Danny Kaye - "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle" - The Court Jester (1955)

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  • From The Court Jester (1955).
    The Court Jester is a 1956 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The movie was co-written, co-directed, and co-produced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. The film was released by Paramount Pictures in Technicolor and in the VistaVision widescreen format.
    Danny Kaye received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical.
    Made for a cost of $4 million in the fall of 1955, it was the most expensive comedy film produced at the time. The motion picture bombed at the box-office on its release, bringing in only $2.2 million in receipts the following winter and spring of 1956.[4] Since then, it has become a television matinee favorite. The film contains the famous exchanges: "Get it?" "Got it." "Good!" and "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!" (mainly between Kaye and Mildred Natwick as Griselda).
    In 2004, The Court Jester was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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  • @StephBer1
    @StephBer1 2 роки тому +212

    We showed this to our kids when they were young. They loved it so much that they show all their friends in their 20s and they love it too. No generational gap for sheer comedy genius.

    • @Zugfaehrtdurch
      @Zugfaehrtdurch Рік тому +7

      Absolutely timeless. I liked the scene in Star Trek Enterprise when the alien doctor was laughing about that scene in the 2150s 🙂 I am sure people will still show this to their kids in 100 200, 500 years and so on.

  • @spacepunk2001
    @spacepunk2001 Рік тому +35

    Lets give props to Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, the writing geniuses behind The Court Jester--and no question, every single one of these actors is beyond brilliant.

  • @IHADTHECAKE
    @IHADTHECAKE 3 роки тому +116

    The "you fight him" quip on the side, just shows how quick kaye was.

    • @OrangeDog20
      @OrangeDog20 Рік тому +5

      It was in the script...

    • @spacepunk2001
      @spacepunk2001 Рік тому +6

      @@OrangeDog20 Kaye Crosby and Hope did ad libs that made it into certain films. Either way, his delivery is genius because it sure seems like he is ad libbing.

    • @OrangeDog20
      @OrangeDog20 Рік тому +4

      @@spacepunk2001 that's called acting

    • @beta_cygni1950
      @beta_cygni1950 7 місяців тому

      ​@@OrangeDog20-> an insufferable 🤡

  • @JAProductions494
    @JAProductions494 Рік тому +36

    I swear, the final 20 minutes of this film from this scene onwards is just literal perfection
    I genuinely can’t fault any of it

  • @amberiasmithsonian4107
    @amberiasmithsonian4107 Рік тому +22

    My favorite scene of the whole movie, this whole movie had me rolling as a kid and still to this day

  • @grahamleadbeatter5981
    @grahamleadbeatter5981 Рік тому +48

    The mastery of Danny Kaye. No one else could have done such a great job.

  • @MisterSynyster
    @MisterSynyster 3 роки тому +41

    I love that in the end, it DID NOT matter at all

  • @MonteLeeMyPOV
    @MonteLeeMyPOV 2 роки тому +62

    Laughed at 8 and laughing now at 54! Timeless. My sides hurt from this whole scene with the magnets and the facial expressions. The way he wraps his arm around dude, when he gets it wrong>>>,LOL so awesome! Danny Kaye is the man!

  • @jillkjv3816
    @jillkjv3816 3 місяці тому +12

    Today's movies can't touch these classic films with a million foot pole. 😂

  • @netmoney7698
    @netmoney7698 Рік тому +24

    A lot of this wonderful scene should go to the writers. It is one of the most hilarious in classic movie history.

    • @Setmose
      @Setmose Рік тому

      His wife Sylvia Fine wrote much of his best material, including the Chalice from the Palace word-play.

  • @garrywood5345
    @garrywood5345 3 роки тому +49

    Super Memorable Scene...One of my All time favourites..Kaye was Impressive.

  • @tiffsaver
    @tiffsaver 3 роки тому +63

    I laughed so hard at this movie, I almost peed in my pants. Get it? Got it. GOOD!!

