Reminds me of an old Soviet joke; a judge comes out of the court laughing and his colleague asks what is so funny. He tells his colleague that he would love to tell him but he just sentenced a guy to 20 years for the joke.
Reminds me a joke of Nasredin Hoja in Turkiye...Nasredin walks down the street and a beggar asks him for some coin... "Don't have any money right now , (but) Do you see this villa top the hill? It is yours!" "Thank you Sir (!), where are the keys?" "Don't ask me , seek the owner who also lives on that street..."
In memory of Graham Chapman: Running at full speed (maybe accelerated for the sketch), shouting "Niet - nieeet - nieeeeet...!", he's absolutely killing me. Rest in peace.
Actually a good majority of their sketches were lame... But the ones that are funny were fucking hilarious. Let's just put it this way, I've seen a lot more bad Monty Python sketches than good ones but the good ones made the bad ones worth it.
Bobby Ewing comedy is subjective The ones u find "lame" may be someone elses favorite For example my grandfather used to like there I'm not dead yet bit and hate the pet shop one I love the pet shop but hate I'm not dead yet it has ceased to be
@@allistairneil8968 don't talk such rubbish, I have never laughed so much in my life as in France with French people. Your comment just goes to show your general ignorance (and particularly your ignorance of the French language).
I admit that I missed that part the first time I saw it because I was focused on Pither since he was the main character and he was on camera while Cleese's character said his line while leaving the cell...
I remember watching this as a kid. It was the one sketch that took up a whole Monty Python episode. And it was so funny. It finished with the traveller back in England, and saying, 'Now that was a lucky escape.'
In looking at this - Monty Python was filmed during the heart of the cold war, yet they were able to get their hands on actual Russian SKS rifles. Now THAT is impressive (now that I think about it).
"The Cycling Tour" episode which I believe was the first time The Pythons wrote a series of sketches packaged as one episode. I particularly liked "How could you miss?" "He moved!" "Shut up!" and "It was all a dream!" "No, dear. This is the dream. You're still in the cell." The random genius of Python. Love it!
The other two were "The Golden Age of Ballooning" and " The Michael Ellis Sketch". "The Cycling Tour" is my ATF and the one I recommend to people who've never seen Monty Python.
@@forrestpalmer You forgot an extremely important one from the same season as Michael Ellis, it was an episode about the most dangerous and terrifying man in the world! The man with the strength of an army! The wisdom of all the scholars in history! The man who had the power to destroy the world.
Nice touch with the poster at the end with 'Burgess and McClean', two notorious British spies working for the Kremlin. 'A Song, a Dance and a Piece of Treachery'
And Eartha Kitt was too far left for regressive USA which had the CIA spy on her. (She supported civil rights which made her an enemy of the state, obviously.) I confess I'm not sure why they chose Pete and Dud for the supporting act.
Please come to Christ for on the saves, do not be gay for he forbids it, be sober for god forbids drunkenness, I don’t say theses things to criticise you, I am convicted to spread the words of Christ and don’t use foul language or do sin as it is of the enemy and. God forbids it, so please come to Christ and ask forgiveness and repent to god and don’t use foul lanquage as fod forbids it, please ask forgiveness and repent to god and don’t reject how god made you human please and don’t reject how god made you human please, repent and ask forgiveness to god please and I don’t mean this I’m a bad way, I am convicted by the holy sprit to spread the word of Jesus Christ our lord and saviour and I don’t mean that in a bad way, I am convicted by the holy sprit to spread the word of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and remind you of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and don’t believe in evolution as Darwin regretted it and it is a distraction from the enemy to hide. God from you so please ask forgiveness and repent to god before you meet him
John Pugh The Python crew are poking fun at the practice of mock executions as psychological torture in Russia during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Dostoevsky, for instance, was a victim of a mock execution, he and his fellow intellectuals in the Petrashevsky Circle having been pardoned at the last minute by the Tsar, but the prison officials chose to carry out the form of execution anyway, but without live ammunition as a warning to them over supposed secret plotting. Konstantin Rokossovsky, who would become one of the Soviet Union's better generals in WWII, was arrested during the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Military Organization purge, due to his place in the reformist wing of the Red Army, and tortured physically, and psychologically--having to endure multiple mock-executions (Solzhenitsyn reported two) where everyone around him was shot but he was spared. Incidentally, Rokossovsky would subsequently wear a pistol at all times, saying that he would not surrender if they came for him a second time. Recall that the Python crew were--and are--history buffs.
Still one of my favourite (and most underrated, as it was in the last season) moments in Monty Python history. And also unusually for the TV series, the whole episode was this one story - so it's like a mini-movie.
It's pretty great, but it's also got some pretty damn racist stuff in there. "Housy Housy" and all that. Funny for quite how ridiculously over-the-top racist it is, but still racist.
