Luxury! I started working in the silver mines of Norway in 1814, and I haven't seen the sun since. Haven't been paid either. Last time I ate was half a pickled herring and a loaf of stale bread in 1969.
You were looky, I built those silver mines with my bare hands naked of course except for a Balaklava made from granddads old socks, I've never eaten since since 1666, and that was a dead rat during the great plague, and I've still got the plague to this day, so you were looky. The pay I got was a fake farthing.
@@justinthyme5382 Paradise.....in't my day t'was still the stone age 3,3 million years B.C, we did't have any silver , Aye ,we had to dig o'ut stone's w'it our teeth completely naked except a small loin cloth made ot' stinging nettles, tied round't waist wit a bit of thorne. The last decent meal we had where't 100 thousand year't ago durin't last ice age when we ate noting but ice for 40 years and we were't lucky one's....and we didn't get paid one single penny until 3 million years later because money hadn't even been invented yet...aye!
@@winniewotsit4452 1840, PSHAW! Why I had to clean barnacles off Noahs Ark, using tongue, while suspended by umbilical cord. Every day I was fed to the lions for breakfast as well, as a bonus.
We used to have to walk 25 miles to school in bare feet on broken glass during a snow storm wearing an itchy wool balaclava helmet put on backwards so we couldn't seee where we were walking. And we were glad of it.
My favourite sketch from Tim Brooke Taylor was the automated hospital visitor from the 1948 series. I saw it when it was first broadcast and its still so brilliantly of the wall.
I guess I am being patriotic but there’s something quite unique from the post-war British Comedy Circuit starting with The Goons, through Monty Python Flying Circus to The Young One’s of all the writers approach to this classic “anarchic one-upmanship” which never fails to draw a good belly-laugh out of you.
Late 50’s American here. My whole family watched Monty Python. Us kids laughed,my parents laughed,only as an adult re-watching it did I realize we were laughing at different things. Lol
@@dorianward4909 Yes I can identify with your experience. Hi there, if you were born in the late 50’s then I’m sure you will remember that television obscenity which was somewhat subliminal and usually found tedious and boring so called “comedies” produced on a cheap budget which was used to encourage all of us to believe that whatever the program was it would be deemed far more popular than it was with the use of a nauseating device called Canned Laughter. -I’m sure you remember that insult to one’s intelligence.. Well a program came on around the last 20 minutes of viewing and then being the age I was it was bedtime afterwards. Well something came on the box and a line was spoken which contained two words “chastity belt,” and my mother who enjoyed being at the helm of intellect regardless of company asked me abruptly after “the belt” was mentioned if I knew what it was? At the time I found my young self joining in consuming a small portion of this canned laughter. At which I felt slightly foolish and was informed by my mum that a chastity belt was a type of Corset! So yes I to have shared your experience although it wasn’t caused by viewing The Pythoneers but we both have walked the same route as the tv lines in slightly different guises.
Speaking as a Yank across the pond, my father-in-law (English) has introduced me to a lot of great British comedy over the years ... but I still come back to the Four Yorkshiremen as my favorite. LOL ... Luxury!
Excellent transfer quality, but why have both the intro dialogue and the last two lines been cut? Feltman's closing punchline "Ay! And you try and tell that to the young people of today ... will they believe ya'?" followed by a resounding "Nooo" from all other players is essential for the sketch. Complete sketch: ua-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/v-deo.html
Thanks. Good to hear the punchline of this brilliant comedy. My brother was newly married and heard the other, older men of the family talk about impoverished childhoods. They were all devout Baptists . My brother endeared himself to them by saying that we were so poor that he was lucky to be a boy or he wouldn’t have had a thing to play with. They froze, it sunk in, and they laughed heartily.
I cherish the memory of vinyl LPs in a long lost collection. One collected bits from a university radio program with some Pythons, Goodies and others were students titled, "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again." (There were others as well.) We often recall only the "stardom" period of a performer's career; Segments like this show we cheat ourselves if we neglect their "up and coming" years! Also, it is refreshing to see a mix of comedic talents we all know but that we're not typically exposed to!
