The Fish Slapping Dance is my absolute favourite Python skit ever. I recommended it back on your Holy Grail vid, so I'm just going to be massively presumptuous and claim credit for you watching it now. It was all me everybody! But really, Dawn your reaction was everything I'd hoped for. As a sketch it's so quick and so absurd, yet somehow the end seems like the logical conclusion to such a daft beginning. Monty Python at its finest, distilled into about 15 seconds of wonderful absurdity.
@@DawnMarieX Oh my, pinned! I'm truly honoured. Now I just need you to react to a Wallace and Gromit (ideally The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit) and I'll have won the internet. Edit: having been prompted by another comment on this video, I'll have to enthusiastically endorse the Bruces sketch. Can't believe that one slipped my mind.
Fish slap dance is classic, thx for reminding me. Sctv is another good series. I grew up on python, kids sctv and carol burnett. Sad to say but nothing modern comes close to these
Your daughter is absolutely darling, and I think she's on the way to being as charming and lovely as you. I adored watching you react to her laughter, it was soooo sweet!
Part of the brilliance of John Cleese is that he can perform the most outrageously silly antics while maintaining a complete sense of dignity. He is an incredible talent.
For amusement during the pandemic, somebody in the Seattle area put a Silly Walk zone on the sidewalk in front of their house, and people did it, it was great
@@1951GL Kansas City: ua-cam.com/video/1jaEMv_P0nQ/v-deo.html Detroit: ua-cam.com/video/AWhT1_r5NnU/v-deo.html Someone in my town did it too. I was driving and I saw a couple sitting in lawn chairs watching people walk. I don't know if anyone film it. I don't see it on UA-cam.
The thing i love about this is how I watched all of these skits 30 years ago and now I'm watching someone else watching them and crying laughing as I did and then you shared it with someone even younger and she was laughing. Monty Python is timeless.
in python's last season, cleese had left the troupe to make "fawlty towers." in that final season, without cleese, they had produced what i think is their funniest episode - "Mr. Neutron." it was one of the few episodes that had a central theme throughout the show. its not a "skit" but a show that lasts 30 minutes. "MR. NEUTRON" IS THE FUNNIEST THING THEY EVER DID! and they did a lot of really funny things on their show. "the killer joke" is also a great skit. as is their parody of sam peckenpah movies. peckenpah was known for his use of graphic violence in his films. its called "Sam Peckinpah’s Salad Days." and its also GREAT!
@@Cosmicblast77 I was just about to suggest that one! Its official title is *The Piranah brothers* there's also *The Bishop* which I always thought was an underrated gem.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Michael Palin!!! He's 78 years old today (May 5, 1943). Yes, it does seem that the best Python sketches are ones with just John Cleese and Michael (i.e. Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Fish Slapping Dance, Argument, etc.) for some reason.
It's interesting because, generally, Cleese wrote his sketches with Graham Chapman while Palin mostly wrote his with Terry Jones while Eric Idle usually wrote on his own. I suppose there must have been quite a lot of crossover though.
@@ivorbiggun710 Not that much in terms of writing, but the casting of who played which part didn't necessarily correspond to who wrote the sketch. Cleese/Chapman wrote a lot of these two-character sketches, and Cleese/Palin worked well as a team, usually with John as the bizarre character and Michael as more of a straight man.
Fish Slapping Dance trivia: the water level in the canal was far lower, on the day of shooting, than it was when they chose the location.... Michael Palin gamely took that 15 foot plunge anyway.
@@DawnMarieX But not true. MPFC first aired October 5, 1969 and the Fish dance was filmed in 1971 for a special called Euroshow 71 then aired again on MPFC in 1972.
Thank you so much for these reactions. You've restored my faith in humanity. I've never met girls who thought Monty python were the least bit funny. Every girl we watched these shows with back in the day just sat there with a blank stare. Seeing the pure joy in your eyes brightens the day so much.
I've loved MONTY PYTHON forever!!! John Cleese and Michael Palin (along with Eric Idle) are my favorites. The two were hilarious in A FISH CALLED WONDA... should watch if you haven't.
There was a series some time ago where each Python was asked what their favourite sketches were. They all had different opinions, except one thing. *Everybody* had the fish slapping dance on the list. 🐟🤣
It's so much fun to see someone howling at the real old stuff. Because, many, many years ago I laughed my ass off at this stuff. And YES, Cleese and Palin were always my favorites. Hands down. For decades now.
