Monty Python- Cheese Shop

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  • A funny Monty Python sketch. Enjoy!
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  • @kurtwagner350
    @kurtwagner350 Před 5 lety +3641

    It’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese

    • @zagor1974
      @zagor1974 Před 4 lety +1

      @Cary Groneveldt Definitely

    • @gheumann
      @gheumann Před 4 lety +16

      no, no - I'm keen to guess.

    • @misterwishart
      @misterwishart Před 4 lety +13

      @Cary Groneveldt - Whereas the best delivery has to go "Now, I'm going to ask you that question once more..."

    • @matthewsabo2490
      @matthewsabo2490 Před 3 lety +1

      No it isn't

    • @sashcroft7270
      @sashcroft7270 Před 3 lety

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  • @ajg8600
    @ajg8600 Před 5 lety +2597

    McDonalds when you ask for ice cream

    • @ZombiesCometh
      @ZombiesCometh Před 4 lety +68

      AJ G so I’m not the only one who has encountered 90% of McDonalds who inexplicably have broken ice cream machines?!

    • @jacobhargiss3839
      @jacobhargiss3839 Před 4 lety +47

      @@ZombiesCometh i dont think people understand what a pain in the rear those machines are to operate, one missed step when cleaning or reassembling and it makes a horrible skreaching noise as if one thousand nails on chalk boards surrounded the area. Also, they continuously over freeze and become blocked or underfreeze and turn into milkshake.

    • @greenghost2008
      @greenghost2008 Před 4 lety +18

      My theory is that they have no way to fix it if it breaks during the day. They are just fucked if it breaks down early on.

    • @dancrane3807
      @dancrane3807 Před 4 lety +19

      But, it is great ice cream on the 10% of the days it does work.

    • @watto7291
      @watto7291 Před 4 lety +15

      @@ZombiesCometh our ice cream machine has never broken. We're the only macdonalds in the area to have never had the ice cream machine break. Did you know the milkshake machine is the same machine as the ice cream machine?

  • @zibberebbiz
    @zibberebbiz Před 4 lety +2150

    "Venezuelan beaver cheese?"
    "Not today."

    • @zagor1974
      @zagor1974 Před 4 lety +82

      "Normally, sir, yes, but today the plane broke down

    • @DV84nl
      @DV84nl Před 3 lety +5

      Sooo good, classic!!

    • @renlin8925
      @renlin8925 Před 3 lety +2

      @Robyn Harris you’d be surprised

    • @santiagodelcastillo3241
      @santiagodelcastillo3241 Před 3 lety +8

      @Ed Norton ah yes, the transatlantic van, of course.

    • @musettemusic8261
      @musettemusic8261 Před 2 lety +9

      Interesting thing here is that there are no beavers in the Venezuelan natural habitat!

  • @juliankasow2871
    @juliankasow2871 Před 3 lety +1674

    I love all the python sketches where it's just John Cleese steadily getting angrier and angrier

  • @vampiricn1ght
    @vampiricn1ght Před rokem +1397

    I feel nobody takes the time to appreciate how much work John Cleese had to put into memorizing basically every kind of cheese

    • @NativeEffect
      @NativeEffect Před rokem +32

      Would be amazing, if it was an uncut scene. But really he’d only have to memorise 4-5 then the camera cuts to the other guy

    • @madsclausen4028
      @madsclausen4028 Před rokem +119

      @@NativeEffect There is a recording of them doing the sketch live, if you'd like to see John Cleese performing his heart out.

    • @hamburgerhelper22
      @hamburgerhelper22 Před rokem +3

      i know,correct?

    • @olarisrhea2034
      @olarisrhea2034 Před rokem +17

      John Cheese, brilliant

    • @lipino7777
      @lipino7777 Před rokem +1

      he doesn't have to anymore

  • @epiphilosophy
    @epiphilosophy Před 4 lety +1597

    "The cat's eaten it!"
    "Has he?"
    "She, sir." (with that shit-eating grin, love it!)

  • @lovemykiss9
    @lovemykiss9 Před 4 lety +2597

    Cheeses listed: Red Leicester, Tilsit, Caerphilly, Bel Paese, Red Windsor, Stilton, Gruyere, Emmenthal, Norwegian Jarlsberg, Liptauer, Lancashire, White Stilton, Danish Blue, Double Gloucester, Cheshire, Dorset Blue Vinny, Brie, Roquefort, Pont L’Eveque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carre de L’Est, Boursin, Bresse-Bleu, Perle de Champagne, Camembert, Gouda, Edam, Caithness, Smoked Austrian, Sage Derby, Wensleydale, Gorgonzola, Parmesan, Mozzarella, Pipo Creme, Danish Fynboe, Czechoslovakian sheep’s milk cheese (Abertam), Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, Cheddar, Ilchester and Limburger.

    • @sakellarioudimitris7439
      @sakellarioudimitris7439 Před 4 lety +146

      And no feta....

    • @karabaja63
      @karabaja63 Před 4 lety +20

      NO

    • @Muchoyo
      @Muchoyo Před 4 lety +54

      Nor Spanish Manchego!

