Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks (Full Sketch)
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Overthinking Monty Python is a sure direction toward insanity.
True dat. Whatever is going on in a Monty Python skit, you just roll with it.
Yup. Absurdity for absurdities sake.
@@7thsealord888 yeah overthinking a Monty Python skit is just as dangerous as trying to understand Pinkie Pie
It was partly making fun of pointless government ministries and quangos and partly just being surrealist humour.
No, it was just silly. The upper class were a long-term target but this was a social thing, not political.
It also played on the fact that they were being paid by the BBC to be silly.
I remember when Monthy Python finally appeared on Polish TV. I was a secondary school teacher then and when I came to work on the day following the viewing of the Ministry of Silly Walks, all the students walked this way
I was in primary school and remember i loved Monthy Python. Gald they aired it Polish TV. After 20 years i watch it in orginal and its as best as i remember. 😊
epic!
John Cleese's long legs, and his ability to keep a perfectly straight face while doing all these silly walks, absolutely make this sketch. XD
" _The government spends more on defense than silly walks_ " cracks me up every time.... and I have watched this skit many times.
Same 😂 but sadly the audience is roaring at the same time, so many tend to miss that line altogether
Their French is perfectly all right. These guys had a solid education.
🤣🤣
I was just about to say the French was perfectly understandable. My dad was a French teacher and we spent each summer with his friend's there.
Yes, the French is fine. They also produced entire programs (not simple skits, an actual 90-minute program) in perfectly good German.
@@nathanlaoshi8074 John Cleese's German pronuntiation was quite good. The others' not so much.
Then please translate the funniest joke in the world from German.
Grew up with Python, has affected my entire life. In a strange and wonderful way.
It's a satire on bureaucratic inefficiency
Absolutely!
I think the "Machine that goes ping" was another variant of the same idea.
Their french is perfect. And we love them. Mockeries beetween french and british are not serious.
The sketches were all written by the Monty Python team. In case you're wondering, the long line of brown coated men that John Cleese walks past after leaving the newsagents are a carry over from an earlier sketch in the programme.....and yes, he is / they are speaking French (mainly)
We have kids your age and made it a matter of policy to bring them up on Monty Python. Being incredibly silly is universally undervalued!
They are slightly twisted little monkeys but, we like them that way. One used to scream "Help Help I'm being repressed" when he had a tantrum. I would obviously respond with a quiet "come see the violence inherent in the system". By the time he was three it was brilliant! A full tilt overtired toddler tantrum in the shops was, although exhausting, hilarious! Thank you Monty Python!
He would quote Monty Python when he was THREE, and having a tantrum? 😂😂😂 That's hilarious! And brilliant!
Monty Python was the group name, it was written by the 5 guys you see all the time plus the animator who you barely see but usually plays a peasant or something in the movies.
Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes are basically the 7th and 8th Python members. Also, you are downplaying "the animator" quite a bit there
@@Songfugel I thought it was sufficient given how little he knows. I'm not trying to downplay Gilliam.
@@leytonjay Fair enough
@@SongfugelGilliam made a good cardinal in a way nobody expected!
The sketch pretty much stands on it's own: a silly walk is a silly walk. The meta-narrative of the joke is a commentary on government spending.
And the idea that the British Establishment is humourless and has no common sense or sense of proportion. And a swipe at the British class system. Humour has a time and place. If you wrote this sketch today, it wouldn't have the same resonance because Britain today is different form Britain in the 1970s.
@@jrd33Are you kidding? The government wastes even more of the citizens money now than they did then. Solar, wind, and all kinds of Woke nonsense. Pampering illegal aliens instead of prosecuting and incarcerating them. All the alphabet squad nonsense. All the welfare programs for the indolent and insolent. It's by far worse now than ever!
Highly recommend Biggus Dickus.
😂😂😂
I bet you do.
@KW-gb9cd 😂
Biggus Dickus, the Latin translation.
@@KW-gb9cdJust wait til his wife hears about this. You know what her name is?
