Monty Python at Hollywood Bowl -- The holiday

Live at Hollywood Bowl, 1982. Eric Idle in a wonderful monolouge about all the things that can and will go wrong when going on a holiday.

[@Skinny2210]

“There’s only a bleedin’ lizard in the bidet”, cracks me up every time 🤣

[@bhwystar]

I once had that entire rant memorized just to see if i could

[@ZuluRomeo]

Most people think of Nudge Nudge and Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life and other Python songs as Eric's finest contributions to Python, but for me this is his very best.

[@stephanociraptor]

Eric Idle is so precious in every sense of the term!

[@demensclay6419]

You are absolutely 100% right!

[@paulsarnik8506]

Yep!😂. 🤓😎✌🏻🇬🇧

[@classicrestoration]

Yep and whomever doesn’t agree is a “silly bunt”

[@someguy42093]

Imagine getting that offer from carol Cleveland I would accept happily

[@alarbu17]

michael looks disappointed when carol says “and nothing else” me too michael

[@thetooginator153]

Every time Idle evaded Cleese, I lost it.

[@MissLeopard28]

Me, too!!! Hysterical!!! I was howling with laughter! They are awesome!!!

[@markcampbell1466]

Eric Idle was always my favourite Python. I remember him being interviewed by Michael Parkinson on British television and he closed out the show with him doing his part of the travel agent sketch, walking amongst the audience. He was still talking when the programme ended! It was incredible. His wordplay in that sketch is nothing short of awe inspiring!

[@DrFunkPpT]

Dude I found a script of the sketch and was reading it along with Eric. He’s pretty spot on for most of it. He’s on another level of dedication.

[@BuzzcutGtr]

28 years I've been watching this bit, and it STILL makes me LMAO. Just genius!

[@donkorleone5188]

Of all the moments of leisure in all the timelines, being at the Hollywood Bowl the day the Monty Python Show was performed was my greatest moment of happiness... After that I began to annihilate all life on other planets and other timelines, but with a cheerful, happy smile on my face as I whistled the Python songs. There's nothing like slaughtering the Shi'ar Imperial Guard singing "Sit on my face" or "Every Sperm is sacred", or better yet, the entire army of Asgard, including All-Father Odin himself singing "Finland, Finland, Finland".

[@CharlieyT95]

Is this this is absolutely the best performance in the history of live comedy.

[@jimmcdowell657]

Got to meet Eric idle did meet and greet tired as he obviously was still as nice as could be. What a great show.

[@cainster]

How long did it take him to memorize that speech? Amazing.

[@ScarySadFlan]

The entire thing was scripted-- go back and look at the original MPFC sketch. Eric said he couldn't do this sketch past the age of 65 because it was too difficult to memorize.

[@redgreen82]

So I've done this as part of a Monty Python review. It took me about a couple weeks.

[@mcfcguvnors]

he did deviate n change stuff for american audiences but its pretty bang on to the original ...on the drury lane one he did nt have a wandering mike so did the whole lot stood on one spot ...kinda like the walkabout audience loved it :)

[@E_y_a_l]

​@@orangemilk3725 Not too difficult? lets see you saying all of that in front of a cheering crowd while climbing chairs and running away from John Cleese, not to mention having to remember a good amount of other sketches at the same time, just the Philosopher's song alone is an extremely hard piece to get right and Idle had to sing that as well.

[@E_y_a_l]

@@dandecastro51 I have no idea what you're talking about

[@The_Port_of_Honor]

It's never a waste of time to make someone laugh.

[@feonor26]

He probably did a lot of improvizing. These guys are the bloody kings on stage! :)

[@ChristopherMills-ec1qe]

He actually did the same exact monologue on the show. This is expanded from that sketch, so I don't believe he did much improvising

[@yvettev.warburton3585]

THIS is why Eric is the best!

[@ShoRyuBarbie]

If I'd been in Eric Idle's shoes, this whole sketch would have been over at 0:16

[@NuisanceMan]

Or the good part would have just started then...

[@someguy42093]

I would accepted

[@mcpappysgolden]

Most amazing performance I've ever seen.

[@WillScarlet16]

Eric's finest moment.

[@sword19771609]

I have to memorize a third of this for an exam! Eric Idle is a genius!

[@stephanociraptor]

lmao, what kind of exam asked you that?

[@scotthume6705]

That look from Graham. Priceless.

[@demensclay6419]

This is one of the highlights if the history of humor, absolutely amazing

[@kurtb8474]

Eric was flawless with that who bit. Just marvelous!

