@ItSBraining It's called Jerusalem, the classic English hymn, written about 100 years ago by Hugh Parry, from a poem written by William Blake in the early 1800's.
That's quite the unusual mental defect. You both say all numbers divided by 3, and instinctively put a paper bag on your head until as many people as possible (preferably a whole coronation procession) stands in a tea chest singing 'Jerusalem'.
Is there a condition that makes you react to specific words like putting a bag on your head for matress. Because whenever I hear the word Taggart I have a compulsion to jerk my arm and the word brunch makes me want to go bwargh
It's a math puzzle... Let y be 2's exaggeration factor (so 1/3 would be having to divide by 3) and x be 1's. 1 states 2 exaggerates by a factor 10. Thus y = 10 / x. 2 states 1 is short by a factor 3. Thus x = 1 / (3 / y)
(The 1 is implicit thus need not be divided).
Put equation 2 into equation 1 and solve to get y = 30^0.5 and x = (30^0.5)/3.
Chapman's behaviour just *before* he puts a bag over his head is priceless! The mattress skit was actually a Monty Python experiment where they tested the theory that no matter how insane people behave, it needs consistency.
@zxcvnmtgb Yeah it's my favorite, due in part being such a nutty premise, even by Python standards. It's just too bad it was in the same episode as the "Dead Parrot" sketch, due to the former being overshadowed by the latter.
I wonder if the bloke who has to put a bag on his head when he hears the word matress has the same condition I have when I hear Taggart I have to jerk my arm
the first time i saw this i didnt realize it was jerusalem they were singing (im not from the uk) and i actually though they sang "bring me my bowl of bunny gold" :D
I notice how Jones feels the need to translate for Carol Cleveland! Like when he leans over and says, 'six feet wide' for sixty. Nice respect for women there, Terry!
No offense to him or anything, but he should really take up a new profession. People don't work in a mattress store normally if they put a bag over their head whenever someone says mattress!
@admmelonhead: Let "l" and "v" be the actual amounts by which Lambert and Verity modify the amounts. According to Verity, l*v = 3. But according to Lambert l*v = 10. There is no closed and consistent solution to these equations.
@admmelonhead: Let "l" and "v" be the actual amounts by which Lambert and Verity modify the amounts. According to Verity, l*v = 3. But according to Lambert l*v = 10. There is no closed and consistent solution to these equations.
" Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land."
Hell yeah! English pride! We are the master race!
A sales guy with a mattress scare and a math problem, putting a bag over his head only to recover by colleagues singing Jerusalem in a tea chest, to you may be a shining pearl of your so called ‘master race’.
The song in the tea chest: Jerusalem... good version is by Emerson Lake and Palmer. Yep they'll be plenty of synthesizer but that still makes it more modern than others. I think a classical/hymnal background would be better but I haven't found one yet.
In the world of Monty Python, everything is so difficult to buy. Really! Cheese, parrots, and even mattresses. What sort of economy is that, I ask you?
When I was younger I watched this at my friends house & I didn't get it, I thought it was stupid, but now I laugh my ass off, cause it can but some funny shit. These guys have the balls to do this weird shit so I have respect for them
@JLA12301985 You almost have to have respect for them. These guys actually had the guts to dress in drag, then traipse around either the London, or Canadian streets. Yes, they sometimes filmed in Canada. There also wasn't a single Python member, who didn't dress in drag, for at least something.
I don't know which I would consider funnier. Just watching (The Meaning Of Life.)
Or watching Terry Gilliam directing quite a long part,, dressed in drag.
this is one of my favorite skits and i've watched it a hundred times, but i have NEVER noticed how they all start hopping around at the very end! lol!
when lambert says that verity exaggerates times ten, he would've actually meant that it was times thirty, so the mattress is three feet wide. And since verity exaggerates by thirty, when he explains how lambert exaggerates, you have to multiply everything he says by 0.1
So the mattress is 2.4 inches long and three feet wide, and costs just under 27 pounds.
@admmelonhead the logic is confusing isn't it? don't forget that verity just said "these 20 good people" 1:47 so 2 x 10 = 20 so I guess that not everything lambert says is multiplied by 3 nor is everything verity says is multiplied by 10.
