Monty Python on Letterman, Part 2: 1983

[@mjh5437]

John Cleese was my neighbour in Holland Park in the 1970s.He was so tall and lean and angular that he looked as though he was about to break into his Ministry Of Silly Walks sketch at any moment.😄

[@coryspang7548]

That's awesome.

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

I think you may be overstating the case. YOU were HIS neighbor.

[@frankphillips7436]

The thing about Python is that each member is a unique genius. Combined, they create an incredibly intricate tapestry of humor!

[@billschlafly4107]

Love the comment. But if you use "tapestry" as a euphemism in the future you might make it better if you include the word "woven". ...incredibly intricately woven tapestry...

[@frankphillips7436]

@@billschlafly4107 nice catch. I should have noticed that.

[@krystofhanzlik7592]

@@frankphillips7436 he's pulling your leg, it is in fact entirely abominable to even use such awfully tinny words as "tapestry", especially when referring to Monty Python

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

..but all products of englands repressive 'public school' system ...that destroys the lives of talented and gifted working-class children! . . .Its disgusting ...and MUST change ........!

[@stewartwest347]

'Meaning Of Life', for all their struggles they describe, is in actual fact one of my favourites. It's a classic.

[@meestermeesterhastings.3159]

I met Michael Palin in London in 1983 and on that same day I met George Harrison it turned out George was funding the Python films, they were both fantastic to talk to...

[@rockerobertson4002]

John Cleese was interviewed by our local radio station.... 20 odd years ago or so. Within the first minute of a 15 minute interview, the interviewer lost his sh**t and couldn't stop laughing. And the interview was basically 14 minutes of hard deep laughing and 1 minute introduction. I never laughed so dam hard. Best interview EVER.

[@Fiiille]

Something one can find and listen to?

[@rockerobertson4002]

@@Fiiille good question. Its CBC so likely.

[@brianmiller5265]

Rocket, what does cbc mean,. I have got to hear that interview. Cheese and Palin we're so damn funny..Cleese..ha!

[@rockerobertson4002]

@@brianmiller5265 CBC is the Canadian version of the BBC. Canadia Broadcasting Corp.

[@LittleRedYoyo99]

Had the benefit of growing up in Boston where the local PBS Channel (2) showed all of the "Flying Circus" franchise UNCENSORED & UNEDITED!!! (Including ALL full frontal nudity!) I also lived there in '67 (Manchester suburb) & '73 (Cambridge).

[@GregCurtin45]

Thoroughly enjoyable and laugh out loud funny. I've never seen these clips before. Thank you for taking the time to collect and post them.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Oh God, there's dear old Graham, alive and well and as effortlessly brilliant a comic as they come. What a huge loss his death was.

[@too.dead.to.lift91]

He was exceptional

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

@@too.dead.to.lift91 Indeed

[@Augmuse]

Monty Python was and is some of the best comedy you will ever see

[@sockington1]

there was also a lot of garbage amongst the funny stuff

[@NxDoyle]

Who amongst us did not feel a very particular type of discomfort the first time we saw Terry Jones as Mr Creosote? I think of Terry J often lately, as he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. I hope his family and friends are holding together. All of the Pythons have a very special place in my heart.

[@lpsp442]

I roared with laughter, and still do, over the refulgent Creosote. My thoughts for the great Jones-meister and his kith and kin.

[@anthonybrogan390]

I love Terry Jones...and I understood the Irony....But I could not stomach it...I had to leave the Theater I came back afterwards and watched the rest of the movie...Their Humor was fresh at one point but.....They have become a bit more mainstream over the years.....Joh Cleese Showing up in two James Bond movies for instance... Still love these guys but we all have to survive......

[@Ericwvb2]

I still remember decades ago for some reason I was watching the "Meaning of Life" early in the morning and one of my roommates wandering into the room and as he was leaving Mr. Creosote wandering into the restaurant and I yelled you can't leave now this is the best scene in the whole movie!!!!