@@weckar I agree, I find it hilarious, in part despite its racism, and in part because it's so ridiculously over-the-top racist. Part of it is me laughing _at_ it now, rather than with it but even so, it's still enjoyable. That said, it's a problem not because it's "not PC", but because, well, unironically characterising Chinese people the way they do is pretty harmful. We're smart enough to know the difference between this and reality, but not everyone knows exactly where the lines are and that could cause issues. Not saying that people actually think the Chinese are as depicted in this episode, but reinforcing negative stereotypes is generally harmful anyway. I realise I'm overthinking it a little, but I don't want to just sit by an leave discrimination unchallenged. I'm a fan of old, offensive media myself, but it's important always to have a little asterisk next to it to say "while this is funny, but also represents some outdated and disrespectful ideas".
This is a great satire of the "narrow escape" adventure dramas. Once he seems finally out of lives, we see "Scene Missing," then he's back in his peaceful England home, declaring what a fantastic escape that was.
Is it good or bad that I know how to play the entire arstotzkan national anthem. And the ussr National anthem. And also ra ra rasputin. Maybe I have a problem...
@@unratonb5894 Shooting bugs in order to illegally sell the meat? Using state munition to pouch is treason, comrade! Please stand in line for the execution, will you?
It's not Russian, it only sounds that way. For instance, when you speak harshly, people may think it's German, although it isn't. And when you speak French, they may think you are a woman... Sorry, I'm not great with examples :/
What's really funny is that those three words are never even pronounced by Russians when they execute someone. They may be saying "ready" and " fire", but they never say "aim".
I'm relying on a 40 year memory, but if I recall correctly, they finally did line him up for the next try, went through with the whole, "ready, aim fire" bit, then immediately cut to a scene of him far elsewhere saying something like, "What a miraculous escape!" Too bad they left that out.
Mr Gulliver came to his senses after a tomato hit him, then ran while calling for Mr Pither and climbed over a wall and then the soldiers attacked them with bayonets. Then we see the "Missing Film" caption. Maddening genius!!
Pither's friend came to the rescue, but found himself in the sight of the firing squad, which at this time was charging with bayonets, then it cuts to a "scene missing" cue card, and then cuts to them in the field like you said.
@@chimpazoo1143 Hey thanks for the reminders. I didn't remember it accurately but apparently wasn't totally hallucinating. It was hilarious then and would love to see it again.
As you 'grow up' so to speak, Monty Python gets funnier and funnier, and you understand more why. I started watching when I was 14, and found it funny because it was silly and absurd and randomly odd, but now I'm 22 and I've been through more of life, I understand multiple reasons why each joke in each sketch is funny in different ways and various aspects of the pshyce. PURE QUALITY IN OTHER WORDS. .
granted south park is filled with potty humour,but it also does some of the best topical,and political satire of the day. the most recent season has been an entire storyline about trolls on the internet (i'm sure we've all had our run ins with them),and the u.s. presidential campaign. quite frankly i'm ready for a visit from mr. hankey the christmas poo. howdy ho!
"some of the best topical,and political satire of the day. " I like to watch them to know what they want to inplant into brains of people like you. And from your comment i can tell that in your case they did good job. " Like memberberries: clearly remembering history even your own is a bad thing. Citizens shouldnt be alowed to remember times when people wasnt able to land in jail without trail... USA dont have too much history but clearly they would like to social engineer them into something without any awarnes of history they would be more obidient then. "and the u.s. presidential campaign." i knowed from the begining who they gonna promote and i wasnt wrong. Trump its nothing like Trump, his wife its... i dont even know what and on oposite side there is Hilary and her husband is missing i wonder why...
Also reminds me of Black Adder, where Adder's about to be executed by a firing squad. The head shooter asks, "Is there anywhere you'd like to stand." Adder replies, "I'd say on the other side of the wall would be just about right." God I love British humor. No "getting kicked in the balls" comedy like here in America.
The Cycling Tour is my favorite Python episode. For some reason you don't hear about it from fans too often. But this episode is drop-dead funny (like, which ones weren't). Palin is brilliant in it.
Divine Falcon I don't know about that considering the dated references but I would agree that their style of humor has aged quite well. Especially in the UA-cam era.
Next time think twice before you write. :P In Polish "drevienko" would be "small wood" and that is the only word from his babbling that was Polish or Slavic. :P
nRADRUS On the contrary i think you are brainwashed not enough for this kind of humor. Besides biased and clearly russophobic. Typical western media fan, have a bad day.
This is my favorite episode ever! Palin plays the greatest naive, clueless idiot ever created; but in a kind, lovable sort of way. My favorite line was the part in Russia, and goes something like, "I am an ice cream salesman. You are a doctor. I outrank you."
It seems to be his stock in trade persona. Not a criticism, just an observation. 'A fish called Wanda' springs to mind. If you have a particular persona to offer to film makers then it makes their choices for specific characters easier. The down side is that you're unlikely to be the star of any film. There are exceptions, of course, such as 'Mr Bean' with Rowan Atkinson and Michael Crawford in 'Some mothers do have them'. Yeah, I know there are a lot of others but, generally, I think it's true. I don't think I've seen Arnold Schwarzenegger in any roll where he isn't the star of the film. In fact, watching him playing a whimpish character is a joke in itself!
@@davidashton2361 Palin's portrayal of Molotov in _The Death of Stalin_ reinforces your point, though I doubt he's too bothered about it. Making a living as an actor is no small feat in itself.
