@@tvdinner325 the Germans would continue to rely on outsourced humor until the Russians mistook the _punchline_ as an excuse for physical violence... they have since rescinded their comedy policy and have had to rely on shipments of fart jokes from the United States
When manager of Celtic, Gordon Strachan was approached by a TV interviewer at a game and was asked "Gordon, can we have a quick word?" He replied "Velocity," and walked off.. Brilliant.
Pundit in the 80s n John Salakos protest at playing a game of football on sunday cos he was religious ,pundit said god wont mind he invented the damn game
A German couple goes on holiday to France. The French border guard asks, “Nationality?” They reply, “German.” The guard asks, “Occupation?” The German man says, “No, no. Just visiting.”
As a German, I have to get involved. For us Germans, humor is a very serious matter. At school, we receive intensive training on how to understand humor correctly, and we are obliged to successfully complete a high-level humor course while we are still at school. The success of this program speaks for its correctness. We are very proud of what we have achieved. Scientific source: Institute H. Kloettenschreck (Berlin)
German joke: Why did Stasi agents always work in groups of three? One to do the reading. One to do the writing. And one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
I heard that joke in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s about the Czech security services. It’s not a German joke per we, it is a joke that existed in every country under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.
We also tell that joke in Portugal, but with the KGB instead… Definitely from the Cold War days. ;) Or maybe it was my aunt, who lived in Warsaw during that time, who personally recounted the joke to my family, because I don’t ever recall listening to it outside of that setting and everyone I know of who I tell it to seems to not know it, so there’s that.
Commedian Emo Phillips had a joke about his German brother in law complaining that you just can't find a good bagel in Berlin. Emo reply's "And who's fault is that?"
I have a feeling not a lot of people got the joke here. (Only 7 of us, so far, as in 12 years later). Supposedly the Jewish people in Poland created the bagel, and yes, there is no better bagel than a Jewish bagel. Considering what the Germans did to the Jewish people, no wonder that you can't find a good bagel in Berlin. Dark joke.
@@tvgcmma9215 Ah, good old Bob. He always wanted to die peacefully in his sleep, like his father did. Not screaming in terror like his father's passengers.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 And Chubby Brown's rip-off of it - I always remember my dad's last words ; "Fuck me a bus" James Corden will by now have used all of these obviously.
A German joke: If you speak three languages, you're trilingual. If you speak two languages, you're bilingual. If you speak one language, you're English.
As a Dutch friend commented to me when I said we were lazy when it came to languages, 'You don't need to learn another language. But if we want to get on in the world, we have to learn English at least.'
@@janeweedon6335 Yes, I've noticed that the people who tend to be best at learning other languages are the ones who have most need of it because their first language is little spoken outside their own country. The Dutch are one example, Scandinavians another.
I'm 72 and the Pythons were the best form of comedy for my generation. All the others including Saturday Night Live owe the Pythons big time for breaking through the stodgy, boring humor that preceded them. They were the Beatles of the comedy world.
Interesting observation, that sounds abt right from my exposure to older comedy. (Higher than average person, lower than a person of the relevant age.)
I think the phrase " We have no sense of humor, but we understand you do", is genious. honestly the funniest part of this monologue is a quote of this german Guy.
It makes sense that Eric would recount this story because I think that he and Graham had the most subversive sense of humour of all of the Pythons. Great stuff!
Graham Chapman was absolutely brilliant ... (from one of the books about the Pythons) John Cleese had written a sketch about not being able to return an obviously faulty toaster to a department store (based on a real experience) and read it to Graham who thought for a moment and said "that's boring, make it a parrot instead." That's the genesis of one of the greatest comedy sketches - the dead parrot sketch. John Cleese did all the work and Graham made it hilarious with just a single thought.
@@Ericwvb2 The 'Graham part' of creative works is typically underappreciated, because it makes the 'grunt world' feel insecure. Few understand the sacrifice of honing excellence for years in order to scarcely deliver it poignantly. Remember the Star Wars editing anecdote. So much work went into making a film and it was shit and then wife re-edited the material and it became great.
Wow. I was in West Germany on March break back in 1978 and our bus driver had to ask three times where the Dachau concentration camp was and the same thing happened, no one supposedly knew where it was and we were a few kilometers away. I wonder if the people of the town still do that. Of course in hindsight, in 1978 there were plenty of people there who lived through the war.
That was true in 1965. We were stationed in Wiesbaden and my USAF dad decided we needed to go to Dachau. Hard time finding it. No signs and the locals didn't know where it had been.
