@@vegancam I rarely leave comments but looooove to read all that wacky kind of stuff. Like when someone leaves a comment directed at someone in the video as if they're going to see it. Or when someone writes the longest argument like its going to change people's minds. Especially the minds of people arguing in a comment section of a 10min video designed to keep you busy with a bunch of random facts. It's like a little treat for my day.
@@AnanyaDas10 It is mocking the common stereotype of British military officers being stoic about everything. Anything else is your own interpretation.
@@Schattengewaechs99 stoicism is nothing to scoff or mock at lol so this is definitely a take on the futility of these wars inflicted on foreign land and its indegenous people for robbing their resources, and as a result, manufacturing identity politics and conflicts there and stripping them off their life and peace, while being cold blooded murderers or facilitators of such wars and conflicts ...
fun fact/trivia: as a history buff I can't help but notice that the uniforms and even reloading procedures by the british soldiers are actually quite on point. Altough this is satire somebody must have taken the time to do some historical research
The stuff from The Life of Brian - aside from the Star Wars sendup - was all pretty much taken from Josephus and Philo, with a very little bit of the New Testament. The crack Judean suicide squad was kind of a mashup of Masada and and how Josephus escaped a cave by manipulating the death lottery so he could be the last one to die, then surrender anyway.
Terry Gilliam seemed to be over the top obsessed with details but Terry Jones went to school for his history (he has written quite a few history books actually).
Indeed, at least fully trained, if not in actual practice. By the time he graduated, he didn't really plan to practice medicine. (Although he did use it a bit to tend to his friends while shooting movies.)
My favourite bit is just after this, when they go off to look for the leg. One of the officers, Cleese I think, taps a man on the shoulder as he passes, and he falls apart in diagonal slices........
Sadly, that line never worked in the US. Nobody then and certainly nobody today understands that tigers aren’t in Africa. So, the incredulous way in which the question is asked doesn’t make any sense to most Americans.
The amazing thing, is that although this is satire, it's not too far from the truth: During the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Uxbridge were mounted side-by-side on the ridgeline, watching Napoleon's rightful destruction through field-glasses. Cannonshot from French artillery smashed into the ground between them. Lord Uxbridge started, then exclaimed to Wellington "By God sir, I've lost my leg!", to which the Duke glanced down and replied, "By God sir, so you have!" This is all well-documented by any historians - art imitating life.
James Rob Tony Adams During the battle of isandlwana many british officers escaped because the zulus were instructed not to attack those wearing blue as they where civilians. This sketch by them almost seems to portray that aswell.
I believe German soldiers during the First World War wrote home of British officers standing in the midst of machine gun fire, smoking cigarettes as if nothing was going on.
Back when some funny stuff was actually cheek-bitingly Hilarious, and some of Python's best stuff would split open yer side with the sheer power of their ruthlessly sarcastic wit, if you're able to perceive [irony], wry humor, & all that rot.
I remember seeing this in a theatre when it came out and sliding down in my seat laughing at the line, "During the night, old Perkins got his leg bitten sort of off."
How a 3 minute segment for a comedy movie such as Monty Python the Meaning of Life be more historically accurate than the big budget war movies I'll never know. I'll give the BBC credit at least their little bit got more detail right compared to the likes of movies such as Patton and Battle of Bulge.
cavi10 I am talking about how this scene actually has the right uniforms, equipment, and weapons for the historical period it takes place in. The kicker is that this was done as a 3 minute gag whereas the movie Battle of the Bulge got so many things about the historical time period it was set in and was trying to make you take it seriously and failed.
Yea. I showed Battle of the Bulge to my teenage son recently.....he wasn't impressed at all, and I was quite ashamed that I used to like it. It was quite pathetic really. No excuse for it. I can understand them having to use modern US tanks as stand-ins for Tigers and Panthers, but the whole plot and script was bad, action scenes etc....so unbelievable.I told him that that was how movies were made back then, but then I saw Laurence of Arabia again which was made about the same time - now THAT was a great war movie!
