If you put the German version of the joke into google translate it comes back with fatal error, implying the joke is so funny it kills google translate!
That final, poignant ending speech is one of many examples of Python, where the writing, performance, tone, just everything, was absolute perfection. The contrast between the silly premise and the seriousness of the presentation is glorious and is exactly the way a real documentary would be done if the premise was real.
I played this to a German girl I was going out with and she said "This is NOT German!" What was more funny to me was her total bemusement at the sketch. LOL
There was a show in the UK in the 70's called The Goodies. A man died from laughter while watching the show. It is a sort of win all round, the man died in complete joy watching his favourite show and obviously found what was on especially funny. The Goodies ( a comedy trio ) got a hell of a boast that their show was so funny it actually killed someone. He actually died of heart failure but the laughter was what put excess pressure on his heart. ---- If you want to look up the story type in Kung Fu Kapers The goodies.
You beat me to it... I was going to mention this exact event. A haven't looked it up, as you suggested, but from my recollection, I believe the fatal joke was the "Ecky Thump" sketch, which I remember laughing at as a kid (I was a Goodies fan, not so much into Monty Python) and hearing years later that a man had died laughing whilst watching the show, his demise being reported by his wife at the time. To be fair, it was a funny(ish) sketch but kinda `of its time', I think you'd agree, and would likely be considered racist or offensive by today's standards! For those who don't know: The Goodies was a kind of surreal comedy sketch show featuring three comedians/comic actors named Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor. The show was broadcast in the 70s and 80s in the UK.
For me, that was what Python were the absolute best at in the entirety of all literature. Taking an initial starting premise and just following how it developed by obeying the internal logic of the sketch but no other restrictions.
Monty Python was the pinnacle of human civilization. Their TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus had so many great sketches that it should be required watching for any undergraduate degree.
@@MandyCaneLane Now you're in the same hole as me. Can't be blindfolds because how could you work. I'm thinking beige coloured walls, depressing music Leonard Cohen maybe and sad posters.
Fun fact: Two of Monty Python were in the movie A Fish Called Wanda. A guy legit died laughing while watching the movie in a cinema. It's a documented fact.
9:34 "...tallk abaut jour rapidd-feir cameddj. Slimm y slenndr, fast asz a grejhaund, taph asz letthr y hard asz Krupp steel, tuu janh tou caer bat jast eld ienaph tou dei steadfastlj marrtschinh tou tha beat aw tha dram."
Great thing about Python-just when you think it’s over, they give you more; Pushing to new heights of absurdity. Who else could conjure this extended joke about a joke?
Monty Python was my laugh line in the 70s. Followed by Fawlty Towers and Ripping Yarns. (Not to mention a bunch of incredible movies I won't list here).
If you wanna go really rough you should react to - know your ally: Britain - It was made for U.S troops entering WWII but watching it nearly 100 years later it's so funny 😂
In the middle of the original run of "Flying Circus" on BBC, WDR in West Germany convinced the Pythons to come over and produce two specials of "Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus". All of it performed in German. Those two specials are cult on top of the cult that is Monty Python's Flying Circus. The way Eric Idle presented it during the 1998 30th anniversary gathering of the (surviving) Pythons in Aspen, Colorado (I recommend looking that one up too, the boys are still f'ing hilarious!), was that the Germans besically came to them, like, "Look, we don't have a sense of humour. Can you help us out?"
"Mandy, dou jou tallk abaut gothiqq mettal ar blach mettal at all? Biecvasz II jast sva jour achaunt piqqtschr at tha top far tha Lane hab; that's sam reallj neat carps paint."
The German's ultimate counter joke was: two peanuts are walking down the street, one of them is assaulted...peanut. It's a pun on "assaulted peanut" and "a salted peanut".
Hi Mandy, a couple of less well known sketches, "Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint The Last Supper" & "Philosophers Football Match". The second one you can have with Spanish sub-titles, or even Greek if you want.
There were two peanuts walking down the street, and one was assaulted… peanut. The joke, if you can call it that, is that ’assaulted’ can be heard as ’a salted’.
The German counter joke was called V-joke. This is a reference to the V-Waffen (V-Weapons) program of the Nazis, where V stands for Vergeltung, revenge.
A few people missed the point re. Hitler's joke. It's not the fatal joke, it's just his response Britain's pre-war joke - which is a shot of Neville Chamberlain waving the Munich Agreement of 1938. I have a history degree, so I get that joke. Also, I'm of German descent, so that's why I'm nitpicking and overly analyzing the joke.....
There were drei (three) peanuts walking down the strasse (street). One was assaulted peanut (a salted peanut). This is a great sketch. Not my favourite but great nonetheless. Check out Monty Python at The Hollywood Bowl. They do a skit on the evolution of humour. It's really hilarious.
