Bookshop sketch with Graham Chapman

Bookshop sketch with Graham Chapman

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Comedy

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[mkarmam]

Does anyone know where to find the version with Terry Jones? It is really the only good version.

[themontypythonmuseum]

@mkarmam There never was a version with Terry Jones AFAIK. The other versions are with Marty Feldman and John Cleese.

[mkarmam]

@themontypythonmuseum Yep, sorry I got confused. I was thinking of the other bookstore sketch with Idle playing the tobacconist and Cleese as the shop owner. They are all in that sketch. But, I finally found that one. Thanks.

[themontypythonmuseum]

@mkarmam Oh, you mean the Hungarian phrasebook?

[marksoutof10]

"The British dialect is a modification of the way many Americans talk" - Are you sure? Isn't it the other way around?

[themontypythonmuseum]

@marksoutof10 He may be referring to a theory that pronounciation stays the same when people are moving, or migrating. Meanwhile the way people talk changed in the UK. It changed slowly, of course, but faster than elsewhere.

[solarpenguin1]

Did Ethel the Aardvark join the marines before or after she went quantity surveying?

[Sinjinator]

I never get to hear the rest of "Ethel the Aardvark" :(

[thekarmaboy]

@eastportland

Almost nobody sounds like royalty here in the UK, apart from the Royals that is. Everywhere you go people sound different. Look up clips from a show called "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" ;)

[mkarmam]

@themontypythonmuseum Nope. It's called Secret Service Dentist. /watch?v=OMHHWfSe4TE

[pulpstress]

Oh deary me. It's the expurgated version, not the edited one. GAH!

[pulpstress]

@H4rryF OOh! I'm going to have to search for that, then. I haven't heard that in AGES.

[eastportland]

@eastportland And another difference between US and UK: the Brits think a hundred miles is a long way. And the Yanks think a hundred years is a long time.

[eastportland]

@marksoutof10 Rubbish! Not all Americans pronounce it that way. Here in "new England" we say Pie-thon (like marathon). But the pronunciation of our town of Bath would make you cringe. And have you heard? The British dialect is a modification of the way many Americans talk, so you (I assume you're a Brit) can sound like nobility and the royals. And from our Revolutionary War on, we made at least four different major dialects across this vast continent - intentionally not like the king's speech.

[H4rryF]

actor playing the customer is reading if off an idiot board. Note his eyes

[H4rryF]

strangely enough, chapman plays the customer in this sketch on the python album "contractual obligation" (also on youtube)

[Dulcimerist]

@marksoutof10 Yeah! It's supposed to sound like "pie-thon."  :)

[marksoutof10]

Oooh, it NEVER fails to annoy me the way Americans pronounce 'Python' as 'Py-thaahn'!

[swingindoorspro2]

who's the other actor?

[wazzal7]

Wow! What is this from??

[einysjame]

Graham is just so very best! So thank you for posting!

[TheRitual24]

can't buy that, it's torn. LOL