The Four Yorkshiremen skit from Live at Hollywood Bowl I do not own any of this material it's all courtesy of Monty Python at / montypython . I only upload these videos because i'm tired of all the shitty quality ones on youtube.
I was in the co op today getting some milk and the two people behind the counter referenced this and three more people joined in it was a mad time,, between them they basically had the whole sketch down
@@negascoot23 Alive? You were lucky! In our day, once putrefaction set in, we had to roam the cemetery like zombies for a farthing a shift and if we weren't back in our graves by 4:00 am, our deceased dad would thrash us within an inch of our deaths......if we were lucky!
@@tompurcell1499 Well, when I said "alive", I MEANT we were chains of inanimate protein molecules which might some day develop into single-celled organisms... But it was "alive" to us.
@@negascoot23 Aye! You're right there! Try teaching abiogenesis, autocatalytic reactions, biological evolution, mitrochondrial DNA and the Cambrian explosion to kids these days. Would they listen? Would they heck as like! Kids these days would be more interested in hanging around street hovels quoting Nietzsche, Kant, Wittgenstein or the likes of Hume. I should know, I had a gang of these ne'er-do-wells verbally attack me once on the sociological impact of dialectical materialism!
These blokes had it easy. When I was a young lad, we had to walk naked seven miles to and from school in the freezing cold (regardless of the season), all the while being harrassed by fire-breathing dragons. After school, we had to toil in the tarpits (still naked), where we raked the boiling tar from one side of the pits to the other for no discernible reason, whilst being lashed by cackling demons wielding flame-tipped whips. When we got home, our dad would flay the skin from our bodies and decapitate us. And we were grateful.
They could be right, technically: This skit was never on Flying Circus*. It's from Live at The Hollywood Bowl--the Python version, anyway. It has been broadcast since then, but originally the only people who knew it either saw it performed live, or had the "Monty Python Live at The Hollywood Bowl" album. Thus, a TRUE Python nerd could argue that The Parrot Sketch was the best sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus WITHOUT spurning The Four Yorkshiremen. *The sketch is actually a pre-Python work from At Last The 1948 Show, a comedy series from 1967 that Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle starred in before Flying Circus... But they weren't "Monty Python" yet at that point
@@negascoot23Eric Idle wasn’t in the 1948,he was in Do Not Adjust Your Set with Jones and Palin.The 1948 cast was Cleese,Chapman,Tim Brooke Taylor and Marty Feldman.
Sucking tea out of a damp cloth? LUXURY! There were 5020 of us and we had to share an old dirty sock that had been held over some steam for our breakfast once every 2 weeks before we had to work 26 hours a day down pit
I’m a 54 yr old Yorkshireman and everywhere I go outside Yorkshire people ask me to recite this sketch in my native tongue and also sing the Yorkshire national anthem “ Ilkley Moor baht at “ My Gran used to say “There are only 2 types of people in this world lad , people that were born in Yorkshire and people that wish they ad been” She played this sketch to me tons of times when I were a lad I miss her loads but whenever I see this I say it out loud and think of my old gran and how she used to cry laughing at it This has to be the funniest sketch ever made SHARKTHESPARK
Very true! There is also a saying something along the lines of "You never have to ask a man if he is a Yorkshireman. Within 5 minute he will already have told you!".. God Own County.
Clearly you haven't been to Scarborough. They tend to do this awful nasal whine, which grates like a lump of salty pumice after 16 years of it. In fact, when I war a lad, they used to be so bad y'd ave t' plug yer lug oils wi' bit o' cold sludge off th' 'arbour wall, fer fear o' losing yer God-given muther tongue thissen.
@@Arthur-yf9yv You clearly haven't been to Filey, had to get up at 4 every morning to lick everyone's shoes to go home what was a lobster net in the side of the bay with nothing but a bit of mud to keep his full every night.
@@Arthur-yf9yv You clearly haven't been to Filey, Used to lick everyone's shoes before 11 o'clock in the morning to go home to a lobster net in the bay! We got paid nothing but a few sodding fossils found on the beach which we ate for supper. And that was a good day!
You clearly haven’t been to Sheffield. When I wera lad we ad tu gerrup arf an our befor we wenna bed ona pile o brocken glass tu goan werk forten ours darn pit at Coulton Wood befor goan werk nates wi our Bill int t’steel werks as uh strapper. And wen we got ome our fatha wud gi us a rate tannin just for avin le audacity fer bein alive if Blades ad bleedin lost agern. An we wer appy fer it anowl.
When I were a kid in Australia, I had to learn algebra from a bloke from Leeds. Fookin Chreis’. Bugs out t’aisles, please... Can’t get t’bluckboard wit’it bugs in’t aisles, ye knoo...
I'm a yorkshireman and these guys were spot on on! (Besides the accents) these lads were lucky to sit on chairs I tell thee n t'old t'internet! Were a thing I could only dream of!
These Monty Python "funny men" don't know what hard is. When we was young lads growing up in rural Australia in the 70s we didn't have fancy computers - we had to use a kangaroo for a toilet and use rusty barbed-wire and a box of old matches to wipe our bums with.