[@peterdavies2960]

Love it in the next sketch when Idle’s still ranting and being chased by Cleese lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Logitah]

Reminds me of my first time in Helsinki (without my parents). I took the wrong tram and had to sit through the route to get back where I came from. An old woman in front of me was bitching about the healthcare system to a man next to her. I thoughts they knew each other, but then the man left and the woman just....kept talking. She didn't even pause! She kept complaining and just turned her head to me.

[@VictorRomero85]

What a silly bunt!

[@WillScarlet16]

I have a feeling the entire sketch was written around that line.

[@VictorRomero85]

William Craig possibly, but I think the original TV version doesn't have it though. They might have saved it for the first opportunity haha

[@NuisanceMan]

@@VictorRomero85 I think they might have written it then, but the BBC wouldn't allow it.

[@ZuluRomeo]

@@NuisanceMan They actually filmed it but then it was immediately cut before broadcast. Hence the unusually raucous laughter after "I hadn't thought of that!" in the original sketch.

[@alisonmccannoffline]

Eric Idle absolutely brilliant, I was in absolute doubles laughing non-stop.😀😆👍👍🌟

[@XAVI72ENATION]

Spending 4 days on the tarmac at the Luton airport on 5 day package tour......Blassic!

[@isolatedfavorites5094]

Yes, well, I've been on packaged tours many times before, so your advert really baught my eye. Good, good, jolly good, well, let me offer you this... Why-why, what's the point of going abroad, if you’re just going to be treated like a sheep? Mmm. Carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry. Absolutely. Their blothed backs and their bardigans and their transistor radios, complaining about the tea or they don't make it properly, do they? And stopping at endless Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg. And sitting in their cotton sunfrocks, squirting Timothy White Suncream all over their puffy, raw, swollen, purulent flesh, 'cos they overdid it on the first day. Yes, I know just what you mean! Now, what we offer is... Being herded into countless Hotel Miramars and Bellevues, Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes... Oh, yes. ...and swimming pools full of draft Red Barrel and fat German businessmen pretending to be acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and... Oh, yes. ...barging into the queues. And if you're not at your table... Oh, yes. ...spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup, the first item in the menu of International Cuisine. Absolutely. Now what we have here is... Every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some fat bloated tart with her hair Bryll-creamed down and big arse presenting flamenco for foreigners. Will you be quiet, please? And an adenoidal typist from Birmingham with flabby white... Will you be quiet? ...legs and diarrhea trying to pick up hairy, bandy legged, wop dagos called Manuel. Be-be quiet! And once a week there's an excursion to local Roman remains, where you can buy Cherry Aid and melted ice cream... Be quiet! ...and bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel. Shut up! And one night they take you to a typical restaurant with local... Shut up! ...atmosphere and color and you sit next to a... Shut up! ...party from Rhyl who keep singing "I love the Costa Brava!" Shut up! "I love the Costa Brava!" And you get cornered by some drunken green grocer from Luton with an Instamatic camera and last Tuesday's 'Daily Express'... Please be quiet! ...and he's on and on and on about how it is running the country and how many languages Margaret Powell can speak and she throws up all over the cuba libres. And spending four days on the tarmac at Luton Airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dry British Airways sandwiches. Shut up! Please shut up! And you can't even get a glass of Watney's Red Barrel because you're still in England with the bloody bar closes every time you're thirsty. And the kids are crying and vomiting and breaking the plastic ashtrays. They keep telling you won't be another hour, but you know damn well your plane is still in Iceland, because it had to turn back, trying to take a party of Swedes to... Shut up! ...to take a party of Swedes to Yugoslavia. Of course it loads you up there at 3 a.m. in the morning. And then you sit on the tarmac for four hours because of unforeseen difficulties, i.e. the permanent strike of air traffic control over Paris. When you finally get to Malaga airport, everybody's queueing for the bloody toilet, and queueing for the bloody half-customs officers, and queueing for the bloody bus that isn't there, waiting to take you to the hotel that hasn't yet been built. When you finally get to the half-built Algerian ruin called the Hotel Limassol, while paying half the holiday money to a license Spaniard in a taxi, there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the bath, there's no water in the tap, there's only a bleeding lizard in the bidet, and half the rooms are double booked, and you can't sleep anyway, 'cause the permanent are in the jungles in the hotel next door. Meanwhile, the Spanish National Tourist Board promises that the raging cholera epidemic is merely a mild outbreak of the Spanish Conleigh, rather like the previous outbreak in 1616, even the bloody rats are dying from it! Meanwhile, the bloody guardia are arresting 16-yearolds for kissing in the streets -(something I can't make out) - everybody's buying little awful horrid donkeys with their names on, I can't tell you the -(something else I can't make out)- and when you finally get to Manchester, there's only another bloody bus to carry you another 60 miles...

