Monty Python - Hairdressers Expedition on Everest

[@edwardmclaughlin7935]

The team of French chiropodists actually made it to the summit, which was no mean feet.

[@co94]

They spoke with their feet and made a pied announcement.

[@eagleeye2300]

Brilliant, even before 7:00 am.this morning, lol.

[@brianjones7660]

focus is everything; they accomplished their sole purpose....

[@maltrho]

They proved it by the most marvelous footage.

[@mikkelbreiler8916]

Sans pied ?

[@iandaniel2153]

Bloody brilliant ... after five decades the humour still hits the right dry spot.

[@portcullis5622]

35 years after I first saw this sketch, whenever I dump my fishing gear before having a look at the river (or arrive on a beach), I still think to myself "Where shall I set up base salon?".

[@mewpertybewtox7887]

Haha love it 😂

[@nyemartin5737]

Pinching that, that's brilliant 😂

[@vs9950]

😂😄😄😄😄😄

[@luminyam6145]

That's great!!🤣👍

[@mustafa1name]

Bass salmon?

[@chriswarburtonbrown1566]

The Glaswegian Orpheus Choir couldn't quite get a Handel on it, so they went Bach down to bass camp.

[@waltermorley5977]

@@chriswarburtonbrown1566 they were going to be chopin wood.

[@Kate-f1n]

Ok, momma will spank if u two don't stop...🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️😆

[@jeanettecook1088]

Aarrghhhhh! 😂

[@BrucknerMotet]

@@Kate-f1n If threatened with spankings, it stands to reason they might run away ... and if so I'll be they'll be Haydn out!

[@BrucknerMotet]

@@Kate-f1n Criticizing the humor that drives chriswarburtonbrown1566's comment? That makes you a Bax seat driver!

[@jasonsmith902]

After a blazing row

[@Vejur9000]

Some of the greatest comic geniuses of all time, were the ensemble known as Monty Python. Legends of comedy.

[@anned372]

When we were allowed to laugh 🤭

[@BruceAlarie]

@@anned372 we still MUST!

[@sailormanoyster1849]

Very true🎉

[@feifeskufus]

“Be number one on top when you’re number one on top” - perfect punch line for the sketch

[@HelenKelly-t3d]

"Well, he decided to open a salon." kills me every time. A hair-raising tale that tops them all!.

[@JakobusVdL]

what foresight, to imagine the congestion that happens on Everest these days - Ricky Pules salon would do a great passing trade

[@grahamwalls9379]

Still totally mental after all these years . Love monty python .

[@Playsinvain]

Lol. Mental. Perfect. That’s a term I haven’t used for 40 years

[@notgadot]

@@Playsinvain Are you not living in England anymore?

[@Playsinvain]

@@notgadot now that you mention it…I guess I am not

[@notgadot]

@@Playsinvain Why not?

[@Playsinvain]

@@notgadot well…I’m an American for one

[@wernerclarssen2939]

We got the Flying Circus on television in Germany when I was a teenager. We met up every Wednesday in a quite consistant group to watch it together at one of my friend's home. Sometimes we laughed so much that we cried😂😂😂 ❤❤❤ Best comedy ever!!!

[@TheHal90000]

German tv even produced one part of the show, I think. "Happy Valley" was in title.

[@steveg8322]

Chiropodists using Dr . Scholls mountaineering sandals. ...

[@OroyaSixtyFive]

I was a Monty Python addict. PBS, Ch 12, Philadelphia aired it 11pm weekday nights and I would watch religiously. Got my Sister hooked and even my Father couldn't help himself. The most sublimely ridiculous comedy ever. Love it.

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

I could have had that life, but my parents wouldn't allow me to watch it.

[@gilwood7530]

Oh my god ...Same here !!! WHYY ...Channel 12 ...back in the days of 48 , 29 17 ...and 3, 6 and 10 ...found THE GOODIES on PBS too

[@cristop5]

Sometimes I thought it was getting TOO silly. But usually the army would step in before things got out of hand.

[@89horizon]

WHYY had all the "Britcoms" back in the day! Monty Python, Mr. Bean, Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances, etc.

[@deejayk5939]

Me too!

[@meerkat7406]

I must say Rick Pule's Salon has always come to my rescue after days of wind tossed climbing, evenings of fine dining, dancing and romance with the Sherpas.

[@JohnEltin]

Oh Jaysus, please stop!!,😂

[@garyfrancis6193]

You too?

[@ianburton8050]

i thought i had seen and knew every monty python sketch ever made...dont know how i missed this gem, gives hope that there is still more out there.

[@bctrailbagger]

same... i used to have a 15 DVD box set, maybe i missed this one!