The SKS had a folding bayonet. It swung out from this position to face forward, since this is faster and less complicated than affixing one to a bayonet lug. This is handy when a soldier is panicked because he is being shot at, of course. They also instructed soldiers that they could fold it out halfway, so it pointed directly downward, and dig the tip of the blade into dirt, wood, or essentially any metal that wouldn't damage the tip, so as to act as an improve monopod and stablaize the weapon.
@@kaikandler5822 just some dude explaining the rifle. As it was posted 11 years ago, it was probably intended as a reply to someone before the reply section feature was added to UA-cam.
What the hell happened to the British sense of humor? This really was their golden age, Monty and Benny Hill were absolute geniuses. They were never afraid to poke fun at EVERYONE and it was glorious.
My father in law was in the Soviet army and there was a man who didnt know how to aim the Kalashnikov. He was only looking at the front sight (instead of both sight at the same time) and was shooting in the sky. Lucky so because he was on duty and an army truck passed him by without noticing him and he wanted to stop it. He was on orders to shoot when something was not right.
If your rookies do this, you have done a terrible job of teaching them about correct sight picture, and generally how the firearm in question functions.
Saw a person trying to use the hole in the front sight post of an HK416, instead of the actual bead. For some reason she could not get a good grouping, and couldn't really see a whole lot! ;)
I remember watching a WW2 documentary. A German soldier said "Don't worry about the Russians, they always miss the first shot". This skit reminded me of that quote.
The soldiers dying in war weren't the ones in charge of the Third Reich, neither were they all National Socialists. Erwin Rommel for instance, was a German WWII general known for disapproving of Hitler's actions, and his exploits in North Africa gained him great renown amongst the American soldiers. Later, during the Gulf war, Iraqi prisoners of war criticized them for displaying pictures of him, "their enemy," to which the Americans replied that if they had done their due diligence and learned of Rommel, they wouldn't be prisoners of war.
@@rossjohnson905 Has nothing to do with beeing an apologist. The generic german soldiers was just executing orders. Theres a reason the allies executed SS staff on the spot while they accepted surrenders of Wehrmacht soldiers
@@rossjohnson905 Is it wrong to consider the soldiers who endured immense pain, witnessed horrors, and sacrificed their lives for the sake of their homeland more nuanced than Saturday morning cartoon villains simply because their rulers were terrible men?
"Carry on with the execution." Now that's how you troll someone.
"No, dear. This is the dream. You're still in the cell."
Trolled by his own mother!
that was a Dostoyevsky reference lol
Please tell me more!! Reference to Dostoevsky's what?...
+Justin FromCanada yes I need to know too lol
read about Dostoevsky mock execution
"He moved" devastated me
"Carry on with your execution" was better :D
Quetzalcoatlv3 it's safe to say anything these guys came out with was going to be comedy gold.
Laughed when he said "how could you missed?!"
Quetzalcoatlv3 best part
BritNinja88 😂😂😂
Three things that go too well together: XCOM, 95% Hit Chance and "How could you miss?!"
Ten years and yet to me this is still relevant.
Let's be fair though. It was already about twenty years for me back then. ;)
Well, 95% hit chance means one in twenty shots will miss. Thats not that rare.
@@2MeterLP yeah but xcom does odds fixing so..
@@2MeterLP You need to go check some "95% XCOM" memes.
Our pain is real.
Are we talking Enemy unkonwn? :D :D
Reminds me of an old Soviet joke; a judge comes out of the court laughing and his colleague asks what is so funny.
He tells his colleague that he would love to tell him but he just sentenced a guy to 20 years for the joke.
when to laugh, british perverted idiot. What is really funny is that brits have horse teeth, ugly and yellow
@@dotabuff5288🧂
"In Mother Russia, Joke Tells On YOU!!"
Reminds me a joke of Nasredin Hoja in Turkiye...Nasredin walks down the street and a beggar asks him for some coin...
"Don't have any money right now , (but) Do you see this villa top the hill? It is yours!"
"Thank you Sir (!), where are the keys?"
"Don't ask me , seek the owner who also lives on that street..."
@@jbingfa "Beggar"
"No, dear; this is the dream. You're still in the cell."
In memory of Graham Chapman: Running at full speed (maybe accelerated for the sketch), shouting "Niet - nieeet - nieeeeet...!", he's absolutely killing me. Rest in peace.
That was Eric Idle.
@@erikswanson5753 No it wasn't. The guy running is Graham Chapman.
@@erikswanson5753 Eric Idle looks different. It's Graham Chapman
@@erikswanson5753 Eric Idle was the mother in the dream sequence.
Made me chuckle,too.
You know, you don't need to add "funny sketch!" if the title already says "Monty Python".
Actually a good majority of their sketches were lame... But the ones that are funny were fucking hilarious. Let's just put it this way, I've seen a lot more bad Monty Python sketches than good ones but the good ones made the bad ones worth it.
Bobby Ewing kinda like Beatles songs...
TheShadowOfMadness true true, shall be changed :)
xxwhatevahxx Still not changed...
