Ministry of Silly Walks - Monty Python's Flying Circus - S02E01

[@peterritchie2990]

Sensational. To counter present ongoing global challenges I'm thinking of forming the Silly Walk Party and setting things right. Who's with me?

[@TheFlyingmartini]

Me!

[@peterritchie2990]

@@TheFlyingmartini Yay, now that we’re a movement we should get rolling on this. I can give stirring speeches that will arouse the masses to a frenzy. Would you mind doing everything else, if that’s not too much to ask? (To avoid misunderstandings, right at the outset I should let you know I’d like to be Emperor. Re title designation, do you have any preferences?)

[@TheFlyingmartini]

@@peterritchie2990 well if you're the Emperor I'm the Empress of Silly walking. I'll be glad to choreograph this.

[@peterritchie2990]

@@TheFlyingmartini Now you’re talking. I’ll work on my mince-gambol-assert thing.

[@oskarostermann4734]

Ready!

[@ollieox9181]

John Cleese is a comedic genius.

[@Chacal.141]

Also known as Fiona's father

[@samsepiol05590]

Whoever thumbs downs this clearly has a walk that isn’t particularly silly

[@samsepiol05590]

@Twyla P what?

[@theltlexay]

it seems the Ministry has had them disappeared

[@jamesbland5207]

John Cleese didn't think this was funny

[@johnhorse5551]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

It's likely someone who doesn't like John cleese due to his political beliefs, or more likely, it's those who themselves have, or have a family member with a disability that gives them a very silly walk unintentionally.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Gotta love the background at 0:25, really gives you that movie/picturesque feel that was undeniably characteristic of Palin or Jones' sketches.

[@lelonfurr1200]

50 yrs and they've still making us laugh !

[@cuchulain1647]

A lifetime later this is still hilarious

[@pliashmuldba]

A lifetime the issue of government misspending are still very real, even worse.

[@samisami-qb5tl]

But rrealistic

[@SeriousDragonify]

This is supposed to be funny? Because in fact it's fucking not.

[@cyclingcmdr]

No it isn't.

[@samisami-qb5tl]

@@cyclingcmdr you are dontiving in europe

[@Mortthemoose]

I'm a 5' 11" woman. I was very tall when I was a kid too. I can remember doing my John Cleese silly walk at school, along with my tall friend 😂😂😂 Great memories 😂

[@morsedregs9239]

Monty Python’s humor is timeless.

[@victoriaguidici5574]

Research has shown that silly walks are very healthy. They use up more energy. Not a joke.

[@blackpowderkun]

Wall E future would be confuse about this though.

[@podulox]

No it isn't!

[@podulox]

@@victoriaguidici5574 Yes it is!

[@podulox]

@@blackpowderkun I'm confused... You're saying Wall E would be.... Be... I'd better watch the whole thing again to be sure.... But then I'd be... [cognitive dissonance]

[@gabe_s_videos]

The way he swings his feet up onto the desk when he sits down is pretty badass.

[@mikeohagan2206]

the goose step was the silliest march, however the silly walks sketch is one of the greatest of all time. i even had the large poster in my room for several years.

[@jassonsw]

Cleese moves beautifully around that desk.

[@stevenl9443]

Dad showed me this 20 years ago. Now I have finally found it again.

[@kathybarry7850]

Well done 👍

[@hereforit2347]

I used to watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus 🎪 on TV 📺 and saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the theatre in the 70s. 🎥🍿

[@Jerry_the_Head]

1:23 for the silliest walk

[@randolphpinkle4482]

Good fun. As a teacher in Myanmar, I had the whole school laughing to the point of tears with my silly walk. Wish I'd filmed it. Might have got funding for better facilities.

[@upturnedblousecollar5811]

Why not upload a video today of your silly walk and we'll judge it for silliness?

[@domaugood3599]

No you didn’t

[@matheussanthiago9685]

​@@domaugood3599yes he had

[@lesliespann6420]

This NEVER gets old! 😆😂🤣😆😂🤣

[@vendingdudes]

I'd love to see a version of this with Dick Van Dyke. He was just as bendable.

