Monty Python - Chemist sketch

[@Crowbabe74]

"Of course, there really isn't a basement, he just goes off camera and we pretend." I love Eric Idle.

[@frankbarnwell____]

Go off

[@gvantsasakaruli9900]

And I love the wink

[@TheWorldisQuietHere3]

I love how you can see elements of different python jokes in all their work. They mentioned the parot and the officer also used the word "ptang" which in Holy Grail was part of what the knights of "Ni" said - "icky, icky ptang!!"

[@11anonymous6]

Kinda repetitive, really, weren’t they

[@11anonymous6]

…and I still don’t get it…

[@quadturbo4]

That's one of the most deliciously surreal sketches they ever did. Hardly any structure at all. The whole thing is just so marvellously semprini.

[@PH4RX]

Alright, that’s it! We finally have Internet access and you are now arrested!

[@ConstantlyDamaged]

Here here, well spoken Bruce.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Roight! Off with you then.

[@miikavihersaari3104]

This week oye have been mostly eatin seabass. Oh, wrong show, I'll get me coat.

[@andrewphillips9391]

My hovercraft is full of eels

[@murielsartre]

Semprini was a popular light musician/pianist in the UK back in the day. Well, 'popular' in the sense that your great-great grandma would've liked him; a sort of English Liberace or Lawrence Welk type.

[@DanHarrisonKing]

My favourite sketch of The Buzz Aldrin Show

[@lsnows]

The first time I ever got an STD scare, I went to that dingy little clinic, left a blood and a urine sample, and waited with all those people- nobody making small talk, nobody even looking at anyone else in the room, just a dead, embarrassed silence... all I could think of was, "WHO'S GOT THE POX?"

[@paulstewart6293]

And!!??

[@lsnows]

@@paulstewart6293 Turned out I was clean...

[@alltaken678]

4:07 "Ah!" and we see him standing off camera. Absolute genius.

[@MarkAtkin]

Followed by the wink at 4:16.

[@strangehobbyist]

I love when the entire cast all played Mr. Gumby’s.🤣

[@Yngvarfo]

Except for Terry Gilliam. He just animated them.

[@kingbolo4579]

Not me. Most of this was funny but I find the Gumby's just tedious. Also the Pepperpots.

[@vordman]

Remarkably, Buzz Aldrin is still alive 52 years later.

[@Doggeslife]

Thank you public television for bringing us Monty Python (and Marty Feldman's Comedy machine) in my teenage years. Comedy genius.

[@othyization]

*This comment has been removed as a violation of KZbin's policy on,* the word Semprini

[@THEfamouspolka]

I didn't expect a kind of Youtubish inquisition

[@beorlingo]

No it hasn't

[@johnnytechman1224]

OI!! OUT!!

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

🚔

[@drakefallentine8351]

"Semprini"

[@jkent9915]

“Aren’t you gonna say, ‘what’s all this then?‘.”

[@MrPjw5]

"RIGHT! I'm taking you down to the station!" "What for?" "I'm charging you with illegal possession of whatever we happen to have down there!" That line gets me every time lol

[@Stof31]

Love all Pythons but my God Michael Palin is awesome.

[@Elric33239]

They really had a lot of mileage out of that storefront set! The Chemist Sketch, The Dead Parrot Sketch, The Pet Conversion Sketch, The Cheese Shop Sketch, The Lingerie Shop Sketch,... the list must be endless!

[@martinbynion1589]

The Semprini Sketch!

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

@@martinbynion1589 That was an extension of The Chemist Sketch.

[@John-re2qw]

The tobacconist/Hungarian/English dictionary sketch.

[@SMTRodent]

The watch smuggler!

[@hendox7117]

A shopping list

[@hylkeenteroittaja]

Alberto Fernando Riccardo Semprini (1908 January 19, 1990) was an English pianist, famous for appearances on the BBC, mainly on radio.

[@petergardner5002]

Semprini Serenade rings a bell

[@TheGreatAtario]

All right, who''s got the boil on his pianist?

[@garybeattie3903]

​@@TheGreatAtario Jolly good show

[@cyphi474]

Then he was 62 when this was aired. But looks like he had sense for humor.

