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  • @RobMacKendrick
    @RobMacKendrick Před 3 lety +1570

    Nobody does outraged frustration like John Cleese. Not even close.

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 Před 3 lety +38

      English Contained rage

    • @someguy2135
      @someguy2135 Před 3 lety +36

      My favorite is...
      Spoiler follows below...
      ... the Fawlty Towers episode when he thrashes his car with a branch.

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 Před 3 lety +22

      @@someguy2135 : yes...”I’m going to give you a damn good thrashing!”.....or the Python “Architects sketch” where he realizes the client didn’t want an abitoire to slaughter the tenants, but actually a block of flats...

    • @someguy2135
      @someguy2135 Před 3 lety +6

      @@hertzair1186 Both classic in their own way. The Architects sketch was more of a slow burn, if I recall.

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 Před 3 lety +1

      @@someguy2135 correct...you can re-see it here on YT

  • @korbell1089
    @korbell1089 Před 3 lety +1097

    I never knew John Cleese and Marty Feldman worked together. To see two comic genius' feeding off one another, oh what a treat!

    • @HiVizCamo
      @HiVizCamo Před 3 lety +45

      Look for them as two of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, this same period. I've just recently seen this stuff too, and yes genius.

    • @glennnottingham857
      @glennnottingham857 Před 3 lety +28

      Watch Yellowbeard

    • @Pynaegan
      @Pynaegan Před 3 lety +13

      @@glennnottingham857 Pew glaring blindly: "It must have been more of a *tiff* then, Mr. *Moon* !"

    • @clasicradiolover
      @clasicradiolover Před 3 lety +1

      Neither did I

    • @orangelion03
      @orangelion03 Před 3 lety +12

      Feldman had a summer show in the US sometime in the early 70s. We watched it as kids and loved it. First time I heard Monty Python was the parrot sketch on the radio, around 1973 or 74...no idea who they were...our first thought was it was a Feldman sketch. Somehow, I never learned that Felman and Cleese had worked together prior. Terrific.

  • @KhaoticPhoenix
    @KhaoticPhoenix Před 3 lety +1092

    As a bookseller myself, I can attest that this is very true to real life...

    • @timwright4263
      @timwright4263 Před 3 lety +18

      Have you got a copy of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens?

    • @timwright4263
      @timwright4263 Před 3 lety +13

      I don't want to buy it. I'm browsing.

    • @nigel900
      @nigel900 Před 3 lety +8

      Do you have a book that lists all the public school graduates that buy, or read books?...

    •  Před 3 lety +57

      Do you have that book by that famous author. It has a red cover.

    • @skiddaddleonOkC
      @skiddaddleonOkC Před 3 lety +35

      @ Do you mean the one about the man who did that thing?

  • @HEDGE1011
    @HEDGE1011 Před 2 lety +248

    Have you got “Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying”?
    One of the best lines ever. What comedic perfection on display here!

    • @briancox3050
      @briancox3050 Před 2 lety +7

      I was crying with laughter at this hilarious sketch, absolutely brilliant !!!

    • @vectorequilibrium4493
      @vectorequilibrium4493 Před 2 lety +3

      I thought it was Eric the Aardvark myself!? 🤔 Mandela effect...

    • @anncryer1834
      @anncryer1834 Před 2 lety

      @@briancox3050 i87u

    • @Palerider610
      @Palerider610 Před 2 lety

      It's nearly as good as cockney stinking eel pie!

    • @Vinterbukser
      @Vinterbukser Před rokem

      Each to their own, I guess : s

  • @jasonterrell847
    @jasonterrell847 Před 2 lety +124

    At least we have John Cleese for a long time to enjoy. The wonderful Marty Feldman left us way too soon. Pure brilliance.

    • @bertrandcroft6644
      @bertrandcroft6644 Před 2 lety +4

      Time to clone John Cleese before it's too late...

    • @bigverybadtom
      @bigverybadtom Před 2 lety +5

      @@bertrandcroft6644 It's too late. Cleese is still alive, but I saw him on television recently and he clearly doesn't have it anymore.

    • @vestibulate
      @vestibulate Před 2 lety +1

      Jason Terrell Marty didn't leave. He was pushed.

    • @ledeyabaklykova
      @ledeyabaklykova Před 10 měsíci

      Mexico City wanted MF for herself.

    • @brokenrecord3523
      @brokenrecord3523 Před 10 dny

      Did you know that Graham Chapman was with MF when he died (Marty, not Graham).

  • @apagoogoo
    @apagoogoo Před 2 lety +51

    there's a story in keith moon's biography where moon goes in to marks & spencer to buy trousers. but he wants them to be very high quality. the stitching must be very strong, especially in the crotch. as he's inspecting the trousers, he starts tugging until he rips them in two. he then refuses to pay for them because their strength is inadequate, after which a row ensues of course because he's destroyed them. at the height of the shop agent's pique, in walks cleese and remarks, "is that a single trouser? i've been searching all over! i'll take it!"

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před 10 dny +2

      It wasn't like Moonie to destroy things.

  • @r.brooks5287
    @r.brooks5287 Před 3 lety +494

    I worked in a book shop for seven years, this is so familiar.

    • @GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture
      @GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture Před 3 lety +16

      I also worked at a bookstore for a few years and also can relate.

    • @thechumpsbeendumped.7797
      @thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Před 3 lety +2

      @Tracchofyre
      Proof or percent?

    • @TheBlindRaven
      @TheBlindRaven Před 3 lety +4

      I'm so sry. It now makes sense why Bernard Black was so callous. People can be a pain lol

    • @thechumpsbeendumped.7797
      @thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheBlindRaven
      Black books was brilliant, I wish they’d made more.

    • @TheBlindRaven
      @TheBlindRaven Před 3 lety +3

      @@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 I agree it was a fantastic show. 2 seasons was not enough. I've watched it tons of times still makes me laugh everytime.