@admmelonhead any truly specific person would know that the salespeople do not recognize their own ticks: Lambert is able to say matress for example. So verity does not exaggerate when explaining other people's ticks, only when he is giving the dimensions. I love being more specific :4
@admmelonhead Not actually. Because if you have to multiply everything lambert says by 0.1, then when he explains how verity exaggerates, he said 10, so he really meant 1. That means that when verity says that you have to multiply everything lambert says by 3, he DOES mean 3, but that means that when lambert says that everything verity says is 10 times too high, he really DOES mean 30. But it just keeps going back and forth like that, so there really is no definite answer. I outspecified you.
lol! what is the name of the music they sang? (sorry, i really dont know, but i was listen to one of bruce dickinson songs, and its the same begining)
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Wow, they're singing Jerusalem! This is probably well known among English viewers but I'm not British and I have only known this hymn from the Emerson, Lake and Palmer album, so for me it was like my favourite band and my favourite comedy put together :D .
This sketch accurately predicted the nonsense and bullsh*t known as the "Americans with Disabilities Act". Under that act, strippers in wheelchairs sued to get on stage. And the "Captain" of the Exxon Valdez couldn't be fired for incompetence, because he was an alcoholic. Good job, Democrats!
Partisan CRAP. Democrats and Republicans are equally-guilty of constantly sabotaging the other's efforts. They take every opportunity to destroy anything the administration attempts (be that adim Dem or Rep). Meanwhile, the CITIZENS of this country suffer as a result (not the elite playing the partisan game). They're only interest is the next election (where-after this vicious cycle begins again). Pathetic. See wikipedia: Washington's Farewell Address - Dangers of Political Parties. USAUSAUSAUSA
Yes, I'm sure this British sketch was designed for an insignificant bill in American government. I don't see why you complain about the act, it's meant to benefit people such as you.
have to agree with holzspanplattenwerk, i also love MP to death, their stuff is so freakin' hilarious (Life of Bwian is, i think, the funniest movie ive ever seen), but they do have some sketches in Flying Circus that aren't all that funny...well, i guess like all comedy shows, they have their ups and downs...
@ellycat well, we all might have just a slight variation in humor. but the Life of Brian cracked me up beyond belief...lol but as long as its Monty Python, its all good= )
@free0fight LOL! Yes, technically that's true. Hey, great to see the full sketch leading up to the Lumberjack Song on your channel. I've not seen that in years :)
@holzspanplattenwerk That's part of the reason Cleese left the show after the third series. He felt the writing had become almost a parody of itself at times. Indeed, at least one bit, "What the Stars Foretell" in episode 37, was written by T.J. and Palin as a jab at some of Cleese and Chapman's bits, whose wordplay they thought made the bits seem like thesauruses. (Thesauri?) Still, I've always rather appreciated how they could take a common theme in different directions.
Right me if I'm wrong but mr Verity is supposed to make anything 10 times bigger right? but when asked "did someone say matress" he answers "twice", shouldnt he have said "twenty times"?
@Jobrosforeverandever Probably, but either he only made things 10 times bigger when it's a definite number (he would have done it if he'd have said "two times" instead of "twice") or they just decided to drop that running gag to keep things from getting too confusing by then.
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twitboy321 3 weeks ago
22770 people have good taste, and 16.3 people have horrible taste!
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49 people said matresses to mister lambert
MaineIngenuity 1 month ago
now i gotta stand in the tea chest...love it!
Oilersfan210093 3 months ago
But it's my only line!
Thoran666 3 months ago 7
490 people don´t get the sketch
BoneMachine90 3 months ago 6
I get to do this skit in drama :)
marrylegs28 4 months ago 3
Unbelievably absurd and funny
MrElephantMemory 4 months ago in playlist MrElephantMemory's Favorited Videos
Best.Sketch.Ever.
devildogg061 5 months ago
The haters are wearing bags on their heads.
SketchUp707 5 months ago
Mr Verity and Mr Lambert, eh? Nice in joke.
edzeppelin1984 5 months ago
"But it's my only line" wow lol
thevideogamenerd100 6 months ago
What are they singing in this
BiigiZBaK 6 months ago
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schoolofspool 6 months ago
@BiigiZBaK I knew it as "jerusalem" from emerson lake and palmer, but it must be something else originally...
