This is from Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl, a live show they did in 1982. It has some of the best stuff they've ever done, they were on fire that night.
This is my favourite version of the sketch. It has Michael Palin in it who is a Yorkshireman being born in Sheffield. The late great Graham Chapman and Terry Jones aren't too bad. The humour comes from the way they try to outdo each other in describing the hardships they had to endure.
Strictly speaking it's not a Monty Python sketch as it comes from an old comedy show called "At Last The 1948 Show" and it never appeared on Monty Python, but nonetheless it is hilarious and fits perfectly with the type of humor they became famous for. Here's the original (featuring Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor as well as Graham Chapman and John Cleese): ua-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/v-deo.htmlsi=E5dkMfRYoh_gd5Ok
I'm a Yorkshireman and I didn't live in a house with an inside toilet and bathroom till I was six,my first job paid 12 quid a week and nearly half of that went in taxes-no exaggeration either case-but we were happy!
My first job on a Saturday morning in a large Central London Department Store was £1.50 from 9am-1pm to replace a member of the regular staff who had alternate Saturdays off. You never knew which Dept you were going to work in. I was in " Birthday Cards" when they brought in Decimalisation on a Saturday which was great fun converting 240 Old Pennies into 100 new ones for the Old Dears !......Next week modeled Scalextric Cars then Cutlery Dept then Paints etc. The best was the Shoes Department where you earned the same £1.50 for the morning plus all that you could nick. I remember selling an American a £3 pair of shoes and pocketing it thus tripling my take-home pay :).. I confess I am not entirely sure that the " all you can nick " feature was part of the official Company policy though...
Glad you enjoyed it 😀 4 Yorkshiremen is very much a scripted sketch, and was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman originally for a show they did prior to Monty Python called And Now The 1948 Show. This sketch really drives home to me the notion that Yorkshire folk have a superiority complex AND inferiority complex at the same time LOL. And as others have pointed out, this was from Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl - in 1979, I think. They did live performances, but this was one of the few that was recorded and released to the public. A true classic by any standard. Anyway, I’m stoked that you are doing reactions to Monty Python - hope you’ll look into more of them! Congratulations with your new baby! 🙏😀❤️
The brilliant Monty Python....fortunate to see live them live a couple of times. Watch them on tv but better still get the albums and lie back with headphones and listen to the sketches...awesome!
The 4 Yorkshire men is indeed a great sketch live. As indeed is the 'Dead Parrot' sketch which I believe you may have seen. The live versions seem to be more extreme than the TV or studio versions.
The original sketch predated the formation of the Monty Python team. It was from the 1960s, and I believe it was performed in the TV series 'At Last, The 1948 Show'.
Think Yorkshire is about same as east Midlands for Norse DNA, but they are regions with highest concentration of Norse DNA in England... Shetland and Orkneys are probably highest for UK. Sorry to butt in with a comment but it's a subject I find fascinating!
Oh my Goodness, Thankyou for bringing Winston on screen, so lovely to see him x Classic old Python on stage piece. People still say things like this as a joke in this country x
I saw them live at Drury Lane (a small West End theatre) in 1975. I’m 62. They famously did The Hollywood Bowl., in which some sketch content had to be modified so that it would resonate with American audiences. I think place names changed.
The Python's didn't perform live regularly, but this was from "Live at The Hollywood Bowl", which was a one-off. The sketch was written a long time before this.
It wasn't improvised, originally appeared in the "At last it's the 1948 show" with a different cast, Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke Taylor, made in the 1960's.
My wife’s family as a bairn w’ so poor she used to be pushed over (pronounced ‘hover’ without the ‘h’) fence in’t pit to pick lumps o (pronounced like a a baby ‘o’) coal (pronounced cu-el) to burn on’t fire..true poverty story from Barnsley
It is a famous sketch, not originally by Python. But it is so good that they included it in their roadshow. Note that there was no John Cleese. The original had Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor in it - can't remember the other two but I think John Cleese was one. There were a lot of people interchanging, most out of Oxbridge, but including Marty Feldman and the two Ronnie's (Barker and Corbett), John Bird, David Frost and ladies such as Eleanor Bron, Carol Cleveland, Millicent Martin. It marked the change in culture from strict class differentiation and was probably started by the satire of Beyond the Fringe with the late, great, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Alan Bennet and Jonathan Miller. They changed everything.