[@timothygraham4304]

A lot of C words pronounced correctly by him in this but it's still a blassib!

[@mcfcguvnors]

@@timothygraham4304 that deserved a hundred likes :D

[@timothygraham4304]

@@mcfcguvnors Thanks, I appreciate that. I'll have to settle for the likes I have.

[@NuisanceMan]

@@timothygraham4304 It's a blassib and a blast!

[@rchandos]

Great job transcribing this amazing diatribe!

[@scottlemke8804]

Stepping on the crowd. Cracks me up every time!

[@joonaspehkonen9054]

Eric Idle rules!!

[@dandecastro51]

Nothing python ever ever gets old!

[@peterdavies2960]

Eric IDLE is my IDOL 😂

[@jay-day]

Absol utely brilliant rant from Eric Idle, delivered flawlessly while being chased by John Cleese through the audience. Brilliant! 😆😂🤣

[@333Alastair]

This is pure genius!

[@harryoakley]

"There was only a bleeding lizard in the bidet"

[@MasterIforGett]

Wait a minute, he says "cut" just fine before he learns to use k! I call shenanigans!

[@JLopez-j9r]

He was using a 'k'

[@chrometanned]

I love Carol Cleveland...

[@MissLeopard28]

I would have LOVED to have been in the audience! They are simply amazing! I couldn't believe how much he kept complaining about the same thing. LOL!!!

[@redstar12345]

0:40 - "... and NOTHING ELSE!"

[@MichaelChilestone]

I've just come back from the Canaries, very pleased to say that holidays seem to have moved on since then: didn't see a drop of Red Barrel on offer anywhere.

[@nijnij3988]

Food still greasy though?

[@jaredmalerin]

I like to scream like the lady screams at 0:15. Highly recommend.

[@BoyKagome]

I think he wanted the complaint department, not to arrange a holiday.

[@finnof]

The height of stand up (or running around) comedy

[@ngiallag2792]

a beautiful 4 minute rant from a genius playing a mental case.😂

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

Being a genius and being a mental case are not mutually exclusive.

[@petermorgan4959]

thankfully covid is saving us from the horror of holidays abroad!

[@xplaybwoix]

In his monologue, Idle mentions waiters called Manuel. This was years before Fawlty Towers

[@jackolas2007]

I'm from Kettering and I've never seen Eric Idle on a bus tour :(

[@aldito7586]

Eric Idol goes crazy !!! HAHAHA !!!

[@mehermusic2154]

This is The Best.

[@cainster]

I want to see a political candidate say this speech at the podium one day.

[@pendragnx]

WOW! That was a LOT to memorize.. holy cow!

[@solitarymacaroni]

Um that was incredible 😱

[@rogink]

Always look on the bright side of life :)

[@martacunhacaldeira6940]

Brilliant!

[@jpsned]

Pure genius.

[@silversnail1413]

Graham's reaction at 5:53 always gets me.

[@CyndiSmith]

I grew up on this! XOXOX

[@bassinbillRC5300]

Same here Miss Smith. I bought three of their albums watched numerous Monty Python flying circus programs on PBS every Sunday night and then attended one of the two days that they did the show at the Hollywood bowl. Absolutely priceless.

[@CyndiSmith]

@@bassinbillRC5300 YOU GOT TO SEE THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL?? That is so awesome. I can't imagine how great it was live.

[@Dman9fp]

Prefer the original version with Palin yelling "Shut Your Bloody Gob!" xD

[@larrybrautigam7734]

Eric's number one. From which comes the best clean rip - silly bunt.

[@stevebinning977]

That reminds me , I've just run out of Kellogg's Born Flakes.

[@cainster]

how in the HELL did he memorize that entire monologue, anyway?

[@jpsned]

He (and the other Python members) have extremely well-developed English skills.

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

I love this. Thank you. Lol!!!!

[@moonsterpl]

Stunning!

[@marka5478]

Was this type of "rant" skit from the English music hall tradition?

[@mikevanroy9356]

Every internet argument ever.

[@kennymoore6776]

God's gift to comedy!

[@simonf8902]

Same as travel today. 😂

[@bobjones6572]

Best monty ever

[@АлексейСокур-т9ш]

Damn, just came to me that Stewart Lee borrowed a few parts of this sketch in a couple of his specials. Nice hommage, lol.