In Yorkshire we still talk like this I hear people all the time saying how hard life used to be This sketch is the funniest thing I have ever seen anywhere Always has been Always will be I reckon Al si thi later
You bourgeoisie bitch, all 300 of us had to live in a match box off second street where we would have to wake up at 5 in the morning 2 hours before we went to speel to go work down the mill where we had to pay 2 pound for the privilege of working there and come back home to where dad would beat us to sleep with a concrete cylinder
Reminds me of some NA meetings where people are supposed to open up about their problems but instead they stooped into a not-so-subtle competition over who did the most drugs and who had the shittiest life experiences.
Class? You're lucky to have a class. Back then all we had was a line of dirty kids that had to show up after a night of working the coal mine to get our legs hobbled by an old crone with a plank of wood
In the original B&W performance, Chapman's "Luxury." was probably the funniest just because of the impeccable timing as well as the camera focusing on him. It doesn't hit quite as hard in this one.
At least you've got decapitators! Here in America, we work 70 hours a day just to go home and be slowly gnawed to death by very aggressive raccoons. We DREAM of decapitators....
@@Baffled_King Raccoons?? Up here in Canada we'd have to be blessed to be gnawed by a raccoon! Instead we had to dig through 20 miles of snow uphill both ways to work at the lumber mill in -500 degree weather, just to be devoured by a hungry bear when we got back
These guys were lucky! When I was young, we used to live in a disused lavatory in the middle of a defiled septic system in a toxic waste dump. Then we had to lick up the toxic filth with our tongues, which would kill us! Then our undead bodies would have to go to work for 840 hours a day, 5,342 days a week... at a blender testing facility, where we'd be the test subjects! And we'd have to pay them for the privilege! Then our frapped, pureed bodies would be shot off into space and only after 43 years would the orbit decay enough for our frozen, frapped, pureed bodies to be incinerated in the atmosphere and settle down atop our lavatory as ash. Then we'd do it again the very next day! And we were HAPPY about it! Kids these days. You tell them this and they won't believe you!
All these comments are hilarious! And by "hilarious", I mean they drain every ounce of joy from my miserable soul and make me long for the sweet release of death... But in my day, that's as close as we got to "hilarious". Try telling that to the young people today...
That's right! I mean what's the sense of going abroad, if you're treated like just another tourist. Surrounded by sweaty oafs from...Oh, Sorry. Wrong sketch! Stupid git!
@@waynej2608 All fun aside, is there a joke here I'm missing...or are you *really* responding to the wrong comment? It's okay...but it's Impossible to tell who's being serious here😂😝
Fucking brilliant. The escalating exaggerations are just so perfect. And of course Idle sorta half-breaks the fourth wall and fully lets on that he, the character, refuses to pretend that this isn’t just writerly oneupsmanship. Deftly done.
Tried to watch this while playing a baseball video game and I started laughing so hard that I gave up an inside-the-park homerun because I couldn’t stop laughing
"You try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you"...which is why lines from this bit are handy when talking to someone who's just getting started in this world as an adult, and they complain about something that's not as challenging as they think it is. Oh? "Luxury..."
Luxury…….we had 300 of us living in a pothole, use gravel to wipe our bums and get paid $1 every 10 years down at the mill. Then our dad would sing off key to Adele
Reminds me of when my grandmother's sister would visit. We'd hear how supper every night was four boiled potatoes shared among the eleven kids and how they would take turns wearing the shoes for the walk to school.
2 down 4 to go was Cleese's reaction to Terrys death ....they still got it....R.I.P Terry Jones....my favorite line of his was...'He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy'...
After his incredible eulogy for Graham Chapman, this sounds about right. I only hope there's someone capable of making the appropriately inappropriate comment once Cleese joins the choir invisible 😁
"And you try to tell the young people of today that and they won't believe you!" I find myself saying that a lot lately. And I'm only--ahem--41 years old!
@@hankkingsley9300 Two pence. Good question. Let's look it up. It appears tuppence is 2.29 pounds in 2022 money ($3.00). I'm guessing the gents in the sketch were referring to a 1920s childhood if the sketch was written in about 1970.
@@maxshea1829 okay then...how many pence to a pound Sterling and what is that worth...sorry your money system don't make no sense to a southern GA boy...100 cents equals one dollar. And the value of that may fluctuate but I ain't got no idea how your monetary system works
@@hankkingsley9300 I'm American too. According to my Google search, before Brits decimalized the pound (£), there were 240 pence to the pound. The pound was divided into twenty shillings, each of which were further divided into twelve pence. Since decimalization in 1971, there are 100 pence to the pound (£), and the shilling was given the boot. So, now coins of lesser value than the pound are indicated as 10p, 25p, 50p, etc.
@ian x they can’t be too good at a Yorkshire accent otherwise they wouldn’t have got on in their acting careers at the time........I remember my teachers at school constantly saying to me “you need to drop your Yorkshire accent otherwise you’ll get NOWHERE in life”
"Well, what are you doing creeping around the cow shit at two o'clock in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me!" Terry Jones, the World is less funny without you!!