Did they tour towns? You could say that...This was from a recorded performance at The Hollywood Bowl. They toured (obviously) the UK, and Canada as well as appearing for a runs at the New York City Center and The Hollywood Bowl and I believe in other countries in Europe.
Humour changes/develops over the years so the humour of its day doesn't always translate to the modern viewer in the same way . When Monty Python first appeared on BBC 2 (i think) i was a young teenager. The talk in school the following day was always about M Python. A ground-breaking comedy classic.
Original script from 1960's the show was called *At last the 1948 show" This sketch is from "The Secret Policeman's Ball " the routine has often been mistaken as a Monty Python Sketch some of the actors who were in the original went on to create the Monty Python Show, worth seeking it out very grainy just as funny
The original had Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman it was black and white and was done in 1967. This is still good though :)
Les Dawson was the master of "We were so poor" jokes. If you haven't done so already I suggest you review some of his work including the sketches he did with John Cleese in the 1970.
My great uncle moved from Tyneside to Yorkshire in 1946 after many years living there a local asked him "Are you from Yorkshire " No he replied " Just careful "
The sketch was written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman and originally performed on their TV series "At Last the 1948 Show" in 1967. "Monty Python Live at Drury Lane" is a live album released by Monty Python in 1974. It was recorded on the final night of their four-week run at the Drury Lane Theatre in London earlier that year and edited onto disc with new studio linking material by Eric Idle and Michael Palin. The majority of the sketches are from Flying Circus and vary slightly from their television counterparts, although "Cocktail Bar" was written for the third series but not used. The team also revived sketches from At Last The 1948 Show, including "Secret Service", "Wrestling" and "Four Yorkshiremen" - the latter on its way to being adopted as a Python standard.
I concur ... Life of Brian ... an absolute must.. It will give you years of follow up conversations .. Life of Brian is topical even now globally .. travel anywhere .. talk to anyone ... but not Brian, his mother won't allow.
Hate to burst your bubble but this isn't actually an original Monty Python Sketch it was written by the team members but was originally written for another show called At Last the 1948 show. The original line up being John Cleese Graham Chapman Tim Brooke Taylor and Marty Feldman
From "At last the 1948 show" Cleese, Chapman, Tim brook-Taylor and Marty Feldman originally (1967). This vid was from "Live at the Hollywood bowl" (1982)
As some of the previous correspondents have pointed out!, the original of the sketch was performed on At Last the 1948 Show. The title came from a writers joke about the procrastination of commissioning television executives. The series was executive produced by the late David Frost (who the pythons did a cruel,but very funny sketch about in the second series) and was only shown in London by Redufusion Television for 2 series in 1967. Most of the series was wiped, but a few poor quality episodes survive. Some sketches that survive show the beginnings of the surrealist style that became the pythons trademark.
Much of Monty Python was even too wacky for me, but there were some gems. But as a Yorkshireman , I can tell you that none of em had it as rough as me. But I were happy.
Check out the original performance of this sketch, "pre Python'. Look up... At Last The 1948 Show, Yorkshiremen... On UA-cam. Originally performed on itv in the late 1960's.
"Gi ore wi thisen soft lad , tha waint do nowt" "Honestly mukka, if a got a quid everytime i erd that" "If a dont see thi threwh week al si thi threwh winda...terahh"
It wasn’t originally a Monty Python sketch, it came from “At Last the 1948 Show”, broadcast in 1967 (the title was a dig at how long tv executives kept shows on the shelf before broadcasting them!) with Marty Feldman (RIP, taken far too soon, try to find some of his sketches like the “Thing in a basket at the vets”), and Tim Brooke-Taylor later of The Goodies (recently RIP, of C-19 :( ).
