I wish the reactions were authentic, but I believe it was all staged. How wonderful to insult an audience. Still one of my favorite Python sketches along with the one making fun of Godardlike "art" films with Terry Jones meeting the woman in a dump and then cutting away to various scenes of violence. Silly but smart stuff. No one can touch the Pythons.
I think it was an authentic audience, but they were told when and how to re-act at certain points of the sketch. If you look at the "grins" on many of their faces at the end, they clearly are not actors.
@TheSuperplex1001 The ONLY way that the BBC was going to let them do the sketch, is if the audience reacted with complete and abject horror with the end result of them swarming the stage in protest. It was either that or nothing. Python got the last laugh...They aired it...
@beatlebob101 Yes it was...The only way that the BBC was giong to let them even air the sketch was if the audience reacted with complete and abject horror with the end of the sketch resulting with the audience swarming the stage in protest. It was that or nothing. In the end Python got the last laugh, the BBC aired it...Subversiveness at it's best...I went to see Graham Chapman Live about a year before his death at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto and I heard the story from his lips, to your ears.
Can't the Brits and Yanks get along? This may seem a bit off the wall, but I think Python fans have us Americans to thank for the continued existence of this sketch. Word has it that after the initial broadcast, the BBC cut the undertaker sketch from the master videotape, and it was lost. But by that time, a copy with the sketch intact had already been shipped to the U.S. So the Python crew was able to retrieve it. (At least, that's the story I heard. Anyone know anything different?)
@rockerkitch1990 The BBC would only allow the sketch to run if the audience was heard to heckle and seen to invade the set - totally contrived in fact and very poorly executed - the heckling started way too soon and the audience invasion was rubbish. See the Wikipedia entry for R -v- Dudley and Stephens which deals with the sketch towards the end.
I found a book at our school library today with the scripts of all Monty Python sketches. I didn't knew this sketch and while reading the script for it I could so vividly imagine the scene I had to keep myself from laughing out loud and not to disturb the peace in the library :D
Geez, what's the confusion? I was six when I first saw this and even then I knew it was all a gag. But then, I had the Cheese sketch memorized by that age too.
Also, I am getting sick of this pro/anti country crap being posted in the comment section. Cant we all admit our countries rock and suck in their own way? Its just giving into generalities...apparently the world learned nothing from WW2.
Makes me wonder how thick some people are - the audience reaction was an obvious fake(if anyone still doubts this, you can clearly hear that one of the voices of dissent at 52 seconds is infact the voice of John Cleese, which was obviously edited into the sketch).
ermm... If the audience were intent on a spontaneous spot of lets all lynch the undertaker do you really think they would all stop and stand to attention when the national anthem kicked in...?
@Sou1defiler That was due to a running joke in the episode that began with the announcer in the dinner jacket (John Cleese) announcing that the Queen would be tuning in that evening. They also played the national anthem during another sketch featuring Cleese and Eric Idle.
The audience storming the set and interrupting the sketch wasn't planned and it's definitely an authentic reaction. After this episode, BBC were a bit more strict with Monty Python.
@DeadBishop11 I have no doubt what you say. I know I have heard Terry Jones brag about directing like 6 of 8 films banned in Scotland due to profanity. Still, this is a funny sketch.
The sketch was part of a longer running joke within the episode, which was that they expected Queen Elizabeth II to watch the show at some point. Having had interjections throughout the show ("She's switched to ITV!"), the final scene, after the desultory audience invasion, has the entire studio coming to a halt and standing at attention while the music to God Save the Queen is played, and the end credits roll.
@sousaphonist how about you join a bunch of cannibals in south east australia for dinner then? surely they wont throw you up but rather cherish the meal.
God I hate the Brits. They booed and eventually stormed the stage during the sketch, but then stopped when the production crew played the National Anthem. Little wonder Hitler kicked seven shades of shit out of them and kicked them out of Mainland Europe back to miserable old England and then we had to come and save their Goddamn asses.
The audience getting up was NOT planned my grandfather worked on that sketch and he told me it wasnt planned and as proof he showed me the original script.
This was Python at it's best. Totally irreverent and off the beam. Exactly what it's supposed to be! Very, very, wickedly funny. Just remember that death is nothing more than a normal part of everyone's life; so get over yourselves those of you who think this not funny. Learn to laugh at death, lighten up and you won't be living in fear anymore. Python is too brutally honest for you humourless dipshits.
