Monty Python Communist Quiz sketch

[@matthewsmith2673]

It kind of blows my mind now that this sketch (1970) was released closer to the time Lenin lived (up to 1924) than the present day

[@DialecticRed]

wait hold on . . . damn that really is mind blowing

[@styraco4739]

Mao was also alive at the time. Guevara had died a few years earlier.

[@KasumiRINA]

Well obviously, this is ancient TV.

[@SCWhiteJazz]

@@KasumiRINA What do you mean exactyl by "TV"? ;-)

[@SebHaarfagre]

@@KasumiRINA "Ancient"?

[@demondwilson706]

The best part is that I can't even find a political joke, the fact the entire joke is they don't know about English sports makes it so much better

[@xenoblad]

ehh... that's kind of a stretch, but it did remind me that Cuba beat America and Dominica Republic in the baseball world classic nearly every time. The world classic is like the Fifa for baseball, but is dramatically less popular. It's also a joke how sad the national baseball team of China is. They literally lose to everyone by 20+ runs.

[@Mutterschwein]

matthieuriolo Please tell me you don't genuinely believe that socialist governments kill their own athletes' families or actually punished them in any way as harsh as that for not winning sports competitions.

[@TooCooFoYou]

Xiclotrode Stalin killed anyone that didn't cough at his direction.

[@bodyguardik]

Kaotikrakkerz 22 he cant. he is just brainwashed sheepie

[@TooCooFoYou]

Kaotikrakkerz 22 I'm not sure if he did, but I was just messing around given the fact that Stalin had quite the ego (cult of personality).

[@leljdam3189]

*How to do comedy:* Step 1: Have a low budget

[@the0sanitydokutah967]

Step 2: Be a parody

[@alexh2947]

@@historyarmyproductions Sorry is Chinese a race

[@alexh2947]

@@historyarmyproductions I know I just get annoyed when people say stuff like that's racist when I've said something about a country

[@historyarmyproductions]

@@alexh2947 I agree.

[@coleboone8826]

They should have had that guy play Tito

[@nastynate4916]

Some comics make a normal situation into a political joke, Monty python takes something with the most potential for one and does this and I love it

[@nightyorb]

they publicaly shared comunist ideas in the individual marx section, this was some high quality radicalisation techniques and i'm on board with it.

[@v3student]

🌅🏞️😎Also, those scenes from the late 1960's...👀🏘️📚☎️🎾📚 &, thanks, Cheers...{this may be removed later, etc.} 😎

[@bogdang8759]

this is political af tho

[@nastynate4916]

@@bogdang8759 what I mean is that it’s like actually funny. It’s comedy before commentary despite being both

[@JelMain]

@@nightyorb On the other hand, a family member was the Ukrainian goalie in the Wolves team.

[@Kittymouth]

"No one leaves the show empty-handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands." Is a GEM just delivered as a throwaway line!

[@tintinismybelgian]

They are still empty, but now also detached.

[@ReinoutVrijhoef]

@@tintinismybelgian well, he’s not going to leave with them, is he?

[@tintinismybelgian]

@@ReinoutVrijhoef They're still his hands, aren't they? Or, in a communist state, are they considered shared property (e.g., means of production and all that)?

[@khangasOozaki]

@@tintinismybelgian so you can't claim to be communist and have hands. "hands don't exist in my reality" ~Kaldor Draigo

[@tintinismybelgian]

@@khangasOozaki Perhaps. You might "have" hands in the sense that they are attached (or unattached) to the body you inhabit, but it is the collective that "owns" the hands, proprietarily speaking, as they exist to serve the interests of the communist revolution.

[@aldhizak]

"Marx" actually looks like Engels, "Lenin" looks a bit like Trotsky, "Che" somehow looks like Castro, "Mao" definitely looks like Tito.

[@SignOfCross]

And all of them looks like poop

[@markschnabel1353]

Tito Jackson?

[@FaithRox]

I believe that was part of the joke.

[@rayout23]

@@markschnabel1353 😂

[@pastushi2883]

And "Che" is definitely not a Bolivian..

[@nickv4073]

John Cleese did not have one line in this skit and he was still hilarious.

[@ieuan._.ch4n945]

Always is

[@waynej2608]

Of course.

[@deanronson6331]

He did use his funny walk later to exit the stage.

[@Jotari]

The look of concentration on his face as he considers the question is fantabulous.

[@SithCelia]

Agreed a hundredfold! Their facial expressions were the most hilarious, I think, particularly Michael Palin as Che. Che!

[@kaleygoode1681]

I would have thought Karl knew about sports! After all, his wife, Onya, was an Olympic runner! They still use her name at the start of races

[@jamescampbell4334]

You win the comment section. 👍

[@cliffordwebb3656]

That's fairly amusing.

[@Nick154999]

I do not get it

[@kaleygoode1681]

@@Nick154999 Before beeps, races were started by a human with a pistol that said, "On your marks... get set... GO!" (and shot the pistol at the same time as shouting, "GO!"). "Marks" were objects or lines on the ground before blocks were used. Marx was German but had a huge influence on Russians, Starlin and Trotsky who interpreted his writing differently and formed opposing parties after the Russians Revolution. Onya is a Russian name. Onya Marks sounds like, "On your marks" The joke implies Marx had a familial link to Russia. Jokes need the audience to put together missing information themselves, and they laugh if they're successful; there's a lot to put together in this one so most people won't get it! 🥰

[@ben8557]

@@Nick154999 At the beginning of a race, they say "On your marks" which sounds kind of like "Onya marx"

[@carsonreddick3452]

"The hammers is the name of which english football team" Karl Marx: *has a full existensial crisis*

[@dereklonewolf9011]

They were never a football team. It's a trick question ! 🇨🇦 71+ yr old hunter expat

[@siypic]

@@dereklonewolf9011 Every 25 years they are..

[@dereklonewolf9011]

@@siypic lol ⚽️

[@Pe6ek]

Perhaps learn to spell.

[@joaogarcia9488]

Precious

[@eliwatson7936]

Karl lived in London for a significant portion of his life, he probably had the best shot at winning

[@stardustnation2480]

A century before this sketch tho

[@harryscott2955]

Lenin lived in London for a couple years

[@patp3725]

And Che was a known sports enthusiast, although he played rugby he also followed a local football team

[@JeffDeWitt]

And he's buried in England... it's a real Communist plot.

[@tomlewis5105]

@@JeffDeWitt And you have to pay to get in hahahaha

[@winsomehax]

Marx eyeing Lenin suspiciously at the start... glorious bit of acting/writing.

[@immachanguropinin1110]

Marx would have liked Lenin tho

[@jasem222]

@Oliver Formby Marx was all about the means justifying the ends. As we all are comrade.

