What's ironic is Che Guevara was actually an enormous futbol fan from Argentina originally and got into many arguments with leaders like Castro who decided beisbol was the national sport, tho it was already extremely popular in Cuba since the early 20th century. So he might've actually known the answer to some of those questions, tho I have no idea knowledgeable hed be about english football specifically.
@@CalmNoises Futbol is how it's pronounced and spelled in Spanish, the language spoken by tens of millions of futbol fans around the world. Imma guess not an American since you didn't complain about my spelling of beisbol. But yes, American football is an incredibly dangerous sport that causes many head injuries, which is why I think it should be banned or changed somehow, along with Rugby.
@@ryanyesman7664 many futbol players have suffered horrific injuries, remember that famous Chelsea keeper? All sports can be dangerous. They have a level of risk but the players get to have more money than most people can even even dream of... to play a sport once a week. Would you ban all the fighting sports too?
Mr Terry, if you aren’t too familiar with Monty Python’s sketches and movies, I highly suggest watching Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. It is an absolutely hilarious take on Medieval England, I think you would love it! Edit: Not medieval! My bad!
Lots of Python sketches are kind of hard to find online because they are very protective of their stuff. I have all the DVD's so I might have to give myself a 'project' to find all the history related sketches. That being said, definitely check out "Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint the Last Supper."
in the original airing from the tv show this sketch is from they used an asian actor to play mao. although a big part of me wonders who in the cast was a fan of coventry city footbal club. it seemed like they were rubbing it in someones face that the person team had never won
"History of the World, Part I" by Mel Brooks is also filled with jokes about history. It's the movie where the joke about the Fifteen Commandments comes from.
Horrible Histories is a series show that's a fun watch. Also Black Adder is definitely something you should check out. That is a series show that ran 4 seasons. One season is Medieval times, then Elizabethan Age, The next is Georgian, and the last is WWI.
"Is this racist?". It is humour. And when it is done intelligently, it is funny. Never racist. I bet the Chinese have their own "occidental" jokes. Nothing wrong with that if it's in good humour. Don't be woke, that's the plague of our times.
Monty Python always has a habit of overdoing stereotypes even in their initial days they were controversial and yes they do a lot of sketches based around history, usually parodies of historical (somtimes mythical)events. The whole movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a parody of King Arthur. They also have a famous sketch on the Spanish Inquisition if you haven't seen that one.
In the original sketch Mao was played by a Chinese artiste who had but one line. Gilliam filled in for the live performance simply as a matter of economy.
In the original sketch as seen on TV there was an actual Asian person playing Mao. Because it was a recreation using the Python crew and they didn't have an Asian Python, Terry G was the one available. Graham Chapman used to do a horribly racist Chinese character.
There was no Stalin on the show because Stalin was in no way a communist (basically a communist in the same way that the modern Chinese government is communist - in name alone).
In 2022, would have been far easier for them to find someone of Chinese or at least East Asian descent, if not an immigrant from China to play chairman Mao. There weren't too many actors of Chinese descent in England 50 years ago. I'm pretty sure that the guy playing Lenin wasn't 1/8th Kalmyk or Oriat Mongol, 3/8ths Russian, 1/4 Jewish, and 1/4 Baltic German. I don't find this to be remotely racist. Come on folks have a sense of humor and always look on the bright side of life.
Because you aren't thinking about the way the "funny slanty eyed foreigner" stereotype has literally been weaponised to justify macro level state violence against east asian people, e.g. immigration bans on Chinese nationals, internment of Japanese Americans, the quasi apartheid system that existed in British Hong Kong. Terry Gilliam could've just dressed the way he was dressed here without doing the racist facial expression and we'd still know it was meant to be Mao Zedong. You can be a white person dressed as a specific person of colour without doing race face. Also you know they literally did get an actual east asian person to play Mao in the televised, non-stage version of this skit don't you? That wasn't a limitation that existed back then either. This is bullshit lad. Sort theesan aat.
@@ChavvyCommunist The only problem with your argument is that Chairman Mao comes off far better than any of the other communists. In other words, the stereotype is subverted. And you don't see me throwing a hissy fit over Life of Brian given hundreds of years of English anti-Semitism, which included mass murder, rape, the creation of the blood libel, and expulsion. When Jews were allowed back into England, they weren't even considered full citizens at first and were mocked much in the same way that East Asians were.