Python Rule!. It's all fair game so just laugh, it's life & it's fucking brilliant stuff.
@callumAS I read somewhere that the only way the BBC would allow them to air this sketch was to have the audience openly condemn it. I don't know if that's true, but it makes sense to me.
It's probably an act. They were likely told that they should sound disgusted and storm the set afterwards to add to the shocking effect the skit is meant to have. I highly doubt it's legitimate outrage since the show retained pretty much all of it's fanbase afterwards.
@callumAS It was the ONLY way that the BBC was going to let them do the sketch is if the audience reacted with complete and abject horror with the end result of them swarming the stage in protest. It was either that or nothing. Pythonn got the last laugh...They aired it
@callumAS I'm pretty sure it was planned by the Monty Python crew. I think they probably asked some members of the audience to stampede them. It made the sketch even funnier in my mind.
@callumAS The only way the BBC would allow this sketch on the show was if they staged a fake protest with the studio audience. They probably actually enjoyed it.
@callumAS I believe the audience came down to remonstrate with the actors for what was supposed to be a foul sketch, but when "God Save the Queen" started playing, everyone came to attention, as Her Majesty was supposedly watching at that time.
Okay, so is this audience reaction genuine or has it been set up. I'm writing a dissertation on cringe comedy at the moment and if someone could clarify the autheticity of the studio reaction that be great. I've been told that the reaction is genuine but the Python's knew that it was going to happen to keep the BBC happy they had to let it happen?
@FakePlasticJames Actually, the network would only let them get away with the sketch if they had the audience show they disaproved of it. The Pythons took this to the extreme and had the audience raid it. Fully intentional.
According to TV Tropes, the BBC would not let the Pythons run this sketch unless they got the audience to react in mock outrage and storm the stage at the end. Too offensive for the time.
It makes me sad when I think what was happening in my country (that'll be Russia)))) at the time this sketch was made - my mom was learning something like "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live". we've never had and never will have anything like that on tv or anywhere else. amazing sketch, no theme is a taboo ))
think youre being a bit extreme. monty pythons were the only ones that dared do something like this at the time, all other english series didnt dare do something similar. all country have their advantages and drawbacks. in england they used to learn and still do 'long life the queen, we love the queen and the royal family. sure it not as extreme as the whole lenin business but still :)
England or rather the Britain is a democracy. The Queen (or King) is just a figurehead. There were many other shows at that time that could not have been done anywhere else.
Love They Neighbor, Till Death Us Do Part, Steptoe and Son. There are many more examples. The Americans tried there toned down versions of Till Death and Steptoe, but they were not nearly as daring as the originals.
I did mean the UK. Of course when talking to Americans most don't know what the united kingdom is Their term for all of us is British or even sometimes just English
Then again, there are a great many who think London is a country rather than a city. It's sad really. I know I am talking from experience, I live in the USA, but am from London. I've even been asked what we speak in London Really, it's very scary to know that these are citizens of the most powerful country in the world
I agree with you ,and you only went to a country that speaks English(of a kind)..I lived in France and now Germany and so had to deal with similar cliches from neighbors not so far away ,AND had to learn the language first in order to explain anything...You Lucky Bastard!!!
@toreaxe America, it is the most powerful country, both militarily and econmically. It does however, not have the best quality of life or standard of living or GDP pcap.
It's just that 307 million people, even if they only earn mediocre money, by 1st world standards, still adds up to a lot in total. They spend a huge portion of their budget on defense and are as such the most powerful country militarily. Considering the average Americans complete ignorance of the outside world, that is scary.
@toreaxe America has the largest military with the most advanced and the most weapons.
How they use the power and whether it is used effectively is a different argument.
Really it is not total power that matters anyway, but how that power is used.
On your point 1, it isn't really true, there are only 2 countries in the world that posess that kind of power "blow up half the earth within minutes" they are Russia and the US, all other nuclear arsenals combined do not = 1 of those countries.
@Scootertuner1000 LOL I am also English living in the US. I was recently asked "what language do you speak in England?"
Of course the audience reaction is staged, it's well documented in interviews with & books about the cast and show. You can hear that the first boos and cat calls are completely misplaced and aren't even reacting to anything specific.
This is good but there's a much funnier version on one of the LPs where they time it at their own leisure without crowd interference.
