Always saw this sketch as a satire on the futility & waste of the bureaucracy, and the mentality of believing that a govt grant can fix anything (apart from the physical comedy involved).
Just something silly or a comment on overregulation or maybe a comment on public/peer pressure? Do I HAVE to license my silly walk and can I improvise?
And how little did they know at the time, that they would inspire crowds of people all around Europe 50 years later, to keep the Ministry of Silly Walks alive 😂😄😄😄😄 All of us Pythonists do it.. there is always a point when we need to do a silly walk, to pay homage to the Great Monty Python, and the Law of Silly, that keeps us laughing at times of adversity 🦵🦵🙌
When I was a kid about 4th grade, what age is that; 10 years old? I saw Monty Python on my TV. I would SNEAK out of my bedroom to watch it. Volume SUPER LOW. I could easily hear it, my older parents could not. I could not believe that so much love of silliness existed. Watching it now at age 58, there is still that kid's reaction. Perhaps my parents knew of my sojourns to the basement and thought there was no harm in it.
LMAO @ Michael's remark about how John should have auctioned off the hip he had replaced because it was one of the hips that had done the silly walks 🤣
I first saw Monty Python on PBS when I was about ten back in he 1970s. My dad called me and my siblings in to watch it on tv. I saw this sketch and laughed my ass off. Not because I understood what they were talking about but everyone walking funny. Never saw that on tv before but it made me a fan.
I have a muscle condition that affects my left arm and leg. This one day when I was having some trouble walking, I heard John Cleese in the back of my mind as soon as I noticed what my leg was doing. “It’s not particularly silly, is it? I mean, the right leg isn’t silly at all, and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternate step.”
Absolutely hysterical. I remember as a kid watching this with my mom and her laughing at John and his walk. In the mornings I would get up and ask for spam spam spam spam bacon and spam.