The fish-slapping dance is just a masterpiece of sublime silliness, by the comedy gods themselves, Monty Python. I'm still in stitches every time I see it. Comedy genius! :D
No, it is totally normal to laugh as you are, I am laughing with you and I have seen them 100's of times. If John Cleese and Michael Palin can see this video, they would be so HAPPY to see that their work is being loved by yet another generation of Fans. :D
I agree, though given that people still enjoy 90 year old Marx Brothers films, I think it's safe to say the Pythons know they've reached comedy immortality.
In an interview either John or Michael said "The Fish Slapping Dance" was there favorite skit. I agree with you they have the funnier ones. Although my favorite is "The Spanish Inquisition"
Fun fact Michael Palin and John Cleese always used to try and make each other laugh deliberately while they were filming these sketches. This one is my favorites.hope your daughter feels better soon.
Your daughter is adorable! I believe that letters to John Cleese and Michael Palin would make them both smile and she (maybe) will receive letters in return!
Watching you react to (and laugh at) my favorite Monty Python moments just makes my day! Some more great Monty Python skits include "The Cheese Shop", "Fish License" and the "Killer Joke". I mean, all the skits are great but these are some more classic ones. Keep up the great work!
Once again, I agree wholeheartedly with you in that John and Michael are my two favorite also. Their chemistry is undeniable. These men could make you laugh until you cried.!!!!!
These sketches are best enjoyed in the context of an entire episode. The argument clinic was placed after the end credits of that episodes with references to earlier at the end of that sketch, making it all the funnier.
O Monty Python é demais....o humor inglês é o melhor....eles influenciaram o humor no mundo todo, aqui no Brasil a influência deles é enorme até hoje....
Interesting bit: John Cleese and Michael Palin were in separate writing groups. Normally Cleese wrote with Graham Chapman, and Michael Palin wrote with Terry Jones.
Cleese and Palin are an underrated comedy team. They did a lot of their sketches together. They even take whimsical shots at each other during interviews. They're so funny together. The first time I watched the Fish Slapping Dance with my wife, she laughed so hard I thought she was going to pass out!
John Cleese and MIke Palin desk or shop sketches are among the best, eg. the Cheese Shop. Is that your daughter? Good to see you're bringing her up correctly on Python! A hidden gem is Eric Idle's butcher who is alternately polite & rude to Palin. It's about midway thru series 2. Idle is another master of wordplay, like Ronnie Barker from The Two Ronnies.
I brought my kids up on a healthy dose of Monty Python and now as adults I'm proud of their crazy sense of humour. Family dinners are insane and I love it!
A group of us boys got detention when we left school assembly doing the silly walk a day or so after we saw the show on telly. Now, about 50 years later I'd probably put my hip out!
Cleese (who was already a TV star by the time the group came together - the BBC almost perceived it as John Cleese & Friends) was partially motivated to form the troupe after seeing Palin in the children's afternoon comedy sketch show 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'. Since he was mining a similar brand of absurdity in 'At Last, The 1948 Show' it was a no-brainer. Although they hardly ever wrote together on the show, their on-screen pairing is undoubtedly the best.
Firstly, I started watching these guys in the mid 70s. Absolutely loved it then. Still do. Secondly, bravo to the young lady for doing a silly walk as she left the room. Monty Python would be proud!
Yes, the argument clinic was one of their best sketches. I like it so much that I used to recite it to friends. I even mimic their accent. I used to record it and play it back in school during home room.
Possibly the most natural outburst of fabulous and spontaneous laughter I've ever witnessed. You clearly have the right 'funny bones' for the great Monty Python. Whenever I see Michael Palin fall in the canal I always worry he gets injured....so I'm worrying while laughing. Doh !
We all crack up throughout these skits, no matter how many times we’ve seen them. It was refreshing that you invited your daughter to watch a couple of them at the end, and equally refreshing that you previewed them first so she didn’t see some of the (now) offensive stuff.
I'm 62 and have been in many relationships, but I've never been with a woman who "got" Monty Python. So I love your reactions. It's a wonderful thing to see.
You should definitely try to have your daughter react more at least to the Monty Python stuff. It's good to get new generations involved with the classics, and she seems to enjoy it.