@BlSabbatH2 You are wrong. She hits Chapman. Cleese is over by the door. Oh, and it's the woman in the flower print dress behind the woman in blue you blind silly twit! :P
it's sick today too, specially for the "aesthetic society" where the death is an increasing taboo.. monty python were forward light years.. probably the best extreme sketch of flying circus! i love it :)
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I was born in Poland while it was commies state so yeah, now things like that are ban on tv now coz of "making fun of" jewish god, and what is just like MP sense of humor, communisms is still here, in all other life aspects, and this bad communism international one.. brrrr
ti sembra il luogo? se ti lamenti con gli stranieri, non avrai appoggio di nessun tipo: solo figure di merda. inoltre IO non guardo la tv - potresti rinunciare anche tu
Ifeel sorry for you mate. I live in Italy... and i stopped watching TV 2-3 years ago. Now and then i have a laugh listening the news (...well... so called news) here, maybe at dinner ( i overhear it from the living room sometimes, rarely), it's almost as funny as monty python.
The crowd getting angry is a joke - hence the angry mob standing since the queen is supposed to watching. Not to mention if you look closely there are python members in the angry crowd
One of my favourites
FatherWindsorMcShane 4 days ago
@AFistfulofAnime He looked more like acting the worried producer to me
acoronab 2 weeks ago
"Well, I do feel a bit peckish."
Genius.
burgulino 1 month ago
I wish the reactions were authentic, but I believe it was all staged. How wonderful to insult an audience. Still one of my favorite Python sketches along with the one making fun of Godardlike "art" films with Terry Jones meeting the woman in a dump and then cutting away to various scenes of violence. Silly but smart stuff. No one can touch the Pythons.
madahad9 1 month ago
the sickest!
djpodgorny 2 months ago
I think it was an authentic audience, but they were told when and how to re-act at certain points of the sketch. If you look at the "grins" on many of their faces at the end, they clearly are not actors.
SteveDJ34 2 months ago
i like the way you can hear one of them shout 'it's only a sketch!' as the crowd r rushing down
DeAztec62 2 months ago
what makes it so great is the fact that they acknowledge how sick it is
genesis098123 2 months ago
only league of gentlemen matches this
lmizuki5 2 months ago
Sick...but funny! X>D
ElveeKaye 2 months ago
what if he feels guilty next day and takes a dump instead of vomit int he grave? its still valid right?
sushanalone 2 months ago 2
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RadicalAwesomeness 2 months ago
i think the punchline was the people standing at attention when god save the queen starts - puppets
xl0l0l0l0lx 3 months ago
dio quanto li adoro!!!
wiggawiggum 4 months ago
so wrong! but so funny!
countchocula981 4 months ago
Dark humour at its finest.
wolves532 5 months ago
XD! THAT WAS HILARIOUS DARK HUMOR!
EnviedCure776 5 months ago
wrong Undertaker...
Aj007cool 5 months ago
This may have been staged, but still . . . It makes me laugh.
menthol5 5 months ago
It's HILRIOUS!!!!!
"I" was laughing!!!!! XD
JohnLennonLover9 5 months ago
@JohnLennonLover9 I love your screen name. John was the best. I miss him still.
umamonky 5 months ago
@umamonky - Thanks man... :)
And ya I know how you feel.... especially looking forward and realizing that you will always carry that sadness :(
JohnLennonLover9 5 months ago
I wish those people would shutup
I thought it was funny!!!! XD
Thats British Humour!!!!!! XD
JohnLennonLover9 5 months ago
@JohnLennonLover9 Russian humor, too, my friend)))) That's why I love MP - it's so in line with my traditional humor)))))
HelenaVanCity 5 months ago
God Save the Queen!
Stefan1527 6 months ago
i.....omg..im so...so...sorry..im going to hell.. i tried to thumb it up.. and actully clicked thumbs down.. i *sobs*.. may god have mercy on my soul
chubbylilloser 6 months ago
They were being extra outrageous to set up the joke that The Queen was going to tune in. Of course, she tunes in just as the credits are rolling. XD
shack8110 6 months ago
The Germans should have played the Anthem during WWII, too. Would have made the advancing British army halt in their trakcs and stand still lol
Griesmayer 7 months ago
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thefrogger18 7 months ago
THE best! for those who want a punch line
ihatespam2 7 months ago
THE best!
ihatespam2 7 months ago
@havin34 more like from his lips to your ears to our eyes.