[@BadgerBotherer1]

He's 98 now, so perhaps not as bendable as he used to be.

[@Altair885]

I can see a possible position opening for Jacob Reese Mogg. Might be a job he can actually do well! 😁

[@stevegeek]

😂 I was just thinking exactly that 👏

[@nokaton]

He would also suit well with the Ministry of Not Changing Nappies.

[@douglasgreen437]

You can't fog the Mogg.....Mogg is a living breathing Python & so is Lloyd Lindybiege...Look him up on KZbin...🤣😅😆😁

[@doraburany4118]

Thank you Monty Python! I am so grateful for your wonderful humour! Whithout a good laugh life would be unbearable.

[@patricksmith4424]

This is a 100 percent Cleese. The formal manager/executive type with something incredibly not right going on at the same time! His post python days, were much on this format. Fawlty towers, Clockwise etc. Looking back over the Python sketches you see they did act the roles they were particularly good at. The exception being Chapman. He could play the ultra upper class and the total working class guy with total authenticity. What a collection of comic geniuses the pythons were, to produce something still out on its own me's thinks.

[@liordekel9258]

"Yes, but I think that with Government backing I could make it very silly."

[@Tommy_The_Gun]

Every modern video game at release day...

[@LOTUG98]

We used to go to the mall and do silly walks and ask each other "Would you hang with me if I walked liked this?" 😄

[@SlingerFinger]

The sound of genuine laughter🤣. Unlike today's scripted laughter

[@lueysixty-six7300]

😬 I think you'll find that canned laughter, my G...

[@johnp515]

@@lueysixty-six7300 no it’s not canned laughter. Monty Python was performed in front of a studio audience

[@lueysixty-six7300]

@@johnp515 well, if that is, indeed, so - I stand corrected! I just watched it again under the new notion that it is a real live audience , and it really does lift it a lot ! I guess I've gotten jaded by so many years of so many cookie cutter sitcoms cheating around the corners..that I found it hard to believe a legitimate one.

[@armorpro573]

@@lueysixty-six7300 Yeah these days, a lot of studios cut corners and create obviously fake laughter. It's so distracting and downright annoying

[@mortalclown3812]

Those laugh tracks are almost criminal in retrospect. We're fully capable of adoring the unique wit of these boys without it... Hats off. Knees up. Props forever. 😂✨

[@Shadowkey392]

Well they are part of the fun.

[@Marcus280898]

Those screeching women completely took me out of the sketch, so irritating.

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

That wasn't a laugh track, the studio segments were filmed with a live audience in attendance. The laughter of the filmed segments was the studio audience laughing at the playback.

[@ontheroad5317]

They had live studio audiences. In the funeral parlor skit, they told the audience to charge the stage in anger at the end.

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

@On The Road and in the early episodes, there wasn't that much laughter as the audiences were so confused as to what was going on.

[@freedo333]

If i worked at the ministry of silly walks, id go into work smiling every day

[@samanthab1923]

Saw that for the first time in 72! Still laughing out loud 😆

[@Road_Rash]

Absolutely iconic sketch!

[@thelakeman5207]

I like my humor DRY, like a martini! Monty Python is the best!

[@kang1527]

When this was made you could just shuffle (or saunter, or perhaps sidle or even hop) into an office and get government backing for a silly walk. Now, in 2023, I have had to fill in countless online forms, scan ID in triplicate, 2 factor authentication, the works. All that has happened is that my name has been put on a 3 year waiting list simply in order to obtain permission to walk in a mildly ridiculous fashion every other Tuesday. Its outrageous!!!

[@johnalderman9899]

I watched every episode of Monty Python. I laughed then, and I am still laughing.

[@MrTaylorTexas]

The history of the silly walk is really quite interesting.

[@suzettesharpe6618]

This is so today ! Feb 3 2023 Thanks for the laughs !