    • @lovemykiss9
      @lovemykiss9 Před 4 lety +16

      Mic Arsenijevic It’s a bit of a delicacy.

    • @LordNumbnutsthe1st
      @LordNumbnutsthe1st Před 4 lety +21

      Oh, man, the beaver cheese is an actual THING?! *shudders* Also, can't believe I've been hearing it wrong all these decades - always thought Cleese said "Danish *BIMBO*". #SMH Smiling face with rueful eyes

  • @Stubby1085
    @Stubby1085 Před 4 lety +1745

    John has said that when he and Graham wrote the skit everybody thought it was horrible except Michael Palin who fell on the floor with laughter. 😂

    • @simonpeters2128
      @simonpeters2128 Před 3 lety +144

      Palin was definitly right!

    • @ravensong9030
      @ravensong9030 Před 2 lety +80

      That's what I saw in an interview as well, John Cleese wrote this sketch without even thinking it was funny

    • @HiVizCamo
      @HiVizCamo Před 2 lety +137

      It's all in the delivery, this would fall to pieces without Cleese here, at his peak.

    • @ravensong9030
      @ravensong9030 Před 2 lety +60

      @@HiVizCamo Yes, and I think this applies to a lot of Monty Python's material. Maybe Palin saw where the sketch was going when he was shown the script

    • @TheGreatAtario
      @TheGreatAtario Před 2 lety +35

      Bless Michael Palin

  • @twiggyb67
    @twiggyb67 Před 5 lety +862

    "Will you shut that bloody dancing up!!?"

  • @Shadypelt
    @Shadypelt Před 5 lety +3380

    I work in a cheese shop, so, a lady asked for two cheeses we don’t have then told me to watch this haha^^

    • @kylew.4896
      @kylew.4896 Před 4 lety +71

      I never been To a cheese shop...how do you serve it?

    • @jamestankitwo8461
      @jamestankitwo8461 Před 4 lety +251

      @@kylew.4896 Extra runny

    • @lemsolaris67
      @lemsolaris67 Před 4 lety +41

      Which cheese you did not have? Just in case..

    • @WolfBound
      @WolfBound Před 4 lety +1

      armyyyyyyy

    • @TitoRigatoni
      @TitoRigatoni Před 4 lety +97

      @@lemsolaris67 Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

  • @grumpyentity2029
    @grumpyentity2029 Před 10 měsíci +63

    ‘Venezuelan beaver cheese?’
    ‘Not today sir no’
    The way he says it makes it sound like they normally do have it 😂

  • @andydidyouhear
    @andydidyouhear Před rokem +59

    0:58 "So I curtailed my Walpoling activities, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!” Good Lord, what a line!

  • @BionicTem
    @BionicTem Před 4 lety +907

    I lost my shit at "it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese"

    • @copybook3432
      @copybook3432 Před 4 lety

      I did not understand joke.
      Explain please,

    • @bakedbeast689
      @bakedbeast689 Před 3 lety +9

      @@copybook3432 there’s nothing to really explain... Dude wants cheese, cheese shop has no cheese. He jokes and says “it’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese” bc there’s no cheese in sight

    • @fenderstratguy
      @fenderstratguy Před 3 lety +17

      @@copybook3432 The owner was bragging about how clean his cheese shop was and Cleese grudgingly concedes that, well as a minimum, there definitely seems to be no cheese contaminating it (making it dirty).
      The irony is that cheese is the one thing you would expect to find plenty of in a cheese shop.

    • @waynemarvin5661
      @waynemarvin5661 Před 2 lety +2

      You lost your shit? Where did you have it last?

    • @samuelhain2712
      @samuelhain2712 Před 2 lety +2

      Bionic Tern- Take Pepto Bismol

  • @mariguana7918
    @mariguana7918 Před 4 lety +613

    Blessed are the cheesemakers

    • @embe1
      @embe1 Před 4 lety +32

      For whey shall inherit the earth

    • @IrvingIV
      @IrvingIV Před 4 lety +16

      Broken be the bakers,
      withered be the farmers,
      and the pottery makers.

    • @justaguy2365
      @justaguy2365 Před 4 lety +42

      Well obviously it's not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products

    • @beaurzaiz
      @beaurzaiz Před 4 lety +7

      @John Stocker I wasn't picking it, I was just scratching it...

    • @richardcarrier9536
      @richardcarrier9536 Před 3 lety +7

      That was pretty gouda, but I do believe you could do cheddar next time.

  • @Snowfireblues
    @Snowfireblues Před 3 lety +972

    5:08
    I love how the man buying cheese goes from being a Moriarty styled intellectual, whom, without any hesitation whatsoever, killed a man for wasting his time with a cheese shop that has no cheese to sell at all (briefly contemplating the insignificance and futility of his victim's, now former, existence), to being a full blown cowboy in a matter of milliseconds.

    • @diomedes8791
      @diomedes8791 Před 3 lety +54

      SnowFireBlues Have you seen the original Flying Circus episode the sketch is lifted from? If not, the cowboy thing is part of the transition into the next sketch where Cleese supposedly is a character in a Western movie reviewed by Eric Idle.