My whole life since I’ve seen this movie when someone/some animal is in my way, I say “Excuse Me” in the same way and tone as John Cleese does here. Literally no one ever picks up on it. But in my mind, it’s HUGE COMEDY, on a daily basis. 😃
Oddly, there is a bit of truth to this. The Zulu impi had been instructed not to kill civilians but the soldiers who would be wearing a red uniform, the few people who escaped were primarily those wearing the blue or black uniforms.
The troupe, except for Graham Chapman, were very sick. Fortunately, Graham was a doctor and took care of them. John Cleese said during the filming of these scenes, he would go off camera to vomit.
This is so funny.. doctor uses his pipe to inspect the wound. The patient's silly hat. Their slow and crude observational skills when they see mosquito netting. Just too funny. I wish they stuff like in 2022.
You know, and I think that I can speak for everyone, including Prince Harry, the Duke of Dim, and Megan, the Duchess of Cornbread, the Meaning of Life documentary from the Monty Python Studios, really seems to capture the Spirit of the Essence of the Fascination of the Mystery of the Wonder of the whole thing. I must say. Indeed !
This isn't far removed from reality. I worked in a hospital and while I was cleaning a vacated bed, a doctor was asking the young bloke in the next bed, "So, what do you think is the problem?" And the young bloke was trying to give an answer but couldn't, like he was put on the spot about a difficult issue.
Considering that the British invasion forces actually lost the first engagement during the Anglo-Zulu War, this is probably extremely accurate to how the CO's saw the entire engagement. Yes. A bunch of tribal warriors forced the British army to retreat. The same British army that was armed to the teeth with bayonets, muskets, some cavalry, cannons, and a couple of gatling guns.
To be perfectly honest its not that surprising considering the tactics the Zulu used against the British resembled a mass bayonet charge which would have been a valid option even against a European army at the time as far as I know. Also they outnumbered the British 10/1 which would have been helpful to them.
"woke up just now-one sock too many"
Monty Python still cracks me up
I say, steady on.
...be right as rain...
I love how it implies the sock was left behind
"If you're playing football or anything, try and favor the other leg"
All of it it's hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Like my high school nurses
It would be most prudent, in the likely occurence of a football match, to concentrate mainly on headers.
"Been to the wars, have we?" That phrase really is a lot funnier when said during an actual war.
And just outside like 5 feet away.
I always love coming into the comment section to find somebody correcting someone else's comment from 8 years ago 😂
@@vegancam I rarely leave comments but looooove to read all that wacky kind of stuff. Like when someone leaves a comment directed at someone in the video as if they're going to see it. Or when someone writes the longest argument like its going to change people's minds. Especially the minds of people arguing in a comment section of a 10min video designed to keep you busy with a bunch of random facts. It's like a little treat for my day.
"You're right. We'd better get this stitched."
Hahahahaha!
Take down notes if your padawan is ever in a situation like this..
Its the poking the stump with his pipe that still gets me after all these years.
yes indeed but the cherry is the little noises he makes as he does it
john cleese shaving at the beginning always cracks me up
I watched this clip just to laugh at him shaving lol
Yes it's classic satire to the futility of manufactured wars in foreign territories
@@AnanyaDas10 It is mocking the common stereotype of British military officers being stoic about everything. Anything else is your own interpretation.
@@Schattengewaechs99 stoicism is nothing to scoff or mock at lol so this is definitely a take on the futility of these wars inflicted on foreign land and its indegenous people for robbing their resources, and as a result, manufacturing identity politics and conflicts there and stripping them off their life and peace, while being cold blooded murderers or facilitators of such wars and conflicts ...
@@AnanyaDas10 As I wrote above: that is your own interpretation.
"Been in the War have we?" Gets me everytime.
‘Any headache? Bowels alright?’ Perfect Monty Python.
Ive always loved Graham Chapman's voice, very soothing.
he was trained as a Doctor
@@uttaradit2 And quilting
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Named my son after him. ♥️
So it'll just grow back always gets me
fun fact/trivia: as a history buff I can't help but notice that the uniforms and even reloading procedures by the british soldiers are actually quite on point. Altough this is satire somebody must have taken the time to do some historical research
I believe Palin studied history.