Let me explain what a "one-liner" is. It is a self contained joke. Meaning that it doesn't require an entire story to give it context which contributes to the humor.
That was such a lovely program and great memorial to a dearly missed brother in comedy. Still funny. One if the smartest groups of people ever - have to be smart to be a good comedian.
Fair to say they are only funny to the intelligent and well read. One has to have a fairly good knowledge of British and European history and British ways of life to truly appreciate their humor. Sorry for your luck that you fell short, it is really quite brilliant.
woodkern Why thank you! Thank you very much indeed! To all the struggling twits out there, please, let this be an inspiration to you. It is really for all of you that I do what I do.
Europeans: Heaven is where . . . • The cars are German • The guards are British • The cooks are Italian • The lovers are French • and everything is organized by the Swiss Hell is where . . . • The cars are French • The guards are German • The cooks are British • The lovers are Swiss • and everything is organized by the Italians [Just BTW, I have an ancestral foot each in two of those lands.] Update, 2016 Nov 5: The Italians and the French are swapped in the first half . . . should go: . . . • The cooks are French • The lovers are Italian . . . I think I was recalling my Italian grandmother's cooking when I first posted ;-) Hat-tip to Douglas Butcher %
Hilarious !!! I love this man and his amazing , wonderfully talented group of friends !! Love it ! Thank you knold20 ! :) I could listen for hours to the stories they have to tell.....can you imagine the hilarious situations they would have found themselves in , over all the years.......lifetimes of tales....
Chapmans line , although "very witty, very, very, witty" and certainly would have made even Oscar Wilde wish he'd been the one to have said it, alas is not a one liner., but a simple, albeit razor sharp, hilariously sarcastic "quip"`.
In a similar vein i was on a visit to the middle east and on the trip were 2 Irish guys who were best mates from way back. The guide was pointing out various items of interest including a mosque, at which point one of the Irish guys shouted out "is that a Presbyterian mosque" at which point the minibus passengers just fell about laughing.
There was no single person who was "the brains behind Python". The Brits were all previously students at Oxford or Cambridge, which is where they all met, and all participated in writing the show and movies. Gilliam, the American animator, went to Occidental College in LA. Decisions on which material to use were democratic. As for the movies, Jones & Gilliam directed _Holy Grail_ and Jones directed _Life of Brain_ and _Meaning of Life._ Now, if you look at the success of all the Pythons after their last movie, you'd have to say Terry Gilliam has been the most successful having directed _Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys,_ et al.
+Ledge Buoy Still, this is not what a one-liner is. A one-liner is a complete joke delivered in one line, which this isn't. It's more of a punch-line tho - a funny line at the end of a story.
The Ungodly When they were not allowed entrance and his friend thought that saying "Tell them we're jewish." might change their mind this single line contained a historic reference, since jews used to be the one group of people that ended up there, it was painfully ironic because it showed that they actually were jews trying to enter a concentration camp of all places and pretty macabre and dark since it joked about genocide. In essence to everyone present when it was delivered that one line was an entire joke containing all the information needed in that specific situation. A typical oneliner would be something along the lines of "A baby seal walks into a club." (yes I took the first example wikipedia delivered. sue me xD) and this oneliner basically came down to "A group of jews walk into a concentration camp." but it was delivered in a manner that was appropriate since everyone involved knew where they were and only the information that they were jews was missing. Also the whole thing about this being "a funny line at the end of a story" completely misses the point. John Idle is not delivering the onliner in this story, he's telling people about the time he witnessed someone else deliver it and why it was so funny at that given time.
This is one very dark piece of humor which most lateral thinking people who seek to observe both comedy and tragedy on the stage of life without becoming a victim of it, really should watch. Absolute food for thought.
Reminds me of a story someone told of a group of German businessmen visiting New York City. They went out to a comedy club and enjoyed the show so much, they asked to go backstage to see the comic. The lead German was very enthusiastic, praising the performer. "You are so wonderful! Why don't we have anyone like you in our country?" The comic looked at them, stone-faced. "Because you killed them all."
Graham Chapman's comment was the one liner. Not the whole anecdote. Just Graham's part. Somehow the German's in the comments got it and no-one else did.
This was mmediately after an Air Traffic Controllers’ strike in Malaga had ended. A Britannia Airline captain asked a Hapag Lloyd charter 737 aircraft ahead of him who was just about to take off: “How did you beat us to the runway?” “Ve got up very early zis morning und put our towels on ze runway” replied the Hapag Lloyd.