This is from the very first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus if I'm not mistaken, Mandy! If surreal, goofy and off the wall is something you're after, give Matt Berry Does Ghosts a go - he had Bob Mortimer co-write it! 😅
(The beginning) "Or the actual shetch ... sketch itself." ... The first time me ever hearing a tongue twister almost make the person cuss by accident. Funny. Was that the reporter on the ground at the end of the sketch, when Mandy paused & missed what happened?
I feel like South Park, who were huge Monty Python fans, took this concept and adapted it for The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, with vomit replacing the laughter.
They say "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!" It's nonsense sounding German for safety reasons.
Strange thing is, a bloke really did famously die laughing in the UK in the 70's, after watching THE GOODIES - Luckily I never found it that funny myself but it was OK for the times.
I'll post the German version of the joke here, and hide the English translation further down. You have been warned. German: "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!" English: "If is the nunpiece git and Slotermeyer? Yes! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
I always took this sketch to be a dig at the BBC censors of the time, and the idea that the public need protecting from "harmful" jokes. Monty Python did a lot to break down attitudes like that, but sadly they've come back with a vengeance in recent years.
@@MandyCaneLane Only if you speak German, which most of their viewers at the time might not. This is a great example of how Python skits could have many layers. On the surface you have the military weaponizing a joke. Beneath that, as I pointed out, is an entire skit about a joke where we never know the joke. Then for those slightly more lingually motivated, we find the joke in the skit is actually a fairly bad one.
"Over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke" might well be my favourite Monty Python joke ever
It's politically delicious. :)
I’m from Czech Republic, so it’s the best part for me :-D
If you put the German version of the joke into google translate it comes back with fatal error, implying the joke is so funny it kills google translate!
that's awesome😂
"There were zwei peanuts walking down the strasse, and one was a-salted... peanut. Hahaha."
I love how the "Germans" laugh at their own joke.
@@IvanToshkovfor some time my pal and me would tell a (bad) joke and then sing German anthem
Paraphrasing the peanut joke, peanuts were walking down the street, one was assaulted (a salted) peanut.
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A Priest, An Ape and a skeleton walked into a bar, the Bartender exclaims, 'What is this ... A Joke?"
@@jimmygrieves2909 the on at the Long John Silver's? I did ... and all his friends just watched, they didn't have he guts to help him.
That final, poignant ending speech is one of many examples of Python, where the writing, performance, tone, just everything, was absolute perfection. The contrast between the silly premise and the seriousness of the presentation is glorious and is exactly the way a real documentary would be done if the premise was real.
I played this to a German girl I was going out with and she said "This is NOT German!" What was more funny to me was her total bemusement at the sketch. LOL
Monty Python's humour is typically this. Off the wall, eccentric even and quite absurd. It's why we love 'em. :)
"Stop it, it's silly" 😂 Love it 👍
The radio's saying "Der were zwei peanuts walking down der Straße, und one was assaulted".
There was a show in the UK in the 70's called The Goodies. A man died from laughter while watching the show. It is a sort of win all round, the man died in complete joy watching his favourite show and obviously found what was on especially funny. The Goodies ( a comedy trio ) got a hell of a boast that their show was so funny it actually killed someone. He actually died of heart failure but the laughter was what put excess pressure on his heart. ---- If you want to look up the story type in Kung Fu Kapers The goodies.
You beat me to it... I was going to mention this exact event.
A haven't looked it up, as you suggested, but from my recollection, I believe the fatal joke was the "Ecky Thump" sketch, which I remember laughing at as a kid (I was a Goodies fan, not so much into Monty Python) and hearing years later that a man had died laughing whilst watching the show, his demise being reported by his wife at the time.
To be fair, it was a funny(ish) sketch but kinda `of its time', I think you'd agree, and would likely be considered racist or offensive by today's standards!
For those who don't know: The Goodies was a kind of surreal comedy sketch show featuring three comedians/comic actors named Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
The show was broadcast in the 70s and 80s in the UK.
I've seen this about 20 times and still makes me laugh every time ! One of my faves.! Sheer genius ❤
My step daughter got into MIT using the "peanut" joke as the basis of her college essay. It worked!
The Monty Python Troupe never pull punches with their jokes! 😂
ASMR Mandy at the start is now a thing. You should do a patreon perk for it 🤣🤣🤣
She could start an ASMR channel on here; it'd probably be more successful than this one.
Ah yes, the real Killing Joke.
"There were zwei (2 in German) peanuts walking down the straza... one was assaulted (a salted)..... peanut."
strasse (street in German)
My limited German from school helped me with that.
I love how there's no consistent chronology in this sketch
For me, that was what Python were the absolute best at in the entirety of all literature. Taking an initial starting premise and just following how it developed by obeying the internal logic of the sketch but no other restrictions.
