Monty Python - Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

[@digitalramyun]

"Did you write the symphony [pause] IN the shed?" The timing of that line alone is just sublime - this has to be one of my all-time favourite comedy sketches.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

This will teach composers to never even THINK about getting a second shed.

[@siltom1962]

Certainly never mention it to friends.

[@ripperduck]

Too late, I have three

[@siltom1962]

@@ripperduck You'll be known as "3-Sheds Jackson"

[@prnothall9302]

How and why would anybody come up with this ‘two sheds’ idea for a skit?. It’s crazy, funny, the delivery timing and the characters are spot on. This is the brilliance of Monty Python and its’ nutty members.

[@justaguy328]

It’s how guys get their nicknames lol. You figure that sooner or later one of those guys would make it big in classical music lol

[@J.R.in_WV]

I’d say their neighbor had two sheds and was very proud of that fact, but it’s only a guess….I’m not a genius like Art “Two Sheds” Jackson.

[@hoopy6781]

As they say "you had to be there". As a teenager growing up during the introduction of Python, we acted out most of the sketches in the pub on Friday nights after the previous night broadcast. Life was brilliant and the bands and acts we sang and danced to at the time made it even better. Happy happy days.

[@BowlCrossy]

@@J.R.in_WV One of the guys I used to work with had a nickname "Two Dogs". I was wondering if it was based on this skit. "I've got a dog." "Well I've got two dogs!" He was a bit fond of himself and didn't mind a bit of one-upmanship.

[@jonwesterby2254]

Yes it's great and still relevant today. It shows how the media often focus on silly trivial things. If they had Einstein alive now they'd ask him about his hair style or something equally silly.

[@perrin6]

I like the way Terry peers closely at his portrait - presumably to make sure there are no tiny pictures of sheds in the picture.

[@Burguois]

"And then you'd be Arthur "No Sheds" Jackson" may be the most perfectly delivered line in comedy history.

[@John-yf7iy]

Get your own comedy line you fairy. Besides that line is okay but not particularly special, there are literally millions of better-delivered lines in comedy history.

[@julianabrown8283]

And the subtle smirk that goes with it. X-)

[@timmytee5335]

Get your own Arts program, you fairy! Skit was called “ Its the Arts”

[@toonbat]

Terry Jones is definitely at his best when he's playing the straight man. He's utterly brilliant here!

[@525Lines]

There's a handful of Monty Python bits that always will make me laugh. This is one of them.

[@kimokeokeahi8526]

One of the greatest comedy bits ever. It never grows old! Thanks.

[@trevordance5181]

For those with a shed fetish there is actually a book which caters for them called "50 Sheds Of Grey" which contains a collection of shed erotica for the modern man.

[@MartinWVOandA]

I read that. I highly recommend it!

[@carolkewley7410]

But was it written...in a shed?

[@filipemartins4691]

🤣

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

I just shed some tears of laughter, not gonna lie.

[@grahamelliott7276]

@@MartinWVOandA In your shed ?

[@Mpshfromlowell64]

Brilliantly written and acted.....

[@hoopy6781]

As they say "you had to be there". As a teenager growing up during the introduction of Python, we acted out most of the sketches in the pub on Friday nights after the previous night broadcast. Life was brilliant and the bands and acts we sang and danced to at the time made it even better. Happy happy days.

[@fassifern]

almost die laughing when Eric was asking, "i understand that you were extremely interested in train spotting."

[@GirlPlastix]

In his younger days 'Two Sheds' was a trainspotting extremist

[@BarrelShape]

"Never mind, Timmy." "Oh Micheal, you're such a comfort."

[@tiang5132]

Oh, sorry old horse!

[@qballshanratty1447]

Terry Jones delivers a masterclass in comic acting here. Obviously Idle is great as well, but he's got all the loaded lines and its harder to excel as the straight man. Does anything perfectly sum up the bloody-minded ignorance and typical sanctimonious-ness of journalists better than this sketch?

[@ARichardP]

Let’s not shed too much on journalists. Some of them aren’t worth two sheds but there are some who shed light on important matters.