[@TomLuTon]

Series 3, episode 5 "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition"

[@knitwit014]

First time too!

[@notgadot]

@@TomLuTon *SummariSe

[@peternesbitt]

Germany vs Greece International Philosophy FINAL kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2OUgH1uiNB1g7M

[@bigredc222]

Oh she's a treasure, that get's me every time.

[@MrUmandMrEr]

A Python sketch in 1972, a documentary in 2023.

[@ireneuszfus8398]

I feel like "Queers for Palestine" would fit perfectly into it as well

[@Mrbfgray]

@@ireneuszfus8398 Imagine them making it to base camp. 😄

[@thisravenhasflown010]

For you snowflakes of today😂😂

[@thisravenhasflown010]

​@@ireneuszfus8398I see the real issue😂

[@thisravenhasflown010]

​@@Mrbfgraywho cares about them, you closet entertainment will do wonderfully 😂😂

[@gordonscott6180]

Life imitates art. Climbing mt everest has become even more farcical than this sketch.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

They did say "the biggest tits in the world."

[@Mrbfgray]

Hillary still adorns the mountain, tad dehydrated (mummified) and under dressed by todays standards.

[@BSnell-y5o]

😂

[@mikeymike758]

Boy did they ever predict the future, decades ago!

[@chiefline7084]

Yes they did. Unfortunately

[@garyfrancis6193]

Have you been to Rick’s at 24,000 feet then?

[@NickJohnCoop]

Absurdist humour at It's best.

[@kayper54]

This is one of my favorite MP sketches; this, and the climbing of the Uxbridge Road.

[@jamesbong4928]

I've climbed it many a time when I were a yooong lad, and it were a luuuxury.

[@u.v.s.5583]

You guys both should join me and my twin brother to the expedition to Kilimanjaro under the world famous Head brothers!

[@notgadot]

*favoUrite

[@jimsimpson1006]

This sketch was so far ahead of it's time. Now everybody really does want to climb Everest.

[@JohnEltin]

Exxxactly my thoughts. Join the sheep 🐑

[@malibustacy3606]

The stairs make it so much easier.

[@feraldarryl]

I’m waiting til they install the escalator

[@PALACIO254]

It's what lead to the rainbow valley

[@herauthon]

Whool i then ..whool i then.. so BEH the local sheep.. BEH the local sheep.. right on top of the fine pine tree together with Herald.. FLY AWAY ! FLY AWAY !

[@journeyer58]

When the Monty Python and His Flying Circus came out in S. Fla, in the early 1970's I was a teenager looking for the best wit and humor around. This exactly filled the bill. Monty Python's Flying Circus was and is the best. Their skits were absolutely great. Thank you BBC for the best humor in the history of the world.

[@markmccarty9910]

I endorse that!

[@chrisweidner4768]

Mark McCarty As freshmen we ended every evening with them thanks to public television.

[@RadicalCaveman]

Thank you BBC? Have you ever seen Monty Python's takes on BBC Programming Directors?

[@bulldoggery]

He might not be British, the US' public station is PBS

[@thomasmain5986]

Don't thank the BBC, they had no idea what Monty Python was, they only knew that they were Oxbridge types (From the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge) and let them in because they were snobs. As to Monty Python's comedy the BBC never understood it or appreciated it, they just knew it was popular.

[@typerexc]

The world needs more of this.

[@Alexandre-ep5kx]

Absolutely the GOAT of comedy. Genius

[@BruceAlarie]

i didnt see any goats

[@Alexandre-ep5kx]

@@BruceAlarie I meant G.O.A.T. which stands for Greatest Of All Time 🙃

[@Iazzaboyce]

Most people think of male hairdressers as not being very tough, but this proves you should never prejudge people.

[@hamishanderson6738]

Hillaryous!

[@jamesbong4928]

I'll ava numba 1 cumbu ta

[@leonidjoseph5483]

Comedy movie proves what about barbers

[@johnrobertd748]

Haha

[@itskittyme]

this is a sketch

[@WednesdaysDragon]

There's only one Monty Python's Flying Circus! Rule Brittania! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Bran9]

Like brittania it's all in your past 😂

[@georgejordan5611]

I love how they set it up with a serious sounding narrator in a documentary form! Total silliness!

[@Pioneers_Of_Cinema]

The narrator is a frequent feature of Python. One of the funniest is the sketch of the premiere of 'Holy Grail' at a cinema. When proceedings get delayed, the TV commentator to fill in time, switches over to another commentator for a very detailed description of the car park behind the cinema, where parking is arranged in a crescent formation, was opened in 1947 by Gary Cooper and is self-draining.