ItSBraining 4 months ago
@ItSBraining It's called Jerusalem, the classic English hymn, written about 100 years ago by Hugh Parry, from a poem written by William Blake in the early 1800's.
JJ62 4 months ago 2
is it just me or was someone else able to understand all of that lol
darkestnight128 6 months ago 2
Jesus, Carol. I didn't know someone could actually squeal like that. lol.
TheJanieJan 6 months ago
That's quite the unusual mental defect. You both say all numbers divided by 3, and instinctively put a paper bag on your head until as many people as possible (preferably a whole coronation procession) stands in a tea chest singing 'Jerusalem'.
MackeMas 6 months ago
I've trying to remember this sketch fr ages. Absolute genius
WAAAAAAAAAAAY 7 months ago
Mattress !!
JohannGambolputty20 7 months ago
she so cute
i wonder which of the pythons got to bang her back then?
NameNotAlreadyTaken2 7 months ago
480 people have made me have to stand in the tea chest.
leper73 7 months ago 2
MP could have done some serious Mob Flashes.
MsPwain 7 months ago
1:42 he says matress...
gorthorki 8 months ago
Was John Sanders' a real department store?
TnseWlms 8 months ago
Eric is cheerful when he says: He puts a bag on his head
DeadNorwegianBlue 8 months ago
Is there a condition that makes you react to specific words like putting a bag on your head for matress. Because whenever I hear the word Taggart I have a compulsion to jerk my arm and the word brunch makes me want to go bwargh
smelkus 8 months ago
I almost got hit with a flying mattress while driving down the interstate the other day and this was the first thing that came to mind.
jtahlgrim 8 months ago
This sums of Monty Python perfectly. No matter how ridiculous the premise, it still remains consistent in it's insanity. :D
awelcruiz 8 months ago 2
48 people said mattress.
GenuineBronxite 9 months ago
"but it's my only line!" lmao
plostellum 9 months ago
...Last time you put a bag over your head when I said "mattress."
doctorshifty83 9 months ago
Not only can Graham Chapman act his way out of a paper bag, he can act his way back into it (also, he does it really fast).
TheFourStringViking 10 months ago
At 3:56, Eric should have said "Twenty times."
KodeLiMe 10 months ago 2
This is so random but I love it!
kraken589 10 months ago
I know it would take away from the sketch, but for practicle purposes couldn't they have simply refered to the mattresses as "bedding?"
RocaDeearCenjar 10 months ago
It's a math puzzle... Let y be 2's exaggeration factor (so 1/3 would be having to divide by 3) and x be 1's. 1 states 2 exaggerates by a factor 10. Thus y = 10 / x. 2 states 1 is short by a factor 3. Thus x = 1 / (3 / y)
(The 1 is implicit thus need not be divided).
Put equation 2 into equation 1 and solve to get y = 30^0.5 and x = (30^0.5)/3.
Thus the mattress is:
10.95 ft wide (60 / y),
1.095 ft. long, (2 / x)
and costs 146,06. (800/y)
Aphid4 11 months ago
48 people refused to stand in the tea chest when Mr. Lambert put a bag over his head.
spottedleaf5 11 months ago 3
@spottedleaf5 you mean 96 ?
Dioabbaia 11 months ago
Apparently, when 48 people hear the word "Mattress," they click the dislike button.
ComedyLiker23 11 months ago 5
I love when John Cleese comes in the second time and smacks his forehead like "Christ, you people"
Ved0000 1 year ago 5
Mr. Verity, 480 people don't want to see the dog kennels.
SouthernPoint52 1 year ago
@SouthernPoint52 48.
shitsoils 11 months ago
:55
SouthernPoint52 11 months ago
@SouthernPoint52 Ah, i see what you did there.
shitsoils 10 months ago
I love how they say "WELL YOU DIDNT HAVE TO SAY IT!"
MoonBarrett 1 year ago
@MoonBarrett and then they hop around did anyone else notice that
kell1425 11 months ago
Chapman's behaviour just *before* he puts a bag over his head is priceless! The mattress skit was actually a Monty Python experiment where they tested the theory that no matter how insane people behave, it needs consistency.