    • @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
      @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker Рік тому +3

      The pants that are dripping is the comedy that is clicking. But the thighs that are dry means the humor’s gone awry.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Рік тому

      @@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
      LOVE IT!!!

  • @riffmagos
    @riffmagos 2 роки тому +18

    I once worked at the university library's loans department back in the 90's. By the time I was finished, I had the entire department trying to remember this. :)

    • @Nave0791
      @Nave0791 2 роки тому +5

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962

    Wonderful. One of the great comedy scenes in film history. Never forget it. Also, the scene in the film where the witch hypnotises him and at every inadvertent snap of various people's fingers he becomes alternately a fearless sword fighter and then instantly, back and forth, a snivelling coward. Superb.

  • @ianbentley7276
    @ianbentley7276 3 роки тому +32

    Angela Lansbury with the green headscarf, still with us 65 years on.

    • @martind349
      @martind349 3 роки тому +1

      She was beautiful, years and years ago

    • @dangelo1369
      @dangelo1369 3 роки тому +7

      So is Glynnis Johns (In the red) at 97 years old.

    • @ianbentley7276
      @ianbentley7276 3 роки тому +2

      @@dangelo1369 oh yes of course.

    • @theblackbaron4119
      @theblackbaron4119 2 роки тому

      Wait what that was actually Angela Lansbury O.o damn.

    • @ariaflame-au
      @ariaflame-au Рік тому +6

      @@theblackbaron4119 And now she has left us.

  • @katherinefreymuth2030
    @katherinefreymuth2030 Рік тому +40

    I get this scene in my head every time someone buys a pallet of pellets at work. 😂 Love it!

    • @vinnynj78
      @vinnynj78 Рік тому +3

      The pallet with the pellets?

    • @katherinefreymuth2030
      @katherinefreymuth2030 Рік тому +2

      @@vinnynj78 We sell pellets for wood stoves. They are sold by the bag but you can get a whole pallet of them for a discount. So I often am asking one of the forklift drivers to load a pallet of pellets into a customer's truck.

    • @beckymurphy4714
      @beckymurphy4714 Рік тому +3

      I tried to quote this to a coworker yesterday, and he totally had no idea what I was taking about. "The pellet pallet is empty. Or is that the dragon with the flagon?"

  • @kerry5586
    @kerry5586 2 роки тому +20

    This is the best scene in any film ever! I just love Danny Kaye and he is at his best here.

    • @drumbum3.142
      @drumbum3.142 Рік тому

      😂😂😂😂
      I'll Give Equality and a Temporary lapse to Ya for flip flubbing the maliced true and the Palace brew, too ..
      Ok. So there are None whatsoever that are Superior. But there's a fair Wheel Barrow load that is (EVERY bit) AS Lovely👊

  • @13wolfy13
    @13wolfy13 3 роки тому +78

    When I was a kid, my sister and I would repeat this to eachother back and forth just trying to memorize it. It's a fun tongue twister.

    • @ianbentley7276
      @ianbentley7276 3 роки тому +1

      just a tad lo
      l

    • @megasquirrel7944
      @megasquirrel7944 3 роки тому +5

      That would have driven your parents nuts.

    • @13wolfy13
      @13wolfy13 3 роки тому +8

      @@megasquirrel7944 Probably. But my mother would jump in from time to time and join.

  • @janslavik5284
    @janslavik5284 3 роки тому +33

    So this is what the "Candle with the Handle on the Gateau from the Chateau" scene from Allo Allo was referencing!

    • @justwaiting5744
      @justwaiting5744 Рік тому +2

      "Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once..."

  • @richmarsh5029
    @richmarsh5029 3 роки тому +12

    Brilliant... The good old days

  • @robpelarde4734
    @robpelarde4734 Рік тому +5

    One of my favorite Danny Kaye routine, a genius

  • @donna30044
    @donna30044 2 роки тому +11

    Our parents took us to see this at the movie theater when I was about 7 years of age.
    There was a lot that went over my head, but I remember enjoying it immensely.
    When I saw it again years later, I enjoyed it so much more. It's still one of my favorite movies.