Agreed! Seeing both their goofy grins was great. She definitely has to vet them first though, their skits weren't always what would be considered G today :p
@@DawnMarieX Things like dead parrot/lumberjack song and such. About 99% of Monty Python is perfectly safe for her... Just Life of Brian is a no no at this age because of the nudity.
Its no coincidence that nearly all the most iconic Python sketches are John Cleese and Michael Palin. They perform so well together. The Fish Slapping Dance, I don't know why but the colonial era uniforms just make it perfect. Comedy gold! Another great couple of sketches with them are Hungarian Phrasebook and Bee License
I'm so glad your daughter liked the silly walks sketch. I was about her age the first time I saw it, 1970 something. The next day at school everyone was walking around like that.
There happen to be a number of places around the world where "Silly Walks" are actually encouraged..! Like in a village in Berkshire in May 2020; a town in Sweden or somewhere similar; even down in Tasmania (in Aus)...
Michael Palin lol yeah it's okay to laugh hard I laugh every time I watch John Cleese and Michael Palin together. (your right Dawn these two have a chemistry that plays off each other so well. apparently the characters they come up with are a combination of people they new at university.
FWIW, the long queue of men in coveralls that Cleese passes in the street is a callback to a sketch earlier in the episode. The Pythons' first film was "And Now for Something Completely Different." It is a compilation of some of their best sketches from the first season of Flying Circus. It was cobbled together for US release, to get the American public interested in the show. As a result various PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) channels around the US started to run Monty Python's Flying Circus. Aside from the Python productions there are two other John Cleese shows/films you must watch. "Fawlty Towers" written by and starring Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth is one of the funniest, some say _the_ funniest, sitcoms ever made. If you've not watched it you're really missing something. "A Fish Called Wanda," which was also written by John Cleese, stars Cleese, Michael Palin, Jamie Leigh Curtis, and Kevin Kline. It is brilliantly funny. It received several Oscar nominations, with Kevin Kline winning Best Supporting Actor, and a bunch of BAFTA nominations, with Cleese and Palin winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
In the Fish Slapping Dance, I just love the way John Cleese lines up Michael Palin with a 2ft long Salmon, and wallops him into the canal with it :D Also, second the guy who recommended "How not to be seen"... That one has to be one of my favourite Python sketches
Yes Dawn the fish slapping dance is John and Michael again...... Two of my favorites also....!!!!! I only wish we had video of Carmen;s silly walk.... Thank you....
Dawn, That is one way you know it is funny, when you laugh until you cry. I used to do it ALL the time with the Three Stooges. Good job Mom. You getting Carmen to watch these and laugh is good medicine for her. That combined with lots of fluids and plenty of rest will have her right as rain!!!!!!!!!!!... great job lady..... Silly is funny!
Your laugh is so real and warm and real.. I agree with you that John and Michael are brilliant together... This is a wonderful skit by the masters... Dawn, my dear, laughing until we cry is one way we know that it is good... And these men are legend. So dry yet brilliant. Talent... With government backing..?? In America these days this is a chant that many folks repeat over and over. Something for nothing... Carmen has a great smile and a good laugh... And a silly walk... Laughing until you cry is normal when you watch Monty....
The Piranha Brothers is my favorite Monty Python sketch!!!! PLEASE REACT TO THAT!!!! Also, Confuse-A-Cat is diabolically silly!!!! Also, also... Mr. Hilter is great!!!!! Also, also, and.....also again.... I love your reaction vids and I dig how you're introducing your daughter to this brilliant library of amazing sketch comedy group!!!! Cheers, from Virginia (the states)!!!!
Refreshing and beautiful to see someone considerably younger laughing at the same things that made me laugh so much when i roughly the same age....God bless you.
What makes the _Ministry of Silly Walks_ skit _especially_ funny is that every single party involved carries the bearing of someone _utterly_ serious. "Oh, yes. We're just going about our business. This is how people _normally_ walk, don't you know."
The Fish Slapping Dance is my absolute favourite Python skit ever.
I recommended it back on your Holy Grail vid, so I'm just going to be massively presumptuous and claim credit for you watching it now. It was all me everybody!
But really, Dawn your reaction was everything I'd hoped for. As a sketch it's so quick and so absurd, yet somehow the end seems like the logical conclusion to such a daft beginning.