[@dragoncrown2029]

@Oliver Formby Lenin was power hungry commie piece of shit , he was never good for Russia , after Lenin and his Bolshevik party did the coup , all hell broke out in Russia , a resistence against the Bolsheviks ( white army ) was assembled , the civil war between the Bolsheviks and White army caused the death of 9.5 million Russians , it would be best for Russia if Lenin's Bolshevik party never did their coup , so that the awful civil war could be avoided , people who support Lenin are not right in the head , he was an awful power hungry communist , he didn't care how many people his soldiers killed , he only cared about setting up his autoritharian communist state with himself as the dictator

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

@@dragoncrown2029 Just one correction. Civil War was inevitable after the Provisional Government's multiple failings in 1917. The reason Bolsheviks came to power in the first place is because there was a complete power vacuum in Petrograd. The leader at the time Kerensky had no legitimate authority beyond the walls of the Winter Palace, as the historian Orlando Figes liked to say. Some one was going to try and take the charge. It wasn't a matter of if, but when the civil war would occur. Lenin obviously had no reservations about all the horrors Russia would endure, viewing the civil war as the realisation of class struggle.

[@abdelaziz3197]

@@dragoncrown2029 The October Revolution was inevitable, Kerensky's government was unable to deliver to any of the promises they had made, they didn't retreat from ww1, they didn't improve the peasantry's conditions and if that wasn't enough they where about to allow the restoration of the tsar. The bolsheviks had much more popular support than the white guards and you can't deny by no means the huge improvement in life conditions after the civil war, huge increase in literacy rate, massive increase in life expectancy and incredibly quick industrilization. The fact that you think that some guy that was in exile can just snap his fingers and have himself an army capable of defeating the pro-tsarist counter-revolutionaries and make himself the dictator of the USSR is just not right. You should really research what you're talking about, or at the very least have the common sence to know that things don't work like that

[@joeblair3427]

The true kings of comedy. Sadly Karl lost both hands but Eric Idle was in such a chipper mood he gave him the non materialistic lounge suite for his troubles but wouldn’t give him a hand to get it out the door

[@mikeyh0]

LOL I would give a thumbs up but that would be too ironic.

[@ulture]

shame that joke makes no sense. Materialism is the basis of Marx's whole philosophy (it just meant something different back then)

[@JelMain]

May your long third leg never fumble a ball.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

The lounge suite was the perfect choice for Marx, a parasitic layabout who never had a real job. He was a 19th century analogue of today's mom's-basement-keyboard-warrior-brony. In My Little Pony Land, there's no student debts, and It's OK to have needs, because the other guy has abilities.

[@gg829]

@@ulture it still means the same thing, it is just one of those words that people use completely wrong.

[@alitlweird]

Absolutely brilliant sketch. *_“This non-materialistic lounge suite.”_*

[@larkohiya]

but the joke here is that the game show host doesn't know what he is talking about. saying the louge suite is non-materalistic is just using the term incorrectly in the context. I see this sketch as just a means to simplify the discourse and muddy the water on what any of the policy or philosophy of these people were. even more telling that its framed in an popular tv quiz game show where they talk about sports statistics... I'd laugh if more people understood what this skit was really about and what the joke is other then the stuff i'm seeing in the comments of "haha look at these leaders, wasn't socialism bad? haha"

[@sciencefictionisreal1608]

but what about Marxist materialist world view?

[@sirperybLakeney]

I actually thought the “This non-materialistic lounge suite'' line was the weakest part of the sketch -it was just being too obvious and lighting up a neon sign and pointing excitedly at the joke for those too thick to get it. Still, I suppose part of being a good performer is knowing your audience...

[@4nc3st0r]

I feel people that find that funny conflate communism with post modern theories of consumer criticism. Communists don't think that people buy too many things, and communists don't think people ought to share more and be less selfish. Communism is a critique of the mode of production that leads to amassment of wealth in the hands of few while excluding those wo toil to produce that wealth on the other. It is not a critique of consumption of goods.

[@sciencefictionisreal1608]

@@4nc3st0r ^^^^

[@robertn2951]

The men who wanted to save the working class have no idea what the working class really cares about: football.

[@Skyblade12]

They never wanted to save the working class.

[@luizcandidoborges2282]

The football was not yet created during Marx lifetime, genious!

[@JesseArt]

@@Skyblade12 Maybe actually read Marx?

[@robertn2951]

@@luizcandidoborges2282 Football Marx's The Capital was published in 1867. The first football association club were formed in 1863. I am not a genius, I am simply well-read.

[@Skyblade12]

@@JesseArt I have read his ideas. They are poorly thought out and don't hold up to any sort of critical analysis. However, I have also studied his life. He sat and fed off his rich capitalist friend's money, and dreamed of how much better the world would be if everyone followed his ideology. He never actually cared about anyone but himself.

[@Radien]

This is how I feel every time I play Trivial Pursuit and I get the friggin' Sports category.

[@jshepard152]

SAME

[@xcvsdxvsx]

Right? Why is sports in there. It doesn't matter. It isn't relevant to anything in the real world. And they treat it like its equal to the other subjects. WTF is that even?

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

The importance of sports entertainment (and entertainment generally) must be continually impressed upon the masses. Even grown men are thrilled to wear clothing emblazoned with the name of their Sports Hero. They have been psychologically infantilized. Important to keep everyone distracted, amused, and most importantly, convinced that they ARE aware of current important events. Concentrate on the trivial, ignore reality. As the Western World is culturally and demographically decimated, the unwitting masses are well fed and immersed in frivolity.

[@SvenElven]

Reasonable Speculation That totally sounds like an English translation of a letter written by Marx!!

[@george2009town]

You uncoordinated snobs have no fucking idea about the importance of sport to humanity...and the Python sketch was yet another of their BIG misses.

[@73caddydaddy93]

The way Marx goes "aw shit" after losing was a masterstroke

[@tylsimys67]

"Spontaneity" at its most predictable here. Ok, 'scheisse!' would've been funnier.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

"Ah, shit..." - Karl Marx What a poet that man was.

[@GathGealaich]

The most famous of the Marx Brothers, at least in Europe!

[@1simo93521]

GathGealaich he just wasn't as funny as Groucho.

[@hansgruber788]

Simo nah mate, chico was the funniest

[@drscope27]

Nietzsche claims the ball did not exist, Marx claims its offside.

[@milascave2]

Nietzsche believed that a type of ball was only a means to get a few great balls, and then to achieve even greater balls, until you had the greatest balls of all. (but, for some reason, you then had to repeat the process over and over.)

[@Boredman567]

Funny how Marx looks more like Engels, and Che looks more like Castro.

[@Kelveron]

I thought this Marx looked like Rasputin!

