The sketch has been edited - I have the full version in sound only and he was there as the sole 'member of the jury'. Carol Cleveland didn't just sit there either, she had a couple of lines. And quite a lot of the dialogue was taken out as well - for example the list of murder victims at the start was originally even longer...
Judge: He's not completely dead? Mr. Bartlett: No, he's not completely dead, m'lord, no. But he's not at all well. Mr. Aldridge: I'm getting better! Mr. Bartlett: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment!
Funny that Nicholas Parsons was in the list of murder victims as, years later, Peter Cook played Mr Jolly in a Comic Strip Presents episode, where he was a hitman who was supposed to take out Nicholas Parsons.
If he's not completely dead, what's he doing in the coffin? - Oh! It's merely a precaution milord ! Gold, just comedy gold, I can't believe how incredibly talented they were.
Funny thing is John Cleese (or cheese) is really a graduate of oxford law and being the nuisance to many barristers associations and the talk of Queen's court judges including the high crown judges. A menace trough and through!
Wonderful manic comedy and as an Expert Witness of some experience Love the parody!!!! sorry accurate appearance of a Court hearing and the Barristers having their own version of the facts!!!
the name "arthur aldrige" was used in "at last the 1984 show", a show JC did with graham chapman, tim brooke-taylor and marty feldman before monty python
@PsychiatristLarch "Ditto????" I was trying to strain my ears to hear too. Quite a show this was. A little shout out to We The People, this is really how your courts are run. :-) WOW-ing this little vid is. YEP!!! Shared by some angel that is so brilliant. :-) Thanks!!. :-)
That is hilarious, I apologize as well, I had never heard the reference until now. I'll see if I can drag them up on YT. (I had runts telling me what they would do to me for days, and I am a giant and a monster). Cheers.
I get a lot of that by computer, just never to my face. Not once in my life has any man or boy said something like that directly to me. Fear is a great preventative for stupidity, it seems.
WARNING: Their is a troll on CZcams who typed nasty, hurtful remarks on my video. I mime to the Facts sketch with Peter Cook and John Cleese. I was called a loser, a "f'ing t*t", and my video is "crap". Please avoid this person at all costs.
Does anybody know of a sketch (I think i only heard it on radio) where Dudley is a Welsh music teacher and Peter Cook a millionaire who wants to learn to play Beethoven's Moonlight sonata on the piano by next week just to impress his friends. Would love to hear or see it again.
Alan - BTW, typically of Pete and Dud, the piece 'Peter' wanted to learn on the PIANO was Beethoven's 5th, as he says to Dud in the sketch 'Have you heard of it ?' Peter is also convinced the reason there are black and white keys is that the black ones are louder, otherwise what's the point of different colours ?
Can anyone make out what they were saying at the end of the video? I've always found it interesting to hear the comedian's take on a performance, and it sounds like that is what they are talking about. I'm not sure though. Help?
TheDawgKatcher It’s years after Python. This is from the late 70s. The Basingstoke/Cole Porter dialogue had been in the Sapper Walters sketch in the last series.
***** I'm British like them, and a fan, but I don't think this is one of their best. Try some of the other sketches (Piranha Brothers ?)+ anything with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore together.
rossmcl177 se trata de las funciones a beneficio de Amnesty international. Entre el 76' y el79'.primero en Francia y dado el éxito lo llevaron a Londres. Se llama :Secret policeman balls.
I can't get over how so many people 'rave' about these comic genius. I'm still waiting to hear a "funny" bit. Must be a sign of the times. Like my Dad used to say "never heard such rubbish, and people getting paid for "acting daft""
You either get it, or you don't. You see it as either comic genius or, as your dad used to say "never heard such rubbish, and people getting paid for "acting daft."" Luckily the majority of people got it and the minority didn't. As I said in a previous comment "Python's existence was based on making the ridiculous look normal, and the normal appear to be ridiculous." If that premise was above you then neither you nor your dad could suspend belief for a half hour and see the contradiction in the idea. Did you ever see their 4 old Yorkshiremen sketch?
As a pose to today's "comedians" producing completely idiotic, unintelligent, thoughtless, unintellectual "funniness" like "the office?" or simplistic stand up like Michael Macyntire?
Python's existence was based on making the ridiculous look normal, and the normal appear to be ridiculous. They succeeded beyond their own expectations.
"Mister Bartlett, you do realize you are meant to be counsel for the defense?"
Best gag in the whole thing, and John's reaction.
Love how they have Terry Gilliam just sitting there for no reason, LOL.
The sketch has been edited - I have the full version in sound only and he was there as the sole 'member of the jury'. Carol Cleveland didn't just sit there either, she had a couple of lines. And quite a lot of the dialogue was taken out as well - for example the list of murder victims at the start was originally even longer...
RIP Terry Jones, comic genius
He never wanted to be a lawyer.......
He always wanted......to be a lumberjack!
"He's not completely dead but he's not at all well."