[@jvitality3234]

ah...remember the days when humour was humour, and we laughed out loud deep from our belly

[@Eb-or]

You call that humour? When I were a lad...

[@jvitality3234]

@@Eb-or 😉

[@mattdobz]

You: I can't come over, my walk is particularly silly today Her: I'm home alone You:

[@TexasGTO]

1:57 To get flexed on that hard must hurt 😬

[@SnowSaska]

Bring back Monty Python we all need laughter these days

[@cookiebozo]

I was 16 and this was the first clip of Monty Python i ever saw, i was instantly hooked

[@paulhunt4690]

We were so lucky to have come of age in the early 70’s.

[@fatty_owls]

Watching this, it makes you think what the hell was going through the Pythons minds when they were writing it

[@Janosevic80]

Silly government spending and bureaucracy probably

[@annalisavajda252]

How useless Government is likely.

[@fatty_owls]

@@Janosevic80 Yes, true. I'm just impressed at the creativity in this show. They were genius, and perhaps slightly crazy.

[@iancurtis1152]

@@fatty_owls perhaps?!! They absolutely were! And ones still alive are crazy.

[@boataxe4605]

Probably alcohol and THC.

[@7Cherubim]

To think someone walking in a silly way could be so funny. Modern comedy just can't compete.

[@gipbwok2008]

Impressive. You have to be quite athletic and limber to walk that silly.

[@LordZontar]

Cleese was an amateur footballer. He played for his university team and was still active in a Sunday league while doing Python. You see him doing foot drills while wearing robes and a toga as Archimedes in the International Philosophy sketch -- the football match between a team of German rationalists and a team of Greek naturalists.

[@LordDoome]

Ffs John Cleese still killing me 50+ years later!!!

[@LikaLaruku]

Can't watch Little Big's "Skibidi" music video without thinking of this skit.

[@canyoudigit6321]

Jacob rees mogg springs to mind as a potential leader.

[@tylermiddaugh1515]

british humor is... unique

[@Mortthemoose]

Thank you! 😁

[@1966johnnywayne]

Government and their bureaucracies have only gotten BIGGER , more numerous, more intrusive and massively more expensive since this skit originally aired...and this was their effort to try and combat it.

[@kahnfatman]

To my contemporaries -- who think silly walk is silly, it is GENDER STUDY my friends.

[@ripley_hicks_newt_86]

That's what I was thinking. Make up some silly BS and get government money for it.

[@williamdemourajose5163]

Much more sane world when we had Monty Python. All ridiculous and funny. Nowadays it's all ridiculous and sad.

[@sandykelting9548]

...with the govt's help, i could make it REAL SILLY🤭🤣🤣🤣!!! Geniuses!😍

[@annemieke2759]

Absolutely legendary!💜💚💙

[@jsmcguireIII]

Thank god for PBS or America would never have turned MP into a global phenomenon.

[@1966johnnywayne]

That PBS is long gone. To air a skit on anything other than "conservative" government waste and incompetence is off the the table at PBS.

[@joshperry6700]

Due to a car accident, my walk got very silly indeed. A piratic shambling lurch. I'm amazed that I don't habitually get stopped for suspected public intoxication. ☠

[@douglasgreen437]

Your hovercraft is full of eils..🤣😅😆😁

[@boriscook6817]

I hear you Josh I have 2 broken legs (dirt bikes) I had to get to the back side of a racetrack once So I jogged over Later a friend told me to never run again in public 😂

[@grahamstephenson9393]

Just about sums up the government to perfection.

[@karlam7732]

At that time, only the legs of bureaucrats and politicians were affected ...

[@minka866]

I've learned from recently research that 11m in silly walk can be efficiently like 75m.

[@松久義也]

Only walking. However, walking. This sketch was made after thinking about this behavior that humans cannot avoid. A masterpiece.

[@Eyyoh755]

Greetings from Germany! We invented a very popular sillywalk, too...GOOSESTEPPING!

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

Imagine if our nation spent even a 10th of what it spends on Defense on Silly Walks. Damn shame.