[@nickspong8265]

Damn . Italians took the hairnets ... Germans took the ice beds .... Shame Teazy did not use conditioner ... Awful frizz at the summit

[@BalefulBunyip]

Still made me laugh. As a long time tine bushwalker. When setting up camp I still ask the question - "where should we set up base salon"

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

There's always SO much bitching in the tents! And beating about the bush!

[@michaelbailey8729]

The only side of life I love is watching people not take themselves too seriously clowning around. That bloke with the teeth cracked that bird up.

[@BluebirdFrank]

Brilliant irreverent humour at its British best - sadly long gone and much needed now!

[@rogerthompson1622]

Probably, sadly, it would not be allowed now - just think of the thousands that their humour would offend !

[@robertlloyd122]

Yooooooouuuuu haven't seen Cunk, have you?

[@myronlarimer1943]

Yeah. Today’s so-called humor is nothing more than embarrassing jr. high bathroom humour that people only laugh at because it makes them uncomfortable so they laugh because it is a way to deflect the embarrassment, rather than laughing because it is actually funny..

[@pegasus5287]

We need more humor these days! Thank you for the giggle today

[@AdamWildavsky]

"… taking with them the last of the hairnets." Somehow I missed this sketch 48 years ago!

[@teknical100]

This was fringe comedy at it's most cutting edge.

[@gamleskalle1]

No fridge here!

[@zeddyded]

"there was a lot of bitching in the tents..." genial!

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

I enjoyed that, too.

[@random22026]

2:53 '13,000 South Col'--now THAT'S an exclusive address! 😆

[@tuttt99]

Mount Everest. Forbidding. Aloof. Terrifying. No, I'm sorry we don't go there.

[@aaronjennings8385]

I knew that warming yourself with a hair dryer was a good way to counter frostbite.

[@Sr19769p]

😂

[@TheAnnanymous]

I got a pair of those Dr. Scholl's Mountaineering Sandals! They are great! I use them on every single ascent above 3.000 m and they always carried me till the top! :-)

[@RadicalCaveman]

Yes, and your feet are still dress-sandal ready when you get down!

[@Chafflives]

Must have been a limited edition. I can’t find them on their website now.

[@louisebeck9912]

Lol 😂

[@notgadot]

Fantastic

[@sdingeswho]

“It was terrible! We had to use the last of the heavy oxygen equipment just to keep the blow-dryers going 😮! …” A classic among classics, in the Monty Python oeurve 😎🇬🇧✌️! Remembering this some 45 years after I first saw it 😁❤️!

[@IusedtohaveausernameIliked]

Monty Python thought they were doing satire but these days the number of "hairdressers" trying to climb Everest, with the Sherpas doing all the work, is enough to form large queues even at the top of the world's tallest mountain. And I'm not even being the slightest bit satirical.

[@glenmorgan4597]

They done quite well for hairdressers though

[@charitysghost1207]

This was wonderful. I've never seen this one before.

[@gnosticmom2805]

"Dr. Scholl's Mountaineering sandals"! Tres chic en la mont!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

What about Watney's Red Barrel?

[@CWinther95]

"Well, he decided to open a salon." kills me every time

[@ritvikchaturvedi7983]

+Chris Winther I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Salon!

[@davebellamy4867]

"Ricky and I had a blowdry and rinse" got me 😂

[@jobaecker9752]

A hair-raising tale that tops them all!

[@Sr19769p]

😂. Nice!

[@tatzybatzy1286]

The explorer’s hair dos I’m dying 😂😂😂😂

[@djo9941]

Comedic genius. We sat and watched Monty Pyrhon as a family!

[@markdicristofaro904]

Was there any subject that Monty Python wouldn't mess with? Major LOL!

[@kpl455]

The title alone is funnier than almost all comedians today.

[@J2M67]

Les Monty Pythons ! La meilleure contribution de l' Angleterre au monde entier...

[@HorseloverFat-ss3ff]

Vraiment.

[@stevenmorris2293]

What ? Like 50 years later still hilarious ! 😅

[@VickersDoorter]

Please donate generously to Barbers without Borders and Wash n'set sans Frontières.

[@acts9531]

I remember this when it first aired on TV, I think it was in the early to mid 70's sometime. I was watching TV with my Dad and Monty Python's Flying Circus came on. When they said "biggest tits" my Dad nearly crapped himself -- "They can't say "tits" on TV" ... Can they say "tits" on TV?" ... "They just said "tits" on TV, didn't they?" That was considered very racy back then. It was the first time either of us had ever heard anyone say "tits" on TV.

[@Brinta3]

Now I want to hear John Cleese say every possible word for ‘tits’.