  • @somebodysnobody
    @somebodysnobody 2 роки тому +9

    I've never watched Danny Kaye & not laughed. I've seen this more times than I've had a Sunday roast & it still gets me rolling on the floor🤤

  • @stravinsky1300
    @stravinsky1300 Рік тому +6

    The TV show Bones has an episode titled "The Girl with the Curl", and that title always reminds me of this!
    The girl with the curl who is standing on the landing put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle!

  • @msgigirogers1559
    @msgigirogers1559 3 роки тому +12

    Happy Birthday Danny!!!! 😍🤩😎

  • @lauriej.5706
    @lauriej.5706 3 роки тому +37

    By the time Danny Kaye has recited this rhyme, those words are so sliced and diced they won't even fit back into the dictionary. A truly great performance.

  • @kbrodeur
    @kbrodeur Рік тому +4

    incredible actor and team in this - everyone

  • @Tinhamodic
    @Tinhamodic Рік тому +6

    To this day I still remember and quote his, "Get it, got it, good"

    • @akela08
      @akela08 11 місяців тому +1

      Me too! Used to teach my Cub Scouts and then crack up!

  • @ilhamh4359
    @ilhamh4359 3 роки тому +14

    Modern comedies don't compare with a classic like this one. 🤣

  • @Zeresrail
    @Zeresrail 3 роки тому +9

    So I just saw this movie randomly. It was on the open TV. I started watching around the point he is sent on the mission. And my god, I was laughing my ass off. The movie holds on extremely well. Caught me completely by surprise

  • @vmobile890
    @vmobile890 Рік тому +2

    For all of those that laugh with tears it helps us to stay young .

  • @Flipnred78
    @Flipnred78 2 роки тому +3

    Sunday afternoons after church good memories good times good movies

  • @grahamtrezise1114
    @grahamtrezise1114 2 роки тому +13

    I never get tired of watching this, it gets a chuckle out of me every time..

  • @Spacetwerp
    @Spacetwerp 7 місяців тому +1

    What a cast too! The wordplay mastery, the slapstick, Danny, Mildred, the recently departed Glynis Johns et al. What's not to like?😊 ❤

  • @NoPowerintheVerse
    @NoPowerintheVerse Рік тому +11

    As much as I’ve always loved this scene, the pellet with the poisons in the vessel with the pestle, which means when the chalice from the palace was broken the poison was still in the vessel with the pestle, so the flagon with the dragon should have been fine. 😂

    • @Avathreyn
      @Avathreyn 8 місяців тому +3

      Unless they drop the tray that had both cups. Then the chalice from the palace would have been broken and the vessel with the pestle would have had its contents spilled and need to be refilled.

  • @Nina5144
    @Nina5144 2 роки тому +8

    This is so funny- they broke the challis with the palace! Cecil Parker and wonderful Glynis Johns.

    • @NostalgicGamerRickOShay
      @NostalgicGamerRickOShay 2 роки тому +2

      If they broke the challis from the palace that had the brew that is true, then why did they pour the vessel with the pestle with the pellet with the poison into the flagon with the dragon? Why not just keep the vessel with the pestle with the pellet with the poison and pour the fresh brew that is true into the flagon with the dragon?

  • @johnlee4249
    @johnlee4249 Рік тому +3

    Love it, the 1st time I saw this as a child I laughed so hard, I had sore ribs for the next 3 days. This never get's old.

  • @jimjimmyjames59
    @jimjimmyjames59 Рік тому +6

    Yes, Danny Kaye makes this movie, but Mildred Natwick and Glynis Johns are perfect scene partners here. I wonder how many times the crew cracked up.

  • @skyborne80
    @skyborne80 Рік тому +2

    This just never gets old!