Monty Python at its finest, distilled into about 15 seconds of wonderful absurdity.
Well then thank you very much for recommending it because I absolutely loved it! 😂
@@DawnMarieX Oh my, pinned! I'm truly honoured.
Now I just need you to react to a Wallace and Gromit (ideally The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit) and I'll have won the internet.
Edit: having been prompted by another comment on this video, I'll have to enthusiastically endorse the Bruces sketch. Can't believe that one slipped my mind.
If you are liking Monty python, you may also like kids in the hall sketches.
My favorite is, I speak no English.
@@markcastellanet9672 I was going to recommend kids in the hall too.
Fish slap dance is classic, thx for reminding me. Sctv is another good series. I grew up on python, kids sctv and carol burnett. Sad to say but nothing modern comes close to these
Your daughter is absolutely darling, and I think she's on the way to being as charming and lovely as you. I adored watching you react to her laughter, it was soooo sweet!
Part of the brilliance of John Cleese is that he can perform the most outrageously silly antics while maintaining a complete sense of dignity. He is an incredible talent.
For amusement during the pandemic, somebody in the Seattle area put a Silly Walk zone on the sidewalk in front of their house, and people did it, it was great
Here: ua-cam.com/video/T3--3Xxd-m8/v-deo.html
Every town should have one!
@@1951GL Kansas City:
ua-cam.com/video/1jaEMv_P0nQ/v-deo.html
Detroit:
ua-cam.com/video/AWhT1_r5NnU/v-deo.html
Someone in my town did it too. I was driving and I saw a couple sitting in lawn chairs watching people walk. I don't know if anyone film it. I don't see it on UA-cam.
These videos are precious.
@@asterix7842 Thanks - The Kansas video was funny. Good for the soul !
The thing i love about this is how I watched all of these skits 30 years ago and now I'm watching someone else watching them and crying laughing as I did and then you shared it with someone even younger and she was laughing.
Monty Python is timeless.
It truly is. It isabsurdist humor at such a high level, it's unbelievable
Thank you so much for watching! 🥰
Over 40years old mid 70s I think.
@@johnsymons8246 never said first run brah
in python's last season, cleese had left the troupe to make "fawlty towers." in that final season, without cleese, they had produced what i think is their funniest episode - "Mr. Neutron." it was one of the few episodes that had a central theme throughout the show. its not a "skit" but a show that lasts 30 minutes. "MR. NEUTRON" IS THE FUNNIEST THING THEY EVER DID! and they did a lot of really funny things on their show.
"the killer joke" is also a great skit. as is their parody of sam peckenpah movies. peckenpah was known for his use of graphic violence in his films. its called "Sam Peckinpah’s Salad Days." and its also GREAT!
Just a few suggestions:
-Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!
-How not to be seen.
-The society for putting things on top of other things.
Dinsdale!
@@Cosmicblast77 I was just about to suggest that one! Its official title is *The Piranah brothers* there's also *The Bishop* which I always thought was an underrated gem.
@@Cosmicblast77 He knew how to treat a female impersonator.
Nudge nudge wink wink for sure! Cracks me up every time.
@@DarkLordoftheMeme Actually the official title is _Ethel the Frog,_ but nobody calls it that. The album version is even funnier.
Oh god. Watching your daughter laughing was pure magic. I'm 60 and I'm crying. Thank you, I needed that. ✌❤ 🏴
If you haven't already you have to watch "Upper Class Twit Of The Year".
Haha! Oh yeah, almost forgot about that one.
I totally second this one! What a great twit!!!
Just watch PMQs
I'm on it! Thank you 😁
@@DawnMarieX Since you enjoy John Cleese, a weekend binge of Faulty Towers is a must also.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Michael Palin!!! He's 78 years old today (May 5, 1943). Yes, it does seem that the best Python sketches are ones with just John Cleese and Michael (i.e. Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Fish Slapping Dance, Argument, etc.) for some reason.
I heard this on the radio! Thank you so much for watching 🥰
It's interesting because, generally, Cleese wrote his sketches with Graham Chapman while Palin mostly wrote his with Terry Jones while Eric Idle usually wrote on his own. I suppose there must have been quite a lot of crossover though.
@@DawnMarieX I'd love for you t react to Michael Palin's travel series. Around the world in 80 days is fantastic.