Peter Cooke and John Cleese together. What a combination 😁😁😁😂😂😂
how have i never seen this before?!! Python AND Cook? PYTHON AND COOK
I have to say, considering that blunder of an opening, the defense attorney really managed to turn things around!
That's right! Think outside the box and, above all else, believe in your client! (or something to that effect)
John Cleese walks in and everybody applauds!
Cleese is so funny interrogating Cook. thanks for putting this up
A part-time lumberjack and part-time lawyer...!
He didn't want to be there, he wanted to be a LUMBERJACK. 😂
Absurdity is so loveable
-Yes or no!
-Yes I murdered these people.
-ANSWER THE QUESTION!
Always cracks me up, together with John's laugh.
Judge: He's not completely dead?
Mr. Bartlett: No, he's not completely dead, m'lord, no. But he's not at all well.
Mr. Aldridge: I'm getting better!
Mr. Bartlett: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment!
haha xD Peter Cook + Pythons, cant get better.
Funny that Nicholas Parsons was in the list of murder victims as, years later, Peter Cook played Mr Jolly in a Comic Strip Presents episode, where he was a hitman who was supposed to take out Nicholas Parsons.
pineapplepenumbra
Brilliant observation! I completely missed that, and I had Mr Jolly Lives Next Door on VHS for years!
If he's not completely dead, what's he doing in the coffin?
- Oh! It's merely a precaution milord !
Gold, just comedy gold, I can't believe how incredibly talented they were.
I didn't think anything was funny, until I discovered British humor.
Isn't this a combination of about thre Monty Python sketches all combined into a super-sketch?
lolz "It's merely a precaution" seems to get you out of anything!
Just brilliant bring it back
Now THAT is how rock a theatrical comedy sketch
HAHAHAHAHAH!we've weedled it out of you at last!
Funny thing is John Cleese (or cheese) is really a graduate of oxford law and being the nuisance to many barristers associations and the talk of Queen's court judges including the high crown judges. A menace trough and through!
I really must protest you shooting my client ---- LOOOOL
2:51 - 2:55 had me in stitches...LOL!!
I think they were all having a lot more fun than we were.
Incorrect. If you didn't get it, you're in the minority.
9:21 Michael Palin's back ........ *happy fangirl sigh*
Still the funniest thing ever
thanks for uploading this..
Rather agreeable, good sir.
Wonderful manic comedy and as an Expert Witness of some experience Love the parody!!!! sorry accurate appearance of a Court hearing and the Barristers having their own version of the facts!!!
the name "arthur aldrige" was used in "at last the 1984 show", a show JC did with graham chapman, tim brooke-taylor and marty feldman before monty python
At last the 1948 show 😉
This looks The Secret Policeman's Ball
This is sort of a mixture of alot of the court room sketches from the Monty Python series.
Pobre Cook.Tuvo que ser testigo directo de toda la locura😆😂😃
3:06 to 3:10 GORGEOUS!!!
@GTXanatos13 A great mixture indeed. A wonderful performance.
I wish the sound was better. THis is a send up of another Python routine performed after Cleese took a hiatus from the group.
@PsychiatristLarch "Ditto????" I was trying to strain my ears to hear too. Quite a show this was. A little shout out to We The People, this is really how your courts are run. :-) WOW-ing this little vid is. YEP!!! Shared by some angel that is so brilliant. :-) Thanks!!. :-)
DOPE.PERIOD
Soooo interesting
Thanks.
Yes, it is. Good eye.
Fucking Cleese, what a madman.
Cleese at his funniest
No harm no foul fella. They're deffo on youtube. Hope you enjoy.
@drmoonrat All of the best bits, no doubt about that.
That is hilarious, I apologize as well, I had never heard the reference until now. I'll see if I can drag them up on YT. (I had runts telling me what they would do to me for days, and I am a giant and a monster). Cheers.
sorry im late , i could not find a kosher carpark . thank god im English such madness is what keeps us going !
Mario Fercotti, and Arthur Buddha.
LOLOLOL fucking brilliant....and MY GOD could Mike's pants be any tighter PHWOAAAAARRR!!
You do realise you are the Defence?
Oh, damn.
Palin's character never wanted to be a lawyer. He wanted to be...
Funnily Cleese graduated from Oxford as a lawyer and Graham Chapman qualified as a doctor, but neither ever practiced per their degrees.
@@alexpaylor1365 i mean how could they after they mocked their respectives fields coallague?😂😂😂
They regarded as menace after their skits
WOW this is ~~~~~~~~no words to describe what is really being put in front of our manipulated beings faces. Chilling.
3 people were part of the panzer staff in basington.
I get a lot of that by computer, just never to my face. Not once in my life has any man or boy said something like that directly to me. Fear is a great preventative for stupidity, it seems.
I BELIEVE HE WAS NOTORIOUSLY INNOCENT.
WARNING: Their is a troll on CZcams who typed nasty, hurtful remarks on my video. I mime to the Facts sketch with Peter Cook and John Cleese. I was called a loser, a "f'ing t*t", and my video is "crap". Please avoid this person at all costs.
Isn't that skit at the end from Spike Milligan?