    • @TheRealGnolti
      @TheRealGnolti Před 2 lety +18

      This is in essence the utter genius of this five minute episode, and only Cleese & Palin could possibly pull it off. I'm sure there was a script, but it self-destructed upon performance.

    • @willywins0446
      @willywins0446 Před 2 lety +3

      I don't understand what you mean.

    • @deanwinchester3526
      @deanwinchester3526 Před 2 lety +7

      He’s actually more of a Sherlock than a Moriarty. Sherlock’s a sociopath. Moriarty is a psychopath.

    • @a-likely-story
      @a-likely-story Před 2 lety +9

      Yes I too love elements of the video that make it humorous.

  • @chucknola484
    @chucknola484 Před 2 lety +70

    The way he said the line "I want to buy some cheeeeessseeee" always gets me.

  • @matheustran8009
    @matheustran8009 Před 5 lety +1183

    If you pay attention to the beginning the cheese shop's name is Henry Wensleydale ...
    So he wasn't lying

    • @quaid667
      @quaid667 Před 5 lety +14

      He changed it to Arthur in one of the live shows

    • @qwertylello
      @qwertylello Před 4 lety +81

      There's a joke on the shop banner that hardly anyone caught. It reports:
      "Purveyor of fine cheese to the gentry _and the poverty stricken too_ "

    • @jimsj9482
      @jimsj9482 Před 4 lety +13

      .. a proper cheese shop plays parlay and purveys to both mice and cats...

    • @LMTR14
      @LMTR14 Před 4 lety +3

      so how is that a joke

    • @MickPalaniEllis
      @MickPalaniEllis Před 4 lety +1

      I don't get it...what is the significance of that name ?

  • @Darkstar263
    @Darkstar263 Před 5 lety +544

    "I don't care how excrementally runny it is"

    • @kingdavid7571
      @kingdavid7571 Před 4 lety +21

      On the audio album he says "fucking runny" I think the album is "Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief". I had another of their albums, but I can't remember its Title.

    • @DoctorInk20
      @DoctorInk20 Před 4 lety +31

      Ah, yes. Swearing on public service TV. 😆
      I legitimately find "excremently" funnier.

    • @phousefilms
      @phousefilms Před 4 lety +6

      @@kingdavid7571 Its in "the Final Ripoff"that he says "fucking", still have my CD's of it. :)

    • @mannywildegibbons1177
      @mannywildegibbons1177 Před 4 lety +9

      I came here to watch the sketch because I'm eating brie, and it's very runny, quite excrementally so.

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi Před 3 lety

      @Geo Leech I agree.

  • @lqtmn
    @lqtmn Před 8 měsíci +8

    Uncontaminated by cheese is my favorite throw away line of all time

    • @francesmeyer8478
      @francesmeyer8478 Před 12 dny

      I was listening to a video about American Riviera Orchard and this popped into my mind. ARO is uncontaminated by products of any type.🇺🇸

  • @Jaryism
    @Jaryism Před 3 lety +642

    There’s something so brilliantly hilarious about this that just goes straight to the heart. The veil of respectfulness and civility lasts like 95% then when he realizes there’s nothing he has no choice but to drop the veil and blast him, it’s genius lol

    • @goranadamson6170
      @goranadamson6170 Před 2 lety +4

      Exactly!!

    • @LeonardGreenpaw
      @LeonardGreenpaw Před 2 lety +21

      You wouldnt like me when I am peckish sir

    • @hamburgerhelper22
      @hamburgerhelper22 Před rokem +2

      Seems a bit bereft of cheese.........

    • @jamesmartin2063
      @jamesmartin2063 Před rokem +2

      @@LeonardGreenpaw this show was created by the bbc

    • @Kniesoor
      @Kniesoor Před rokem +1

      I like this sketch, dont get me wrong, but I dont really understand the point they're trying to make. Or is there none?

  • @actionturnip395
    @actionturnip395 Před 4 lety +343

    I’m never ready for the cowboy hat at the end.

    • @MickPalaniEllis
      @MickPalaniEllis Před 4 lety +10

      Ironically, the very beginning it sounds like old western music that they're playin

    • @CziffraTheThird
      @CziffraTheThird Před 3 lety

      Does the scene actually end there? What happens after he puts the hat on? The video really cuts off with a big cliffhangar

    • @MityaiKuvalda
      @MityaiKuvalda Před 3 lety

      @@CziffraTheThird it ends with Cleese in a hat and Rough Cheddar caption

    • @AceNinja2112
      @AceNinja2112 Před 2 měsíci

      "NOBODY expects the cowboy hat!" 🤠

  • @killjoymcquire6340
    @killjoymcquire6340 Před 5 lety +304

    Apparently, John Cleese and Graham Chapman had the idea for this sketch after Cleese had been sea sick. Seems appropriate given the feverish tone.

    • @Leebo13
      @Leebo13 Před 4 lety +44

      Yes, to think that it was borne from the idea that John Cleese wondered if he could buy cheese from a pharmacy.