The real problem is of course that Gilliam was ALWAYS the least funny member of the troupe. He almost never appeared on camera, mostly contributed animation, his being an acquired taste I have yet to acquire. On the other hand people seem to admire his post Python movies and the other four seem to have liked him. SO.
@@ChavvyCommunistThe only bullshit here is the fact that you think someone doing a slanty-eyed impression contributes to violence. Giving examples of violence towards these people is not evidence that the impression causes it. Grow up.
Please keep doing more Monty Python videos. They joke around lot's of things and by today standards most of their comedy could offend someone but people today miss the point of comedy. Check the funniest joke in the world sketch!
Two points: the audience obviously was familiar with the material, so to freshen things the Pythons would make little changes (the line about no one leaving empty handed wasn't in the original) and occasional American Americanisms. And the original of this bit is like fifty years old! You know of Python yet you've NEVER seen it?
No matter what Monty python does its always funny 😄. I will always remember the first time I watched Monty pythons and the holy grail. To this day it still cracks me up years later
On the racism subject- They were ruthless with every culture. If you stereotype everybody, it’s ok because no group is singled out and put down. Like half of their skits centered around absurd British stereotypes
@@ChavvyCommunist That's the thing, if you make fun of everyone and make distinctions, it's not discriminatory. Russel Peters (Indian-Canadian comic) makes fun of Asians, yet he uses regional dialects (e.g. Hong Kong chinese) which people from said country pick up on. In this context, yes, it may appear racist because they didn't mock Lenins Russian decent or Marx's German heritage. However, they did give Che Guavara a kind of laid back characteristic and Marx did only seem to know his own work (by answering proletariate to the final football question). Thus, it would seem to me that they are making fun of the characters rather than their ethnicity. Even when they ask Lenin a question he rather poses as is seen in many of his statues and pictures.
That's a good one. But it's not a Python sketch. It's from a collection of British comedy sketches called The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything.
I would have expected Marx to do better. He lived in England and was someone who enjoyed football. Maybe these questions were just too recent for someone newly resurrected for two sketches.
I don't think it was racist. Mao Tse Tung, as played by Terry Gilliam, is not parodying the entire Chinese race. It is specifically, as stated, Mao Tse Tung who is targeted as a prominent communist leader..
I think the main joke is the host has Communists on the show and instead of asking intellectual questions and debating Communist beliefs, the host asks unrelated questions because Communists have nothing to offer 😂 at least thats what I think it is please feel free to correct me. Monty Python is known for making satire of current events at that time
1:33 A bit absurd that they say that Ernesto “Che” Guevara was a Bolivian leader when Ché Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and it was in Bolivia the place where he was executed in 1967. In the original skit, Eric Idle as the host asks Lenin the name of the song by Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1959. Lenin has no clue, so Idle once again throws the question open. Unexpectedly Mao rings his buzzer and gives the correct answer: "Sing Little Birdie" (Although that is not the correct answer, the winner of the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest was the Dutch singer Teddy Scholten with the song "Een Beetje", “Sing Little Birdie” was in second place) For the presentation in America, Idle's final question to the four guests is the name of Jerry Lee Lewis' biggest hit, to which Mao correctly answers "Great Balls of Fire", albeit in an Engrish accent.
Why would it be racist!? Because they are depicting different races? I wouldn't want you teaching my children, if you have to even think of asking a silly question, as so.
Terry Gilliam saying 'Great balls of a fire' had me in tears but this guy was just trying not to offend. Shame. I would hate life even more if I couldn't laugh at things.
The intention to offend may not have been there, but Terry Gilliam is sitting in full-on yellow face makeup, his eyes and features distorted into an Asian caricature. This would be no different than his wearing blackface. Whatever the intent is - it’s wrong. And with hindsight the most cringiest part of the sketch. As a teacher, were you ever to show this to students, it would be your responsibility to explain how this kind of stereotyping was overlooked/“accepted” in the 1970s, and how attitudes and what is societally acceptable in the 21st century have shifted.
@@DanIAmIBehe has no 'yellow face' he's just squinting his eyes and doing an accent. Robert Downy Jr literally got prosthetics to look just like a black guy in a comedy film... its comedy. Get over yourself.