[@davidsmith5523]

I always thought it was Gary Semprini from Ipswich. The unknown creator of the hot dog. He will be upset when he finds out. He's 104 years old now. And it's the only pleasure he has since being deleted from Wikipedia.

[@dharmaseed]

"Who's got the chest rash?" (pause) "Have to get a bigger bottle." LMFAO!!

[@alro2434]

Second best after 'Have to get a bigger boat!'

[@vgbcp3rs0na41]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

"...and should not be construed as having any other significance." *cut to Buzz Aldrin, The Buzz Aldrin Show*

[@MrPjw5]

"This man has been shoplifting, officer!" "Oh yes?" "Yes!" "Are you trying to tell me my job?" "No but he's been shoplifting!" "Look, I must warn you that everything you may say will be ignored! Furthermore, given half a chance I'll put my fist through your teeth! PTANG PTANG!" That and this: "RIGHT! I'm taking you down to the station!" "What for?!?""I'm charging you with illegal possession of whatever we happen to have down there!" That last line gets me every time XD God bless the Chaps!

[@Whtxombi]

"It is not BBC policy to get easy laughs with words like bum, knickers, botty or wee wees."

[@johnlander1499]

Shh!!!

[@Jackferrett6781]

These are the words which are not to be used again on this program B*M B*TTY P*X KN*CKERS KN*CKERS W** W** SEMPRINI

[@olgamurillo4421]

Semprini?

[@Jackferrett6781]

OUT!!!!!

[@twoninetwosevenone]

Not policy ... but it is standard procedure.

[@kalligraphii]

Just demolishing the forth wall. LMAO

[@nosuchthing8]

Kalligraphi yes, but in a comic way. Not in a deadpool way.

[@lastswordfighter]

With Monty Python the fourth wall is an endangered species.

[@afip4n6doc]

“Semprini…it’s such a tinny word, isn”t it?”

[@SableSeraph17]

"OUT!"

[@thechampestofthemall]

I’d say there’s a woody quality to it

[@livrowland171]

dreadfully tinny

[@vgbcp3rs0na41]

EEEK!

[@EpicStopMotions72]

Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

[@czaknorris7823]

...NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@engelbertbimann5910]

sahiblindberg no it isn 't

[@0002pA]

What a show!

[@benglaser1345]

*dramatic and startling music plays*

[@hamnavoeper]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPA- Oh bugger...

[@richcampoverde]

Comedy gold like this simply doesn't exist now

[@nunyabiznis3595]

less hard drugs in the writing room i guess

[@ksb2112]

@@nunyabiznis3595 I'd say it was more like booze. Graham Chapman was hitting it pretty hard.

[@AndyCigars]

I always loved *"The Buzz Aldrin Show"*.

[@murielsartre]

This episode is one of my absolute favourites of the entire show. Series 2 overall was simply excellent.

[@stevenwebb3634]

The not at all naughty chemist should have been arrested for using the word toilet.

[@paulstewart6293]

We loved this. The next day at school was very funny. A Friday, I think. Monty python permanently changed humour for millions of us. Amazing, really. BBC indoctrination.

[@brianpedersen4714]

SEMPRINI.

[@IsoscelesKramer]

Right. Who's got a boil on his semprini, then?

[@Guns_Blazin]

OUT!!!

[@Guns_Blazin]

You cannot say semprini... oh no...

[@blackscarfXVI]

drsonicfan OUT!!!

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

You do!

[@brianbolinjr.7533]

IsoscelesKramer reported

[@clayphace]

"If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave". "I wouldn't need aftershave" is the punchline.

[@howardchambers9679]

It's a reference to an old mucky postcard joke, large lady asking for talcum powder, walk this way madam says the skinny shop assistant....

[@fondajames]

how the hell has this aged so well

[@Doggeslife]

Good comedy is timeless.

[@PH4RX]

Like a fine Red Leicester that we unfortunately just ran out of.

[@MXB2001]

Everything ages well. It's some people who can't accept that.

[@jmsjms296]

@@MXB2001 "Everything ages well": how can you prove this?