Bobby Ewing comedy is subjective
The ones u find "lame" may be someone elses favorite
For example my grandfather used to like there I'm not dead yet bit and hate the pet shop one
I love the pet shop but hate I'm not dead yet
it has ceased to be
….”No, THIS is the dream” - floored me. Height of British humour here…
"How could you miss?" LOL
"He moved."
Baongoc Le "SHUT UP! Go practice!"
Heckler und Koch!
HeavyHauler426
They're storm troopers
I play the Soviets a lot in Company of Heroes II. This is essentially how my conscripts shoot.
+Just Another Just don't then
+Just Another ITS IVAN! AND HE SHOOTS AS BAD AS HE SMELLS!
+Kowalski Because your nose exactly on a level of his ass, little Jerry's helper
+Demons' Night im not even polish, im german. :]
+Kowalski Red Orchestra 2 referance ?
Some say they are still trying to kill him.
He's not the Stig!
And that bar is still intact
He’s only halfway done with his bar!
Yup they still have stormtrooper aim and keep missing and executing him I guess they don’t know of other methods besides firing squad
Latest news, he's completely done with his bar but thankfully more bars are on their way.
I'm French and I'm still loving it so much after all these years !
The British humour is so unique !
Ze Franch humeur iz non existente😅
@@allistairneil8968nein hitler hitler nein nein
@@allistairneil8968 don't talk such rubbish, I have never laughed so much in my life as in France with French people. Your comment just goes to show your general ignorance (and particularly your ignorance of the French language).
@@allistairneil8968 probably funnier than you though.
@@nealgrimes4382 Extremely unlikely🤣
I loved the "now, how many have been injured?" part. Seems a lot of people missed it. Splendid details
Followed by an exasperated "All!?"
I admit that I missed that part the first time I saw it because I was focused on Pither since he was the main character and he was on camera while Cleese's character said his line while leaving the cell...
3:08 Easy to miss because of the loud laughing, 🙊or🙉...
@@eyezik5743 I think he says "aww/oh fuck"
I’ve never noticed that before, that’s hilarious!
I remember watching this as a kid. It was the one sketch that took up a whole Monty Python episode. And it was so funny. It finished with the traveller back in England, and saying, 'Now that was a lucky escape.'
Actually there was one other episode like that, Mr. Neutron.
@@colinburke8389 "Have we shown them we've got teeth?!"
With the escape's only explanation being a preceding "SCENE MISSING" title card 😂
And there was never canned laughter (was there?).
"How could you miss!?!" That's XCOM for ya....
You, sir, win at internet.
Or Fire Emblem.
That's X-Com, baby!
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@@Shendue That made me laugh.
“ You missed!
How could you miss? He was 3 feet in front of you! “
“He moved”
760 people missed the like button. Next time - definitely!
Those 706 people should have practiced first
DreamVikings 880 People looked down the wrong bit.
brilliant observation :D
DreamVikings now 1k 😒
1392 should have tried some thing completely different.
"Next time definitely!....how many are injured..." LOL
I love the 'oh, excuse me' bit he writes into his diary when the guards seize him.
so very polite.
It is amusing to think Michael Palin later played Molotov in "The Death of Stalin, A Comedy."
Russians with Hollywood German accents on top of British accents.
People weren't so familiar with what russian accents sounded like during iron curtain time
yeah, sure there weren't Russians in the USA before fall of communism ... smh
What has the USA got to do with this sketch Sokol?
Well who knows, maybe it were some GDR people who were there. After all there were a few hundred thousand GDR soldiers on the soviet side.
"It says... carry on with the execution" haha classic, monty python is the apex of comedy
There is a similar joke made in Black Adder...you'll like that show.
Terry Pratchett did the same joke at Moist von Lipwig's execution at the start of Going Postal as well.
No! The Blackadder show is a hound and a rotter and will be shot at down!
I love the inclusion of massive story elements that change absolutely nothing.
In looking at this - Monty Python was filmed during the heart of the cold war, yet they were able to get their hands on actual Russian SKS rifles. Now THAT is impressive (now that I think about it).
MP was always commies :)
Duality makes my cow head go all moyshe Kapoyer.
SKS rifles, that is why the firing squad missed. Those things are junk.
Depends on who manufactured them. North Vietnam did quite well with them.
+Joe Moffitt phsssss
the Nams killed abunch of RVN and Muricans with that junk.
skillzzzz lel
I loved this episode they went so far with the one sketch it just became a whole episode in itself.
A telegram from the Kremlin!
It says:
"Carry on with the execution"
Carry on with the execution i laughed so hard
From central committee
"The Cycling Tour" episode which I believe was the first time The Pythons wrote a series of sketches packaged as one episode. I particularly liked "How could you miss?" "He moved!" "Shut up!" and "It was all a dream!" "No, dear. This is the dream. You're still in the cell." The random genius of Python. Love it!
The other two were "The Golden Age of Ballooning" and " The Michael Ellis Sketch". "The Cycling Tour" is my ATF and the one I recommend to people who've never seen Monty Python.
@@forrestpalmer I believe the Michael Ellis sketch was the last sketch that John Cleese contributed to although he left the show before it aired...