Went to see the Cambridge University Footlights review when several of them and the Monty Python team performed. Left with my sides aching. Not surprised that they went in to comedy. Brilliant!!
@@shugd3 They were dickheads from minor public schools for boys without a clue how to relate with women. Their comedy came out of railing against that world.
Saw this some years ago and could not remember where, so thanks for bringing it back - funny stuff. Those guys had it made at least they were allowed to sleep and eat - I had it much worse.
Marty Feldman: “My old dad said to say to me, he said; ‘What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?!’.”
Concentration camp. That sounds like luxury, there was 474 of us living in a match box under water with no food for a year . Then we had to walk to Mill with no legs as mum cut them off with chainsaw 4 no payment then when we got back 20 yrs later my uncle used to put axe in our head . ...if we were lucky
You were looky, 600 of us lived in a sardine can,our balaclavas were made from granddads old socks and grandma's knickers, last time I ate was 1666 during the great plague, and that was a cold dead rat. To this day I've still got the plague, so you were looky!!
@@treyowen9213 "errr No, by Rarnaby Budge". Dude where (dafuq) you at?, you seem like a 'septic tank' with your South Park name, but you've actually got a Brit sense of humour! Gawd save the King, and save the world from Biden and American spelling. From a Brit in Ausfuckinstralia, Luxury son, LUXURY.......
Can't believe it! I always thought it were a Monty Python sketch! They were lucky, my dad wouldn't let me out at ALL, until Mom grabbed him by the knackers givin' birth to me, that's when I got my first slap, just for being BORN!
Why did you cut off the final glorious punch line? Is there a way you can can restore it, and then stick your logo at the proper end of it? (It's there in the non-remastered poorer-quality version also on You-Tube, so we know it exists!)
Caitlyn Reilly's tiktok "wedding vows of the girl who bullied you in high school" sounds exactly like how Cleese says "who would have thought 40 years ago"
This is arguably the best version of this sketch - and the earliest, I think? The pace is really fast, and Marty Feldman is superb.
The punch line is missing at the end. "And you try telling the young folk that today... and they won't believe you"
Brilliant comedy 👍😊
HAHA good one :D
This is one of the best sketches of all time. It was inspired by one of the characters in Dicken's "Hard Times". Josiah Bounderby.
Luxury! I started working in the silver mines of Norway in 1814, and I haven't seen the sun since. Haven't been paid either. Last time I ate was half a pickled herring and a loaf of stale bread in 1969.
You were looky, I built those silver mines with my bare hands naked of course except for a Balaklava made from granddads old socks, I've never eaten since since 1666, and that was a dead rat during the great plague, and I've still got the plague to this day, so you were looky. The pay I got was a fake farthing.
@@justinthyme5382 Paradise.....in't my day t'was still the stone age 3,3 million years B.C, we did't have any silver , Aye ,we had to dig o'ut stone's w'it our teeth completely naked except a small loin cloth made ot' stinging nettles, tied round't waist wit a bit of thorne. The last decent meal we had where't 100 thousand year't ago durin't last ice age when we ate noting but ice for 40 years and we were't lucky one's....and we didn't get paid one single penny until 3 million years later because money hadn't even been invented yet...aye!
@@edgeofsingularity you were looky......
Tim Brooke Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. Amazing.
Does anybody remember those fellows names?
@@markbass9402 3 dickheads and Marty Feldman 👍
Tim Brooke Taylor died last year from complications of Covid-19
I remember Cleese, Chapman, and Feldman. I don't remember Taylor.
Tim Brook Taylor was in The Goodies
Iconic skit. The word Luxury! is never far away in any conversation with mates.
As a student I shared a flat with a Yorkshire lad. I'm from the south and was often on the receiving end of his rants. Just like this. Happy days.
These four had it easy, we had it tough, I'm still working my first day that began 1932 for a farthing a lifetime.
A farthing? you were lucky
Me family put me in a Time loop that ended just before I got my first ha'penny wages for the month, and I've been stuck in it for five centuries!
Luxury. We had to start work at the mill before we were born. And pay the mill owner for the privilege.
Sheer luxury !! I've been working nonestop since 1840....(well since quarter to seven at least)
@@winniewotsit4452 1840, PSHAW! Why I had to clean barnacles off Noahs Ark, using tongue, while suspended by umbilical cord. Every day I was fed to the lions for breakfast as well, as a bonus.