    • @ombricshalazar3869
      @ombricshalazar3869 Před 2 lety +3

      lol more like john cheese

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah Před 2 lety +1

      @@ombricshalazar3869
      That would've been John's name had his father not changed the family's surname for fear of mockery.

    • @ombricshalazar3869
      @ombricshalazar3869 Před 2 lety +1

      @@budakbaongsiah it was DESTINY

  • @TTony-tu6dm
    @TTony-tu6dm Před 4 lety +125

    Their incredible use of the language is what puts the Pythons a cut above all others

    • @diomedes8791
      @diomedes8791 Před 3 lety +8

      Amen to that. All Pythons were Oxbridge graduates, which shows (xcept Terry Gilliam).

  • @SamuelBlack84
    @SamuelBlack84 Před 2 lety +50

    "Excuse me, is this a cheese shop?"
    "No, sir"
    "Well, that's that sketch knackered then, isn't it?"

  • @treasurehunter3744
    @treasurehunter3744 Před 4 lety +313

    John Cleese: Peckish
    Me: Oh! Hungry.
    John Cleese: Esurient.
    Me: by context, a new word for hungry.
    John Cleese: Eaveruoodidilye
    Vender: Ah! Hungry.
    Me: !?

    • @Digital-2_4_6
      @Digital-2_4_6 Před 4 lety +5

      Treasure Hunter couldn’t have said it better

    • @matsgranqvist9928
      @matsgranqvist9928 Před 4 lety +66

      "I were all hungry like"

    • @tessastrong1770
      @tessastrong1770 Před 2 lety +1

      @@matsgranqvist9928 from the bottom of my heart thank you lol

    • @dmitriyk6465
      @dmitriyk6465 Před 2 lety +4

      It's hard...Especially when you are Russian.
      But anyway it's my favourite British sketch.

    • @Ali-gp2eq
      @Ali-gp2eq Před 2 lety +4

      He says 'eee came over all hungry like' said in joke Yorkshire accent

  • @jack002tuber
    @jack002tuber Před 4 lety +172

    It's not like you're trying to return a dead parrot

  • @rjmunguia1
    @rjmunguia1 Před 3 lety +214

    I can't believe no one has mentioned 2:23 where he starts listing cheeses in rhythm with the music in the background, probably one of my favorite parts.

    • @bullsseye11
      @bullsseye11 Před 2 lety +20

      Nice catch, never noticed!

    • @AppleGazin
      @AppleGazin Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks! Didn't notice that.

    • @gargoyle790
      @gargoyle790 Před 2 lety +4

      Thank you for this! As a musician who's seen this sketch probably close to 100 times, I hadn't noticed.

    • @guitaristdotcom
      @guitaristdotcom Před 2 lety

      Nice!

    • @jeffmousebeans5055
      @jeffmousebeans5055 Před rokem +10

      as a musician who is actually a musician, I can confirm that it is certainly not in rhythm with the music by any means

  • @SpikeShooter92
    @SpikeShooter92 Před 3 lety +154

    It's about time they make an actual Mr. Wensleydale Cheese Emporium somewhere in London with all the cheese mentioned here and in other Monty Python performances (just have a permanent sold out on Venezuelan Beaver Cheese sign on the desk), hell have Michael Palin himself at the grand opening and have him run the desk for the first day or first hour of operations.

    • @kademcarthur5362
      @kademcarthur5362 Před 2 lety +3

      What’s the address?

    • @charlesludwig8672
      @charlesludwig8672 Před rokem +3

      This idea wouldn't be gouda

    • @g3ar75
      @g3ar75 Před rokem

      @@charlesludwig8672 HALT! Stop right there and face the pun police!

    • @fb30xhk
      @fb30xhk Před rokem +1

      This makes so much sense. It’s actually difficult to understand why no one has pursued this brilliant idea

    • @Profkol0rado
      @Profkol0rado Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@g3ar75I'm going to pun you

  • @djbukkit
    @djbukkit Před 5 lety +1271

    Not much of a cheese shop really is it?

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK Před 5 lety +55

      Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

    • @sirswearsalot1813
      @sirswearsalot1813 Před 5 lety +41

      The finest in the area

    • @TH-fs2hm
      @TH-fs2hm Před 5 lety +24

      @@sirswearsalot1813 and what drives you to that conclusion?

    • @torstenscholz6243
      @torstenscholz6243 Před 5 lety +30

      @@TH-fs2hm It’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese.

    • @Muth500
      @Muth500 Před 4 lety +13

      @@Kelly14UK it's obviously not to be taken literally, it refers to all manufacturers of dairy products.

  • @KainzMusic
    @KainzMusic Před 5 lety +195

    1:09 Ah wont ta bie some cheeeese!

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 Před 4 lety +4

      an apostrophe is missing, twixt n and the bleeding t. frankly, it's not good enough.

    • @datdoglovesdogs
      @datdoglovesdogs Před 3 lety

      🤣🤣

    • @-8l-924
      @-8l-924 Před 3 lety +1

      ah! I thought you were complaining about the music.

