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[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Graham Chapman's Colonel stopping sketches because they were "too silly" became a running gag in several episodes. Most Monty Python sketches didn't really had a punchline, so it was a handy way to move from one sketch to the next.

[@geoffbeattie3160]

In 1986 my mum who was 61 just retired touring europe by bus with her sister. Travelling thro italy they passed an army camp. The soldiers broke ranks to wave to tourists on their bus! My mum and auntie almost died laughing. Knowing uk military from their husbands!! Totally true!!!😂

[@chrismatthews8717]

Nice one. It'd be a shame if your review got broken or accidentally got burnt, wouldn't it! It wouldn't be good for business if it went for a swim with the fishes, would it! Something to think about. 😉

[@michaelstamper5604]

Even after all these years, I still use the line "stop, stop, this is all getting far too silly" when things turn crazy. Monty Python always managed to be hilarious. And it's always good to see Our Amanda giggling. Xxx

[@keithcharman4133]

Have you done Ernest scribblers, funniest joke in the world.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

That's it !

[@detonator82]

I have the script books for all of the Monty Python sketch series, this one was always a funny read 😅 "I want to leave the army, please, sir, it's dangerous." "Look, I stopped YOUR sketch five minutes ago!" 😂

[@bernadettelanders7306]

You have script books of Monty Python? Had no idea there was such a book. Aussie here, grew up watching brilliant British comedy. British comedy really is the funniest, in my humble opinion, of any countries comedy.

[@RichTeer]

I have that book too, and the Falty Towers script book.

[@GaryGP40]

I have the complete Monty Python scripts Vol 1 and 2 also.

[@arwelp]

The late 60s were only a few years after the end of National Service (conscription), so the army was running “Join the Professionals!” recruiting campaigns, which emphasised things you could do in the army like sports, water skiing, and the travelling…

[@GenialHarryGrout]

The TV series had many overlapping sketches and sketches linking the next sketch, it was how the team kept the flow of the show moving, which at the time was unheard of.

[@Andy-Capp]

Amanda. I highly recommend “ Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road” it’s hilarious. One on my favourites.

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

Has anyone noticed how Amanda's accent is changing? 😊😊

[@andymcneil7085]

But she’s still devastatingly gorgeous.

[@andymcneil7085]

Barley cross, like having a lucky rabbit’s foot. Bloody useless against bullets an’ stuff.

[@mikeowen7526]

She lives in England now remember ❤

[@steveross8364]

Monty Python are cool. The "Flying Sheep" sketch is a particularly good example of their work. "Spanish Inquisition" is another. Cool Video Amanda 😎

[@brianartillery]

"Je me presenté le pouffe celebre, Brian Zatapatique!"

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

"One thing is for sure, the sheep is not a creature of the air"

[@Ozzy_2014]

But Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@brianartillery]

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 "You notice that they do not so much fly, as plummet..." 😆😆😆

[@jezfield8547]

Hi Amanda. How lovely to see the Python boys again, did you get Monty Pythons flying circus, back across the pond?, it is very British and a bit bonkers for some, it started in the 70s. We used to say" barley crossed fingers" as kids to mean thats enough, or call a truce! Thanks Amanda, hope you are all fit and well 😄😄😄

[@adamdaniels4797]

The crossed fingers was a school yard thing that just means you were telling a lie. Barley crossed fingers makes it stronger.

[@DannyHeywood]

''Someone could be hurt!''

[@jono.pom-downunder]

BRILLIANT BLOODY CHAOS. Stupidity personified. As per usual the Brits taking the piss out of serious situations. Yes, the writer, director,etc getting called in is not unusual, Animation being redrawn, script's rewritten, sacking the editor mid way.

[@KevinHarvey-bh9vh]

I agree time bandits is good… was on before the woke started saying dwarfs are little people. Now they can’t play Snow White.

[@kevinhayes1656]

Also, have you seen the movie Time bandits? It’s a cool movie.

[@alexrobert13]

Two words! Fish Slapping!! That is all!!

[@markriley5863]

When I was a kid (I'm 60 now) when something wasn't going your way and you wanted to extracate yourself you would cross your fingers and say arley barley. I suppose it could be likened to a time out.

