Danny Kaye - "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle" - The Court Jester (1955)

[@StephBer1]

We showed this to our kids when they were young. They loved it so much that they show all their friends in their 20s and they love it too. No generational gap for sheer comedy genius.

[@Zugfaehrtdurch]

Absolutely timeless. I liked the scene in Star Trek Enterprise when the alien doctor was laughing about that scene in the 2150s 🙂 I am sure people will still show this to their kids in 100 200, 500 years and so on.

[@IHADTHECAKE]

The "you fight him" quip on the side, just shows how quick kaye was.

[@OrangeDog20]

It was in the script...

[@spacepunk2001]

@@OrangeDog20 Kaye Crosby and Hope did ad libs that made it into certain films. Either way, his delivery is genius because it sure seems like he is ad libbing.

[@OrangeDog20]

@@spacepunk2001 that's called acting

[@beta_cygni1950]

​@@OrangeDog20-> an insufferable 🤡

[@amberiasmithsonian4107]

My favorite scene of the whole movie, this whole movie had me rolling as a kid and still to this day

[@grahamleadbeatter5981]

The mastery of Danny Kaye. No one else could have done such a great job.

[@spacepunk2001]

Lets give props to Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, the writing geniuses behind The Court Jester--and no question, every single one of these actors is beyond brilliant.

[@MisterSynyster]

I love that in the end, it DID NOT matter at all

[@crossofamber]

😂

[@JAProductions494]

I swear, the final 20 minutes of this film from this scene onwards is just literal perfection I genuinely can’t fault any of it

[@MonteLeeMyPOV]

Laughed at 8 and laughing now at 54! Timeless. My sides hurt from this whole scene with the magnets and the facial expressions. The way he wraps his arm around dude, when he gets it wrong>>>,LOL so awesome! Danny Kaye is the man!

[@ScorchtheHawk]

This movie’s nearly 70 years old and still remains funnier than most modern films

[@verar5844]

It proves that a movie can be very funny without even one F-bomb in it.

[@garrywood5345]

Super Memorable Scene...One of my All time favourites..Kaye was Impressive.

[@MFTU268]

I am sooo cheered up watching this wonderful actor😂 We LOVED him as kids🎉

[@richmarsh5029]

Brilliant... The good old days

[@netmoney7698]

A lot of this wonderful scene should go to the writers. It is one of the most hilarious in classic movie history.

[@Setmose]

His wife Sylvia Fine wrote much of his best material, including the Chalice from the Palace word-play.

[@collyernicholasjohn]

Bloody hell. Gotta be up there with funniest four minutes in movie history.

[@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962]

Wonderful. One of the great comedy scenes in film history. Never forget it. Also, the scene in the film where the witch hypnotises him and at every inadvertent snap of various people's fingers he becomes alternately a fearless sword fighter and then instantly, back and forth, a snivelling coward. Superb.

[@robpelarde4734]

One of my favorite Danny Kaye routine, a genius

[@jillkjv3816]

Today's movies can't touch these classic films with a million foot pole. 😂

[@peggybrillant1432]

TRUTH!!

[@Spacetwerp]

What a cast too! The wordplay mastery, the slapstick, Danny, Mildred, the recently departed Glynis Johns et al. What's not to like?😊 ❤

[@kerry5586]

This is the best scene in any film ever! I just love Danny Kaye and he is at his best here.

[@drumbum3.142]

😂😂😂😂 I'll Give Equality and a Temporary lapse to Ya for flip flubbing the maliced true and the Palace brew, too .. Ok. So there are None whatsoever that are Superior. But there's a fair Wheel Barrow load that is (EVERY bit) AS Lovely👊

[@kbrodeur]

incredible actor and team in this - everyone

[@ianbentley7276]

Angela Lansbury with the green headscarf, still with us 65 years on.

[@martind349]

She was beautiful, years and years ago

[@dangelo1369]

So is Glynnis Johns (In the red) at 97 years old.