  • @ippinekebe3238
    @ippinekebe3238 Před rokem +7

    'Well, its certainly uncontaminated by cheese".
    Lmao

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy Před rokem +14

    "You haven't asked me about Limburger, sir."
    "Is it worth it?"
    "Could be."
    My favorite line in all of Monty Python! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @zeef6946
    @zeef6946 Před 4 lety +94

    The empty display should have tipped him off.

  • @johanneshe6939
    @johanneshe6939 Před 5 lety +496

    I was expecting the punchline to be that the Camembert was so runny that it ran away...

    • @matheustran8009
      @matheustran8009 Před 5 lety +3

      Same

    • @thec-m
      @thec-m Před 5 lety +80

      I was expecting him to pull out a milk jug or something.

    • @briang.2218
      @briang.2218 Před 5 lety +3

      @@thec-m Same XD

    • @meot.meo.1097
      @meot.meo.1097 Před 5 lety +39

      That's freakin' funny and the fact how they maybe avoid that punchline even when it's obvious. 🤣

    • @SerDiesel90
      @SerDiesel90 Před 4 lety +30

      Monty Python doesn't do punchlines

  • @jackspry9736
    @jackspry9736 Před 2 lety +27

    RIP the two members of Monty Python
    Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989), aged 48
    Terry Jones (February 1, 1942 - January 21, 2020), aged 77
    You both will always be remembered as legends.

  • @SeherFettProductions
    @SeherFettProductions Před 4 lety +323

    The thing that makes it so brilliant is that by everything that is holy in comedy, the very concept of this sketch just *shouldn't* work. Yet it's one of the most memorable and beloved Python sketches, and that's already saying a lot. :D

    • @-8l-924
      @-8l-924 Před 2 lety +11

      what are the reasons it shouldn’t work?

    • @paulmahoney7619
      @paulmahoney7619 Před 2 lety

      @@-8l-924 it’s John Cleese listing off cheeses and Michael Palin saying they don’t have them until Cleese gets fed up and puts a bullet in Palin’s skull. That shouldn’t be funny, but Cleese and Palin are able to pull it off

    • @JE47556
      @JE47556 Před 2 lety +30

      @@-8l-924 because they’re all out, just this morning, Sir.

    • @conscienceaginBlackadder
      @conscienceaginBlackadder Před 2 lety +1

      @@-8l-924 It doesn't work for me. Because no..no..no is just a bore, it needs a clever answer to each cheese.
      The completely forgotten 80s series Assaulted Nuts has a shop sketch with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Sparkling Cyanide, that's similarly silly but it's logic works far better.

    • @Shinkajo
      @Shinkajo Před 8 měsíci +1

      Most beloved? Is it really?

  • @ripro83
    @ripro83 Před 5 lety +429

    This is one of their Top 5 Sketches: a combination of a great premise and impeccable dialogue, but with a touch of weirdness to keep it off balance.

    • @Evan490BC
      @Evan490BC Před 4 lety +17

      But with a touch of cheesiness...

    • @trashAndNoStar
      @trashAndNoStar Před 4 lety +13

      ...without the actual cheese, of course.

    • @paul2523a
      @paul2523a Před 3 lety +2

      John cleese always said he didn't find this sketch funny

    • @fenderstratguy
      @fenderstratguy Před 3 lety +4

      @@paul2523a That's insane. It's hilarious.

    • @paul2523a
      @paul2523a Před 3 lety

      @@fenderstratguy exactly

  • @amoghvikramsingh1671
    @amoghvikramsingh1671 Před 4 lety +171

    5:05 It was an act of pure optimism to pose the question in the first place 🤣🤣

  • @mrsnulch
    @mrsnulch Před 2 lety +26

    The part where he tells them to shut the bloody music off is one of the greatest moments in sketch comedy. It has such great build up as the John Cleese slowly loses his nerve, then finally snaps.

    • @fattymcfatso1083
      @fattymcfatso1083 Před 2 lety +2

      loses his patience you mean, not nerve

    • @mrsnulch
      @mrsnulch Před 2 lety

      @@fattymcfatso1083 dancing off I mean, not music off

  • @0x777
    @0x777 Před 4 lety +918

    "What a senseless waste of human life"
    I wonder to this day whether he meant the clerk he shot or whether he meant the viewer he was looking at and the time wasted watching the sketch.
    Personally, I consider it time well wasted.

    • @torbjornkarlsen
      @torbjornkarlsen Před 4 lety +14

      The ending is a bit disappointing, it really is.

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 Před 4 lety +103

      @@torbjornkarlsen Python had a way of doing that...a lot of their sketches don't end so much as they just--stop.
      (Either that, or they segue into the following sketch.)
      No resolution, no pay-off, no punchline. It was deliberate and calculated rebellion against the expected format of a comedy sketch...
      ...and it was brilliant 😊
      It really makes you realize how psychologically dependent you are on the traditional narrative structure: A defined beginning, middle, and end.
      Mess with that, and your brain doesn't know what to do with itself☺️😵

    • @bigcoffee8341
      @bigcoffee8341 Před 4 lety +18

      I saw it as the fact that the shop owner was so useless, his life meant nothing and his death was the same. The shop guy's existence was a senseless waste of human life.