[@tonygrinney7115]

"Barley cross fingers" a bit outdated now and more of a British idiom. It's something children would say in school with their mates. It is a code of honour a promise to do something or not reveal a secret. The "barley" part comes from a popular sweet at the time called "barley sugar" which looked a bit like two crossed fingers.

[@LADYRAEUK]

ahh okay :)

[@Mr59Kenzo]

Barley crossed fingers is a truce term, a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, used in the UK & NZ in the US we would say Time or time out or TIME

[@LADYRAEUK]

ahh gotcha! :)

[@Eyes-of-Horus]

To go a step further you have to see Self-Defense against Fresh Fruit. Then, the gay drill army team.

[@LADYRAEUK]

ill check it out :)

[@caseypw1]

watch the deadliest joke fab!

[@tksambrano]

One of my favorite Python sketches!

[@LADYRAEUK]

so funny !

[@Aswaguespack]

Monty Python sketches were works of comedy genius. Several American Comedy Group Acts were influenced and inspired by Monty Python but no one did it better. Thanks for the mid week laugh. Have a great week Ms Amanda

[@mikeowen7526]

Amanda check out the Piranha Brothers sketch It has the protection racketeers Ethel the Frog and Spiny Norman (giant hedghog)😂❤😂

[@stephenbesley3177]

Have you not seen the fish slapping scene? It cracks me up every time and just nuts for nuts sake,

[@philiphutchins2152]

Monty Python predicted the future back in 1975, the lumber jack came out on a 45 single ( spam song on B side) . In 2024, this song could be used as the transgender anthem

[@johnhehir508]

The British army going around the world occupying countries and dominating trade , The army was a protection racket ,

[@davidbennett8598]

Hello Amanda, I have thought of another Comedy series that was on between 1969-1973 Called On the Buses it's funny.

[@senorspaceghosto4718]

My personal favorite is the Ministry of Silly Walks. They are all great in my opinion. Too funny.😂

[@GaryGP40]

John Cleese hated that sketch. I mean, it's not particularly silly, is it? 😅

[@josefschiltz2192]

Of course, Python was immensely dedicated Goon followers and loved dear Spike, Peter, Harry and Bentine. Amanda? Have you seen 'What Time Is It Eccles?' with the voices of Spike Milligan - as Eccles - and Peter Sellers - as Bluebottle? As Ken Dodd would say "Extremely medicinal to the old chuckle muscle! If you don't use it, it'll drop off!"

[@tommywulfric9768]

15 Bob (15/0 )was quite a lot of money in 1970...(75p today) even haggled to 8/6 was a tidy sum...6d (a half bob) used to get me a huge 99 ice cream cone with a flake in 1970. 😋

[@felixthecat3n2]

Amanda, I recommend you watch Bottom Season 3 Episode 2 - TERROR. It stars Adrian Edmonson and Rick Mayal and is superbly silly. Once you get to know the series, you'll want to watch every episode. It was made in the early 1990's so a bit more recent than some of the shows you have reviewed, but I'd love to know what you think. Thank you, Felix.

[@pauln0371]

You should watch the Sketch in the Holy Grail where the Knights surround a castle which is owned by the French and 2 French soldiers starting mocking the Knights from the Battlements...Hilarious...

[@johnnyhmash]

MPFC were meta before it was invented.Although they cant have been first,that may have been Shakespeare.I would recommend Fellini's the Final Test.Its about cricket so may not be appropriate .

[@777petew]

Thanks for your laughter, and your intelligent analysis. We often get "Why?, who? what for? I don't get this? You're obviously one of us.

[@bojangrbec6663]

Amanda as US speaker like Monty Python. As Croatian I like them too. As well Doc Martin series and Saving Grace Movie.

[@klaxoncow]

There isn't really any common themes in Monty Python. They're surrealists and that's kind of the point of that type of comedy, that it's always about being unexpected. Never being predictable or making the same joke twice. Except, well, the "deja vu" sketch, where the joke is that the show about deja vu keeps repeating itself. But, well, part of being unpredictable is sometimes being predictable, as no-one's going to expect that, when you're always so unpredictable. Keep 'em on their toes. They'll never see it coming. Purple elephant.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Skit was wonderfully crazy 😂.Aussie here, grew up watching so much British comedy on telly. Brits are the best at comedy. Barley Charlie here is probably same as UK, um trying to think, we said it all the time as kids- um🤔time out, that wasn’t fair, or Stop That if someone cheated.

