John Cleese Thinks Monty Python is Overrated in America
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Its John Cleese. You really should have said "92" instantly when he asked his age. He would have liked it.
Hahaha. And ask for the battleship.
"105, and you don't look a day over 103"
I'm sick of this 'being diplomatic' cobblers when someone asks me to guess their age.
People only say that because they think they look younger than they really are.
So I always say the age that I think they are, and I'm usually pretty close, which pisses them off.
Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!
i would have said a little before coffin :D
Tuppu - It's funny you "mention" that. I actually thought to myself; "she should've said '89' " 😄
"'Fawlty Towers' is the greatest show I've seen in years. God it's great." -- John Lennon
Agree. I like MP but never loved it like I did Fawlty Titties....
And don't even get me started on Flowery Twats.
Ya.... everyone should watch it; genius.
RIP Manuel
Brian Grimes.
Not to mention Farty Towels.
@@mikeyoung9810 Really? I always prefered Flay Otters.
(Edit to fix a small spelling mistake)
Elvis Presley doing Monty Python sketches. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for that!
You coulda sold tickets for a peephole and made a mint.
girlsdrinkfeck that escalated quickly...
I'd never heard that about Presley being a MP fan. I knew John Lennon liked them. And George Harrison. But Elvis? I must say, I'm pleasantly surprised.
@@girlsdrinkfeckHe never had a 14 year old wife though, he did marry a 21 year old Priscilla though.
@girlsdrinkfeck, oh, get your facts straight, you putz.
John Cleese has reintroduced the word "Silly" to my vocabulary. How he says it is just so fun that I can't help myself from saying it
Don't be silly.
Silly walks.
I have a good friend in Rome named Sillius Soddus!
Graham Chapman said it best.
So stop it, it's silly.
The story goes that Elvis was mental for The Holy Grail and knew dozens of lines from the movie. His favourite scene was The Black Knight and he would watch it over and over and quote it regularly - "It's just a flesh wound. Come back here and I'll bite your legs off." Just like we used to.
Elvis also _really_ liked Andy Kaufman. (Source: Elvis's friend Johnny Cash.) Elvis was cool.
Wow that's neat. It would seem that Kaufman was not the first full-blown Elvis impersonator, but I wonder if he was the first one seen by the wider public when he did his amazing Tonight Show performance.
Could be. I remember that a few months before Elvis died, Chuck Barris said that there were so many Elvis impersonators that he should do an all "Elvis" Gong Show.
blohmymind Had it not been for his awful manager, Elvis would’ve done so many talk shows. He wanted to be on Johnny Carson but his dickhead manager declined every fucking booking request he got. Dick Cavett was also interested. He almost went on
that Glen Campbell Variety Show before his manager declined.
@@GeorgiaOverdrive yeah, wtf was the deal with Parker?! A real controlling asshole. He didn't let Elvis do better films, with more challenging scripts, like Elvis desired. He should've sent Parker to that bridge, from Holy Grail, where he is asked his favorite color!
Greatest feature of his personality: he doesn't take himself seriously at all, everything he and the MP lads did for comedy will always be my choice of entertainment...I just love the absolute insanity/ silliness and that hasn't changed with age!
"One of my ex-wives, I can't remember which one." If you could bottle up John Cleese's laugh and sell it as a product you could become a billionaire.
I don't find that funny at all actually?
@@chadjcrase Maybe this is more to your liking : Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
I'd like to have an argument, please.
No you wouldn't.
Just a 5-minuter or the full half hour?
That was never five minutes just now.
I've told you once
no, you haven't
Please Savor this man while he is still among us.
gervais has took his place
girlsdrinkfeck
Oh no, not him... You're forgiven for saying that though, due to what I believe is a Father Ted reference in your name.
Never cried at a celebrity death, absolutely guaranteed 100% will full on cry when Cleese ceases to be
John is sus
@@girlsdrinkfeck It should be "taken" his place. Considering your English language skills, it's not surprising your taste in comedy is at the level of Gervais.
As an American I am offended by the use of the word "minor" when placing The Pythons in the rank of deities. I think I can speak for many of us when I say; O Pythons! Ooh, you are so big! So absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.
Cleese may have a point, in that Month Python certainly overshadows all other British comedy in the US. I love Python. But I've also enjoyed Benny Hill, whose show was syndicated on TV here for many years. John has said, "Benny is from a different planet!"
YES! Hill was/is fantastic. Unfortunately, he gets ignored now because the feminazis hate his beautiful Hill's Angels.
