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This is my reaction to Monty Python - Das Bayerisches Restaurant Stück
In this video I react to British comedy from British comedians Monthy Python and their comedy sketch about Germany (in particular the German state of Bavaria) with the Bavarian Restaurant Sketch.
Original Video - • Das Bayerisches Restau...
The most accurate thing about this is how proud bavarians are of things that aren't all that impressive
It's hilarious, and as un-Bavarian as can be. I mean, the waiter addressing them as "monsieur" and "madame" and talking about "traditional Bavarian wine" should be a dead giveaway:D
Well, Germany does have wine. Very good wine indeed.
Of course, a traditional Bavarian restaurant would be more likely to offer beer.
The state of Bavaria does have a wine region, Frankonia. But Frankonians are Frankonians. They don't really view themselves as Bavarians.
Bavaria has a wine tradition. In Lower Franconia which is a part of Bavaria they make high quality wines.
Bavaria is more than Alps, Oktoberfest, beer and lederhosen.
@@HoldMySoda Never say to a Franconian that he'd be Bavarian... You couldn't make a more deadly offence... That's as offending as calling a Scotsman 'English'... xD
It's Monty Python having a bit of fun with the subtitles.
@@arthur_p_dentNEVER call us "Bavarian"!
they worked close with german translators to get the jokes transportet as best as they could. love that. art surpasses every boundary
it is a quite typical "Bavarian Restaurant", but the "service" is a pseudo-bavarian parody of high-end french Restaurants.
2:37 You can definitely hear John Cleese’s accent. It is very clear that he is not German, HOWEVER you can also hear that he put a lot of effort into trying to pronounce the words as correctly as possible. I’m assuming they had a dialect coach.
The other two are pretty much speaking with the stereotypical “English” accent in German (I’m not good enough to actually distinguish between American, British, Australian, etc. when they speak German, but it’s clear that they speak some form of the English language)
As a German you can very easily hear a difference between the two accents. So it is clear from the beginning that the owner is supposed to be native German and the guests are supposed to be from an English-speaking Country trying to speak German.
Im only speaking about the accents here. On top of that come all the typical mannerisms that makes it even clearer where they’re from (Bavaria, America)
So overall they did a fantastic job!
I had the impression that the owner is not supposed to be native but is merely trying to act like a native. I think he is supposed to be French, as his pronunciation often drifts to a French accent. To me he appears to be a French chef that for some reason opened a German restaurant pretending to be rooted in tradition.
@@clauslangenbroek9897 I never thought about that, but now that you said it, I can see it too. Maybe you're right! :)
Cleese is on point. Not only the pronunciation, the emphasis as well.
Monty Python ❤ from Germany. The acting is completly over the top. This would never ever happen in a german restaurant, but anyway, its just funny😂
"If you are Bavarian: Is this accurate?" Well, it's close. 😂 Too polite in the beginning, too consequent in the ending.😉 At least, the music was familiar.
We ADORE Monty Python - at least in my generation! It saved us in times where there were hardly any funny comedians in Geman television.
In "the funniest joke in the world" the British army defeats the Germans in WW2 by their deadly humour.
Oh... there are quite a few. And I would even say they have a better and much more demanding humor than most of the newer comedians. Loriot. Dieter Hallervorden. Harald Junke. Heinz Becker. Ein Herz und eine Seele... to name just a few. But I agree when you go as far back as to the times of Heinz Erhardt, Heinz Rühmann or Hans Kraus...
@@TheCyberCore I absolutely agree regarding Loriot. The best we ever had.❤
We watched Hallervorden and Junke, too, but it really hurts if you watch them today. In my opinion, Monty Python is a completely other league. You can spend hours just exchanging hilarious quotes.
The curtains on the windows are very believable for a German restaurant from that time 😂
Johns german is actually very good for the most part, i am actually very surprised because a lot of the german in other sketches is absolut nonsense.
And Monty Python is a houshold name. You gotta have lived under a rock for 100 years to not have seen any. I can't tell if kids nowadays would necessarily know about them tho, as with all older stuff.