[@valentinogoksirkairesideba3981]

@@Kelveron Rasputin wasn't even communist

[@ObamaGaming44]

Also kinda funny how Marx’s accent sounds more Russian than German

[@techdeckofficial]

ThereIs ASnakeInMy that wasn’t what they were saying

[@megaotstoy]

and Lenin looks more like Dzerzhinsky

[@CybrosisEvolved]

The fact that MT TUNG just comes in and answers a question is comedy at it's finest. You were under the illusion the entire thing was gonna be a staring match. Then BAM - GRAATE BALLS OF FIRE!

[@AndreasDelleske]

Yes.. a bit too early if you ask me.

[@derekralston5967]

Him buzzing in for some reason just got me.

[@olliemartinelli4034]

I mean funny yes but also very predictable.

[@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126]

It's pretty funny that his surname is actually Mao, and it gets listed as Tung, half his given name.

[@MrHmg55]

Isn't there another version of this sketch in which the question is about another song and Mao answers, correctly, "Sing Little Birdie"?

[@onanysundrymule3144]

It is so poignantly apt that all the questions (apart from Karl's speciality Q & A's) were literally regarding topics of 'Opiates of the Masses'.

[@sbaffolodellapuffetta2029]

What's opiate? Professional football? Absolutely, the selling of It as a "must-know chain of events"? Absolutely, football itself? No, Just a game, a beautiful One. I don't want to be right at all costs, i'd like to debate with another view of the situation, sports and games shouldn't be attacked, they are important in the Life of an individual, what's your take on that?

[@jonah-b7k]

@sbaffolodellapuffetta2029Even what we're doing now.

[@SirIlliterate]

@sbaffolodellapuffetta2029 I'll bite. To be honest, I don't understand exactly what you're arguing but I think the gist of it is "I don't regard football as something that should be called an 'Opiate of the masses'". If you would like to debate someone on an opinion/stance of yours, I'd suggest to start with clearly stating your viewpoint and avoiding subjective arguments like "shouldn't be attacked" or "they are important". So you wanna discuss? Start by making clear what you're arguing. I have no skin in the game, I'll debate you either way.

[@sbaffolodellapuffetta2029]

@@SirIlliterate well, the situation Is the following: the First comment stated football Is "mass' opiate" without saying why. This leaves me assuming possible reasons, a vague attack gets a vague defense. Anyways, my point Is (and i'm Sorry if It wasn't clear): Is sudoku something that makes you distract from important things of Life, Is It chess? Is It a videogame? Is It, idk, any other sport? Now think about One of these Activities all day and night every day of the week and about them only and they become a distraction from what counts and from other's intentions, It's the same case of football. I personally think sometimes people are a bit biased in judging football either in a way or in another, just think of a D&D match but with thousands of people chanting and insulting and getting violent at each other, wouldn't you value it the same way? To me It remains, at the basis, a fun experience (expecially playing It), it isn't a danger for my culture in any way. Some of the monty pythons' members have played and supported football teams too, Just to show how intentions play a crucial part in a lot of things. Anyways this Is my take on It, i Hope, in case of an answer, in a respectful debate. P.S. i know it's a cliché, but Sorry for my bad english, i'm italian 😁

[@sbaffolodellapuffetta2029]

@@SirIlliterate btw i answered you but i am re-charging the Page and the comment doesn't show. Tell me if you received It or i'll rewrite It

[@panowa8319]

RIP to Terry Jones who passed away today.

[@shanehenderson8756]

Should show this at universities that might understand soccer history better!

[@danyleon7094]

So sad news, thanks for the info though, bro !

[@blob5907]

how can he rest when we have people fishing for likes on his death

[@diahane092]

FUCK! I came here to laugh now I'm crying

[@weapoolx182]

@PAT Warner Sadly ..

[@PaNDaSNiP3R]

SNL could take a note or two thousand from these guys.

[@crysstoll1191]

PaNDaSNiP3R I’m fairly sure they did. Especially the greats from the first few years.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Snl is cringe nowadays anyway, used to be great,then was ok, then meh..now it's just sad

[@heatshield]

it's complete crap now. SNL just hired someone, then fired him before his first appearance because the sjw outrage community went digging and found something insensitive he said years ago.

[@crysstoll1191]

heatshield Wth? That used to be prerequisite for getting on the show! Did Lorne Michaels sell the show or is he turning neo con?

[@crysstoll1191]

Eisenwulf666 I stopped watching by the time Ackroid, Newmann, Morris had left (of course Belushi and Radner has upped and died and Chase was gone). Started out on a high.

[@supercool6956]

Marx looks more like rasputin

[@WeDwellinaFiefdom]

SuperCool 69 Rah rah Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..

[@stefanomemolis9502]

+Delta3 Actual I heard there's no hell

[@stefanomemolis9502]

+Delta3 Actual by the way, I think Marx would go to the Christian hell, still don't think he would deserve that

[@stefanomemolis9502]

+Delta3 Actual I don't think there can be a worse thing than infinite pain forever

[@TheWizardYeof]

That’s what I was thinking

[@stevef9530]

I was a kid at school when Monty Python started, and used to stay up to watch the show which was on about 11pm. It made every other comedy programme look tired and dull, and opened up wonderful new areas. It was so exciting, and the only drawback is that nothing I can think of since has lived up to the promise it made. Now the world is still a mess, and maybe I’m wrong but I think we have nothing like this now. Oh well....

[@mikelmart]

Foil Arm's and Hog come close to a modern day MP.

[@JelMain]

Comedy relies on contrast, the more extreme the better, but political correctness slaps criticism of divergence down. At root, conformity and political extremism are at odds, so there is still plenty of scope.

[@stevef9530]

@@JelMain political correctness slaps down divergence, not criticism of divergence. I don’t think MP was actually political on the whole, they laughed at everything in a completely anarchic way. People will politicize their comedy because they are like that. There’s trouble now because the pc left can’t tolerate dissent. I don’t remember much complaining about Python in the 60s.

[@JelMain]

@@stevef9530 Any more than Boris' bunch can.

[@tubehound69]

I was probably around 10 years old when I was introduced to Monty Python. My uncle, who is about 5 years older than me introduced me to it. One of the first skits I saw was the Oscar Wilde “your majesty is like.” Although a lot of the more complex humor in that flew over my head it was still hilarious.

[@kri249]

Monty Python humour is absolutely timeless. Who would have thought their skits would be relevant and still funnier after so many decades.

[@lapdawg60]

Their themes are rooted in truth. Truth is eternal. And funny AF

[@timjohnson1199]

Any of the Democratic candidates.

[@runrig97]

@@timjohnson1199 True, as John Cleese has noted, Drumpf has no sense of humor whatsoever.