    • @Brendan-Black
      @Brendan-Black Před 4 lety +7

      @@negascoot23 Because, let's be honest, the Python were not good at writing a satisfying ending to a sketch...ever.

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 Před 4 lety +31

      @@Brendan-Black They've talked about that--about coming up with sketch ideas and literally *not* knowing how to end them.
      The genius part is that they didn't trash the sketches, or make up any sort of crap that would serve as an ending, they just asked themselves: _"What if it just STOPS?"_
      Noboby else ever really considered that as an option ☺️

  • @markaurelius61
    @markaurelius61 Před 4 lety +43

    "Anyway...", "Who said that?"

  • @HMWelch76
    @HMWelch76 Před 5 lety +247

    Venezuelan Beaver Cheese. That is all.

    • @grungecrunge
      @grungecrunge Před 5 lety +5

      You would know about that

    • @tysonmccorkle1036
      @tysonmccorkle1036 Před 5 lety +1

      celestialcat ouch lmao

    • @EduardoCruz-lk1xp
      @EduardoCruz-lk1xp Před 5 lety +10

      "Not today Sir, no"

    • @SBHG4991
      @SBHG4991 Před 5 lety +3

      @@grungecrunge a very disgusting human being may I add.

    • @JOHN-km8dh
      @JOHN-km8dh Před 4 lety

      @@SBHG4991 I agree. By the way I had several helpings of Heather's beaver cheese, and found it nearly addicting!

  • @fenderstratguy
    @fenderstratguy Před 3 lety +39

    "I'm one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse."
    And the Euterpean muse as well, it appears

    • @Sarah-ev1gj
      @Sarah-ev1gj Před 3 lety +2

      indeed!

    • @willywins0446
      @willywins0446 Před 2 lety

      ...what do you mean by Euterpean muse?

    • @willywins0446
      @willywins0446 Před 2 lety

      I seriously don't know what that is.

    • @fenderstratguy
      @fenderstratguy Před 2 lety +5

      @@willywins0446 I refer, of course, to one of the other 8 Muses in Greek mythology...the one presiding over music. In alphabetical order, the 9 Muses were these:
      Calliope - the Muse of epic poetry
      Clio - history
      Erato - love poetry
      Euterpe - music
      Melpomene - tragedy
      Polyhymnia - sacred poetry
      Terpsichore - dance
      Thalia - comedy
      Urania - astronomy
      Don't feel bad though....I had to look this up, too.

    • @willywins0446
      @willywins0446 Před 2 lety

      Oh, now I get it.

  • @pauldavies152
    @pauldavies152 Před 3 lety +37

    Cleese and Palin work so well together. The facial expressions and timing is fantastic.

    • @upturnedblousecollar5811
      @upturnedblousecollar5811 Před rokem

      Their Parrot Sketch Live performance on the Secret Policeman's Ball is absolutely superb viewing, they both can't contain their laughing

  • @torstenscholz6243
    @torstenscholz6243 Před 5 lety +47

    1:08 John Cleese is so amazing. 😂👍

  • @Iggywiggywoo
    @Iggywiggywoo Před 4 lety +58

    Cheese was John Cleese's surname originally. His father changed it to Cleese when he enlisted in the war as he found Cheese embarrassing.

    • @MrWolfSnack
      @MrWolfSnack Před 2 lety +3

      Yes, a Brit with "Cheese" as his name during the war, it certainly rightly would be.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Před 2 lety +1

      Missed opportunity to cheese his war through war.

    • @Amazayne
      @Amazayne Před 2 lety

      Actually it was his grandfather who changed the name during the first World War it was merely his father who told him about it... unless I misheard the audio book which honestly wouldn't surprise me

    • @Engineer_Who
      @Engineer_Who Před 2 lety

      And once John found out, he was immensely disappointed that he hadn’t gone through life named Jack Cheese.

    • @lucretius39
      @lucretius39 Před 2 lety

      @@Amazayne 0

  • @nicholasdaniels780
    @nicholasdaniels780 Před 2 lety +40

    I currently work in a deli and when we're low on cheese, given the shortage of Boar's Head products lately, I always think of this sketch, makes me chuckle and gets me through the day a little easier, especially when customers ask about the cheese XD

  • @tarekmoneimsaid
    @tarekmoneimsaid Před 2 lety +17

    I love the signs at the beginning, "purveyor of fine cheese to the gentry and poverty stricken too" - because you won't be spending a dime!
    Also, "Licensed for public dancing" :D

  • @aragorn1780
    @aragorn1780 Před 4 lety +94

    Imagine how quickly the first minute would have gone if he wasn't trying so hard to sound grandiloquently intellectual xDDD

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 Před 4 lety +33

      We grandiloquent intellectuals find ourselves profoundly indebted to Mr. Cleese for his truly staggering grammatical aptitude.
      His unprecedented and incomparable verbosity significantly enhances the entire vignette appreciation experience.
      Brava to him, and may the fates continue to show him their favor!

    • @Brainwave101
      @Brainwave101 Před 4 lety +3

      @@negascoot23 Sorry sir?