His german is a bit to strong pronounced, but very clear
@@renerieche6862 Yeah thought so too. The more complicated words seem recited from memory. He talks about it in "John Cleese’s German Lessons | CONAN on TBS". I think he doesn't really know much german, he is just very good at the accent and practised it very well. Er kann auf jeden mit nem Eierlöffel Fledermäuse killen.
Im 21 (do I still fall into to the kids these days category?) and nearly people my age or younger i know are familiar with monty python.
i am from bavaria - yes bavaria - and i always thought this is a documentary.
😅😅
I as a german can only say: Monty Python was a gift to the world! Absolutely unreached. Love them!
Monty Python made two episodes of "The flying circus" completely in German. A former talkmaster called Alfred Biolek was the one who convinced them to do it. But as far as I can tell those episodes are lost unfortunately.
MP hooked me when I was 9. The first contact was the movie (German audio) Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The German title: Die Ritter der Kokosnuss (The knights of the coconut)
The Black Knight got me: "Just a flesh wound!"
I own at least one of them, maybe both.
The german episodes are easily avaible on DVD in germany. If you are from germqny, just search for the dvd from "PIDAX" called "Monthy Python's Fliegender Zirkus"
Talkmaster? Ist's this called Host?
@@brittakriep2938 You are right. I mixed it up a little bit. Talkmaster is the "D-English" word for host.
Just like the German word for "diet"-products: "light".
@@BernieUndErt : I know, that Showmaster is unknown to native english speakers, but Talkmaster, i was unsure.
the portraying of bavarians seems to be accurate for me as a North-East german :D
As a bavarian i can confirm: This is exactly how our waiters behave.
John Cleese is top notch. His German is very good.
I was really impressed of his appearance on the German LOL show. Even the participants of LOL were shocked about his german.
I watched my first episode of MP Flying Circus when I was 11 years old, back in 1992. Didn't know a lot of english at this time, just a few chunks. But to fully understand the MP humor made me want to learn english as fast as possible. Until now I am a huge fan. Besides Monty Python influenced my humor as an adult, they made me look at life as a whole from a different perspective. "Always look at the bright side of life", see the funny things even in sad, catastrophic times. In retroperspective this made my life so much easier and more fun to be on this planet. I am so thankful from the deep of my heart, to have got to know them in such a formative time of my live.
Greetings from Berlin
Same here. Kann ich so unterschreiben. Lief 92 im NDR und hatte danach einen größeren Wortschatz als meine Englischlehrerin. 😂
This is 100% authentic. That's how it always goes in Bavarian restaurants. :D
It's nothing that would ever happen in a german restaurant, not only the greatly exaggerated stuff but also the small things. But it's over top, so Monty Python as we know and love them 😘
Brits and germans share their love for black humour, so Monty Python will always have a place in our hearts ❤️
I love Monty Python and this is spot on! This is exactly what eating at a Bavarian restaurant looks like 😂
But jokes aside, the German is very good. Usually when you hear German e.g. in American TV it's mostly gibberish.
Here you can see they put a lot of effort in it.
SPAM, the most deadly joke and the dead parrot are by far my favourite Monty Python sketches.
This is EXACTLY what you will expirience in a typical babarian restaurant! 100% on point!!
i love monty python... i got everything from them.. books, films, flying circus... and im not mad at all at them making fun of us germans^^ to your questions: schuhplatteln is very common in bavarian tradition, the place looks authentic, just missing a few dead dearheads and a hug cross... and cleeses german is brilliant^^
Really love your content, mate ...
I have to say, I'm really impressed by the german skills of John Cleese. Yes he has an ( not to strong) accent, but its very easy to understand him and he also speaks pretty fluently in this sketch.
It's actually really in Bavaria. Monty Python filmed some sketches in Germany because they were so popular.
John Cleese's German is very good.
And "The Ministry of Silly Walks" and the "Dead Parrot" are legendary.
