Because they couldnt actually run over the person who continually lays down infront of the truck? Because they speed it up Ive often been left wondering if thats actually Chapman or a stunt double.
He does. Another time he nearly cracks up is in the Biggus Dickus scene of Life of Brian - watch closely as he's about to say "He has a wife, you know"
"Well that's the mission, now here's the method: RSM Murdoch will lure the enemy into a false sense of security by giving them large quantities of money, a good home and a steady job."
"He's got to finish himself off by lunchtime or he'll think he's let down Edinburgh!" I demand we give all these guys a Darwin Award for their devotion! :D
@beskintos Don't need drugs to be this hilarious. It's just we don't often see six gifted men of humor get together as a solid tight unit and work so well to make timeless comedy
Not only have you missed the point, you also apparently missed the part at 1:40 where they most definitely mentioned Tokyo Airport. As Tokyo is in Japan I would think you would have assumed that Tokyo Airport is also in Japan.
Little history note: Terry Jones says that he found out later that people hurling themselves off of a castle was actually done during the Crusades. He said that it gave him a curious feeling because the sketch was written as a joke.
Terry Jones did a documentary called 'The Crusades' and he was discussing the first appearace of The Assassins during the Crusades and the Assassins' leader had such a hold over his followers, if he commanded, his followers would hurl themselves off of battlement walls, and he demonstrated this to a European prince.
Wait? Was the "leap of death" in the Assassines Creed games inspired by this? In the very first game, a scene like you described happened. The leader spoke to the enemy and some assassines jumped from a cliff by his command. Except that they did not die ... I really should take a look at that documentary
I thought this sketch was mocking british paratrooper army, since they had about 80% casualties taken during D-Day and the scots were supposed to show that suicide was better option than going on a mission
@@astra00700 Famous, long running (since the 1860s) express passenger rail service between London and Edinburgh, and also, the name of the first steam locomotive in the world to reach a certified 100 m.p.h. (160 km/h).
That whole "no time to lose" part was in pretty poor taste. My uncle suffered from no-time-to-lose-syndrome and thought the phrase meant " Look out, there's a man eating flamingo behind you!" Every time someone said it he got an awful shock and he died from shock at a "no time to lose" convention. R.I.P Esol Otemiton
This was filmed at Norwich castle, my home city. I remember the filming caused chaos, as drivers and shoppers alike, were stunned to see 'people' leaping from the battlements... lol my dad was a builder and actually met John Cleese, when they were filiming this..... it's a classic Python sketch
"Well I don't know how sir. Our old kamikaze instructor Mr Yashimoto was so good he never left Tokyo airport." RIP my sides. Space is does not cooperate.
Jaguar Saxophone It's pretty bad in europe. They take people to court for saying they don't like muslims. This is a skit about a different culture being used by the brits as a suicide force.
Pretty sure Idle wrote the 'no time to lose' section separately (he features in it, and it's the kind of wordplay he loves), and then they just stuck it in the middle of the kamikaze Scotsman sketch. Brilliant. Chapman was so good at trying to saw his own head off.
The Python team mostly wrote sketches in small teams. Members have said in interviews that Michael and Terry J wrote together, Graham and John wrote together, and Eric and Terry G worked on their own
No Time To Lose Time ceases to exist and as such there is none in which to lose or I am incapable of losing For I have not the time to do so Yes as you can see this common phrase is all rather quite clearly explained.
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Man, I think the reason I like these guys is it's not political. It's just.. silly and that's not a bad thing. Like John Cease says; it's fun to be silly sometimes.
They did get political fairly often, they just did it in an intelligent way. Political comedy can be funny, even when it's directed at your side, as long as it's done in a clever way. So much of political "comedy" nowadays is just virtue signaling and moral lecturing with a laugh track
No it's when Norwich Castle was towed up to Edinburgh to star in monty Python show! An inflatable bouncy castle was used to fill in whilst it was gone! And the citizens of Norwich never noticed a thing! Far too busy getting angry about the bad jokes about having webbed feet and inbreeding. Those made my sister and my wife very angry. She was a lovely woman I will miss her!
Lord Eden I gave up being angry about the webbed feet, inbreeding and _Sale of the Century_ a long time ago. We're stuck with it, and it's something we'll never shake off, unfortunately. Mind you, some of the people you see in our fine city don't exactly help to change the reputation we're tarred with, like those bald identical twins who shout "fuck" and "cunt" at each other on the market place, and a dirty old man who stands in the street with his hand up a puppet's arse, waving said puppet frantically in time to poor-quality music.
I would not mind if that old pervert used puppets in his pathetic busking act. But i do draw the line at him waving a sock attached to a stick via a length of greasy string. Mind you I have yet to have the doubtful pleasure of meeting the Tourettes twins? As for the outrages number of inbreeding jokes why oh why do the least funny pair of local so called comedians contribute to that long long list? The God awful Nimmo twins. as funny as feeding a refugee from the Jungle a bucket of cold vomit.
Lord Eden The twins don't seem to spend as much time in the city centre as they used to. When they are around, their usual spot is by the corner market stalls near the Guildhall, by the post box and the circle of benches opposite Jarrolds. Both are bald, one is covered in tattoos, and both look the proverbial sandwich short of a picnic. Listening in to a typical conversation, one gets to learn in detail all about their visits to the types of clubs where scantily clad women dance for "entertainment" and how they're privileged enough to get into the VIP areas of said clubs (gawd knows why), and whatever's going on in the world of Ipswich Town football club. Pepper these conversations liberally with the F and C words and that's pretty much as far as the dialogue goes between them.
Sounds like they might be the pair of brain donors famous around Ipswich. Folk from Essex must flock over the boarder to bask in their intellectual brilliance!
You will be surprised what more relationship there is between this comical sketch and the historical muslim world. In fact, this scene really happened during the crusades. A crusader army was laying in siege before the castle stronghold of the hashashin sect (the one we owe the word assassin for) and their leader wanted to demonstrate how less they cared for their lives if they would have lost: he commanded several of his sect members to throw themselves off the walls in plain sight of the crusaders.Well,, long story short: after three successfull suicide demonstrations, the crusaders realised that they were losing their time there and decided to break off their siege since it could not be won from such determined foes.
Ah, the MacKamikaze Highlanders. Peak Python absurdity! In his memoir, Graham Chapman talks about filming that bit where he keeps throwing himself under the truck. He had to keep absolutely still while the truck was rolling over him, but he was suffering from the DTs or some such condition related to his excessive drinking and he had the hardest time controlling his movements.
Ahhh, this is one of my favorite sketches (No Time to Lose), it is maddening! And you get a bonus point including No Time Toulouse, it's a great link and pun.