  • @acrobaticcripple8176
    @acrobaticcripple8176 Před 3 lety +702

    Marty Feldman was a genius comic . Both gave this sketch it's brilliance.

    • @TheKlokan44
      @TheKlokan44 Před 3 lety +20

      It's pronouced Frankensteen....

    • @diogeneskoolaid8437
      @diogeneskoolaid8437 Před 3 lety +6

      @@TheKlokan44 no I'm sorry, the word we were looking for is Fronkensteen...Fronkensteen. all right Melissa you now have control of the board, pick a category.

    • @bobtepedino5661
      @bobtepedino5661 Před 3 lety +4

      @@diogeneskoolaid8437 "I'll take 'Seeking out an honest man' for 100, Alex"

    • @marie-theresedubusderougem8180
      @marie-theresedubusderougem8180 Před 3 lety +2

      @Gary But then all actors were in YF. That film is probably the most elaborate that Mel Brooks directed: not only the casting but story, rythm, editing were outstanding while most of his films, funny as they are, are also a tad messy.

    • @franklinbarrett4630
      @franklinbarrett4630 Před 3 lety +3

      I was struggling to remember his name, thank you. I remember a skit Marty did with Sandy Duncan and Howard Cosell on the Flip Wilson Show about a pet bird from the book of Revelations. He was brilliant. It was “A Visit to the Vet Sketch”.

  • @freelyfarmexploits8854
    @freelyfarmexploits8854 Před 2 lety +53

    John Cleese was channelling an early Basil Fawlty there. Superb piece of comedy history. Marty Feldman was superb in this sketch.

    • @DenkyManner
      @DenkyManner Před měsícem +5

      It's very Fawlty, maybe he worked in a bookshop before running a hotel

  • @Clivestravelandtrains
    @Clivestravelandtrains Před 3 lety +172

    "with four M's and a silent Q". John Cleese never fails to make me roar with laughter. A genius.

    • @tenrec
      @tenrec Před 2 lety +3

      And of course, many years later, John Cleese would play the character known as "Q" in the James Bond films.

    • @chrisbuesnell3428
      @chrisbuesnell3428 Před 2 lety

      Funnily enough he's not a genius

    • @AURON2401
      @AURON2401 Před 2 lety

      @@tenrec Was the Q in the James Bond Films... Silent?

    • @tenrec
      @tenrec Před 2 lety

      @@AURON2401 Good heavens, no! Now pay attention, 007...

    • @kevinmac2200
      @kevinmac2200 Před 2 lety

      I first saw this sketch when I was ten, and I still remember that line. It sparkled.

  • @clancon
    @clancon Před 3 lety +220

    "Have you tried the chemist" is a great underhanded insult

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Před 3 lety +8

      Boots used to stock a basic range of books.

    • @johno4521
      @johno4521 Před 3 lety +18

      On the Monty Python album version, he says 'Have you tried WH Smiths'.

    • @mwmingram
      @mwmingram Před 3 lety +3

      I missed that! Thank you for pointing it out.

    • @notanothershrubbery
      @notanothershrubbery Před 3 lety +5

      @@johno4521 We used to have WH Smiths in Canada, so it was relevant to those of us across the pond as well.

    • @thegangsallhere3568
      @thegangsallhere3568 Před 3 lety +18

      @@johno4521 And Cleese absolutely perfected the "DID they?" on that album too. :)

  • @jJustPlayingNZ
    @jJustPlayingNZ Před rokem +45

    I ran a second hand book store for 8 years and this sketch is actually quite true to life. Every so often a customer like this would come in 😀

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 Před rokem +3

      what did you do with the body

    • @markwright3161
      @markwright3161 Před 2 měsíci

      @@jonnyq680 Probably filed under the 500 range of the Dewey Decimal system, or the 700 range depending on how creatively their life was, shelved. :)

  • @stvp68
    @stvp68 Před 3 lety +73

    The phrase “his intrepid spaniel” has stuck with me for decades

    • @pennygreening9210
      @pennygreening9210 Před 3 lety +3

      Stig

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast Před 2 lety +8

      "The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig among the Giant Pygmies of Corsica, Volume Two." I can't wait for the movie!

    • @chanfonseka8051
      @chanfonseka8051 Před 2 lety +2

      @@DieFlabbergast I thought it was the Giant Pygmies of Beckles, Volume Eight?

    • @davidgalinat4257
      @davidgalinat4257 Před 2 lety +1

      @@chanfonseka8051 Pythons version.

  • @olwens1368
    @olwens1368 Před 3 lety +127

    Memories of someone coming up to the counter with a book- thrilled to find it, been looking for it for 30 years. But 'I'm not going to buy it because it's too expensive-have you got it in paperback?' (It didn't exist in paperback and cost about a tenner.)

    • @Dr.JustIsWrong
      @Dr.JustIsWrong Před 2 lety +3

      lolol

    • @tonybarfridge4369
      @tonybarfridge4369 Před 2 lety +1

      They were trying to beat you down

    • @MetFanMac
      @MetFanMac Před 2 lety +5

      Probably subconsciously didn't want their search to be over and so they looked for an excuse to extend it.

  • @reneejoseph5990
    @reneejoseph5990 Před 3 lety +62

    I wasn't expecting it, but that was HILARIOUS. I forget how funny John Cleese is

    • @shawnporter5109
      @shawnporter5109 Před 3 lety +2

      Try How to speak English from this show

    • @hififlipper
      @hififlipper Před 3 lety +3

      I was sent to inform you, that John Cleese is still funny.

    • @reneejoseph5990
      @reneejoseph5990 Před 3 lety +1

      @@hififlipper Thank you for the update/info/setting me straight😅

  • @CleopatraWon
    @CleopatraWon Před 3 lety +144

    John Cleese: An irreplaceable treasure! 😂

    • @nikkinunud3850
      @nikkinunud3850 Před 3 lety +7

      Absolutely agreed!