Never saw this particular sketch of the Pythons and I very much applaud the massive effort to play this sketch in German. And as a 'Sau-Preuss', as I (non-Bavarian) would be called in Bavaria, this sketch made me die... xD Let alone this accordeon playing 'Mir san die lustigen Holzhacker-Buam'... xD xD xD Although I'd say that the menu could have been a little more precise... In a real Bavarian restaurant you'd never hear words like 'sauté' or something... xD But that's moaning on a high level... It was hilarious regardless xD
I think that this was part of the joke. The restaurant didn't seem as German as it pretended to be in many places but the Americans didn't care 😄
Monty Python was discovered an introduced to Germany by late TV icon Alfred Biolek. He asked the Pythons to produce two exclusive sketches for his show. I wasn't much for his usual audience, but some liked it nevertheless and this was the start of MP's fame in Germany. The Holy Grail was even broadcastet by the rather serious an square state media. Hard tp pick a favourite sketch, but I believe I'm one of the few who think The Meaning of Life is their best film :).
I am from northern Germany and thats how I imagine Bavaria, too, hahahahaha
John Cleese's German is really good! Just recently he had a cameo at a german TV Show and spoke German.
I love every Monty Python movie and sketch I've seen and there were a lot of them, possibly all of them.
My favorite is and remains 'The Life of Brian', closely followed by 'The Knights of the Coconut' (origin. 'Holy Grail'). cheers
I'm a Scot who's been living in Germany for 20 years and John Cleese's accent is way better than mine. His spoken German is perfect. He is actually saying in German what the subtitles show.
Monty Python is very well known in Germany for "Life of Brian" and "Quest for the Holy Grail", but not too many people are familiar with the Flying Circus or "Meaning of Life".
I've always liked those movies as a teen in the 90's, but I only learned to really appreciate their humour when I watched the original version, because the people doing the German dub made up about 70% of the jokes themselves.
So if you're a fellow German and only know the dub let me assure you: You don't actually know Monty Python yet - they're WAY funnier than you think!
Oh wow. John Cleese's pronunciation of German words is pretty good. 👍 Greetings from a German ;)
Of course our trees are made out of wood, we also have re-carve them every late autumn again and again.. 😅
John Cleeses german is Amazing- First time i See this sketch, its hilarius❤
I love Monty Python! They're on spot 😆
The accent of John Cleese is surprisingly good
Oh so what original german, I love it, especially when they get thrown out of the windows, so much fun, we (bavarian here) like to do that, and they ALWAYS come back and love to pay the bills. Excellent comedian, well, maybe they should do some really funny like the life of brian (THIS is really good) etc.
This was filmed in an actual restaurant in Munich...so yes, this is pretty accurate ;-)
The German is pretty good for non-natives! I can understand everything but the accent is strong in this one.
The restaurant's look is probably fairly accurate for a decade or three ago.
The humour is just amazing! I mean, the surreal part should be quite discernable.
Cleeses pronounciation is actually pretty good!
As a native Bavarian, I agree with the story 100%. This is exactly how we live every day. At least that's what the rest of Germany thinks of us. Come and take a look yourself
Danke an Alfred Biolek, dass er diese beiden Folgen "Monty Python's fliegender Zirkus" produziert hat.
Und er hat dem deutschen Publikum Kate Bush zugeführt.
Er war ein toller Mann im deutschen Fernsehen.
Biolek war das!? Mega! Danke für den Schnipsel wissen :)
Reminds me of the man ministry of strange walks or however that scratch was called. Monty python really is just great
My favorite episode is ‘The Germans’ from Fawlty Towers, which is not Monty Python, but as it was written by John Cleese, it is pythonesque enough for me.
Is it accurate Bavarian? No, it is accurate Monty Python. We loooove Monty Python.
Wait. Comedy? I'm Bavarian and I can absolutely guarantee you, that this is how we still do the things in our very traditional restaurants. I love the slapping with the menu, because not many people know but: if you dodge it, you get a free bottle of lager. Cheers. Sers.