@@ivorbiggun710 Not that much in terms of writing, but the casting of who played which part didn't necessarily correspond to who wrote the sketch. Cleese/Chapman wrote a lot of these two-character sketches, and Cleese/Palin worked well as a team, usually with John as the bizarre character and Michael as more of a straight man.
Fish Slapping Dance trivia: the water level in the canal was far lower, on the day of shooting, than it was when they chose the location.... Michael Palin gamely took that 15 foot plunge anyway.
That was shot before they had their own show and it ended up on the show.
😂 That's amazing
I love how you can see what level the water was suppose to be at.
@@StanSwan MPFC first aired October 5, 1969 and the Fish dance was filmed in 1971 for a special called Euroshow 71 then aired again on MPFC in 1972.
@@DawnMarieX But not true. MPFC first aired October 5, 1969 and the Fish dance was filmed in 1971 for a special called Euroshow 71 then aired again on MPFC in 1972.
The Cheese Shop sketch is a must!! Great Cleese-Palin skit
Thank you so much for these reactions. You've restored my faith in humanity. I've never met girls who thought Monty python were the least bit funny. Every girl we watched these shows with back in the day just sat there with a blank stare. Seeing the pure joy in your eyes brightens the day so much.
I've loved MONTY PYTHON forever!!! John Cleese and Michael Palin (along with Eric Idle) are my favorites. The two were hilarious in A FISH CALLED WONDA... should watch if you haven't.
There was a series some time ago where each Python was asked what their favourite sketches were. They all had different opinions, except one thing. *Everybody* had the fish slapping dance on the list. 🐟🤣
Can’t imagine why 😂😂😂
Silly and laughing until you cry is normal with Monty Python. Your eyes are lovely in this video Dawn. Carmans laugh is a delight!!!!
You are such a wonderful and thoughtful mother. That laugh is exactly what Carmen needed to start feeling better.
Another great work by Michael Palin is Ripping Yarns, especially 'The Curse of the Claw'. Oh, and 'Tompkinson's School Days'.
Michael Palin always said the Fish Slapping Dance was his way to test someone's sense of humor. Clearly, you have a great one😁😍
Yay! 😂
He went to film in North Korea recently and showed it to his guide there. She couldn't help but laugh at it.
It's so much fun to see someone howling at the real old stuff. Because, many, many years ago I laughed my ass off at this stuff. And YES, Cleese and Palin were always my favorites. Hands down. For decades now.
The fish-slapping dance is just a masterpiece of sublime silliness, by the comedy gods themselves, Monty Python. I'm still in stitches every time I see it. Comedy genius! :D
Hi, you have a beautiful smile😊
Why wasn't this sketch complete? I missed the silly walks of the secretary bringing the tea.
No, it is totally normal to laugh as you are, I am laughing with you and I have seen them 100's of times.
If John Cleese and Michael Palin can see this video, they would be so HAPPY to see that their work is being loved by yet another generation of Fans. :D
I agree, though given that people still enjoy 90 year old Marx Brothers films, I think it's safe to say the Pythons know they've reached comedy immortality.
Absolutely love that you're laughing along! Thank you soo much for watching 😁
@@DawnMarieX Generation X stands with you.
@@DawnMarieX of course we laugh along with you. The sketches are just blooy good.
The guys in line in the back of the silly walk is a reference to another great skit involving government paperwork
In an interview either John or Michael said "The Fish Slapping Dance" was there favorite skit. I agree with you they have the funnier ones. Although my favorite is "The Spanish Inquisition"
Fun fact Michael Palin and John Cleese always used to try and make each other laugh deliberately while they were filming these sketches. This one is my favorites.hope your daughter feels better soon.
Your daughter is adorable! I believe that letters to John Cleese and Michael Palin would make them both smile and she (maybe) will receive letters in return!
"Argument Clinic" is both funny and very clever in its wordplay. One of my favourite Python sketches.
No it isn't
@@eatenbybats Yes it is! 😁
@@crazydavec3861 you just contradicted me!
@@MacTechG4 I'm contradicting you on my own time
The fish slapping dance has to be one of the funniest things ever put on tv and it’s just so simple
Watching you react to (and laugh at) my favorite Monty Python moments just makes my day! Some more great Monty Python skits include "The Cheese Shop", "Fish License" and the "Killer Joke". I mean, all the skits are great but these are some more classic ones. Keep up the great work!
