@@TheFlyingmartini Yay, now that we’re a movement we should get rolling on this. I can give stirring speeches that will arouse the masses to a frenzy. Would you mind doing everything else, if that’s not too much to ask? (To avoid misunderstandings, right at the outset I should let you know I’d like to be Emperor. Re title designation, do you have any preferences?)
It's likely someone who doesn't like John cleese due to his political beliefs, or more likely, it's those who themselves have, or have a family member with a disability that gives them a very silly walk unintentionally.
I'm a 5' 11" woman. I was very tall when I was a kid too. I can remember doing my John Cleese silly walk at school, along with my tall friend 😂😂😂 Great memories 😂
@@blackpowderkun I'm confused... You're saying Wall E would be.... Be... I'd better watch the whole thing again to be sure.... But then I'd be... [cognitive dissonance]
the goose step was the silliest march, however the silly walks sketch is one of the greatest of all time. i even had the large poster in my room for several years.
Good fun. As a teacher in Myanmar, I had the whole school laughing to the point of tears with my silly walk. Wish I'd filmed it. Might have got funding for better facilities.
@@johnp515 well, if that is, indeed, so - I stand corrected! I just watched it again under the new notion that it is a real live audience , and it really does lift it a lot ! I guess I've gotten jaded by so many years of so many cookie cutter sitcoms cheating around the corners..that I found it hard to believe a legitimate one.
This is a 100 percent Cleese. The formal manager/executive type with something incredibly not right going on at the same time! His post python days, were much on this format. Fawlty towers, Clockwise etc. Looking back over the Python sketches you see they did act the roles they were particularly good at. The exception being Chapman. He could play the ultra upper class and the total working class guy with total authenticity. What a collection of comic geniuses the pythons were, to produce something still out on its own me's thinks.
When this was made you could just shuffle (or saunter, or perhaps sidle or even hop) into an office and get government backing for a silly walk. Now, in 2023, I have had to fill in countless online forms, scan ID in triplicate, 2 factor authentication, the works. All that has happened is that my name has been put on a 3 year waiting list simply in order to obtain permission to walk in a mildly ridiculous fashion every other Tuesday. Its outrageous!!!
Those laugh tracks are almost criminal in retrospect. We're fully capable of adoring the unique wit of these boys without it... Hats off. Knees up. Props forever. 😂✨
That wasn't a laugh track, the studio segments were filmed with a live audience in attendance. The laughter of the filmed segments was the studio audience laughing at the playback.
Cleese was an amateur footballer. He played for his university team and was still active in a Sunday league while doing Python. You see him doing foot drills while wearing robes and a toga as Archimedes in the International Philosophy sketch -- the football match between a team of German rationalists and a team of Greek naturalists.
Government and their bureaucracies have only gotten BIGGER , more numerous, more intrusive and massively more expensive since this skit originally aired...and this was their effort to try and combat it.
These were the times when people were normal (well, most of them...) and walks were silly. Now the walks are normal (well, most of them...) and the people... well, forget it!
Due to a car accident, my walk got very silly indeed. A piratic shambling lurch. I'm amazed that I don't habitually get stopped for suspected public intoxication. ☠
I hear you Josh I have 2 broken legs (dirt bikes) I had to get to the back side of a racetrack once So I jogged over Later a friend told me to never run again in public 😂
As hilarious as this classic is all these years later, sadly it's still a very contemporary commentary on the wasteful stupidity that continues in all levels of gov't in so many countries.
This hilarious classic is the product of government spending. It's the BBC! And, it's not wasteful stupidity. It's self parody. The "Ministry of Silly Walks" IS MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS. It's the same thing.
I started doing a silly walk on the way to work to cheer myself up - but was stopped and fined by the council for displaying a lack of empathy towards others and clear microaggressions.
This is similar to a harrowing documentary I saw about shell shock in World War 1 soldiers. My great uncles fought in World War ! Then when they came home my favorite ever person gave them a real hero's welcome - Nana used to beat them up simultaneously - I often cycle 20 miles to visit her grave - and electrically assisted bike would be cheating - YOU DO NOT SCIMP ON YOU'R RELATIVES - my lightweight bike blew over in the wind right next to the grave - I think it's been approved now. I went back to clean the green grave - it was done when I got there!!
This is an actual office in New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland both have unofficial offices and the US tried to form one but, China told them no.
England. Nation that invented Harrier VTOL, angled carrier deck, machine gun, English language, and Silly Walk. As an American I can only laugh at Ministry Of Silly Walks, Benny Hill(just the quick parts), and Morgan Threee Wheelers. Rest I do not get. Faulty Towers (I go to sleep), Red Dwarf (I dont get it).
But that is how they all worked. They would write in their teams but the decision re what got through and who would play what part was down to all of them.
Its dangerous to show such things nowadays. Some may think thats a documentary. Or some may think, we should invent something like that. Little did Monty Python know, that they predict our future.
"Future"...Naw! Government waste via funding of things that don't serve the people and are totally out of touch with the actual people who pay for it has been around forever.
Siddhartha Angadi, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development, and colleagues decided to measure the health benefits of the silly walks made famous in a 1971 sketch by Britain’s Monty Python comedy troupe. “The major finding really is that Mr. Teabag’s walk is two-and-a-half times more inefficient than normal walking,” Angadi said. “We already knew that the walk was 6.7 times sillier (more variable) than typical walking, but this suggests that one way to improve fitness is to walk like Mr. Teabag. In fact, for a substantial number of people this would not only qualify as vigorous exercise, but might help improve cardiorespiratory fitness.” Americans: did you read this??