One of favourite Monty Python sketches is The Batley towns women's Guilds reenactment of Pearl Harbour. Batley, of course is in Gods County, Yorkshire.
@@milesdust3465 where they also did the sketches from their German production of 1972, including the Olympics ("here we are at the start of the 100 metres for people who can't swim.... we'll be back when they fish out the bodies" and the 200 metres for people who think they are chickens (The american Zatopek, who thinks he has been a Rhode island red for 2 years)
My nephew went back to nursery last week after lockdown, one of his friends told him he had been playing with his mummy for the last couple of months, my nephew said he had been eating breakfast and tidying up. Four years old and a proper little Yorkshireman trying to out do his friends about how tough his home life is!
I believe that was from their “Live at Drury Lane” theatre show. I had the LP record of it. Had to play it many times as laughed so much kept missing bits
My fave version of this sketch, of which there are many. From the Hollywood Bowl gig. Its more of a reverse Oneupmanship thing for me. Like a lot of their sketches it works on the absurdity of observations of everyday life, taken to the nth degree.
The sketch you just watched was an extract of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. You can probably still get the whole show on DVD or streaming. Love your reactions. As Scotsmen, we dream of being soft southern Yorkshiremen! They like cricket, you know!
When they became well established, they would perform on stage , but mostly in America, because the TV shows were all made in Britain, although obviously, available on Tape and DVD in most countries. But later, they would perform on stage,as special anniversaries.
Being from Lancashire (there nearest neighbours west of the Pennines)I do enjoy seeing Yorkshiremen getting the mickey taken out of them. Although I think a lot of Southern English dont think that there's a difference between us lol. Also Michael Palin is a proud Yorkshiremen and once did a comedy short where he played the most boring man in the world (A Yorkshireman) and famously gave a Shovel to UberYorkshireman and Chat Show host Michael Parkinson. Engraved on the shovel were the words " to the second most boring man in Yorkshire"
Yorkshire is the Texas of England where everything is bigger and better BUT Yorkshire outdoes Texas because Yorkshire also claims the worst of everything as well!
Marty Feldman helped write the original sketch. Amongst many others, it's worth checking out "The affair " (or Marty makes a cup of cocoa), "The loneliness of the long distance golfer", & "lightning tours" Enjoy! ( keep safe & well too 😊)
It's amazing all these years later that people would discover this comedy Troup that watched as a boy, but then again they were so funny and a little offensive I would say. If you want to see a great old sitcom, watch ' Get Smart', staring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. I'm sure if you put that on this channel, people would like it.
John Cheese revealed years later that the clergymen in the show you mention had arrived late for the studio showing of the film and missed the start of it where it is crucially clear that the 3 kings went to the wrong stable and found Brian, while Jesus was in an adjacent barn. They were thus arguing on a false premise and made to look quite foolish. Cheese says he felt sorry for them...
Not sure if you understand the basis of the english class system and the nouveau riche. When they make it financially they spend most of time harking back to the days of being poor and how tough life was. This sketch parodies this very situation to great effect.
The Monty Python team did a few live tours around the UK in the seventies, I saw them in Southampton. The Bishop of Somewhere and Malcolm Muggeridge had a debate with John Cleese and Michael Palin on TV but the rightous brothers admitted to Michael Palin after the interview they hadn't actually seen the film but it was a jolly good debate; it was rather par for the course in the time of Mary Whitehouse's "Festival of Light". Lord Longford is another "character" of the times who is worth Googling.
john griffiths The fish sketch always makes me laugh, same as Dick Emery as Mandy when he trips up, why it’s funny I can’t tell you but I laugh every times!
it's a repeat of a sketch originally performed in one of their t.v. shows. There is genuinely believed to be such a thing as the "professional northerner". These revel in their hardiness in contrast to soft southerners. My Yorkshire parents are examples.
that was originally a sketch on the tv show, which they performed at the Hollywood Bowl a few years later, so yes it was scripted and reproduced in front of the crowd
This is an unusual sketch because its pseudo improve. The basic shell stays the same but the extra bits can be changed on the fly. Like said below it was originally from "At last the 1948 show" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch The version with Alan rickman is funny too ua-cam.com/video/7Lb-2VaJYPw/v-deo.html Tis indeed a comic standard.