Aww love it! Thank you so much for watching
Don't forget "The Parrot"
Once again, I agree wholeheartedly with you in that John and Michael are my two favorite also. Their chemistry is undeniable. These men could make you laugh until you cried.!!!!!
Monty Python is was and always will be the most revolutionary comedy group ever. By the way your laugh is brilliant, such a treat. Great stuff.
Sorry to disagree but The Goons were far more revolutionary especially if you consider they were created in the mid-1950s,
These sketches are best enjoyed in the context of an entire episode.
The argument clinic was placed after the end credits of that episodes with references to earlier at the end of that sketch, making it all the funnier.
O Monty Python é demais....o humor inglês é o melhor....eles influenciaram o humor no mundo todo, aqui no Brasil a influência deles é enorme até hoje....
Interesting bit: John Cleese and Michael Palin were in separate writing groups. Normally Cleese wrote with Graham Chapman, and Michael Palin wrote with Terry Jones.
In these miserable days - it is wonderful to see such joy in a person! Keep laughing Dawn!!
Aww thank you! And thank you so much for watching 🥰
@@DawnMarieX -You should watch the "Spam Sketch" ,if you haven't already...
John Cleese and Michael Palin were both in A Fish Called Wanda. Very funny, worth watching.
Cleese and Palin are an underrated comedy team. They did a lot of their sketches together. They even take whimsical shots at each other during interviews. They're so funny together. The first time I watched the Fish Slapping Dance with my wife, she laughed so hard I thought she was going to pass out!
"The art of not being seen" and "The Albatross" sketch are totally brilliant.
You have to be one of the best mums in the world, brilliant.
Twit Olympics used to have me rolling on the floor.
That's awesome Mum and daughter laughing together at silly walk.
Been laughing to python since the late 60s. They have there own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, "Pythonesque "
Most of their output is absolutely timeless.
God bless them!! They've kept me laughing 😅since I discovered their genius in high school
and the computer program python was named after them.
Someone else commented this in another video so I checked and right enough! Amazing
Seeing you and your daughter laughing together was a delight.😂
The ministry of silly walks and the Spanish Inquisition are probably the funniest skits they ever did
Marriage counselor is historical. 💏 I mean to say hysterical.
John Cleese and MIke Palin desk or shop sketches are among the best, eg. the Cheese Shop. Is that your daughter? Good to see you're bringing her up correctly on Python! A hidden gem is Eric Idle's butcher who is alternately polite & rude to Palin. It's about midway thru series 2. Idle is another master of wordplay, like Ronnie Barker from The Two Ronnies.
Every time I pass Teddington Lock always think of this sketch
I brought my kids up on a healthy dose of Monty Python and now as adults I'm proud of their crazy sense of humour. Family dinners are insane and I love it!
Hope your family dinners don’t end up like the Mr. Creosote sketch
Beware of anything wafer thin
So cool to see another generation of Python fans.
This is far too cute. A beautiful lady laughing at the funniest stuff in the world :D
Silly walks is probably the very best MP bit ever. But the fishslapping dance is up there too. I also like Mr Hilter very much...
"You wouldn't have had much fun in Stalingrad"..."I don't know about these 'boncentration bamps'"...LOL!
Thank you, I'll check it out 😁
A group of us boys got detention when we left school assembly doing the silly walk a day or so after we saw the show on telly. Now, about 50 years later I'd probably put my hip out!
Out of all the skits that he did, the fish slapping dance is Michael Palin's favorite skit that he did.
Cleese (who was already a TV star by the time the group came together - the BBC almost perceived it as John Cleese & Friends) was partially motivated to form the troupe after seeing Palin in the children's afternoon comedy sketch show 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'. Since he was mining a similar brand of absurdity in 'At Last, The 1948 Show' it was a no-brainer. Although they hardly ever wrote together on the show, their on-screen pairing is undoubtedly the best.
Generations watching Python. Thus does comedy become classic.
I’m doing my duty passing it down 😂
God bless you for using the word ‘duty’, Dawn....Thank you, on behalf of old Python heads
Firstly, I started watching these guys in the mid 70s. Absolutely loved it then. Still do. Secondly, bravo to the young lady for doing a silly walk as she left the room. Monty Python would be proud!
