"My dear Mr. Cleese, I admire your vision, I truly do- but there are surely not enough pigs in the whole of London to feed the appetite of such an apartment." "That all rather depends, Chapman, on what one considers to be a pig."
You can definitely see elements of the later Basil Fawlty character in Cleese's architect. The short temper, the hatred of everyone else and the fact that both are is fuelled by jealousy in the case of his social uppers.
1:40 = As a civil engineer / project manager, who has employed architects for designing our gov't agency's very basic vehicle maintenance facilities, who then try to give us a way over designed complicated monument to themselves, this is so Spot On in the attitude they give us when we tell them to "KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid" = "Well you Engineer Cretins simply don't understand designing a building to fit into & harmonize with the built environment" blah blah blah. Cleese plays the Sniveling nose-in-the-air-in-utter-contempt attitude perfectly!!! And to think this was in the early 70's & my project management career spanned the 1990's - mid 2010's. Same as it always was . . . .
"...they're not meant to be luxury flats." "No I quite agree. I mean provided the tenants are of light build and are relatively sedentary." In other words, as long as the people don't weigh much or move around a lot. I think that was my favorite line of the whole skit. :)
Python only very mildly exaggerates how things really work, especially in the UK. OK. I'll withdraw that. It doesn't exaggerate at all. At present throughout the UK, schools and hospitals are in the process of collapsing because of cheap aerated concrete used in their construction. I wonder how many funny handshakes were involved in sealing those construction deals ? Yes, that'll do. Provided the occupants don't weigh too much and are relatively sedentary.......
The brilliance of this sketch is how the architects manage to simultaneously be shocked and indifferent to the over-the-top proposals and behavior of the artists. It just gets funnier as the sketch goes along.
Gotta love those gumbies!! The Pythons were so clever at adding them into a sketch to obtain the silliness effects or moving from one sketch to the next. Love it!!
It's a testament to Cleese that "None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows with this one!" is one of the least noticable lines in the whole scene.
TBot Alpha There's an XKCD about that ;) … :( Or at least, there was. I think I broke it, though in my defense, Munroe's IP security was surprisingly creative. You should complain to him about that.
Watch Eric's hands when he's talk, you can see him working the model :P I love this sketch (Cleese is great but then again when isn't he) but since I've noticed this I can't un-notice it
@travisandlisa1 Iove the fact and joy these guys love the flaws in the second architects model.AND that hand shake simply sooooo funny. Monty's model that had knives and place for the blood to run very revealing of the truth right in front of us once more. (The rituals performed within the illumiati) Powerful messages within this humor. Great posts. Monty is one of my fave's. Love to ALL and Laughter too.
Cleese's look of utter amazement at 1:29 is priceless. Like he's completely floored that a slaughterhouse was not expected. That and Palin's stodgy and impervious posture after Cleese's tirade at 2:43. I bet this idea came up from a brainstorm the Python's had about purely making fun of free masons.
AFAIK We only saw that outraged, abusive version of Cleese (@2:05) once in Monty Python, to be saved away and resurrected as Basil Fawlty. Happy to be proven wrong.
I cannot help but think of the tower blocks in Liverpool, 2 at one end of a rectangle overseeing an arterial road along which sit 4 three story houses of red brick opposed to 4 more high rises, the fourth of which sported 30 stories of double red line down to the ground I once saw.
"Are you proposing to slaughter our tenants?"
"Does that not fit in with your plans?"
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John Cleese is very good at insulting rants. Applause to him.
Cleese is terrifying and hilarious all in one when he goes on his maniacal tirades. How the others keep from losing their composure is beyond me.
"My dear Mr. Cleese, I admire your vision, I truly do- but there are surely not enough pigs in the whole of London to feed the appetite of such an apartment."
"That all rather depends, Chapman, on what one considers to be a pig."
You can definitely see elements of the later Basil Fawlty character in Cleese's architect. The short temper, the hatred of everyone else and the fact that both are is fuelled by jealousy in the case of his social uppers.
Mr. Wiggin later quit Ironside and Malone and got a job designing wedding halls for George R.R. Martin.