    • @geebee3256
      @geebee3256 Před 3 lety +6

      Well put.

    • @stephenridley1153
      @stephenridley1153 Před 3 lety +4

      He's still alive???

    • @spaztekwarrior
      @spaztekwarrior Před 3 lety +3

      It was surreal seeing him live in Vancouver doing one of his tours. Being so close to a comedic legend. Could’ve listened to him for days. :)

    • @adolfhiller3146
      @adolfhiller3146 Před 3 lety +2

      @@stephenridley1153 Most certainly! :-)

  • @dorothycastaneda8760
    @dorothycastaneda8760 Před 3 lety +64

    John Cleese and Marty Feldman,two very funny men,love it!

  • @carennorthcutt7724
    @carennorthcutt7724 Před 3 lety +59

    I swear this is how I feel at work some days. Help me to help you. Here, I'll even buy it for you. Just go.

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732 Před 2 lety +85

    More people should learn about the late Marty Feldman's comic brilliance.

    • @owie4070
      @owie4070 Před 2 lety +8

      I've been a fan since I was a little kid and I heard him say, "Abby Normal". To this day, that scene just cracks me up.

    • @BlessingsOfNurgle
      @BlessingsOfNurgle Před 2 lety +4

      "No. It's pronounced eye-gore"

    • @aesbj9228
      @aesbj9228 Před 2 lety +5

      There wolf. There castle.

  • @brookeking8559
    @brookeking8559 Před 3 lety +49

    John Cleese and Eric Idle recreated and updated this skit for their Together Again At Last For The Very First Time tour. It’s understatement to say it was brilliant. RIP Marty Feldman.

    • @BrettWMcCoy
      @BrettWMcCoy Před 3 lety +6

      It also appeared on one of the Monty Python albums as well, with Terry Jones

    • @CaptainSokrates
      @CaptainSokrates Před 2 lety +2

      @@BrettWMcCoy I used the Cleese/Palin version as unofficial training for new recruits when I worked at the shop they mention in it ( and yes we did send a lot of "unique" customers to the independent book shop down the road).

    • @klandersen42
      @klandersen42 Před 2 lety +5

      @@BrettWMcCoy Pretty sure it was on "Contractual Obligation" album.. That is the version of the sketch I first heard.

    • @BrettWMcCoy
      @BrettWMcCoy Před 2 lety +1

      @@klandersen42 Yep!

    • @DarkenSeyreth
      @DarkenSeyreth Před 2 lety +1

      @@BrettWMcCoy This was actually the only version I was aware of until now. It's always made me laugh.

  • @joanhoffman3702
    @joanhoffman3702 Před 3 lety +8

    I worked in a bookstore for 26 years. I did meet John Cleese there. Yes, there are the people who have no idea what book they are looking for. For example, a woman came up to me at the information desk, and, referring to the paper in her hand, asked if we had A Streetcar Named Desire by Theresa Williams. I said we didn't have it by Theresa Williams but we did have it by Tennessee Williams. She said, "Fine, I'll look at that one". This was a parent picking up a required book for school for her child, and neither was familiar with the writer. I have many stories like this.

    • @raymondsix4694
      @raymondsix4694 Před 5 měsíci

      In a "Frazz" comic strip by cartoonist Jeff Mallett, Frazz speaks to a school teacher who had never heard of "Catcher in the Rye". She thought it was a story about a baseball player.

  • @heggedaal
    @heggedaal Před 3 lety +48

    I honestly didn't know that Little Britains "Mr. Man buys a painting of a disappointed horse" had a predecessor. Brilliant!

    • @ThePathStrider
      @ThePathStrider Před 3 lety +3

      That horse looks more perturbed, than disappointed.

    • @samsteve1000
      @samsteve1000 Před 3 lety +11

      Little Britain had nothing original.

    • @EsotericTherapy
      @EsotericTherapy Před 3 lety +2

      @@samsteve1000 "Bitty."

    • @samsteve1000
      @samsteve1000 Před 3 lety

      @@EsotericTherapy Or, more cynically, entirely derivative but with some good ideas.

    • @CarlDidur
      @CarlDidur Před 3 lety

      @@samsteve1000 And then it managed to rip ITSELF off for more seasons

  • @jonathanhill6064
    @jonathanhill6064 Před 2 lety +5

    I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN!!!!!
    i was an extreme bookworm when i was young and in my early teens, as i was getting into more obscure fiction (in the ancient times, before DSL, before streaming...), i had these conversations weekly at the bookstores in my town. A random british tv compliation VHS tape that my mother borrowed from the library had this sketch.
    the first time i saw it i was in literal hysterics.
    curled into the fetal position, crying, pointing at the tv, unable to breathe with laughter. and when someone asks whats wrong? all you can do is say stuff like "HE DID THE- AND THE- THEN-" before losing it ten times worse. that level of amusement
    i rewound the tape and rewatched it for almost an hour. i stopped cuz laughter wore me down. it never stopped killing me.
    then mother returned it before i got home from school then next day and i had never even seen what the cover looked like or wrote down the name of the sketch. my heart broke.
    thank you britbox for mending it

  • @tutekohe1361
    @tutekohe1361 Před 3 lety +50

    ‘Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying’.

  • @infoscholar5221
    @infoscholar5221 Před 3 lety +24

    Those guys were one of a kind funny, at just the right moment in history.

    • @pyrmontbridge4737
      @pyrmontbridge4737 Před 3 lety +1

      You are very right. Just like a great song, a comedy sketch is best appreciated in the historical context of its creation.

  • @bradwilliams7683
    @bradwilliams7683 Před 3 lety +10

    I have this sketch on Monty Pythons Contractual Obligation album. I was under the impression that it was written just for this album & was totally unaware that the sketch actually performed for TV. Cleese & Feldman - two comic geniuses.