  • @cherbert359
    @cherbert359 Рік тому +2

    This is one of the greatest movie of all time

  • @HOTTIUSMAXIMUS
    @HOTTIUSMAXIMUS 3 роки тому +11

    They all obviously are having fun with this

  • @Zugfaehrtdurch
    @Zugfaehrtdurch Рік тому +6

    Being in that movie seems to have been a longevity treatment. Angela Lansbury became 96, Mildred Natwick 89, Herbert Rudley 96, Edward Ashley-Cooper 93, Michael Pate 88 and Glynis Johns is still alive, waiting for her 100th birthday party in October 🙂

    • @karlkarlos3545
      @karlkarlos3545 Рік тому

      Aw Glynis Johns was the mother in Mary Poppins. I didn't even know this.

    • @RJSRdg
      @RJSRdg Рік тому +1

      But poor old Danny Kaye only made it to 76!

  • @redx1708
    @redx1708 10 місяців тому +1

    May well have been his funniest movie and "Get it, got it, good", lives to this day 🤣

  • @MicahB98
    @MicahB98 Рік тому +2

    I’m 24 and i grew up watching this movie, and we quote this scene all the time. We actually watch this movie during times we all are together, and we all reminisce haha love Danny

  • @countryhousediary
    @countryhousediary 7 місяців тому +1

    RIP to a very charming and versatile actress. Love the original "Mary Poppins" and "While You Were Sleeping" with Sandra Bullock. Then there is this scene in "The Court Jester" - the memorable 'pestle in the vessel". A true fun project for any age to memorize and recite. 🌹🌹🌹

  • @damotclesemuchly8690
    @damotclesemuchly8690 2 роки тому +3

    :) I remember this skit from decades ago, one of the more memorial skits. :)

  • @Dragonfly-0010
    @Dragonfly-0010 9 місяців тому +1

    This used to be on weekend Australian tv numerous times when I was younger and I thought it was the funniest scene ever. The magnetic armour was just as funny as the pellet with the poison routine.

  • @theblackbaron4119
    @theblackbaron4119 2 роки тому +11

    This is one of the scenes I've seen like 30 years ago and it is still stuck in my mind. :')

  • @stanmyler9037
    @stanmyler9037 2 роки тому +4

    This guy use to crack me up so much, had to end up wearing a corset to keep my sides from splitting in keeping with watching his flicks.
    :)

  • @RachelMills
    @RachelMills 2 роки тому +8

    Please, someone on etsy make me a vessel with a pestle, a chalice from the palace and a flagon with a dragon. I will buy a whole set.

  • @highlanderNC-mr8fe
    @highlanderNC-mr8fe 8 місяців тому +1

    One of the funniest men ever. Love Danny Kaye

  • @williamhaynes4800
    @williamhaynes4800 Рік тому +2

    Still funny after all these years 🤣.

  • @robyngolden-hann3407
    @robyngolden-hann3407 Рік тому +1

    Genius! Nearly every time I have to handle a chalice...this scene goes through my mind!

  • @nikinewton7917
    @nikinewton7917 Рік тому +1

    I love it. I laugh my head off. To memorize it is immense, wonderful to see...

  • @markburgess4528
    @markburgess4528 11 місяців тому +2

    The actors were incredible in this scene. It must of been so had to do at that speed.

  • @luishumbertovega3900
    @luishumbertovega3900 10 місяців тому +1

    Happy 100 years young, Miss Glynis Johns !!! 🎂

  • @andrinaanderson8789
    @andrinaanderson8789 Рік тому +1

    I laughed at this when I was really young and still do.

  • @MFTU268
    @MFTU268 5 місяців тому

    I am sooo cheered up watching this wonderful actor😂 We LOVED him as kids🎉

  • @christopherbee7223
    @christopherbee7223 4 місяці тому +1

    Just Genius!

  • @simonanders5676
    @simonanders5676 6 місяців тому

    Well then...you fight him.?...brilliant.....ive never forgotten this scene...ever since an 8 year old..i cant stop watching this scene...no sexuality, no crass....just true comedy...its memorable, addictive and clever....true talent....the chalice with flagon , the brew with pestle and the chalice at the palace.....and has a place within my heart and memory....amazing that its stayed within me....clever that i still watch & laugh...❤

  • @ringwoodwood
    @ringwoodwood 7 місяців тому +1

    Classic!