HunterZolomon 1 year ago
Veeeeeery underrated sketch. One of their best.
zxcvnmtgb 1 year ago 28
@zxcvnmtgb Yeah it's my favorite, due in part being such a nutty premise, even by Python standards. It's just too bad it was in the same episode as the "Dead Parrot" sketch, due to the former being overshadowed by the latter.
disneyfan81 8 months ago
I wonder if the bloke who has to put a bag on his head when he hears the word matress has the same condition I have when I hear Taggart I have to jerk my arm
smelkus 1 year ago
Carol Cleavage's whining at the end is just hilarious :D
quizmaster85 1 year ago
I just love how fast Graham puts that bag over his head...
biggles1111 1 year ago
Good grief. This would be a whole lot funnier if they didn't make the woman play a dumbass.
TheOrangeneck 1 year ago
Don't know about you but I would love to visit this store.
supremeobliterator 1 year ago 4
Am I the only one who thinks Gordon Brown looks like Terry Jones?
bluesboy25000 1 year ago 3
I always thought they liked each other ;)
Queenrocks2020 1 year ago
The IRS Tax Code in film!
SilentHiss1 1 year ago
the first time i saw this i didnt realize it was jerusalem they were singing (im not from the uk) and i actually though they sang "bring me my bowl of bunny gold" :D
dangeloso 1 year ago 5
What are they singing when they stand in the tea chest?
MrsSmart99 1 year ago
I notice how Jones feels the need to translate for Carol Cleveland! Like when he leans over and says, 'six feet wide' for sixty. Nice respect for women there, Terry!
MrBuch169169 1 year ago
"Hey everybody, somebody said mattress to Mr. Lambert, *twice*!
KaiserTota 1 year ago 2
No offense to him or anything, but he should really take up a new profession. People don't work in a mattress store normally if they put a bag over their head whenever someone says mattress!
monkpie101 1 year ago
@monkpie101 *puts bag on head*
golzog1 1 year ago 5
"Will you show these 20 good people the uh dog kennel, please?"
HookedOnSonics518 1 year ago 6
@cole0987
English isn't a race.
Bottery 1 year ago
@Bottery Yeah its not race. Its group of people.
11multimedia 1 year ago
This is probably my favorite sketch.
jjnelson222 1 year ago
It never gets old. I'll be showing this to my grandkids.
kingturkey2 1 year ago
Please help an American out - What's a tea chest?
Foxxnioxx 1 year ago
I love British comedy. American comedy sucks.
shiver0628 1 year ago
@asohkaabbycap90 Jerusalem: the Pythons work it into a lot of episodes
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@admmelonhead: Let "l" and "v" be the actual amounts by which Lambert and Verity modify the amounts. According to Verity, l*v = 3. But according to Lambert l*v = 10. There is no closed and consistent solution to these equations.
mvpranav 1 year ago
@admmelonhead: Let "l" and "v" be the actual amounts by which Lambert and Verity modify the amounts. According to Verity, l*v = 3. But according to Lambert l*v = 10. There is no closed and consistent solution to these equations.
mvpranav 1 year ago
Wow. 470 people dislike this?
cepson 1 year ago 3
"Now I've got to stand in a tea chest."
Bot783 1 year ago
@cole0987
I agree.
PC336 1 year ago
@PC336
You agree. I don’t.
Python is so British and amazingly universal: a strong healthy message that we can make fun of everything and everybody.
Orally farting “master race” in contrast, is pretty humourless...
ArthurStern 1 year ago
" Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land."
Hell yeah! English pride! We are the master race!
cole0987 1 year ago
@cole0987
"We are the master race!" Huh?
A sales guy with a mattress scare and a math problem, putting a bag over his head only to recover by colleagues singing Jerusalem in a tea chest, to you may be a shining pearl of your so called ‘master race’.
You didn’t get the British Python joke, did you?
ArthurStern 1 year ago
@asohkaabbycap90 Its called Jerusalem (or Englands Mountains green)
lollerfly724 1 year ago
The song in the tea chest: Jerusalem... good version is by Emerson Lake and Palmer. Yep they'll be plenty of synthesizer but that still makes it more modern than others. I think a classical/hymnal background would be better but I haven't found one yet.
dreaminggirlish 1 year ago
Mattress!