    • @klandersen42
      @klandersen42 Před 2 lety

      Ditto

    • @duckduckgoismuchbetter
      @duckduckgoismuchbetter Před měsícem

      Double ditto for me as well.

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 Před 18 dny

      I had actually seen it before it appeared on the Contractual Obligations album, in a Marty Feldman show - either Marty or the Marty Feldman Comedy Machine.

  • @aaronTNGDS9
    @aaronTNGDS9 Před 2 lety +11

    Outstanding. Cleese and Feldman performances are so hilarious. What genius comedians.

  • @MrWeezer55
    @MrWeezer55 Před 3 lety +45

    Monty Python and Marty Feldman. A match made in heaven.

    • @ethelredhardrede1838
      @ethelredhardrede1838 Před 3 lety +1

      @Hydin Biden
      The show, not in that sketch, also had Graham Chapman. Eric Idle had three non speaking roles.

    • @ethelredhardrede1838
      @ethelredhardrede1838 Před 3 lety +1

      @Hydin Biden
      "so still not python.."
      Of course not but they did use sketches from that show, including the Four Yorkshiremen.
      "honestly no Carol Cleveland ( who as acknowledged, after the fact, as the 7th and only female member of Python)"
      Some call Neil Inness the 7th. I would say 8th. He and Idle fell out over something later.
      " marty feldman'
      Marty would have fit in but he was doing other things. You can see him, Graham and Clease doing the Four Yorkshoremen sketch on this channel. It is VERY similar to the version in Live At Drewry Lane. Which was my first exposure to Python.

    • @ethelredhardrede1838
      @ethelredhardrede1838 Před 3 lety

      @Hydin Biden
      "so you spent a lot of time babbling "
      No.
      "t WASNT Monty python as i pointed out "
      I never said it was. Learn how to read.
      "as i pointed out and THE MEMBERS OF PYTHON refer to Carol Cleveland as the 7th and female member..'
      And some said the same about Neil Inness. Not just ' johnny come latelies' as he was called that a long time ago. Do you have ANY point? Neil and Idle had stopped getting along by then. He also had a writing credit on the Monty Python series. The only other person was Douglas Adams.
      "who are they holding up in this picture laddie?"
      Kiddy, you are preaching to the choir. Stop pretending that I am like you, without a clue. She is not forgotten by me. She was also in the Avengers episode A Touch of Brimstone.
      What IS your problem?

    • @Rampart.X
      @Rampart.X Před 3 lety +2

      Marty would have been a great addition.

    • @joydivisionboy1
      @joydivisionboy1 Před 3 lety +1

      this from The 1948 Show from memory, John Cleese, Marty Feldman, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
      also included the original Four Yorkshiremen clip.

  • @mariner0
    @mariner0 Před 2 lety +12

    My daughter calls my dog Marty because he's half Pomeranian and his eyes stick out, back to the sketch, absolutely brilliant...

  • @SynchronizorVideos
    @SynchronizorVideos Před 2 lety +35

    They did another version of this sketch on the Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album in 1980. Little longer than this one with a few more sound-alike author gags, and a little more of a slow burn on John Cleese's aggravation. Super funny track, but then again that whole album's gold.

    • @damienm3315
      @damienm3315 Před 2 lety +1

      i prefer the audio version

    • @andr3wbr1dg3s
      @andr3wbr1dg3s Před 2 lety +1

      It's similar to the Cheese shop sketch on the Matching Tie & Handkerchief LP

    • @impeccablecaverns
      @impeccablecaverns Před 2 lety +1

      yeah that's the one I'd heard before. I think Michael Palin is the customer. I remember he doesn't like the gannet because 'they wet their nests'. This version is superb too though of course

    • @RedingtonPours
      @RedingtonPours Před 2 lety

      It's SUCH a funny album.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před 2 lety +1

      The version I'm familiar with why don't you try wh Smith I did they sent me here

  • @tloco28
    @tloco28 Před 3 lety +27

    Basil Fawlty before he opened a hotel. Classic

    • @LaurieKoudstaal
      @LaurieKoudstaal Před 3 lety +5

      I wrote the same comment a week later! You can see that he had the character in his mind a long time before Fawlty Towers

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite Před 3 lety +4

      exactly! it IS Basil

    • @jessiejames7492
      @jessiejames7492 Před 3 lety +1

      he used to do customer service videos back in the 80s. when i worked for a communications company my instructor made us watch those. it seems he made quite a lot of money making those. just as funny. not everyone in my class knew who he was or understood his comedy. i found my self chuckling and laughing quite by myself. luckily my instructor was understood. ha ha ..

    • @kevinallcock5927
      @kevinallcock5927 Před 2 lety

      You can see where The Hotel Inspector episode first hatched 👍😉

    • @tloco28
      @tloco28 Před 2 lety +1

      @@kevinallcock5927 "Would you care for rat?"

  • @philjamieson5572
    @philjamieson5572 Před 3 lety +7

    My parents used to let me stay up later than usual to watch this show. They laughed as hard as us kids. This humour seems to appeal to all ages.

  • @bobbybologna3029
    @bobbybologna3029 Před 3 lety +4

    Wow, John Cleese and Marty Feldman in the same sketch, if you wanted to catch lightning in a bottle multiple times in a row this would be how you do it, this is awesome. My father wasn't good for much but i can be glad that as an American Child i was raised to appreciate this type of comedy, these men were/are some of the greatest comics on the planet and they still send me into gut busting laughter.

  • @ABC-yt1nq
    @ABC-yt1nq Před 2 lety +36

    I highly, highly recommend the autobiographies of John Cleese and Eric Idle if you are at all a Python fan. Fascinating insights and perspectives.