The stuff from The Life of Brian - aside from the Star Wars sendup - was all pretty much taken from Josephus and Philo, with a very little bit of the New Testament. The crack Judean suicide squad was kind of a mashup of Masada and and how Josephus escaped a cave by manipulating the death lottery so he could be the last one to die, then surrender anyway.
One of them is an actual historian
Terry Gilliam seemed to be over the top obsessed with details but Terry Jones went to school for his history (he has written quite a few history books actually).
Monty Python was founded when they were students at Cambridge. Cleese is an actual Ivy League professor.
They probably could have fixed his leg if the doctor had the machine that goes *PING* .
unfortunately, that machine purchase was cancelled because it came under the capital accounts, and not the monthly current budget.
That "Scuuse me" at 0:56 gets me every time.
Chapman's doctor is absolutely hilarious here, the way he pokes the wound with the pipe....
He was a doctor in real life as well.
Indeed, at least fully trained, if not in actual practice. By the time he graduated, he didn't really plan to practice medicine. (Although he did use it a bit to tend to his friends while shooting movies.)
My favourite bit is just after this, when they go off to look for the leg. One of the officers, Cleese I think, taps a man on the shoulder as he passes, and he falls apart in diagonal slices........
Meaning of life is my personal favorite of the Python trilogy.
john tangen Mine as well.
There were 4 movies.
@@briant6669 Quadrology?
@@PhilUKNet tetralogy!
@@notreallydavid Thank you! I can add this to my vocabulary.
Yes.....yes, yes.......yes.....yes,yes.......yes........yes.
You cut it before the best part! “A tiger in Africa?”
A TIGER!!!!???? (Drops the shield and the spear and the gun and runs away in terror)
Sadly, that line never worked in the US. Nobody then and certainly nobody today understands that tigers aren’t in Africa. So, the incredulous way in which the question is asked doesn’t make any sense to most Americans.
The amazing thing, is that although this is satire, it's not too far from the truth:
During the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Uxbridge were mounted side-by-side on the ridgeline, watching Napoleon's rightful destruction through field-glasses. Cannonshot from French artillery smashed into the ground between them. Lord Uxbridge started, then exclaimed to Wellington "By God sir, I've lost my leg!", to which the Duke glanced down and replied, "By God sir, so you have!" This is all well-documented by any historians - art imitating life.
Not funny at all...:)...If the duke said " I believe you'll not need pairs of socks any longer Uxbridge " That's way funnier.
James Rob Tony Adams During the battle of isandlwana many british officers escaped because the zulus were instructed not to attack those wearing blue as they where civilians. This sketch by them almost seems to portray that aswell.
+James Rob Tony Adams
The whole point of satire is that it's never too far from the truth.
I believe German soldiers during the First World War wrote home of British officers standing in the midst of machine gun fire, smoking cigarettes as if nothing was going on.
They buried the leg and in later years he would say I have" one foot in the grave" hence that's where the expression came from
Bless the man who gave his life carrying that jacket, took a zulu spear to the back just to carry his officer's jacket with him.
It’s a good job the officer didn’t drop it and get it muddied. Good save.
That is also a caricature on the Indians who often were the orderlies/batmen/khidmatgars of the British officer class.
This is even funnier to me knowing that Graham Chapman was an actual doctor. X'D
Lol, I didn't know that about him.
Yes, his bedside manners were top notch.
Ha Ha
Watching this film over and over as a kid… so much of the jokes flew over me.
i didn't want to watch this clip, I want to be a LUMBERJACK
Wait a moment, I am a customer and I have my rights. I will not go away until you register my complaint.
You see,
my parrot....
There are so many nuances of comedy in this sketch that make it sheer genius.
Monty Python is pure comic genius.
Back when some funny stuff was actually cheek-bitingly Hilarious, and some of Python's best stuff would split open yer side with the sheer power of their ruthlessly sarcastic wit, if you're able to perceive [irony], wry humor, & all that rot.