[@christschinwon]

I've never stopped using 'waffer thin mint' when anyone got out the after eights! RIP Terry

[@lancesecrest7577]

And the U S Government hold the patent on marijuana curing and preventing dementia. Huh

[@turboflamez161]

Really appreciate that the clips are left in! You don't often see that with chat show uploads on KZbin

[@dongiller]

Most film clips are blocked, and I've been editing them out.

[@turboflamez161]

@@dongiller Oh well. Appreciate the upload nonetheless!

[@terminalpictures]

Man, these are so great to have helpfully compiled. Thank you very much, sir!

[@desijrichert]

The Meaning of Life was SO FUNNY that when I went to see it at the Theatre I LITERALLY PISSED MYSELF, I was LAUGHING SO HARD! Wonderful Movie! A WONDERFUL Cast! I LOVE everybody in Monty Python and everything they do! They are ABSOLUTE TREASURES! R.I.P. Graham Chapman!

[@jefferydowler4655]

In 1974, I was driving home from work about 1:30am and nobody on the highway, thank God. And I heard the skit on the am radio where they were in a bout in the middle of the ocean for day's and one was hurt badly and they were dying of thirst. I could not keep my truck steady in my lane.

[@sideshowbobrobert]

Yellowbeard is such an underrated film - Cleese, Idle, Cheech & Chong, Peter Cook, James Mason, Martin Feldman, Madeline Khan, Peter Boyle, BOWIE ! the original pirate comedy. i have loved it ever since i saw it in theaters...

[@idiotflower]

"soon to be released" Meaning of Life. I was going to school then. Greetings to my younger self.

[@markgriffiths4826]

Thanks for compiling these lovely Python interviews!

[@ZulcanPrime]

Yellowbeard was a great comedy and I watched it on VHS rental video. Graham Chapman was one of the best on the Monty Python team. It is sad he died six years after this interview.

[@seang3019]

Graham! I feel for him. So self conscious in this interview and yet no need to be so. Love him!

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Graham was a naturally shy person so it's possible these interviews didn't come easily to him.

[@KebabMusicLtd]

Hello Sailor was an excellent and funny book. It must be over 40 years ago since I read it, and as soon as he mentioned it, that feeling of affection came over me. I will have to find a copy and read it again.

[@mikemaldonado9960]

watching meaning of life with an audience. dream come true. thanks for the up

[@bennettpisek5566]

Always delightful to watch John on Letterman. And my best to Terry’s family on his passing. These guys were part of my childhood, and made growing up fun.

[@madamzajj980]

Hear hear!

[@jenniferkonstant5920]

Amen.

[@peterlewis3540]

Unfortunately the poor bugger has lost it, complaining about the Uk, and being a sore loser after Brexit didn't go his way. He has left the Uk to live in a tax haven, good riddance. The real brains of Monty Python was Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

[@nickacelvn]

What a wonderfully rich life full of wonder. From the analogue to the digital.

[@jimbowen8234]

Made growing up fun? No, they were a welcome break from all the non-fun things during my teen years.

[@noeldown1952]

Graham Chapman is mesmerizing. Absolutely brilliant.

[@RatatRatR]

Low budget Letterman was so much cooler.

[@KortKramer]

Agreed.

[@cygnustsp]

Absosmurfly

[@dafyddil]

low-budget anything is usually better!

[@dafyddil]

@Seth Belfort Definitely

[@dafyddil]

@Seth Belfort Sure: Lost In Translation (drama), the Blair Witch Project (suspense), Napoleon Dynamite (comedy)

[@jeffdawson2786]

Wonderful collection of legends.

[@tbx59]

When Cleese says you are the silliest show he's ever seen.

[@professionalvillains134]

he says that a lot to all kind of shows. :)

[@lionbear7706]

miles ahead of any other comedy in north america for sure!!!! now, im going to watch the meaning of life now. thanks

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

because its from England...may be....?