All I know is they made 45 BBC shows, and John Cleese had the common decency to appear in only 39. 👻
Actually even by their standards Monty Python is still a fringe thing in the US. But as they say, they have a 'cult like' audience who 'likes it a lot'. The real genius of britain was Spike Milligan, but of course thats because he was insane. Benny Hill is simply not discussed because his show was SO sexist. Its got nothing to do with feminists or anything, the fact is that once shows are off the air they are typically done. Benny Hill, like Spike Milligan, are in a class of their own, for one thing, nobody can even understand what Benny Hill is saying or singing, so its not like it would still be discussed anyway. There are british shows from five years ago that are largely forgotten.
But had the pythons not done movies they would largely be a footnote, and if they had come out a year earlier they'd of been in black and white like 'do not adjust your set', which is also pretty funny.
77! The comedian who loves to laugh as much as he makes others laugh with him. It's quite contagious.
1:04...Well, why do you think I did that? Did wha.....a-5, 4,, 3, 2, 1..Too Late....A-good Night, a-ding ding ding ding ding!!
Oh dear we're back to that again.
John seems like such a genuinely sweet man. I hope he lives forever.
He's not wrong, I'm an American and love Python, but I must admit that a lot of their sketches weren't very good, many were good and some are the funniest things ever created.
Flying Circus was very hit and miss and a lot of it was more weird/offbeat rather than funny. But when it was good, it was a REALLY good.
Yes, it was back in the early '70s and us Texas boys would smoke a lot of weed before watching Python and it was hilarious. Years later, watching it straight, it was "I don't get it. Why did I ever think it was funny?"
Even the pythons admit that, Palin and jones have said that Cleese and Chapman, which was mostly Cleese, did the 'feature' skits and they mostly did the stuff that muddled around it. Cleese really was the star writer, you can see that in the skits that really work. However, the 'bycycle tour' show to me was a classic that foreshadowed their movies. But certainly without their movies I think they would be a footnote. As many have said, a lot of people watched just to see the cartoons, a lot watched to see breasts, and lots watched just to see grown men acting silly. Oh shit, this was two years ago. Welcome to the future!
@@mikearchibald744 One nice thing about being here in the future, is that the old Monty Python movies still exist! And, yes, that 'bicycle tour' show was one of their very best!
@@TheRamsberg If you haven't seen the interview with John Cleese and Eric Idle on australian TV, just do a search on youtube for it, it shows just how funny they still are. And if you havent see 'the meaning of python' where they just sit around chatting, they simply narrate a couple of sketches that didn't make it that were pretty hilarious. Glad you made it to the future.
2:53 Beckham!?
Ummm, The Beatles, Benny Hill and Python!
Who is Beckham?
I think Python is overrated in the US. But only in as much that we Americans tend to think of Python as flawless comedy with one zinger right after another. And frankly, having watched some of the Flying Circus, that wasn't the case. Python was quite capable of missing the mark on the comedy pretty broadly. kind of the result of being somewhat experimental and freeform as I hear the Python creative process was.
The American comedy movies I saw as a kid seemed to have always been of the "let's do as many jokes as we can in a minute, surely one of them will get a laugh" variety. Whereas the most I've seen of British stuff is quality over quantity.
I wonder if that has something to do with it. If, indeed that generalisation holds.
Monty Python leans more towards the rapid fire jokes than Fawlty Towers for instance. Constantly being silly, versus also having to put a storyline in there. Several in fact.
2:56 John Lennon said this in his last radio interview (which he gave to the BBC) in 1980 (just a couple of days before he was murdered). It can be found here on youtube. And (as any Python fan knows) George Harrison was a big fan, too: He co-produced BRIAN, starred in THE RUTLES, etc.
Kai Thomas In actual fact, the interview was conducted on the very day Lennon was killed. Andy Peebles interviewed him in New York and then landed in Heathrow to the terrible news.
He was interviewed on the 6th by Andy Peebles; he was murdered on the 8th, same day as his RKO interview.
Yes, as both a Python and Lennon/Beatles fan, I was aware of this.
I wonder why John didn't participate in The Rutles, like George. He'd have done it and been great. He was still alive and living in NYC, where some of it was filmed. Oh well, at least he got to see it and it's reported, he adored it.
Ron Nasty lives on! 😎
Cleese is so much good fun
Legend.
His comment reminds me of a T-shirt a mate had made for me.
It's a simple graph with *"Age"* on the horizontal axis and *"Care Factor"* on the vertical and the line starts low goes up and peaks at about 20 years and slowly declines in an asymptotic approach to zero as you get really old. I'm near zero now.
The original idea was to have the vertical axis say *"Give a Shit"*.