Monty Python was the pinnacle of human civilization. Their TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus had so many great sketches that it should be required watching for any undergraduate degree.
+How NOT to be seen is a CLASSIC...
I love how the translator who gleaned two words of the joke had to be hospitalized.
This is actually from the series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" , of which I have about 60+ videos up
This is the origin of the band Killing Joke's name. Killing Joke are great, by the way. Still going strong since 1980.
I doubt they’ll continue after Geordie’s passing. Jaz is just doing his spoken word thing.
3:57 and Mandy accidentally sees the joke
Nonsense. She's still alive. Perhaps a word of it.
I was laughing but then I get worried 😢
A funny ad: "A helmet has always been a good idea."
The longest running Monty Python sketch, from their series, was called "Science Fiction Sketch" it was the best.
After 40 years and counting I still find myself pondering but know deep down I will go to my grave wondering what "joke proof conditions" would be.
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Earplugs and blindfolds? 🤔
@@MandyCaneLane Now you're in the same hole as me. Can't be blindfolds because how could you work. I'm thinking beige coloured walls, depressing music Leonard Cohen maybe and sad posters.
Ha yep Mandy it was me suggesting it cos in a recent reaction of yours you'd said "can you imagine laughing to death?" So it made me think of this 😁
Fun fact: Two of Monty Python were in the movie A Fish Called Wanda. A guy legit died laughing while watching the movie in a cinema. It's a documented fact.
9:34 "...tallk abaut jour rapidd-feir cameddj. Slimm y slenndr, fast asz a grejhaund, taph asz letthr y hard asz Krupp steel, tuu janh tou caer bat jast eld ienaph tou dei steadfastlj marrtschinh tou tha beat aw tha dram."
Great thing about Python-just when you think it’s over, they give you more; Pushing to new heights of absurdity. Who else could conjure this extended joke about a joke?
Another great Python sketch is called "it's in the mind".. clever skit
Argument Clinic
no it isn't
Monty Python was my laugh line in the 70s. Followed by Fawlty Towers and Ripping Yarns. (Not to mention a bunch of incredible movies I won't list here).
This is the actual funniest joke:
Q: What's brown and sticky?
A: A stick.
The German V-joke was "There were dry peanuts walking down the Strasse and one was a salted."
Clockwise is a good film. With John Cleese
Ood is a character from Dr Who (when it was ood!) 😂
If you wanna go really rough you should react to - know your ally: Britain - It was made for U.S troops entering WWII but watching it nearly 100 years later it's so funny 😂
'a salted' (assaulted). i feel a bit faint, i need to rest
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That was the wrong moment to take a sip of water ... 😅
Just one example Monty Puton was and is best humour/comedy group ever... Lot of modern English and Fiinish comedy is based to it...
In the middle of the original run of "Flying Circus" on BBC, WDR in West Germany convinced the Pythons to come over and produce two specials of "Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus". All of it performed in German. Those two specials are cult on top of the cult that is Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The way Eric Idle presented it during the 1998 30th anniversary gathering of the (surviving) Pythons in Aspen, Colorado (I recommend looking that one up too, the boys are still f'ing hilarious!), was that the Germans besically came to them, like, "Look, we don't have a sense of humour. Can you help us out?"
"Mandy, dou jou tallk abaut gothiqq mettal ar blach mettal at all? Biecvasz II jast sva jour achaunt piqqtschr at tha top far tha Lane hab; that's sam reallj neat carps paint."
One was a salted peanut.
@4:36 ...careful Mandy!!! 🤣😆 ...you should know by now 😂😆 (hope you don't have a keyboard in front of you 🤭)
"There were 5 peanuts walking down the street and 1 was a salted" the german joke to english
I think that's "Zwei (two) peanuts walking down the street"
10:35 This IS a real joke hhahahahaaha.
There were 2 peanuts walking down the straße (street). And one was assaulted (a salted) .... peanut.
Next you should watch something in a much vein - the reenactment of the battle of Perl Harbor (again by Monty Python of course).
As Willie Rushton said; Where would you be without a sense of humour? I say, Germany…
You ought to see 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town' by The Two Ronnies.
A man did die laughing over Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda
10 minutes is nothing for Monty Python to spread out a joke.The Spanish Inquisition is incorporated into that entire episode.
Which no one expected!
The German's ultimate counter joke was: two peanuts are walking down the street, one of them is assaulted...peanut.
It's a pun on "assaulted peanut" and "a salted peanut".
This parody's dead.
Ha ha ha...
Hi Mandy, a couple of less well known sketches, "Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint The Last Supper" & "Philosophers Football Match". The second one you can have with Spanish sub-titles, or even Greek if you want.
There were two peanuts walking down the street, and one was assaulted… peanut. The joke, if you can call it that, is that ’assaulted’ can be heard as ’a salted’.