  • @Peepkeeper
    @Peepkeeper 9 місяців тому

    This movie is in our top 5 favorite of all time.

  • @johndrewry2211
    @johndrewry2211 Рік тому +2

    damn..... even I forgot which one the poison was in 😂😂

  • @trinitytwo14992
    @trinitytwo14992 2 роки тому +36

    This is real comedy, clever, ageless. Not the viscious and vulgar stuff they put out now.

    • @MeepChangeling
      @MeepChangeling 2 роки тому +3

      What if I told you that both things are real comedy? That not everything is to your taste, nor should it be.

    • @trinitytwo14992
      @trinitytwo14992 2 роки тому

      @@MeepChangeling sign of the times

    • @drumbum3.142
      @drumbum3.142 Рік тому

      @@MeepChangeling
      There's a difference between Vulgar and Comedy, Meep Change.
      Sure, (just to Nice and swirl the waters up a bit) the likes of Archer and Happy! Are Comedy (I'll even give it to Ya, those are NOT Wholesome.). But its Comedy that has Graduated College and is still Edgy; all the while being (Somewhat) Intelligent, if not Intellectual ..
      the simpsons, beavis and derriere-head... uncut gems.. ..haven't even gotten out of fifth grade yet..
      (And if You'd Like, I Welcome going Deeper into this topic..

  • @kirsteenmcg390
    @kirsteenmcg390 7 місяців тому

    I loved this when I was shown as a kid in the 90s ❤.

  • @markcole1400
    @markcole1400 8 місяців тому

    I remember watching this as a small child, hilarious 😂.
    I even got my children on the vessel with the pestel, they loved it.
    58 now ans it still has me rolling with laughter 😂

  • @primokona
    @primokona 7 місяців тому +2

    You know the scene where they are riding along the ocean? that was shot in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. and I only noticed it after watching this masterpiece for the 10th time after just visiting Palos Verdes..

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi 2 роки тому +4

    Third base!

  • @thedirectorschair1054
    @thedirectorschair1054 3 роки тому +4

    Such a good routine it was reused in Allo Allo.

  • @lylesfredidog1507
    @lylesfredidog1507 3 роки тому +5

    The 'vessel with the pestle' is from Bob Hope's "Never Say Die" here on You Tube at the end, different words but same routine.

    • @drumbum3.142
      @drumbum3.142 Рік тому

      "Moses, Supposes. hisRose's, have Toeses.."☔

  • @fitzspike
    @fitzspike Рік тому +1

    My favorite character actor Mildred Natwick!

  • @michaelsmullen9891
    @michaelsmullen9891 2 роки тому

    Brilliant!

  • @1977ajax
    @1977ajax Рік тому +1

    Great stuff; liked it ever since I was a kid, but this time noticed a continuity failure at 1:25 - the spur has gone back to its starting place at "Get into your armour."

  • @ernestleong476
    @ernestleong476 4 роки тому +6

    Just remember that.

  • @billhaywood3503
    @billhaywood3503 10 місяців тому +3

    happy birthday Glynis John 100 today 10/6/23

  • @carinbarkhuijsen2188
    @carinbarkhuijsen2188 4 роки тому +2

    The best.

  • @snarflatful
    @snarflatful 2 місяці тому

    I feel sorry for people that have never seen this.

  • @70briareos
    @70briareos Рік тому

    CLASSIC!!!

  • @Linda-hs1lk
    @Linda-hs1lk 3 роки тому +2

    Young Angela Lansbury

  • @justintai8725
    @justintai8725 3 роки тому +7

    Is that the mother from Mary Poppins in red?

  • @hallson2917
    @hallson2917 7 місяців тому

    REST IN PEACE GLYNIS JOHNS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ and Danny of course

  • @jondunmore4268
    @jondunmore4268 2 роки тому +2

    ....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....... and after ALLLL that..... "There will BE NO TOAST!"....
    what the---?

