Monty Python- Four yorkshiremen with Rowan Atkinson

Four yorkshiremen with John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin and Terry Jones

[@DaytonaRoadster]

Its great seeing Terry Jones cover his face trying so hard not to laugh at Cleese, and Cleese looked right at him and just keep going...how he managed to hold it together is beyond me

[@darkangelzephyron]

3:42 Terry is on the brink of exploding with laughter

[@jtb1990419]

Flamel yep. Even Terry couldn't handle Cleese when he started his bit. Even Cleese cracked a smile at the end, knowing that he made Terry corpse. He did the same when he made Michael Palin do the same when they did the Parrot Sketch live.

[@koen8185]

Terry and exploding , common practice for him

[@4ll3sb4n4n3]

John Cleese's delivery at the end could not have been any better. I'm dying here XD

[@CarlosMensuckass]

Hahaham seeing Cleese just stare him down at the end. I love those moments.

[@cyrilkubat4332]

Mr. Jones trying not to laugh is probably the best thing I've seen in a while. :D

[@renderizer01]

Don't forget Cleese gloating over him, enjoying every second of the carnage he inflicted.

[@ketmaniac]

Videos? We didn't have videos in my day. We had to draw every frame by hand on absorbent toilet paper while t'producer beat us to death with two foot of bicycle chain. It were the happiest days of my life.

[@kevincarpenter3428]

You had toilet paper? You were lucky,I had to wipe my arse with a rusty razor blade.

[@michaellavery4899]

@@kevincarpenter3428 Luxury. We didn't have arses.

[@kevincarpenter3428]

@@michaellavery4899 well when I say arses,it were a hole our fatha drilled into our backs .but it were an arse too us.

[@michaellavery4899]

@@kevincarpenter3428 We prayed for poncy holes drilled in our backs. The best we could hope for were festering sores in our eyes where deadly parasites would prey upon the detritus that nourished our unborn. None of them reached full term. We called them 'the lucky ones'. Edit. But we were happy.

[@gfoursux9]

A hand? Best we could manage was stumps.

[@sgguitar77]

Absolutely brilliant. Poor Terry Jones didn't stand a chance of keeping his laughter hid,sitting next to Cleese. And Cleese KNEW it!! Timeless stuff.

[@usmcfutball]

"Ah...we used to dream of livin' in corridor!" Absolutely first rate. This never gets old no matter how many times I watch.

[@1MarkandKim]

RIP Terry Jones Thanks for making this place so much nicer.

[@derek-press]

Terry looking at John at the end is comedy gold :)

[@SithCats]

I liked this before even watching it because I had that much faith in these four to be hilarious, and they did not disappoint.

[@00bikeboy]

Palin always had the best lines... and the delivery :-) My favourite Python.

[@manjiimortal]

I love Rowan's snarkiness, but Cleese steals the show at the end!

[@dlsamson]

Cleese's expression of panic at the end is priceless. What makes this skit so timeless (IMHO the best comedy routine ever!) is the fact that we all know someone(s) like this. Heck, this is who we elected US President (although not nearly as funny)

[@Kasino80]

this one's actually better than the original. Cleese and Atkinson ad something to it that makes it even funnier than the original.

[@ursine82]

agreed!

[@mehsmehmeh]

cleese was in the original

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

Atkinson & Cleese make a great sketch exceptional.

[@Shalashaska8636]

Proud Yorkshiremen here - people like this still exist!

[@davesmith9325]

Everyone in Yorkshire for a start 🤣

[@gubbin909]

Waking up in the morning at half past eleven at night. I need to try that.

[@gfoursux9]

A half an hour before you go to bed. That REALLY adds to the degree of difficulty.

[@javelin1010]

This is one of my all time favourite bits.

[@chanilastname7217]

I thought I had seen all Rowan Atkinson footage on youtube there was. Glad to find out I was wrong.

[@jsullivan2112]

Man, what an honour for those three to be able to work with Rowan Atkinson. I hope their career took off after this!

[@davesmith9325]

Rather the otherway around 🤣🤣🤣 they were comedy gods before Atkinson got going

[@notanfningain]

this just lifted my mood, thank God for rowan and the monty python crew

[@bastlake]

I'm fascinated by this english accent, the way they removed words like "A" or "The" from sentences "Slash us in half with bread knife", "We used to live in corridor", "Go down to pub" Simulaneously charming, and irritating ;)

[@stephenderry9488]

If you listen carefully there's actually a glottal stop, a variation to the shortened "the" or "thy" usually represented as t'corridor or t'pub, a distinctive feature of t'Yorkshire accent. The well-known Yorkshire song "On Ilkley Moor bar t'at" literally means on Ilkley Moor without your (thy) hat.

[@crazypianolady]

My grandad speaks like this, I love it. My favourite English accent!

[@michaelsullivan3581]

Favorite sketch EVER!