The German counter joke was called V-joke. This is a reference to the V-Waffen (V-Weapons) program of the Nazis, where V stands for Vergeltung, revenge.
I am so relieved you didn't get to read it mandy.
You make me so happy, cannot lose you to monty python ❤
We don't want you to think that us Brits are mad, as it's a secret.
A few people missed the point re. Hitler's joke. It's not the fatal joke, it's just his response Britain's pre-war joke - which is a shot of Neville Chamberlain waving the Munich Agreement of 1938. I have a history degree, so I get that joke. Also, I'm of German descent, so that's why I'm nitpicking and overly analyzing the joke.....
There were drei (three) peanuts walking down the strasse (street). One was assaulted peanut (a salted peanut). This is a great sketch. Not my favourite but great nonetheless. Check out Monty Python at The Hollywood Bowl. They do a skit on the evolution of humour. It's really hilarious.
They were unique! I miss them!
python is so good
Dieser verdammte Witz hat uns keine Chance gelassen! Das war einfach nur unfair!
Oh and 5:40 Nope, that was just gibberish ;)
Imagine if this joke in the Great escape
This is from the very first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus if I'm not mistaken, Mandy! If surreal, goofy and off the wall is something you're after, give Matt Berry Does Ghosts a go - he had Bob Mortimer co-write it! 😅
(The beginning) "Or the actual shetch ... sketch itself." ... The first time me ever hearing a tongue twister almost make the person cuss by accident. Funny.
Was that the reporter on the ground at the end of the sketch, when Mandy paused & missed what happened?
My dog has no dictionary.
How does it spell terrible?
It took so long to allow for that long camera pan
Cold on the gold coast Australia too
I feel like South Park, who were huge Monty Python fans, took this concept and adapted it for The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, with vomit replacing the laughter.
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Great reaction! Sometimes shorter is better like this: *Mr. Hilter and the Minehead by-election - Monty Pythons Flying Circus* - S01E12
"Itt's a jook barn aw nathinh athr than tha fact sam folks miss-juusz tha wrbl trm "smell" asz iff itt vasz a naunl trm."
The world becomes more and more Monty Python … but not in a good way
They say "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!" It's nonsense sounding German for safety reasons.
Google translate has problems with that… possibly for the same reason.
Strange thing is, a bloke really did famously die laughing in the UK in the 70's, after watching THE GOODIES - Luckily I never found it that funny myself but it was OK for the times.
I'll post the German version of the joke here, and hide the English translation further down. You have been warned.
German: "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
English: "If is the nunpiece git and Slotermeyer? Yes! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
Reminded me of you laughing watching Karl dance in Glee
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How cold is it? Here in Britain last week, we had four days glorious weather but now it’s 17° and wet for the foreseeable future☹️☔️💨
I prefer soft spoken ASMR but your whisper works!
I think he said there were zwei peanuts. One was a salted (peanut).
I always took this sketch to be a dig at the BBC censors of the time, and the idea that the public need protecting from "harmful" jokes.
Monty Python did a lot to break down attitudes like that, but sadly they've come back with a vengeance in recent years.
So basically you just watch sketches and say nothing about them? Good gig.
the German joke ! 5 peanuts walking down the street and one was assaulted.
I believe it was 2 peanuts, but they used the German word for two which is Zwei and may sound like five.
You didn't get the German joke. 5 peanuts were walking down the street.
On of them was assaulted.
Mandy the German counter joke was 2 peanuts were walking down the street and 1 was assaulted (a salted)...peanut. 😉
😂😂😂😂💀☠️
Did I see you looking confused by the 'My dog's got no nose' joke?
taking very silly jokes and running too far with it is the essence of Monty Python humour
and one was A salted peanut
I suggest you watch The Dancing Outlaw
This was hilarious! 3-)
You should watch The Killer Cars.
This was funny but the parate/lumberjack song sketch is better personal choice.
She saw the lumberjack song, albeit not the original
Who else could do a 10 minute skit about joke and never actually tell us the joke.
Wasn't the joke "How does a dog with no nose smell? Awful."?
@@MandyCaneLane Only if you speak German, which most of their viewers at the time might not. This is a great example of how Python skits could have many layers. On the surface you have the military weaponizing a joke. Beneath that, as I pointed out, is an entire skit about a joke where we never know the joke. Then for those slightly more lingually motivated, we find the joke in the skit is actually a fairly bad one.
I'm with you I didn't think it was funny either.
A for effort. Definitely aged but still, not bad. Least you tried Mandy. Also Yay! Top of the Heroes board!!!
within 2 minutes you guffawed There's the proof...😁
I think the German joke takes long because it was translated badly. The Germans take a little time figure it out.
Police squad series comedy 😮😊
If you attempt to type the joke (in German) into Google translate, you get a fatal error.