[@Dowlphin]

Because things rarely ever change. Gotta wait for the complete downfall of Western-capitalist imperialism when there are 49 new countries in America and then check back for how humor has evolved. 😉

[@timjohnson1199]

@@Dowlphin Nahh..... Then we would be like Afghanistan and the Chinese would come and take over. How would you like to be ruled by the Chinese?

[@mlb5525]

We need Monty Python’s humor now more than ever.

[@ВолодимирЛікарко]

Russia want to create USSR 2.0 Tomorrow Georgia was their prey. Today - Ukraine. Tomorrow - you will be.

[@jimmyohara2601]

yeah, communism is a total failure. only North Korea very stubbornly persists with the dudd system. 😐🤪

[@frenchfrysz6695]

the world has lost the ability to laugh at itself. everything is offesnsive now. and its depressing.

[@jackpeters4930]

@@frenchfrysz6695 not true yet, we can still laugh don’t think like that. There’s so much pain and evil in this world and yet the progressive powers of the west wanna remove any slight chance to laugh

[@stz9740]

@@ВолодимирЛікарко no. Russia is nothing like the ussr. NATO has expanded into Ukraine and on Russias border. Russia is defending themselves from antagonizers.

[@tobolulo]

The resemblance to Mao is stunning...

[@Wrongald]

LOL, and thumbs up.... but only because I'm a bit drunk...

[@tomxxx9655]

Remarkable isn’t it 😂

[@goatwarrior3570]

Mao Zedunning

[@usernameluis305]

Looks like herman goering

[@douggriggs1499]

Except that he wasn't fat enough .... great comment anyway by you.

[@facundovaldez6990]

This is hilarious! Che was Argentinian, though. The CIA was absolutely positive that he was Bolivian. It is said that when they finally got him, very near to his death, after they read everything they had on him and claimed him to be Bolivian, he laughed.

[@bourbonbrigade1968]

You can only kill a man, an idea lives on! Murderous CIA invaders will be remembered in 100 years as just that. Che will still be a legend, loved by the people!

[@thelordofcringe]

@@bourbonbrigade1968 che is already remembered as a serial killer pretending to be a socialist lmao He put gay people in camps and tortured everyone he could get his hands on to death. Personally. He was a serial killer who could only get his rocks off to torturing someone to death.

[@danbackslide2957]

@@bourbonbrigade1968 Che got what he deserved

[@gregfielder]

Well, the people that he didn't personally dispatch with his handgun, anyway.

[@SZebS]

I interpreted that as "leader of the bolivian guerrilla", which to me would make it incredibly funny since that's not what he's known for and also that's when he kicked the bucket

[@edwinsamuel5065]

The fact that they don't even attempt to speak a word makes it even better.

[@TRLgoodvibesdotcom]

Agreed 😆 but Mao knew Great Balls of Fire 😆

[@rehoboth_farm]

Funny but not realistic at all. In real life none of those idiots ever shut up. That's what makes it funny to me.

[@seanspindleshanks2529]

"We're gonna cut off his hands" I'm starting to see the violence inherent in the system.

[@namemcpersonsname6772]

Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! He's being repressed!

[@waynej2608]

@@namemcpersonsname6772 Bloody peasant!

[@waynej2608]

Oh, quit bitching and let's have tea. Ok, first we'll cut off his hands, and then have tea. Right.

[@cowboypilot1089]

Strange woman laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government!

[@waynej2608]

@@cowboypilot1089 Supreme executive power is derived from a mandate of the masses, not from some watery bint, who threw a sword at you!

[@jackdoyle7453]

Karl Marx spent most of his life in london of course he'd know who the hammers were!

[@blindthrall]

Was thinking that if anybody would get it, it'd be Marx.

[@blindthrall]

paul metzler Judging a communist by the contents of his bank account is pointless.

[@JD1010101110]

I think you're confusing Marx and Trotsky. Marx died in London he's buried there. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico city with an Ice pick by agents of Stalin.

[@happyflea]

Wow, it's been quite a while since I've read anything that discoherently angry. Impressive!

[@Catcrumbs]

Adolf Hitler never went by the name 'Shickelgruber'. www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/opinion/l-hitler-never-really-was-schicklgruber-016390.html

[@Fernando-zpt]

3:12 king leopold II of Belgium

[@Vsirin]

Underrated comment

[@MrVinnie47]

Can’t believe Marx didn’t get the West Ham question correct!

[@jediroya6810]

Absolutely, given that he lived in London for nearly 35 years!

[@portcullis5622]

@@jediroya6810 Wasn't he a QPR fan?

[@sonnypeart7313]

Perhaps because he died before the club was founded?

[@weapoolx182]

@@portcullis5622 Nay! Everybody knows that Marx rooted for Chelsea 😂

[@portcullis5622]

@@weapoolx182 I hear that he also made sneaky visits to Loftus Road.

[@thejkyle]

When I was a kid I’d go visit my great grandparents and my great grandfather would always be watching Monty Python. I still watch this stuff because of those days. Good memories.

[@gabrielesolletico6542]

That's nice! Thank you for sharing your childhood memories with us!

[@mcaddicts]

Why did Marx end up in the final round, Mao was the only one who answered a question. Just plain silly.

[@doctorwhofan2563]

mcaddicts "Just plain silly" is the entire point of Monty Python.

[@mcaddicts]

Yeah I realize that and was making reference to the running joke of the silliness.

[@doctorwhofan2563]

mcaddicts Oh. Well, stop that. It's silly.

[@mcaddicts]

All right I'll get on with it.

[@chiefjudgefish4193]

+mcaddicts YES! Get on with it!

[@Revolver0cel0t]

You know monty python are the best of all time when across generations they are still funny and the jokes are still relevant for different people to get, truly genius and pioneers of the comedy genre Especially in movies, everything they made has aged remarkably

[@HelderGriff]

True, I'm 25 and I absolutely love the life of Brian

[@maxi-me]

Which one was Monty?

[@idhrenoh2023]

Well, the comedy certainly aged well. Not so sure about having Terry Gilliam play a Chinese man and the occasional black face routine in Flying Circus.

[@andrestrishak8292]

So is The Benny Hill Show.

[@oscarmccormack1611]

Rest in Peace, Terry Jones. Your laughter will ring until the last smile fades.

[@philldavies7940]

Would be interesting to know how Terry ranked himself, he was a keen Medieval historian, whether that was more important to him or monty python. One of Wale's finest.

[@jmpopov]

He said he's not dead

[@thesturm8686]

"No one leave this show empty handed, so we just gonna cut off his hands" Sounds spot on

[@eagle3676]

@Focux no it doesn't. Can you even define communism?

[@teknical100]

Everyone sinks to the lowest common denominator. Except for the people who are more equal than the rest.