8^)
That's a brilliant idea! You mind if I copy it?
Sure, the idea isn't mine, I saw it somewhere. I got a red felt tip and put an "X" just around the point where it hits the X axis to point out how many shits I give. 8^)
Warren NZ 😂
I think I need one of those made for here in New Jersey where the care factor would flatline across the graph near the bottom
I was at this show I enjoyed the interview very much class act he commanded that stage he’s a star the pythons are fab thanks for the laughs 🙏
At this age he still seems as bright as he has ever been! Now let's wait for the newsreport that will ruin my whole week.
Sadly Terry Jones passed away recently.
Elvis Presley doing Monty Python thon
That, to me, is a genuine mind blower.
I just had a thought: what if Monty Python teamed up with Mel Brooks?
Let us not think about something like that. The world couldn't contain that amount of nuttiness.
jazzpoet1974 add The Pink Panther series and Naked Gun and the world would explode.
a better match would be the writers of airplane and the naked gun
This would be terrible, to be honest. Whilst yes, both were very silly, their styles were completely different. What made MP great, was the utter randomness of every sketch, yet it all seem to fit in together so perfectly. Mel Brookes, on the other hand, loved to tell a story, and would progress in the silliness as the film went on. Blazing saddles and Young Frankenstein are good examples of this.
Mel Brooks might learn something.
As an American, I agree 100%. I’ve just recently started watching them and I can’t get enough!
Was introduced to Monty Python on PBS as a 9 or 10 year old in 1973 or 1974. Was one of their 1st big fans here in the States. My friend and I absolutely loved them at that tender age............still do.
Guess how old I am.
I'm going to say 60.
Cleese laughs it is hilarious that response.
It is because the US is more about sitcoms. Being Canadian we do sketch comedy too. We also grew up with other British sketch comedy too, the 2 Ronnies, Dave Allen and so on. So if Americans don't watch PBS they miss sketch comedy from other nations so when they see Monty Python it is new and unique to them. The US has Saturday night live but that is so poorly written.
SNL wasn't poorly written when it started. It was created by Lorne Michaels, a Canadian, and one of the best performers of the first few years was Dan Ayckroyd, another Canadian. The Americans also hd In Living Color, and Dave Chapelle.
I liked Living colour and Dave Chapelle. Jim Carey was great in living colour. But I think both series were not really main stream like American sitcoms were, like Seinfeld.
I agree. Just like "Whose Line Is It ..." which was brilliant was ignored by most viewers who watched Friends in the same time slot.
Yeah, I watched friends a little but whose line is it anyways was super superior.
The Comedy Central cable network here used to fill the US sketch comedy gap, but I don't think I've seen any on there for a while.
I believe Monty Python was first broadcast in the US out of Dallas, TX channel 13 in about 1971. I watched it as an 11 year old kid. Great fun, and in B+W, too.
I believe it was closer to 1973. I was one of the original Dallas area fans as well! I was about 13.
We have 7 years left then, or, better saying, he has
I love his laugh :)
Monty Python on PBS in the 70's was a terrific exposure to British crazy comedy !!
anyone know who the accented dark haired gal next to Cleese is? some sort of singer?
Stephen Jules Rubin Sonia Higgins
NR96 Shaq Sharleen Spiteri from the band Texas
John Cleese did a funny Barbie doll sketch in 1965 for Help! magazine where he met Terry Gilliam which was founded by MAD magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman which was in a way the kind of the start of Python.
When did he say Python was overrated in America? I missed it.
2:35
Cleese is still sharp as a razor, and witty as a....Brit, I guess. I'm not a Brit, and so my lack of anything witty to insert there should be excused.
Yeah, because only Brits can be witty.
@@v-town1980 if it’s out of brits and another country it’s most likely brits will have more of that since it is Brit humour, like Americans won’t though other countries can be witty
Charlene Spiteri and John Cleese on the same couch together .... interesting. Spiteri worked with Rammstein on a single song - is this the closest thing to an intereaction between Python and Rammstein ever?
Mr. Cleese, isn't kidding about Monty Python's status here in the states. I've never known a time in my life when Monty Python wasn't popular. Even back when I was child in the 90's Monty Python was well liked by me and my fellow students (pupils to you Redcoats). To this day I've only ever met a handful of people who have never heard of or didn't like Monty Python.
As a small child, Monty Python was my first view of the English, their culture, and language. As I grew to adulthood, I realized nothing has changed.
Can we have more Nightly Show with Dermot & Bradly Walsh
Love this man!
