Monty Python - Interesting People

from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Season 1 - Episode 11
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes To The Bathroom
Recorded 14-12-69, Aired 28-12-69
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[@nostalgiaof98]

Palin plays such a good panel host, love that constant gum chewing haha

[@radi0n]

Palin is THE best host in all the sketches! My favorite Python!

[@g.rossini1723]

The true brilliance is Mr. Walters. By being so uninteresting, he is invisible which got him on a show about interesting people.

[@thelonepeasant2953]

He is so uninteresting that it's interesting.

[@oz_jones]

The real wonder is that he's married.

[@sarastearns5517]

G. Rossini that part makes me laugh so hard.

[@philswaim392]

Hes so uninteresting that he actually turns invisible

[@lawrencebishton9071]

this is a fact 🤣

[@connfyoozed]

Legend has it that Mr. Walters is still in that studio, droning onnnn and onnnn and onnnn, with no one even casting a glaaaance in his direction...

[@jtanistube]

"No, I fling her". Cracks me up always. Graham, you were insidiously hysterical and brilliant.

[@dars5229]

I LIKE THAT GUY WHO'S INTERESTED IN SHOUTING! HE'S THE MOST INTERESTING CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BY FAR! HIM AND HIS WIFE!

[@dinac4711]

I'd say this is one of my favourite sketches ever. Every character is hilarious and the way Michael Palin is constalty smiling makes me laugh so much!!!

[@TheBrianJ]

For some reason, it's Michael Palins' cheery "You can't get much more interesting than that. Or can you?" that makes me laugh the most.

[@Perebynis]

This sketch pretty much depicts how talkshows used to be 25 years ago, but Monty Python anticipated all of it 50 years ago. Pure genius, isn´t it!

[@emmaclarke2007]

"You injured Mr. Stools!!!" HaHa!!

[@villadsbojesen4142]

"oh ah, well i´m afraid that it´s already asleep""It´s not moving", Mr. Keith Maniac is genius!

[@vader1131016]

YOU'VE INJURED MR. STOOLS....MR. STOOLS SPEAK TO ME!!

[@LordoftheJimmy]

John Cleese dominates every scene he's in!

[@bigfriki]

I disagree, they were all equally brilliant here.

[@palindrome.]

It’s also relatively easy when you’re shouting.

[@andyhaochizhang]

In a lot of cases because he is the tallest and loudest, thus most memorable.

[@agentel3686]

Monty Python will always be the most influencing comedy group in all time. Not only because they are amazing actors and comedians. But because no main TV now a days allows for such a creativity.

[@JebeTheGreat]

"It's all down with the eyes" (????) *points at his ear*

[@EugeneOneguine]

My English teacher showed us this sketch when I was 13, 14 years ago. Although I didn't speak English very well at the time, it was very funny to me and I thank her for making me discovering these amazing comedians. Merci Mme Bertrand

[@mappingoutthesky]

I find it weirdly adorable how worried Cleese is for Mr Stools lol

[@JohnnyReb1976]

WELL OF COURSE I'M WORRIED IT'S JUST BASIC HUMAN DECENCY AINIT?!?!

[@E1craZ4life]

@@JohnnyReb1976 No matter hooow looong I wait in liiine, no one in the ressstraunt will acknooowledge my presssence...

[@SamuelBlack84]

I like to imagine that they would be the best of friends

[@davepowell7168]

Most people seemed unable to seriously imagine same sex relationships after WW2. The Queen was a just a young girl thought incapable of ruling the British empire,demasculating millions

[@dars5229]

Because Mr Stools shouted when set on fire.

[@ljcteehee]

Ah man...one of my favorite sketches. "No...I fling her!" They were just too hiliarious. There will never EVER be another comedy troupe as funny as them.

[@Laura-fw1jo]

" Well , there's barely room to fling a cat ! " Took me many viewings to catch that one on " Holy Grail " , but it still makes me drop down and laugh !

[@RReneeS]

LOL! 2:30 to 2:56. I don't know why John Cleese giving a cat influenza manages to have me roflmao, but maybe it's the genuine effort he seems to put forth doing it. His face gets pretty red in the process :)

[@johnsheehan6250]

Oh Christ that's hilarious

[@MrBiggles53]

Michael Palin was the ultimate game show host.