@@DanIAmIBethere are comedy sketches where European or euro Americans are imitated with accent and made to look fat or have bigger eyes... its comedy.
Is it racist? Maybe, but forgive me if I don't give a damn if Chairman Mao is offended 😂. In all seriousness though, it's likely not the worst thing these guys have done and it's comedy, it's not meant to be taken seriously. I mean I feel like that's something noone should ever have to clarify. Monty Python are not to be taken seriously 🤣
In the TV sketch, Mao answered a question about the Eurovision song contest. Pandering to the Yanks here. Yes it's racist and I don't care. But I'm not Chinese....
Monty Python is now and was then awesome humor. Too bad we’re not allowed to have comedy anymore. But yes this is still funny. ( to normal people or old people)
The Mao part is kinda racist, and would have been done differently these days. But you very much still could make this video today. Just because we get more sensitive to bullying does not mean we want to ban children playing, and people who use the 'could not ... today' ad absurdum rhetoric are EXACTLY like the classroom bully who claims you just want to ban ALL fun.
the Mao part was questionable, but passable in that the white dude playing him didn't do anything overtly racist (other than squinting his eyes, which was cringe), but I think you should do one that I'm sure you've seen, but maybe only ages ago, The Spanish Inquisition
Racist is a stopword, racist don't mean a thing anymore, is just a word like shoe. I know on schools nowadays they teach children that everything is racist. That's wrong with our educational system. No this is Homor and we are allowed to laugh. Stop calling everything racist. I got so tyred of this. Stop killing humor with these insinuation.
Depends... is this virtue signalling? Virtue signalling is the first sign a channel is out of ideas and on it's way out. That said you played the whole thing and enjoyed it. Do not ruin fun with woke psyop miserable agenda bs. It's someone else's agenda to even things up... because they're so broken they can't laugh.
No you couldn’t make this In 2022. You would have to use a Chinese actor for starters and not resort to racial stereotypes. However , this sketch was in the 70s , a different era of awareness although python were progressive , graham chapman was gay and the whole team advocates of respecting diversity . Maybe they could have included people of different ethnicities in these type of sketches but in hindsight this was the 70s where ignorance of diversity was the norm; doesn’t make it right and thank god we’ve moved forward. The other thing worth noting , most uk comedies where people of colour were used , eg ain’t half hot mum, love thy neighbour and rising damp , the people of colour were always cleverly shown to be more intelligent than their white counterparts , there was an air of diversity awareness by the producers yet appealed to an audience that were institutionally racist to get the viewing ratings up. A subtle message to the masses in there , plenty of research on the matter out there if you want to know more.
Python is a treasure drove for great historical bits, so keep on watching that stuff. Also, it came out five decades ago, so no, nothing is racist. You just can't do comedy anymore in 2022.
American History teacher: "is it racist?" Brazilian History teacher: *this is the most racist thing I've even seen, see? these white European men have no limit at all, this s an absurd..."*
In the original sketch on the show, they actually had a Chinese man playing Mao. But for some reason, they had Terry Gilliam playing Mao for the live show. But yes, this was racist, but I'm certain that someone will tell me I'm wrong with that age old "it was a different time" argument.
It is foolish and non-productive to judge people by the era that they lived in. It is intellectual sloppiness of the highest order. Few people actually have the insight and self-awareness to transcend their own era's moral and social fabric that they have lived within their entire lives.
Got any funny history related videos for me? Post them below!
React to Monty Python history they have a lot of history like this
Please react to the Monty Python sketch The Runettes Sing Medieval Agrarian History.
Watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
Watch sam o'nella video of freud. He took it down on his many channel but it’s been uploaded on other channels
Please check out Potential History's newest video on why Japan surrendered.
What's ironic is Che Guevara was actually an enormous futbol fan from Argentina originally and got into many arguments with leaders like Castro who decided beisbol was the national sport, tho it was already extremely popular in Cuba since the early 20th century. So he might've actually known the answer to some of those questions, tho I have no idea knowledgeable hed be about english football specifically.
It's called football. It's a foot and a ball. Your football should be called egg crack, cuz you crack skulls over an egg.
@@CalmNoises Futbol is how it's pronounced and spelled in Spanish, the language spoken by tens of millions of futbol fans around the world. Imma guess not an American since you didn't complain about my spelling of beisbol. But yes, American football is an incredibly dangerous sport that causes many head injuries, which is why I think it should be banned or changed somehow, along with Rugby.