Why so many people don't seem to understand that the one-liner is not the whole clip, but what Graham Chapman said? I mean, if there's a video titled "the craziest motorcycle stunt ever", and the first 90% of the clip would be about the motorcyclist preparing for the stunt, would you say "this is not a motorcycle stunt", even if the rest 10% would include the stunt itself? I admit I'm not too good with examples but I think this sums up my point pretty well.
I think the point is that it's simply can't be a one-liner joke if it needs a whole story in addition. That's why the name says *one*-liner. These people were right, this is simply not this type of joke, it's a funny anecdote instead.
Best one-liner i heard in this line was a from a Jewish Soldier in Haifa years ago, on a peacekeeping tour... "My Grandfather died at Auschwitz.." everyone went solemn and quiet "...He fell out of a guard tower". I literally didn't know what to say until i caught his eye and he was laughing.
I'm in the USA, Colorado. Some years ago we were at a local restaurant run by a German gentleman. As we were eating, the owner abruptly walked up to our table and said in a thick German accent, "I have a joke for you". He reached into his pocket and took out a piece of paper on which he had written the joke. He started reading, and it was an extremely vulgar joke about Michael Jackson and the situation he was being investigated for at the time. We all sat in stunned silence as he read the joke. He was the only one who laughed at the end. The fact he had to read it was surreal. It was extremely awkward, though we laughed like hell about in the days following.
If I understood him correctly, no one knew WHERE it was. I think this isn't too far off, because like no one in Germany knows the irrelevant village of Dachau. Of course we have heard there was a camp, but I always though Dachau was in eastern Germany or even in Poland, until I had a look at the map right now..
Some time back my cousin was in Berlin on business. At the conclusion of the day the Germans asked him what he’d like to do for the evening. “ How about going to an old German tavern?” . “No was the instant reply”. “ Your father bombed them all!”
Brian Clough said at a press conference (I think), 'I wouldn't say I'm the best manager in the business, but I'm definitely in the top one.' Tickled me that did.
The late Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater tried to get into a restricted golf club one day, but was turned away (he was a practicing Episcopalian, but one parent was Jewish). He then asked, “May I play nine holes? I’m only half Jewish!”
Funny is Wembley 1966 with the crowd singing, for the Germans, "Two World Wars and one World Cup, doo dah, doo dah...." to the tune of Kemp Town races..
What are you talking about? That chant did not exist in the 60's. Probably started in the 80's. Why tell such lies. Why? I'd like to know your thought process behind this.
Robin Williams said "I went on a German talk show and they asked, "why isn't German more popular in the comedy circles?" Robin said "did you ever think you've killed all the funny people?" They said "no".
The fact that Germans had to outsource humor was a pretty good joke in itself hahaha
Even if they made a hilarious show, the Germans wouldn't laugh? Totally pointless.
@@tvdinner325 the Germans would continue to rely on outsourced humor until the Russians mistook the _punchline_ as an excuse for physical violence... they have since rescinded their comedy policy and have had to rely on shipments of fart jokes from the United States
@@johng3029 please no fart jokes from america 😪
i want the sweet sweet british humor…more! more!!!
@@Siddich it's the best we have for now, we could have given you some knock-knock jokes but you've put a no soliciting sign on your front door.
That reminds me of the Russians, after the fall of the Soviet Union, outsourcing courtesy by hiring Irish consultants for their tourism board.
When manager of Celtic, Gordon Strachan was approached by a TV interviewer at a game and was asked "Gordon, can we have a quick word?"
He replied "Velocity," and walked off..
Brilliant.
While coach of the Buccaneers John Mckay was asked what he thought of his team’s execution.
He said “I’m for it”
I stood up at my cousin's wedding and said, "Plethora," and sat down again. She said, "Thank you, that means a lot."
@@anonygent Sounds like jimmy carr lol
Pundit in the 80s n John Salakos protest at playing a game of football on sunday cos he was religious ,pundit said god wont mind he invented the damn game
He was manager of Coventry when he came out with that, quite a few years before his Celtic job.
A German couple goes on holiday to France. The French border guard asks, “Nationality?” They reply, “German.” The guard asks, “Occupation?” The German man says, “No, no. Just visiting.”
You just made me LOL.
I gasped.
A french border guard speaking english ? That's a good one !
@joachimlubs3256 “Occupation?”
“Non, seulement pour visiter”
Happy?
😂😂😂
As a German, I have to get involved. For us Germans, humor is a very serious matter. At school, we receive intensive training on how to understand humor correctly, and we are obliged to successfully complete a high-level humor course while we are still at school.