    • @recoveringsoul755
      @recoveringsoul755 Před 2 lety +3

      Thanks for the advice, huge Python fan.There was a guy in high school I was friends with, but I don't remember his name now because my best friend and I called him Spiny Norman after a Monty Python character. He'll always be Spiny Norman to me

    • @andywinslow6631
      @andywinslow6631 Před 2 lety +2

      I only like the expurgated versions.

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge Před 2 lety

      They sound interesting. Who wrote them?

    • @twentyrothmans7308
      @twentyrothmans7308 Před 2 lety

      @@andywinslow6631 I wasn't expecting that :-)

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin Před 2 lety +1

      I love the cleese shop skit, but I am too lazy to get into that Eric guy.

  • @MrJamy610
    @MrJamy610 Před rokem +2

    They were crazy good together! Still love watching "Young Frankenstein." Feldman playing Igor was genius! 🤣
    Also, I loved the song, "She's got Marty Feldman Eyes." 😄

  • @footofjuniper8212
    @footofjuniper8212 Před 10 dny +1

    I first heard this when I bought the double cassette of "The final Rip-Off." Terry J played the customer. My parents were pretty conservative, so I couldn't play a lot of Python bits for them. But on a plane trip with my mom, I gave her my headphones and played this sketch. She laughed out loud at one point, and I'm positive it's the moment when Terry mentions the Edmund Wells book "A Sale of Two Titties."

  • @Outspoken.Humanist
    @Outspoken.Humanist Před 3 lety +10

    Fabulous. According to a TV history of the Secret Policeman's Ball, concerts for Amnesty International, the sketch was co-written by Cleese and Connie Booth, his then wife. Which would explain the number of similarities to 'Flowery Twats'.

    •  Před 3 lety +1

      I call bollocks. At Last The 1948 Show ran in 1967 (February to November). John and Connie were married in 1968. According to a quick Google search, it was written by Cleese and Chapman.

    • @Outspoken.Humanist
      @Outspoken.Humanist Před 3 lety +1

      @ Quite right. I have checked too. In watching the later version, there are differences and I suspect this accounts for the BBC's spurious claim. Thanks for your input.

    • @regmcg4171
      @regmcg4171 Před 3 lety

      It's odd that she's never written anything else...

    • @janeeggleston9542
      @janeeggleston9542 Před 3 lety +3

      Farty Towels

    • @LaurieWilliams-lk8fc
      @LaurieWilliams-lk8fc Před 2 lety +1

      @@janeeggleston9542 Watery Fowls

  • @anthonysacco4718
    @anthonysacco4718 Před 3 lety +7

    The “Expurgated” version....🤣

  • @garpylinski3757
    @garpylinski3757 Před 3 lety +2

    I love that British sense of humor. ❤️ I spent 2 years over there Oct 80 - Oct 82. While in the USAF.. It's a wonderful country. & They're wonderful people. ❤️

  • @johnmehaffey9953
    @johnmehaffey9953 Před 3 lety +17

    Just loved the 1948 show the prelude to monty python even though I’m a python fan I can honestly say that the 1948 show got me hooked on this archetypal British humour,

  • @curiouscat3384
    @curiouscat3384 Před 3 lety +8

    Thanks for the laughs! Being across the pond I never saw Cleese in anything other than Monty Python which I found hilarious! Now I have to binge watch his entire repertoire :)

  • @phillipsindel2291
    @phillipsindel2291 Před 3 lety +24

    Feldman and Cleese at their finest; a team indeed. (The complete version works even better; it builds slowly.)

    • @pmdk1953
      @pmdk1953 Před 3 lety +3

      How much longer is the complete version?

    • @d.e.p.-j.7106
      @d.e.p.-j.7106 Před 3 lety +4

      I prefer the expurgated version, but see this: czcams.com/video/PPouuA0KMO4/video.html

  • @samfunk5192
    @samfunk5192 Před 3 lety +1

    Lovely, and with Mart Feldman. Bravo. Thanks!

  • @sorbabaric1
    @sorbabaric1 Před 11 měsíci +1

    It’s been a long time since I saw this. It’s brilliant. One of my favorites. Thanks.

  • @lonnieporter8566
    @lonnieporter8566 Před 3 lety +6

    These two are genius. Their delivery is epic.

  • @docwholunatic
    @docwholunatic Před 3 lety +19

    It can also be found on the record, "Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album."

    • @longagoandfaraway7868
      @longagoandfaraway7868 Před 3 lety

      I have that album. I always thought it was Terry Jones on that cut.

    • @GarettAuriemma
      @GarettAuriemma Před 3 lety +1

      @@longagoandfaraway7868 It was Michael Palin.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před 10 dny

      Cleese and Eric Idle also did it on their Together Again At Last For The Very First Time tour.

  • @thepub245
    @thepub245 Před 3 lety +17

    I never knew Basil Fawlty worked in a bookshop before becoming a hotelier! This was great, I really enjoyed it.

  • @jessfrankel5212
    @jessfrankel5212 Před 3 lety +12

    Absolutely brilliant. This is one sketch I suspect could never be topped, like the Four Yorkshiremen.

  • @notanothershrubbery
    @notanothershrubbery Před 3 lety +5

    I have volume 1. I've been looking for volume 2 my whole life.

  • @MrGranfield
    @MrGranfield Před 3 lety +21

    "You can't expect them to produce a book for gannet haters".

  • @moptopbaku6022
    @moptopbaku6022 Před 3 lety +1

    Absolutely brilliant. Cleese and Feldman together - what an incredible combination.

  • @jsgg7735
    @jsgg7735 Před 2 lety

    Ni Hao! you've got the traction going Excellent work! i was just thinking about this yesterday and it appear today on my channel. i didn't even browse it. mindblown~~~ Never tired of these. ! Peace out!