[@kwaynr1301]

@John LaFever . Like most people that never read the communist manifesto and then just repeat what other uninformed people said about it, your idea of communism is way off. There is nothing connecting communism to the atrocities committed by 'communist' dictators. I can come up with examples of capitalist countries ruled by dictators that are just as bad. Inform yourself please.

[@kwaynr1301]

@John LaFever yeah sure, get mad, why not? Why exactly do you accuse me of having a ' reading comprehension problem'? So you have read the communist manifesto, or did you read about it? And btw, as far as my memory about the book goes, Marx never promised a 'sweet smelling paradise', instead he warned about economical issues, which for a large part came true. And suggested an alternative for capitalism ( which ,as im sure you know ,is just the next step after feudalism, introduced mostly after the french revolution, together with enlightenment). Instead, it's the capitalist creed that says ' you can become whatever you want as long as you work for it', which is not true for most people. Unless you're rich, you're just a puppet, working to make someone else rich. Or read about it here:en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value

[@mrde0mrsai]

That’s how some countries eliminate poverty: just eliminate the poor people.

[@squatch545]

Damn, I was hoping Marx would win the lounge suite.

[@feartheghus]

He had enough free shit given to him in real life.

[@leplancoop8584]

@@feartheghus Like his 7 dead kids ? That was a free gift from society right ?

[@feartheghus]

Le PlAn CoOp no but all the draining he did from family member’s funds and all the mooching he did while producing nothing was.

[@leplancoop8584]

@@feartheghus I wouldn't call writing over 20 books nothing... but sure...

[@Krooksbane]

Cameface H he was a teacher numnuts

[@TheLawnCareNut]

"Solid Gold Biggie" was my nickname in college. 🤘

[@charliek115]

The soldiers of the United States will have their way with you one day

[@andrestrishak8292]

"Fly Eggs" was your fraternity nickname.

[@TheStraatjutter]

Che looks like Fidel

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

That sounds like Cold War code.

[@TheStraatjutter]

Most four word sentences do

[@TheStraatjutter]

I find Marx looks more like Engels and only Lenin really looks like Lenin, only I think they gave him and Mao hats so they wouldn't have to use bald caps etc. The odd thing is that Mao would have been salvageable if they had given him Lenins costume , since the military uniform in Mao china was basically a blue-er version of the workers uniform. What ever they put him in here makes no sense. Makes you wonder if they changed the sketch last minute.

[@lindsayandrew6026]

Che was also an Argentine, not Bolivian.

[@TheStraatjutter]

Andrew You can also describe him as having been a Cuban guerrilla commander. It's not wrong but it's not the most understandable use of the English language either. The nationality describes the organisation he had a role of leadership in ( Bolivian guerrilla), not Ché himself. Look at it this way , a US postal service worker with the Canadian nationality is both a 'US postal' worker ánd a Canadian postal worker employed by the US postal service.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Historical stages of development: Tribalism Feudalism Capitalism Socialism Communism Lounge Suite

[@BennettParsons1]

Brian Arbenz you forgot to add: “Running a massive genocide against your own population.”

[@sdivine13]

He wrote communism already

[@Neuroticmancer]

BennettParsons1 yeah he did it was called capitalism

[@sdivine13]

@@Neuroticmancer you're pretty stupid arent you?

[@Deridus]

@@sdivine13 Y'all forgot feudalism and tribalism, ya gormless tossers!

[@leopold7562]

Monty Python were the masters of the ridiculous sketch and this is no exception. But that throwaway line at the end made me laugh rather more loudly than I was expecting.

[@VacantSpirit]

well im sure there was tons of similar comedian groups such as finnish Kummeli. Monty Python is lucky to be english so they're known worldwide

[@rogink]

@@VacantSpirit That's the funniest thing I've seen for a long while!

[@lr6884]

All I can think of is the sketch from FC where contestants had to summarize the works of Proust in 10 seconds or less... Something to the effect of "since we don't have a winner, first prize goes to the girl with the biggest tits!"

[@ltr1745]

​@@VacantSpiritNords aren't funny.🥱😴

[@TheSiemek]

The best part of the sketch is the subtext in it. It doesn’t matter if you want to help the working class, because football is much more important to the media and in short term also to the masses than their own well-being.

[@thatonegamer2921]

Bread and circuses

[@Aireck174]

I can see that interpretation but I think now we have the opposite problem and everything is political. I just want to watch a basketball game but I have to hear a sermon about equity or whatever.

[@TomDaly943]

In 1984 all the proles seemed to care about was the lottery!

[@blakerobinson8370]

I think its more, you want to help them, yet 1. jobs come from the people you dont like as you just admitted. and 2. you have no idea what the proles enjoy - eg the football and so therefore have nothing in common with them.

[@vandatavna7681]

The reason this sketch makes me laugh is not so much the politics, but because it reminds me of being in a similar position, in the old pub quizzes. The pub quiz was always a popular form of entertainment in the UK ... now there are not so many of them around. But I would sit with my team (at a table with pint of lager) waiting hopefully for a question I could answer (history, geography, zoology etc) which seldom came ! ... it was always football, cricket, tv soaps, or formula one racing ( ... which I know nothing about)! So ... Karl, Vladimir, Che, Mao ... join the club!

[@bleepinfireman]

That Mao face

[@politure]

it's borderline lol

[@SandlotRider]

Looks like Elizabeth the 2nd

[@Plafintarr]

*correction: it's borderline lmao

[@jamsch5692]

I am fucking beautiful

[@jeremymullins1294]

it's Terry Gilliam. That's all that matters.

[@Eza_yuta]

Karl Marx look like Rasputin and Che Guevara look like Fidel Castro 😂

[@Cjnw]

Marx looks a little like Keanu Reeves

[@Eza_yuta]

@@Cjnw Wha- How dare you.

[@glennwilliams6522]

@space cowboy#2 Vlad Putin is Rasputin but Karl Marx is but another foreigner in London.

[@BritishTea-eater]

He looks like Friedrich Engels, one of the famous Communists. Marks, Engels and Lenin

[@ekklesiast]

And Lenin looks like Trotsky

[@shaunhouse8634]

Strangely Coventry City won the English FA Cup for the only time only five years after this was made

[@nosuchthing8]

Shaun House wow!

[@Dogtles]

Shaun House only 5 years, that's long enough for that to not be relevant

[@NyantoDesu]

Shaun House Nothingham Forest has won the Champions League. Anything is possible!

[@rcalibre9814]

ObviousBaitYetYouStillFellForIt 0

[@Curratum]

This is the sort of thing I trawl the comments for!

[@PadraigTomas]

Karl Marx lived in England. Unfortunately he died about 12 years before West Ham United was founded in 1895. Bad luck Karl!

[@trueriver1950]

Explains why he couldn't get that question...

[@lfricmunuc4534]

Why does Karl Marx have a Russian accent since he is German.