Some Yorkshiremen will always respond with one upmanship, IE if you went on Holiday to Tenby they went on holiday to Elevenby. The original sketch wasn't by Python but I think their performance is tremendous, the late Tim Brooke Taylor of the Goodies fame was part of the original gang who performed it I think he was the writer if my memory serves. You should watch the the debate about The Life of Brian , very interesting, I think Tim Rice was the Host , different times. I keep telling the kids today about my childhood but they won't believe me .
This is from Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl, a live show they did in 1982. It has some of the best stuff they've ever done, they were on fire that night.
The Secret Policeman's Ball and its sequels were also great. Most of them can be found on UA-cam.
You can always tell a Yorkshireman but you can't tell him much
I'm so proud and grateful that you called your baby Winston.
It was one upmanship taken to another level , absurd but so funny .
This is my favourite version of the sketch. It has Michael Palin in it who is a Yorkshireman being born in Sheffield. The late great Graham Chapman and Terry Jones aren't too bad. The humour comes from the way they try to outdo each other in describing the hardships they had to endure.
Strictly speaking it's not a Monty Python sketch as it comes from an old comedy show called "At Last The 1948 Show" and it never appeared on Monty Python, but nonetheless it is hilarious and fits perfectly with the type of humor they became famous for. Here's the original (featuring Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor as well as Graham Chapman and John Cleese): ua-cam.com/video/VKHFZBUTA4k/v-deo.htmlsi=E5dkMfRYoh_gd5Ok
Yes, I'm aware of the original. I think the Pythons improved on it.
I'm a Yorkshireman and I didn't live in a house with an inside toilet and bathroom till I was six,my first job paid 12 quid a week and nearly half of that went in taxes-no exaggeration either case-but we were happy!
Some people have toilets inside the house...?? ..well I'll go the bottom of our stairs....if we had any ...
You were lucky. My first job was £4 a week.
@@replevideo6096 luxury
My first job on a Saturday morning in a large Central London Department Store was £1.50 from 9am-1pm to replace a member of the regular staff who had alternate Saturdays off. You never knew which Dept you were going to work in. I was in " Birthday Cards" when they brought in Decimalisation on a Saturday which was great fun converting 240 Old Pennies into 100 new ones for the Old Dears !......Next week modeled Scalextric Cars then Cutlery Dept then Paints etc. The best was the Shoes Department where you earned the same £1.50 for the morning plus all that you could nick. I remember selling an American a £3 pair of shoes and pocketing it thus tripling my take-home pay :)..
I confess I am not entirely sure that the " all you can nick " feature was part of the official Company policy though...
Luxury.
"Yorkshire Born, Yorkshire Bred, Strong in't arm and thick in't head"
haha
Aye
Perfection 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eat all, drink all, pay nowt. And if ever tha does does owt for nowt, always do it for tha self.
The Yorkshire Prayer
God bless me and the wife.
My son John, and his wife.
Us four
No more
Amen
The Monty Python “Norwegian Blue Parrot” sketch was voted one of the best ever, give that one a look.
That sketch originally came from "At Last The 1948 Show" some years earlier.
13 years to be exact :)
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The '1948 sketch' was from the 1960s with the late Marty Feldman in it
@@ItsNotRealLife ... yeah.. I know... Hence why I said "13 years to be exact"..........
Old Yorkshire folk are always the most 'hard done by'. It's like a competition
I and my pal always lapse into references from this sketch when we start talking about how things were in our young days, over a pint of course.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀 4 Yorkshiremen is very much a scripted sketch, and was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman originally for a show they did prior to Monty Python called And Now The 1948 Show.