TheMichaelkirkland 7 months ago
after hearing the opinions I want to be dumped in the thames.
Monaqute 7 months ago
Nope, they expected a bad response, hence how funny they are!
JimmyLeeVanDePutte 8 months ago
C'mon the audience thing looks fake anyway.
sweetaliena 8 months ago
was the audience British? no....Rumanian I think
brabazon10 8 months ago
Love it - but steve coogan did it better
JedediahForeverMD 9 months ago
The audience protest _is_ part of the sketch. It's written into the script.
Naddig74 9 months ago
WHAT, PARSNIPS? Disgusting
Prometheusmfd 9 months ago
I love how everyone stands still for the anthem all over the set.
nigkingoi 9 months ago
The Audience ruin it.
TheSuperplex1001 10 months ago
@TheSuperplex1001 The ONLY way that the BBC was going to let them do the sketch, is if the audience reacted with complete and abject horror with the end result of them swarming the stage in protest. It was either that or nothing. Python got the last laugh...They aired it...
havin34 9 months ago 3
Ah, that does clear things up alot.
TheSuperplex1001 9 months ago
@havin34 so the crowwd thing was fake?
beatlebob101 9 months ago
@beatlebob101 Yes it was...The only way that the BBC was giong to let them even air the sketch was if the audience reacted with complete and abject horror with the end of the sketch resulting with the audience swarming the stage in protest. It was that or nothing. In the end Python got the last laugh, the BBC aired it...Subversiveness at it's best...I went to see Graham Chapman Live about a year before his death at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto and I heard the story from his lips, to your ears.
havin34 9 months ago
Can't the Brits and Yanks get along? This may seem a bit off the wall, but I think Python fans have us Americans to thank for the continued existence of this sketch. Word has it that after the initial broadcast, the BBC cut the undertaker sketch from the master videotape, and it was lost. But by that time, a copy with the sketch intact had already been shipped to the U.S. So the Python crew was able to retrieve it. (At least, that's the story I heard. Anyone know anything different?)
SamBuddwing 10 months ago
IT'S!
DragonBoy425 10 months ago
RIP Graham, you're my alltime favorite. Hope it wasn't too much of a shock as you were burned, crackle crackle crackle. :D
Soilwar 10 months ago 3
@Soilwar It was a bit of a shock, cause he wasn't quite dead.
oblivionsnightmare 9 months ago
How to tell if the audience were acting or it was a real protest.
Were the audience British? Yes.
Did they act peacefully and complain quietly afterwards amongst themselves? No.
They were actors.
rockerkitch1990 10 months ago 117
@rockerkitch1990 They sound kind of american to me actually
ausdude77 6 months ago
@rockerkitch1990 Might have been shocking for that age? not sure.
beardedbroccoli 6 months ago
@rockerkitch1990 oooh.. i see
wikoo2807 3 months ago
@rockerkitch1990 The BBC would only allow the sketch to run if the audience was heard to heckle and seen to invade the set - totally contrived in fact and very poorly executed - the heckling started way too soon and the audience invasion was rubbish. See the Wikipedia entry for R -v- Dudley and Stephens which deals with the sketch towards the end.
kamyueloh 2 months ago
did the audience get really angry?
ImperialSo 11 months ago
@ImperialSo haha, no, they were acting or paid to do that :P
I bet there were some haters outside the show but they don't have a snese of humour so.. meh :/
Aeolixia 11 months ago
I found a book at our school library today with the scripts of all Monty Python sketches. I didn't knew this sketch and while reading the script for it I could so vividly imagine the scene I had to keep myself from laughing out loud and not to disturb the peace in the library :D
lagoondiver 11 months ago
This must have been acted surely? It all seems to well set up.
R33Racer 11 months ago
Geez, what's the confusion? I was six when I first saw this and even then I knew it was all a gag. But then, I had the Cheese sketch memorized by that age too.
Also, I am getting sick of this pro/anti country crap being posted in the comment section. Cant we all admit our countries rock and suck in their own way? Its just giving into generalities...apparently the world learned nothing from WW2.
RIP Graham. You were my favorite :)
Earych 11 months ago 3
"....Look....we'll eat her, and if you happen to fee a bit guilty about it afterwards, we'll dig a grave and you can throw up in it!"
One of the best dark humor punch-lines ever!