[@mustafa1name]

Nowadays many of us live in dwellings built using Keith Maniac's hypnosis technique. We no longer suffer from the mobile brick disease, Location, location, location.

[@Guitarsrock342]

apart from being a full time stapling machine, he can also give a cat ifluenza

[@magellanicraincloud]

That studio had enough room to swing a cat.

[@DuckandMikeyfan49]

OH, I'M MORE INTERESTING THAN A WET PUSSYCAT!

[@uw0t314]

Hour after hour after hour...

[@Cazz814]

I love Monty Python, them and their brick hypnotizing ways.

[@jamiewulfyr4607]

Python! Y'can't beat 'em! Absolutely timeless in it's pure absurdity.Their material still seems ludicrous today.Imagine how utterly ground-breaking it must have been when it was first broadcast.I have this image of stuffy W.I. women & irate retired Colonels exploding in outrage!😃

[@NellSmith]

Little-known fact : People don't realise that not only was Python ground-breaking, it was exactly that to such an extent that it wasn't even popular at all when it was first aired, and also caused real controversy - hence there being so few TV series made. It was decades ahead of its time - if, that is, society will ever *_genuinely_* catch up...?!

[@quizmaster85]

- I AGREE WITH HIM! - *_SHUT UP!_*

[@quinnfletcher3906]

Its not Monty Python unless John Cleese shouts "shut up"!

[@girl4church]

Haha. Monty Python must have a deep-rooted hatred of cats.

[@SeoulMan]

Conquistador Instant Coffee offered a free dead dog for every jar sold.

[@premanadi]

I would counter that with the Confuse-A-Cat sketch, which is very affectionate toward cats.

[@MaryE171]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this sketch!! Not only is Michael exceedingly adorable while chewing....whatever he's chewing...it's hysterical!!

[@coralroper6876]

Nobody can yell "SHUT UP!" quite like John Cleese

[@premanadi]

Yes, and nobody can screech "I agree with him!" quite like Graham Chapman. He always did the best pepperpot screech.

[@MrBuch169169]

'Mister Keith Maniac'

[@DuckandMikeyfan49]

I love the animation that was shown before the sketch was shown.

[@unfortunatebeam]

haha one of my favourite sketches of all time. I love the typically pythonesqe abrupt ending and general randomness.

[@PerfectH]

"Apart from being a part time stapling machine, he can give a cat influenza!"

[@annemijn9790]

has someone tried sending a letter to that adress?

[@PrimetimeD]

I was going to, but I had a hard time writing my name and address on my telephone number

[@NellSmith]

Small bet on "Yes" - lots of people. Another small bet on the Post Office delivering said letters to the BBC, too. After all, Britain is famous for doing stuff like that... which is why we find Python so funny in the first place, really... :)

[@eaglesfan226]

YES! I'M INTERESTED IN SHOUTING, ALRIGHT!!

[@Lshannon90]

"What does your wife think?" "I AGREE WITH HIM!!" "SHUT UP!!" By the way, the wife is definitely Graham.

[@fyshh]

yeah he often did the chewing thing when he was playing a cheesy compère role. with that horrendous canned applause too. its brilliant.

[@TheCheshireCat2190]

John Cleese giving a cat Influenza 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@РэйКайн]

You can't get something more interesting then that. Or can you? ;)

[@beadbop]

Yes, I do indeed wish for my very own applause lever for when I say interesting things! [applause]

[@MisterSplendy]

I love hoe Terry Jones points to his ears when mentioning his eyes.

[@handless7677]

Terry Jones is really pulling off that 19th century attire.

[@wdmoyer505]

Sarah palin does not deserve the same last name as Michael palin

[@florete2310]

4:26 I always thought, Cricket should be played like that😂

[@txvoltaire]

Just a foretaste of what TV would become in the 1990's and beyond!

[@cabzilla]

"MR.StOOLES! SPEAK TO ME HOWARD!"

[@dinahkyle3196]

"Poor Mr. Stools..."