[@Labeau92]

+Lieutenant Ivan And Che is not Bolivian

[@Voodoo_Robot]

+Lieutenant Ivan and lived half of his life in London...

[@nicobianchi]

+Francisco Lounot he was the leader of the "Bolivian guerrilla" by the end of this life, though.

[@beachboss7320]

+Lieutenant Ivan and im pretty sure Mao wasen't white

[@justclosing]

+Andrej Arendáš and he's still there, he's lying in the same cemetery as my dad

[@Gamer_Rade]

This has ruined my education. Was talking about Marxism and Marx during a lecture... Kept thinking about the Hammers.

[@rafasounds2010]

Communism for pretty middle class girls

[@Dowlphin]

Forgot about the sickles, hm?

[@urbanzero2997]

Well I mean the concepts of Marxism are just as much of a joke

[@bighands69]

Curious when covering this did you learn about how it actually fails when attempted

[@imjelo]

i am sure you had a smirk on your face as you were listening to the lecture.

[@yinoveryang4246]

Terry Gilliam pulling that face. Wouldn't get away with that these days.

[@DL-cd7ew]

SJW's would sh-t

[@dom2752]

@@DL-cd7ew i mean probably cause its racist?

[@DL-cd7ew]

@@dom2752 - You mean comedy 😇

[@dom2752]

@@DL-cd7ew can comedy not be racist?

[@DL-cd7ew]

@@dom2752 - Do you go after black people who impersonate a white person, and call them racist too?

[@hellbooks3024]

The facial expression adopted to portray Mao is just priceless.

[@portcullis5622]

An uncanny likeness!😂

[@vonskull]

At least Marx knows offsides when he sees it.

[@ErinStevens12]

I still think the German's made a huge mistake by subbing him in for Wittgenstein.

[@jturon9184]

I liked the days of Socrates.

[@mammadyusubov]

"...that wonderful non-materialistic lounge suite"

[@HelderGriff]

I read this just when Idle said it kkkkkkkk

[@HelderGriff]

@Dmitry TKR it's hahahaha in Portuguese, I'm mexican anyway

[@dr.floridaman4805]

The works of the worker. Marx logic would have the couch maker own all his couches and no bread.

[@spiicypotato]

@Jim Goose Why are you booing him? He’s right!

[@dr.floridaman4805]

@@spiicypotato lmao. He dipped out. His phone maker wanted his work back.

[@Octopi_3]

The attention to detail is the best part of this skit, Great Balls of Fire came out in 1957, when Mao was still alive, so it is entirely possible he actually knew the answer.

[@Ericwvb2]

Since this was filmed in 1982 it wasn't exactly ancient history back then (25 years earlier). Today's question might include a question about Michael Jackson's "Bad" which came out in 1987 or 35 years ago (ok now I feel old).

[@stevenleighton1947]

Of course he knew the answer!!! he answered the question.

[@iacopoguidi7871]

00:18 Omg I spotted a mistake! Che Guevara was not Bolivian, he was killed there while leading a guerrilla, but he was Argentinian, and a Cuban citizen as well since he participated in the Cuban revolution! ^_^

[@Blusterberry]

I know this is an old comment, but since we're correcting old things... he's a "Bolivian guerrilla leader" in that he led Bolivian guerrillas, similar to how someone could leave Germany to become a British football coach.

[@JDWalkerDrummer]

I was really hoping that when Mao won $10, it'd be redistributed to the other contestants and everyone would have $2.50.

[@markbrookman8233]

Naaa... that's not how Communism is implemented in reality... More like: $9.95 to the "Party", and 5c for the masses...

[@dungusmcgee1417]

And then everyone starves.

[@dragons_red]

Only the masses have to share, and they made share what little they are given. All the money stays at the top with the party leaders. Absolute power as they say....

[@dungusmcgee1417]

@@dragons_red That absolute power stuff is a load of nonsense. Doesn't explain anything. There have been plenty of examples where absolute power has not corrupted and current examples today how partial (democratic) power has corrupted and the problem with partial power is it leaves anyone in it paralyzed to kick out any one who is corrupt. At least absolute power depends on the nature of the person themselves. I would take Marcus Aurelius over any of these Orwellian U.N bureaucrats anyday. Who voted them in anyway? Democracy sucks, but so does socialism and communism. Also fuck Hitler.

[@dungusmcgee1417]

@Jake Williams For sure. But the state's will swing blue soon, then the only option will be for republicans to move futher left and shift the Overton window further and further left. You can already see it with gay and trans advocacy as well other policies that would of never been adopted 50 years ago

[@96ThePericles]

So, the finalists of the 1949 English Football Cup were, according to Marx, the Workers Control of the Means of Production and the Struggle of the Urban Proletariat?

[@guguigugu]

96ThePericles yes. the end result was 100 million deaths (50 million at half-time).

[@sce2aux464]

+guguigugu Obviously, this was before English football regained its senses in 1990.

[@ffjsb]

+Caesarslegion1 Another moron heard from. Capitalism has only been around in any real sense for the last 500 years, starting in Europe. So how do you explain all the wars and famine before that, and wars and famine in non-capitalist countries????

[@-SUM1-]

+ffjsb Feudalism is worse. But capitalism is just an evolution of feudalism. They're all constantly evolving and communism is the outcome in the event of class consciousness.

[@murtsman1]

+SUM1 What are you on about? Feudalism is only similar to american society by the fact that we pay taxes for the macro-management of our nation. Everything else is different. Capitalism is based off of privately owned goods and and profits, and not providing service to the lords that are protecting us. There is also no specified 'class' structure in capitalism, people are not greater of value here unlike serfs, nobles, and nights. And one of the biggest differences is that workers actually have rights. In a traditional feudalistic society peasants were unable to demand things from their leaders, which modern capitalism specifically allows.

[@Apuleius_]

It's amazing what sort of bizarre comments a video can get. For those heatedly debating politics, please get it through your head that this sketch is not about communism at all. It's a parody of silly game shows and how trivial they can be, as shown in the host's ridiculous attempt to incorporate a serious issue like communism into the game show format.

[@Simon9Mr]

Well that's one take. Or it could be that Communist leaders are apt to be largely ignorant about things outside of their pet philosophy (other than the works of Jerry Lee Lewis).

[@wiedep]

They took a lot from University Challenge for this, the tv version was funnier. - Rt. Hon. Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel (Mrs.)

[@Animyr1]

Simon9Mr Considering that most people probably couldn't have answered British sports questions regardless, I don't think that's it. Really, famous or powerful historical figures of any stripe answering trivia questions to get a sofa and failing even though most of the questions are about themselves is all the joke you need.