  • @theodoreconstantini2548
    @theodoreconstantini2548 Рік тому

    This was hilarious.

  • @guyherman5764
    @guyherman5764 Рік тому

    So good :) Fun :)

  • @alexandermorales4322
    @alexandermorales4322 Рік тому +1

    I used to think Dante Kaye took from Dick Van Dyke but I honestly believe that part of the reason I loved Van Dyke was because of Kaye’s influence on him

  • @melosic
    @melosic 3 роки тому +4

    Good job with the autogenerated CC.

  • @shinankoku2
    @shinankoku2 3 роки тому +8

    I mean ... how do you even write that in a script??

    • @GustavoFernandesKing
      @GustavoFernandesKing 2 роки тому

      probably you write the rhymes and tell the actor that he must no really remember it.

    • @MeepChangeling
      @MeepChangeling 2 роки тому

      You write an outline of the scene and tell the actors to improvise the lines, and shoot it a good 40 times, then pick the best takes to make the scene. Do... Do you not know how to movies?

    • @UnYin99
      @UnYin99 Рік тому

      @@MeepChangeling Not everyone does, no.

  • @KG-vr3te
    @KG-vr3te 4 роки тому +8

    Look its obliius, i mean its vobliius, its zimple, the watcher which is youtube has an oldtube which is poisoned, the new tube that has is never watched knows his new tube to be true.

  • @curlysue7906
    @curlysue7906 3 роки тому +3

    Still so gd🤣

  • @WorgenGrrl
    @WorgenGrrl 2 роки тому +2

    Ok...
    The Pellet with the Poison was in the Vessel with the Pestle
    The Chalice from the Palace had the "Brew that is True"
    But they broke the Chalice from the Palace
    So she said the pellet with the Poison is in the Flagon with the Dragon....
    Ergo....
    Both were Poisoned.

    • @jondunmore4268
      @jondunmore4268 2 роки тому +1

      I see your point, but I believe the old woman was GOING TO put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle, so she told him what "the plan" was. But when they broke the chalice from the palace and replaced it with the flagon with the dragon, she placed the pellet with the poison in that one instead (because I'm presuming it was easier to get it into a replacement flagon than try to infiltrate her way all the way to the knight's table), so the fat knight was going to drink the brew that was true in the end.

  • @J0stAn0therJ0hn
    @J0stAn0therJ0hn 2 роки тому +3

    How many takes must this have needed?

  • @Linda-hs1lk
    @Linda-hs1lk 3 роки тому +8

    After this scene they killed the writer, lol

  • @vondas9562
    @vondas9562 Рік тому

    cant wait to ask an esports expert about this film

  • @RJSRdg
    @RJSRdg Рік тому

    You wouldn't want to be poisoning anyone with Angela Lansbury in attendance!

  • @Flipnred78
    @Flipnred78 9 місяців тому

    Still hilarious all these years later after church movies priceless

  • @georgelionon9050
    @georgelionon9050 3 місяці тому

    The goblet that is scarlet has the poisons droplet, the cup with pup you sup.

  • @stephenkee2389
    @stephenkee2389 8 місяців тому +1

    I got it.. the poisly with the plasl is in the flagon with the pestle..

  • @victoriaannas2220
    @victoriaannas2220 Рік тому +2

    I fell in ❤" love- yes, heart love 💕 toward Danny Kaye when I was 5 yrs. young.
    It's innate.
    Love🎉 "poor mom... She was beside herself cuz " I was in love" ❣️

  • @jonathanmorgan1793
    @jonathanmorgan1793 9 місяців тому +2

    They just don't make like this anymore!!!

  • @FoxyAndariel
    @FoxyAndariel 2 роки тому +1

    Just a thought... When they broke the chalice from the palace and replaced it with a flagon with the figure of a dragon, did they remove the pellet with poison in the vessel with the pestle?
    or are both drinks now poisoned? :P

    • @MeepChangeling
      @MeepChangeling 2 роки тому +1

      My guess is they for some reason, poured the contents of the chalice from the place into the flagon with a dragon.