[@roylaporte6541]

Thanks so much for putting this together. Just looked at Terry Jones' home movies

[@alanr4447a]

5:47 Commercial-break music: "She's a Woman" from the Beatles; again at 17:03 At 20:39 their "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". At 34:55 their "Paperback Writer".

[@johndutchman]

Oooooooh, treasure-trove of raw Python . . so great ! Thank you !

[@unperson5713]

Eric Idle really threw down the gauntlet with this appearance. Little baby Johnny Knoxville, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were like "most outrageous thing ever filmed?" "longest Vomit scene ever?". Truly, the meaning of life. Forty Two.

[@bmurt4286]

I spent time this past week trying to explain to an 80yo woman about 42, and how your job is to frame the correct question. She finally got it 😂 and had a genuine lol moment. Genius stays relevant

[@N_Jones]

@@bmurt4286 "what is 6 x 7" :)

[@mrpentium]

Michael Palin was always my favorite Python.....funny and somehow bashful at the same time

[@2ndEndingVintage]

True, and I think of all of them he was the most 'naturally' funny as well as disarming.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Palin's eyes genuinely twinkled. He was arguably the best actor of the six.

[@Sleve-McDichael]

Plus he was the hottest!

[@chkyle68]

Refreshing to watch a Talk Show host let his guests, you know, talk.

[@bipedofthecentury9956]

Compared to what

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@bipedofthecentury9956 Fallon

[@eugenemalkin4364]

This is so great. I cant' wait for part 7!!

[@hollyrowsell2469]

I remember when this film was released in theatres. Man...the uproar at the time.....LOL Like it or hate it....we are still talking about it! :)

[@chrisa1234]

17:47 So disappointed that the ad on KZbin came just after they returned from the ad break on Letterman. A few seconds earlier would have been perfect timing.

[@kewkabe]

KZbin has ads? I thought everybody uses Adblock?

[@Psychol-Snooper]

17:11 The drummer wearing one glove was the most 1983 thing ever.

[@84Elenai]

Michael 😍

[@pwnz0r3d]

This is great! I've never seen some of these.

[@janmaessen9879]

Altijd leuk :John Cleese, het meesterbrein achter Monty Python.Ik kijk al sinds begin jaren zeventig als jongetje van lagere school,maar mijn ouders beiden streng Katholiek opgevoed, en de VPRO zond het uit, maar toch lieten ze mij het toen kijken, omdat ze het zelf ook leuk vonden.Het was geen platvloerse humor alleen gebaseerd op sex zoals veel andere programma's.Bedankt voor het opnieuw uitzenden van de Monty Python films.

[@debbieramsey-hanks3757]

What a great episode! Great memories.

[@darksidegirl]

Chapman died just 5 years from this interview. He looks pretty healthy . It is so sad :-(

[@2ndEndingVintage]

True but even in this interview he seemed so...disconnected, eh ? He just didn't really have any natural flow to him even then....

[@planetX15]

@darksidegirl 6 years*

[@hearmas]

This particular appearance wasn't one of his bestest obviously but I think it really depended on the interviewer and the kind of show it was too, I think he was more relaxed and had a better flow on the smaller and more intimate shows🤔 Like for example here is a brilliant interview from Gray where he's more like himself and has a great er natural flow to him me thinks😊: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoG3Z5WDbaaheM0

[@colinjames2469]

lol

[@BrianBattles]

Amazing that this was 40 years ago

[@djmips]

Palin is one of the most natural and funny of the Pythons.

[@2ndEndingVintage]

He is actually, he was very strong in the group and he probably maintained his comic edge afterward the best of all of them.

[@dbag3345]

2ndEndingVintage Made a classic sketch-show, made a classic sitcom, made a classic movie and has been consistently funny for 50 years.

[@finished6267]

I hear she can see Russia from her front porch. And Maverick. Am I doing this right?

[@brockbeckham5020]

I am microdosing today on John Cleese and Monty Python To raise my serotonin and dopamine levels

[@NankerPhelge65]

26:43 Palin was a visionary lol

[@normanleemorris6002]

Growing up, Dave and the gang were my heroes. Now, I'm 31 and Don Giller is my hero as well.

