Do you wanna know why? Watch my "Chadner's Response to Monty Python" videos, and you'll know!
I'm focusing on my music right now, I'll first upload a bunch of cover versions of classics, just to get them on record (no pun intended hehe) and maybe I'll try some original tunes in the future.
Great sketch. I do wish there was a way to remove the laugh track. Was this done by the BBC because they thought its audience wouldn't know where to laugh?
I’m just “me” and I nearly whipped my mothers glasses (and the word off) while emotionally waving my hands in the heir, because she claimed she couldn’t open her iPhone app, it just needed an update!
When they were deciding on a name for their show, Michael Palin wanted it to be called "Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus". He had spotted the name Gwen Dibley in a magazine and thought it would be funny for her to discover she had her own TV show! (How *she'd* have reacted to this being her own TV show is anyone's guess) Obviously, that did not happen, but they occasionally would slip "Dibley" into their sketches. In this case, the Joke was written in a home on Dibley Road!
I wonder did Myers used Idles performance on this scetchs as a base of his Austin Powers character, as at least I got high Powers-wibes when he "aliened" out of that stomack? :P
When I was a student in the 1990s, I was sifting through some videotapes at a store, thinking really hard what to buy with what little money I had. Spotted a tape with a nice cover, but it said, "Parrot Sketch Not Included." So I didn't buy that one.
Hopefully you have all seen the alternative footage of John and Michael speaking French where they are unable to keep the mustache on and it keeps falling on the floor. Most unhygenic. In any case the two of them are plunged into such hysterics at one point Cleese loses his place in the sketch and says, "J'ai perdu ou nous sommes."
-"I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it." -"Look my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now." -"The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead." -"Alright then. If it's restin', I'll wake it up. HELLO POLLY!!! I GOT A NICE CUTTLEFISH FOR YOU WHEN YOU WAKE UP POLLY PARROT!!!" ... "HELLO POLLY!!! POLLY!!! (whack whack whack) POLLY PARROT WAKE UP!!! (whack whack) POLLY!" (resigned throw, parrot thuds onto ground) "Now that's what I'd call a dead parrot." -"That parrot is defenitely deceased." -"... Look, matey. This parrot wouldnt 'foom' if I put 4000 volts through it. It's bleedin' demised." -"It's not! It's-it's pining!" -"It's not pining, it's passed on! This parrot is no MORE! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This, is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace; if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rolled down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This! Is an ex! Parrot!" -"... Well I better replace it then." thats 18 different ways of expressing that that parrot is dead. blue in the mouth indeed.
0:29 What do we mean by 'no'? What do we mean by 'yes'? What do we mean by 'no, no, no'? Tonight, Spectrum looks at the whole question of what is 'no'! What is not--