[@joeythomson8338]

Cleese was friends and contributor to David Frost.

[@bellowphone]

@@ARichardP I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but yours was a garden-variety comment.

[@digitalramyun]

"Did you write the symphony... IN the shed?" That pause just makes the line... one of my favourite MP sketches.

[@wilhelminawallace9046]

You haven't watched this skit until you have watched it in a shed. Also, while the Auto Captions are on. NEW SHIPS JACKSON.

[@stephenhosking7384]

When you've seen it dozens of times, the opening seconds with the two of them in typical "pre-interview" chat become one of the highlights - which would sadly have been missed by most viewers when it was first aired on TV. The genius of Python - making it "perfect" with details which few viewers were likely to "get" at the time.

[@maximillianford9301]

I love the little absurdities in this. All Python sketches contain such tidbits, but this one dials it up to 11. The fact that Terry Jones has been given a nickname, more or less against his will, based on such a banal thing, and the fact that he doesn't even own two sheds, but rather is considering buying a second one, and that's enough for such a nickname to stick. Just brilliant

[@griselidis1]

The wonderful thing is that there really was a composer called Arthur Jackson! His dates are 1851-1881. Unfortunately, he didn't write a symphony, in a shed or anywhere else. He did write a piano concerto and a violin concerto, however. He was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.

[@ausbucket1a]

+griselidis1 did he have a shed.......or two?

[@griselidis1]

History does not record this.

[@lynktalz]

since he died young, he's called "the two sheds mozart"

[@tommyhaynes521]

This is of the the funniest skits I have ever seen.

[@GOFLuvr]

Even though the dialogue is absolutely hilarious, MP really used the video screen in the background to absolute perfection.

[@toopoable]

GOFLuvr Absolutely. Would not work as well as an album track.

[@daveroche6522]

Never gets old/stale - we'll forever owe the Pythons so much. John is the interviewer on the vinyl (yep - still have it) version.

[@spacecadetmcgee7349]

And they were getting on so well during the intro music.

[@madkenstarling]

I've just bought a house and what swung the deal was that it has two sheds..I have tried to explain to my Finnish missus..

[@rodrigezgozalo4780]

The magic of this great sketch is the absurdity of a famous classical composer being called "2 sheds" as a result of a repeat purchase of a shed prior to the interview,and the gravity of importance attached to it by the host.Like Kevin Eldons recent sex pistols sketch,it is the absurdity of a group of Amish folk behaving like punk rockers that makes it special.These are my two best ever sketches.

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

True story; my friend had tools strewn all over his garden - and no shed. But he kept going on about building a shed so after months I started calling him Brian no sheds. The name stuck and soon everyone was calling him it lol. He hated it.

[@rachelar]

Keep it up til he buys one shed

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

@@rachelar Ironically, he now has two sheds and has spent the last two years saying he is going to remove one of them.

[@johnbyrne2756]

Are you quite sure about this? Only, the version I was given differed slightly. Apparently the tools weren't so much strewn, as placed all over the garden.....

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Can hardly wait until your friend meets MY friend: Tony Three Sheds Johnson.

[@BarrelShape]

This is such a great satire of the sensationalist celebrity interviewer, who is interested in nothing beyond trivial gossip. Spot-on!

[@grahamelliott7276]

Never watched this sketch, but listened to it on a vinyl record a long time ago... Simply brilliant.

[@saifonlawrence2044]

This sketch "sheds" light on the Python genius.

[@TlalocW]

This skit and then one from Nick Park's, "Creature Comforts," (the people who do Wallace and Gromit) made me realize how important sheds are to the British. Growing up, we had a small tin building where we kept the push mower and threw crap on some shelves, but that would be laughed at in England. (The Creature Comforts skit was where a husband and wife - animated as some large mice/rats - are talking about putting in a shed, and the wife says it's so he can read his pornography in it.)

[@IWashMyOwnBrain]

I just realized I have two sheds and just had to watch this. :^)

[@vardellsfolly5200]

So..according to what you just said,you would be called two shed something...?!

[@johanmarnfeldt5262]

Which shed did you watch it in?