This sketch really drives home to me the notion that Yorkshire folk have a superiority complex AND inferiority complex at the same time LOL.
And as others have pointed out, this was from Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl - in 1979, I think. They did live performances, but this was one of the few that was recorded and released to the public. A true classic by any standard.
Anyway, I’m stoked that you are doing reactions to Monty Python - hope you’ll look into more of them!
Congratulations with your new baby! 🙏😀❤️
how many tykes do you actually know, Diomedes ? ........off ya go.
This sketch was partly written by Tim Brooke Taylor ( of " The Goodies," fame) who died recently.
RIP Tim x
Oh God, I hadn't heard he'd died. How very, very sad.
@@hippyfriend Of the dreaded Covid, I'm afraid.
It was, and it was performed before Monty Python was formed, it's not really a Monty Python sketch at all.
Tim was an amazing comedy legend.
Your baby has unintentionally stolen the show, so beautiful.
The life of Brian has to be their masterpiece
That’s what I tell people and they say, “No, Holy Grail.” I love Holy Grail, but Life of Brian is better.
Aww congratulations on the new addition, you have a beautiful family.
The brilliant Monty Python....fortunate to see live them live a couple of times.
Watch them on tv but better still get the albums and lie back with headphones and listen to the sketches...awesome!
The 4 Yorkshire men is indeed a great sketch live. As indeed is the 'Dead Parrot' sketch which I believe you may have seen. The live versions seem to be more extreme than the TV or studio versions.
The original sketch predated the formation of the Monty Python team. It was from the 1960s, and I believe it was performed in the TV series 'At Last, The 1948 Show'.
Fun Fact: Yorkshire has the highest concentration of Viking DNA in the UK. #JusSayin
And what can you tell me about the genetics of Vikings 🤓
@@ThePostmodernFamily It's the BEST, and we've got MORE of it. #1up 😂
Think Yorkshire is about same as east Midlands for Norse DNA, but they are regions with highest concentration of Norse DNA in England... Shetland and Orkneys are probably highest for UK. Sorry to butt in with a comment but it's a subject I find fascinating!
moody bI +++Jorvik forever!!!+++
That was live in USA.
Oh my Goodness, Thankyou for bringing Winston on screen, so lovely to see him x Classic old Python on stage piece. People still say things like this as a joke in this country x
I saw them live at Drury Lane (a small West End theatre) in 1975. I’m 62. They famously did The Hollywood Bowl., in which some sketch content had to be modified so that it would resonate with American audiences. I think place names changed.
The Python's didn't perform live regularly, but this was from "Live at The Hollywood Bowl", which was a one-off. The sketch was written a long time before this.
I think it was in 1977, am I right?
It wasn't improvised, originally appeared in the "At last it's the 1948 show" with a different cast, Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke Taylor, made in the 1960's.
My wife’s family as a bairn w’ so poor she used to be pushed over (pronounced ‘hover’ without the ‘h’) fence in’t pit to pick lumps o (pronounced like a a baby ‘o’) coal (pronounced cu-el) to burn on’t fire..true poverty story from Barnsley
This was one of their most famous sketches from the tv series and they were wearing the Yorkshire flat caps and threadbare clothes.
They played the Hollywood Bowl! They were HUGE in America! They made 3 of the funniest films ever made too. :)
It is a famous sketch, not originally by Python. But it is so good that they included it in their roadshow. Note that there was no John Cleese. The original had Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor in it - can't remember the other two but I think John Cleese was one. There were a lot of people interchanging, most out of Oxbridge, but including Marty Feldman and the two Ronnie's (Barker and Corbett), John Bird, David Frost and ladies such as Eleanor Bron, Carol Cleveland, Millicent Martin. It marked the change in culture from strict class differentiation and was probably started by the satire of Beyond the Fringe with the late, great, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Alan Bennet and Jonathan Miller. They changed everything.
Did they tour towns? You could say that...This was from a recorded performance at The Hollywood Bowl.