[@richardgreen3910]

I liked Monty Python Grim Reaper bringer of death sketch room the meaning of life film

[@mikegeorge7824]

You know I love your vids, but why is it that all Americans seem to prounce Monty Python, with an emphasis on the THON? We have always tended to describe them as Monty Pythan...maybe it's just my south London accent!

[@FrancesThompson-e3m]

Yes quite often the sketch would by end usually Graham Chapman RIP( the Colonel) stating this is too silly!

[@davidsavage6910]

Crossing the fingers is a way of warding off evil for centuries. When children play games like tag or whatever often they claim immunity from being caught by crossing their fingers. It is called by different names in different regions and countries. In my childhood is was called claiming 'feign lights' or 'fanesies' while crossing your fingers. You were temporarily out of the game because you had hurt yourself or thought something unfair had happened. Most often though, it was a ruse because you knew you were going to lose and were trying to stave off imminent defeat. Adults who can not suffer to lose at anything are those fraudulent finger crossers.

[@grabtharshammer]

No idea what Barley Crossed Fingers are? Maybe like fingers crossed, but more-so. The Colonel is a recurring character in the series. When a sketch gets a bit silly, he will step in saying "Now stop that, this is silly" and the sketch ends and they have to move on to the next one. Some people think it is just a ploy when they can't think of a way to end the sketch, but personally I can often see why he is so upset, and he is only trying to keep our TV experience moral, and on an even keel (naval reference, sorry) he was a great fan of Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers and Licence Payers Association. Monty Python tended to fall foul of the NVLPA quite a lot. - The main premise behind the first part of the sketch, is that during the 70's there was a big drive to recruit for the forces and there were a LOT of TV ads depicting how wonderful it was to join up, all the travel, all the off duty activities, like skiing, swimming, etc. They tried to make it look like joining the forces was like having a long holiday.

[@sharonsnail2954]

The TV series of Python was very hit and miss as were its predecessors "Do Not Adjust Your Set" and "At Last The 1948 Show". You put up with a certain amount of dross for those golden nuggets. Sketch programmes, by their very nature, are destined to be that way. This sketch, for instance, is better in its writing that in its acting. Maybe even better in its ideas than its writing. The episode which contains this sketch has the colonel repeatedly stopping things when they "got silly" even if he didn't appear in that particular sketch and/or there was an end to it (or not). Spike in his Q series often stopped before the end of a sketch (although most did have a punch line). In Q8 the outro was "What are we going to do now?" repeated by the cast as they "faded out" kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYOtk6xphaiZmNE

[@andrewgilbertson5356]

The crossed fingers comes from playing war or cowboys and Indians. Like having extra lives when one gets killed.

[@pauldear6660]

The barley fingers thing sounds very much like the "vein lights" /"vainlights" /"fay nights" that kids used to say when I was growing up if you were playing "it /"tag" and someone "tagged" you. In order not to be "it", you could call out "vein lights" before being "tagged" as a get out for being "it", like a kind of truce. There were many arguments as to whether you were "tagged" just before or after you said "vein lights". I don't know where "vein lights" came from or what it actually means tbh. I guess that "vein lights" could've been a corruption of "vein lifes", as in you have life in your veins as if to say that you have the blood of life running through your veins. EIther way, I still don't really know what it means or where it came from. It obviously got carried from one generation to the next without explanation.

[@Richard_Ashton]

It's not 'Barley' - that's just the rubbishy Southern accent. it's Bally (sounding a bit like ballet) and calling 'ballies' on something is like asking for a time-out. The crossed fingers is entirely separate and used here to intensify.

[@Seagull6819]

You might have seen my comment the other day, but it got deleted by the YT Police. Anyway on another site which sounds like it’s a trip to the loo every 24 hours (think about it!), you will find a brilliant sketch by two blokes with same name if you search Bert and Charlie. Or it might be Charlie and Bert. Wordplay at its best!