[@Simon9Mr]

Animyr1 Not so sure about that first point. I suspect many a working class Englishman could answer such questions. But of course, these are foreign intellectuals and so yes, they would not be expected to know British sports trivia. I'd go further and say that many of our great pseudo intellectuals of government and media (Communist or otherwise) wouldn't fare too well on something like "Jeopardy."

[@msirma0077]

Animyr1 The sketch was originally part of Monty Python's British TV show, so yes, most viewers would have got the sports questions :-)

[@milkynebula7620]

This amount of class and wittiness is restoring the brain cells I've lost today.

[@kozmonauta0515]

2:53 Reminds me of when an old man stood next to a bridge with a knight and asked him what's Assyria's capital

[@brucevertrees4740]

It’s definitely not a casual and easy-going capital

[@suddenlyfrogs1906]

I don't know that! (I bet Arthur knew it was Ashur because of some silly debate before the opening credits...)

[@peterleadley7103]

Ninevah. where's my sofa?

[@harker24601]

"Che" looks a lot like Fidel Castro.

[@StevieGG08]

And Marx looks like Engels. Don't think it's a coincidence.

[@billyb6001]

Everyone had beards

[@g2knows752]

Che looked like a pussy in real life.

[@jeffreylebowski285]

chaostrich, he looks nothing like the real Che (other ban the beard)

[@at0micwerew0lf]

chaostrich strangely, so does Justin Trudeaux...

[@sonofnyx9437]

Marx looking like Rasputin, Che Guevara like Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong like Mussolini (lmao)

[@weapoolx182]

Sonofnyx LMFAO!! True 🤣

[@weapoolx182]

@@jetstream6389 Absolutely 👍🏻

[@theoneandonlyjonasv]

"Grate-uh Bowls of Fye-yah?" Comedy gold! lol

[@Forcystus85]

"No one leaves this show empty-handed...so we're gonna cut of his hands" lol, so that's where Izzard got the joke he used in his quiz show act in Definite Article. Then again Izzard does make a ton of Python references in his comedy.

[@Bialy_1]

Socialist stealing form someone? Shocking! hehe

[@hatespeach1984]

Well izzard is a jew.... just like marx You they ever did any work of their own?

[@joeldz2]

I'd like to see Marx seize the means of production without any hands!

[@HoppingMadMedia]

Best comment here

[@benwil6048]

xD

[@noop9k]

TheIncredibleTobi33 But Stalin did

[@obairna2285]

Still got teeth, bruh

[@blondthought5175]

This skit must have sailed right over my head when watching Monty Python as a child.

[@zeverin7518]

@blue heeler *makes fun of people's intelligence based on their hair colour *uses the preposition 'of' instead of the auxiliary verb 'have' because it sounds more or less the same classic

[@zeverin7518]

​@blue heeler My prrrrrecious! or did you mean ''you're'?

[@zeverin7518]

@blue heeler 😘

[@blondthought5175]

@blue heeler I was born brunette, like Stalin.

[@michaelmerck7576]

To me it was just the British accents and the British sense of morality that made them funny,they took being British and all its inane customs to task by a high level of hyperble which when done by real Brits was hilarious

[@AK-Drakoin]

This is exactly what happens to the smart kid whenever the class has to do a Super Bowl kahoot quiz

[@alexcooper6265]

I think people are overthinking this. Have you seen Monty Python sketches? The joke is just the randomness.

[@soulfirez4270]

I think you may have under thought the joke. The joke is quite plainly about socialist figure heads who state they are for the working people and all these questions where working class trivia questions and they didnt know them ( implying they dont represent the workers at all .

[@adamyooz]

Alexander Cooper No the joke is that they’re disconnected from the masses they claim support.

[@drakekarr5349]

Wow, you're an idiot.

[@romanmir01]

the joke is that too many people today seem to support political movements that were set up by the elites and ended up murdering hundreds of millions of people around the world over the last hundred years and yet people who support these movements close their eyes to this and do not learn from these historical mistakes.

[@thecati008]

@@soulfirez4270 I think it's a bit of both, the joke is about the panel of legendary comunist figures which makes you think it's a cultural discussion when in fact is just a quiz show, the underlying joke is what you said

[@masmediamnt]

Guevara is Argentinian, by the way, he probably liked football

[@renex_g3915]

Si pero dijo el lider de la guerrilla boliviana, no que sea boliviano

[@masmediamnt]

@@renex_g3915 he didn't say "the leader of the Bolivian guerrilla"

[@buxadonoff]

@@masmediamnt He actually said just that.

[@masmediamnt]

@@buxadonoff listen carefully, Marx is called as "Founder of...", Lenis "leader of...", And El Che is "the Bolivian..."

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

"is"? I believe he just recently passed away...

[@vilstef6988]

About everything I know about English Football I've learned from this Monty Python sketch.

[@terryherrera9054]

When Monty Python started in the 60s my older brothers watched it and the show always had them laughing so hard . They loved it. Then us younger one's got to watch it with them it was hilarious we always looked forward to it when it came on. It still just as funny as it was back then. 🤣😂😅

[@lhistorienchipoteur9968]

1:15 Covetry city won in 1987. Seven years after this sketch.

[@lynnlo]

"No one leaves this show empty handed, so we're going to cut off his hands."

[@sebastiamarques3274]

@ Bullshit. Lenin, Mao and Che Guevara did worse things.

[@inkmaster5480]

@@sebastiamarques3274 Why do you assume that pointing out one man's bad things is meant to excuse other men's bad things?

[@ximenaespinoza2106]

@@sebastiamarques3274 hello im a chilean and saying pinochet didn't things worse than them just shows up how blind by the right wing you are

[@kendallwilson6654]

Ximena Espinoza cheers !

[@oldcowbb]

best summary of how communism was executed in history

[@bingus1256]

"Great buarrs of a-fiyah?"

[@u.v.s.5583]

Yes it was indeed! Very well challenged!

[@ponraul1221]

lmao

[@jeffblack5024]

LordOfTheHunt In the original British version, it was a Eurovision Song Contest winner called ‘Sing Rittle Birdy’

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

@@jeffblack5024 Ha ha has

[@LOTRmeme]

John Cleese & Eric Idle… they’re all fantastic but those two- heavy hitters

[@christopherfaulkner9197]

I like that one of the jokes is now out-of-date as Coventry won the cup in 1987.

[@serotonin3857]

no one leaves the show empty handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands. i died.

[@Bramswarr]

it didn't explain the teddy bear they threw at him though

[@wouterdeheus3626]

Bram consolation prize

[@DukeJames]

RIP

[@itookallthenames]

so did Victor Jara.

[@barrymcallister2986]

I took a communism test today. I got full Marx.

[@davidchamberlain5425]

I hope you.PUTIN lots of correct answers .!

[@glennwilliams6522]

@david chamberlain I feel sick. I think I’ll Stalin at home and finish reading the novel, “Covid Virus.”

