oscar Wilde on British Navy

[globbo100]

Audience participation required.LOL. Btw, is that Terry Gilliam? The third man behind the woman in the blue dress at foreground?"I feel somewhat peckish (i.e.hungry and irritable)."That's hilarious.

[globbo100]

@Zara: I love it when people like you show up and tell us what the sketch is based on . Has it ever occurred to you that it just came from the creative minds of the writers and it has no reference to any real situation?

[pipmdirector]

@globbo100 has it occoured to you that perhaps some people know a little background information on the sketch forma documentary or article perhaps?

[Zarathustrasbrother]

So funny- never gets outdated- classic.

To anyone who doesn´t know the lifeboat sketch is actually based on a real story- the case of the Mignonette Crew

[XxNaughtxX]

eugh! with a gammy leg?!

[OrontesRM]

I love how people can't stop laughing even if they try...

...oh, I'd like to eat chapman...

[dharmaseed]

You stupid git!! I meant how long have we been in the lifeboat?

[ZaffireWolf]

Is there a particular name for the type of hat the undertakers wear?

Goddamn, the YouTube spam even spams the video content now. Geez almighty, I just wanna use the internet in peace.

[fillabunny]

I can't stop laughing at "Eugh, with a gammy leg?!"

XD

[ImLiveingALie]

i love how no one could keep a straight face after they rushed onstage

[Bizarronumber4]

Another Classic Python sketch!

[kevinisatgmail]

quality! and THAT's why freedom of speech wins thru - allez!!! le qev

[murielsartre]

When Michael looks at the camera the first time? Mmmmmm... delicious! I'll have a bite of him!

[PrudenceNumberNine]

I don't know...Cleesey looks kinda yummy to me!

[graaar]

The outraged studio audience is staged, right?

[murielsartre]

Yes, at the BBC's request.

[airy3que]

If you watch carefully, you can see one of the outraged audience members is Terry Gilliam.

[Koontakinte]

One of the most tasteless and funniest Python sketches ever.

[bluesboy25000]

@Koontakinte only those two adjectives can be used together for Monty Python

[thexalon]

@Koontakinte Well, not exactly tasteless, although the taste with a gammy leg isn't so great.

[ysbaddaden2003]

@Koontakinte

Not if you add hot mustard and horseradish.

[kortexsirvasil]

@Koontakinte Tasteless? I've been told it tastes like a chicken.

[DekalbBlues]

BOOO! GET OFF! APPALLING!!

Wait-- I do feel a bit peckish...

[genalof]

Brilliant, Like Always.

[peashow]

That last line is the best punchline ever, period.

[superinsane95]

'Ew! With a gummy leg!'

[shoesfordancing]

what does Graham say at 0:41?

[awelcruiz]

"I don't think I really spoiled the atmosphere."

[shawnmcghee1]

I just cracked up when he said about throwing up in the grave!  :-D

I wonder why they're playing "My Country T'is of Thee" at the end.

[awelcruiz]

This was part of an episode where it was said that the Queen was going to tune in at some point, at which point everyone would stand at attention while the music was playing. It happened earlier in the episode, then stopped ("she's switched over to ITV!") and the show continued until the credits when she supposedly flipped back over.

[Tareltonlives]

One of my favorite running gags. Did the channels really make a big deal about the Queen watching, I wonder?

[murielsartre]

My Country 'Tis of Thee and God Save The Queen have the same melody, so a British person knows the tune as God Save The Queen.

[mangahead21]

It's the British National Anthem "God save the queen" you American tool!

[ridingisasport]

Oh my......

[Steve17010]

I still love these sketches.

[JAVAGOIL]

"YOU STUPID GIT!"

[darkrose0726]

These two are probably two of the best sketches ever and I <3 them so much...they are in such bad taste...how I adore them ^_^ :D

[emperorsdragon]

this sketch is based on the last trial for cannibalism to be tried in the UK. The shiprecked sailors ate the cabin boy. Happened in the late 1800's

true..true...true....true

[6our6vampire6hearts]

thats rather a personal question ROTFL

[spittingimage4005]

Where did you find this?

[qlight]

Queen Elisabeth II tastes better with sauerkraut and mustard.

[Tareltonlives]

Whereas Ronald Reagan was good with rye and horseradish with a slice of dill pickle. Needed some tenderizing, though

[r5t6y7u8]

"Well I am feeling a bit peckish." Ten stars.

[artemakoulini]

terry gilliam is so sick I despise him as much as I absolutely adore the rest of the monty

[TulseLuper]

Only the Pythons would get their audience to heckle them on purpose. Geniuses.

[cowsfeelchicken]

Only the Pythons would hire an false audience who's sole purpose it was to heckle them.

[ArchieAA]

Yeah dude you're retarded, the pythons obviously hired those people...

[TulseLuper]

That's what I meant. No need to insult me.

[ArchieAA]

My bad.

[starwarsguy9]

lol, I'm going fast, awesome.

[thetiktokman]

Python: classic genius! LOVE 'EM! Stop! This is too silly.

[sculptor1965]

This skit was based on a true story of the shipwrecked crew HMS Essex in 1819 resorted to cannibalism to survive. In all 7 crew were eaten.  At first they ate the ones that died naturally. Then, when no one was dying, they drew lots and ate the unlucky winner.

[masonfr8kr]

"How long is it?"... "That's rather a personal question isn't it?"