[@haitolawrence5986]

July is Silly Walks Pride month! 🤡

[@woodzeppelin3241]

There are now annual Silly Walks parades in Budapest Hungary and the Czech Republic. I already have my vacation planned ! Hope to see you there. 😁

[@tavastian3288]

Imagine been told your walk isnt particulary silly :(

[@belphegor9161]

These were the times when people were normal (well, most of them...) and walks were silly. Now the walks are normal (well, most of them...) and the people... well, forget it!

[@sethael1741]

Its dangerous to show such things nowadays. Some may think thats a documentary. Or some may think, we should invent something like that. Little did Monty Python know, that they predict our future.

[@1966johnnywayne]

"Future"...Naw! Government waste via funding of things that don't serve the people and are totally out of touch with the actual people who pay for it has been around forever.

[@0mnicide]

I appreciate this.

[@kimmyfreak200]

love how his walk gets crazier and crazier

[@1966johnnywayne]

Just like the government bureaucracies that he is condemning.

[@glenbard657]

My favorite Monty Python sketch.

[@bendreist1040]

I love him for this epic walk

[@SilentKnight43]

As hilarious as this classic is all these years later, sadly it's still a very contemporary commentary on the wasteful stupidity that continues in all levels of gov't in so many countries.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Exactly!

[@Leto_0]

LMFAO you think that was the point of this sketch? GOVERNMENT WASTE??? Fuuuuuck offff you twat lollll

[@r0landleaf370]

Absolute masters at disguising satire as comedy.

[@SilentKnight43]

@@r0landleaf370 They really were.

[@ywtcc]

This hilarious classic is the product of government spending. It's the BBC! And, it's not wasteful stupidity. It's self parody. The "Ministry of Silly Walks" IS MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS. It's the same thing.

[@jonsmith848]

My cousin and I laughed heartily at this...years ago👍🏼😏📺

[@Spookieham]

It's cut short. The tea lady comes in and spills everything due to her walk

[@georgedistel1203]

I would have liked to see that

[@Mortthemoose]

I remember that 😂😂😂

[@EwoutterHoeven]

Thanks for the HD upload! Shame for the cut on 0:59 :(

[@everready19373]

I also like the "argument" skit. Damn those guys are hilarious.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

An argument isn't just yes and no going back and forth...

[@Mortthemoose]

​@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Oh yes it is! .....

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@Mortthemoose no it isn't!

[@nigelbevan8449]

Unfortunately, it was cut short... It should of showed the secretary walking in with the tray of tea...... Absolutely bloomin brilliant though...

[@emmapeel8163]

Awww u cut out the secretary sloshing & clinking the tea tray in.

[@PaulRubino]

Never, ever thought Monty Python was that funny.

[@paulfredrick6429]

Simply Superb.

[@casanova419]

What makes it funny is listening to the audience laughing.

[@forestghost7]

and the str8face deadpan dialogue LOL slammin that medieval govt they had 😅

[@1emmajones]

He is too funny with those legs!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@jakubkrcma]

Everlasting joy ❤

[@EgorKlenov]

Imagine machine learning surfing through internet to learn how to walk

[@kavorka8855]

Just awesome! I'm rewatching Life of Brian 😂

[@ewaf88]

I started doing a silly walk on the way to work to cheer myself up - but was stopped and fined by the council for displaying a lack of empathy towards others and clear microaggressions.

[@Mortthemoose]

😂😂😂 oh dear

[@T_bone]

This is an actual office in New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland both have unofficial offices and the US tried to form one but, China told them no.

[@gennyreid3240]

John Cleese got lucky with this. He did it well though. The idea for it was by Michael Palin and Terry Jones.

[@Twirlyhead]

But that is how they all worked. They would write in their teams but the decision re what got through and who would play what part was down to all of them.

[@themanfromdystopia807]

Just rewatched season 2 and the first sketch "Face the Press" doesn't even seem like a parody in 2023!