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 Před 4 lety +13

      @@Brainwave101 Us Poindexters think it's totally bad ass that J-man lays out the 50 cent words like a BOSS.
      This crap would suck so hard he weren't bringin' the vocab.
      Rock on, Johnny! You made this sketch your BITCH!
      WOOOO! PIE-THON 4 EVA!

    • @walidraja5539
      @walidraja5539 Před 4 lety +2

      @@negascoot23 Oh, funny!

    • @zibberebbiz
      @zibberebbiz Před 3 lety +8

      A big part of this sketch is definitely John being pompous about his English and French

  • @portcullis5622
    @portcullis5622 Před 4 lety +48

    "It (the shop) is so clean". "Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese".

  • @lukasgehrer680
    @lukasgehrer680 Před 4 lety +15

    I always crack up at "Will you shut that bloody dancing up!!?"

  • @bobross2749
    @bobross2749 Před 4 lety +23

    When the shopkeeper said “no”...I felt that

  • @kokoloism
    @kokoloism Před 5 lety +141

    I want this to be played on a huge screen on my funeral

    • @chucknola484
      @chucknola484 Před 4 lety +13

      so who will be the three people dancing to it during the service?

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Před 2 lety +3

      funnyeral

  • @kh2866
    @kh2866 Před 5 lety +188

    When the teacher asks what do I know vs. me.

  • @hotelmario510
    @hotelmario510 Před rokem +18

    I love how at one point the shopkeeper offers to tell him what cheese they have in stock and he refuses because he wants to GUESS what cheese the shop has

    • @Zelos311
      @Zelos311 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Knowing full well they have no cheese whatsoever. 😂

  • @alexanderdgray
    @alexanderdgray Před 3 lety +15

    No one else seems to have mentioned my favorite line, "I delight in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse"

  • @davidrule385
    @davidrule385 Před rokem +3

    4:51
    "Have you got-- WILL YOU SHUT THAT BLOODY DANCING UP?!"

  • @beatlemaniac
    @beatlemaniac Před rokem +4

    "Anyway..."
    "Who said that?!"

  • @slapuharder
    @slapuharder Před 8 měsíci +3

    The fact my wife didn’t laugh once at this makes me love this skit even more

  •  Před 3 lety +15

    "I'm keen to guess" this line made it

  • @lindahockham5081
    @lindahockham5081 Před 2 lety +60

    When I was between 25 and 30 back in the seventies, I chummed with a group that could recite all the Monty Python skits verbatim. We were in a restaurant one day and the people at the next table chimed in as they were also fans. Wonderful memories. BTW I have wondered frequently if we have somehow found ourselves participating in an elaborate Monty Python skit while observing the decision making during this pandemic reaction. Thanks for posting one of my favourite skits.❤️🇨🇦

    • @timtom4300
      @timtom4300 Před 2 lety

      who taught you to use the internet old man

    • @timtom4300
      @timtom4300 Před 2 lety

      ...a para-reference to Monty Python, dear Linda. And I agree, this pandemic has been surreal.

    • @lindahockham5081
      @lindahockham5081 Před 2 lety +2

      @@timtom4300 Things started happening so quickly, I couldn’t wait for the book. Desperate times call for desperate measures. ❤️🇨🇦

    • @littlalex
      @littlalex Před rokem

      Yes that was great stuff, reciting the skits with strangers...

    • @ginarichards6307
      @ginarichards6307 Před rokem +1

      My favorite, that I quote quite regularly, (or make up new ones), is The Four Yorkshiremen. It still makes me giggle uncontrollably. "Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor!"

  • @alexandreandrade215
    @alexandreandrade215 Před 7 měsíci +3

    No matter how many times I watch this I still laugh when Cleese yells WILL YOU STOP THAT BLOODY MUSIC.

  • @goth9ever
    @goth9ever Před 4 lety +21

    when he corrects him on the gender of the cat makes me giggle so much for some reason XD

    • @HiVizCamo
      @HiVizCamo Před 2 lety

      Modern take would be
      "Oh the cats eaten it"
      "Has zhurr..."
      "Ftang-ftang, sir"

    • @davidsOO50
      @davidsOO50 Před 2 lety +1

      I was shocked it didn’t get a bigger laugh.

  • @Paul-vc8on
    @Paul-vc8on Před 6 měsíci +2

    The best part is how long they actually wait before having Cleese scream at the musician and dancers.

  • @tylergann5
    @tylergann5 Před 5 lety +47

    I guess Cleese gets no cheese today

    • @Dayvit78
      @Dayvit78 Před 5 lety +11

      Apparently his family name originally was Cheese, but it was changed since his ancestors weren't as comedically inclined as he is.

    • @MT-mo4ml
      @MT-mo4ml Před 4 lety +6

      @@Dayvit78 Blessed are the Cleesemakers.

  • @cruddnow
    @cruddnow Před 4 lety +15

    1:08 the delivery on that line is so perfect, cracks me up every time 😂😂

  • @anton1990
    @anton1990 Před 6 měsíci +2

    A classic!
    Every time I watch this sketch I get a mad craving for cheese.