@@forrestpalmer You forgot an extremely important one from the same season as Michael Ellis, it was an episode about the most dangerous and terrifying man in the world! The man with the strength of an army! The wisdom of all the scholars in history! The man who had the power to destroy the world.
@@davidhitchen5369 Mr Neutron!
The one with the blancmange (I forget the title) in season 1 is also a full episode as a set of sketches.
Nice touch with the poster at the end with 'Burgess and McClean', two notorious British spies working for the Kremlin. 'A Song, a Dance and a Piece of Treachery'
And Eartha Kitt was too far left for regressive USA which had the CIA spy on her. (She supported civil rights which made her an enemy of the state, obviously.)
I confess I'm not sure why they chose Pete and Dud for the supporting act.
In Soviet Russia rifle shoots you! oh... ...wait!....
Rifle doez not kill person. Organ failure kill person.
effortless35 Main cause of death under General Secretary Stalin is localised high velocity lead poisoning.
Gavin Morris LOL!
Please come to Christ for on the saves, do not be gay for he forbids it, be sober for god forbids drunkenness, I don’t say theses things to criticise you, I am convicted to spread the words of Christ and don’t use foul language or do sin as it is of the enemy and. God forbids it, so please come to Christ and ask forgiveness and repent to god and don’t use foul lanquage as fod forbids it, please ask forgiveness and repent to god and don’t reject how god made you human please and don’t reject how god made you human please, repent and ask forgiveness to god please and I don’t mean this I’m a bad way, I am convicted by the holy sprit to spread the word of Jesus Christ our lord and saviour and I don’t mean that in a bad way, I am convicted by the holy sprit to spread the word of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and remind you of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and don’t believe in evolution as Darwin regretted it and it is a distraction from the enemy to hide. God from you so please ask forgiveness and repent to god before you meet him
their aim is as bad as the stormtroopers.
John Pugh
Hey, there's a reason Reagan called them the "Evil Empire"
John Pugh The Python crew are poking fun at the practice of mock executions as psychological torture in Russia during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Dostoevsky, for instance, was a victim of a mock execution, he and his fellow intellectuals in the Petrashevsky Circle having been pardoned at the last minute by the Tsar, but the prison officials chose to carry out the form of execution anyway, but without live ammunition as a warning to them over supposed secret plotting. Konstantin Rokossovsky, who would become one of the Soviet Union's better generals in WWII, was arrested during the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Military Organization purge, due to his place in the reformist wing of the Red Army, and tortured physically, and psychologically--having to endure multiple mock-executions (Solzhenitsyn reported two) where everyone around him was shot but he was spared. Incidentally, Rokossovsky would subsequently wear a pistol at all times, saying that he would not surrender if they came for him a second time.
Recall that the Python crew were--and are--history buffs.
DhampirDerGrosse All I wanted to do was watch the video I didn't expect some sort of Spanish Inquisition.
Bob the Cannibal **whips out a dish rack, awkwardly turns an imaginary handle on it**
DhampirDerGrosse
Cardinal! The rack!
Years later and still funnier than Collegehumor
TheDuckSneezes What's college humor?
Reubin Thomas shit
I would hope after all Collegehumor was only a youtube channel unlike the legendary monty python
CollegeHumor is extremely liberal too
Well there are like FIVE funny college humor videos.
An underrated classic
"Carry on with the execution" always gets me
"It was all a dream."
"No dear, this is the dream, you're still in the cell."
XD
Genius
No dear, this is the dream. You're still in the cell!!!
Still one of my favourite (and most underrated, as it was in the last season) moments in Monty Python history. And also unusually for the TV series, the whole episode was this one story - so it's like a mini-movie.
As I recall, the episode's title is something like: "A bicycle tour of south Kent".
My nomination for best ever single episode.
@@Ozkurl Plus, it couldn't be the last season as John Cleese is present.
It's pretty great, but it's also got some pretty damn racist stuff in there. "Housy Housy" and all that. Funny for quite how ridiculously over-the-top racist it is, but still racist.
@@klop4228 We can still enjoy it. Not everything has to be PC all the time.
@@weckar I agree, I find it hilarious, in part despite its racism, and in part because it's so ridiculously over-the-top racist. Part of it is me laughing _at_ it now, rather than with it but even so, it's still enjoyable.
That said, it's a problem not because it's "not PC", but because, well, unironically characterising Chinese people the way they do is pretty harmful. We're smart enough to know the difference between this and reality, but not everyone knows exactly where the lines are and that could cause issues. Not saying that people actually think the Chinese are as depicted in this episode, but reinforcing negative stereotypes is generally harmful anyway.
I realise I'm overthinking it a little, but I don't want to just sit by an leave discrimination unchallenged. I'm a fan of old, offensive media myself, but it's important always to have a little asterisk next to it to say "while this is funny, but also represents some outdated and disrespectful ideas".
This is a great satire of the "narrow escape" adventure dramas. Once he seems finally out of lives, we see "Scene Missing," then he's back in his peaceful England home, declaring what a fantastic escape that was.
A usual day in Arstotzka.