Absolutely! I only missed the usual pig slaughter at your table to the sound of the standard yodel choir.
Monty Python is a Boomer thing, young people usually are not into it. The restaurant doesn’t look stereotypical, further out in the countryside there are still some looking exactly like this, I’ve been in one recently, so spot-on. Wine? No, it must be beer, the wine - if served at all - usually is awful. They rarely offer wine, they usually are giving you “the look” if you are not ordering beer. And “Jenseits von Gut und Böse” can have both meanings, good and evil, so be prepared - no joke. The music, spot-on, not necessarily true Bavarian music in the sketch, but be prepared to occasionally be tortured by similar music, even in Munich. Clothing, too, spot-on, particularly John Cleese. The making fun of the Americans is unveiling the “we do not really like people from outside of our village” thinking, so this will hit Germans as well. Most important, do not order anything else than the traditional dishes if you are in a standard countryside restaurant - anything beyond the obvious usually is not that nicely cooked or even crap. Make yourself familiar with Schweinshaxe, Weisswurst, Obazta, Leberkäs, Kartoffelknödel, and such, these usually are really delicious - this is the food you want to order. Vegans and vegetarians often will have a hard time finding anything and the smell in the restaurant is the one of cooked meat and beer. Expect some austere behavior, not only from the waitresses and waiters, the restaurant owners, too, can act rather brash - towards everybody, even to the locals (in this case, it often is show). Do not get surprised seeing the kids of the restaurant owners doing the homework on the table next to yours and serving the dishes the minute later. However, it is much entertaining, and it is absolutely honest. And sometimes you will sit in a restaurant with an adjacent brewery, then you can buy their best beers right away anytime. Adventurous and interesting but certainly not for the easily offended. (I expect some harsh words from my Bavarian friends 😉 )
I have the opposite impression. People older than 50 rarely know any Python quotes. The Pythons grow and grow more popularity over the generations. Thanks to grown media literacy and tons of Monty Python memes in social media.
It's total hilarious and absolutely funny. 😂 John Cleese's German speaking is really good and accurate. 👍🏼
And we love love love Monty Python here in Germany since decades. ❤️ If you quote just a sentence from the Movie "Life of Brian" at least every second person here started to referate the hole Movie (in the German Synchronisation of course) , we can't help or stop us then anyway. 😉😁
For me it would be a sacrilege and a horror to watch Monty Python dubbed. You don't do that! And yes, I am German...
@@Denara1 It's a freedom choice for everyone. And if you see for example your first Monty Python Movie in the year of six or seven years old, as an German Kid, then it's more than comprehensible to see it dubbed! By the way, in my opinion the German Synchronization Studios are counting to the best of the world. Not a surprise, that a lot of international Movie Stars around the world, likes and sometimes prefer their German Actors who translate them. ☮️
And please do me a favor and take distance to tell someone or anyone what to "do" or "don't". Thank you. Have a nice day.
Life of brian, best work ever
Have you seen the 20k Bikers, driving by a cancer kids house, for his last whish? The Event was called "krach für kevin" i gues. A 3,5h long hard core biker Parade.
Dear Lord... Confuse the natives... And don't forget! This was recorded over 50 years ago.
MONTY PYTHON IS THE HOLY GRAIL !!!!!
Can confirm: this is exactly how you will be served in any Bavarian restaurant.😂
This almost looks like a kind of revenge on the falwty towers episode "Don't mention the war", but it was aired some years earlier.
John Cleese's German is great. There is only a little bit of an accent, but he is one of the non-German actors who can speak German very good (if he wants to).
where i come from there are places like this. still today
I’m getting silly walk vibes from this one. 😂
But I have to admit, John Cleese sounds pretty convincing in German.