It is 'real' French "Bonjour ... et maintenant ... comme d'habitude, au sujet du Le Marche Commun. Et maintenant, je vous presente, encore une fois, mon ami, le pouf celebre, Jean-Brian Zatapathique." Second Frenchman: "Merci, mon petit chou-chou Brian Trubshawe. Et maintenant avec les pieds a droite, et les pieds au gauche, et maintenant l'Anglais-Francaise Marche Futile, et voila". BT was a Condorde test pilot which links to the "Anglo French" title.
it loses nothing in the translation
Back in 1972-1975, in high school, getting stoned and going to a friend's house to watch Monty Python is just what we did every week.
SPAM, Dead Parrot, and the Cheese Shoppe were the other best skits.
I wouldn`t try to find any hidden meanings behind MP I think it was all just meant to make people laugh.
There is meaning behind their comedy, it satirises British culture and institutions (government, organised religion, the upper, middle and working classes, private schools, popular television programmes etc).
January 7 the is the International silly walk day.
Here in Reykjavík Iceland we have a street behind Congress and if people have to cross the crosswalk they have to do like they do in this video. I participated 11 years ago when this event began and it was such comedic relief both to walk and to watch the people who had the guts to let it fly lol
I love the waiting line of milkman in the background from an earlier sketch.
You have to see the money python dead parrot sketch I cry laughing. The film the life of Brian and the holy grail films slay me
Every time I think of "pining for the fiords", I snicker. That's my favorite euphemism for dead.
You are thinking of Tommy Cooper, I absolutely loved him. He actually died on stage, and being Tommy, everyone thought it was part of the act and laughed. Actually it was probably the best way a comedian could go out.
The people wrote their sketches themself, so they themself are the writers. The idea for Ministry of Silly Walks came to them when discussing sketches and they saw through the window pushing someone a wheelbarrow or something similar behind a hedge. Because of the hedge they didnt see the wheelbarrow, just to top half walking in a really weird rhythm and angle. That gave John Cleese the idea to make a sketch about silly walks
It’s brilliant satire and parody.
This is absolutely iconic sketch
So much so, that people organize "Silly Walks" events in real life
For all those grand and great grand children who think their oldies had no sense of humor then think again, we were weaned on stuff like this in a time when “bong” was not the sound of Big Ben lol
The Monty Python guys wrote all the stuff that they did!
Monty Python perfected silliness...
for one reason...
to perfect the art of silliness.
Walk this way...
Peace on earth.
This skit is absolutely timeless. Even now, I cannot watch this without bursting out laughing. I even have a 'Silly Walks' t-shirt I wear when I'm feeling a bit goofier than usual.
Monty Python is so out of this world hilarious 🤣🤣
Monty Python team were without doubt some of the best comedy creations in the world.
You should watch the most lethal joke.
That's dangerous!
You homicidal madman! :O
Unless you understand German, mind you.
It’s the absurdity of it. It never fails to make me laugh.
I was lucky enough to see The Holy Grail in a theatre (not cinema) followed by a Q& A with John Cleese. It was amazing! He said they were all writers first and foremost. They would come up with a general idea and each of them would each write separately. Then they would regroup and take all of the best pieces of their individual writing.
They did a study and found that doing a silly walk like in this skit was a better exercise than a regular walk, as it burned more calories from being an inefficient form of locomotion and thus used more muscles.
Yes, scientist specifically studied Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks and concluded it was a good idea.
They are just being silly
I had a poster in my college dorm room of John Cleese doing the silly walk from the opening scene. I miss that poster.
The writers were the performers themselves. Its like Saturday Night Live.(SNL). In fact its more SNL than SNL, as there were no separate writers. It was the prime inspiration for SNL in fact.
The thing about Python is that the sillier, the better.
those aren't silly walks, that is Dune style deep desert walking, ya know, to prevent from calling a worm
Most of Monty Python was created shortly before airing, so I wouldn't read too much into the skits lol
I love the "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch - I think it works so well 'cuz John Cleese has such long legs! I couldn't tell you the number of times I've seen it and never heard the dialogue - I'm always laughing too hard. Thanks for playing this one!
"We only get 340 million pounds to spend on our entire line of products."
Amazing the kind of lines you can almost miss between the laugh track and the hilarious visuals.
It's a sketch of what ANY Ministry is.
I love how they take something that could save maybe should be a short hilarious bit, then lean in on it.
The six members of Monty Python all wrote the show collaboratively. John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle- Terry Gilliam did the animations, but would occasionally have input into the writing, as well.