  • @BareBandSubscription
    @BareBandSubscription Před 8 měsíci +3

    The inclusion of the obnoxiously pervasive music in the background is just brilliant. It absolutely ties the whole sketch together in how it’s implemented.

  • @neilthemedflyspecial
    @neilthemedflyspecial Před 3 lety +17

    “Well it certainly isn’t contaminated by cheese”. One of the funniest skit lines ever written. 🤣

  • @WillRock07
    @WillRock07 Před 3 lety +13

    A small little detail I like is that there is an empty display case where some cheese should be lmao

  • @chasgorman1086
    @chasgorman1086 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I still love it how Cleese loses his mind in the Dirty Fork sketch, sort of a prelim to the angry Basil of Fawlty Towers.

  • @randomdude6719
    @randomdude6719 Před 2 lety +23

    What makes it even funnier is the cheese behind him on the shelf the entire time

  • @karenstickney9699
    @karenstickney9699 Před 5 lety +30

    Happy belated birthday, Michael Palin.

  • @Promethium666
    @Promethium666 Před 4 lety +4

    "I don't care how excremently runny it is" omfg i never got that as a child haha, if/when i ever had kids, they will grow up watching Monty Python.

  • @sumtingwong5248
    @sumtingwong5248 Před 4 lety +10

    Anybody ever notice that when John Cleese makes a funny face, he's completely unrecognizable?

  • @jordanweir7187
    @jordanweir7187 Před 5 lety +19

    my favourite of all the monty python sketches, will always be

  • @haackacademy1080
    @haackacademy1080 Před 2 lety +4

    the richest man in the world is seriously tweeting about cheese now...
    I love it

  • @mercrantos3455
    @mercrantos3455 Před 9 měsíci +2

    The face he makes when he looks at this sign always cracks me up

  • @maartendas1358
    @maartendas1358 Před 4 lety +7

    - Has he?
    - She, sir.

  • @laprepper
    @laprepper Před 3 lety +6

    Wallace and gromit would appreciate this skit

  • @theluckiesteh9058
    @theluckiesteh9058 Před 4 lety +22

    Venezuelan Beaver Cheese sounds like a slang term for Discharge....

  • @kenneth6211
    @kenneth6211 Před 2 lety +2

    “Who said that?!” Haha I literally bursted out

  • @Pokeonrocks5
    @Pokeonrocks5 Před rokem +3

    The second “is it” always kills me lmao

  • @thoughtsurferzone5012
    @thoughtsurferzone5012 Před 5 lety +15

    This will be funny a thousand years from now.

  • @Football__Junkie
    @Football__Junkie Před 4 lety +11

    This is me asking for craft beer at a restaurant

    • @rfletch62
      @rfletch62 Před 4 lety +2

      Me asking for a regular beer at another restaurant

  • @kristoffersonsilverfox3923

    "No, the Y is there, it's just silent on paper!"

  • @Cclunda
    @Cclunda Před 6 měsíci +1

    I’ve always found this sketch funny with Cleese’s building anger. And my all time favorite is Michael Palin’s sketch hosting a Prejudice Gameshow.

    • @billyidol2115
      @billyidol2115 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I love Cleese in the fish license video where he goes into get a license for his pet fish! It's hilarious how he gets mad and yells at the guy. And Palin says, you are a loonie!😂

  • @captainsanchez4829
    @captainsanchez4829 Před 4 lety +6

    "i like a nice dance your forced to" is probably the best line

  • @SubsWithoutAnyVideos-wn1wp

    “I want to buy some CHEEEEESE” 😂

  • @vdd
    @vdd Před 4 lety +9

    The cheddar bit is always my favourite for some reason

    • @FerdinandCesarano
      @FerdinandCesarano Před 3 lety +2

      I love the utter contempt with which Cleese utters the words "round these parts".

  • @garyknowles8378
    @garyknowles8378 Před rokem +1

    The best of The Best. Incomparable. IMO

  • @greenlinepublications
    @greenlinepublications Před 5 lety +25

    The reaction at 0:09 gets me. I don't know why!

  • @daeph123
    @daeph123 Před 3 lety +7

    Borat: What e is e dis e?
    Clerk: That's cheese.

    • @guguigugu
      @guguigugu Před 3 lety +1

      only god themself has more patience than that poor store clerk

  • @megavidaeos
    @megavidaeos Před 4 lety +7

    He’s so patient until he isn’t.

  • @ErickandDerrick
    @ErickandDerrick Před 3 lety +8

    Monty Python never gets old!

  • @Magmafrost13
    @Magmafrost13 Před 4 lety +5

    Ive been trying to remember the origin of the quote "what a senseless waste of human life" for so long, never would've guessed it was from Monty Python

  • @enfieldjohn101
    @enfieldjohn101 Před 4 lety +6

    One of the best comedy sketches ever.

  • @JonnyCooper
    @JonnyCooper Před 2 lety +5

    One of their very best sketches, which means it's one of THE funniest comedy sketches ever.

  • @AtheistEdge
    @AtheistEdge Před 2 lety +4

    The single greatest sketch in all of comedy.

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 Před 2 lety +4

    When I was young, I could quote every word of this comic sketch.