[@NuisanceMan]

Thomas Cook

[@larryburke4782]

They change 'colour supplement' to 'classified ads' for the US audience but leave Watneys Red Barrell in

[@helenmarston2403]

The bolour supplement?

[@synthonaplinth5980]

@@helenmarston2403 Attacked by a bat, were you?

[@spootot]

What a silly bunt

[@cockadoodydoo]

he's British. You aren't supposed to understand what he says.

[@aeop]

cockadoodydoo I do get quite everything but sometimes it not clear cause of the crowd or the pounder dude

[@vardellsfolly5200]

Has anyone here played Baldur's Gate?Eric Idle is Noober!!!

[@gustavosanabio473]

what? Seriously?

[@paulsarnik8506]

... pretending to be acrobats and frightening the children!...😮😅 Idle is a genius. 🤓😎✌🏻🇬🇧

[@hauntedmedic373]

He went all out!

[@throbasonic1982]

Genius

[@mcgilluk]

Drinking bleeding watneys red barrel love it on on ha ha classic 😃

[@JupiterThunder]

There's only a bleedin' lizard in the bidet.

[@williamchapin1483]

'What a silly bunt..'

[@WisRBLX]

As *early* as the *late* fourteenth century, or indeed as *late* as the *early* fourteenth century

[@JonatanKipKipowsky]

@bhwystar I think it was a great way to spend your time. It's a wonderful monolouge!

[@DavidSumeray_BassGod]

Genius! When Monty Python were The Beatles of comedy

[@kenchristie9214]

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band were The Beatles of comedy. The Bonzo songs inspired the Monty Python songs. Neil joined the Python's immediately after leaving the Bonzos.

[@DavidSumeray_BassGod]

@@kenchristie9214 No, the Bonzos were the Python of music

[@kenchristie9214]

@@DavidSumeray_BassGod The Bonzos were around before Monty Python started. At that time John Cleese, along with Ronnie Barker, was with the Frost Report, later the David Frost Show.

[@DavidSumeray_BassGod]

@@kenchristie9214 Fair enough! The Pythons were the Bonzos AND The Beatles of comedy. The Bonzos were the Goons of music.

[@kenchristie9214]

@@DavidSumeray_BassGod Aaah they don't make songs like that anymore! The Goons started it all. John didn't like the Bonzos which was odd. Viv Stanshall, Neil Innes and Roger Ruskin Spear were art students, like John.

[@martinb.770]

Don't know who wrote this sketch, though, in many cases Michael Palin was chosen to do speech impediments (like later on in "Fish called Wanda"), but no question, Eric does them quite as fluent. Guess it hat to do with the order of the sketches during the life show, as I'm pretty sure, in the Flying Circus Michael performed this role.

[@davidfrost2819]

Sounds like Eric had a skin full of Watneys red barrell

[@peteroscarson1188]

A tour deforce in Comedy.

[@mcfcguvnors]

n thats comedy :D awesome

[@thesnakeman8006]

4:45. Wonder what happened to make him go off like that?

[@marknestbox]

I WISH TO REGISTER A BOMPLAIT, ITS TOO SHORT (abbording to my wife's gynaebologist).

[@bhwystar]

@kipowsky yes it is. took a long time as well to do it but i did. People were most annoyed that i wasted my time like that but i though it was fun

[@DMEB]

What a silly bunt.

[@robinhodson9890]

It's very tricky finding thus video - after entering the necessary search terms, I got a large number of very irrelevant, and very surprising results. Ah well, I found it eventually.

[@anthonymanzalji]

www.montypython.net/scripts/travagent-long.php here is the link to the script too.

[@JonatanKipKipowsky]

@bhwystar Ha ha! Wow! That's a whole lot of ranting :)

[@JiveDadson]

Kellogg's Born Flakes

[@OrenLikes]

When he goes on and on he mixes pronouncing B as a C and using C properly... :) I guess using K as a C was executed intermittently...

[@dstn3422]

amazing, the joke about switching the letter c and k is very similar to how the letter c was replaced by k in satires in usa due to the influence of k in kkk (clan = klan)

[@nicetry1183]

oh kip. not from Canada. Region 1. Oh well.

[@BobDawg173]

@bhwystar lol I can't even understand what he is saying.

[@fredfat1606]

note the huge breasted typist in the foreground

[@marknestbox]

How very silly of me, I'd completely missed them until... er... missed her, until they pointed out, sorry, till you pointed her out with them, um, the others there, not Them others, the other people... er... without the huge tits, sorry, Whammers. Ciao.

[@SailorMaxie]

Copypasta in a nutshell