They often worked in pairs, bouncing ideas off each other, or sometimes individually. Then they would all meet together, share what they'd come up with, make suggestions, changes to make things funnier, figure out how to link all these disparate sketches together (often relying on Terry Gilliam's animations for absurdist linking material), figuring out funny and clever ways for foreshadowing and call-backs to tie things together. They would decide casting amongst each other: who would play in each sketch, or where they needed other actors to fill in a character or crowd. Often they would kind of write for themselves: whoever wrote the sketch would act in it. But sometimes they wrote with one of their cast-mates in mind: John would be perfect for this silly walks thing with his long legs; Graham should play this doctor character, because he was in fact educated in medicine, etc. It was a highly collaborative process.
So it is the actors you see on screen who wrote their own material. There was not a writer's room who created the material and a troupe of actors who performed it: it was all them.
Monty Python is the best. Hilarious stuff.
I recommend the “Dead Parrot” sketch for ya. And also “The Spanish Inquisition” Sketches.
Brilliant comedy 😂
They WERE the writers! All 5 of them
And Cleese is perfect for the part because he's got those legs
I use to love watching theses in the 70’s when I was a kid 😂 good times
The Flying Sheep sketch. 🐑
The actors were also the writers for the most part. It is absurdist humor, in the spirit of the Marx Brothers, and Ernie Kovaks in the US.
Monty Python is Legendary
Governments often waste money on stupid departments, The sketch develops from that absurdity.
The Life of Brian is Monty Python's great contribution to the world.
The funniest thing for me about Monty Python stuff is they never seem to know how to end their skits or movies. Whereas some acts have a "punchline" or closing gag, they... rarely do. I'm never sure if I'm laughing with them or at them.
Don't over think a lot of British Humour especially Monty Python. They were just a bunch of Drunk college graduates having fun while making people laugh. None of it was political, racist or outrageously sexist but it is a product of its time.
The first time I saw this bit, almost fifty years ago, I hurt myself laughing.
Love your reactions to these great comedies
Thank you 🤩
There were mainly two writing pairs in Monty Python: John Cleese/Graham Chapman, and Michael Palin/Terry Jones. Eric Idle made some of his own sketches, like "Nudge, nudge," and Terry Gilliam, the American of the group, mainly did the animations. You can sometimes tell the difference in styles. The Cleese/Chapman sketches tended to play a lot with language, like finding innumerable synonyms for a term (like dead parrot, which relies on numerous synonyms for "dead"), while the Palin/Jones sketches depended more on absurdism and visual gags. This one then is a Palin/Jones sketch. In fact, John Cleese didn't like it much.
They were definitely way I had other time, but check out Monty Python and the holy Grail. There are some great season that are off the wall.
We watched this in pe and had the task of creating a choreography inspired by this
To this day, the Ministry of Silly Walks is my absolute FAVORITE Monty Python skit!
(And THAT is saying something)
John Cleese is an absolute GOAT of mixing both physical & verbal humor masterfully.
I don't understand how anyone could think Python is not pure genius!
I use to try and do a silly walk while maintaining a straight face in private. I gave up because I kept falling down laughing.😂
Eric Idle said their entire notion of funny was taking rediculous things or ideas and presenting them as seriously as possible and taking that as far as possible
The writing of Monty Python's Flying Circus was very much a team effort, but broken into individual units. John Cleese and Graham Chapman wrote as a partnership; Michael Palin and Terry Jones did likewise. Eric Idle wrote on his own, and Terry Gilliam created the weird cartoons and contributed ideas in the group sessions where everyone submitted material for consideration. The only real rule they had was that it had to make them laugh. Graham Chapman was the linchpin of Python because of his seriously off-the-wall take on the world. It was Chapman who turned ordinary sketches into gold; for instance, he finessed the Dead Parrot sketch into what we know today' also the Cheese Shop sketch. But there were also outside writers, not officially members of the main group, most notably Neil Innes, who was a song composer, and Carol Cleveland, who is known as "the female Python" and who contributed a lot of good stuff too. Also, Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy" contributed to some of the later Monty Python output. So, as I say, it was a team effort.