I absolutely agree. They go nuts about it over there as if it’s something spectacularly special and different, and how it makes them oh so quirky to like. I’ve seen some people over there almost build up a personality on liking it.
I mean it was very good (some/most of it) but in terms of British comedy, it wasn’t THAT good.
@Wandile Mtambo Never said that it didn't
Wandile Mtambo not be no funny mate, but we are literally on the video in which the title is a key cast member saying that the show is overrated in America (that last part being important). My only point was, the Yanks just go a little overboard with it
I agree. I feel that most Americans over thinks Monty Python. Yes it was funny, but so was Fawlty Towers, fry and Laurie, Blackadder and many others. I mean Rowan Atkinson does the same thing but mostly alone.
British humour haven’t changed much, it’s slightly more vulgar now I think, but it’s not pretentious like so many of America’s current batch of comedians.
As if you limies don't go overboard with anything. Ha! And only a small percentage go "overboard" for MP. Many are just casual fans.
Holy grail and monty python were voted #1 and #5 best comedy films of all time, so it was THAT good
They were also from Brazil (yes, I was there)
Overrated
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Monty Python
You can only choose one
AGREED ... and we forgot about the cleese a long time ago
I never got why it is so beloved in the US. Fawlty Towers for instance is far better.
Fully agree
I think it's because Fawlty Towers is just a sitcom. It's a very funny sitcom, but it's just a sitcom. Monty Python's Flying Circus was not only a very different format, it was also first broadcast on American TV shortly before the release of Holy Grail. So, there was a movie component to bring in even more followers.
What a gorgeous, charming, sexy woman.. and that accent..!
He's a man you silly person.
2:54 "things that made me most proud.." Why not "proudest"? I've caught this many times in various interviews with different people so it's not just a slip, and it is just not according to any grammar rules. I also just recently learned "prone" cannot be "proner" but "more prone". This is a feature of language that should be addressed in grammars. Sorry, foreigner poking in here, I'll show myself out
Do you have a philosophy of life?
0:57
George Harrison was The Best Beatle and an honorary Python too. That makes him the best un history! ♥️
Paul's better, fight me.
@@PoisonedRedBerry you came to have an argument?
@@taand4725 this was 2 years ago, I've changed!! Please forgive me!
@@PoisonedRedBerry just kidding, it's a Monty Python reference
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This guy amazes even at 77
I love that he said that if you leave LA or NY "in the middle of nowhere" as if that's all America is haha. Two big cities, and then just us hicks riding horses and bear hunting. But to be fair, most Americans know London, and..... London.
Americans don‘t know Manchester and Liverpool? 🤣
@@Domino13334 I know them because geography and travel are my thing. But most Americans knowing Manchester? No. More would know Liverpool because of the Beatles, but Manchester here would probably be primarily known for its football club, and the U.S. isn't exactly mad for football/soccer.
I think Family Guy did a cutaway gag about watching Python's flying circus, the sketches that no one remembers because they weren't funny. Those exist too, but man. If the price of those being made is all the good ones being made as well, bring em on.
Can we all agree to just be silly for the sake of being silly from now on?
Surely it would make the world better with more pointless silliness
We gotta be a little silly every now and then 😂
I'm 77 you know.
I'm not OLD
I thought we were an autonomous collective!
it's because the British accent and culture carries an air of dignity to Americans,
and to see such silliness coming from them,
makes it come across as even more funny.
Interesting, I guess I assumed that Python had the same vaunted stature in the UK that it does in the U.S. In the U.S. I’d say it’s a medium SIZED fan base, but an incredibly rabid one: Americans who are into Python are WAY into Python. So many American comics cite it as a major influence. I’m 50, and I grew up around a lot of people who were completely Gaga for it. I think I unconsciously presumed that if it had these kinds of fans in the U.S. it must be pervasively adored in the U.K.
I always thought it was amusing but never caught the bug for it that so many of my friends did. I chuckled when I watched it but never felt the need to memorize the bits and quote them, etc.
They never got to grips with open the s.........door and alot of it was censored. Well we could not understand Rowan and Martin's Laugh In so the feeling was mutual.
People talk about "a national treasure" but John Cleese is a step above that.
Whose the girl in this interview
who is the lady? John Cleese is a legend and should be the only guest!
That’s not how talk shows work lmao
wow.. funny guy and he has many interesting stories to tell
who am I kidding... hes a legend
THE LEGEND THE MASTER , THE BOSS
MPFC cannot be overrated at all. This has been my Engish Lesson for years. And for a german its been a lesson in humor too. And by the way. One of my biggest lost opportunities in my life was when I didnt address Mr. Cleese when I saw him in Winchester visiting the wonderful cathedral in the late nineties.