They toured (obviously) the UK, and Canada as well as appearing for a runs at the New York City Center and The Hollywood Bowl and I believe in other countries in Europe.
Humour changes/develops over the years so the humour of its day doesn't always translate to the modern viewer in the same way . When Monty Python first appeared on BBC 2 (i think) i was a young teenager. The talk in school the following day was always about M Python. A ground-breaking comedy classic.
It had to have been on BBC 1 because my parents set didn't receive2
@@richardmoss5934 Ah yeah and i forgot that BBC2 was launched years after BBC1
Original script from 1960's the show was called *At last the 1948 show" This sketch is from "The Secret Policeman's Ball " the routine has often been mistaken as a Monty Python Sketch some of the actors who were in the original went on to create the Monty Python Show, worth seeking it out very grainy just as funny
The original had Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman it was black and white and was done in 1967. This is still good though :)
Les Dawson was the master of "We were so poor" jokes. If you haven't done so already I suggest you review some of his work including the sketches he did with John Cleese in the 1970.
I meant the 1970s.
My great uncle moved from Tyneside to Yorkshire in 1946 after many years living there a local asked him "Are you from Yorkshire " No he replied " Just careful "
I think this was their live performance at the Hollywood Bowl California
It was recorded at the Hollywood Bowl.
You’re nice people, it’s interesting to see your views, thanks
The sketch was written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman and originally performed on their TV series "At Last the 1948 Show" in 1967.
"Monty Python Live at Drury Lane" is a live album released by Monty Python in 1974. It was recorded on the final night of their four-week run at the Drury Lane Theatre in London earlier that year and edited onto disc with new studio linking material by Eric Idle and Michael Palin. The majority of the sketches are from Flying Circus and vary slightly from their television counterparts, although "Cocktail Bar" was written for the third series but not used. The team also revived sketches from At Last The 1948 Show, including "Secret Service", "Wrestling" and "Four Yorkshiremen" - the latter on its way to being adopted as a Python standard.
I concur ... Life of Brian ... an absolute must.. It will give you years of follow up conversations .. Life of Brian is topical even now globally .. travel anywhere .. talk to anyone ... but not Brian, his mother won't allow.
Hate to burst your bubble but this isn't actually an original Monty Python Sketch it was written by the team members but was originally written for another show called At Last the 1948 show. The original line up being John Cleese Graham Chapman Tim Brooke Taylor and Marty Feldman
In Yorkshire we love our accent and sayings. And especially speaking more broadly to people with a different accent for comedic effect.
oh dear, ms Senior. ( unless ya in a boozer, having t'crack. otherwise, it can be embarassing)
that baby looks so fresh I wen't back through the video to see when she blinked
They have played live shows in america too they were very popular over there i know they have played at the Hollywood bowl.
From "At last the 1948 show" Cleese, Chapman, Tim brook-Taylor and Marty Feldman originally (1967). This vid was from "Live at the Hollywood bowl" (1982)
Great classic pure humour. Not as easy to come across these days
As some of the previous correspondents have pointed out!, the original of the sketch was performed on At Last the 1948 Show. The title came from a writers joke about the procrastination of commissioning television executives. The series was executive produced by the late David Frost (who the pythons did a cruel,but very funny sketch about in the second series) and was only shown in London by Redufusion Television for 2 series in 1967. Most of the series was wiped, but a few poor quality episodes survive. Some sketches that survive show the beginnings of the surrealist style that became the pythons trademark.
Recorded live at the Hollywood Bowl
Much of Monty Python was even too wacky for me, but there were some gems.
But as a Yorkshireman , I can tell you that none of em had it as rough as me.
But I were happy.
It's grim up north.😂
Genius. Thank you.
Check out the original performance of this sketch, "pre Python'. Look up... At Last The 1948 Show, Yorkshiremen... On UA-cam.
Originally performed on itv in the late 1960's.
"Gi ore wi thisen soft lad , tha waint do nowt"
"Honestly mukka, if a got a quid everytime i erd that"
"If a dont see thi threwh week al si thi threwh winda...terahh"
Live at the Hollywood bowl they did
It's filmed at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982! They sold it out for 3 nights. Comedy history!