[@kevinhayes1656]

On Not line

[@andrewward2010]

Think Barley Crossed Fingers means truce but not 100% sure.

[@davew4998]

It's actually true, they often couldn't think of a punch line. I found their films much funnier than their TV sketches. Apart from Wicker Island of course.... Oh, and that was a great joke Amanda, the way you pronounced Python at the start. You know us so well...

[@FLORATOSOTHON]

The first part with the guy who wanted to quit was very funny. The part with the Italian Mafia guys selling protection, was out of place and not so funny. IMAO the rather abrupt ending, probably was the result of a not as funny as expected turn in the act. They have done better.

[@barrywickens8665]

If you’re gonna lie put yr cross fingers behind yr back so it doesn’t count! Its a Brit peculiarity Amanda x

[@knatschuff]

Barley crossed fingers, goes back to a type of Jackobean table and chair leg, Barley twist as well being atype of boiled sweet.

[@peteryoung4957]

Another great video Amanda but how ever hard I try, I can't Monty Python funny. I love all your other comedy though😀

[@MarcusMorris-q6r]

Hi Amanda. Bally or baley is an old-fashioned phrase from kids' games such as tic or tig where one person was 'it', and had to chase everyone else and try to touch them. If they caught you, you became 'it', but if you crossed your fingers and said said Bally before contact you were safe. My understanding is that this stems from the hundred years war with France, when British commanders would ask to 'parlez' with their opposites on peaceful terms, but I could be very wrong.

[@777petew]

Even the British army won't mess with these hoodlums. Their tactics are frightening.

[@PeteLewisWoodwork]

"Fingers crossed" is for good luck ('cross your fingers and hope for the best') but I've never heard the barley reference before, so it's lost on me.

[@petejones879]

It's a British thing as far as I know crossing your fingers for luck.. I've never heard the reference to barley tho

[@frogletx]

Barley crossed fingers.... isn't that the same as fainlights (or feignites)?

[@frugalseverin2282]

Have a look at the concert sketch 'Four Yorkshiremen'. It's an older bit that never got into their TV series.

[@michaeltaylor1797]

I liked the Monty Python 'bicycle repair man'.

[@Richard_Ashton]

To be fair, 5 bob a week to stop tanks breaking 'accidentally' and paratrooper getting set alight is a bargain.

[@ianwalsh5610]

one of the monty python actors was american but you wouldnt know with his english accent a couple have died since show began

[@kenaustinardenol1338]

Funny sketch, bit weird though. Who are those guys?

[@enemde3025]

Have you watched " I'm a lumberjack" ?

[@steve3291]

Probably sacrilege to say it, I'm not that much of a Python fan.

[@Hieronymous69]

Suggest that you look up 'The Pirhana Brothers'

[@richardgreen3910]

Barley cross fingers means _ " pretending"

[@bojangrbec6663]

Hi. Have u seen Montys The Funniest Joke in the World ? My best one.

[@mrsdcottam]

Has Amanda done a Blackadder goes forth reaction yet?

[@MrRosebeing]

Those brothers were proper Kray Kray, all I'm gonna say.

[@richardhargrave6082]

Really enjoyed your reaction, Amanda Keep doing what you're doing, especially leaving the tongue tied bits!❤❤

[@robharris8844U]

" Barley cross fingers" is a term that used to be used for children playing and a "truce" in activity is called. They would cross fingers and shout "barley!" and activity of play would stop for a rest.

[@kevinhayes1656]

I like the old TV series faulty towers Also, I wish it was still in line.

[@blackenreed1425]

It"s on dailymotion. Remember it's Fawlty with a W

[@kevinhayes1656]

@@blackenreed1425 I well aware of how is spelled that was spellcheck

[@AB-ku4my]

Barley sugar twist was a popular sweet after the ending of rationing until the late nineteen seventies. Each piece resembled an ear of barley, and crossing of fingers resembled said sweeties.

[@roymillsjnr5172]

I never got ponty python as a kid but i was as thick as a plank

[@brianartillery]

"It would be a pity if someone set fire to them..."