I saw Monty P live in the opera house in Manchester, UK way back when. Unfortunately, I was seated so far up in the gods that I couldn't see the parrots impressive performance in the dead parrot sketch! But apart from those suffering from vertigo, we all had a good time.
It is pure satire about silly state investment, and it is still relevant today.
The writers? You are watching them.
The Pythons were a combined team of writers/performers that created their own characters and sketches. Contributing to the humour was that they were all college educated, well read people who really should have been acting and doing something more sensible. I assume the 'joke' behind this was (at a rudimentary level) about the plethora of 'Government Departments' that had money thrown at them from the national purse. Aside from that, it's just silly and makes you laugh! Previously to this, Michael Palin and Terry Jones did a kids' show on ITV called 'Do Not Adjust Your Set (B/W) and Cleese and Chapman did 'At Last the 1948 Show'. Try to find 'The Mice Sleep Softly' from the latter of 'The Four Yorkshiremen'.
They're taking a piss out of the gov't, useless departments, waste of $. Don't think, just laugh it's The Pythons 😂😂😂
Mate you have to watch. Monty Python - The meaning of life - sex education scene. You will love it.
You have to be very athletic and flexible to walk that silly
The thing makes sense in the context of an entire episode. LITTLE chunks like this? Nope.
'Silly walks" and "dead parrot" are like the go-to sketches. But I would like to see some reactions to some of the more obscure ones, like the one with the guy who tries to jump over the English channel or the world championship in "hide and seek".
And "How Not To Be Seen"
oh, they even speak french, oui oui oui, "mon petit chouchou"... I honestly practice the "marche futile" everyday
Monty Python predicted the future. Much of what appeared in their sketches as satire decades ago is now reflected in the modern woke agenda. It was originally aimed at showing outrageous and ridiculous views of society but now society is actually becoming outrageous and ridiculous.
Yes and no. Monty Python mainly poked fun at establishment, at conservative agenda (see "Every sperm is sacred"), at stiff politeness and at people taking themselves too serious. And the last part is where Monty Python would jab at today: the grave seriousness of some woke people. John Cleese is a very outspoken critic of them.
But at the same time, they would also poke fun at the anti-woke agenda and their even more stubborn seriousness.
Thanks for the laughs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's important that silly walks are founded by the gouvernment, because private companies don't provide the same benefits.
The writer of Monty Python is the Monty Python group themselves (6 guys, all writers and actors of their stuff).
my brother loved this show
The purpose of the satire of the Ministry of Silly Walks was that England had a ministry for just about everything imaginable.
British humor, love it!
Python was absolutely brilliant !!
The Ministry of Silly Walks is a commentary on pointless government spending, and the sort of mindless bureaucracy that we all come up against whenever we try to get anything done, especially when we approach the the department that's supposed to deal with it. The Argument Sketch is another perfect example. You never get what you asked for, and they will deny ever getting the request in the first place.
The members of Monty Python wrote their own material.
They wrote Monty python themselves.
They wrote it themselves. John Cleese and Graham Chapman (they guy who plays the army officer who walks on randomly at the end of sketches) were a writing partnership, Michael Palin and Terry Jones were another partnership and Eric Idle tended to write on his own. Terry Gilliam, the only non-Brit, was the guy who did the animations that helped to link things together.
WEIRD FACT: The tall guy is John Cleese. His father's surname was originally Cheese, but had officially changed one letter by deed poll as he felt it was rather silly and was embarrassed about the original family name, so John was Christened as a Cleese.
Monty Python liked to make fun of the government and some of the more silly aspects of it…hence Ministry of Silly Walks.
Did you do the dead parrot already?
If you walk without rythm, you won't attract the worm.
They all wrote the sketches .
The animation was handled by Terry Gilliam .
A very clever bunch !!
Firing all cylinders.
Love your Scarf!! KRO
Have a look at the life of Brian. It's hilarious. 😅😅
These guys wrote their own stuff for the most part.
You'll love their " confuse a cat " sketch .
Eddy you never cieze to amaze me thank the Lord im near a skiddo can lmao 😂😅😁
I once had a silly walk - I never came home for 20 years
I was grown up on MP. In Sweden this is very big because same humour, but as you say, something happened and comedy is killed by butthurts. Loved your reaction, hugs from Sweden. 🚸🚷🚮🤣