[@SambaClaus]

The first time I saw Mr. Stools get spontaneously combusted I laughed and laughed till tears poured out of my eyes and I missed the next 2 min of the sketch....just that scream "eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!" Brilliant how they catch you off guard like that! ROFLMAO

[@murielsartre]

"*You* need to take all the opportunities you can get, dear!" OH! SNAP! as the kids say.

[@thelonepeasant2953]

I wanna live inside a tiny matchbox

[@dirksenargon2402]

No you don’t.

[@E1craZ4life]

Someone will think you're a match.

[@alphabison7523]

didn't know they had a british jimmy fallon

[@mrbenoit5018]

MIIIISTEEEEER STOOOOOOOOOOLS!!!!!

[@uw0t314]

Can I Change My Name yet? SPEEAAK TO MEEEEEEE

[@deegeraghty9426]

Hysterically funny. Love the cricket 'boxing match''. Brilliant Michael Palin host. 😅

[@Scrimmer08]

Mr. STOOLS! SPEAK TO ME!

[@wossamaggiga]

YOU INJURED MR STOOLS! haha my two fish are called Mr Stools and Spiny Norman (from Dinsdale episode) =)

[@Yewtewba]

2:15 "Write your name and address on your telephone number" lol

[@JohnnyReb1976]

Stark. Raving. Mad.

[@AL52Dragon]

I have got to get that gum Michael Palin is chewing. He looks so happy with it.

[@razorruddock]

I think Noel Fielding got his dress sense from Keith Maniac.

[@Auroramcfarmland]

Michael Palin has one of the cutest smiles I have ever seen! I want to give him a hug if I ever meet him. Eric Idle looks like a bird here as well. At least he does before he becomes invisible.

[@emperorpingusmathchannel5365]

That is the adress to the insane asylum

[@Micolash_is_behind_you]

damn really??

[@abbdabs67]

one of my favorite sketches...

[@itsmeagain7246]

semprini?

[@ZacHawkins42]

Peter Benvenuto Stiegmaier OUT!

[@shiv421kobra]

GET OUT

[@bennochristensen]

"Last week we met mr. Cavendish who claimed he could recite the whole bible, while being struck in the head an axe. We since discovered he was a fraud. He read "in the" and therefore his death.... " Looooove it.... "People paaaass me in the street, without a glaaaance at my direction..."

[@AlexDizzys]

Keith Maniac part is so typical for Monty Pythons.

[@gnagyusa]

So? This pretty much describes all television today. I take that back. It was *still* more intelligent than today's reality shows.

[@HSMiyamoto]

At nearly 7 minutes, this has to be one of the longest MPFC sketches. I'm omitting things like the History of Ballooning as that is a series of sketches.

[@Lunarsight]

I think the length works here, since it's not really one single cohesive sketch, but rather a whole bunch of little mini-sketches they lump together in a common grouping.

[@mogshade66]

Hannah Miyamoto The Deja vu sketch is really long 😊

[@E1craZ4life]

The Funniest Joke in the World sketch is 10 minutes long.

[@uw0t314]

The science fiction sketch was 23 minutes

[@Erenoa16]

at 5:58 ish Mr K. Maniac remind's me of the mad hatter when Johnny Depp plays him.

[@bruceevans3476]

Mister Keith Maniac from Guatemala looks like an aging Noel Fielding.😊

[@williambarrett1234]

Lol the ladies dissing each other each time taking a blow

[@hollywoodwerewolf]

"What does your wife think of it?" "I AGREE WITH HIM!" "SHUTUP!" Mrs Tittles flies across the studio and lands in a bucket of water. heheheh hilariously silly

[@aliciabrissou]

gawd, can michael be any cuter?

[@eimsonjoseguillermopozuelo3513]

I would like to say we are not all maniac however I would like to send some bricks to sleep. Brilliant sketch, I like it very much

[@Trias805]

I'm invisible to women

[@PeterMayer]

I thought of this today, so I had to watch it to get a laugh. MR. STOOLS! SPEAK TO ME!

[@radi0n]

SPEEK TO ME! HOWARD!!!!

[@Blockheadgeorge]

6:46 “MR.STOOOOLLLLLSS!!!!!”