[Villagejonesy]

That one, and "oh nonsense sir, you're starving, do tuck in!" from Terry Jones. He was always my favorite, because of that cheerful, smiling, chin-up, having-a-swell-day expression on his face.

[dharmaseed]

@masonfr8kr "You stupid git! I meant how long have we been in the lifeboat?!? You've spoiled the atmosphere now..."

[Emgee78]

"Have we started again?" why does this line make me laugh the hardest??

[b00mhauer]

One of their best. Love how the lifeboat sketch just goes from absurd to far fucking out in a classic Monty Python manner when Palin calls the waiter.

[Villagejonesy]

Brilliant. It was the timing that makes that work, the way they just snap right into calling the waiter.

[Nas29792]

"Ergh! With a gamy leg??" My favourite part of this sketch^^

[baattenburg]

its good how after the cannibalism in the first sketch, the 2nd 1 ends up being about cannibalism as well :)

[latieraeve]

"... how long is it?"

"well thatsa personal question isntit"? XD

[JIMJ32X]

Funny stuff!  If your feeling guilty later we can dig a grave and you can throw up into it.

[einysjame]

That last line was an absolute killer!

[OtisWild]

He's not kosher!

[sumbag22]

MPFC, best show on television for years!

[GoldeneyeMarine]

Why don't you want to eat me? LOL

[BlizzardOfTheCoast]

Not raw! Cooked!

[OtisWild]

I wish you'd all stop bickering and eat me!!

[TruthSeeker2K6]

Yum!

Yum!

Pass The Alka Seltzer!

Zed Likes!

[bellebrett]

two of my all-time favorite sketches! :D haha Graham's lip-smacking around 5:20

[xBRIXx]

*sigh*...michael! <3

[Kain456]

That's rather a personal question sir!

[LizaRadley]

I love this sketch. I'm doing it in my comedy class at school(I'm playing the Michael Palin character). It's awesome

[CostelloCostigan]

All-time favorite Python sketch. Period.

[gemby]

chapman was a genius

[shadowpig13]

only monty python can make fun of cannibalism and dead people with so much style xD

awesome!

[thestewd]

MAtt and Trey?

"I'm taking some eric roberts home in a doggy bag, anybody else want some?"

[quizmaster85]

Incidentally, this came from either an off-air repeat or a foreign duplicate (as the original master tape of this sketch had been replaced by "Spot the Braincell", originally featured in Series 2, episode 7)

[idespiseall]

There's actually a pretty detailed article on Wikipedia about the second (more controversial) half of the sketch. The storming of the stage was a way BBC came up with to placate looming concerns in depicting nercophagy (not cannibalism) on the air.

[MrGeneKim]

But what is the actual difference between cannibalism and necrophagy? Is it that in cannibalism, you kill someone for the express purpose of consuming that someone, while in necrophagy, you take advantage of someone's unintended death by partaking of that person's remains? (Is this gross, or what?)

[Kain456]

Well, if you count eating a corpse as cannibalism... so I'd say so. "I think we got an eater" pretty much says so.

[Ninjapriest]

Necrophagy is defined as the eating of carrion. It is considered cannibalism when said carrion is eaten by the same species. So cannibalism is necrophagy.

[MrGeneKim]

Just noticed that the undertaker suggests serving the mother with "French fries." Gee, I thought the Brits used the term "chips." Even in 1970, American lingo was encroaching on the King's English.

[VampiricNinja]

I don't know about other brits but i say chips for thick ones and fries for thin ones (e.g. fast food restaurant ones). Same thing with cookies (big) and biscuits (small).

[VampiricNinja]

XD I love the "Let's have something decent" at 4:55

[zteller]

"Eat me first!"

[Zekley]

man, thanks for this. I was also looking for the undertaker a long, long time...

[kssykssygg]

Was all the commotion from the audience real? Hmm... well, anyways. I love the way Graham says broccoli. I also love how he flicks his tongue. And his outfit. I guess I just love Graham. And the rest of the Pythons (equally.) And... *continues until she has mentioned everything Python there is to absolutely love*

[TulseLuper]

No. If it was, they wouldn't have stopped dead in their tracks when the Queen "tuned in" again. I remember reading that the BBC wanted them to get fake hecklers to show that it was distasteful or something ridiculous like that.

[MrGeneKim]

Fake heckling or not, it was very funny, especially when some of the spectators stormed the stage.

[TulseLuper]

Agreed.

[bloatiq]

Let's have something decent.

[ptx12]

"Where is your grandmother"

"Well she's in this bag"

LOL

"Look, I really don't think I should"

"Well, I'll tell you what, we'll eat her. If you feel a bit guilty about it afterwards we can dig a grave and you can throw up in it"

[xhellonhighheels69x]

how long is it?

That's a personal question sir! omg too funny!!!

:D~

[TheBasementMovies]

Come to think of it, that's not really that offensive, is it?

[ricarleite]

After the initial airing, the undertaker sketch was cut by the BBC and the tape destroyed. Thankfully, a copy that was sent overseas for international airings was in good condition, and was used for subsequent airings and on the DVD, as the sketch wasn't as "offensive" as it was back in 1970.

[mpythonfan]

You're right. When they deleted it they replaced it with the "Take Your Pick" sketch from the same series.

[ECG1023]

Amazing.  hilarious!

[CaitlinGordon]

OMG Thank you SO much for posting this! I've been looking for the undertaker sketch for forever!!

[mpythonfan]

Just what I was looking for, thanks so much. I just subscribed to your channel too.