Oh, man, the beaver cheese is an actual THING?! *shudders* Also, can't believe I've been hearing it wrong all these decades - always thought Cleese said "Danish *BIMBO*". #SMH Smiling face with rueful eyes
@@ZombiesCometh i dont think people understand what a pain in the rear those machines are to operate, one missed step when cleaning or reassembling and it makes a horrible skreaching noise as if one thousand nails on chalk boards surrounded the area. Also, they continuously over freeze and become blocked or underfreeze and turn into milkshake.
@@ZombiesCometh our ice cream machine has never broken. We're the only macdonalds in the area to have never had the ice cream machine break. Did you know the milkshake machine is the same machine as the ice cream machine?
5:08 I love how the man buying cheese goes from being a Moriarty styled intellectual, whom, without any hesitation whatsoever, killed a man for wasting his time with a cheese shop that has no cheese to sell at all (briefly contemplating the insignificance and futility of his victim's, now former, existence), to being a full blown cowboy in a matter of milliseconds.
SnowFireBlues Have you seen the original Flying Circus episode the sketch is lifted from? If not, the cowboy thing is part of the transition into the next sketch where Cleese supposedly is a character in a Western movie reviewed by Eric Idle.
This is in essence the utter genius of this five minute episode, and only Cleese & Palin could possibly pull it off. I'm sure there was a script, but it self-destructed upon performance.
There’s something so brilliantly hilarious about this that just goes straight to the heart. The veil of respectfulness and civility lasts like 95% then when he realizes there’s nothing he has no choice but to drop the veil and blast him, it’s genius lol
0:58 "So I curtailed my Walpoling activities, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!” Good Lord, what a line!
John Cleese: Peckish Me: Oh! Hungry. John Cleese: Esurient. Me: by context, a new word for hungry. John Cleese: Eaveruoodidilye Vender: Ah! Hungry. Me: !?
@@copybook3432 there’s nothing to really explain... Dude wants cheese, cheese shop has no cheese. He jokes and says “it’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese” bc there’s no cheese in sight
@@copybook3432 The owner was bragging about how clean his cheese shop was and Cleese grudgingly concedes that, well as a minimum, there definitely seems to be no cheese contaminating it (making it dirty). The irony is that cheese is the one thing you would expect to find plenty of in a cheese shop.
I can't believe no one has mentioned 2:23 where he starts listing cheeses in rhythm with the music in the background, probably one of my favorite parts.
On the audio album he says "fucking runny" I think the album is "Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief". I had another of their albums, but I can't remember its Title.
The thing that makes it so brilliant is that by everything that is holy in comedy, the very concept of this sketch just *shouldn't* work. Yet it's one of the most memorable and beloved Python sketches, and that's already saying a lot. :D
@@-8l-924 it’s John Cleese listing off cheeses and Michael Palin saying they don’t have them until Cleese gets fed up and puts a bullet in Palin’s skull. That shouldn’t be funny, but Cleese and Palin are able to pull it off
@@-8l-924 It doesn't work for me. Because no..no..no is just a bore, it needs a clever answer to each cheese. The completely forgotten 80s series Assaulted Nuts has a shop sketch with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Sparkling Cyanide, that's similarly silly but it's logic works far better.
"What a senseless waste of human life" I wonder to this day whether he meant the clerk he shot or whether he meant the viewer he was looking at and the time wasted watching the sketch. Personally, I consider it time well wasted.
@@torbjornkarlsen Python had a way of doing that...a lot of their sketches don't end so much as they just--stop. (Either that, or they segue into the following sketch.) No resolution, no pay-off, no punchline. It was deliberate and calculated rebellion against the expected format of a comedy sketch... ...and it was brilliant 😊 It really makes you realize how psychologically dependent you are on the traditional narrative structure: A defined beginning, middle, and end. Mess with that, and your brain doesn't know what to do with itself☺️😵
I saw it as the fact that the shop owner was so useless, his life meant nothing and his death was the same. The shop guy's existence was a senseless waste of human life.
@@Brendan-Black They've talked about that--about coming up with sketch ideas and literally *not* knowing how to end them. The genius part is that they didn't trash the sketches, or make up any sort of crap that would serve as an ending, they just asked themselves: _"What if it just STOPS?"_ Noboby else ever really considered that as an option ☺️
RIP the two members of Monty Python Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989), aged 48 Terry Jones (February 1, 1942 - January 21, 2020), aged 77 You both will always be remembered as legends.
It's about time they make an actual Mr. Wensleydale Cheese Emporium somewhere in London with all the cheese mentioned here and in other Monty Python performances (just have a permanent sold out on Venezuelan Beaver Cheese sign on the desk), hell have Michael Palin himself at the grand opening and have him run the desk for the first day or first hour of operations.
The part where he tells them to shut the bloody music off is one of the greatest moments in sketch comedy. It has such great build up as the John Cleese slowly loses his nerve, then finally snaps.
Actually it was his grandfather who changed the name during the first World War it was merely his father who told him about it... unless I misheard the audio book which honestly wouldn't surprise me
@@willywins0446 I refer, of course, to one of the other 8 Muses in Greek mythology...the one presiding over music. In alphabetical order, the 9 Muses were these: Calliope - the Muse of epic poetry Clio - history Erato - love poetry Euterpe - music Melpomene - tragedy Polyhymnia - sacred poetry Terpsichore - dance Thalia - comedy Urania - astronomy Don't feel bad though....I had to look this up, too.
I currently work in a deli and when we're low on cheese, given the shortage of Boar's Head products lately, I always think of this sketch, makes me chuckle and gets me through the day a little easier, especially when customers ask about the cheese XD
We grandiloquent intellectuals find ourselves profoundly indebted to Mr. Cleese for his truly staggering grammatical aptitude. His unprecedented and incomparable verbosity significantly enhances the entire vignette appreciation experience. Brava to him, and may the fates continue to show him their favor!
@@Brainwave101 Us Poindexters think it's totally bad ass that J-man lays out the 50 cent words like a BOSS. This crap would suck so hard he weren't bringin' the vocab. Rock on, Johnny! You made this sketch your BITCH! WOOOO! PIE-THON 4 EVA!
I love how at one point the shopkeeper offers to tell him what cheese they have in stock and he refuses because he wants to GUESS what cheese the shop has
I love the signs at the beginning, "purveyor of fine cheese to the gentry and poverty stricken too" - because you won't be spending a dime! Also, "Licensed for public dancing" :D
When I was between 25 and 30 back in the seventies, I chummed with a group that could recite all the Monty Python skits verbatim. We were in a restaurant one day and the people at the next table chimed in as they were also fans. Wonderful memories. BTW I have wondered frequently if we have somehow found ourselves participating in an elaborate Monty Python skit while observing the decision making during this pandemic reaction. Thanks for posting one of my favourite skits.❤️🇨🇦
My favorite, that I quote quite regularly, (or make up new ones), is The Four Yorkshiremen. It still makes me giggle uncontrollably. "Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor!"
The inclusion of the obnoxiously pervasive music in the background is just brilliant. It absolutely ties the whole sketch together in how it’s implemented.
I love Cleese in the fish license video where he goes into get a license for his pet fish! It's hilarious how he gets mad and yells at the guy. And Palin says, you are a loonie!😂
Ive been trying to remember the origin of the quote "what a senseless waste of human life" for so long, never would've guessed it was from Monty Python
I went to school in ilchester which is coincidentally next to the cheese factory, they used to give a free bag of cheese to us, rather bizarre experience
Before John Cleese ended up leaving Monty Python, he would say that this sketch was the only best original thing they have ever done, with other sketches basically being derivative of past sketches.