Monty Python's Flying Circus actually had at least one full german episode (done by the original cast themselves) - all other were dubbed extremely well. Yeah, Monty Python is very poular in the german speaking countires (Austria here)
It's a two parter. And at the time the other FC shows ran subbed on public broadcast. The (imho atrocious) dubs came later on private tv (sat1?). The movies on the other hand were dubbed VERY well (including wunderbare welt der schwerkraft), resulting in two different german versions of the "lumberjack" song, one from the movie, and one from these two episodes. the latter is hilarious, with Palin singing German and the choir being Germans.
The music is great. The people dancing down the stairs. It reminds me of "Musikantenstadl". (Write that down, thats something to react to)
Nooooo, please don't undergo the "Musikantenstadl" - it's embarrrassing as hell😵💫😵💫 even more unbearable than Schlagermusik😂
Monty Python are legendary. To me they are on top of the comedy Olymp, together with a handful of others. Unfortunately my children (Gen Z) don‘t seem to understand their humour anymore.
John Cleese’s accent is fantastic here. Of course you can tell he’s not German, and his accent could also definitely be a lot more Bavarian, but as always, you can tell that Cleese has put a lot of effort into this. I think if he sounded more Bavarian, people from outside of Germany might have difficulties to recognise it as German. So he probably went with "ordinary" German for a reason. Although he sounds a bit like a Saxon here sometimes 😄
The interior is quite authentic, especially back then, but also to this day.
What they showed, of course, are not Bavarian traditions (in the context of a restaurant) or food.
I would love to see you react to fawlty towers, the episode called don’t mention the war. Absolutely hilarious. Greetings from Germany
I´m just so glad it´s called the Bavarian restaurant sketch and not the German restaurant sketch. It´s so over the top, but really funny. John Cleese´s German is very good.
It's from 2 episodes shot in Germany for German public broadcast. Everything is either the Pythons parroting their own translated material or hired German (voice)actors for some scenes/voiceovers. Search for "Albrecht Dürer Monty Python". Sadly (but given the background for obvious reason) they aren't on the MP flying circus boxset, but sold separately as "fliegender Zirkus" (for instance here on youtube)
This parrot is dead...... 😂
I love Monty Python!
John Cleese probably had a good language trainer, or a good ear for languages in general. His German is relatively accentless, his pronunciation is very good. You hear that he doesn't speak German, because sometimes the sentences are very strange, but otherwise he could have lived here for several years.
And no, I'm from northern Germany, but apart from the appearance of the place, the music (and a crazy allusion to the dance "Schuhplattler") 😢, it has just as little to do with Bavarian restaurants as wild boar in mint sauce has to do with British ones.
Or as Obelix says, the British are crazy.
i am german, i love python. he is a hero to me. bavaria is very weird in his own lovely atmosphere but this traumatized me xD
Have never seen this bit, it's hilarious! This is as much Bavaria as "The Sound of Music" is Austria, as in: not at all.
I lived in Munich for a time. That's actually an accurate satire of their made up traditions. Sadly, even contemporary inhabitants of Munich believe some of that strange behavior is handed down.
John Cleese actually speaks german very well...
I am a teacher and recently wanted to talk to students about Monty Python, but only one person in the current year 12 class knew it. It's a bit too old for most of them.
John Cleese's German pronunciation is very easy to understand, but he has a distinct British dialect. It's a shame that he speaks High German - that wouldn't really happen in Bavaria, where the Bavarian identity counts more than the German identity for most people. A bit like Texas.
Since I am from the north sea I don't know if this is accurate, but I am pretty sure it's not. You will never meet a bavarian who speaks high german this good 😂
I am very impressed by John Cleese's pronounciation. That is sooo much better than some wannabe "German" in American media. Not sure if he actually speaks some German or if he had a fantastic coach.
Unfortunately the Bavarians changed their tradition of having wooden trees. But all the other traditions remain the same. Always worth to go to s traditional Bavarian restaurant
Please, is there any Bavarian in the comments who could provide him with the more accurate version? Like "setz di nieder und halt dei Gosch"? 😉
I didnt know this scetch. But i do know oft the one with Albrecht dürer( and the rest of that episode)
John Cleese really speaks German.