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

@@MXB2001 humor that's just someone's bigotry said in a funny way isn't comedy.

[@cbaile]

...have to get a bigger bottle.

[@deathproofpony]

sahiblindberg Hah - thanks!

[@A_Dopamine_Molecule]

True pioneers of meta humor.

[@anshuldinger1425]

Great Scott I finally understand the references to the Spanish Inquisition sketch

[@paulstewart6293]

Better late than never. No time Toulouse!

[@zacwollervoiceninja5136]

“NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!”

[@mrchuckmorris]

Whenever someone asks me what's on TV I always stare over at it for a second and say, "...looks like a penguin!"

[@dinahkyle3196]

I'mma say it... SEMPRINI!! COME AN' GET ME, COPPERS!!! **runs off, laughing maniacally**

[@romainsavioz5466]

OUT

[@firemarioproductions2003]

*Bobbies are after him!*

[@vccstudents]

A toilet requisit-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-te!

[@jaybee1921]

How Michael Palin didn't lose it I shall never know...

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

Masterpiece, I’ll never forget the first time I saw this. And right at 2:02 I lost it.

[@SecretTimeWarp]

God, I've seen this sketch so many times over the years, and not ONCE did I get the "mad one, mad two" joke.

[@dvdv8197]

The only realistic part was where the cop let the real culprit run and stole some of the goods himself.

[@Mitche23]

Alberto Semprini, or Semprini, was an English pianist, composer and conductor

[@romainsavioz5466]

OUT

[@pauldirac6340]

This may seem easy like child's play, but it's hard work! Appreciate it!

[@MaTtRoSiTy]

Love the way this show portrayed police, as did many other UK comedy afterwards (no doubt due to Python influences)

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

The M&W sketch with the cop bullying the community support officer comes to mind.

[@larryellisreed280]

"The BBC would like to apologise to the police for the character of Police Constable PanAm; it was not meant to be representative of the average police officer. Similarly, the reference to Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut, was the product of a disordered mind, and should be construed as having no other significance."

[@funkymonkstemple]

These guys were/are the Greatest! Have loved them almost all of my life. Carry on, stiff upper lip and all that....

[@Svensson450]

Grahams FATANG FATANG always crack me up.

[@simonmultiverse6349]

May I present Mr. Fim Tin Win Lim Bim Bus-Stop F'Tang F'Tang Ole' Biscuit-Barrel.

[@thomasdjonesn]

​@@simonmultiverse6349ah, the Silly Party candidate.

[@0g0dn0]

@kubaniski They are the Gumbies, a classic Monty Python staple

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

41 people have a boil on their Semprini.

[@MrPjw5]

OUT!!!!!!

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

UPDATE: 43 people wear the Semprini aftershave.

[@noah3384]

fzerowipeoutlover 45

[@stevenwebb3634]

fzerowipeoutlover Lunar module calling Buzz Aldrin.

[@tuttt99]

fzerowipeoutlover OUT!

[@BrianKishreviews]

Did anyone else noticed a very quick image and sound in between Ken Shabby's line "keeps my skin nice and scaly" and "uh sorry again can't stop"? It's just one of many instances in the series of rough edits left intact in episodes that suggest cut scenes. Judging from the "I..." sound and image, it's appears to be John Cleese.

[@SquirrelGamez]

The 4th wall exploded

[@melchiorvulpius8170]

I watched this with my mom once, and she said the five Gumbies were better off as frogs!

[@u.v.s.5583]

Had she been a witch she might have turned them into newts.

[@Chuck-ui5il]

​@@u.v.s.5583 but I got better

[@D.Appeltofft]

A five-frog curse.. It's all in these details. Their writing abilty will never be equaled. Ever.

[@JimmyLeeVanDePutte]

What would we all watch back when we had 6 channels? Funny stuff!!!

[@luisreyes1963]

0:54 Here's what the "rude" pharmacist (Chemist) was describing. Pox: Most likely Gonorrhea Boil on the bum: self-explanatory The Winds: Excessive gas As for the "chest rash"...😉

[@Vesnicie]

Palin really is Gumby in Chief, isn't he?