0:16 Michael Cane has a cameo running past camera
Yep, that's him.
This attitude was never fiction. CZcams "Lancaster bomber audio"
1:16 Cameo by Simon Jones, aka Arthur Dent from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series. :)
Doesn’t he also play Sir Rather-A-Wally Raleigh in Blackadder II? 😂
Timeless comedy- and that’s hard to accomplish. The genius of Monty Python endures!
Monty Python may endure, but the Dude abides. But that's just like, my opinion, man.
Tiger brand coffee is a real treat, even tigers prefer a cup of it, to real meat
Monty python was just perfect.
If your playing football try to favor the other leg
nope its favor
+Feder Schwert Look bud, I don't freak out over spelling like you do, so you better cool out or your gonna be looked on as a douche.
+Feder Schwert don't call a southerner a Yankee son
Speaking of spelling....you also incorrectly used "your" instead of "you're". Just thought I'd say.
@@aaronpaul899 favour.
I'm glad everyone was able to keep calm. No reason to get excited or anything. Be a good fellow. Pip, Pip, and all sort of thing.
[random quote from video]
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻
(Glasgow)
I don't get the Glasgow joke?
00:05
Num43
I understand it changed from Glasgow to Natal but what's the humor?
Currahee The homur is that Glasgow is a shithole and can be easily confused for a 19th century african battlefield.
Num43 I thought the joke was that they filmed it in Glasgow?
I remember seeing this in a theatre when it came out and sliding down in my seat laughing at the line, "During the night, old Perkins got his leg bitten sort of off."
I love "Glasgow v. Natal"
Absolute classic. A tiger! In Africa? Shhhhh.
The length and detail they went to to scene script and dramatize for just the background
How a 3 minute segment for a comedy movie such as Monty Python the Meaning of Life be more historically accurate than the big budget war movies I'll never know. I'll give the BBC credit at least their little bit got more detail right compared to the likes of movies such as Patton and Battle of Bulge.
What the fuck are you talking about?
cavi10 I am talking about how this scene actually has the right uniforms, equipment, and weapons for the historical period it takes place in. The kicker is that this was done as a 3 minute gag whereas the movie Battle of the Bulge got so many things about the historical time period it was set in and was trying to make you take it seriously and failed.
lastswordfighter none You mean like Patton and the Sherman "Tigers"?!
junkdeal Yes a good example.
Yea. I showed Battle of the Bulge to my teenage son recently.....he wasn't impressed at all, and I was quite ashamed that I used to like it. It was quite pathetic really. No excuse for it. I can understand them having to use modern US tanks as stand-ins for Tigers and Panthers, but the whole plot and script was bad, action scenes etc....so unbelievable.I told him that that was how movies were made back then, but then I saw Laurence of Arabia again which was made about the same time - now THAT was a great war movie!
My whole life since I’ve seen this movie when someone/some animal is in my way, I say “Excuse Me” in the same way and tone as John Cleese does here.
Literally no one ever picks up on it. But in my mind, it’s HUGE COMEDY, on a daily basis.
😃
When they salute each other in the beginning, Palin is Ainswoth and Cleese is Packenham, yet, when they leave, Cleese says "Coming, Packenham?" :)
Like John McEnroe he was talking to himself.
By Jove thats enormous!
Graham Chapman was remarkably good. I know he died young, but he really could have been a successful character actor in hollywood.
“Got his leg bitten right ooorf”
Ah yes the typical upper class toffery.
Cleese, Palin, Idle & Chapman on top comic acting form. None greater.
(Glasgow), I mean (Natal)
"This 'one' leg..."
“… It’ll just grow back then…”.
Smug and superioritivly .
Laughable upper class parody exemplified. 🎯
Boris Johnson approach to Covid-19
Well, it's just a virus so...
LOVE THOSE SIDEBURNS.!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗🤗🙏🏻
That line always gets me!
Bonjour de France. Sad we didn't have the whole sketch with the illarious "A TIGER, IN AFRICA...!!!" Au plaisir.