[@ianbentley7276]

@@dangelo1369 oh yes of course.

[@theblackbaron4119]

Wait what that was actually Angela Lansbury O.o damn.

[@ariaflame-au]

@@theblackbaron4119 And now she has left us.

[@redx1708]

May well have been his funniest movie and "Get it, got it, good", lives to this day 🤣

[@Karen-dm8eq]

We taught "Get it? Got it. Good" to our grandsons when they were 7 and 5. They loved saying it to each other at home, and it made their dad chuckle because he learned it from us at their age! 😄

[@13wolfy13]

When I was a kid, my sister and I would repeat this to eachother back and forth just trying to memorize it. It's a fun tongue twister.

[@ianbentley7276]

just a tad lo l

[@megasquirrel7944]

That would have driven your parents nuts.

[@13wolfy13]

@@megasquirrel7944 Probably. But my mother would jump in from time to time and join.

[@Flipnred78]

Sunday afternoons after church good memories good times good movies

[@riffmagos]

I once worked at the university library's loans department back in the 90's. By the time I was finished, I had the entire department trying to remember this. :)

[@Nave0791]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@skyborne80]

This just never gets old!

[@lauriej.5706]

By the time Danny Kaye has recited this rhyme, those words are so sliced and diced they won't even fit back into the dictionary. A truly great performance.

[@stravinsky1300]

The TV show Bones has an episode titled "The Girl with the Curl", and that title always reminds me of this! The girl with the curl who is standing on the landing put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle!

[@katherinefreymuth2030]

I get this scene in my head every time someone buys a pallet of pellets at work. 😂 Love it!

[@vinnynj78]

The pallet with the pellets?

[@katherinefreymuth2030]

@@vinnynj78 We sell pellets for wood stoves. They are sold by the bag but you can get a whole pallet of them for a discount. So I often am asking one of the forklift drivers to load a pallet of pellets into a customer's truck.

[@beckymurphy4714]

I tried to quote this to a coworker yesterday, and he totally had no idea what I was taking about. "The pellet pallet is empty. Or is that the dragon with the flagon?"

[@grahamtrezise1114]

I never get tired of watching this, it gets a chuckle out of me every time..

[@somebodysnobody]

I've never watched Danny Kaye & not laughed. I've seen this more times than I've had a Sunday roast & it still gets me rolling on the floor🤤

[@Tinhamodic]

To this day I still remember and quote his, "Get it, got it, good"

[@janslavik5284]

So this is what the "Candle with the Handle on the Gateau from the Chateau" scene from Allo Allo was referencing!

[@justwaiting5744]

"Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once..."

[@tiffsaver]

I laughed so hard at this movie, I almost peed in my pants. Get it? Got it. GOOD!!

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker]

The pants that are dripping is the comedy that is clicking. But the thighs that are dry means the humor’s gone awry.

[@tiffsaver]

@@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker LOVE IT!!!

[@donna30044]

Our parents took us to see this at the movie theater when I was about 7 years of age. There was a lot that went over my head, but I remember enjoying it immensely. When I saw it again years later, I enjoyed it so much more. It's still one of my favorite movies.

[@u_vw_xyz]

RIP to a very charming and versatile actress. Love the original "Mary Poppins" and "While You Were Sleeping" with Sandra Bullock. Then there is this scene in "The Court Jester" - the memorable 'pestle in the vessel". A true fun project for any age to memorize and recite. 🌹🌹🌹

[@msgigirogers1559]

Happy Birthday Danny!!!! 😍🤩😎

[@cherbert359]

This is one of the greatest movie of all time

[@ateleskier7066]

I loved Danny Kaye films - especially this one (was totally into all things medieval) and still do.

[@Zeresrail]

So I just saw this movie randomly. It was on the open TV. I started watching around the point he is sent on the mission. And my god, I was laughing my ass off. The movie holds on extremely well. Caught me completely by surprise

[@highlanderNC-mr8fe]

One of the funniest men ever. Love Danny Kaye

[@johnlee4249]

Love it, the 1st time I saw this as a child I laughed so hard, I had sore ribs for the next 3 days. This never get's old.