The fish slapping dance is John cleese's favourite sketch. 🤣😂
Can’t imagine why 😂😂😂
The Fish Slapping Dance perfectly encapsulates the comedic relationship between John Cleese and Michael Palin.
If you haven't seen it, you should do a reaction to A Fish Called Wanda
I too was going to recommend it, as it has your two favorite Pythons (John Cleese and Michael Palin) in it + some American talent, as well.
That's a movie, btw.
Thank you it's on top of my list 😁
Yes, the argument clinic was one of their best sketches. I like it so much that I used to recite it to friends. I even mimic their accent. I used to record it and play it back in school during home room.
Sadly the silly walk clip you saw stopped before the secretary came in with some tea.
I’ll have to find the full clip 😁
@@DawnMarieX yes! You will die laughing!
Yes, Mrs. Two Lumps. Tea everywhere.
Possibly the most natural outburst of fabulous and spontaneous laughter I've ever witnessed. You clearly have the right 'funny bones' for the great Monty Python. Whenever I see Michael Palin fall in the canal I always worry he gets injured....so I'm worrying while laughing. Doh !
We all crack up throughout these skits, no matter how many times we’ve seen them. It was refreshing that you invited your daughter to watch a couple of them at the end, and equally refreshing that you previewed them first so she didn’t see some of the (now) offensive stuff.
Just makes me happy to watch someone laugh till they cry like I did when I first watched it over thirty years ago.
I'm 62 and have been in many relationships, but I've never been with a woman who "got" Monty Python. So I love your reactions. It's a wonderful thing to see.
I used to watch the Benny Hill show when I was a kid also. I wonder if she'd like that?
@@DavidSmith-pg1ob Tough to find a modern woman who hasn't been brain-washed into being offended by Benny Hill.
Aww thank you so much for watching! 🥰
@@DavidSmith-pg1ob say no more, lets find out 😂
@@DawnMarieX Ok, here's a fairly typical Benny Hill collection of skits: ua-cam.com/video/ZkgB1PyUiIQ/v-deo.html
The fact you're a mom makes this video much more lovely. I always saw mom energy from you, it's why I found you super charming.
You should definitely try to have your daughter react more at least to the Monty Python stuff. It's good to get new generations involved with the classics, and she seems to enjoy it.
Agreed! Seeing both their goofy grins was great. She definitely has to vet them first though, their skits weren't always what would be considered G today :p
I agree but I have to check them first I don't want her seeing any silly willies 😂
@@tzuyd goofy grins 😂😂😂
@@DawnMarieX Things like dead parrot/lumberjack song and such. About 99% of Monty Python is perfectly safe for her... Just Life of Brian is a no no at this age because of the nudity.
@@menotu000 I'd say Mr Creosote from Meaning Of Life probably isn't for kids either..
👍☺️ #YAY 😃👌
Thanks for the Fun and Laughs, Ladies! 🖖🤓✌️
I think she'd really like the History of the Joke sketch from the Hollywood Bowl show.
Albatross!?
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
That is one way to tell you how funny it was/is. Laugh until you cry.
Your daughter should react with you more often. Monty Python is the funniest team in history.
Its no coincidence that nearly all the most iconic Python sketches are John Cleese and Michael Palin. They perform so well together. The Fish Slapping Dance, I don't know why but the colonial era uniforms just make it perfect. Comedy gold! Another great couple of sketches with them are Hungarian Phrasebook and Bee License
I often laugh until I cry also!! These guys are great!!!
I'm so glad your daughter liked the silly walks sketch. I was about her age the first time I saw it, 1970 something. The next day at school everyone was walking around like that.
It's so cool to see Monty Python still killing it, decades later, with both kids and adults.
I would tell my kids I'd do those walks if they didn't behave when we were out
There happen to be a number of places around the world where "Silly Walks" are actually encouraged..!
Like in a village in Berkshire in May 2020;
a town in Sweden or somewhere similar;
even down in Tasmania (in Aus)...
That’s amazing! 😂
Michael Palin lol yeah it's okay to laugh hard I laugh every time I watch John Cleese and Michael Palin together. (your right Dawn these two have a chemistry that plays off each other so well. apparently the characters they come up with are a combination of people they new at university.