[@douglassun8456]

He did the best Gumby, no doubt. The professor who argued that the Battle of Trafalgar was fought on dry land, near Cudworth, Yorkshire. "Because Drake... was too clever... for the German... fleet!"

[@888fevertime]

Ah, Monty Python. Making my laugh until my Semprini hurts.

[@twoninetwosevenone]

I'd like to buy a license for my pet Semprini - - - Eric !

[@tomsmith7742]

i've seen about a million MP sketches, and always wondered how they didn't crack uo every 2 seconds.. Is here any such thing as a MP outtake reel? I hope not- I like to think they NEVER "lost it." Funniest show in history, either side of the pond.

[@grpvids1834]

Love it. I lost count of the quick references to so many other sketches: halibut, parrot, Spanish Inquisition, etc.

[@freeindeed7]

Michael and Eric are hilarious in this :D

[@stevenwebb3634]

I use Halitosis as well.

[@yeshevishman]

You can obviously say you were not expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

[@rocketman544]

That's the funniest I've ever seen Graham Chapman! So nice to see the usual Straight Man cut loose!

[@amandahugankiss4110]

When they both double-take at the mention of parrot I lose my shit. Amazing bit, this.

[@philipb2134]

There is a work-around: the singular, 'semprino', is not banned.

[@corellian63]

"Right, right, RIIIGHT! Now then, now then.." 'your turn'. "Aren't you going to say 'what's all this, then?'" "oh, right. What's all this, then?" Kills me everytime.

[@u.v.s.5583]

Kills you? A murder! Allow to introself myduce, I am inspector Tiger of the Yard.

[@maxpayne2574]

Two types in the world those who love Monty Python and those with don't have a sense of humor.

[@dixieflatline8750]

I nominate "Nobody remembers who the second man to walk on the moon was" as a candidate for the Top 10 shabbiest, most ill-considered cliche's. Everybody who is anybody remembers that it was Buzz Aldrin. Why would that fact be forgotten? The chap's name is Buzz. That's fun-to-know trivia if I ever had any sneak up and bite me on the arse.

[@davepowell7168]

The real Buzz Aldrin show was filmed in a studio and on location (hidden by cloak of secrecy) somewhere. All my friends preferred Thunderbirds which had color and more action

[@gvantsasakaruli9900]

If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave

[@cifey]

50yr later, don't get it.

[@vgbcp3rs0na41]

It's a gay joke. HA! GAYYYYYYYY!

[@gvantsasakaruli9900]

​@@cifey if you shave the certain parts I assume it might feel uncomfortable walking, and maybe the aftershave can fix things

[@Elric33239]

It reminded me of the "A.T. Hun Turns Himself In to the Police" sketch where Terry Jones was having trouble with his mustache and eventually threw it into his hat. I guess they didn't have good Spirit Gum on the set in those days.

[@blipblip88]

Wacky, surreal and marvelously Pythonesque! Thanks!

[@rayticket605]

Once in a lifetime comedy genius.50 yrs old.never ages

[@GCMPJLRMYLIFE]

Hehe....Eric and Micheal are so cute in this! And omg Graham Chapman was the funniest thing on this earth! P-TANG! P-TANG! love him!!

[@Dreamskater100]

I totally crack up at 5.16 when Michael Palin goes 3 types, no FOURR! kinds of aftershave lotion! & Graham Chapman policeman! bursts in at 6.10 and shouts!!!> 'Right, right RRRRIGHT!! bRILLIANTNESS! U.S end credits- great!

[@meh8982]

After all these years I finally found out what a Semprini is. Thanks, commenters.

[@legothoron1]

5:12 I Didn't Expect the Spanish Inquisition

[@cullenmayes3370]

I did... And they didn't even show up... What the hell is this?

[@frankday1234]

***** Oh yes we Do!

[@therealwillsmith]

*NOOOOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!*

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH SEMPRINI..... oh no....

[@tuttt99]

fzerowipeoutlover OUT!

[@Symos]

This video needs to be flagged for gratuitous amounts of Semprini. (Not serious before anyone's dumb to do it.)

[@warzIbanez]

OUT!!!