[@LetMeBeYourPlantasy]

Love it! "And dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle... if we were lucky" :D

[@AMcGrath82]

As an American, I must say it took time for me to learn the cultural facets of Britain. But it's easy to understand the appeal of regional dialect, at least from a linguistic standpoint.

[@wherearemysheep1]

That is nothing.We used to live in a sponge.Not only it was bad during winter,but during summer we couldn't get out nor in.

[@uzaricanin07]

i used to get up in the morning half past ten half an hour before i went to bed... love it!!! XD

[@yukiyofure]

Concert from the early 80's called The Secret Policeman's Ball. Python skits live - cheese shop, dead parrot, this one and others. Music mixed in as well with Pete Townsend, Bob Geldof, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck together and others. Great movie. Also did sequal called Secret Policeman's 'Other' Ball. Filmed live in London as charity events.

[@cybawatt]

Oh, we used to dream of drawin' on toilet paper. We had draw every frame on used tissue usin' a broken pencil stub between our toes and the producer decapitated us with a garden hose.

[@RedDragonM1]

Bah! Your lucky...I used to live with my 13 siblings in a cardboard box at the bottom of the trainstation...and we had to get up at 2am, eat a lump of rabid rat shit, work 14 hours at the mill, and come back and our mom and dad would shoot us with a shotgun, and eat our stomachs! If we were lucky! And we were greatful, let me tell you!

[@Erajka]

its the only version you can get of this particular one.

[@tsimon1234]

I've been up to Yorkshire to do a scout hike (3 Peaks) It was great fun and everyone we met was really friendly. I love to go again. Still gotta go. From down here in southern England, C'ya!

[@shashwati]

AWESOME!! singin aallelujah...thanks a lot for this one

[@lexo30]

True. Palin is from Sheffield.

[@tsimon1234]

Y'know I think this sketch has a place in everyones hearts. I just LOVE it!

[@vicentehizon6202]

Rowan is Monty Python's unofficial 7th member.

[@DonMeaker]

We used to live in a shoe box in the middle of the road, with nothing to eat but gravel. Oooh, you had gravel? How lucky!

[@romanramirez7847]

For this performance of the skit, Terry is in the Tim Brooke-Taylor role from the original skit, Rowan is in the Graham Chapman role, and Michael is in the Marty Feldman role. Of course Cleese reprised his role from the original skit.

[@lexo30]

This was one of the late 70s Amnesty International benefit gigs - probably the Secret Policeman's Ball. (The first one.) Cleese organised a lot of these gigs and the DVD set is worth checking out, because he plays an absolute blinder whenever he's performing. His live version of the Parrot Sketch is soo much better than the original (which is great) that it's hard to believe.

[@robthesamplist]

Freezing cold poison lol

[@gfoursux9]

Yeah. 'Cause regular old 'Room Temperature' Poison just won't do the trick.

[@raptormancro]

I like how they are trying not to laugh at the end.

[@Guratza]

3:39 john cleese ALMOST laughs hahaha

[@applecross20]

This is the best version of all.

[@frankyh101]

my favourite comedy sketch to date

[@tinysteelorchestra]

LUXURY!!!!!

[@PsychV]

Ha ha! Yeah your on about 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' minhmeo - That's a brilliant sketch as well ;)

[@takirstarkilx]

we use to dream of living in a corridor LMAO !!!

[@Stevo935]

How did Rowan get subbed in for this one, anyway? Was Eric Idle unavailable? What a contribution! Classic skit by four legends.

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

The greatest!

[@gendercriticalvt4840]

I've spent not nearly enough time in Yorkshire. This gets it.

[@slytherinsheirx]

It's like that game where you go from person to person.. one says A, the next says A and B, the first does A, B and C and so on to Z and remember what the last person said or you lose... But... With worse sounding results... And a hell of a lot funnier!

[@jjnonken]

After 30+ years of watching British comedy, and other exposure to British culture, I have a clue. Now... understanding Colonel Grapple in "How I Won the War"... THAT is a challenge. BTW, this is one of my favorite Python skits.

[@UlrikSG]

Where is this from.? I´ve never seen it before. Of course i have seen - Four Yorkshiremen at the Hollywood Bowl. When was it filmed? It´s brilliant

[@amyjones637]

this is from the secret policeman's ball (1979) the hollywood bowl show was 1982 :)

[@jimbo271uk]

its not an official python sketch, it was first show on "at last the 1948 show" with marty feldman

[@amyjones637]

it did appear in flying circus as well but yes it indeed started there

[@Erajka]

yes but i meant that this is the only version you can get with this one. when he said that the ending was missing but its not.

[@kinsmed]

Atkinson is the long lost fifth Python!

[@EmperorAst]

Yes you're right. I thought he said "if we were looking" but he said "lucky".

