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

[@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

[@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…

[@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.

[@vordman]

Remarkably, Buzz Aldrin is still alive 52 years later.

[@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...

[@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.

[@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"

[@alltaken678]

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

[@MarkAtkin]

Followed by the wink at 4:16.

[@Doggeslife]

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

[@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

[@jkent9915]

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

[@Stof31]

Love all Pythons but my God Michael Palin is awesome.

[@NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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!

[@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!

[@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"*.

[@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

[@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.

[@murielsartre]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@stevenwebb3634]

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

[@cbaile]

...have to get a bigger bottle.

[@deathproofpony]

sahiblindberg Hah - thanks!

[@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.

[@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!”

[@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.

[@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.

[@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....

[@mrchuckmorris]

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

[@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...

[@dinahkyle3196]

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

[@romainsavioz5466]

OUT

[@firemarioproductions2003]

*Bobbies are after him!*

[@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."

[@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!

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

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

[@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.

[@D.Appeltofft]

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

[@SquirrelGamez]

The 4th wall exploded

[@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!"

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@JimmyLeeVanDePutte]

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

[@funkymonkstemple]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@grpvids1834]

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

[@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"...😉

[@stevenwebb3634]

I use Halitosis as well.

[@freeindeed7]

Michael and Eric are hilarious in this :D

[@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!

[@888fevertime]

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

[@twoninetwosevenone]

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

[@amandahugankiss4110]

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

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

I use rancid polecat after shave.😊

[@rocketman544]

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

[@maxpayne2574]

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

[@philipb2134]

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

[@blipblip88]

Wacky, surreal and marvelously Pythonesque! Thanks!

[@yeshevishman]

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

[@rayticket605]

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

[@henningdammann-emden]

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

[@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!

[@0g0dn0]

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

[@Tastaplaning]

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

[@Symos]

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

[@warzIbanez]

OUT!!!

[@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!

[@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.

[@meh8982]

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

[@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.

[@Choderus]

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

[@chrisdifonso717]

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

[@towgunnerusmc]

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

[@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!!

[@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...

[@mvmv-pn8zt]

I watched this stuff when I was around 9…. It’s the reason why I didn’t bother with oxbridge.

[@ProstheticWheelchair]

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

[@sonictelephone1526]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@stuartdryer1352]

I needed this.

[@KaizoeAzurum]

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

[@brianartillery]

..."A fishier requisitttttttttte'...

[@abcde_fz]

I remember, .... I remember being _just_ _the_ _right_ _age_ to accidentally find Monty Python on PBS and have it affect my sense of humor to this day. Just old enough to take it in, and just young enough that I spent the next ten years desperately trying to find it again, not realizing I was there at a very special moment in history when Monty Python sued the US Government and WON! Cheeky Brits...

[@vardellsfolly5200]

Those monbty pythons are very silly, naughty people.

[@jayneforryan4830]

As a teenager this was a favourite sketch.i was always saying requisite trying to do it like michael palin. I really got n my mates nerves but loved the play on words as the pythons did.good old days.requisite t.t ....😅

[@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 """

[@enoz.j3506]

You can see where Williams & Lucas got there shop sketch from.

[@justaman6972]

Rancid polecats number 2, keeps my skin nice and scaly ...lol

[@vardellsfolly5200]

Eric Idle,used to have beautiful hair once..!

[@guguigugu]

Λαυρέντιος Ψαροκάηκας oh my he was rather fetching wasn't he

[@user-kn4ge3gn8j]

The BBC often made him wear a wig in early sketches of of python - saying his hair was too long.

[@frankbarnwell____]

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

[@kebabsvein1]

If I could walk that way I wouldnt need after shave? I dont get it I think

[@otal2294]

He hurt his privates trying to shave them, i say

[@netzahuacoyotl]

Implying he's walking like a girl

[@fzerowipeoutlover]

Delta Tarkan Don't you mean he hurts his Semprini when he tries to shave them?

[@otal2294]

fzerowipeoutlover Perhaps xD

[@justforever96]

Freddy Aamodt It's an old cliche joke from way back when. It was used in dozens of old movies and comedy routines. I don't think it's supposed to make sense in this context, which is why they arrested him, for using a bad cliche joke. Although yes, he may be implying that he walks like a girl too, or a little of both.