  • @mattgelfer
    @mattgelfer Před 3 lety +15

    I always thought this was a Python sketch, I first heard it on one of their records with Terry Jones doing Marty’s part. I’m glad the 1948 Show got excavated 😊

    • @Stibsyt
      @Stibsyt Před 3 lety +2

      It was Michael Palin but absolutely hilarious nonetheless

    • @ChrisMaxfieldActs
      @ChrisMaxfieldActs Před 3 lety +3

      @@Stibsyt It was Graham Chapman, but, whatever. Chapman is actually doing an impersonation of Marty Feldman on the Contractual Obligation LP.

    • @adolforodolfo6929
      @adolforodolfo6929 Před 3 lety

      @@ebbhead20 I am sure you are right.

    • @blackmanops3749
      @blackmanops3749 Před 2 lety

      Me as well.

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 Před 3 lety +6

    It's incredible to think that David Frost was worried about Marty being part of the 1948 Show team because of his looks. Even he wasn't infallible.

  • @EdLove
    @EdLove Před 2 lety +1

    Wonderful. I'd love to see the start again.

  • @julioaranton461
    @julioaranton461 Před 2 lety +1

    That's CUSTOMER SERVICE! First time seeing Mr Marty Feldman in his early years & w/Mr John Cleese to boot, what a Great Comedy Combo! Thanks U-TUBE!🤣

  • @hankroest6836
    @hankroest6836 Před 3 lety +39

    Favourite sketch? This is EVERY John Cleese sketch.

    • @rockhard2654
      @rockhard2654 Před 3 lety +4

      this sketch really does expose his standard formula

    • @gutworm686
      @gutworm686 Před 3 lety

      Obviously based Basil on this. Not all Cleese’s sketches are like this. You couldn’t have see many.

    • @SomePeopleCallMeWulfman
      @SomePeopleCallMeWulfman Před 3 lety

      Yes, this is pretty much the cheese shop sketch but with books.

  • @davidf6326
    @davidf6326 Před 3 lety +9

    What a pleasure to find a comments section on a comedy sketch that doesn't consist of the usual moronic repetitions of quotes from the very same sketch. Obviously John Cleese and Marty Feldman attract a more intelligent audience 😊

    • @fewerbeansplease
      @fewerbeansplease Před 3 lety +2

      "Ethel the aardvark was trotting down the lane...." Ha! Ha!

    • @davidf6326
      @davidf6326 Před 3 lety +1

      @@fewerbeansplease LOL - there goes the tone of the neighbourhood 😁

    • @geezermann7865
      @geezermann7865 Před 3 lety +1

      Yes, thank you. By the way, have you noticed that most Davids are highly intelligent? And we have a great sense of humor.

    • @davidf6326
      @davidf6326 Před 3 lety +1

      @@geezermann7865 But of course 😉

  • @theblade1959
    @theblade1959 Před 2 lety

    One of my favorite skits and with Marty Feldman guesting is a treat!

  • @ovepayne
    @ovepayne Před 3 lety

    Brilliant! Marty and John are treasures!

  • @williamking3301
    @williamking3301 Před 2 lety +5

    Two of my favorite sketches: "Dead Parrot" and "Cheese Shop."

    • @nonverbal562
      @nonverbal562 Před 2 lety

      Napoleon called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Monty Python, especially John Cleese take the shop skit to a fine art.

    • @henrykujawa4427
      @henrykujawa4427 Před 2 lety

      @@nonverbal562 Many episodes of "THE AVENGERS" involve various shops run by eccentric cranks.

  • @shrewdthewise2840
    @shrewdthewise2840 Před 3 lety +19

    I worked in a music store years ago. Old Guy comes in one day and says:
    “My wife and I went on vacation back in the 80’s to Vietnam. We were driving down a road through the rice patties and heard some of the farmers singing the prettiest song while they picked rice. Do you guys have that song?”
    True story 😂😂😂

    • @groom84
      @groom84 Před 3 lety +3

      @goggles789 So what you're saying is that, there is still a chance 😆
      (Dumb & Dumber)

    • @shrewdthewise2840
      @shrewdthewise2840 Před 3 lety

      @goggles789 😂😂😂

    • @pluffer241
      @pluffer241 Před 3 lety

      *rice paddies

    • @lifelonglearner56
      @lifelonglearner56 Před 3 lety +2

      ... And did you have that song?

    • @wickspg
      @wickspg Před 3 lety

      Brilliant. I work in the home office of a brokerage firm, and we should write a book of all the similarly silly things we hear people say on the phones - both clients and brokers.

  • @pronkerpronker6708
    @pronkerpronker6708 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for posting - love these guys always! :D

    • @pronkerpronker6708
      @pronkerpronker6708 Před 2 lety

      I've sold books but mostly autographs for 30 years, now retired, but a stellar memory is staffing a booth at a collectible show and dealing with someone who "wanted an Olivia DeHavilland b/w signed photo 11x14" and having, by chance, that exact item. Customer didn't buy it and appeared "* just wanted to see one" ... :S

  • @patrickgamble9014
    @patrickgamble9014 Před 7 dny

    I have heard this sketch on a Monty Pythons Record I bought years ago but it wasn’t with Feldman but was word for word identical. A real classic. Thanks.

  • @jajeronymo
    @jajeronymo Před 3 lety +14

    Here are (at least) two Fawlty Towers moments: the man who wanted to book the tv and the one who colud never have his drinks order delivered.

    • @williamhenry4986
      @williamhenry4986 Před 3 lety +2

      Watch WC Fields blind man sketch and your see a couple of fawlty towers in just that one sketch your never see the likes of these again

    • @jajeronymo
      @jajeronymo Před 3 lety +1

      @@williamhenry4986 I did. Absolutely fabulous! Many thanks!

    • @mikepalmer8
      @mikepalmer8 Před 3 lety +2

      Yes, very reminiscent of Cleese and Bernard Cribbins in "The Hotel Inspectors"

    • @jajeronymo
      @jajeronymo Před 3 lety +1

      @@mikepalmer8 , yes, ... I should have taken the trouble to look up Bernard Cribbins name... it's an unbelievable performance, particularly as he gets angrier and angrier towars Basil...