We used to have to walk 25 miles to school in bare feet on broken glass during a snow storm wearing an itchy wool balaclava helmet put on backwards so we couldn't seee where we were walking. And we were glad of it.
Wool? Our balaclavas was made of barbed wire.
@@nicks40 .
You were lucky, we used to have to share our balaclava with all the other kids in the street.
@Dan Beech Luxury! We lived in Alabama!
Balaclavas you were lucky, our Balaclavas were made from granddads old socks, and grandma's old knickers.
Aye, you were lucky....😂
Tim Brooke-Taylor looks almost teenage, John Cleese looking much the same - and the only one remaining. Rest in peace three very fine comedians.
Tim and Graham look almost like twins in this!
THAT'S WHO HE IS??? :O
Damn I was trying to place his familiar face.
"Goodie Goodie Yum Yum" :D
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I’m from Yorkshire and some people are like this 😂
Only some people! You're lucky. Where I lived they were all like that..
Yorkshire! They had it easy . Now in Lancashire.........
Aye, lad, tha not wrong.
@@ianhinds3480 At least YOU had a county...!
You were lucky,our balaclavas were made from granddads old socks, and grandma's old knickers. Luxury!
My favourite sketch from Tim Brooke Taylor was the automated hospital visitor from the 1948 series. I saw it when it was first broadcast and its still so brilliantly of the wall.
I guess I am being patriotic but there’s something quite unique from the post-war British Comedy Circuit starting with The Goons, through Monty Python Flying Circus to The Young One’s of all the writers approach to this classic “anarchic one-upmanship” which never fails to draw a good belly-laugh out of you.
Late 50’s American here. My whole family watched Monty Python. Us kids laughed,my parents laughed,only as an adult re-watching it did I realize we were laughing at different things. Lol
@@dorianward4909
Yes I can identify with your experience. Hi there, if you were born in the late 50’s then I’m sure you will remember that television obscenity which was somewhat subliminal and usually found tedious and boring so called “comedies” produced on a cheap budget which was used to encourage all of us to believe that whatever the program was it would be deemed far more popular than it was with the use of a nauseating device called Canned Laughter. -I’m sure you remember that insult to one’s intelligence.. Well a program came on around the last 20 minutes of viewing and then being the age I was it was bedtime afterwards. Well something came on the box and a line was spoken which contained two words “chastity belt,” and my mother who enjoyed being at the helm of intellect regardless of company asked me abruptly after “the belt” was mentioned if I knew what it was? At the time I found my young self joining in consuming a small portion of this canned laughter. At which I felt slightly foolish and was informed by my mum that a chastity belt was a type of Corset!
So yes I to have shared your experience although it wasn’t caused by viewing The Pythoneers but we both have walked the same route as the tv lines in slightly different guises.
You can BE "patriotic", even though it's BANNED in today's Britainistan.
@@Joe_Peroni What a piece of nonsense!
@@cuebj Do you not see what he said, are you living in clown world or something. I think you do but just dont care. You just want to be anti patriotic
Every person of my generation in Australia knows this classic......and I mean everyone. .
You were loocky !!!". Hear it all the time.
Les Griffiths
You were looky, our balaclavas were made from granddads old socks and grandma's old knickers, luxury!!
😂
Speaking as a Yank across the pond, my father-in-law (English) has introduced me to a lot of great British comedy over the years ... but I still come back to the Four Yorkshiremen as my favorite. LOL ... Luxury!
Y'all spelled 'septic tank' incorfuckinrectly......., education under Biden is a disfuckingrace.
My parents were from Yorkshire and my mother stayed poor in her head no matter how well off they became it was sad really.
You had parents? Well off? Absolute luxury!😀
I love Graham Chapman so much. Miss his humor in the world.
Excellent transfer quality, but why have both the intro dialogue and the last two lines been cut?
Feltman's closing punchline "Ay! And you try and tell that to the young people of today ... will they believe ya'?" followed by a resounding "Nooo" from all other players is essential for the sketch.