@@ryanyesman7664 many futbol players have suffered horrific injuries, remember that famous Chelsea keeper? All sports can be dangerous. They have a level of risk but the players get to have more money than most people can even even dream of... to play a sport once a week. Would you ban all the fighting sports too?
@@CalmNoises what's your problem, he's calling it futbol... a variation of football... atleast he's not saying soccer! Then I'd agree with you!
@@CalmNoises
“Fútbol” is the Spanish way of spelling it, and that was definitely Che’s main language
Lol, I'm from Coventry, and can assure you we have in fact won the F.A cup against Tottenham since this sketch was made. :D
There was no Chinese guy in Monty Python, so they made do. They all frequently appear as women in sketches.
Mr Terry, if you aren’t too familiar with Monty Python’s sketches and movies, I highly suggest watching Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. It is an absolutely hilarious take on Medieval England, I think you would love it!
Edit: Not medieval! My bad!
Not a take on medieval England, it's literally a parody of the myth of King Arthur.
@@brothersandsistersofvalhalla Thank you for the clarification. Not my era of expertise.
@@tomlawson4713 No problem mate.
Yes please ITS JUST A FLESH WOUND
Love how Che has on a Scottish bonnet instead of a beret cause that's probably what they had on hand!
You should react to Monty Python “The Philosophers Football Game”.
Lots of Python sketches are kind of hard to find online because they are very protective of their stuff. I have all the DVD's so I might have to give myself a 'project' to find all the history related sketches. That being said, definitely check out "Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint the Last Supper."
Please give us a list of them when found
in the original airing from the tv show this sketch is from they used an asian actor to play mao. although a big part of me wonders who in the cast was a fan of coventry city footbal club. it seemed like they were rubbing it in someones face that the person team had never won
"History of the World, Part I" by Mel Brooks is also filled with jokes about history. It's the movie where the joke about the Fifteen Commandments comes from.
Not his best movie by a long shot but it's still pretty dang good. Bea Arthur oddly steals the show. I second Mr Terry do a reaction to it.
The inquisition, let's begin, the inquisition, look out sin...
IIRC, the clue was:
How can you claim to speak for the working class, when you do not know anything about football, the number 1 interest of workers.
Horrible Histories is a series show that's a fun watch. Also Black Adder is definitely something you should check out. That is a series show that ran 4 seasons. One season is Medieval times, then Elizabethan Age, The next is Georgian, and the last is WWI.
Coventry city won the cup in 1987 so it is outdated lol
It was acceptable the time, not acceptable now. That’s all we’llsay on the matter.
U gotta react to the entire Monty python and the holy grail movie.
and Life of Brian.
"Is this racist?". It is humour. And when it is done intelligently, it is funny. Never racist. I bet the Chinese have their own "occidental" jokes. Nothing wrong with that if it's in good humour. Don't be woke, that's the plague of our times.
Monty Python always has a habit of overdoing stereotypes even in their initial days they were controversial and yes they do a lot of sketches based around history, usually parodies of historical (somtimes mythical)events. The whole movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a parody of King Arthur.
They also have a famous sketch on the Spanish Inquisition if you haven't seen that one.
Monty Python also did Philosophers' Football
I highly suggest watching ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’. It’s Vlogging Through History’s favourite movie.
In the original sketch Mao was played by a Chinese artiste who had but one line. Gilliam filled in for the live performance simply as a matter of economy.
The answer to that question is:" why would at be?".
Its not racist. They picked on everyone. You should see how they treated the Catholic Church in The Meaning of Life.
Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition Sketch
Blackadder in general, but Blackadder Goes Forth especially.
the peasant scene in Monty pythons "The holy Grail' is filled with Marksist rhetoric. Well worth a look.
There no are Racism in Terry Gilliam making Mao Tse Tung. The Pythons made fun of Everything and Everybody.
You need to do a monty python and the holy grail reaction. I have just now decided that it is imperative to my survival to watch that.
NO it’s called comedy!
"Is it racist?". Oh, for Pete's sake !!!
You'd never heard of Coventry, but you have heard of Lady Godiva.
Coventry City FC eventually won the Football Cup in 1987
There is also the question of if the great comedy movie "Blazing Saddles" was made today would it still be well accepted in our changing culture?