Yes, this is pretty authentic. They wouldn't serve Beck's aka Schweinewasser in Bavaria though.
Cleeses pronounciation is good, he is obviously well trained. Only from the wording you can hear sometimes that not a german has written it. But they still uses many real german phrases 👏👏👏
It was written in English first and then was translated by a German.
Well it is a bit like you have Morris dancing in an British restaurant
100% accurate! Even the music! Prost from bavaria!
John Cleese's German is pretty good actually
2:07 😂you know the answer.
John’s accent sounds quite good. Not Bavarian, though.
The room looks accurate for the time.
This is an excerpt from "Monty Pythons Fliegender Zirkus", a one-off show Monty Python made for German TV, in German, and in Germany. It also features some German translations of well known Flying Circus stuff, such as the "Lumberjack Song". However, that translation is not impressive. The original sketches of the show are better.
Moin!!! Belive me😊We all know Mr. Sorry Sir John Cleese❤😂😂🎉Greetings from goood old Germany
Their german is really excellent!
Monty Python? I love The life of Brian oder Ritter der Kokusnuss!
Everyone lovees the life of Bryan here :D
Love them
Such funny satire. So true, a few Americans really see the state of Bavaria as representing the whole of Germany.😅
There is a controversial german law called "dance ban", that forbids public entertainment events on good friday. As a protest against this law Monty Pythons Life of Brian is often publicly shown on good friday at some places in Germany
3:00 you are absolutely right. John Cleese's accent is recognizable, but it is nevertheless good German. And the guests are easily idientifiable as Americans.
However, the grammar is already wrong in the title of the original video. "(ein) Bayrisches Restaurant", but "das Bayrische Restaurant"...
I love MP. I would suggest a funny old BBC series: "'Allo, 'Allo!"
If you like this one, you should look into "Günther Grünwald - Erlebnisgastronomie". It was inspired by this original.
Cleese appears to be speaking Standard German and not the Bavarian type of German heard regionally in Bavaria.
Well, a waiter in a Bavarian restaurant probably wouldn't address foreign customers in the local variety of German either.
British comedy about Germany is .... fantastic. I say that as a German. The British sense of humour is so much better than the German one (though I think our satire is probably the best in the world).
John Cleeses German is quite good indeed. Of course it's obvious he's not a native speaker but nevertheless it's very good. He simply is a legend!
Monty Python -> the Knights who always say "Ni!" (Die Ritter die immer "Nie" sagen)
Perfect! I love Monty Python. if you want to hear some Germans speak like in this sketch, you only have to visit an actual "Volksmusik-Show". 🙃
A Bavarian would never talk about “Bavaria”. The innkeeper speaks German best of all. The only other thing that's right is the music, but Bavarians in particular are friendlier to their guests than the rest of Germany. I even think they are the friendliest and warmest. I say this as a Berliner. Foreigners think we are so unfriendly because they are always so "put up" with strangers and are not genuinely friendly in order to get more tips. In Germany, waiters are paid reasonably and are not necessarily dependent on tips. But I've experienced very few really unfriendly waitresses, who of course don't get a tip.
its shockingly agressive
der schuhplattler ha ha.
There is so much love to details :)
An yes indeed: Typical old fashioned Restaurants look ''exactly'' like this one: ' Goldene Post' , ' zum Lamm' , 'Ratskeller' , 'zum Löwen' ... South of the River Main (south of Frankfurt) this culture can be found more and more often - of course especially in Franken, Oberpfalz... (I must take care, not only to say Bavaria:) and over the Alps incl. Tirol, Austria...
When there was an economy crisis in Japan, their tourism-offices shortened the Europe tours for lower prices - since then, the Japanese had to eat their 'Bavarian Schweinshaxe' at the Loreley-Mountain ca. south of Cologne at the river Rhein :)
The link here fits perfectly to your video :) ua-cam.com/video/fOBVCGRYCyE/v-deo.html
It would have been much more realistic if it had been a date between brother and sister.