It wasn’t originally a Monty Python sketch, it came from “At Last the 1948 Show”, broadcast in 1967 (the title was a dig at how long tv executives kept shows on the shelf before broadcasting them!) with Marty Feldman (RIP, taken far too soon, try to find some of his sketches like the “Thing in a basket at the vets”), and Tim Brooke-Taylor later of The Goodies (recently RIP, of C-19 :( ).
One of favourite Monty Python sketches is The Batley towns women's Guilds reenactment of Pearl Harbour. Batley, of course is in Gods County, Yorkshire.
I think that sketch was performed at the Hollywood Bowl
Yes, it was. A fantastic live performance.
@@milesdust3465 where they also did the sketches from their German production of 1972, including the Olympics ("here we are at the start of the 100 metres for people who can't swim.... we'll be back when they fish out the bodies" and the 200 metres for people who think they are chickens (The american Zatopek, who thinks he has been a Rhode island red for 2 years)
Philip Williams 😆 👍🏻
Us Yorkshire man are like Texans, everything is bigger and better in Yorkshire!!!
Check out Monty Python flying circus or the movie The holy Grail
Exactly. North Yorkshire here.
Yorkshire, Gods County.. Bloody luxury living here.. Regards from Yorkshire.
Strange though--why are there so many Yorkies in East Sussex which is 'obviousl' far inferior to Yorkshire?
@@neilcaress9036 Because our missionaries are having trouble educating them. But don't worry everywhere is inferior to Yorkshire .
My nephew went back to nursery last week after lockdown, one of his friends told him he had been playing with his mummy for the last couple of months, my nephew said he had been eating breakfast and tidying up. Four years old and a proper little Yorkshireman trying to out do his friends about how tough his home life is!
I believe that was from their “Live at Drury Lane” theatre show. I had the LP record of it. Had to play it many times as laughed so much kept missing bits
That was live at the Hollywood Bowl, I think in 1982.
You've been to Tenerife, well i've been to Elevenerife.
one of my fave python sketches! the remake/tribute version by harry enfield, vic reeves and others is well worth a watch too :) big love to all :D
I'm a 'Yorkshire-man' and our saying is... 'money is not for spending!!'
This clip was taken from their programme decades ago!
Glad you stop play muzak in the background like previous post
My fave version of this sketch, of which there are many. From the Hollywood Bowl gig. Its more of a reverse Oneupmanship thing for me. Like a lot of their sketches it works on the absurdity of observations of everyday life, taken to the nth degree.
The sketch you just watched was an extract of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. You can probably still get the whole show on DVD or streaming. Love your reactions. As Scotsmen, we dream of being soft southern Yorkshiremen! They like cricket, you know!
not good enough, Carroll face. now beat it, lager shandy head.
When they became well established, they would perform on stage , but mostly in America, because the TV shows were all made in Britain, although obviously, available on Tape and DVD in most countries. But later, they would perform on stage,as special anniversaries.
Being from Lancashire (there nearest neighbours west of the Pennines)I do enjoy seeing Yorkshiremen getting the mickey taken out of them. Although I think a lot of Southern English dont think that there's a difference between us lol. Also Michael Palin is a proud Yorkshiremen and once did a comedy short where he played the most boring man in the world (A Yorkshireman) and famously gave a Shovel to UberYorkshireman and Chat Show host Michael Parkinson. Engraved on the shovel were the words " to the second most boring man in Yorkshire"
That show was from a 4 night stint at the famous Hollywood Bowl in September 1980. I think they needed the money!
You can tell a Yorkshire man OWT but you can't tell him NOWT
Yorkshire is the Texas of England where everything is bigger and better BUT Yorkshire outdoes Texas because Yorkshire also claims the worst of everything as well!