Plan9Kart 1 year ago 50
the most provocative Monty Python sketch ever!
teeno4ka 1 year ago
@teeno4ka lifeboat.
InTecknicolour 1 year ago
Makes me wonder how thick some people are - the audience reaction was an obvious fake(if anyone still doubts this, you can clearly hear that one of the voices of dissent at 52 seconds is infact the voice of John Cleese, which was obviously edited into the sketch).
am1933 1 year ago
"We've got an eater...."
stakka79 1 year ago
ermm... If the audience were intent on a spontaneous spot of lets all lynch the undertaker do you really think they would all stop and stand to attention when the national anthem kicked in...?
Sou1defiler 1 year ago
@Sou1defiler That was due to a running joke in the episode that began with the announcer in the dinner jacket (John Cleese) announcing that the Queen would be tuning in that evening. They also played the national anthem during another sketch featuring Cleese and Eric Idle.
joecox1990 1 year ago
I'd eat his mother too
CanadianCharlie64 1 year ago
The audience storming the set and interrupting the sketch wasn't planned and it's definitely an authentic reaction. After this episode, BBC were a bit more strict with Monty Python.
Drunkihorse 1 year ago
@Drunkihorse its obvious the audience were told what to do
grai 1 year ago
This sketch has Terry Jones all over it, but I do not see him in it.
Planktontwo 1 year ago
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DeadBishop11 1 year ago
@Planktontwo this sketch was written by Graham Chapman and was the epitome of Graham's writing style.
DeadBishop11 1 year ago
@DeadBishop11 I have no doubt what you say. I know I have heard Terry Jones brag about directing like 6 of 8 films banned in Scotland due to profanity. Still, this is a funny sketch.
Planktontwo 1 year ago
From Wikipedia:
The sketch was part of a longer running joke within the episode, which was that they expected Queen Elizabeth II to watch the show at some point. Having had interjections throughout the show ("She's switched to ITV!"), the final scene, after the desultory audience invasion, has the entire studio coming to a halt and standing at attention while the music to God Save the Queen is played, and the end credits roll.
Apethantos 1 year ago
I just love Graham's face when he says 'horseraddish sauce'
gietek 1 year ago
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testing223 1 year ago 4
I don mean to seem stupid, but is the miniriot real?
MrMonsen 1 year ago
@MrMonsen I very seriously doubt it, seeing as there were stagehands and the like standing by not even phased by it.
bandgeek8986 1 year ago
This is by far my favorite monty python sketch of all time, simply because its so hilariously disturbing.
exeggcuter 1 year ago
@sousaphonist how about you join a bunch of cannibals in south east australia for dinner then? surely they wont throw you up but rather cherish the meal.
HailEnki91 1 year ago
Every single face Graham made from 1:18-1:23 was hilarious.
lisambofoh 1 year ago 5
@friendcomputer Correct. It was scripted.
eldorado61guy 1 year ago
the undertakers hat reminds me of undertakers hat from Kuroshitsuji xD
CupKakeButt15 1 year ago
@friendcomputer You're a Goddamn idiot.
angels77100 1 year ago
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God I hate the Brits. They booed and eventually stormed the stage during the sketch, but then stopped when the production crew played the National Anthem. Little wonder Hitler kicked seven shades of shit out of them and kicked them out of Mainland Europe back to miserable old England and then we had to come and save their Goddamn asses.
angels77100 1 year ago
@angels77100 you are a boorish fool
rambo2kevin 1 year ago
@angels77100
You are an idiot.
Idiots are faggots.
You are a faggot.
Q.E.D.
3picpurpl3 1 year ago 2
@angels77100 YES I AGREE! GO HITLER! That was your statement, right? (and since this is youtube I'm forced to add: I'm being ironic of course)
BurnDadah 1 year ago
i go through every one of these videos and every time i look at the ratings and wonder who could POSSIBLY give monty python thumbs down..
chickwith2eyes 1 year ago
hahahahahahhaha only 5 people don't like this! it's a considerably better percentage than the other sketches
doctorwhom1 1 year ago
0:33 -- I fear they didn't think too far ahead when dressing this set; the vase and flowers keep obstructing Graham's getsures here especially.
astrocitizen 1 year ago
In MP even the audience is funny!
oldaardvark 1 year ago
I'll get the oven on!
pumamama9 1 year ago 3
The audience getting up was NOT planned my grandfather worked on that sketch and he told me it wasnt planned and as proof he showed me the original script.