[@charlick2]

"...and do you in fact have two sheds?" LOL

[@timwilderspin]

Perhaps the greatest strength of Python is they manage to take something so wilfully obscure that could easily have remained an in-joke in their writing sessions and put it across via their skill and passion so that the whole world can find it hilarious too.

[@Eowynnofrohan]

I was thinking about getting two sheds today and could NOT get this sketch out of my head.

[@manjacovus5342]

If memory serves, this was in the very first ever episode, which was packed with other now-classic Python sketches. Those guys certainly hit the ground running, and basically never looked back.

[@siltom1962]

I had a hairless cat that I called Arthur "No-sheds"

[@caves51]

Tom Sillers copyright infringement you’ll be hearing from the yard soon

[@Sulkanator]

Brilliant!

[@radscorpion8]

took me a few seconds well done

[@johnanthonyp]

From which John 'Two Jags' Prescott was coined. We will never see the likes of Monty Python again. They were surreal but absolutely hilarious. So much so they pretty much changed British culture let alone humour.

[@NeidalRuekk]

+john “cooley88” smith And now for something completely different

[@russs7574]

Monty Python would never be able to get half of their comedy on TV today.

[@vardellsfolly5200]

The infamous Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson..

[@kevinhsu6454]

I showed this to my dad a couple years ago when he got a second garden shed. Now he’s got four so I have no idea what to do.

[@Edinsaonensis]

You can introduce him as "this is my dad, xxx four sheds family name" pretty sure he will love it.

[@ryancampbell7667]

Just wanted to remind everyone this video still exists after 17 years

[@Langkowski]

Correction: 18 years

[@tomkenning5482]

Next up, an interview with a rapper about how many Pacs he has

[@John-yf7iy]

Tupac...not Twopac...and it was never 2Pacs anyway, it was only ever 2Pac.....i.e., 1Pac...never a plural. So...nice try but not quite.

[@dimeolas777]

so does he in fact have 2 pacs or just the 1?

[@simp4Moni]

Monty Python is on Netflix now

[@ThomWinters]

This is precisely how 2 Chainz got his name

[@John-yf7iy]

No, I've heard that his epithet had something to do with his toilet flushing system, which at one point wasn't served well enough by a single pulley system to discard all of the rapper's waste product, so he was thinking of installing a second one...which he never did, of course.

[@caves51]

Thom Winters he had a single chain then added a second ... brilliant

[@benjaminallan-clark174]

34 thumbs down. (Must be Benny Hill fans.) Long live "Two sheds"! One of the great Python skits.

[@hoopy6781]

Benny Hill was for the brain dead and he was a dirty old man.

[@doctordave]

My wife and I are house hunting, and came across a listing on Zillow for a house that has two sheds, and I laughed and then had to come find this video to explain why.

[@thenamelessavenger]

"Are you thinking of purchasing a second shed to bring you in line with your epithet?" Brilliant writing. In AND out of context that is damn funny.

[@theyakaflocka]

man, u british sure know how to make a comedy sketch. that was brilliant. "well i thought about buying a second shed so i got the nickname two sheds" funny stuff

[@andrewtakundwa2030]

I also had a shed in college....I didn't realize the sketch was this funny when they gave me the same nickname...

[@alextrill1746]

And did you buy a shed since then?

[@carminum]

My composition teacher, the late David Rowland, actually HAD two sheds!

[@u.v.s.5583]

So did he write his music in a shed?

[@carminum]

@@u.v.s.5583 This is what happened. During one of our lessons at conservatory we came to talk about the Arthur Jackson sketch. We laughed at the whole idea of a composer going out to his shed to do his composing. One day he decided, as he sometimes did, to teach from home, so he picked me up from the station and drove us to his house. When turning up the drive my eye was caught by two small adjacent buildings near the house. Recognising a 'Toad Elevating Moment' I shouted: You actually HAVE two sheds! He explained that he used the smaller shed for composing chamber music and the other one for writing large stage works. In reality the sheds were in use by his wife and him as garages for their cars. Of course it comes as no surprise that since then I frequently called him "Twosheds". But it gets even funnier. His house was in the country, a beautiful cottage like establishment surrounded by a forrest. The house and forrest were one property. Which probably makes David the only composer ever to have had two sheds and his own forrest. And for something completely surrealist now: imagine David and me taking a break from a lesson and have a little walk through the forrest... passing the two sheds. Leaves me with mentioning that Arthur Jackson is one of my favorite composers.