Glory to Arstotzka!
Glory to Arstotzka!
Is it good or bad that I know how to play the entire arstotzkan national anthem. And the ussr National anthem. And also ra ra rasputin. Maybe I have a problem...
I understand this reference and I'm not 36 years old.
Micah Osborne Also "Moskau" ?
"How could you miss"... defnititely an all-time classic.
He moved.
@@u.v.s.5583 *SHUT UP! GO AND PRACTICE!*
I hit the bug on the wall next to the person, so wasant that the target?
@@unratonb5894 Shooting bugs in order to illegally sell the meat? Using state munition to pouch is treason, comrade! Please stand in line for the execution, will you?
"Next time, definitely!" -- BRAVO Monty Python!
Legend has it they are still trying to execute him
I like the pretended Russian speech when he commands "ready, aim, fire"
Жевутни, гередиинкам, ошнецин...
It's not Russian, it only sounds that way.
For instance, when you speak harshly, people may think it's German, although it isn't. And when you speak French, they may think you are a woman...
Sorry, I'm not great with examples :/
Eugene Frolov I know it's not Russian, still how they tried to execute it sounded funny.
Yeah, it's very funny. To a Russian ear this pretended speech doesn't make sense though
What's really funny is that those three words are never even pronounced by Russians when they execute someone. They may be saying "ready" and " fire", but they never say "aim".
I'm offensive and I find this russian
mickey mc okay.......
hello Offensive I'm Storm
CYKA
Next time! ...Definitely! Lol
Tris Desnos "How many are injured oh my god..."
I suppose I'm going strange, but I can't help being very happy that the Pythons managed 5 SKS for this sketch.
Ah....I found a fellow gun owner!!!!🎉
@@TheRealPhilBelk Technically yes.
I own some shotguns, but I live in Yorkshire.
It's an interest.
It was one of the most common Soviet weapons available for armourers, especially after capture from Korea and Vietnam.
@@CancerGaming56 Korea makes sense. How would Vietnam contribute to the BBC's inventory though?
Probably just buying off American dealers @@Pooknottin
I don't blame them for their aim, probably the amount of vodka they consume between individual shots.
+Laura S. Have you ever seen a russian? They have a little metal bar from their backpack with a vodka IV drip.
+Laura S. actualy they all were sober , if they were drunk they would have hit him the first time , russians can only hit targets when drunk
+Fox True. It's twice as easy to aim when you are seeing everything double.
It's amazing that you guys don't even realize that you're literally repeating Goebbels' propaganda.
Jimmy De'Souza
You must have seen thousands of Soviet executions?
I'm relying on a 40 year memory, but if I recall correctly, they finally
did line him up for the next try, went through with the whole, "ready,
aim fire" bit, then immediately cut to a scene of him far elsewhere
saying something like, "What a miraculous escape!" Too bad they left
that out.
watching the whole thing elsewhere, it was a bayonet charge before the jump cut
Can't remember but it was probably like that!
Mr Gulliver came to his senses after a tomato hit him, then ran while calling for Mr Pither and climbed over a wall and then the soldiers attacked them with bayonets. Then we see the "Missing Film" caption. Maddening genius!!
Pither's friend came to the rescue, but found himself in the sight of the firing squad, which at this time was charging with bayonets, then it cuts to a "scene missing" cue card, and then cuts to them in the field like you said.
@@chimpazoo1143 Hey thanks for the reminders. I didn't remember it accurately but apparently wasn't totally hallucinating. It was hilarious then and would love to see it again.
As you 'grow up' so to speak, Monty Python gets funnier and funnier, and you understand more why. I started watching when I was 14, and found it funny because it was silly and absurd and randomly odd, but now I'm 22 and I've been through more of life, I understand multiple reasons why each joke in each sketch is funny in different ways and various aspects of the pshyce. PURE QUALITY IN OTHER WORDS. .
How's it looking at 33 Jack?
Yeah, my appreciation for Monty Python developed exactly like that. Now I'm in my 60's and I love it because it's silly and absurd and randomly odd.
@@madbrowndog4887 How does the 14 yr video have a comment from 35 minutes ago
and now at 33 you realize the Russians really are that inaccurate
Wait til your 56, you gain near full understanding of their humour!
“You’ve got to look down this bit!” Should be a phrase used by all marksmanship instructors 😂
"carry on with the execution" lmao
"We're sorry. Would you mind waiting in your cell?"
ahh Monty Python...nothing this good out there now...
Charles Temm
w/dry humor and actual dialog? Visual sketches that don't depend always on sex? Please share
South Park is one
granted south park is filled with potty humour,but it also does some of the best topical,and political satire of the day. the most recent season has been an entire storyline about trolls on the internet (i'm sure we've all had our run ins with them),and the u.s. presidential campaign.
quite frankly i'm ready for a visit from mr. hankey the christmas poo. howdy ho!