AdumantiumWolverine 1 year ago
I saw this at the time and thought it was tame.
QPRTokyo 1 year ago
I love how the crowd(under direction by the network, mind you) leap out of their chairs, ever so offended. You lads have simply gone too far!
GrandFunker 1 year ago
AWESOME sketch! From beginning to end! Shocking! Monty python at their best!
cbfall 1 year ago
I love the audience.
HedvigU 1 year ago
Helemaal de bom, mensen raken gewoon beledigd door die sketch!
Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien hahahaha.
Alle respect voor de doden uiteraard, maar dit is toch te bizar.
RoffaCanim79 1 year ago
death is just another beginning
sweendog1969 1 year ago
Audience participation!
DarkRubberDucky 1 year ago
god the audience are hilarious. x
majbailey 1 year ago
This was Python at it's best. Totally irreverent and off the beam. Exactly what it's supposed to be! Very, very, wickedly funny. Just remember that death is nothing more than a normal part of everyone's life; so get over yourselves those of you who think this not funny. Learn to laugh at death, lighten up and you won't be living in fear anymore. Python is too brutally honest for you humourless dipshits.
Python Rule!. It's all fair game so just laugh, it's life & it's fucking brilliant stuff.
BraveBoySnapper 1 year ago
what's with that fucking audience?
callumAS 1 year ago 61
@callumAS I KNOW!!!! complete lack of comic appreciation
xnightreaperx 1 year ago
@callumAS The audience 'protesting' is part of the sketch.
discolando 1 year ago
@callumAS I read somewhere that the only way the BBC would allow them to air this sketch was to have the audience openly condemn it. I don't know if that's true, but it makes sense to me.
sm21454 1 year ago
@sm21454 No, you're right.
joecox1990 1 year ago
@callumAS
It's probably an act. They were likely told that they should sound disgusted and storm the set afterwards to add to the shocking effect the skit is meant to have. I highly doubt it's legitimate outrage since the show retained pretty much all of it's fanbase afterwards.
MaxxTheSlash 1 year ago
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@callumAS It was the ONLY way that the BBC was going to let them do the sketch is if the audience reacted with complete and abject horror with the end result of them swarming the stage in protest. It was either that or nothing. Pythonn got the last laugh...They aired it
havin34 9 months ago
@callumAS petite citizen and prude victorian britts at that time ...... - but today they are cool with such jokes ....
CapitanoGUC 9 months ago
@callumAS I'm pretty sure it was planned by the Monty Python crew. I think they probably asked some members of the audience to stampede them. It made the sketch even funnier in my mind.
Yermog 9 months ago
@callumAS it was staged - terry gillian is one of the first down the stairs :)
chrisrobertsuk 9 months ago
@callumAS The only way the BBC would allow this sketch on the show was if they staged a fake protest with the studio audience. They probably actually enjoyed it.
Craxblorg 7 months ago
@callumAS it was staged like that. the episodes was about cannabalism and offensiveness
shaalis 7 months ago
@callumAS I believe the audience came down to remonstrate with the actors for what was supposed to be a foul sketch, but when "God Save the Queen" started playing, everyone came to attention, as Her Majesty was supposedly watching at that time.
MegaJustGeorge 7 months ago
these girls at my school are doing this for the variety show. it's really funny but the ending is different the way i know it
Aejyptian 1 year ago
Okay, so is this audience reaction genuine or has it been set up. I'm writing a dissertation on cringe comedy at the moment and if someone could clarify the autheticity of the studio reaction that be great. I've been told that the reaction is genuine but the Python's knew that it was going to happen to keep the BBC happy they had to let it happen?
FakePlasticJames 1 year ago
@FakePlasticJames You're basing your dissertation research on youtube comments? lol. Good luck!
Minteh88 1 year ago
@Minteh88 There's no harm in getting some knowledge from all sources. If you can't offer any advice then don't say anything at all.
FakePlasticJames 1 year ago
@FakePlasticJames Actually, the network would only let them get away with the sketch if they had the audience show they disaproved of it. The Pythons took this to the extreme and had the audience raid it. Fully intentional.
duddledeedo 1 year ago 3
@duddledeedo Thanks
FakePlasticJames 1 year ago
*sigh* only on YouTube could a Monty Python sketch degenerate into a discussion about the USA.