[@EyalItsik]

Funny how Terry cracked up at the end :D

[@DaytonaRoadster]

@TroyTempest0 thats interesting, i know in french the vowel is often removed from an article, so 'le entudiante', becomes l' entudiante, its pronounced the same, but the vowel is taken off...wonder if they are related

[@Mjattie]

lol this is nice!!! DUTCH SUBTITLES ^^ Happy to see that :) btw very very funny!!

[@Funnygirl335]

this is brilliant. thanks.

[@dan892k7]

lol, sort of. I just moved to Leeds, and they tend to say things like "I'm ont' bus" or "I'm off tuht' shop" or whatever. I'm from the North Yorkshire/Teeside border though, so I get the Geordie-esque accent, with a little bit of Yorkshire thrown in for the fun of confusing Southerners :-p Dan

[@bluesboy8237]

Being from the north, Rowan Atkinson did actually talk in a similar accent once.

[@jurrasicparkvideocompilation]

Rip terence

[@viridismonasteriense]

No, there's also a version without Rowan Atkinson in it, and in his place Graham Chapman. That one's Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

[@romanramirez7847]

viridismonasteriense And Eric Idle is in place of Cleese.

[@ExtraReview]

hahahaha, rowan should do more stuff with them

[@kez0208]

Rowan's accent is best.

[@arschpirate]

Brilliant!

[@dansbiglog]

luxury! our home was the small intestines of a dung beetle. every day me & my 96 siblings had 2 fight a family of rabid brazillian ladyboys 4 the piece of chalk mother would leave for breakfast in the mouth of a nile crocodile, then plait the pubic hairs of 50 albanian shepherds b4 7am or we didnt get our shins broken... happy days

[@rail11389]

Yes

[@rail11389]

You were lucky to have a pencil. We had to draw on sandpaper in our own blood in the dark. 'cause we 'et our only candle, t'source of light an heat for all 60 of us, on Christmas day two year previous.

[@dbmozart]

Palin should know the right accent, since he's born in Sheffield, shouldn't he?

[@lhcarter]

@Ditypo What do Americans think? I thought it was darn funny when I saw it in the movies when it came out, "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" -- and I still think it is!

[@MarxistKnight]

They all used to work int' mill! :)

[@mashamorgan]

In a cracked cup n' all !!!

[@bastlake]

@TroyTempest0 Agreed, not to be made fun of. And thanks for the info!

[@FandPrulethesky]

yep

[@netenute]

Luxury.

[@oncsaba]

I love British humour :)

[@Shantari]

@WhaGoSon Secret Policeman's Ball, year 1979.

[@wizarddrongo]

Old people moaning about "how tough it was in their day" can be found the world over. Admittedly the yorkshire humour (down mill) stuff would be lost, but the sketch is a great example of universal humour...

[@Mayna00]

When Terry's laughing at the end there .. does he not look A LOT like DeNiro?

[@MrBrew4321]

Omg, I just laughed so hard what the hell was that?

[@neithere]

@TheHateYouHATEYOU you mean double epic win

[@Erajka]

@Mayna00 haha never thought about that before, but after you said it, i agree!

[@Captainzoom666]

haha being fast has nothing to do with timing, waiting for the right moment must be the hardest ..

[@AceTrax2007]

Sorry, I watched it again and it was complete. o_0

[@minhmeo1209]

Anyone knows the show Rowan Atkinson performed with his three other friends but they're reading a book and Rowan was talking shit language? Maan, i just like that one so much

[@e.k.6337]

The man in the thumbnail looks like De Niro.. 😄

[@romanramirez7847]

I feel like this version of the Yorkshiremen sketch is pretty good but I think the Hollywood Bowl version with Graham and Eric in place of John and Rowan is slightly better. The banter they have with Terry and Michael is much smoother and funnier in my opinion.

[@sturmtigerDMW]

i believe them...

[@firesyde424]

at 3:44, does it look like the guy on the right is trying to keep from laughing?

[@cybawatt]

You were lucky.

[@maniac1075]

What was this part of?

[@batmanofni]

Where are Idel and Chapman.

[@kez0208]

HA! do i really talk like that...? oh dear.

[@gaunten]

What is the name of the show this is from? I remember my brother having it on VHS when I was a kid, but I can't find it now

[@ZachCG]

Adam Nilsson sorry i'm 6 years late but it's from At Last The 1948 Show

[@Fcblover]

@@ZachCG isn't this from the secret policeman's ball, a charity for amnesty international ?

[@johnmorgan4350]

Not the same without Idle and Chapman

[@EmperorAst]

Well it's a bit difficult to follow with this accent, though this makes it a good sketch.

[@cybawatt]

Was that a wax candle?

[@britboyal]

where were Graham and Eric?

[@romanramirez7847]

britboyal They were not at this show I believe. Wish they were though. I feel like Graham and Eric doing this skit with Terry and Michael was the best version of this skit.

[@pigeonshouse]

Apparently it's 1979