"Well, you killed all the funny people." Robin Williams, in response to a German reporter asking him why Germany isn't known for comedy.
@@Ericwvb2 he actually said that? Lmaooo
...one of my ex-wives - I can't remember which one...
Wow...I literally ROFL'd at that line..! (well, I happened to be on the floor to begin with)
In one interview he said one of his ex wives had just died "sadly the wrong one".
@@heliotropezzz333 The way he phrased it was just perfect ... "One of my ex-wives has just died. It was very sad because it was the wrong one."
Can't disagree
Absolute hero
John Cleese I don't really how old of you you really should have said 75 instantly when he ask his age he would like it.
I have something to say to you John Cleese.
Who's the woman next to him?
Sharleen Spiteri lead singer of the Scottish band Texas
I adore John Cleese and I adore Monty Python.
1:02 JOB INTERVIEW
I have to agree with
What's her accent? So unique!
How delightful
I love the bastard less than all the other Pythons but fuck he is the best one
TWO HUNDRED THOU-AAH HAH HAH HAH
Lol, five more years left to go, according to Cleese himself.
Yea watching Monty Python movies when your a 12 year old American is a transcendental experience really. That type of humor is foreign to us thats why we love it.
The only Monty Python film i ever seen, i think was called The Holy Grail. It was hilarious. the black knight part and the knights of ni. I'm an American. i guess we laugh easy. I never liked Benny Hill though.
Life of Brian is just as good (I consider it better actually but Holy Grail is considered to be their best by most). Meaning of Life is a bit more uneven but it's worth seeing just for the Mr. Creosote scene.
Who's the woman on the left?
Thanks.
He is of the same age as Chuck Norris. I can't believe it. Chuck's still pulling weights.
Chuck Norris was born in a cabin built with his own two hands.
Chuck Norris can put out a fire with a gallon of gasoline.
Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
Chuck Norris can hear sign language.
When Chuck Norris was born he drove his mom home from the hospital....
Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack... even a heart isn't foolish enough to attack Chuck Norris.
If he wanted to, Chuck Norris could rob a bank. By phone.
Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.
Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.
Chuck Norris once bowled a perfect game with a marble.
Chuck Norris can speak braille.
Chuck Norris won the World Horseshoe Pitching Contest while they were still attached to a Clydesdale.
Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete.
Jesus can walk on water, but Chuck Norris can swim through dry land.
Chuck Norris once shot an enemy plane down with his finger by yelling, "Bang!"
The quickest way to a man's heart is with Chuck Norris' fist....
Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
Chuck Norris is the only person on the planet that can kick you in the back of the face.
Chuck Norris once punched a man in the soul.
When Chuck Norris enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.
Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
Chuck Norris is the only person to ever win a staring contest against Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder at the same time.
Chuck Norris can breathe in and out at the same time.
Chuck Norris doesn't wear condoms because their is no protection against Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris wrote all Monty Python jokes.
Don't forget: Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice!
Chuck Norris ALWAYS expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Rick Freeman, you forgot that Chuck Norris is the only man in the world that can slam a revolving door
Wonder how the south park creators feel about this? matt and trey are huge fans of monty python
Who is the woman?
Sharleen spitteri from the Scottish group Texas
Python had the funniest sketches ever made, but it didn’t have very many. Most of it was just bizarre and not funny at all, in my opinion.
0:55 well we might as well hold the funeral now.
Sharleen Spiteri proving that you don't have to be pretty/attractive to be sexy!
HE IS SOOOOO RIGHT !
Didn't he move to America where he could be the biggest star as possible? I mean, he said he came to California for the sunshine. He must really be too big a star if he thinks that he should be less accolated for his efforts.
You either bad a math or you don't know who john cleese is if you guess 60.
that reunion was so horrible
he's wrong though, it's underrated in the States, funniest show in history, untoppable.
It’s great but stuff like faulty towers or only fools and horses can top it easily
Who's that with him?
I'm American and I fucking love Monty python
Who's Charlene?
The great Jack Cheese!
100, 000 audience, yeah she got it wrong, that is why Cleese laughed.
Weird to think he was a client to jeffery epstien
60? She looks like she's 70, with hair dye. I thought he would say 80. Is Cleese still alive?
Alive and well, praise the lord!
John cleese an extraordinary man extremely funny and very careful with his career that's why I'm astonished to have seen his appearance in the film "rat race" - I can't believe he did it - other than that film he had a brilliant career
sure is overrated but still I love John, without him Python would be noting.