[@normanleemorris6002]

@Marki Faux come to Chicago and tell me that to my face

[@Pravindaswani74]

@@normanleemorris6002 what he told you?

[@normanleemorris6002]

@@Pravindaswani74 haha, i guess he got scared and deleted his comment! Trolls!

[@Pravindaswani74]

@@normanleemorris6002 There everywhere bothering.

[@ghostshipone]

@@Pravindaswani74 they’re

[@Johnnynbk]

God bless Mr. Idle for not abandoning his perfectly good 1970s wardrobe just because the decade changed.

[@johnakni]

Michael Palin does not mention this interview in his diary. However, he does mention being on Regis's show that day.

[@michiganspencer6920]

Michael Palin was my FAVORITE!!!

[@civroger]

To think I was 9 years old back then. Time flies.

[@NxDoyle]

There is a completely natural Pythonesque line from Michael (who else?) that you would easily be forgiven for letting slide right by. It's the lifelong ambition of playing 'a fish each'.

[@justinsjourney3224]

1:22 did John Cleese literally just randomly scream at the top of his lungs briefly there?

[@Moccason]

Yup 😭😂

[@BareBandSubscription]

Of course he did. It would have been odd if he didn’t.

[@deanronson6331]

It's funny how Palin had that impish smile throughout the entire interview, but when he became older, his demeanor in real life changed to a more ordinary type of behavior.

[@dhy5342]

It's refreshing to see an interview with someone interesting where the audience isn't yelling and applauding every time the guest opens his mouth, usually interrupting the punch line of jokes or otherwise obscuring the talk. Also it's nice that Letterman lets the guest talk without constant interruptions and making lame jokes.

[@bfkc111]

Oh look, there is the brainless standard gossip comment about the interviewer... Just to prove people still have dysfunctional minds.

[@earthmutantnetwork1662]

I still own a copy of the Rutland dirty weekend! Still holds up!

[@enderz1341]

Cleese- one of the original, and best, insult comics.

[@TerminalConstipation]

It's quite the curiosity to realize that once upon a time monty python wasn't insanely famous.

[@joeski734]

But they were by this time.

[@yoya4766]

Cleese is a bit subdued here, but otherwise is exactly the same over the decades. Relaxed, natural, intelligent and funny.

[@drtmuir]

What on earth is that design on Eric's jumper? It is possibly the loudest garment I have ever seen. 😂

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Mr Creosote was inspired by a John Lennon scene in Magical Mystery Tour, John was a big fan of Python and wanted to be in it; in a way he was!

[@Scottie_S]

Was that the spaghetti debacle? I seem to remember a lot of spaghetti in one scene. It's been quite a while since I've seen the movie!

[@tmrezzek5728]

Damn..Carl Reiner AND John Cleese on the same show. Have to try and find the whole thing now.

[@sulufest]

RIP Carl Reiner

[@stijnvandamme76]

Cleese is such a riot.

[@finished6267]

Haha! Love his name! My grandfather was a petus. But he had two(three, really) secret families, so he joined the Navy (great cover) as a "Thompson" but they buggered up his name on his first pay, so he changed his name to cash it. I'm a Thomison now.

[@timross6990]

Michael Palin talks about running over a dog with a steamroller (Letterman must've done the bit where they flatten stuff under one). Could this have been the inspiration for the dog vs steamroller scene in A Fish Called Wanda in 1988?

[@TS-qq7vr]

Good connection. Yeah, Letterman used to run over stuff with a steamroller. The objects were all audience requests.

[@lpsp442]

There was no dog vs steamroller scene, although there were both several accidental dogslaughters and a man gets steamrolled. The man getting steamrolled scene was the idea of the director, Charles Crichton, but the dog deaths could've been all Palin.

[@califcamper]

What a period in history, Monty, SNL, SCTV, then came in living color, 1990. Then, OVER ...LOL

[@thefrankonion]

Michael Palin is, hands down, the funniest Python of all.

