@@alonenjersey It’s the Ministry of Silly Walks for a reason if you privatized it, it would just lead to chaos. All these silly corporations with there different silly walks. How is a bloke going to no which walk is appropriate. Corporations HA.
If you're wondering why there are so many brown coated people in the road - they are (natural) Gas fitters from the earlier New Gas Cooker Sketch, which ended up in a farce of a lot of fitters none of whom would be insured to install the cooker.
Skits on the show usually connected - or intruded - with other skits. Silly Walks here started in the newstand, which was where the previous skit was just ending. Netflix has the whole series, you might want to check it out, even if you don't do a react of it.
John Cleese eventually needed a hip replacement which he put down to having to perform this sketch in one form or another whenever Python went on tour. 😅
Of all John Cleese's condiderable comedic achievements, it's probably this for which he's most famous. He became reluctant to reprise it, but did so for one episode of Fawlty Towers, 'The Germans'. His natural gangly frame helped. I never fail to lose it at 'Mrs Two Lumps'. Nice one, Megan. Keep rockin' it girl.
ah yes I never thought of his frame but that's true! Fawlty Towers is on my list to watch so I'm looking forward to seeing him do it again! 😂 and thank you! :)
This show aired on the local pbs station when I was a kid. It was the last program aired every weeknight. I almost died laughing when I saw this. I was 12
I have the original John Cleese 'pocket watch' wall clock: his legs are the minute/hour hands and a twirling umbrella is the second hand. No matter the time of day it always makes me smile. A cheaper reproduction version of the clock is being made again, as this skit is being rediscovered and made popular by a younger generation, and can be purchased at all the usual discount online outlets. You can also buy European/British Yield signs with an illustration of the silly walk in the triangle. I presume it means "yield for silly walkers".
Nice reaction - I think there is a RU-vid video somewhere where someone scribbled on the sidewalk in front of their house that this zone was for silly walks, and then everyone passing by got the reference and started doing their walks accordingly, which the scribbler then caught on video and posted lol
John Cleese famously hated this sketch. When they first went on tour and they performed this sketch the audience didn’t laugh at all. When he got off stage, Cleese told the other Pythons to take it out of the show because it wasn’t funny, but they all told him to do it again the next night and if the audience still didn’t laugh, then they’d take it out. So they did it the next night and, of course, the audience fell about laughing, so it stayed a fixture of their stage shows. Cleese admitted later on that, when he was throwing his legs around and the audience were laughing so loud they couldn’t hear them, he would whisper to Michael Palin, ‘This is the worst sketch you’ve ever written, Mike.’
I just love seeing you laugh... I'm pretty sure at least half of the people you'd meet in London would get the reference, and that's mainly because you'll run into a lot of foreigners who might not be as familiar with Monty Python (then again, they are world famous).
On the news today… absolutely crazy lady found doing backflips and some other strange duck walks, when asked why she was doing it, she said she was just trying to get home to react to more Monty python lmao
I've often wondered about the people on the streets of whatever town they happened to be filming an outdoor scene. How many of them were aware of the program that was being filmed and were enjoying the fact that they might see themselves on "tellie". Of course there were no doubt some who had no idea over what was about, and ended up not knowing that they were on a television program later in the year.
There's one where the village idiot is being interviewed whilst sat on a two foot brick wall. He gives very sensible and intelligent answers, until he suddenly stops and says (something like) "oh wait, there's a bus of tourists coming", and he starts doing silly culminating in falling backwards off the wall. After that he gets back on, apologizes, and gets back on with the interview.
Hey Megan I hesitated to watch this as from the title it sounded stupid. The thing is, it was so totally stupid that it made me laugh so much. Thanks Megan i should trust in you whatever the title. Watching you enjoy makes my days ❤
at 1.00 that is the 'gas cooker sketch' another brilliant monty python creation, similar to 'carry on at your conveniance' one worker doing 2 jobs etc,
I had to watch it to be sure. It involved some delivery men who were delivering a stove to the right address but the wrong name, and more delivery men kept coming in to help with the problem. Then when you went out the door, you saw the long queue of delivery men in the street, waiting to help with the misnamed delivery. Then there were a couple other things in the show, none including large breasted women. There was an animated man who lathered his entire face then sliced his whole head off with his razor, then a note was written up looking for someone to fly an antique plane. It was posted on a shop bulletin board and then Idle arrived in the shop, to look for something naughty, thinking it was in code on the board, such as "small white pussycat for sale", "chest of drawers", "a bit of pram" other things. Then Cleese comes into the shop in his silly walk, and when he leaves the shop you see the end of the long line of delivery men.
@@mikeking7710 Wow. Thanks for the correction. I must admit it's been many years since I watched any of the complete episodes of the series. Thanks again.
Megan, I have returned. Monty Python is a comedy troop I can not get enough of! their work! Rumor is at the beginning of COVID some one put up a Silly Walk sign and filmed what happened. Reportedly people read the sign and did a silly walk. I would like to see that footage. We have to maintain our sense of humor!! Or we will go mad!! I am so happy you enjoyed this video. I consider their work a classic!! Until the next time.
Well I don’t know specifically where, but I’ve seen videos of them and people just set up signs in their yard silly walk zone and wait for people to walk by and video their silly walks🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
During Covid a person put a set of signs on their front yard, near the sidewalk, indicating it was a Silly Walk Zone (where there security cams could catch it). The footage was amazing. Cam footage can be seen, but here's a short interview with the home owners and footage from it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RUWoMCZ6dak.htmlsi=zmjsvthiZJXO7uYv
Hi Megan, you mean to tell us you never saw any of these classical Monty Python skits before; I don’t believe it. You are just trying to latch on to the multi millions of Monty Python fans. Admit it!
Hahaha another great reaction video Megan, haven't seen this sketch for years but it still creased me up ! Have you seen any Trigger Happy TV ? Give it a go ! Great stuff, keep them coming 🤣👍
Megan, my dear these men were crazy and very funny. Just for your information, John the man walking so silly is trained as a lawyer. Sorry solicitor in Great Britain. An online story tells how during COVID someone put a sign up about silly walks. And people did it. Later LADY................
I love the political commentary on how government spends money on nonsense. The guy from the Ministry was complaining that the Silly Walks Ministry got less money (some 250 million pounds) than the Defense Ministry.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was an actual department in Government today. If I walked around with a LEGO brick in my socks, do you think I could get a grant Megan? 😉
You get wiser as you age. It is completely normal that he, age 84 3/4, walks more wisely and less silly than he used to. Doesn’t wear the batteries out, either.