Complete sketch: ua-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/v-deo.html
That's why you go to BritBox!
Agreed it's the released tension that works with this sketch ! Talking of tension,when i were a lad.....
Thanks. Good to hear the punchline of this brilliant comedy. My brother was newly married and heard the other, older men of the family talk about impoverished childhoods. They were all devout Baptists . My brother endeared himself to them by saying that we were so poor that he was lucky to be a boy or he wouldn’t have had a thing to play with. They froze, it sunk in, and they laughed heartily.
It doesn't work without the punchline.
@@williamstone4334 in that case none of any Monty Python “works” because they dropped punchlines altogether
".... and kids these days don't know how lucky they are!"
I cherish the memory of vinyl LPs in a long lost collection. One collected bits from a university radio program with some Pythons, Goodies and others were students titled, "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again." (There were others as well.) We often recall only the "stardom" period of a performer's career; Segments like this show we cheat ourselves if we neglect their "up and coming" years! Also, it is refreshing to see a mix of comedic talents we all know but that we're not typically exposed to!
Went to see the Cambridge University Footlights review when several of them and the Monty Python team performed. Left with my sides aching. Not surprised that they went in to comedy. Brilliant!!
Reading Miriam margolyes book, cleese, Chapman and Taylor were dickheads to her, Taylor later apologised for his behaviour, cleese still hasn't 👍
@@shugd3 They were dickheads from minor public schools for boys without a clue how to relate with women. Their comedy came out of railing against that world.
oh wow
Saw this some years ago and could not remember where, so thanks for bringing it back - funny stuff. Those guys had it made at least they were allowed to sleep and eat - I had it much worse.
It’s that right from John Cleese that gets me
This isn't comedy; it's a documentary. Love and peace.
Love this bit! Just hysterical!
I love it Such a great accent and incredible english sens of humour comedy 😄🙋
It's good to remember one's roots. To this day I have a cup of hot gravel for brunch on Tuesdays. Even when in Monaco.
Fortunately, there is another version of this which includes the entire sketch. The visual quality is poorer but the dialogue is complete.
i appreciate how they slid further and further into t' accent...
Seeing this for first time 11.11.21
Timeless. 👏👏👏👏👏💕❤️💕❤️💕🏴
A penny every four years 😂😂😂
Still absolutely brilliant and oh so very funny
Marty Feldman: “My old dad said to say to me, he said; ‘What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?!’.”
And ya tell that to yung people nowadays and they won't believe ya!
That's nothing. I remember when all TV comedy shows were actually funny, like this one.
TV show? Ooh we *dreamed* of having a TV. All 126 of us had to huddle around a cracked old radio to listen to the one station it could receive!
No they weren't.
Clearest, most transparent white wine I’ve ever seen!
NO NO NO, THIS IS THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST JOKE.
it's just how extreme it gets
This was written by Tim Brooke-Taylor (RIP). Didn't receive the credit he deserved.
So clever, tumeless and absolutely hilarious!🤣😂
It all hinges on John Cleese's "Right." when it's obvious he's going to come up with something completely ludicrous.
Funny stuff! Who can out-destitute the other.🤣
There's 'one upmanship' and I suppose this would be 'one downmanship'
I always thought this was a Python sketch too!
Half of it is. :)
@@jenniferkonstant5920 Saw what you did there.
Good joke but I'm sure Python redid this sketch too
@@craigwheller You are correct they did! ua-cam.com/video/ue7wM0QC5LE/v-deo.html
MONTY PYTHON SKIT , ( MICHAEL PALIN ) " OUR DAD USED TO THRASH US TO SLEEP WITH HIS BELT " LOL
Marty is clearly the ONLY cigar smoker.
Brilliant so true with some people i have known classic decent comedy all legends
How he doesn't laugh when he says 'Luxury' ....
Love the original!
But it had evolved over the years. When I first saw this there was a line in it I remember quite well, “we used to dream of a shoebox”.
What if Marty and Tim were also in Monty Python? That would have been something.
cheers Graham!!
British comedy at its best... 😂
Love this sketch!!
I still use the phrase "get up half an hour before I go to bed" when I'm complaining about having to get up early for anything.
This is genius!