A documentary about the Grenfell tower fire brought me here.
i love how Cleese can go from 0 to 100 in a matter of seconds
1:40 = As a civil engineer / project manager, who has employed architects for designing our gov't agency's very basic vehicle maintenance facilities, who then try to give us a way over designed complicated monument to themselves, this is so Spot On in the attitude they give us when we tell them to "KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid" = "Well you Engineer Cretins simply don't understand designing a building to fit into & harmonize with the built environment" blah blah blah. Cleese plays the Sniveling nose-in-the-air-in-utter-contempt attitude perfectly!!! And to think this was in the early 70's & my project management career spanned the 1990's - mid 2010's. Same as it always was . . . .
"...they're not meant to be luxury flats."
"No I quite agree. I mean provided the tenants are of light build and are relatively sedentary." In other words, as long as the people don't weigh much or move around a lot. I think that was my favorite line of the whole skit. :)
Python only very mildly exaggerates how things really work, especially in the UK.
OK. I'll withdraw that. It doesn't exaggerate at all.
At present throughout the UK, schools and hospitals are in the process of collapsing because of cheap aerated concrete used in their construction.
I wonder how many funny handshakes were involved in sealing those construction deals ?
Yes, that'll do. Provided the occupants don't weigh too much and are relatively sedentary.......
At least they didn't install rotating knives. Be grateful for small mercies....
And that's how Grenfell was built.
2:05 what every architecture student thinks during a bad critique.
I love the lines "Are you preparing to slaughter our tenants? Does that not fit in with your plans?" So friggin funny.
If you look carefully, you can see Eric Idle working the controls to make the model fall apart and catch fire.
Nobody can rant quite like Cleese. Nobody. He can send his blood pressure to dangerous levels AT WILL, the friggin' genius.
YOU EXCREMENT!!
The brilliance of this sketch is how the architects manage to simultaneously be shocked and indifferent to the over-the-top proposals and behavior of the artists. It just gets funnier as the sketch goes along.
"Black-balling bastards" is my new favorite phrase.
Let's have a look at that handshake again in Slow Motion!
The 1st architect (Cleese) after his insulting rant still comes back begging to be let into the Masons. Priceless!!!
> I hadn't correctly divined your attitude towards your tenants
Actually, I suspect that you HAD.
The Simpsons Stonecutter commentary brought me here.
Gotta love those gumbies!! The Pythons were so clever at adding them into a sketch to obtain the silliness effects or moving from one sketch to the next. Love it!!
It's a testament to Cleese that "None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows with this one!" is one of the least noticable lines in the whole scene.
nobody does "angry" like John Cleese
:18 to :30 -- icebucketchallenge without the ice. Once again, Python's ahead of its time.
I just love Python- noone has ever reached this level of humor- they were just brilliant
Fry and Laurie surpassed them at times, in my opinion.
John Cleese shouting and swearing = pure poetry
One of their best sketches ever.
That second one, despite its serious flaws, would be a really awesome looking building.
How they thought of all this stuff is amazing. Nothing has ever made me laugh like Python does.
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS SKETCH FOR VERY LONG TIME! Thanks! :D
It strikes me funnybone. The vocabulary alone is priceless !
I lost it at “You excrement!” 😂
During Cleese's rant, Michael Palin is using every ounce of energy he has to not burst out laughing.
Absolutely wonderful pastiche of modern architecture. No comedy is/has been/ever will be this intelligent
John Cleese, the King of Insults
I love this sketch lol and the satire part lol !
I liked how Idle spoke the architectural jargon. Sounds like he did a bit of research.
@selfburningman
That's the one! Been looking for ages! Thank you so much! :D
This is awesome. YOU EXCREMENT!!! :D
John Cleese's rants are always awesome!
Calling all Python fans to our channel. We have a Parrot Sketch homage starring Batman and Robin. Let's make Python relevant to the youth again!
Or you could write your own original surrealist comedy instead of regurgitating the same tired decades-old jokes for the umpteen-billionth time.
TBot Alpha There's an XKCD about that ;)
… :( Or at least, there was. I think I broke it, though in my defense, Munroe's IP security was surprisingly creative. You should complain to him about that.
Dreadfully cynical, yet spot on.
Let's have a look at that handshake... lol.
I am a designer. I have reacted to clients like John Cleese and made presentations of my models like Eric Idle
did you have a construction company or did they all just magically build themsleves like the gilded age mansions?
@@seanp8220 ?
Brilliant
It's always going to be good when John starts shouting!