The success of this program speaks for its correctness. We are very proud of what we have achieved. Scientific source: Institute H. Kloettenschreck (Berlin)
Nazi nation__
Und you vill laugh when ve tell you.....!
this
The best thing is, I don't even know if you're joking.
Germans are clearly the kings of DRY humor
German joke: Why did Stasi agents always work in groups of three? One to do the reading. One to do the writing. And one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
Underrated humour!😅
@@JLar-bb5hl Underraided.
I heard that joke in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s about the Czech security services. It’s not a German joke per we, it is a joke that existed in every country under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.
It’s probably Soviet humor because we had something similar in the communist Hungary but could well be from the DDR, too...
We also tell that joke in Portugal, but with the KGB instead… Definitely from the Cold War days. ;) Or maybe it was my aunt, who lived in Warsaw during that time, who personally recounted the joke to my family, because I don’t ever recall listening to it outside of that setting and everyone I know of who I tell it to seems to not know it, so there’s that.
Commedian Emo Phillips had a joke about his German brother in law complaining that you just can't find a good bagel in Berlin. Emo reply's "And who's fault is that?"
I have a feeling not a lot of people got the joke here. (Only 7 of us, so far, as in 12 years later). Supposedly the Jewish people in Poland created the bagel, and yes, there is no better bagel than a Jewish bagel. Considering what the Germans did to the Jewish people, no wonder that you can't find a good bagel in Berlin. Dark joke.
It took me about 10 seconds, but I got the joke
Sp "who's" should be "whose"
@@chrisb8075 Finally somebody noticed that after 12 years!!!!
@@sorellman But you can always visit Poland and try Polish obwarzanek instead ;)
A German child said to his parents "I want to be a comedian when I grow up".
And they all laughed at him.
Well they are not laughing now.
thats a good one
Bob monkhouse
@@tvgcmma9215 Ah, good old Bob. He always wanted to die peacefully in his sleep, like his father did. Not screaming in terror like his father's passengers.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 And Chubby Brown's rip-off of it - I always remember my dad's last words ; "Fuck me a bus" James Corden will by now have used all of these obviously.
That is the most unresolved punchline ever. I’m still wondering if the boy succeeded or failed or if it even mattered. 😳 (Brilliant 😎👍🏼)
A German joke:
If you speak three languages, you're trilingual.
If you speak two languages, you're bilingual.
If you speak one language, you're English.
As a Dutch friend commented to me when I said we were lazy when it came to languages, 'You don't need to learn another language. But if we want to get on in the world, we have to learn English at least.'
@@janeweedon6335 Yes, I've noticed that the people who tend to be best at learning other languages are the ones who have most need of it because their first language is little spoken outside their own country. The Dutch are one example, Scandinavians another.
It’s not our fault we made the best language
@@mightymorphin9816 You made the best guns and ships...
@@escapedlunatic27
Scots, Welsh and Irish and don't they go on about having to admit its better for them
I'm 72 and the Pythons were the best form of comedy for my generation. All the others including Saturday Night Live owe the Pythons big time for breaking through the stodgy, boring humor that preceded them. They were the Beatles of the comedy world.
I suspect that The Goon Show may have been a bridge too far for the other side of the pond.
I fart in your general direction.
Agreed.
Interesting observation, that sounds abt right from my exposure to older comedy. (Higher than average person, lower than a person of the relevant age.)
So does that make _Laugh In_ the Elvis of the comedy world, and Dick Gregory the Robert Johnson?
I think the phrase " We have no sense of humor, but we understand you do", is genious.
honestly the funniest part of this monologue is a quote of this german Guy.
Nothing tops Churchill's "If I was your husband, madam, I'd drink it."
Pure, wicked, effective, off-the-cuff comedic genius.
Oscar Wilde was on his way into court when a woman shouted the same thing and Oscar replied as Churchill
@Old Corps Marine But you will still be ugly!!
I am now 78 and I have a new generation of grandkids coming up behind me that I tell of this Winston/Lady Astor one. (...poison in your coffee...)
Or Silent Cal Coolidge’s “You lose.”
@@lorilee698 Are you German?
"Tell them we're Jewish" 🤣 RIP Graham Chapman and God Bless Monty Python
Eric Idle said in the commentary to Life of Brian, where Brian opens the windows nude, that people could see he was not jewish (foreskin).
@@mikaelbiilmann6826 I didn't get a good look to know.
