Monty Python - Northern Playwright

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Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Monty
• Python
• John
• Cleese
• Michael
• Palin
• Jones
• Terry
• Gilliam
• Eric
• Idle
• Graham
• Chapman
• pipes90
• northern
• playwright
• coal

[JohnLennonLover9]

I think Eric is actually really cute

'specially with the long hair ;)

[Gwyll2501]

Just Love Graham Chapman in this.

[Lshannon90]

This was so cleverly written...

[MrBarry1024]

"errr, a man with 9 legs"

*distant* "he ran away"

"aww bugger"

That made it for me.

[alspageddi]

@listen2meokidoki You didn't get it that a playwright is a foppish career, and a coal miner is a backbreaking, masculine one? That pretty much transcend all geographical boundaries. Those are stereotypes that doesn't exist only in England. Mentioning Yorkshire and London only served to make the sketch more realistic, but the same effect could have easily been achieved by using fictitious place names.

[listen2meokidoki]

@alspageddi Oh yes it does!You can't have a proper role reversal without knowing the local geograophy and the way it impacts the nuances of the cultural references. I for one didn't get it. Why would someone want to be a coal miner. Haven't they heard of Absolutely Fabulous. Now there's a fine example of generational role reversal if you don't mind my saying so.

[alspageddi]

You definitely don't have to be British to find this funny, although a superficial knowledge of British geography couldn't hurt. It's funny to anyone who recognizes the role reversal: we would expect the hard-working, coal miner father from Yorkshire to resent his foppish son who ran off to London to write plays, abandoning a noble career in the mines. The fact that the roles are completely reversed is what's hilarious to anyone, and not knowing where certain places are don't diminish that.

[MrLadyjack]

@JohnLennonLover9 you do realize this skit is at least 30 years old...:)

[Timmoux]

@0946218123 I didn't think that living in Australia would make me British...

[RevengeSeeker4321]

@McBlaggs only not a psychopath

[freethoughtmusic]

@0946218123 Well you kind of have to be to understand the Irony between Hampstead and Barnslea

[GrandiaKnight]

My favourite python sketch!