Bladepaw18 1 year ago
We need MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! brilliant!
Bladepaw18 1 year ago
In the world of Monty Python, everything is so difficult to buy. Really! Cheese, parrots, and even mattresses. What sort of economy is that, I ask you?
MasterfulD 1 year ago 5
When I was younger I watched this at my friends house & I didn't get it, I thought it was stupid, but now I laugh my ass off, cause it can but some funny shit. These guys have the balls to do this weird shit so I have respect for them
JLA12301985 1 year ago
@JLA12301985 You almost have to have respect for them. These guys actually had the guts to dress in drag, then traipse around either the London, or Canadian streets. Yes, they sometimes filmed in Canada. There also wasn't a single Python member, who didn't dress in drag, for at least something.
I don't know which I would consider funnier. Just watching (The Meaning Of Life.)
Or watching Terry Gilliam directing quite a long part,, dressed in drag.
"I wish I could've been old enough to be a
FievelJ69 1 year ago
@JLA12301985 Monty Python member."
Yeah well... that's life..
Fieve.. ;-) :-)
FievelJ69 1 year ago
i love how there all hopping around at the end, even Lambert. :D
cellogirlMJfan 1 year ago
NEED MOAR!!!
Tshaikovsky 1 year ago
this is one of my favorite skits and i've watched it a hundred times, but i have NEVER noticed how they all start hopping around at the very end! lol!
emilyg21 1 year ago
>:( "Now i've gotta stand in the tea chest!" lol
StagePrincess3 1 year ago
u have to multiply everything mr lambert says by 3? shoudnt it be 30?
45Deathnight 1 year ago 2
XD fantastic sketch.
It's so cute when Carol laughs at 2:05
kozmamate9d 1 year ago
At 3:50 John Cleese does a face palm.
caffeinewarrior 1 year ago
WAIT
when lambert says that verity exaggerates times ten, he would've actually meant that it was times thirty, so the mattress is three feet wide. And since verity exaggerates by thirty, when he explains how lambert exaggerates, you have to multiply everything he says by 0.1
So the mattress is 2.4 inches long and three feet wide, and costs just under 27 pounds.
I love being specific :3
admmelonhead 1 year ago 97
@admmelonhead the logic is confusing isn't it? don't forget that verity just said "these 20 good people" 1:47 so 2 x 10 = 20 so I guess that not everything lambert says is multiplied by 3 nor is everything verity says is multiplied by 10.
AkumaADemoncus 1 year ago
@admmelonhead this is my favourite comment of life, thank you
jimmygames666 1 year ago
@admmelonhead any truly specific person would know that the salespeople do not recognize their own ticks: Lambert is able to say matress for example. So verity does not exaggerate when explaining other people's ticks, only when he is giving the dimensions. I love being more specific :4
RatherCrunchyMuffin 1 year ago 49
@admmelonhead Good point!
weckar 1 year ago
@admmelonhead Not actually. Because if you have to multiply everything lambert says by 0.1, then when he explains how verity exaggerates, he said 10, so he really meant 1. That means that when verity says that you have to multiply everything lambert says by 3, he DOES mean 3, but that means that when lambert says that everything verity says is 10 times too high, he really DOES mean 30. But it just keeps going back and forth like that, so there really is no definite answer. I outspecified you.
Sheldonsheldon109 1 year ago 3
@admmelonhead asdfjasjdfjsdfi32qfnasdfk
MIND BLOWN
FUCKING PARADOXES
oh but if you multiply everything he says by .1... but then..wait no..ugh my mind hurts.
goshtheresnonames 8 months ago
@admmelonhead oh man, just divide by zero leave us alone.
gorthorki 8 months ago
first sketch i ever saw, when i was 6
fucking hilarious :D
theinfectiondrummer 1 year ago
you know that this really isn't a mattress store, it's a loony bin with mattresses on the walls instead of padding
doctorwhom1 1 year ago
Awww...don't you just want to put your arms around Carol at the end?
blorpinino999 1 year ago
bahahahahahahaha!!!
redneckfordman94 1 year ago
Remarkable nonsense. lol I love it.