[@johnshelton2414]

WATER SKIING & TRAVEL SIR/STOP🤣🤣

[@tonybaker55]

Just have to love the total whackiness of Python. Not sure where it came from, but there was a line that said, "Join the Army, go overseas, meet wonderful people and kill them". Sounds just like Python though.

[@mainmac]

It came out after the Vietnam war protests as a pacifist slogan. "Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them", I had a Tshirt in the 70's with that on it. At the time the US military was trying to repair their reputation and had a huge promotional campaign touting signing up as a good way to get an education and travel.

[@gordonwallin2368]

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@kevinmarshall9200]

I would recommend Billy Connolly Amanda

[@victorbaxter5973]

Amanda try the rail timetable sketch.

[@Ian_UK]

Have you seen Stan who wants to be a woman and have babies, yet?

[@martinconnors6200]

The gangsters are funny

[@bert0522]

The Silly Walk is a good one. Jim

[@mijmijrm]

Argument Clinic

[@wbmstr24]

ive been a python fan for decades, but im a fan of yours now too.....good to see folks getting into MP again.

[@LADYRAEUK]

thanks so much :)

[@Quadrant14]

Oh, Amanda, Luigi and Nino

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

The tv shows often had random sketches which ended abruptly and went to something completely different , incidentally the title of their first film . It was a real mixed bag and you never knew what you were going to get .Terry Gilliam's cartoons added to the mix and there were many memorable ones . Some were running jokes that reappeared later in the show . Eric Idle might have been meant to say barely crossed fingers , like you I can't say I've ever heard barley but someone might enlighten us . There are so many classic sketches , and with u-tube clips easy to sort them out . The Lumberjack song , Spanish inquisition and one about a lethal joke come to mind .

[@Ozzy_2014]

"This man is Ernest Scribbler,writer of jokes. In a few minutes he will have written the funniest joke in the world. And as a consequence he will die, laughing." Thus began the terrible history of joke warfare.

[@AB-ku4my]

Watkins "I know sir but people get killed, properly dead, sir, no barley cross fingers, sir." MPFC Just The Words Volume 1. The original scripts, without the cartoons.

[@iflarnted]

Fings break.

[@DavesFootballChannel]

do the 'cheese shop'' sketch!

[@PeterMackett]

Graham Chapman would often end a sketch by saying "This is Silly", it became his trade mark and was used several times throughout the series when a sketch wasn't going anywhere, some of the sketches are pure brilliance but some leave you wondering what that was all about, this madcap and zany humour is typical of British comedy.

[@druidswillow1052]

Hi Amanda, Love Python, My personal favourite is 'International Philosophy' Live from Munich where 2 teams of Philosopher's play football, Greeks v Germans it's a work of genius and still hilarious after 50 yrs, One of their best IMHO Cheers Jim, Surrey✌️X

[@josephmayo3253]

Love your channel Amanda. You can't go wrong with Python. Flying Circus might be the greatest TV show of all time. It would make for a short video unless you pair it with something else, but I'd love to see you react to the Fish Slap Dance. Brilliant absurdity. The 4 Yorkshiremen is another great one.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Four Yorkshiremen was a re-hash of an earlier version of the same sketch by the comedy show "At last the 1948 show", which featured Chapman and Cleese (along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman). Both versions are excellent.

[@citizenkane4831]

Yes there are so many great sketcches Monthy Python have done. Like Marching up and down the square, Python´s olympic game´s. The "A tiger" from the meaning of life movie. And other´s

[@ChrisBrown-px1oy]

Thanks Amanda, I didn't remember this one. As often with Python, there's a kernel of truth being satirised here. The Vietnam war was still going on, while Britain had withdrawn from most of its colonies and ended conscription. The brutal two-month colonial war in the South Atlantic in 1982 was a bigger shock to the system here than the more contained 29-year war of occupation in Northern Ireland. The fact that more South Atlantic veterans killed themselves afterwards than died in combat suggests that for years before that, joining the armed services really was seen (and promoted) more as a solid career choice in an era of collapsing manual employment in industry, than as a commitment to risk lives. Also, many of those old industries (there were still 100,000 plus coal miners) carried a higher risk of death than employment in Britain now does.

[@derekclear3913]

Spanish inquisition, but to get all the sketch you have to watch the whole episode....even the closing credits.