CockMyRasbah 1 year ago 4
This was probably the funniest Python sketch I've ever watched.
ComradeCommissar1 1 year ago
hahahahaha I love this, it´s hilarious! Can´t believe why they don´t like it?
SvartTuggummi 1 year ago
At 1:48, the audience begins marching toward the stage so they could attack the Pythons.
92jpc 1 year ago
The End is crazy. The national anthem at the end of the show.
cookmoore 1 year ago
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jcgbigler 1 year ago
1:22
Chapman's expression summarizes the silliness.
battousai12345 1 year ago
the extended version of god save the queen played at the credits was also used on the BBC1 closedown on the night Princess Diana died.
kiltsonfire164 1 year ago
I found this hilarious. Quite dark though, even for python.
jamesfleach 2 years ago
ha ha! I was in the audience for this one and was part of the 'protest'.
FulhamSue 2 years ago 65
@FulhamSue are they for real or put on?
majbailey 1 year ago
@FulhamSue nice! I've always wanted to reply to someone who was in the audience for a "Flying Circus" recording! Which one are you in the audience?
joecox1990 1 year ago
@FulhamSue haha wow :)
Asdatale 11 months ago
crackle crackle crackle ... Chapman is a legend XD
Tentacleed 2 years ago 3
the most powerful country also happens to be the smallest one
anyway whats all this talk about countries and power arn't the comments meant to be along the lines of, cremation v burial or cannabalism even?
robboholic 2 years ago
wasall that supposed to happen?
queensofia123 2 years ago
haha whats up with the crowd.
listigt 2 years ago 4
congratulations,you have just been owned by the official Monty Python rent a crowd , ....lol
romber58 2 years ago
According to TV Tropes, the BBC would not let the Pythons run this sketch unless they got the audience to react in mock outrage and storm the stage at the end. Too offensive for the time.
Girtych 2 years ago
I had the privilege of attending a lecture by Graham Chapman when I was in college, and he confirmed this.
jcgbigler 1 year ago
PAh I love Graham in this!
AshLuvsJonnyStew 2 years ago
hhahaha! grahams so cute! i love him smackin his mouth like tht XD
xXimrealynotokayXx 2 years ago 4
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musicsnobtobe 2 years ago
Not raw....cooked.
dubswine 2 years ago 2
I'm hungry...
CamsYT 2 years ago
wouldnt want to do anything against the church or queen would we now but 10 bucks says the queen was watching this having a great laugh lol
antifacistppl 2 years ago
It makes me sad when I think what was happening in my country (that'll be Russia)))) at the time this sketch was made - my mom was learning something like "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live". we've never had and never will have anything like that on tv or anywhere else. amazing sketch, no theme is a taboo ))
sucuruju 2 years ago
think youre being a bit extreme. monty pythons were the only ones that dared do something like this at the time, all other english series didnt dare do something similar. all country have their advantages and drawbacks. in england they used to learn and still do 'long life the queen, we love the queen and the royal family. sure it not as extreme as the whole lenin business but still :)
ghoulliver257 2 years ago 6
England or rather the Britain is a democracy. The Queen (or King) is just a figurehead. There were many other shows at that time that could not have been done anywhere else.
Love They Neighbor, Till Death Us Do Part, Steptoe and Son. There are many more examples. The Americans tried there toned down versions of Till Death and Steptoe, but they were not nearly as daring as the originals.
Scootertuner1000 2 years ago 3
By Britain I hope you mean the United Kingdom. As someone living in Northern Ireland, I'd be affronted if you ignored me.
boydo04 2 years ago 3
I did mean the UK. Of course when talking to Americans most don't know what the united kingdom is Their term for all of us is British or even sometimes just English
Then again, there are a great many who think London is a country rather than a city. It's sad really. I know I am talking from experience, I live in the USA, but am from London. I've even been asked what we speak in London Really, it's very scary to know that these are citizens of the most powerful country in the world
Scootertuner1000 2 years ago
I agree with you ,and you only went to a country that speaks English(of a kind)..I lived in France and now Germany and so had to deal with similar cliches from neighbors not so far away ,AND had to learn the language first in order to explain anything...You Lucky Bastard!!!
romber58 2 years ago
@romber58 I used to live in Moenchengladbach and then Goettingen for 7 years. I speak fluent German
Scootertuner1000 2 years ago
You mustn't live in the same part of the country I do, then.
pitchwhiteawi 2 years ago
Powerful? On what... culture?
toreaxe 2 years ago
@toreaxe America, it is the most powerful country, both militarily and econmically. It does however, not have the best quality of life or standard of living or GDP pcap.