Concentration camp. That sounds like luxury, there was 474 of us living in a match box under water with no food for a year . Then we had to walk to Mill with no legs as mum cut them off with chainsaw 4 no payment then when we got back 20 yrs later my uncle used to put axe in our head . ...if we were lucky
You were looky, 600 of us lived in a sardine can,our balaclavas were made from granddads old socks and grandma's knickers, last time I ate was 1666 during the great plague, and that was a cold dead rat. To this day I've still got the plague, so you were looky!!
Say what we think, like what we say. Don't know their born these days. We're Yorkshiremen.
I created a fake account just so I could up vote this twice.
Jesus h Christ you killed the punch line.
This is so much like my late father-in-law… he was from Yorkshire. So true. 😂
British comedy rules!!
The we were so poor sketch!! Classic Python 🐍!!!
Love this sketch but why cut it off before the punchline?
He's got Marty Feldman eyes!
I recall seeing this sketch on Monty Python. I had no idea it already had such a deep history.
iye we had it tough i' yorkshire, these young 'uns today don't know they're born
I needed that laugh.
Never heard of this show but was always a massive fan of Monty Python & the Mel Brooks film _Young Frankenstein_
Brilliant!
This is a god damned legend along with Gilbert Gottfried doing The Aristocrats like a week after 9/11.
Why do The Aristocrats like a week? Don't they like months or years?
Those were the days.
Marty Feldman - a genius comedian. Aye.
I miss you Tim 😔
We are blessed for such wonderful things from the Pythons. Well not as much wonderful as....
You missed the end
This is just genius..
I died laughing. Rip.
If anyone's wondering, this sketch inspired Weird Al Yankovic to create the song "When I Was Your Age"
I just did this skit! I;m American, so had to write script phonetically for Yorkshire dialect
You cut out the punchline.
Luxury.
Luxury!
So why cut the punchline???
I’m old school. Don’t talk to ME about the fragile pups of today. Look what soft living has done to them. It’wor Grimm up North in my day.
For an extra laugh in the same vein, try "Capstick comes Home" A monologue by the late Tony Capstick. Sombre but very funny...
Luxury 😂
Fucking Classic!
2:20 Almost breaks.
This sketch is not the same without the original Yorkshireman Michael Palin.
Unfortunately, this is the original lineup, and predates the Pythons.
The best part is cut off at the end!
No freakin way, "Eye-gor" hung out with these guys?
'Damn your eyes' Trey dude......
@@martinclark8162
Eye-gore: "too late."
@@treyowen9213 "errr No, by Rarnaby Budge". Dude where (dafuq) you at?, you seem like a 'septic tank' with your South Park name, but you've actually got a Brit sense of humour! Gawd save the King, and save the world from Biden and American spelling. From a Brit in Ausfuckinstralia, Luxury son, LUXURY.......
Luxury 😅
Can't believe it! I always thought it were a Monty Python sketch! They were lucky, my dad wouldn't let me out at ALL, until Mom grabbed him by the knackers givin' birth to me, that's when I got my first slap, just for being BORN!
Stephen Strange My first laugh of the day. Thank you.
John Cleese and Graham Chapman were on this show before Monty Python, as they are here. With Tim Brooke-Taylor and the immortal Marty Feldman.
You were lucky!!
Hilarious
"Lick road clean" "Eat a lump a poison"
Why did you cut off the final glorious punch line? Is there a way you can can restore it, and then stick your logo at the proper end of it? (It's there in the non-remastered poorer-quality version also on You-Tube, so we know it exists!)
"Loochshureh."
Caitlyn Reilly's tiktok "wedding vows of the girl who bullied you in high school" sounds exactly like how Cleese says "who would have thought 40 years ago"
I was a sperm when I worked in the mill for nothing per lifetime..
You were looky, my great grandads sperm built that mill and had to pay them before he was born !
What happened to the punchline?
You just try telling the kids these days all that. They won't believe you.
…is that a young Marty Feldman…?
Indeed. Died so young as did Graham Chapman. Rest in peace.
Could it be anyone else?
At least they had legs to go to work! I had to cut off my legs and sell them in order to afford those shoes I needed for work!