[@liamjackman4604]

0:00 ooohhh shots fired

[@greg55666]

Remember when Graham Chapman was playing a surgeon and he cut open the patient and exclaimed, "What a great slit!" hahaha

[@greg55666]

Yes, you have it right. In this case, however, the entire point of the sketch was to reach the point where John Cleese could say, "I'm much more interesting than a wet pussy!"

[@premanadi]

I would agree if he had said that, but he actually said "wet pussycat." Missed opportunity on their part. But they really didn't do that sort of humour.

[@greg55666]

@@premanadi What a great slit! isn't that sort of humor? What a silly bunt?

[@premanadi]

@@greg55666 I don't buy the "great slit" thing being sexual. He's cutting open a man. I think the idea that it's a vagina reference is far fetched. Silly bunt: C*nt is a common word in British parlance. It's not sexual when you call someone a "silly c*unt." It's just a way of saying they are an idiot. "I'm more interesting than a wet pussy" would be a direct sexual reference couched as a pun. I think it's out of character for Python, though there could be examples I have forgotten. Anyway, it's not what he said in the sketch.

[@greg55666]

@@premanadi Right, and if it were just the one you might have an argument that I'm reading too much into it. But the whole point is that if you listen carefully, these sexual references are EVERYWHERE. I mean, obviously they're obsessed with breasts, the idea that that stops when they get below the belly button is just silly. The point is, I think, you are wrong to think it's out of character for them; it's not out of character at all. But they have to be very subtle about it, and that's a huge part of the fun.

[@premanadi]

@@greg55666 I'm not saying there are no sexual references in Python, but something about this particular joke (which doesn't actually exist in the show) seems out of character to me. It's just a bit to obvious, cheap and crass to refer to the female sexual organs for a cheap pun. It seems like the type of humour you would get from Benny Hill. I have a hard time imagine them sitting around the table hashing out the script and deciding on that joke.

[@watermelonineasterhay]

Yes indeed, in this sketch...mwah! that man is gorgeous!!!!!

[@WailFin]

All-in cricket looks fun!

[@greg55666]

ha ha you got it! They slipped that one past a lot of people! I think it's the entire raison d'etre for the sketch!

[@linapleachimPL]

full version:) thanks very much

[@1x93cm]

and now...for something completely different.

[@eaglesfan226]

Hmm...That cat looks fake until she lands into a bucket, which is good. Anyways, this Mr Ken is the most interesting.

[@PaloXanthos]

Mr Walton, the guy nobody pays attention to, is blessed to live a peaceful life. You don't know how fucking annoying the opposite is.

[@MikeCountyMan]

That wasn't "Men of Harleck" - it was "Ar Hyd Y Nos"...

[@johnrichardastall3284]

I would like to complain about the advert for interplanetary boxing.

[@PrimetimeD]

I would like to complain about your previous complaint.

[@jsinitials1488]

Sorry, this is the room for arguments. Complaints are next door.

[@ZacHawkins42]

JS Initials No, they aren't.

[@faisalospher]

I would like to complain to myself for wishing to complain about several people in this comments section casually complaining

[@E1craZ4life]

I would like to complain about all these complaints; they are clearly all sarcastic jokes.

[@shadowexile6]

i love monty python, poor mr. stolls

[@MrJak925]

0:01 - 0:42 one of my fave cartoons on Monty Python xD

[@FatouJawo-yl1jh]

Very interesting

[@co94]

Dear Sir, I strongly object to the comment section on this KZbin programme. They are clearly not written by the general public and are merely included for a cheap laugh. Yours sincerely etc, William Knickers

[@uw0t314]

“I AGREE WITH HIM!” “SHUT UP!” Lmao

[@MySerpentine]

He's not invisible, he's just very dull!

[@mateuszmattias]

Michaels reaction at 6:24 is the best!

[@maryjanenobody]

Michael Palin made his career out of being adorable.

[@LNER4771]

My Grandpa gives everyone around him influenza. Either that, or he has whooping cough.

[@ryanalving3785]

2:24 "Write your name and address, *on* your telephone number..."

[@johnrichardastall3284]

If Jupiter hit Saturn ? Well I suppose that's a job for the Intergalactic police ?