[@Tastaplaning]

Expecting friends from the U.K. this is just what I needed to get in the right mood 😂😂😂!

[@towgunnerusmc]

"Who's got a boil on his semprini?"

[@Choderus]

I named my first pet snake after this show, Semprini the Ball Python

[@KaizoeAzurum]

In fact, does that do expect us ...I wonder what happens if you do expect them.

[@henningdammann-emden]

I wonder what Buzz Aldrin had to say about it when this appeared on the screen for the first time.

[@0002pA]

Many cite the parrot sketch as the best Python sketch ever, but this may be the most ingenious. Well, after pushing the Chapman's ashes over a the edge of a table.

[@koholos]

I enjoy Cleese acting like a human thesaurus, but I actually think the Parrot Shop & Cheese Shop sketches stop being funny after the second or third viewing. Clever, but a bit longwinded. I find this one much better just because it has multiple jokes within the larger joke.

[@WildBluntHickok]

@@koholos At least twice they've subverted the Parrot Sketch just to see what Cleese will ad lib. One of the times when it was suggested that he take a cat as exchange and he asked "does it talk" he got the answer "Yes." Another night when he first announced the parrot was dead the shop clerk said "Ok well I'd better replace it for you then."

[@twoninetwosevenone]

All I can say to your post ... surmising the parrot is the best is ::: """ tis'nt """

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

I use rancid polecat after shave.😊

[@Elric33239]

It's a variant of an old vaudeville joke: Male Customer - I would like to buy some talcum powder Saleslady - Walk this way please. Male Customer - If I could walk THAT way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder! Because early vaudeville relied on visual humour rather than in-your-face verbal humour, the saleslady usually was cast as a young, sexy showgirl who would walk in a provocative manner when she directs the (male) customer.

[@douglassun8456]

As with The Goon Show, part of what dazzled me about MP was that combination of old chestnuts like that with surreality and fourth-wall humor.

[@ProstheticWheelchair]

"oh, that's nice" made me roflmaocopter :D

[@fredrictengstrom9522]

God dag. Jag är Kemist. 66 years of age. Reality is even worse. Much so DR Fredric Tengström

[@thomasdjonesn]

Sorry, I don't speak Semprini.

[@stuartdryer1352]

I needed this.

[@timmy841212]

Classic. And Eric is indeed cute. :)

[@brianartillery]

..."A fishier requisitttttttttte'...

[@MadHatter42]

I have one critique for this: After the chemist said "Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition", they should've waited a second for the Spanish Inquisition to jump in, emphasizing the fact that they weren't. Other than that, brrrriliant!

[@Moshe_Dayan44]

The expression: "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!" was a common phrase at that time, spoken by anybody who felt that they were being overly scrutinized or harassed. The humour lies in the very fact several men dressed like Spaniards from the era of Inquisition show up after Cleese emits that perfectly common complaint.

[@chrisdifonso717]

Classic. Tragically, currently this is happening seriously in many countries around the world.

[@laurablunk887]

I have been looking for a "toilet requisittttttttte" for TEN YEARS. All I could remember is Michael Palin repeating the 'tttt'. I used to do it to annoy my parents. :D I still do, actually.... Occasionally, I'll ring my dad up and throw in a 'requisitttttttte". He usually hangs up on me. Also, mad ONE ,mad TWO mad THREE, mad FOUR. Most of my childhood is memories of me annoying my parents.....ah yes, Inspector Toad of the Yard! I have two favorite foods, pizza, tacos and...I have three favorite foods.. EE -ECKY -THOMP sound effects when my parents send me to my room and I can lay on the floor and watch them from under the door...

[@brucemattes5015]

Good comedy will always stand the test of time.

[@SecretTimeWarp]

@Lamporre Absolutely no idea. To this day, that one goes over my head.

[@ax999]

WHY YES I AM EN JOY ING THIS!

[@isaackim7675]

He's not, I'm a witness!

[@sonictelephone1526]

This sketch just got more and more insane as it went on 😂

[@frankbarnwell____]

Bigger bottle. I'm getting it! Walking this way

[@Nebarus]

Semprini in its purest form!

[@edeledeledel5490]

The police haven't changed much since the 1970s.