[@stevecampbell6294]

If you ever feeling low just put this sketch on and you will laugh your head off......Brilliant

[@MicahB98]

I’m 24 and i grew up watching this movie, and we quote this scene all the time. We actually watch this movie during times we all are together, and we all reminisce haha love Danny

[@Nina5144]

This is so funny- they broke the challis with the palace! Cecil Parker and wonderful Glynis Johns.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

If they broke the challis from the palace that had the brew that is true, then why did they pour the vessel with the pestle with the pellet with the poison into the flagon with the dragon? Why not just keep the vessel with the pestle with the pellet with the poison and pour the fresh brew that is true into the flagon with the dragon?

[@jimjimmyjames59]

Yes, Danny Kaye makes this movie, but Mildred Natwick and Glynis Johns are perfect scene partners here. I wonder how many times the crew cracked up.

[@luishumbertovega3900]

Happy 100 years young, Miss Glynis Johns !!! 🎂

[@theblackbaron4119]

This is one of the scenes I've seen like 30 years ago and it is still stuck in my mind. :')

[@damotclesemuchly8690]

:) I remember this skit from decades ago, one of the more memorial skits. :)

[@andyanderson516]

This flooded back memories 😂 such a funny film

[@Dragonfly-0010]

This used to be on weekend Australian tv numerous times when I was younger and I thought it was the funniest scene ever. The magnetic armour was just as funny as the pellet with the poison routine.

[@nikinewton7917]

I love it. I laugh my head off. To memorize it is immense, wonderful to see...

[@vmobile890]

For all of those that laugh with tears it helps us to stay young .

[@Peepkeeper]

This movie is in our top 5 favorite of all time.

[@stanmyler9037]

This guy use to crack me up so much, had to end up wearing a corset to keep my sides from splitting in keeping with watching his flicks. :)

[@robyngolden-hann3407]

Genius! Nearly every time I have to handle a chalice...this scene goes through my mind!

[@HOTTIUSMAXIMUS]

They all obviously are having fun with this

[@ffollow_the_sunn]

indeed😆

[@ilhamh4359]

Modern comedies don't compare with a classic like this one. 🤣

[@NoPowerintheVerse]

As much as I’ve always loved this scene, the pellet with the poisons in the vessel with the pestle, which means when the chalice from the palace was broken the poison was still in the vessel with the pestle, so the flagon with the dragon should have been fine. 😂

[@Avathreyn]

Unless they drop the tray that had both cups. Then the chalice from the palace would have been broken and the vessel with the pestle would have had its contents spilled and need to be refilled.

[@williamhaynes4800]

Still funny after all these years 🤣.

[@Mistysmudge1]

So funny loved Danny Kaye

[@normasarno27]

Brilliance at its best!!!!!😂😂😂❤

[@ringwoodwood]

Classic!

[@christopherbee7223]

Just Genius!

[@Zugfaehrtdurch]

Being in that movie seems to have been a longevity treatment. Angela Lansbury became 96, Mildred Natwick 89, Herbert Rudley 96, Edward Ashley-Cooper 93, Michael Pate 88 and Glynis Johns is still alive, waiting for her 100th birthday party in October 🙂

[@karlkarlos3545]

Aw Glynis Johns was the mother in Mary Poppins. I didn't even know this.

[@RJSRdg]

But poor old Danny Kaye only made it to 76!

[@primokona]

You know the scene where they are riding along the ocean? that was shot in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. and I only noticed it after watching this masterpiece for the 10th time after just visiting Palos Verdes..

[@RachelMills]

Please, someone on etsy make me a vessel with a pestle, a chalice from the palace and a flagon with a dragon. I will buy a whole set.

[@markIburgess]

The actors were incredible in this scene. It must of been so had to do at that speed.