It would certainly have not passed at all if it was film today. Much of the comedy is genius!
In the original sketch as seen on TV there was an actual Asian person playing Mao. Because it was a recreation using the Python crew and they didn't have an Asian Python, Terry G was the one available. Graham Chapman used to do a horribly racist Chinese character.
Hell yeah, Monty python
There was no Stalin on the show because Stalin was in no way a communist (basically a communist in the same way that the modern Chinese government is communist - in name alone).
Well, as Lenin was an obvious pick as probably the most influencial socialist politician, to have two out of four from the USSR is a bit much
Didn't Marx write the communist manifesto in England? In an old pub or Inn or something? Pretty sure.
Nah, it ain't racist
OMG MR TERRY KNOWS SOCCER
In 2022, would have been far easier for them to find someone of Chinese or at least East Asian descent, if not an immigrant from China to play chairman Mao. There weren't too many actors of Chinese descent in England 50 years ago.
I'm pretty sure that the guy playing Lenin wasn't 1/8th Kalmyk or Oriat Mongol, 3/8ths Russian, 1/4 Jewish, and 1/4 Baltic German.
I don't find this to be remotely racist. Come on folks have a sense of humor and always look on the bright side of life.
Because you aren't thinking about the way the "funny slanty eyed foreigner" stereotype has literally been weaponised to justify macro level state violence against east asian people, e.g. immigration bans on Chinese nationals, internment of Japanese Americans, the quasi apartheid system that existed in British Hong Kong. Terry Gilliam could've just dressed the way he was dressed here without doing the racist facial expression and we'd still know it was meant to be Mao Zedong. You can be a white person dressed as a specific person of colour without doing race face.
Also you know they literally did get an actual east asian person to play Mao in the televised, non-stage version of this skit don't you? That wasn't a limitation that existed back then either.
This is bullshit lad. Sort theesan aat.
@@ChavvyCommunist Only bullshit I see is you crying about racism.
@@ChavvyCommunist The only problem with your argument is that Chairman Mao comes off far better than any of the other communists. In other words, the stereotype is subverted.
And you don't see me throwing a hissy fit over Life of Brian given hundreds of years of English anti-Semitism, which included mass murder, rape, the creation of the blood libel, and expulsion. When Jews were allowed back into England, they weren't even considered full citizens at first and were mocked much in the same way that East Asians were.
The real problem is of course that Gilliam was ALWAYS the least funny member of the troupe. He almost never appeared on camera, mostly contributed animation, his being an acquired taste I have yet to acquire. On the other hand people seem to admire his post Python movies and the other four seem to have liked him. SO.
@@ChavvyCommunistThe only bullshit here is the fact that you think someone doing a slanty-eyed impression contributes to violence. Giving examples of violence towards these people is not evidence that the impression causes it. Grow up.
i dont even see how one could even make the argument that its racist
Montey Python has been my hero since 1996 when I saw The holy grail.
Coventry city did go on to win the English FA cup in 1987.
You need to do the Monty Python Medieval Agrarian History sketch. Also known as The Runettes sing medieval agrarian history.
It’s evident (evident)!
Please keep doing more Monty Python videos. They joke around lot's of things and by today standards most of their comedy could offend someone but people today miss the point of comedy.
Check the funniest joke in the world sketch!
Two points: the audience obviously was familiar with the material, so to freshen things the Pythons would make little changes (the line about no one leaving empty handed wasn't in the original) and occasional American Americanisms. And the original of this bit is like fifty years old! You know of Python yet you've NEVER seen it?
No matter what Monty python does its always funny 😄. I will always remember the first time I watched Monty pythons and the holy grail. To this day it still cracks me up years later
You NEED to watch THE LIFE OF BRIAN.
My immediate problem is that, that is not how you pronounce Python in terms of Monty Python.
On the racism subject-
They were ruthless with every culture. If you stereotype everybody, it’s ok because no group is singled out and put down. Like half of their skits centered around absurd British stereotypes
I mean if you go by a 4 year old's understanding of racism and ignore the fact that institutionalised racism exists, absolutely.