[@feliph64]

WE!

[@eugenekrabs4016]

I passed cause I was Lenin over the shoulder of the guy next to me for his answers

[@tuseroni6085]

yeah, but everyone gets the same grade so...

[@PunkParrot]

"Great balls of fire?" I'm so glad I found this video again lmao

[@teebrinner5939]

😃😃😃

[@fabriziobianchi6940]

Marx played in the finale of the philosophy football, how could he dont know who the hammers were?

[@ThomasWilliamsMusik]

He got hit in the head a lot

[@limedickandrew6016]

Well, he probably knew Molotov!

[@bandsbikesandboozereviews]

Live from the Hollywood Bowl ... some Cockney Hammer shouting out "West 'aaaam!!!" LOL! We're everywhere!!

[@sweetalgeorge6751]

This skit is why, despite having zero interest in soccer growing up in California, I became a Wolves fan. a big thanks to Mr Idle for his influence.

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

This is a fascinating example of character work. One must attempt to play a character who has no way to respond. Lots of facial expressions and nuances at work here.

[@eleSDSU]

You meant "body language" not "character work" since the characters are awfully portrayed. Che wasn't Bolivian, Marx would have surely jnow the answers having lived most of his life in England and nobody looked like whom they were representing. So the characters didn't look nor were anything like the characters should have, but sure, "great" character work....

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

@@eleSDSU character work is how you bring a character you play to life. Body language is part of it, yes.

[@jackmclean4120]

I'm in love with the bit where Marx gets the question about the proletariat right and looks dead pleased with himself.

[@chattiermike140]

The “for $10” joke went over everyone’s heads

[@demiandesu]

could you explain it?

[@niv8880]

Apparently, Coventry City has since won the English Football Cup once, in the 1986-1987 season. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 in the final, with striker Keith Houchen scoring a memorable diving header to level the score at 2-2. This was Coventry City's first major trophy in their history. (ChatGPT!)

[@davidemelia6296]

This sketch is from the 70s, ChatGpenis

[@johnphelan4215]

Coventry was absolutely robbed in this year’s FA Cup semifinal against Man Utd by a stupid VAR reversal of their game winning goal. Will not be watching the final in protest.

[@derekralston5967]

Not sure why exactly but Mao’s buzzing in just killed me

[@josiepalmer4562]

Killed you like 80 million other people

[@derekralston5967]

@@josiepalmer4562 you’re being generous

[@josiepalmer4562]

@@derekralston5967 does starving Mao's own people count as murder? Estimate is between 40- 80 million people he was responsible for killing. More than anyone else on that communist panel. More than any leader in history I know of commiting genocide yet this great leap towards communism in history for China was beyond creed or tribe.

[@derekralston5967]

@@josiepalmer4562 this is a comedy

[@josiepalmer4562]

@Patrick Ward thanks for clearing that up. So do you think it was closer to 40 million people or 80 million people killed? Idk about the CCP stance on pest control with farmers today but one thing is the same...that the reports from CCP on human death and their responsibility of that and how it effects the global health community and economic systems from Mainland China and beyond is a number question. An example for you to consider could be the "prisoners of conscience" who because of their faith were imprisoned and then murdered for their organs. Or, maybe the example of respiratory diseases that come out of China and clarity on those numbers? I think the stance of no responsibility of 40 to 80 million of your own people being killed in a GREAT LEAP towards communism is horrible.

[@Dave062YT]

That sketch shamed Coventry City into finally winning the FA cup in I987

[@edwardburek1717]

Immediately afterwards, Eric Idle was rumoured to have said "well, that's that sketch fucked up then."

[@ethanmoon3925]

I have seen real news interviews and Senate hearings this bad.

[@CellGames2006]

It gets awkward when John Bercow demanded all MP's loyalty for Arsenal in a passive-aggressive way...

[@IDreamElectricSheep]

And this "skit" *read propaganda* is trying to pain that "incompetence is a trait only our enemies have", yet this piece of garbage would make goebbels proud 😂🍵

[@kiva_kaze]

I just realized barely any lines were made on behalf of the "revolutionaries" and yet it felt like they made a punchline just with silence, stunning!

[@benjaminpayson6252]

Here's another brilliant part of this sketch: Cleese and Palin onstage, willing to sit and say NOTHING.

[@rixxy9204]

"Beautiful, non-materialistic lounge suite"

[@ralphmarx7554]

The irony is that most of them would know these at a drop of a hat... except Mao. I think Mao liked baseball more

[@sylviaross5486]

Damn, I miss them. Their irreverence for everything was daring, in addition to being hilarious. In the U.S., we got to see them on the - mostly musical - show "The Midnight Special". I remember when Eric Idle was a guest star on "Saturday Night Live", & I was in hog heaven. I loved John Cleese in "A Fish Called Wanda" & Eric Idle in "Casper the Friendly Ghost". The whole bunch are comedic geniuses.

[@gabrielesolletico6542]

@@katiedotson704 Some imbecile youtuber, probably.

[@richardraymond878]

@@katiedotson704 I imagine they'll be too consumed by their METAVERSE crap convincing them they're in Nirvana

[@arthurfranklin9315]

@@katiedotson704 I have no idea... It's strange to me that most of the Pythons are alive and kicking while Trevor Moore of the Whitest Kids U Know is already gone. I'm not aware of any full-on comedy sketch troupes under the age of 40.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Bunch? Well there's an Americanism for you. The correct word is troupe.

[@AlfredoPuente8]

Che was a Real Madrid fan, he doesn't care about the premier.

[@johnveitch4898]

There was no Premier so perhaps Estuddiantes or Boca Junior?

[@philldavies7940]

Real (Royal) Madrid ! - that was Francos team, h';d be more into Barcelona, the republicans team.

[@gengis737]

@@philldavies7940 Or Atletico, the Madrid popular team

[@tegstulakew2268]

RM was and still is pro fascist Club how come

[@greggblade810]

This was long before the Premier League

[@canaanclb]

He should have asked him what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

[@canaanclb]

@regalblue41 What? I don't know that!

[@glennwilliams6522]

@Canaan B I find it incredibly hard to swallow such nonsense.

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

African or European?

[@davidjordan9759]

A Capitalist or Communist unladen swallow?

[@GenX9r9r]

The 'Hook' was Mao BUZZING in...I cackled before he answered, then I died laughing with 'Gwate Bawls Of Fire'.

[@recordkeeper4761]

no one ever gives Friedrich Engels the notoriety he deserves.

[@trueriver1950]

Which team did he play for!

[@tinajones5641]

It's a comedy sketch. Some people on this page need to lighten up a bit (and are probably not much fun at parties either)

[@estroll5034]

Depends on the definition of "party", perhaps.