    • @TheZodiacz
      @TheZodiacz Před 3 lety +2

      @@jajeronymo sppppppoons!

  • @elizabethpeters8515
    @elizabethpeters8515 Před 3 lety +4

    I had no idea this is where Marty Feldman started. This is so cool! I only ever knew him as Eyegore.

    • @timelordtardis
      @timelordtardis Před 2 lety

      Marty Feldman was a script writer. It was Cleese who persuaded David (Hello, Good Evening and Welcome) Frost to have him perform in At Last the 1948 Show. In fact Marty Feldman had been a script writer, along with Barry Took, for Round the Horne (A BBC radio comedy show of the mid to late 60s). Of course, Barry Took later commisioned a little known sketch show for the BBC, Minty Pylons Fledgling Circuits, or something like that, which John Cleese was in for a little while.
      Marty Feldman used the sketch in one of his own television shows with John Junkin being the bookseller. Worth having a look at since it's the complete sketch.

  • @simonbertioli4696
    @simonbertioli4696 Před 2 lety

    Absolutely brilliant 👏👌
    That brought a smile to my face...😉👍

  • @BaldingEagle51
    @BaldingEagle51 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for this glimpse of Fawlty Towers. The one with the double w's. :)

  • @markoyouralias.wilhelmsen9360

    What you should learn by this is, even after someone really annoys you ,you still have empathy.

    • @LardGreystoke
      @LardGreystoke Před 3 lety

      No one expresses empathy like John Cleese.

  • @kevinbennett7615
    @kevinbennett7615 Před 3 lety +16

    Cleese used this exact performance for the Parrot sketch. Ha!

    • @martintimmer8574
      @martintimmer8574 Před 3 lety +3

      And Feldman did use this one for his own show as well,Ha!

    • @lukassnakeman
      @lukassnakeman Před 3 lety +1

      There was also the sketch where he’s running a bookshop that’s a front for criminal dentist organization

    • @beniteztheconman
      @beniteztheconman Před 3 lety +1

      And fawlty towers.
      And Clockwise.

    • @markpetersen8135
      @markpetersen8135 Před 2 lety

      Albatross!! When John was in the office sketch on M. Python

  • @dadoctah7978
    @dadoctah7978 Před 3 lety +2

    I had forgotten until it was rerun a few years ago on one of the digital channels that Feldman did this sketch on Flip Wilson's show, with Flip taking Cleese's role.

  • @astrogeo1
    @astrogeo1 Před 2 lety +2

    Some years ago I heard about the strangest question the tourist information in Geiranger, Norway ever had got. It came from an american woman, probably straight out of a cruiseship, who asked the following: " Do you have as much problems here with the vikings as we have with the indians ? "

    • @christinae30
      @christinae30 Před 2 lety

      😯😳😲
      She asked what we all are thinking!
      🙃🤣(🇸🇪)

  • @jamesfawber9487
    @jamesfawber9487 Před 3 lety +3

    Marty and John... can’t get much better...

  • @jackbsstuff851
    @jackbsstuff851 Před 3 lety +9

    I laugh my ass off everytime I watch this🙂 Enjoy!

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite Před 3 lety +1

      'ass' ? it's all bottoms with you Americans

  • @shoshiwas
    @shoshiwas Před 3 lety +1

    'My grandfather worked for your grandfather' So much comedy gold in YF! LOL!

  • @HerrZimmerframe
    @HerrZimmerframe Před 3 lety

    Absolutely Brilliant!

  • @argelbargel7680
    @argelbargel7680 Před 2 lety +7

    Edmund Wells' Grate Expectations is a neglected masterpiece.

  • @joegee2815
    @joegee2815 Před 2 lety +7

    Wow, this is fantastic. I have been a huge fan of Monty Python and of course Marty Feldman since they started appearing in the states in the 70s. Great stuff. Very clear how MP developed from these types of shows. It's kind of a shame that Feldman went a different direction, he would have fit right in with the troupe.

    • @briancox3050
      @briancox3050 Před 2 lety +3

      Yes..Feldman was a very funny and unique man. Remember the brilliant film
      comedy " Young Frankinstein " hugely popular in it's day....

    • @GabePuratekuta
      @GabePuratekuta Před 2 lety +1

      @@briancox3050 And Silent Movie is a Masterpiece.

  • @tamanegi909
    @tamanegi909 Před 3 lety +1

    Comedy gold. Never ages. Nothing compares to this today.

  • @JohnMurphyabc
    @JohnMurphyabc Před 3 lety

    Never saw it.. Classic Cleese.. thank you.. awesome..

  • @robertsimpson7861
    @robertsimpson7861 Před 3 lety +27

    I wonder if that bookshop has a copy of "Hampster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie".?

    • @Shazbut-he3ne
      @Shazbut-he3ne Před 3 lety +3

      No, but they do have "Commander Coriander Salamander And 'Er Singlehander Bellylander"

    • @WilfriedHLingenberg
      @WilfriedHLingenberg Před 3 lety +4

      I would have loved to see John Cleese doing the squeaky voices, the gooshy sound effects and the Happy Hamster Hop!

  • @marcweeks9178
    @marcweeks9178 Před 3 lety +5

    Rowan Atkinson did this along with Cleese once, and about the gannet he said, "I don't like them, they wet their nests!"

    • @mka4pol
      @mka4pol Před 3 lety +3

      Also done with that line by Cleese and Jones on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation album.

    • @cupofqwarffee4802
      @cupofqwarffee4802 Před 3 lety

      @@mka4pol He also says "have you tried WH Smith" on that version. And his reply of "DID they" is brilliant and more pronounced.

    • @johno4521
      @johno4521 Před 3 lety

      @@mka4pol and the bird was a nuthatch....