[@bokehintheussr5033]

Agreed. Palin was the most talented. Could play any part in a sketch, from straight man to silly loony.

[@joesimon2018]

It's not a competition

[@bleachedout]

NO-body expects Michael Palin!!

[@matthewstetson1840]

There are no absolutes, especially in Python.

[@MrBoreray]

Check out his'Ripping Yarns' series to see him at his best

[@timkinney8719]

Lmao, "I explained that it was, in fact, a joke but that I was going to see it through to the end."

[@DeadeyeDaily]

40:28 ...THAT'S commitment!

[@marcelvis5217]

Great to see this once again

[@leone.6190]

30:40 well nowadays monty python is very well known and very well recieved here in germany. Everyone knows the live of brian and they have many fans here who also love the Shows and especially the german Episodes. (including me) :D

[@LirycNonStop]

Eric Idle : the coolest being in the universe

[@sratus]

no

[@edwardsmith6701]

@@sratus yes. i ran into him in person, and he was the nicest guy you could possibly imagine.

[@bradoozy]

John Cleese = God himself

[@waynej2608]

Eric seems to dressed similarly to Paul McCartney, during Magical Mystery Tour. And why not, after all he is Dirk McQuickley!

[@webbess1]

He grew up in an orphanage.

[@bfkc111]

The music samples are so damn good, by the way, a small side-note, but I never notice that nowadays, and it's surprising to be reminded of what good stuff there is, and was at such a time.

[@fuzzballzz36]

Dave did have a hell of a band, didn't he? You're right. You don't see that kind of quality often these days.

[@christophermacintyre5890]

I saw Paul Schaeffer and the Band performing live iin Gainesville, Florida while I was attending college at the University of Florida back in the late 1980s. They put on a great show.

[@tomjeffrey2891]

Eric Idle’s sweater is looking very Paul McCartney - Magical Mystery Tour...

[@brandengee8703]

What I was thinking as well

[@waynej2608]

Same. Well, he is Dirk McQuickley, after all.

[@waynej2608]

Oh, and it's Tragical History Tour with songs like, I am the Waitress, which is also Piggy in the Middle, which is the parody for I the Walrus. Written by Dirk's songwriting partner, Ron Nasty.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

@@waynej2608 Who amongst us is powerful enough to resist the power of The Rutles? Their perfect mediocrity inspired me to be the slacker I am today. Thank you.. 1, 2,3... umm 4 guys frommm uh over there. somewhere.

[@DavidAndersen84]

And then there was John Clease. Thank you, England!

[@Amalekites]

Cleese*

[@antonb9459]

@@Amalekites Cheese

[@nrs6956]

Great memories. Wish you were here now!

[@mickeyjupp1]

Idle already showing signs of his mid-atlantc accent here

[@kevinbarclay7958]

Like idle but it feels like they aren’t connecting.

[@pintpot]

Yes! Idle, along with Palin, is usually the most affable Python. He seems really ill at ease here. I've never seen him like this before

[@count69]

@@pintpot Yeah he kinda looks like it's his first time in a TV studio!

[@2ndEndingVintage]

I agree he wasn't great to interview there...sorta didn't click at all...

[@zztopz7090]

@@pintpot I think Dave was a bit too restraining.

[@DanielBarberMusic]

@@zztopz7090 Agreed. Letterman was boring as hell! Cleese came out dry and funny, and Letterman didn't seem to get the joke(s). Didn't play along, and almost berated him for not liking his work. Dude, he's a comedian!!!!

[@MeMyself-jz9ms]

OMG the most uncomfortable, that first description of the way they recruited the cast for filming of the Zulu Uprising. Fortunately now they’d realise how incredibly offensive that was. The rest was wonderfully funny

[@linsqopiring6816]

I remember watching early Letterman a lot as a kid but strange, I don't remember him saying "You can use your tv to watch this" every time he showed a clip. Must have just been in 83 or so?