[@simonanders5676]

Well then...you fight him.?...brilliant.....ive never forgotten this scene...ever since an 8 year old..i cant stop watching this scene...no sexuality, no crass....just true comedy...its memorable, addictive and clever....true talent....the chalice with flagon , the brew with pestle and the chalice at the palace.....and has a place within my heart and memory....amazing that its stayed within me....clever that i still watch & laugh...❤

[@1977ajax]

Great stuff; liked it ever since I was a kid, but this time noticed a continuity failure at 1:25 - the spur has gone back to its starting place at "Get into your armour."

[@kirsteenmcg390]

I loved this when I was shown as a kid in the 90s ❤.

[@andrinaanderson8789]

I laughed at this when I was really young and still do.

[@trinitytwo14992]

This is real comedy, clever, ageless. Not the viscious and vulgar stuff they put out now.

[@MeepChangeling]

What if I told you that both things are real comedy? That not everything is to your taste, nor should it be.

[@trinitytwo14992]

@@MeepChangeling sign of the times

[@drumbum3.142]

@@MeepChangeling There's a difference between Vulgar and Comedy, Meep Change. Sure, (just to Nice and swirl the waters up a bit) the likes of Archer and Happy! Are Comedy (I'll even give it to Ya, those are NOT Wholesome.). But its Comedy that has Graduated College and is still Edgy; all the while being (Somewhat) Intelligent, if not Intellectual .. the simpsons, beavis and derriere-head... uncut gems.. ..haven't even gotten out of fifth grade yet.. (And if You'd Like, I Welcome going Deeper into this topic..

[@markcole1400]

I remember watching this as a small child, hilarious 😂. I even got my children on the vessel with the pestel, they loved it. 58 now ans it still has me rolling with laughter 😂

[@michaelsmullen9891]

Brilliant!

[@RJSRdg]

You wouldn't want to be poisoning anyone with Angela Lansbury in attendance!

[@fitzspike]

My favorite character actor Mildred Natwick!

[@johndrewry2211]

damn..... even I forgot which one the poison was in 😂😂

[@thedirectorschair1054]

Such a good routine it was reused in Allo Allo.

[@drumbum3.142]

☔

[@lylesfredidog1507]

The 'vessel with the pestle' is from Bob Hope's "Never Say Die" here on You Tube at the end, different words but same routine.

[@drumbum3.142]

"Moses, Supposes. hisRose's, have Toeses.."☔

[@70briareos]

CLASSIC!!!

[@hallson2917]

REST IN PEACE GLYNIS JOHNS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ and Danny of course

[@zhongwa]

Just remember that.

[@billhaywood3503]

happy birthday Glynis John 100 today 10/6/23

[@theodoreconstantini2548]

This was hilarious.

[@carinbarkhuijsen2188]

The best.

[@tonytg9099]

Better than most things today...old doesn't mean bad...

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

Third base!

[@guyherman5764]

So good :) Fun :)

[@christinepartridge9114]

Love it 😂

[@Linda-hs1lk]

Young Angela Lansbury

[@melosic]

Good job with the autogenerated CC.

[@SunnyBoy2963]

Still so funny! I noticed after seeing this again, that maybe the electro-magnetic charge is messing with his brain's ability to keep the words straight!😂

[@georgeinfante1106]

😂 😂 😂 pestel with poison. what !! !! 😂 😂 😂

[@jondunmore4268]

....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....... and after ALLLL that..... "There will BE NO TOAST!".... what the---?

[@justintaisenchoy]

Is that the mother from Mary Poppins in red?

[@bonnieroberts3960]

Yeppers!!!

[@thomasshone2488]

Props to the guard who saw lightning coming up to 3 seconds before it struck

[@Mikemurdock431]

If they ever make a movie out of this, like a Danny Kaye's biopic or something, Aubrey Plaza should play the part of the actress in red. Uncanny resemblance.

[@J0stAn0therJ0hn]

How many takes must this have needed?

[@curlysue7906]

Still so gd🤣