Marty Feldman helped write the original sketch. Amongst many others, it's worth checking out "The affair " (or Marty makes a cup of cocoa), "The loneliness of the long distance golfer", & "lightning tours" Enjoy! ( keep safe & well too 😊)
That was from the live show at the Hollywood Bowl. I saw them there!
They were pretty funny at the time they were considered very outrageous!
Congratulations on your new arrival 🎉🎊👍
Winston will be a proper lad soon.
If you haven't seen it yet try find the Monty python "Ponsing off to Barnsley, mining sketch. I'm sure you'll enjoy it
You two dudes are the business! Do more stuff!
There's only 2 kindsa men- Yorkshiremen and them that wanna be. 😎👍
Geez I would sooner be Scottish than a Yorkshire man
@@mickc7388 Pfft. 🤪
Originally based on the At Last the 1948 Show skit.
It's amazing all these years later that people would discover this comedy Troup that watched as a boy, but then again they were so funny and a little offensive I would say. If you want to see a great old sitcom, watch ' Get Smart', staring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. I'm sure if you put that on this channel, people would like it.
I was 14 when I first watched 50 plus years on still find very 😁
No, it was a very old sketch. They did their version.
Hilarious sketch guys 😂😂😂😂
Felipe: Never ask a man if he's from Yorkshire because, if he is, he will have told you with 30 seconds of meeting him.! :)
haha . one upmanship
John Cheese revealed years later that the clergymen in the show you mention had arrived late for the studio showing of the film and missed the start of it where it is crucially clear that the 3 kings went to the wrong stable and found Brian, while Jesus was in an adjacent barn. They were thus arguing on a false premise and made to look quite foolish. Cheese says he felt sorry for them...
Not sure if you understand the basis of the english class system and the nouveau riche. When they make it financially they spend most of time harking back to the days of being poor and how tough life was. This sketch parodies this very situation to great effect.
At the time Life of Brian came out blasphemy was an imprisonable offence. It was widely banned.
easy there, mizo face. it was on the "statute", but as for "weighing off", not really a goer.
The Monty Python team did a few live tours around the UK in the seventies, I saw them in Southampton. The Bishop of Somewhere and Malcolm Muggeridge had a debate with John Cleese and Michael Palin on TV but the rightous brothers admitted to Michael Palin after the interview they hadn't actually seen the film but it was a jolly good debate; it was rather par for the course in the time of Mary Whitehouse's "Festival of Light". Lord Longford is another "character" of the times who is worth Googling.
Try Monty Python’s Parrot sketch & Fish Slapping Dance sketch
john griffiths The fish sketch always makes me laugh, same as Dick Emery as Mandy when he trips up, why it’s funny I can’t tell you but I laugh every times!
it's a repeat of a sketch originally performed in one of their t.v. shows. There is genuinely believed to be such a thing as the "professional northerner". These revel in their hardiness in contrast to soft southerners. My Yorkshire parents are examples.
that was originally a sketch on the tv show, which they performed at the Hollywood Bowl a few years later, so yes it was scripted and reproduced in front of the crowd
This is an unusual sketch because its pseudo improve. The basic shell stays the same but the extra bits can be changed on the fly.
Like said below it was originally from "At last the 1948 show"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch
The version with Alan rickman is funny too
ua-cam.com/video/7Lb-2VaJYPw/v-deo.html
Tis indeed a comic standard.
Some Yorkshiremen will always respond with one upmanship, IE if you went on Holiday to Tenby they went on holiday to Elevenby. The original sketch wasn't by Python but I think their performance is tremendous, the late Tim Brooke Taylor of the Goodies fame was part of the original gang who performed it I think he was the writer if my memory serves. You should watch the the debate about The Life of Brian , very interesting, I think Tim Rice was the Host , different times. I keep telling the kids today about my childhood but they won't believe me .
It was actually filmed in America, the Hollywood Bowl to be precise.
there's a pretty funny Fry and Laurie sketch about a yorkshireman and a southerner. I think it's called translocation on youtube.
Live long and prosper Winston🖖
Not sure why John Cleese wasn’t in this version considering he was in the original.