[@u.v.s.5583]

@@carminum Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this, sir! Monty Python is life!

[@ARichardP]

@@u.v.s.5583Great comment!

[@MCO18]

Turn on the auto captions at 0:33 "my friends call me two shits"

[@NeidalRuekk]

+Max Power And do you in fact, GIVE two shits?

[@NivMizzet89]

I wonder if you could comment about the sketch, instead of the shed. You are taking this shed thing out of proportion!

[@lafilledebeatles3]

Eric is simply gorgeoussss in the sketch. Gosh.:)

[@shogunblade]

This skit is deliciously great! I saw it at 2:30 in the morning, and I couldn't get to sleep because the joke dwelled in my head the evening.

[@peterbrown6224]

Did you watch it in your shed?

[@Fatherflot64]

"Get you own arts program, you fairy!"

[@keithbellew4101]

That's my favourite line

[@billfraser5066]

I think that line would probably cause riots at Berkeley these days.

[@chris127ukk]

It's worth buying another shed for your garden just so you can talk about this sketch

[@evajanus]

omg I love this one! 'tis one of my favs

[@esspaul]

The despair @1:20 .

[@SuperCryptical]

Comedic perfection. As were most of their skits...

[@cbr3220]

He aint the sharpest tool in the shed

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

A KZbin comment thread going off topic, reminded me of Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson.

[@arthurjackson6395]

This is how i got my name!!!

[@Sulkanator]

If you are serious that is fantastic. Hell, even if you aren't serious it's still great that you are indeed Arthur Jackson. How many sheds do you have, Arthur?

[@Robert-rw6pi]

The mere sight of a shed anywhere anytime makes me laugh because of this.

[@ARichardP]

There is a new performing arts building in NYC in Hudson Yards called “The Shed”. This sketch surely must have come up at some point during the design and construction.

[@carolkewley7410]

This and Rowan Atkinson's "John Elton" interview are genius.

[@RobertWilliams-ur5gi]

I have a friend who has two sheds. I rib him all the time and point out this video from Monty Python.

[@jukeboxhero30]

"Get your own arts program, ya fairy" 😂😂😂

[@oceangust]

I love it when they have the shed in the background with a question mark on it xD

[@rodrigezgozalo4780]

I am currently working on a new version of this called Ronald "three cabins"Nixon that will take the sketch to a new level using quadraphonic sound and 3d graphics.The stars from the original sketch are not yet involved.

[@johnbyrne2756]

How much funnier does it get? Correction -- how much funnier can it get?

[@HelenaVanCity]

Beatles... Beatles!... THESE are the true brilliant sons of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (no politics involved))))) Since Shakespeare, the most brilliant representatives of the English nation are MP! I wish I'd lived in their era... Thanks to all who upload their sketches on KZbin!

[@shellroom]

My father's first name is Arthur and he has two sheds. However, his surname is not Jackson. Doesn't stop my brother and I sometimes calling him Arthur "Two Sheds".

[@stanphillips9376]

I've only ever had one shed and it was a bugger to put up. I think two would exhaust me

[@joeduncan08]

“Never mind, Timmy” “Oh Michael, you’re such a comfort”

[@aardvaarkisgood]

I did have a shed once, then I decided to build another next to it. During building it, it collapsed, demolishing the first shed, so now I don't have any sheds at all. I think it ever so cruel to boast about being 'two sheds' when there are unfortunate 'no sheds' around.

[@biggermal1]

Thank goodness that there is no mention of a third shed !

[@justaguy328]

You just know his friends mocked him mercilessly for thinking of getting another shed hahaha

[@Whiplashr]

Monty Python humor is very random, non sequitur style of silliness. You either enjoy it, or you don't.