  • @BillDraheim
    @BillDraheim Před 3 lety

    Two of my favorites. Absolute geniuses.

  • @mchapman132
    @mchapman132 Před 2 lety +1

    Priceless!

  • @airzulu2733
    @airzulu2733 Před 3 lety +20

    You can see where cleese got some of his sketches from . This was excellent more so with Marty.

    •  Před 3 lety +3

      See also the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, which most people associate with the Pythons, but it was actually from At Last The 1948 Show.

    • @notanothershrubbery
      @notanothershrubbery Před 3 lety +1

      @ They're lucky I had to crawl through a sewer to get my last sketch.

    • @joeyvindictive3552
      @joeyvindictive3552 Před 3 lety +1

      @@notanothershrubbery luxury I had to get up in the morning at 10 o clock at night to get my last sketch....

    • @notanothershrubbery
      @notanothershrubbery Před 3 lety

      @@joeyvindictive3552 Get up? Lucky bastard. That implies one got to go to bed.

    • @neilwilson8400
      @neilwilson8400 Před 3 lety

      @@notanothershrubbery o my god!

  • @garyk.nedrow8302
    @garyk.nedrow8302 Před 3 lety +7

    The articulation and comic timing of Cleese and Feldman are simply superb in this brilliant sketch. The sad truth is that 90% of the audience never heard of Barnaby Rudge and never read any of the other Dicken's titles that Cleese so cleverly inverts. So the humor cuts both ways at the same time.

    • @andrewmartin6445
      @andrewmartin6445 Před 3 lety +8

      What makes you think that? It was quite common for children to read Dickens at school as part of the English literature syllabus at this time and there were also endless TV dramatisations of his books.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Před 10 měsíci

      Dickens was much more integral to the school curriculum back in the 50s-60s than today, they didn't just do Christmas Carol and bits of Oliver Twist.

  • @dnrebrechrak6486
    @dnrebrechrak6486 Před 3 lety

    Outstanding.

  • @jeffreyking279
    @jeffreyking279 Před 2 lety +2

    These two together is pure genius!

  • @adinocc2042
    @adinocc2042 Před 3 lety +3

    "Funny, we've got quite a lot of books here".
    🤭❗

  • @JohnDrummondPhoto
    @JohnDrummondPhoto Před 3 lety +3

    Marty Feldman was born for Monty Python. Great chemistry between him and John Cleese.

  • @kbjerke
    @kbjerke Před 2 lety

    It just gets funnier every time I see it! Bravo!

  • @kerbicz
    @kerbicz Před 2 lety +1

    I somewhat reminds me of the introductory scene with the spoons salesman (and an alleged hotel inspector) from _Fawlty Towers._

  • @donbell8187
    @donbell8187 Před 2 lety +7

    What an amazing sketch. How did they remember all those lines?

  • @WilliamMc91
    @WilliamMc91 Před 3 lety +11

    First heard this on a Monty Python audio album. Seeing this version is even funnier

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk Před 3 lety +4

      Yes, The Contractual Obligation Album. I didn't realise until now that it was originally from this show. Must have been written by Cleese (and maybe Chapman).

    • @johno4521
      @johno4521 Před 3 lety +1

      @@hedgehog1965uk I wonder why they made those small changes here & there for the MP album- they obviously thought 'nuthatch' had more comedy value than 'gannet'...

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk Před 3 lety +2

      @@johno4521 Don't both versions say "gannet", but on the Monty Python album version he says "they wet their nests"? I enjoyed spotting the differences between the two versions. Edit: Oh, I see that on the album version they also mention the nuthatch, after the gannet and the robin.

    • @HiVizCamo
      @HiVizCamo Před 3 lety

      Are the versions on the albums Contractual Obligation and The Final Rip-off the same recording? I only have the latter, and don't seem to recall if it mentions the nuthatch or no.

  • @markiesmith4537
    @markiesmith4537 Před 2 lety +1

    An early showing of Basil! - Masterful!

  • @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn

    They did this at the Cleese and Idle live show a few years back, it's great when you can witness history in the making.

  • @kevinpogue7294
    @kevinpogue7294 Před 3 lety +7

    Monty Python had this sketch on one of their record albums.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před 3 lety

      Yeah, John carried a lot of 1948's stuff over to the Pythons, such as the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

  • @uproar123
    @uproar123 Před 3 lety +98

    Great sketch, but cutting off the beginning of the sketch kind of ruins the premise. You totally miss the gradual seething buildup of Cleese's frustration.

    • @samsignorelli
      @samsignorelli Před 3 lety +17

      According to Cleese, the original tapes were wiped (common back in the day, unfortunately....they would be reused. Same thing happened to early Dr. Who eps), but some have been recovered. This may be all there IS of this sketch.

    •  Před 3 lety +4

      @@samsignorelli I think, but I'm not sure, I've seen more of this. But it might have been a later staging with different comics.

    • @sejuanisupportonly7385
      @sejuanisupportonly7385 Před 3 lety +11

      @ You are possibly talking about Monty Python issuing that same sketch in one of their records. That's were most of us know there is a beginning of the sketch after all :)

    • @jolieonetoo
      @jolieonetoo Před 3 lety +2

      @ The original version was on a Marty Feldman programme I think. But it was definitely with John Junkin as the bookseller

    • @_fesh
      @_fesh Před 2 lety +2

      @@samsignorelli Luckily for us, that's not the case - this sketch (and episode) does exist in it's entirety. "At Last..." is quite fortunate in this regard, frankly - 11 of its 13 episodes have been recovered.

  • @carolinetv5112
    @carolinetv5112 Před 2 lety +1

    Rediffusion TV was way ahead of it's time. With this and in music with Ready Steady Go.

  • @peterlampropoulos3505
    @peterlampropoulos3505 Před 2 lety

    Priceless