Does anybody know of a sketch (I think i only heard it on radio) where Dudley is a Welsh music teacher and Peter Cook a millionaire who wants to learn to play Beethoven's Moonlight sonata on the piano by next week just to impress his friends. Would love to hear or see it again.
I heard this on a Not Only But Also record years ago, I reckon it was part of the TV series but may (only may) have been wiped.
ALAN GRANVILLE
It was for his wife's birthday.
Alan - BTW, typically of Pete and Dud, the piece 'Peter' wanted to learn on the PIANO was Beethoven's 5th, as he says to Dud in the sketch 'Have you heard of it ?' Peter is also convinced the reason there are black and white keys is that the black ones are louder, otherwise what's the point of different colours ?
Can anyone make out what they were saying at the end of the video? I've always found it interesting to hear the comedian's take on a performance, and it sounds like that is what they are talking about. I'm not sure though. Help?
NOT Python, years before Python!
TheDawgKatcher It’s years after Python. This is from the late 70s. The Basingstoke/Cole Porter dialogue had been in the Sapper Walters sketch in the last series.
A HA HA HA!
2023 . This would be a normal court case n today's England 😅😅
Función a beneficio de Amnesty International. The secret policeman balls. 1976'.
@Nosregni A LUMBERJACK!!!
Where was Idle while all this was happening?
This sketch plays much better live than the one they shot for TV.
Idle played an accused at the beginning of the TV sketch.
I'm assuming this is from one of the Amnesty International shows. Does anyone know the year this was filmed?
1976, I believe
he is not dead my lard.. but he is not at all well
john cheese...geez...
LOL, sorry sir. It's from a Derek and Clive sketch. I thought you may get the reference as you mentioned British humour. No offence meant.
ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!
Kinda reminds me of Dürrenmatt...
I like the Office. :c
what is this from BTW> is it from a DVD?
i learned that Terry Jones has Alzeimhers.. but has Terry forgotten the world, John. Or has the world forgotten Terry?
WilliamZeebub
It'll be a long time before the world forgets Terry.
i get sick of the screaming by the python lot , peter cook was and still is an utter genius
that's because you're an arse hat
Where did you take this video from?
Damn, humor really must be cultural.
***** I'm British like them, and a fan, but I don't think this is one of their best. Try some of the other sketches (Piranha Brothers ?)+ anything with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore together.
Thanks Monsieur Oeuf, I'll give them a go.
im not british and i think this is great.
Oddly enough this is a sketch that was in series 4 of monty python which john cleese wasn't in.
What does Cleese say at 2:30? "We've wheedle it out..."?
Thanks
Out of you at last!
what happend to the moustache?
No good can come of any Python policeman named Pan-Am. Almost as bad as anyone played by Chico Marx.
XD
Haha... Kosher Car Park...!! Ha-ha-ha-ha
Why did they bring in a half dead person?
What show is this taken from?
rossmcl177 se trata de las funciones a beneficio de Amnesty international. Entre el 76' y el79'.primero en Francia y dado el éxito lo llevaron a Londres. Se llama :Secret policeman balls.
2 people in the audience are mostly dead
when was this taped and where?
This was filmed in 1976 at the first benefit for Amnesty International at Her Majesty's theater, in London.
Mark Schildberg Brilliant......
*****
This first benefit was called Pleasure at Her Majesty's. The second benefit was called The Secret Policeman's Ball.
Cleese is the funniest man ever born. Ever
He's on stage with Peter Cook, dude, he can't compete!
yes I agree he is in a very small group that includes Mel Brooks Barry Humphries
Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx
Still edited.No mention of the gaiters.
Not edited. You're thinking of a different version. This has elements of two Python sketches.
Mike esta divino con esos jeans hummm 😈😆😉😜👌💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
Sorry I couldn't find a Kosher car park!!! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thanks, I missed that one because I thought he said "closer car park"
Hehehehehehheheheheheheheh
One down - five to go. More stable than the Beatles.
It ain't Python if you don't have Cleese
rub me.
I can't get over how so many people 'rave' about these comic genius. I'm still waiting to hear a "funny" bit. Must be a sign of the times. Like my Dad used to say "never heard such rubbish, and people getting paid for "acting daft""
You either get it, or you don't. You see it as either comic genius or, as your dad used to say "never heard such rubbish, and people getting paid for "acting daft."" Luckily the majority of people got it and the minority didn't. As I said in a previous comment "Python's existence was based on making the ridiculous look normal, and the normal appear to be ridiculous." If that premise was above you then neither you nor your dad could suspend belief for a half hour and see the contradiction in the idea. Did you ever see their 4 old Yorkshiremen sketch?
As a pose to today's "comedians" producing completely idiotic, unintelligent, thoughtless, unintellectual "funniness" like "the office?" or simplistic stand up like Michael Macyntire?
Python's existence was based on making the ridiculous look normal, and the normal appear to be ridiculous. They succeeded beyond their own expectations.
Classic 'rubbish' poorly disguised by famous faces!
Incorrect. If you didn't get it, you're in the minority.