[@brandonuebel7486]

Great interview, but did anyone notice the transition music was The Beatles's She's a Woman?

[@Beantbeantbeant]

And she’s so heavy

[@colinjames2469]

@@Beantbeantbeant Lennon, single handedly and inadvertantly invented a new genre of music wih that heavy guitar riff he wrote. Years later it became Doom Metal.

[@popularculture2890]

dude's comedy was way ahead of its time as was his attitude.

[@johnny-r]

The "Germans" episode of Fawlty Towers was the time I laughed the hardest and longest in my entire life. I'll never forget it. I felt like I was recovering from the flu when it was over. The Ministry of Silly Walks might have been second.

[@sooperdoopercoolguy]

@ 7:50 they didn’t pick up on the fact that the audience was groaning due to the spoiler.

[@twintriode]

Class dude and without saying, so, so funny. Love me some Monty Python.

[@DWor-]

What's up with the barometer behind Mr. Cleese?

[@dongiller]

Set decoration.

[@DWor-]

@@dongiller Thanks!

[@clevelandaeromotive]

Considering how The Dead Parrot sketched bombed so badly on Carson... BOTH TIMES, I’m surprised any of them did any more late night shows in the USA.

[@TheJonathanNewton]

You can hear Graham’s voice starting to break up here. How I wish he’d taken those early signs seriously.

[@malloott]

Graham Chapman was a good looking dude, i never realised this somehow

[@BOMBER_GBF_DBL_SUK_FBI]

You have to create confusion systematically. That unleashes creativity... Salvador Dali

[@JBSprig]

Love this guy! John Cleese (Cheese)... an absolutely classic dude. Thank goodness he exists.

[@Sleve-McDichael]

Michael Palin "looking" for the hole in the net! 😂😂

[@aarathibhaskaran7277]

20:19 Naughty Eric😂

[@DrTomoculus]

I had to stop the video there from laughing.

[@crashburn3292]

This is just amazing. Letterman is still so knew, the audience still doesn't know what to laugh at.

[@ghostshipone]

New

[@crashburn3292]

Thanks for teaching me this lesson. Obviously ewe could tell that wasn't just a simple typo. And know, thanks you ewe, I no the difference between new, knew and gnu. Ewe must have been the smartest person in your high school class.

[@ghostshipone]

@@crashburn3292 stop crying and do better next time child

[@crashburn3292]

Irony: Calling someone a child while acting like one.

[@greyhorse1211]

Ladies…please?

[@mrsongooflegend1923]

I met Cleese two weeks ago. A very nice - old - man!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

I miss Graham Chapman & Terry Jones. What lovely guys.

[@BritishComedyUK69]

Awewsome x

[@CommonSwense]

Palin secured my thumbs up.

[@qpouvtmvoelxjtu458]

What's missing at 6:50 , I wonder.

[@danielwode4271]

Part one is blocked/removed. Anyway you can re-upload it without the offensive material? Love your channel, many thanks for all the Dave clips

[@dongiller]

I usually get email notifications when a video has been blocked. I didn’t this time, so thanks for the alert. Just checked the video: three movie clips were monetized by the copyright owners but not blocked. It was a clip from a Monty Python episode that was blocked. So I need to remove just that clip and it should be ok. First step, though, is to find the original iMovie files.

[@dongiller]

It's re-upped: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2nYpmuJYpaWmqM

[@farnumbp]

So great

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Pythons should make another film. We need people so free from prejudices in these times

[@jonpon-r6w]

They're all pretty old, over 79, or dead.

[@vinnyreed723]

So Graham Chapman and Keith Moon knew each-other FINALLY MY FANTASY IS COMPLETE and i hope they are creating chuckles in heaven

[@BrianKishreviews]

The fact that Keith didn't live to make it into Life of Brian is the utmost tragedy. Keith was also good friends with Ringo, Oliver Reed, Viv Stanshall and "Legs" Larry Smith.

[@SneakyShark]

MarchingUp And Down The Square is my absolute favourite Python skit..