NEVER EVER SAY HUMOR IS THE MOST UGLY THING IN LIFE
@@mikaelbiilmann6826 So he IS A Roman!
@@AURON2401 Pilate: "A woman??!"
Brian: "No, No No. A Roman!"
*Whack*
1:07 on the chair on the right is Graham Chapman.
He really hasn't aged a bit since 1989, has he? Lucky fella.
I just played tennis with him the other day and wiped me good, then again, he didn't have to swing his racket much to beat me.
Honestly he looks a bit burned out.
+The Drunken Coward his skin does sort of look a bit ashy...this is why we moisturize people...
I wonder how much he urns nowadays?
Shannmeister I'm not sure you want to know, the numbers can be a bit jarring.
It makes sense that Eric would recount this story because I think that he and Graham had the most subversive sense of humour of all of the Pythons. Great stuff!
john cleese was equally subversive
@@Sanddancer1
Cleese and Chapman would work together when writing sketches, so you're not far off.
Graham Chapman was absolutely brilliant ... (from one of the books about the Pythons) John Cleese had written a sketch about not being able to return an obviously faulty toaster to a department store (based on a real experience) and read it to Graham who thought for a moment and said "that's boring, make it a parrot instead." That's the genesis of one of the greatest comedy sketches - the dead parrot sketch. John Cleese did all the work and Graham made it hilarious with just a single thought.
@@Ericwvb2 The 'Graham part' of creative works is typically underappreciated, because it makes the 'grunt world' feel insecure. Few understand the sacrifice of honing excellence for years in order to scarcely deliver it poignantly.
Remember the Star Wars editing anecdote. So much work went into making a film and it was shit and then wife re-edited the material and it became great.
@@Ericwvb2 Norwegian blue lol
Wow. I was in West Germany on March break back in 1978 and our bus driver had to ask three times where the Dachau concentration camp was and the same thing happened, no one supposedly knew where it was and we were a few kilometers away. I wonder if the people of the town still do that. Of course in hindsight, in 1978 there were plenty of people there who lived through the war.
That was true in 1965. We were stationed in Wiesbaden and my USAF dad decided we needed to go to Dachau. Hard time finding it. No signs and the locals didn't know where it had been.
One of my favourite comics is German - the marvellous Henning Wehn
He is marvellous
Not just funny-patient as well. All the patronising Hitler comments he puts up with over the years.
Making a one-liner take so long is actually the definition of German humour!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Let me explain what a "one-liner" is. It is a self contained joke. Meaning that it doesn't require an entire story to give it context which contributes to the humor.
+Evi1M4chine complicated vocabulary
+chillguysplease Actually, this is a story. That has a punch line.
Well said bro 😎😎😎
British Sovereignty
+Dash - Let me explain a lack of a sense of humor. See Dash's comment.
That was such a lovely program and great memorial to a dearly missed brother in comedy. Still funny. One if the smartest groups of people ever - have to be smart to be a good comedian.
Nostalgia is a thing of the past!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!
I`m german, and I think this is fu***ing hilarious. I love the "Pythons". They are just great. Best comedy ever.
Oh, you're German. I thought there was something wrong with you.
Bullshit. Thats just white guilt
@@callactm14 It's a six year old comment, you little silly guy you.
Warum zensierst Du Dich selbst? Fucking ist nur ein Wort.
You can't fool me, Moriarty. You're no German!
Love Graham Chapman. Thank you for sharing.
Love these guys! Nothing Is serious to them. Wish we could go back to those days. 😌
stuff that..
It takes intelligence and education to do it appropriately though.
Interviewer: Why doesn't Germany have any good comedians?
Robin Williams: Because you killed them all?
I just love them so much… whenever I’m upset I just put them on and it makes me laugh so hard!!
God bless Monty Python.Just another piece of my awesome childhood.
They were about as funny as a dose of crabs
Fair to say they are only funny to the intelligent and well read. One has to have a fairly good knowledge of British and European history and British ways of life to truly appreciate their humor. Sorry for your luck that you fell short, it is really quite brilliant.
Get a dictionary and look up the word pompous
congratulations Sam, you are the upper class twit of the year.
woodkern Why thank you! Thank you very much indeed! To all the struggling twits out there, please, let this be an inspiration to you. It is really for all of you that I do what I do.
Europeans:
Heaven is where . . .
• The cars are German
• The guards are British
• The cooks are Italian
• The lovers are French
• and everything is organized by the Swiss
Hell is where . . .