Is there anything else I can reassure you about……….love it!
Oddly, there is a bit of truth to this. The Zulu impi had been instructed not to kill civilians but the soldiers who would be wearing a red uniform, the few people who escaped were primarily those wearing the blue or black uniforms.
It's funny how when there's fighting nearby how that one guy is calmly shaving.
That is sort of the joke......
You just understood the joke
Absolutely hilarious
Excellent
Bitten sort of off 😄
This clip left out the best part.
This is a good example of stoicism.
We've always played things down.
Such an amazing display of facial hair!
Awesome
0:05 yup, typical saturday in Glasgow :-)
One has to wonder, was the spear-throw that broke the mirror in the beginning genuine? If it was, that was some jolly good aiming what.
I was there on the set. The spear was fired from a gun..
It was an excellent shot, but only killed him in 2 dimensions... 🤣
"Probably a virus" the irony
The flesh-eating bacteria ... a real thing!
I thought viruses were only discovered after the zulu wars?
Yes it is very hard to tell apart Glasgow from a chaotic battlefield in Africa
"so it'll just grow back then?" :D
The troupe, except for Graham Chapman, were very sick. Fortunately, Graham was a doctor and took care of them.
John Cleese said during the filming of these scenes, he would go off camera to vomit.
Been in the wars have you???
Everybody outside literally being hacked to bits
The disrespect shown these gentlemen by the fighting outside is intolerable.
Some people can handle that, others just cant.
I love the fact that Graham was a qualified Doctor
I hope it grows back because I am an optomist.
Ol' Perkins.
Bowels all right ?😂😂
This is so funny.. doctor uses his pipe to inspect the wound. The patient's silly hat. Their slow and crude observational skills when they see mosquito netting. Just too funny. I wish they stuff like in 2022.
You know, and I think that I can speak for everyone, including Prince Harry, the Duke of Dim, and Megan, the Duchess of Cornbread, the Meaning of Life documentary from the Monty Python Studios, really seems to capture the Spirit of the Essence of the Fascination of the Mystery of the Wonder of the whole thing. I must say. Indeed !
"You'll be right as rain!"
Long Live MP!!!
Come back you COWARD!
Old Perkins here seems to have had his leg bitten - ah - off.
MxR: "Death By Snu Snu!"
Death by Bunga Bunga!
(Glasgow) ....(Natal)
I love that horse sound
"Excuse me!"
just a flesh wound.
So which one is David Attenborough...
Killer-Shots dubbed "Virus": damage without recourse.
Glasgow err Natal
I love being British unfortunately I'm not well educated like these officers
Хорошие кино истории игра Войны без ракет атома класс 🤩😎🤩
In 2022 this isn't satire anymore but possibly happening somewhere irl.
“Maybe it was a tiger?”
“In Africa?”
“Shhhh!””
Did a tiger make off with the end of the skit, too?
It would appear so! Blasted nuisance as I was very much looking forward to everybody yelling TIGER and then panicking.
What's the tune playing from 0:20 onwards? Its some sort of march, and I've definitely heard it before.
dastorm - rudesand
Oh lordy, this is funny. I shall share amongst all my south African friends
You go do that, milkdrinker
This isn't far removed from reality. I worked in a hospital and while I was cleaning a vacated bed, a doctor was asking the young bloke in the next bed, "So, what do you think is the problem?" And the young bloke was trying to give an answer but couldn't, like he was put on the spot about a difficult issue.
Considering that the British invasion forces actually lost the first engagement during the Anglo-Zulu War, this is probably extremely accurate to how the CO's saw the entire engagement.
Yes.
A bunch of tribal warriors forced the British army to retreat.
The same British army that was armed to the teeth with bayonets, muskets, some cavalry, cannons, and a couple of gatling guns.
To be perfectly honest its not that surprising considering the tactics the Zulu used against the British resembled a mass bayonet charge which would have been a valid option even against a European army at the time as far as I know. Also they outnumbered the British 10/1 which would have been helpful to them.
A LEG 🦵 virus 💉