It's just that 307 million people, even if they only earn mediocre money, by 1st world standards, still adds up to a lot in total. They spend a huge portion of their budget on defense and are as such the most powerful country militarily. Considering the average Americans complete ignorance of the outside world, that is scary.
Scootertuner1000 2 years ago
@Scootertuner1000. Who's saying America is the most powerful country military wise or economicly? American TV?
Watch Capitalism. M.Moore. for sure isn't saying that...
I don't want to create a deebate of somesort, or enemy, but think about this...
1)Nowadays any crazy nation can blow up half of the earth within minutes (if they want).
2)America is still looking for Bin and can't find him (never will, he's Bushs family friend). P.s. Great python sketch...
toreaxe 2 years ago
@toreaxe America has the largest military with the most advanced and the most weapons.
How they use the power and whether it is used effectively is a different argument.
Really it is not total power that matters anyway, but how that power is used.
On your point 1, it isn't really true, there are only 2 countries in the world that posess that kind of power "blow up half the earth within minutes" they are Russia and the US, all other nuclear arsenals combined do not = 1 of those countries.
Scootertuner1000 2 years ago
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HairMetalHead2 1 year ago
if my understanding is right, the bin laden family shunned osama when he went all jihady
hilarious clip though. dark comedy is best.
blakeborough15 1 year ago
@Scootertuner1000 LOL I am also English living in the US. I was recently asked "what language do you speak in England?"
Of course the audience reaction is staged, it's well documented in interviews with & books about the cast and show. You can hear that the first boos and cat calls are completely misplaced and aren't even reacting to anything specific.
This is good but there's a much funnier version on one of the LPs where they time it at their own leisure without crowd interference.
KP371 1 year ago 2
@KP371 Just goes to show you the appalling level of education here.
I love this sketch.
Scootertuner1000 1 year ago
I lol'd.
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pelusas82 2 years ago
genius, pure genius!
zekley77 2 years ago
if i'm not wrong at 1:52 a blue dressed woman hit Cleese with a rubber chicken ! :D
BlSabbatH2 2 years ago 11
@BlSabbatH2 You are wrong. She hits Chapman. Cleese is over by the door. Oh, and it's the woman in the flower print dress behind the woman in blue you blind silly twit! :P
kwg06516 1 year ago 2
it's sick today too, specially for the "aesthetic society" where the death is an increasing taboo.. monty python were forward light years.. probably the best extreme sketch of flying circus! i love it :)
BlSabbatH2 2 years ago 31
I grow up with them...
Naproxenum 2 years ago
You lucky. I grow up with italian tv: naked girls, big boobs and so, all from berlusconi's channels :-(
KurtiellTiUccidera 2 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I was born in Poland while it was commies state so yeah, now things like that are ban on tv now coz of "making fun of" jewish god, and what is just like MP sense of humor, communisms is still here, in all other life aspects, and this bad communism international one.. brrrr
Naproxenum 2 years ago
Oh I'm so sad...would want any of that, you know..:)
hippojuice23 2 years ago
ti sembra il luogo? se ti lamenti con gli stranieri, non avrai appoggio di nessun tipo: solo figure di merda. inoltre IO non guardo la tv - potresti rinunciare anche tu
OrontesRM 2 years ago
I grew up watching Berlusconi's channels too, and I wasnteven living in Italy!
dalaiklama 2 years ago
Ifeel sorry for you mate. I live in Italy... and i stopped watching TV 2-3 years ago. Now and then i have a laugh listening the news (...well... so called news) here, maybe at dinner ( i overhear it from the living room sometimes, rarely), it's almost as funny as monty python.
toreaxe 2 years ago 2
The crowd getting angry is a joke - hence the angry mob standing since the queen is supposed to watching. Not to mention if you look closely there are python members in the angry crowd
SingleActionArray 2 years ago 4
An underrated classic moment... "Fred, I think we've got an eater!". Pretty radical stuff for 1970 - I'd assumed it was from a later series.
Actually I do feel a bit peckish...
davepx 2 years ago 4