My favorite part was watching Carmen grin and then laughing. YES these men will make you laugh until you cry.
I could watch the fish slapping dance a thousand times and I would still laugh every time.
I love how the camera immediately flips from one to the other as they're arguing.
FWIW, the long queue of men in coveralls that Cleese passes in the street is a callback to a sketch earlier in the episode.
The Pythons' first film was "And Now for Something Completely Different." It is a compilation of some of their best sketches from the first season of Flying Circus. It was cobbled together for US release, to get the American public interested in the show. As a result various PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) channels around the US started to run Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Aside from the Python productions there are two other John Cleese shows/films you must watch.
"Fawlty Towers" written by and starring Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth is one of the funniest, some say _the_ funniest, sitcoms ever made. If you've not watched it you're really missing something.
"A Fish Called Wanda," which was also written by John Cleese, stars Cleese, Michael Palin, Jamie Leigh Curtis, and Kevin Kline. It is brilliantly funny. It received several Oscar nominations, with Kevin Kline winning Best Supporting Actor, and a bunch of BAFTA nominations, with Cleese and Palin winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
Fish Slapping Dance is on of John Cleese’s favourites. He loved working with Michael Palin and chose him as his ‘luxury item’ on Desert Island Discs.
Laughing is good medicine. I hope this skit helped Carmen to feel better. Laugh until you cry is proper reaction to these guys.
In the Fish Slapping Dance, I just love the way John Cleese lines up Michael Palin with a 2ft long Salmon, and wallops him into the canal with it :D
Also, second the guy who recommended "How not to be seen"... That one has to be one of my favourite Python sketches
Yes Dawn the fish slapping dance is John and Michael again...... Two of my favorites also....!!!!! I only wish we had video of Carmen;s silly walk.... Thank you....
Dawn,
That is one way you know it is funny, when you laugh until you cry. I used to do it ALL the time with the Three Stooges.
Good job Mom. You getting Carmen to watch these and laugh is good medicine for her. That combined with lots of fluids and plenty of rest will have her right as rain!!!!!!!!!!!... great job lady..... Silly is funny!
There's not many reactions I'll watch again and again, but honestly Dawn, you nail it.
The fish slapping dance is the single greatest piece of comedy ever
Your laugh is so real and warm and real.. I agree with you that John and Michael are brilliant together... This is a wonderful skit by the masters... Dawn, my dear, laughing until we cry is one way we know that it is good... And these men are legend. So dry yet brilliant. Talent... With government backing..?? In America these days this is a chant that many folks repeat over and over. Something for nothing... Carmen has a great smile and a good laugh... And a silly walk... Laughing until you cry is normal when you watch Monty....
Yeah, there were some of these FC skits where we would rewind & watch over & over, laughing till we cried.
Love it! 😂
I love when you just pause everything so you can cackle for a few minutes
I'm an American and I've been watching Python since 1973. Best comedy product from the UK...EVER !!! Loads of competition I know, but still the best.
I've seen the 'Spam' sketch at least 100 times, and it still makes me laugh.
If you love Cleese and Palin, A Fish Called Wanda is essential viewing.
The Piranha Brothers is my favorite Monty Python sketch!!!! PLEASE REACT TO THAT!!!!
Also, Confuse-A-Cat is diabolically silly!!!!
Also, also...
Mr. Hilter is great!!!!!
Also, also, and.....also again....
I love your reaction vids and I dig how you're introducing your daughter to this brilliant library of amazing sketch comedy group!!!!
Cheers, from Virginia (the states)!!!!
Thank you! I'll check them out 😁 and thank you so much for watching!
Dawn, I watch this 3 years on and it still makes me giggle
Ahhh damn. The end of the argument clinic sketch with the policemen is what makes it even better.
You are both adorable! It was so nice to see you and Carmen react together
Palin's hat amazingly stays on the platform.
Refreshing and beautiful to see someone considerably younger laughing at the same things that made me laugh so much when i roughly the same age....God bless you.
What makes the _Ministry of Silly Walks_ skit _especially_ funny is that every single party involved carries the bearing of someone _utterly_ serious.
"Oh, yes. We're just going about our business. This is how people _normally_ walk, don't you know."
The walk John Cleese did in the Germans episode of Fawlty Towers is my favorite. He got them legs above his head!