• The cars are French
• The guards are German
• The cooks are British
• The lovers are Swiss
• and everything is organized by the Italians
[Just BTW, I have an ancestral foot each in two of those lands.]
Update, 2016 Nov 5:
The Italians and the French are swapped in the first half . . . should go:
. . .
• The cooks are French
• The lovers are Italian
. . .
I think I was recalling my Italian grandmother's cooking when I first posted ;-)
Hat-tip to Douglas Butcher
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Actually, the heaven part is where the cooks are French and the lovers are Italian. Otherwise, you got it right.
+ Douglas B:
I'll go with that.
I was trying to sort all the bits out, and those are the two I wasn't sure which way they went.
Left out 1 key ingredient... 'And everyone blames the Americans!' (In BOTH cases!!!)
+ Thrashpondo Pons:
LMAO! Outstanding point!
Thanks! I calls 'em likes I sees 'em!
Hilarious !!! I love this man and his amazing , wonderfully talented group of friends !! Love it ! Thank you knold20 ! :)
I could listen for hours to the stories they have to tell.....can you imagine the hilarious situations they would have found themselves in , over all the years.......lifetimes of tales....
It is a one-liner. He's telling an anecdote about Graham Chapman's one-liner.
That wasn't a 1 liner either, just a comment. A funny one tho
"Tell them we're Jewish" is sadly not a good one-liner without the full context of the story.
Chapmans line , although "very witty, very, very, witty" and certainly would have made even Oscar Wilde wish he'd been the one to have said it, alas is not a one liner., but a simple, albeit razor sharp, hilariously sarcastic "quip"`.
Say it by itself... neither the video nor the line are one liners.
And I just realized you wrote that 7.... years ago. Holy balls.
In a similar vein i was on a visit to the middle east and on the trip were 2 Irish guys who were best mates from way back. The guide was pointing out various items of interest including a mosque, at which point one of the Irish guys shouted out "is that a Presbyterian mosque" at which point the minibus passengers just fell about laughing.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
A Comedian comedian once said Germans laugh twice
at a joke, once when it is told and another time when they are explained the punch line.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Loved watching Python as a child in America...It was so different and I was immediately drawn to it
I'd like to thank my father for coming.
Man, I remember this when it aired on HBO. The whole thing was great. I love John Cleese's award acceptance speech at the end. Lol.
I will love these guys forever. I used to watch the show growing up, so I like to think these guys and Roseanne helped me develop my sense of humor.
@Sug Madick Absolutely. I wish her and Dan were my parents. There would have been less beatings.
@Sug Madick Ha!
Graham was hilarious, such deadpan quick wit
Graham Chapman RIP
The brains behind Python and a troubled comic genious who is deeply missed.
A real chap, man.
There was no single person who was "the brains behind Python". The Brits were all previously students at Oxford or Cambridge, which is where they all met, and all participated in writing the show and movies. Gilliam, the American animator, went to Occidental College in LA. Decisions on which material to use were democratic. As for the movies, Jones & Gilliam directed _Holy Grail_ and Jones directed _Life of Brain_ and _Meaning of Life._
Now, if you look at the success of all the Pythons after their last movie, you'd have to say Terry Gilliam has been the most successful having directed _Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys,_ et al.
@@Dowlphin I bet you came up with that in your idle hours
@@hankkingsley9300 I am not Idle when I come up with something.
@@Dowlphin drat you win this round but I'll be back my only response was yo-ho- ho hee hee Eric the half a bee.
Eric Idle one of the best comics ever lived
I remember seeing this. I never laughed so hard (Jewish here..Happy Chanukah). Rest in peace my dear Graham!!!
Graham Chapman was a genius.
This one line is one of the onest lines ever one lined.
Quite a lot of lines for a one liner
It's hardly a none-liner - it's an anecdote
+Peter McIver
"Tell them we're jewish." was the one line the title refers to. Ofc there had to be an anecdote around it to give it context.
+Peter McIver Oh for God's sake, are you a Kraut by any chance? The ONE LINE is: Tell them we're jewish get it?
+Ledge Buoy Still, this is not what a one-liner is. A one-liner is a complete joke delivered in one line, which this isn't. It's more of a punch-line tho - a funny line at the end of a story.
The Ungodly
When they were not allowed entrance and his friend thought that saying "Tell them we're jewish." might change their mind this single line contained a historic reference, since jews used to be the one group of people that ended up there, it was painfully ironic because it showed that they actually were jews trying to enter a concentration camp of all places and pretty macabre and dark since it joked about genocide. In essence to everyone present when it was delivered that one line was an entire joke containing all the information needed in that specific situation.