[@jefftoll604]

This should be made compulsory at all schools

[@qpwodkgh2010]

I remember seeing this when it was originally broadcast.

[@timhicks2154]

Never fails to make me laugh.

[@davidleker9482]

Here here

[@dkoz8321]

England. Nation that invented Harrier VTOL, angled carrier deck, machine gun, English language, and Silly Walk. As an American I can only laugh at Ministry Of Silly Walks, Benny Hill(just the quick parts), and Morgan Threee Wheelers. Rest I do not get. Faulty Towers (I go to sleep), Red Dwarf (I dont get it).

[@ArfurBrain]

This is similar to a harrowing documentary I saw about shell shock in World War 1 soldiers. My great uncles fought in World War ! Then when they came home my favorite ever person gave them a real hero's welcome - Nana used to beat them up simultaneously - I often cycle 20 miles to visit her grave - and electrically assisted bike would be cheating - YOU DO NOT SCIMP ON YOU'R RELATIVES - my lightweight bike blew over in the wind right next to the grave - I think it's been approved now. I went back to clean the green grave - it was done when I got there!!

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

The German goose march has entered the chat

[@worfoz]

Siddhartha Angadi, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development, and colleagues decided to measure the health benefits of the silly walks made famous in a 1971 sketch by Britain’s Monty Python comedy troupe. “The major finding really is that Mr. Teabag’s walk is two-and-a-half times more inefficient than normal walking,” Angadi said. “We already knew that the walk was 6.7 times sillier (more variable) than typical walking, but this suggests that one way to improve fitness is to walk like Mr. Teabag. In fact, for a substantial number of people this would not only qualify as vigorous exercise, but might help improve cardiorespiratory fitness.” Americans: did you read this??

[@atvheads]

This is gouverment norm today.

[@1966johnnywayne]

I think it always has been...thus the inspiration for this skit. The only difference is that government is SO MUCH BIGGER and intrusive today, which speaks to the point of the skit.

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

They actually said that the silly walks can give you an actual workout! Weird huh? This is an actual scientific study on this, breaking down whether Mr. Teabag's or Mr. Peuty's technique was effective. Winner is Mr. Teabag.

[@bobdobalina838]

These guys are the led zeppelin of british comedy.

[@gbman6128]

Epic and Legendary! 😂😂😂

[@GrantTarredus]

Why in the world is this all cut up and put back together in a rearranged order with important pieces completely missing? I don’t understand why anyone would watch this or like it when the entire thing is right here on KZbin presented exactly as it was made to be seen, unedited and pristine. I don’t mean to be rude and I don’t want to hurt the uploader’s feelings. I sincerely don’t understand what value there is doing this. Thanks.

[@gaggima]

Thanks for your Input. I don't feel offended at all. I would like to upload uncut sketches. But the copyright restrictions for Monty Python contents are extremly strict. Since i had to invest a lot of time to cut the sketches the way they are allowed to be published and the result is - as you noticed - moderate, i stopped uploading Monty Python content even i love their humor a lot and i would like to share it...

[@GrantTarredus]

@@gaggima Oh, I see! Yes, that explains it. I want you to know how much I appreciate your reply, because it’s so very easy to upset people through social media. We see it every day, and I was hoping against hope that my post would be taken in the spirit that it was meant to be. I’m so glad that you did understand my confusion, and in return you gave me an explanation that I understand! Thanks very much.

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

Are you here for an argument?

[@GrantTarredus]

@@toughenupfluffy7294 No, abuse.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@GrantTarredus that's two doors down the hall

[@LeGreck]

Quand j'ai fumé ma weed, je suis persuadé de marcher comme ça 😅😅

[@evgeniygerkus9242]

Some of their stuff is way more funny than the other

[@bbrother92]

Good old england before privatisation by MT

[@1966johnnywayne]

So, more government is the answer? I think you totally missed the point of the skit.

[@1966johnnywayne]

Government and their bureaucracies have only gotten BIGGER , more numerous, more intrusive and massively more expensive since this skit originally aired...and this was their effort to try and combat it.