Ehh. I don’t think it would’ve been that big of a deal if the dude didn’t try to “mimmick” the facial parts. Like wtf
@@ChavvyCommunist That's the thing, if you make fun of everyone and make distinctions, it's not discriminatory. Russel Peters (Indian-Canadian comic) makes fun of Asians, yet he uses regional dialects (e.g. Hong Kong chinese) which people from said country pick up on. In this context, yes, it may appear racist because they didn't mock Lenins Russian decent or Marx's German heritage. However, they did give Che Guavara a kind of laid back characteristic and Marx did only seem to know his own work (by answering proletariate to the final football question). Thus, it would seem to me that they are making fun of the characters rather than their ethnicity. Even when they ask Lenin a question he rather poses as is seen in many of his statues and pictures.
@@NordProductions I "ignored" it because it's both fucking bollocks and also completely irrelevant anyway lmao
Have you seen the Python sketch "The Treaty of Westphalia"?
That's a good one. But it's not a Python sketch. It's from a collection of British comedy sketches called The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything.
Well it’s hard for them to do more given that Graham Chapman and Terry Jones are dead.
I would have expected Marx to do better. He lived in England and was someone who enjoyed football. Maybe these questions were just too recent for someone newly resurrected for two sketches.
Monty Pythons Quest for the Holy Grail is also very funny
It's the funniest thing of theirs.
I don't think it was racist. Mao Tse Tung, as played by Terry Gilliam, is not parodying the entire Chinese race. It is specifically, as stated, Mao Tse Tung who is targeted as a prominent communist leader..
Hello sir terry you should buy the book “draw me a gorilla” it will be incredibly historical in 10 years when it sells a million copies
no point in calling it racist if it is comedy humour. we are not meant to get offended by it. I love the impersonations of historic figures.
Yes, you could make this in 2022. Conditioned on if you could get a chinese ethnicity to play Mao.
Have you looked at awful archeology by miniminuteman?
If you haven't already, you should watch the holy grail by monty python
It's not racist. It's called "humor"
is it racist yes is it funny yes
I think the main joke is the host has Communists on the show and instead of asking intellectual questions and debating Communist beliefs, the host asks unrelated questions because Communists have nothing to offer 😂 at least thats what I think it is please feel free to correct me. Monty Python is known for making satire of current events at that time
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1:33 A bit absurd that they say that Ernesto “Che” Guevara was a Bolivian leader when Ché Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and it was in Bolivia the place where he was executed in 1967.
In the original skit, Eric Idle as the host asks Lenin the name of the song by Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1959. Lenin has no clue, so Idle once again throws the question open. Unexpectedly Mao rings his buzzer and gives the correct answer: "Sing Little Birdie" (Although that is not the correct answer, the winner of the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest was the Dutch singer Teddy Scholten with the song "Een Beetje", “Sing Little Birdie” was in second place) For the presentation in America, Idle's final question to the four guests is the name of Jerry Lee Lewis' biggest hit, to which Mao correctly answers "Great Balls of Fire", albeit in an Engrish accent.
Why would it be racist!? Because they are depicting different races?
I wouldn't want you teaching my children, if you have to even think of asking a silly question, as so.
I would not say racism, rather impersonation of an ethnicity. Well, what do I know. And also, there is no asian member in monty python.
I want a full version 😂 3:49
Monty Python is beyond the grasp of cancel culture, hopefully...
Terry Gilliam saying 'Great balls of a fire' had me in tears but this guy was just trying not to offend. Shame. I would hate life even more if I couldn't laugh at things.
The intention to offend may not have been there, but Terry Gilliam is sitting in full-on yellow face makeup, his eyes and features distorted into an Asian caricature. This would be no different than his wearing blackface. Whatever the intent is - it’s wrong. And with hindsight the most cringiest part of the sketch. As a teacher, were you ever to show this to students, it would be your responsibility to explain how this kind of stereotyping was overlooked/“accepted” in the 1970s, and how attitudes and what is societally acceptable in the 21st century have shifted.
@@DanIAmIBehe has no 'yellow face' he's just squinting his eyes and doing an accent. Robert Downy Jr literally got prosthetics to look just like a black guy in a comedy film... its comedy. Get over yourself.
@@DanIAmIBeit's still exepted in comedy. Please don't brainwashed your students.
@@DanIAmIBethere are comedy sketches where European or euro Americans are imitated with accent and made to look fat or have bigger eyes... its comedy.