"some of the best topical,and political satire of the day. " I like to watch them to know what they want to inplant into brains of people like you. And from your comment i can tell that in your case they did good job. " Like memberberries: clearly remembering history even your own is a bad thing. Citizens shouldnt be alowed to remember times when people wasnt able to land in jail without trail... USA dont have too much history but clearly they would like to social engineer them into something without any awarnes of history they would be more obidient then. "and the u.s. presidential campaign." i knowed from the begining who they gonna promote and i wasnt wrong. Trump its nothing like Trump, his wife its... i dont even know what and on oposite side there is Hilary and her husband is missing i wonder why...
Leave it to Monty Python to turn a horrible thing into a comedic scene. They were amazing and hilarious.
I think Monty Python invented trolling. Their sketches are a masterclass, and no one was safe.
Trolling is just a word for something that existed long before the internet.
2:15 COD regular difficulty AI in a nutshell.
Also reminds me of Black Adder, where Adder's about to be executed by a firing squad. The head shooter asks, "Is there anywhere you'd like to stand."
Adder replies, "I'd say on the other side of the wall would be just about right." God I love British humor. No "getting kicked in the balls" comedy like here in America.
I too love British humor, but from your last part I'd bet you were not a regular viewer of Benny Hill.
No, not a Benny fan. Don't discourage it, just not part of it.
I highly recommend Father Ted to anyone that loves this stuff; Python, Adder, Fawlty Tower. I'm American. I discover on my own. It's not on TV.
Allan Ostermann
Father Ted was never one of my favorites, but if you can get to see Bless Me, Father I strongly recommend it.
Thanks, Michael.
The Cycling Tour is my favorite Python episode. For some reason you don't hear about it from fans too often. But this episode is drop-dead funny (like, which ones weren't). Palin is brilliant in it.
I love it too, later seasons of MP&FC get a lot of bad press, even the Pythons themselves don't like them. But I think they are good
love the part where Eric Idle says "I may have to go to the bank" 🤣
In Soviet Russia, you kill the execution.
brilliant.
This needs more upvotes.
I implore any kind passing souls to help boost this one to the top.
XD
"In America, execution kills you, in Soviet Russia, you kill execution."
It's been more than 30 years since the Pythons disbanded, and still no comedian have been able to surpass them.
It seems they were way ahead of their time
Wright, Pegg, and Frost have done an admirable job at it though.
Divine Falcon
I don't know about that considering the dated references but I would agree that their style of humor has aged quite well. Especially in the UA-cam era.
Michael LaPorte meh yeah i can accept admirable.
its pretty terrible to be honest, people just like it because its old
Brings me back to my boyhood. Staying up late (in the USA) to watch this strange, exotic, very funny show.
Same here! Dr. Who and Monty Python were my favorites. HATED Benny Hill (except for the naughty bits! 😳)😏
Aged like actual fine wine
I was thinking exactly the same thing lol
Palin as an exaggeration of the politically correct moronic hypocrite. As applicable today as ever.
Officer's Russian is just as good as my Japanese :)
I'am sure you meant, grammar.
Yes. He mint grammar. Russian officer (1:33) speaks serbian or poland language, I think.
Next time think twice before you write. :P In Polish "drevienko" would be "small wood" and that is the only word from his babbling that was Polish or Slavic. :P
Between 3:14 and 3:15, a poster appears magically on the wall.
Hit Now
indeed
as a Russian, i find this hilarious. Thank you!
you are brainwashed quite enough for this humor?
nRADRUS On the contrary i think you are brainwashed not enough for this kind of humor. Besides biased and clearly russophobic. Typical western media fan, have a bad day.
cryohellinc xD
ambulance girl Hello! :)
фывадорук оагшпз!!!
Funny, how all of a sudden, there's that poster appearing on the cell wall. 😂😂😂
No Dear. This is the dream.
So, the Reds found Waldo..
HE LOOKS LIKE 'WHERE'S WALDO?' HIKER BACKPACKER CARTOON
Old classics never die, they just run out of repeats. This one should be repeated more often.
so this is where Palin got the inspiration for his travel shows...
I adore english humour. Pythons, Fry & Laurie, Rowan Atkinson, etc.
All best to all the brits from mother Russia :) Спасибо, вы клевые =)
Spasiba!
"How could you miss?!" :DDD
"He moved."
What I want to know is how they hurt themselves the second time.
kory stephens “Shut up! Go and practice!!”
I came back to this video after hearing that one of our secret service agents missed six times from five feet.
Absolutely brilliant sketch! I used to love (and still do) that whole episode. These guys were absolute geniuses!
they have been warned by thawn. they couldn't, so they didn't
"I looked around but could not see the target."
This is my favorite episode ever! Palin plays the greatest naive, clueless idiot ever created; but in a kind, lovable sort of way.
My favorite line was the part in Russia, and goes something like, "I am an ice cream salesman. You are a doctor. I outrank you."
Unfortunately so true
It seems to be his stock in trade persona. Not a criticism, just an observation.
'A fish called Wanda' springs to mind.
If you have a particular persona to offer to film makers then it makes their choices for specific characters easier.
The down side is that you're unlikely to be the star of any film. There are exceptions, of course, such as 'Mr Bean' with Rowan Atkinson and Michael Crawford in 'Some mothers do have them'. Yeah, I know there are a lot of others but, generally, I think it's true.