Of course the irony is that Mr Wiggin really did correctly divine their attitude toward the tenants.
One freemason absolutley loved it !
That rant was so epic even Cleese's face was turning red!
Calm down, Cleese! xD
Who the hell could dislike this? I mean, I do not understand how this could NOT be funny.
I lost it at the handshake. Then again at the instant replay.
Watch Eric's hands when he's talk, you can see him working the model :P
I love this sketch (Cleese is great but then again when isn't he) but since I've noticed this I can't un-notice it
Bleedin` masonic handshakes!
I Love when Cleese "turns" at 2:12! LOL!
I just realized that this bit is basically the entire plot to Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
an all time fav. XD
Tony Jacklin golf clubs.....LOL, just brilliant.
I can imagine Basil turning Fawlty Towers into a slaughterhouse.
This character is very like Basil, actually.
Haha the handshake!!
I love how, between 2:04 - 2:42, Cleese's face gets redder and redder! Love this scene so much :D
there's nothin funnier then John Cleese when he completely loses it
Ahahahahah! My building is being refurbished right now. Hope they won't be installing any rotating knives and blood draining chutes! LOL
Indeed, that is what makes them amazing, the world is simple not ready even today...
@travisandlisa1 Iove the fact and joy these guys love the flaws in the second architects model.AND that hand shake simply sooooo funny. Monty's model that had knives and place for the blood to run very revealing of the truth right in front of us once more. (The rituals performed within the illumiati) Powerful messages within this humor. Great posts. Monty is one of my fave's. Love to ALL and Laughter too.
its not the only one that caught on fire but its first ever to supposedly collapse from fire ever
Cleese's look of utter amazement at 1:29 is priceless. Like he's completely floored that a slaughterhouse was not expected. That and Palin's stodgy and impervious posture after Cleese's tirade at 2:43. I bet this idea came up from a brainstorm the Python's had about purely making fun of free masons.
"...sitting on your spotty arses, squeezing blackheads..." Classic Cleese.
Michael Palin had to spend every ouch of energy he had to not burst out laughing...
I read the Fountainhead all too recently, and this shit just seems too apropos.
Because part of their satire is satirizing the conventions of satire.
hahahaha the handshake at the end
"... the last 20 feet are heavily soundproofed."
Brilliance.
AFAIK We only saw that outraged, abusive version of Cleese (@2:05) once in Monty Python, to be saved away and resurrected as Basil Fawlty.
Happy to be proven wrong.
Well, there is the man who contorts himself hating Commies…
"We're sorry you feel like that . . .".
i'm so gunna use this on my next client😂
I love how Cleese "turns" at 2:19!
2:19
This is the BEST "F" OFF speech ever made !
Cleese is at his best here !
Trevor Moore's favorite Monty Python sketch. :D
I was actually just watching the Village Idiot, then just randomly selected to watch this one next, not knowing it was the continuation.
that explains why i always see him shouting on some Python shorts, and in the pink panther 2!!!!
I like that he mentioned the freemasons XD
Mike's look @ 2:42 is just perfect.
2:42
It's still hilarious without knowing the context. But knowing it now helps it be appreciated better. Either way Cleese's rant was beautiful XD
this video was made on my birthday XD
3:44 he clicks the button on the top of the building, lol XD
"You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds, squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss about the struggling artist... YOU EXCREMENT!"
Cleese's character seems to have been reading "The Fountainhead..."
I cannot help but think of the tower blocks in Liverpool, 2 at one end of a rectangle overseeing an arterial road along which sit 4 three story houses of red brick opposed to 4 more high rises, the fourth of which sported 30 stories of double red line down to the ground I once saw.
It's so unique how his tirade is all done in one take. As if he wasn't even acting
Nobody can throw temper tantrums like Cleese. (Restarant Sketch)
A property manager's dream...luxury slaughterhouses.
Trevor Moore's favorite monty python sketch...rightfully so.
quite right - def similar design but I think that was already built!
Oddly disturbing how it flashes 'SATIRE' while the building is on fire.
3:32 - 4:00 is EASILY the best part! I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard!
@Soilwar I second that!
"It opens doors, I'm telling you." :)
Now I'm convinced that Cave Johnson hired the first guy.
It's a Silly Handshake, derived from graduates of the Ministry of Silly Handshakes, a branch of the Ministry of Silly Walks.