Look up polite war by whitest kids you know. You’re welcome
Is it racist? Maybe, but forgive me if I don't give a damn if Chairman Mao is offended 😂. In all seriousness though, it's likely not the worst thing these guys have done and it's comedy, it's not meant to be taken seriously. I mean I feel like that's something noone should ever have to clarify. Monty Python are not to be taken seriously 🤣
In the TV sketch, Mao answered a question about the Eurovision song contest. Pandering to the Yanks here. Yes it's racist and I don't care. But I'm not Chinese....
It's not racist
Racist? Sure but I'll let it pass because it was of a world leader. World leaders are always fair game for being made fun of.
Monty Python is now and was then awesome humor. Too bad we’re not allowed to have comedy anymore. But yes this is still funny. ( to normal people or old people)
Nice
No it’s not racist
The Mao part is kinda racist, and would have been done differently these days. But you very much still could make this video today. Just because we get more sensitive to bullying does not mean we want to ban children playing, and people who use the 'could not ... today' ad absurdum rhetoric are EXACTLY like the classroom bully who claims you just want to ban ALL fun.
Is what "racist"?
the Mao part was questionable, but passable in that the white dude playing him didn't do anything overtly racist (other than squinting his eyes, which was cringe), but I think you should do one that I'm sure you've seen, but maybe only ages ago, The Spanish Inquisition
What was the deal with his lips, though? That doesn't fall into the Chinese or Asian stereotype, does it?
Title fail.
It's not racst, it is brittish
Is it racist?
Your comments destroyed any chance of this being interesting or fun
I stopped watching right there. This fucking stupidity needs to end........
Racist is a stopword, racist don't mean a thing anymore, is just a word like shoe. I know on schools nowadays they teach children that everything is racist. That's wrong with our educational system. No this is Homor and we are allowed to laugh. Stop calling everything racist. I got so tyred of this. Stop killing humor with these insinuation.
They have a sketch about the Spanish Inquisition, I haven't seen it myself yet so I don't know what they do but it is probably funny
Reaction to that would be really unexpected.
you can watch it right now on youtube
@@ChavvyCommunist I know but it is more fun to watch it with someone
why is it racist to depict a Chinese person but not a Russian or Cuban person?
No it’s not racist! It’s the 1970s. Historical context, remember! Can’t watch you - you talk too much!
Depends... is this virtue signalling? Virtue signalling is the first sign a channel is out of ideas and on it's way out. That said you played the whole thing and enjoyed it. Do not ruin fun with woke psyop miserable agenda bs. It's someone else's agenda to even things up... because they're so broken they can't laugh.
No you couldn’t make this In 2022. You would have to use a Chinese actor for starters and not resort to racial stereotypes. However , this sketch was in the 70s , a different era of awareness although python were progressive , graham chapman was gay and the whole team advocates of respecting diversity . Maybe they could have included people of different ethnicities in these type of sketches but in hindsight this was the 70s where ignorance of diversity was the norm; doesn’t make it right and thank god we’ve moved forward. The other thing worth noting , most uk comedies where people of colour were used , eg ain’t half hot mum, love thy neighbour and rising damp , the people of colour were always cleverly shown to be more intelligent than their white counterparts , there was an air of diversity awareness by the producers yet appealed to an audience that were institutionally racist to get the viewing ratings up. A subtle message to the masses in there , plenty of research on the matter out there if you want to know more.
Python is a treasure drove for great historical bits, so keep on watching that stuff. Also, it came out five decades ago, so no, nothing is racist. You just can't do comedy anymore in 2022.
American History teacher: "is it racist?"
Brazilian History teacher: *this is the most racist thing I've even seen, see? these white European men have no limit at all, this s an absurd..."*
In the original sketch on the show, they actually had a Chinese man playing Mao. But for some reason, they had Terry Gilliam playing Mao for the live show. But yes, this was racist, but I'm certain that someone will tell me I'm wrong with that age old "it was a different time" argument.
It is foolish and non-productive to judge people by the era that they lived in. It is intellectual sloppiness of the highest order. Few people actually have the insight and self-awareness to transcend their own era's moral and social fabric that they have lived within their entire lives.
The jokes about Mao are fine, having Mao played by a white guy with his eyelids pulled back is not.
Yes mr. Terry some of The Monty Python sketches are racist. Funny but racist.