[@chris127ukk]

We have a shed at this moment in time,i just thought maybe if we bought another shed we could talk about this sketch a bit more than we do now,so I want to make this quite clear,we haven't bought another shed yet.

[@crescentfreshbret]

Gotta love the totally random and unexplained Viking.

[@ToldAlthea]

They were always throwing Vikings in on The Python. I started watching on Channel 2 in Boston when I was 15 years old in 1975. I used to gravitate towards those who understood and appreciated the brand of humor. If you were straight up Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, you probably weren't drinking with us in the woods behind Grace Chapel.

[@jb888888888]

Was there a shed back there?

[@profquill5658]

Ofttimes I get to use the Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson reference when I find myself in circumstances involving shed(s). Just today, a friend advised me that we WERE going to build a shed for a neighbor but he canceled out. To explain my hilarity over shedism I searched and found this video and hopefully my friend (I think not a particular devotee of Monty Python) can share in my appreciation of all things sheddy. PS. My DAD has 2 sheds. But should I call him 3-sheds, in the circumstance of his contemplating, but not acquiring, a third?

[@carolkewley7410]

When you inherit those sheds, will you then be Professor "3 sheds" Quill?

[@beeblebrux2112]

"then you would be called Arthur 'No Sheds' Jackson" I love this skit! Every time I break out my DVD set to watch some flying circus, this is always the first sketch I watch. It's a classic "Get your own arts program ya fairy"

[@panzertrup1]

I use this line toward my brother or any friend who have one shed. My sister-law hits me on the shoulder every time I ask them when they plan to build the second shed.

[@kefka242]

best sketch ever

[@13705]

@graemeoliver84 was definitely the inspiration for two jags and also two jabs when he got eggd! Power of monty python - how much of the English language have they influenced?

[@matomari]

I love this Shed-thing!

[@sir3543]

'Two Sheds' sounds like a gangster name.

[@petrusdecourtrai]

if he sells the shed he's Arthur 'No Sheds' Jackson hahaha... the guy can't win :-)

[@TheSilverDubberII]

A very good synopsis, bravo sir!

[@mduersten]

"To bring you in line with your epithet..." 😂😂

[@jasonmasterson3802]

that question mark that shows up when he says "what?"

[@GOFLuvr]

Twelve people we're expecting a conversation about music... But I don't see what the big deal is. I enjoy a good discussion about sheds!

[@mrfantastic407]

Lemon curry?

[@KingLashiec]

12 people had shed-based nicknames and made a big fuss over nothing, getting escorted out of the studio as a result.

[@u.v.s.5583]

"I wrote the timpani part in one shed, and the organ part in the other shed, so it became a symphony by Arthur Two Sheds Jackson!"

[@billfraser5066]

This is CLOSE to the most perfectly delivered comedy line ever. But the general consensus is that the "Incontinentia Buttocks" line from Life of Brian holds that spot.

[@shellroom]

Argh! You're absolutely right. And I'm supposed to be an English teacher! I must have been tired when I wrote it. Incidentally, I have one shed. Three years ago I had a shed, but NOT THE SAME ONE. The current one was assembled on the site of the old one. So during my life so far I have had two sheds, but not at the same time.

[@fabiolemme]

"make yourself scarce, two sheds!" I think I´ve never heard that expression before!!! :-)

[@gman8471]

Great sketch! So I wonder if this was actually the inspiration for John Prescott's "Two Jags" nickname.

[@chelseapoet3664]

I was just wondering the same thing, 12 years later!

[@buxman75]

I have a friend who bought himself a big tent. Almost immediatly after he put it up, he started having issues with it. Leaking, ropes ripping, etc. So he contacted support and wanted his money back. After many e-mails back and forth, they sent him, against his wishes, another tent! As bad as the first one. So, he became David 'Two-Tents' Harrier, much to my wife's and my amusement...😂. Now, a while later, he is David 'No Tents'.... as he burned both of them in a fit of rage...🤭

[@robertthebrute]

'Now then,did you write the symphony...in the shed?'

[@paktype]

Brilliant.