Shatallion 1 year ago
MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS
MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS
MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS
MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS MATTRESS
AvailabileUsername 1 year ago
@AvailabileUsername MY GOD! you said "dog kennels" 160 times!
amohotepv 1 year ago
lol! what is the name of the music they sang? (sorry, i really dont know, but i was listen to one of bruce dickinson songs, and its the same begining)
rossik 1 year ago
jerusalem
swordfish1929 1 year ago
@rossik It's a "Jerusalem"
SamuraiAkechi 1 year ago
I need a Mattress thats 60ft wide and cost 800 pounds please!
1707054 1 year ago
Monty pogo.
Sliptodance 1 year ago
"we'd lke to buy a mattress"
"why did you say it?!?! why did you say it?!?!"
"but it was my only line!"
"well you didnt have to say it!! YOU DIDNT HAVE TO SAY IT!!!!!"
puppilove1996 1 year ago 2
and if those teeth, in ancient times, gnawed upon england's mountains green...
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kane5250 1 year ago
what is the womans name? i can never figure out who she is and shes in like everything they do
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@Endrawnia Carol cleveland.. she is unimaginably, unbelievably, amazingly hot.
alexanderwotl 1 year ago
@Endrawnia that's Carol Cleveland
boembees 1 year ago
Wow, they're singing Jerusalem! This is probably well known among English viewers but I'm not British and I have only known this hymn from the Emerson, Lake and Palmer album, so for me it was like my favourite band and my favourite comedy put together :D .
PaulV177 1 year ago 2
Lol
jimmothy1215 1 year ago
I'm so bad at math, I'd need a minute or two to think about every number the guy told me.
lisambofoh 1 year ago
But it's my only line!
LOL
RoMo8705 1 year ago 54
british humor, great!
Sunny93ify 1 year ago
why not say bed? just curious
Zerovarth 1 year ago
@Zerovarth they don't sell beds...they sell mattresses ;-)
AerosmithAngel31 1 year ago
If they gave Carol more lines, she wouldn't ruin so many sketches. Lol.
BardOfShwa 1 year ago 4
But it's my only line - epic win!
Tentacleed 1 year ago
this is a comedy sketch
ppl watch this to FORGET politics not be reminded of them
if u Demos and Reps want to slander each other then find a debate somewhere, not here
Emrald70 1 year ago 4
WELL SAID!!
cuttock 1 year ago
wats with the last bit wen they start hopping around? awesome thogh 5/5
lucaness 1 year ago
This sketch accurately predicted the nonsense and bullsh*t known as the "Americans with Disabilities Act". Under that act, strippers in wheelchairs sued to get on stage. And the "Captain" of the Exxon Valdez couldn't be fired for incompetence, because he was an alcoholic. Good job, Democrats!
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Partisan CRAP. Democrats and Republicans are equally-guilty of constantly sabotaging the other's efforts. They take every opportunity to destroy anything the administration attempts (be that adim Dem or Rep). Meanwhile, the CITIZENS of this country suffer as a result (not the elite playing the partisan game). They're only interest is the next election (where-after this vicious cycle begins again). Pathetic. See wikipedia: Washington's Farewell Address - Dangers of Political Parties. USAUSAUSAUSA
ploopterfarm 1 year ago
Kind of makes you wonder if we were better off with the King of England still running things.
vigo894 1 year ago
Would you really want to be ruled by Bonnie Prince Charlie?
BumwhiffleZoopstanky 1 year ago
No way. Let's face it, there is no such thing as perfect government.
vigo894 1 year ago
lol. there is no perfect anything!
AzumangaGirl101 1 year ago
That's true. Okay people, remember. Don't say the "M" word.
vigo894 1 year ago
Yes, I'm sure this British sketch was designed for an insignificant bill in American government. I don't see why you complain about the act, it's meant to benefit people such as you.