I don't think I've seen Arnold Schwarzenegger in any roll where he isn't the star of the film. In fact, watching him playing a whimpish character is a joke in itself!
@@davidashton2361 Palin's portrayal of Molotov in _The Death of Stalin_ reinforces your point, though I doubt he's too bothered about it. Making a living as an actor is no small feat in itself.
I thought you were a veterinarian!
This has aged better than the finest of wines.
I love the dream bit in this sketch; very creative.
wtf am i doing in 3 am
Everyone else is laying about dribbling you're watching monty python :D
wouldn't that be fucking yourself?
they sound more like german than russian...
They are actually English.
prob east german for skit XD
explains why they kept missing..
Twirlyhead i know... its just looks like german accent to me...
MegaOgrady b. Bb
Somehow this is funnier now than it was many years ago. :)
This whole episode is brilliant. One of the only linear stories they did.
"No dear, this is the dream, you're still in the cell." I love that line.
"Go practice!!" XD
This is why they switched to the open window method.
Now I know where Waldo was!!!
The SKS had a folding bayonet. It swung out from this position to face forward, since this is faster and less complicated than affixing one to a bayonet lug. This is handy when a soldier is panicked because he is being shot at, of course. They also instructed soldiers that they could fold it out halfway, so it pointed directly downward, and dig the tip of the blade into dirt, wood, or essentially any metal that wouldn't damage the tip, so as to act as an improve monopod and stablaize the weapon.
Sounds like a good gun! What about the AK 47s? They made a movie about the guy who designed it, it was pretty good.
Where’s the comedy in that?
@@kaikandler5822 just some dude explaining the rifle.
As it was posted 11 years ago, it was probably intended as a reply to someone before the reply section feature was added to UA-cam.
@@paleoph6168 yeah, the way comments now displayed in modern YT mangled the context behind them.
Reminds me of Twoflower from the Discworld novels.
tuschman168 you know discworld? fuck yeah
Piet Andersen never read it but kept seeing comments like yours pop up here and there and had a look on wiki... i need to buy them all now xd
tuschman168 awesome
oh my god I wasn't the only one who thought that
Funny because Terry Pratchett did the 'get on with the execution' joke at Moist von Lipwig's execution at the start of Going Postal as well.
What the hell happened to the British sense of humor? This really was their golden age, Monty and Benny Hill were absolute geniuses. They were never afraid to poke fun at EVERYONE and it was glorious.
Proceed with the execution, haha!
The Russian at 0:05 transliterates as 'Rchsskii'; they used the wrong letter.
I noticed that, too.
given the title i didn't think this would be funny but it was.
The name 'Monty Python' implies that it will be, so explicitly writing so is redundant.
"How could you miss?"
"He moved!"
My father in law was in the Soviet army and there was a man who didnt know how to aim the Kalashnikov. He was only looking at the front sight (instead of both sight at the same time) and was shooting in the sky. Lucky so because he was on duty and an army truck passed him by without noticing him and he wanted to stop it. He was on orders to shoot when something was not right.
Damn rookies, they do this all the time.
If your rookies do this, you have done a terrible job of teaching them about correct sight picture, and generally how the firearm in question functions.
Well, I served in the NATO army in 2008, and there was the same guy, who used only the front sight of his G3. I guess, it's a neverending story.
- and - result in + :D
Hopefully he got punished for both... by truckers:\
Saw a person trying to use the hole in the front sight post of an HK416, instead of the actual bead. For some reason she could not get a good grouping, and couldn't really see a whole lot! ;)
3:11 "How many have been injured?"
"All of them..."
😆🤣😂💀
The cycling tour one of my all time favorite episodes, jammed with laughs!
0:23 April 26... Thrown into Russian cell... Severely damaged my mars bar...
Lol XD
I remember watching a WW2 documentary. A German soldier said "Don't worry about the Russians, they always miss the first shot". This skit reminded me of that quote.
You meant n4z1 soldier...
The soldiers dying in war weren't the ones in charge of the Third Reich, neither were they all National Socialists. Erwin Rommel for instance, was a German WWII general known for disapproving of Hitler's actions, and his exploits in North Africa gained him great renown amongst the American soldiers. Later, during the Gulf war, Iraqi prisoners of war criticized them for displaying pictures of him, "their enemy," to which the Americans replied that if they had done their due diligence and learned of Rommel, they wouldn't be prisoners of war.
@@zaarongaming8174 found the apologist!
@@rossjohnson905 Has nothing to do with beeing an apologist. The generic german soldiers was just executing orders. Theres a reason the allies executed SS staff on the spot while they accepted surrenders of Wehrmacht soldiers
@@rossjohnson905 Is it wrong to consider the soldiers who endured immense pain, witnessed horrors, and sacrificed their lives for the sake of their homeland more nuanced than Saturday morning cartoon villains simply because their rulers were terrible men?
No Dear, this is the dream hahahaha
Buck Shot Yah. In HIS dream, his very own dream, he has his own mother informing him this is the dream... no wonder he's such an optimist.
"I looked around, and couldn't see the target."
Neither could they.
he moved!