A typical oneliner would be something along the lines of "A baby seal walks into a club." (yes I took the first example wikipedia delivered. sue me xD) and this oneliner basically came down to "A group of jews walk into a concentration camp." but it was delivered in a manner that was appropriate since everyone involved knew where they were and only the information that they were jews was missing.
Also the whole thing about this being "a funny line at the end of a story" completely misses the point. John Idle is not delivering the onliner in this story, he's telling people about the time he witnessed someone else deliver it and why it was so funny at that given time.
Jeez! Ledgeboy, WE-GOT-THE-JOKE ok? It was a great story with a cracking punchline but a 'one-liner' is a joke in (guess what) ONE-LINE
This is one very dark piece of humor which most lateral thinking people who seek to observe both comedy and tragedy on the stage of life without becoming a victim of it, really should watch. Absolute food for thought.
That may get you in but how are you going to get out?
One way or the other they all got out.
azynkron "Tell them we're German".
*****
I see what you did there.
+thedoctorand oh youuuuuu hahahaha
@@thedoctorand 2nd best 1 liner.
The best one liner is "we don't have a sense of humour." 😂
I thought that WAS the joke ....lol....but it kept going ...all hilarious !
This is British ‘black’ humour … love these guys.. they have influenced British comedy more than any one..🙂
I love that we the Brit's have such a stupid sense of humour, we can find the funny in anything.
Seems rather brilliant to me.
Like Islamic child sex slave rings, that the Brit's are not allowed to talk about?
FritzIdler
What? Fritz?
+Deborah Hallam Yes, only you, the brits are blessed with this.
If you feel this way then avoid the south, those posh fairies get offended by everything!!
This is just to say that I love Terry Gilliam's sweater in this special.
Reminds me of a story someone told of a group of German businessmen visiting New York City. They went out to a comedy club and enjoyed the show so much, they asked to go backstage to see the comic. The lead German was very enthusiastic, praising the performer. "You are so wonderful! Why don't we have anyone like you in our country?"
The comic looked at them, stone-faced. "Because you killed them all."
Appropriate level of tastelessness and lack of tact. I like it.
Did they laugh?! 🤣
Robin Williams did one like that at some point.
That was Robin Williams... In a german talk show. You just can't beat that...
Graham Chapman's comment was the one liner. Not the whole anecdote. Just Graham's part. Somehow the German's in the comments got it and no-one else did.
This was mmediately after an Air Traffic Controllers’ strike in Malaga had ended. A Britannia Airline captain asked a Hapag Lloyd charter 737 aircraft ahead of him who was just about to take off: “How did you beat us to the runway?” “Ve got up very early zis morning und put our towels on ze runway” replied the Hapag Lloyd.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Why so many people don't seem to understand that the one-liner is not the whole clip, but what Graham Chapman said?
I mean, if there's a video titled "the craziest motorcycle stunt ever", and the first 90% of the clip would be about the motorcyclist preparing for the stunt, would you say "this is not a motorcycle stunt", even if the rest 10% would include the stunt itself? I admit I'm not too good with examples but I think this sums up my point pretty well.
you're right, i've read ahead on the comments......there are some really dumb fucks out in cyber land
Haha, "One dumb meets another" see that's a one-liner. What you mean is a punch line you idiot, a one-liner is self contained in, well, one phrase.
I think the point is that it's simply can't be a one-liner joke if it needs a whole story in addition.
That's why the name says *one*-liner.
These people were right, this is simply not this type of joke, it's a funny anecdote instead.
UA-cam was pure gold 14 years ago
Henning Wehn is German and funny. Perhaps that's why he lives in England now.
lol Good one
He isn't really funny, or is he?!
I only saw him once on QI and he was the worst guest there ever.
Best one-liner i heard in this line was a from a Jewish Soldier in Haifa years ago, on a peacekeeping tour... "My Grandfather died at Auschwitz.." everyone went solemn and quiet "...He fell out of a guard tower". I literally didn't know what to say until i caught his eye and he was laughing.
made me laugh out loud :-)
I'm in the USA, Colorado. Some years ago we were at a local restaurant run by a German gentleman. As we were eating, the owner abruptly walked up to our table and said in a thick German accent, "I have a joke for you". He reached into his pocket and took out a piece of paper on which he had written the joke. He started reading, and it was an extremely vulgar joke about Michael Jackson and the situation he was being investigated for at the time. We all sat in stunned silence as he read the joke. He was the only one who laughed at the end. The fact he had to read it was surreal. It was extremely awkward, though we laughed like hell about in the days following.