MikaTheAss 1 year ago
have to agree with holzspanplattenwerk, i also love MP to death, their stuff is so freakin' hilarious (Life of Bwian is, i think, the funniest movie ive ever seen), but they do have some sketches in Flying Circus that aren't all that funny...well, i guess like all comedy shows, they have their ups and downs...
free0fight 1 year ago
Oh, please. Monty Python and The Holy Grail was much better than The Life Of Brian..IMO
ellycat 1 year ago
@ellycat well, we all might have just a slight variation in humor. but the Life of Brian cracked me up beyond belief...lol but as long as its Monty Python, its all good= )
free0fight 1 year ago
No it's not! I paid for an argument!
ellycat 1 year ago
Well i'm terribly sorry, but i can't argue anymore :)
ImaginaryLegion 1 year ago
@ellycat LOL! Good one! well, no, you didn't pay!
free0fight 1 year ago
@free0fight LOL! Yes, technically that's true. Hey, great to see the full sketch leading up to the Lumberjack Song on your channel. I've not seen that in years :)
ellycat 1 year ago
@ellycat i definetly agree. also life of brian is alot more inappropriate than the holy grail so thats another reason y its better
squishfly1 1 year ago
@squishfly1 well, that one reason that makes Life of brian more funny! lol=)
free0fight 1 year ago
haha, thanx....i have that song stuck in my head and its driving me nuts...lol
free0fight 1 year ago
simply absurd -.-
SeekinOne 1 year ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big MP fan. But honestly, this sketch is too long, too silly and not really funny.
Compare it to "I wish to report a burglary", almost the same idea, only two minutes long and hilarious!
holzspanplattenwerk 2 years ago
i aggree with holzspanplattenwerk ..it does seem just like "I wish to report a burglary" only with a diffrent place...
ekul123114 1 year ago
@holzspanplattenwerk That's part of the reason Cleese left the show after the third series. He felt the writing had become almost a parody of itself at times. Indeed, at least one bit, "What the Stars Foretell" in episode 37, was written by T.J. and Palin as a jab at some of Cleese and Chapman's bits, whose wordplay they thought made the bits seem like thesauruses. (Thesauri?) Still, I've always rather appreciated how they could take a common theme in different directions.
OeditpusRex 1 year ago
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(Groans)...
where's the colonel when you need him!?
(If you watch the whole episode with this sketch, season 1 episode 8, you'd get my joke)
frankydman 2 years ago
I remember there being a different version of this where he puts a bucket on his head and they had to get into a fish tank and sing.
tehauctioneer 2 years ago
what isthe song they song
dim432 2 years ago
@dim432
The song is actually a hymn written by William Blake.
76juno 2 years ago
@dim432
Sorry, I forgot to mention it's called "Jerusalem."
76juno 2 years ago
you can find it when you just type in the first line: "And did those feet in ancient time"...
lapislazuli7 1 year ago
BUT IT'S MY OWNLY LINE
KalixWyntircat 2 years ago 2
OH WHY DID YOU SAY THAT FOR
dim432 2 years ago
we did this sketch in grade 11 english ... lol memories. "dog kennel" ..." I should have explained". "
lalaboopable 2 years ago 2
lolz XD!!!!!
3toedslothman 2 years ago
WE NEED MORE!!
ExhumedThallid 2 years ago 3
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not exactly funny=> but 'top of the morning' typical humor, say no more. LOL
h92o 2 years ago
that is so funny -xd
yitih 2 years ago 2
I am starting to see why they are so focused on teaching math in school... "You'll never use this in real life" my ass...
Vincabilly 2 years ago 39
@Vincabilly "You'll never use this in real life" my ass, my ass...
alexanderwotl 1 year ago
this is honestly how confusing it is to buy mattesses nowadays!!
fupasack2 2 years ago 6
Right me if I'm wrong but mr Verity is supposed to make anything 10 times bigger right? but when asked "did someone say matress" he answers "twice", shouldnt he have said "twenty times"?
Jobrosforeverandever 2 years ago 58
also, when he says Lambert divides his figures be three, shouldn't he say thirty?
Telekrus 2 years ago
@Telekrus
Maybe that was the exception that proved the rule
frankydman 2 years ago
@Jobrosforeverandever it wasn't mr verity. oh and thi is a 3 month late response. Verity was Idle's character, not Palins
AwsuhmGai 1 year ago
Nope, Idle said it first.
He also said three rather than thirty in relation to the amount you had to times what Chapman said.
secretsantaone 1 year ago
@Jobrosforeverandever Probably, but either he only made things 10 times bigger when it's a definite number (he would have done it if he'd have said "two times" instead of "twice") or they just decided to drop that running gag to keep things from getting too confusing by then.
ZeldaQueen64 1 year ago