Bookshop Sketch from Marty Amok! (originally At Last The 1948 Show) 

about half way through the video, yes.

No, but I have thought of placing the action in a used DVD shop. "I wonder, do you have a copy of Minty Pylon and the Growly Hail?" "Ah, you mean Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Met him once , in Ellesborough,

@@neilfranklin5644 with two L’s.

I think it’s is even better than the version with John Cleese , and that’s saying something

@NoMudinJoyville yes, he played "Shake" in that movie.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Sure?¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I loved this better with Cleese, too. But not that "Cleese" that's John Cleese, but spelled J-o-n K-l-e-e-z. Now, does anyone have a book on Danish Red Parrots. No, not Norwegian Blue, but Danish Red Parrots?

Not as hard as finding originals from Mmmmarles Pickqens with 4 M's and a silent Q.

John Cleese going mad was good on the Contractual Obligation

The original version with Marty Feldman and John Cleese is brilliant.

Take a look at this from way back, with Marty Feldman and John Cleese: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZYlOV7K-xOU.html

And then even later with Cleese opposite Connie Booth

@@commandert5 On the record version it was Terry Jones as the customer and Cleese as the bookshop owner, I don't recall Connie Booth, Cleese's American wife ever in a sketch, only Fawlty Towers... I would say this is a Chapman/Cleese authored sketch though they borrowed some of the Jones/Palin escalation style

THAT'S how I know this. So odd to not nnow both voices but still nnow what they're going to say knext.

I first saw a different version of the sketch with John Cleese and Marty Feldman on Marty Feldman’s Comedy Machine in 1971, a summer replacement show I saw before Monty python was shown on American TV.

@@drewperkins2078 There is one with Booth opposite Cleese. That's the first version I saw. Probably made in the early 80s.

I believe Feldman and Reilly did perform together on Martin's show, but I'm pretty certain the version of the bookshop sketch Martin used was this one. (I just watched it on a VHS tape a week or so ago...)

It would have been fairly hard for the BBC to have wiped At Last the 1948 Show as it was an ITV show courtesy of Paradine Productions, better known as David 'Hello, good evening and welcome.' Frost. Just saying, seven years after your post.😊

Yes produced by the ITV company Rediffusion London and not the BBC.

I doubt that very much. No bookshop seemed to have that book. 'It's rather old'. But no doubt Marty's character wanted the book whose title used PH's instead of F's ... and written by Charles Dikkens, the Dutch author with two K's

I kept joking with my best friend in high school that we should find a bookstore and do this. Somehow we never went through with it. :D

Cleese performed it with Eric Idle on their tour a couple of years ago.

Better yet. You can see it here on RU-vid with Cleese and Marty. I think much better then this one. Just search it.

It was written by John Cleese.

John Cleese wrote it (with Graham Chapman).

@@darganx that makes more sense 👍

SeanVplayer I noticed that.

The utterly weirdest John Lennon you would ever have wished to meet.

Are you sure because I remember At last the 1948 show before Monty's.

@@kiwihib yes, there have been multiple versions. It’s not quite the whole sketch, but this clip captures much of the version with Marty Feldman and John Cleese from At Last The 1948 Show: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZYlOV7K-xOU.html John Cleese and Eric Idle recreated and updated this skit again for their Together Again At Last For The Very First Time tour. It’s understatement to say it was brilliant. RIP Marty Feldman. I was lucky enough to see them in San Francisco.

1948 show predated Python and before 1948 was I'm sorry I'll read that again still have that record always crack up at and the winner of eaten an arrow race was.

Horrifying, isn't it? A few gems managed to slip past their 'erase everything' policy.

They may well have done. It looks very much like and an off air recording.

Cigs and Barbs..

Bit late here: however the original version is Marty Feldman and John Cleese from "At last the 1948 Show".

Titus didn't mention anything about an original version

@@ElvarMasson The original was in 1967 or 1968, with Marty Feldman as the customer and John Cleese as the bookseller. Available as audio and in abbreviated video (black and white of course). John Cleese did a version with Connie Booth as the customer in the early 80s for the Amnesty International benefit shows but I've not yet seen it on YT.

@@anonUK What's that got to do with me?

@@ElvarMasson Sorry, I thought you had indirectly asked about the original version of this sketch.

in the audio recording by Monty Python it was Terry Jones, not Marty

@@frankmurphyburr3598 There is an audio LP version made by the cast of "At last the 1948 show" I believe. The original videotape version from ALT1948S turned up in 2014. The Python versions are all later.

@@martinhughes2549 oh? Wow thank you.

+Andrew Balfour Feldman and Cleese did it first on the 1948 show.

@@blueoystercultforevs I saw it when it was first broadcast with John Cleese and Marty Feldman and it's stuck with me ever since. I think that, having worked in retail, one does come across really weird characters like Feldman's. I've used "Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying." on occasions,. I've always wanted to go into WH Smiths and ask for it, or maybe Waterstones. Maybe I'll go into a Barnes and Noble in the USA and as for it. 😂

"The Lovely Aimee McDonald." I have it on vinyl somewhere. Used to put it on repeat when I was a teenager in my room. This is one of my favourite sketches from the whole album.

It’s not John Cleese

@@ianandmaria-ozphiladventures that’s who wrote it!!

Michael Anstis It’s the opposite of the cheese shop.

not quite the same.