Where was the restaurant?
Who got the last laugh then
Pretty telling that even when this interview was conducted nobody claimed to know anything about the death camp
Or it could all be a lead in to the joke...
If I understood him correctly, no one knew WHERE it was. I think this isn't too far off, because like no one in Germany knows the irrelevant village of Dachau. Of course we have heard there was a camp, but I always though Dachau was in eastern Germany or even in Poland, until I had a look at the map right now..
It was hard to recognize the faces, but the voice was unmistakable.
Possibly the longest one-liner in history.
My favourite part of this show was Graham's ashes on the seat 😂 typical python humour, he would've approved!
Some time back my cousin was in Berlin on business. At the conclusion of the day the Germans asked him what he’d like to do for the evening.
“ How about going to an old German tavern?” . “No was the instant reply”. “ Your father bombed them all!”
zu kan laugh all zu want, be we shal zee hu laughs zee last
Love that it cuts over to his urn for his reaction.
By taking you to Dachau tells me the Germans do have a sense of humour , a bit black, but funny .
That's exactly what I thought too!!!
Some people can't talk about Dachau because they had relative die there...after falling off the guard tower.
Artie Lange told it much better.
Careful, now..
This was the image the Germans wanted the funny Englishmen to solve.
"That joke was very funny but IT WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE FUHRER!"
My Grandfather died at Dachau...fell from the guard tower.
Him and his mates were real larrikins...
Like with all good comedy, this story fills me with determination.
...and dread.
German: How come we don't have anyone as funny as you back home?
Comedian: You killed them all.
«Finally we got there and it was just closing»
About time?
they are all legends....
"Let us in. We're Jewish."
"You're 53 years late for that."
I think it was happening in the early 70s.
It took me a minute but that is the joke I got too, always room for a couple more.
"worls best oneliner"....fucking really? I love the Python crew, but come on...
You're right, that may be the funniest one-liner I've ever heard.
I love how they put the line on Graham who is not with us to deny it. This sounds completely like something Idle would do/say.
Brian Clough said at a press conference (I think), 'I wouldn't say I'm the best manager in the business, but I'm definitely in the top one.' Tickled me that did.
"They took us straight to Dachau."
Could've stopped right there.
Man THAT was a long way to go.
Everything ends in G!
That is absolutely the most Graham Chapman thing Graham Chapman could have possibly said.
I remember a Jew telling this gag " I called round a mates house, and he was peeling the paper off the walls." What ho decorating " No moving."
I walked into my buddy's place last night and said "you might wanna turn up the heat ,it just got cool in here "
The late Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater tried to get into a restricted golf club one day, but was turned away (he was a practicing Episcopalian, but one parent was Jewish). He then asked, “May I play nine holes? I’m only half Jewish!”
Zats not funny! * slap * * slap *
I wonder if only those 9 people (well... 10 now!) got the reference to your staggeringly appropriate comment!?! Props Shadow!
I got it
Funny is Wembley 1966 with the crowd singing, for the Germans, "Two World Wars and one World Cup, doo dah, doo dah...." to the tune of Kemp Town races..
What are you talking about? That chant did not exist in the 60's. Probably started in the 80's. Why tell such lies. Why? I'd like to know your thought process behind this.
Graham Chapman was one of the genuinely funniest humans ever. BURMA!
"Why'd you say Burma?"
"I panicked."
The pythons could deliver "no liners" that were hilarious.
ex: The Fish Slapping Dance
Robin Williams said "I went on a German talk show and they asked, "why isn't German more popular in the comedy circles?" Robin said "did you ever think you've killed all the funny people?" They said "no".
Comedy:
The most glorious juggernaut that doesn't give a fuck if you're offended.
Long live Mr. Cheeky
There's a humor , and there's a German humor. ( By the way , his little story - nice way to keep history alive )
Incredible...
Did they switch cameras to get a reaction shot from the urn? Cuz that’s what Graham would’ve done.
Anything for Graham Chapman but mindless good taste.
Indeed.
The signs to Dachau, at least in the early 90s, were very small, street level things... neither obvious nor overhead. Felt like it was hidden away.
The Germans do have a sense of humor but you have to really understand their language to understand their humor.
Why is UA-cam recently recommending me videos from 2007?
"99% of people wont read this ...... but have a fantastic day you 1%'ers !!"
I can imagine Graham actually saying that as well
Great story!