[@donjohnson3701]

It was one of the seven words you couldn’t say on tv, as identified by George Carlin in his monologue. Maybe British tv was different and they snuck it by the censors. By the way, Grand Tetons are grande............

[@kerryedavis]

What did they think of the actual nudity?

[@TheSoundsage]

@@kerryedavis Nudity was acceptable in the U.K. as long as completely unattractive nudes were employed.

[@kerryedavis]

@@TheSoundsage the newsstand girl was not unattractive.

[@spmoran4703]

I had a pleasant stroll up the mountain to see my hairstylist Jeanette. I was very pleased . I came back down with a bew hairstyle. A 1920s flapper style Bobbed cut . It looks great . Every one says so. And it was well worth the journey. Jeanette will style your haur proffessionally as she gas done mine for only £25. Now thats cheap.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

A team of chiropodists wearing Dr. Scholl's mountaineering sandals.

[@jessiethegeek]

Eric and mike are the two best campy peopkel ever.We couldnt do a sketch like that here in america.Oh and erics hair is fabulous in this. oh and mikes voice "shes a treas

[@icescrew1]

I was actually on the support team for this climb.

[@DreadX10]

"You were lucky!" I was only the seventh reserve tea-cup bearer on the expedition for "Climbing the North face of the Uxbridge road."

[@icescrew1]

@@DreadX10 don't downplay your contribution. That groundbreaking accent couldn't have come to pass with the unending deluge of Earl Grey ! Onward ! Thru the fog !

[@Tareltonlives]

Only 24,000 feet from this cinema! This is a new one

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

Yes, indeed. I love the past.

[@Hol1984]

"She's a treas!" hahahaha Liking the unshaven Palin!

[@michaelnagle8250]

"Oh, intercourse the penguin!"

[@nigelcarren]

The first time I watched this I laughed! Now here I am catching it in the 21st century for the first time expecting waves of nostalgia, but instead all I can think is: Damn I miss my hair! 🇬🇧🤔

[@sdgoes99]

Me 2

[@nigelcarren]

@@sdgoes99 My thoughts are with your family at this difficult time brother! Stay strong grow an elaborate compensatory beard and start collecting hats! (Cue national anthem) 🇬🇧🤠👍

[@muchopomposo.6394]

Fabulous..! I remember seeing it first time around. I laughed like a drain, then, and did again on seeing this..! Tremendous stuff! 🎉

[@jenikaelbedour3779]

Ahhh….WHY does this make me laugh so hard? Must be the laugh track….

[@dennisriblett4622]

16 years ago We all laughed ....Now I hesitate to share it .

[@paterson5984]

Apparently a team of Spanish detectives followed them shouting what’s a foot

[@TravelWithTerahTX]

The world needs Python.....now! 😊

[@quad1000]

Climbing Mount Everest, not for the weak-willed or faint of heart; but if you've got the right stuff why look bad doing it

[@Gerasimo_Carbone]

0:10 'the mountain with the biggest 'teats' in the world' - God Save the Monty Python & the British Sense of Humour !!!

[@davebellamy4867]

0:53 Colonel Butler trimming the cabbages.😂🤣

[@alex-1314]

Outrageously ridiculous and still extremely funny. Maybe not so popular with some camp hairdressers. 😂

[@jamesbong4928]

Oh come on, they've a SOH too...

[@Morethanbobsonofbob]

Are they base camp hairdressers?

[@jamesbong4928]

@@Morethanbobsonofbob very camp

[@robflynn509]

@@Morethanbobsonofbob Basically camp hairdressers I think...

[@michaelwhalen2442]

South Col. Lhotse. North Ridge. I'm pissing my pants...

[@AndyCigars]

I cannot see anything on Everest anymore without thinking of hairdressers attempting the summit.

[@geoffaldwinckle1096]

I see mammaries...

[@60skidlostinspace]

.I wonder if I can get a perm at base camp 3 for noonish on the 18th.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@60skidlostinspaceSorry, Patrice is booked solid until April.

[@malcolmabram2957]

I set up a burger bar at the summit. It is now doing a roaring trade. Sherpa's get a well deserved discount.

[@harpothehealer]

The Brilliant, brilliant and one more brilliant Monty Python,😎

[@Kiyoone]

Damn, this skit is like a prophecy

[@Frisbieinstein]

The Grand Teton mountains in Wyoming truly deserve their name.

[@aeromodeller1]

Yep. Bunch of French explorers hadn't seen a woman in four years.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"Alors, look a' de teet on dat one."

[@gregiles908]

Recently worked on a construction site with a rough as guts machine operator who was previously a hairdresser for 20 years. I said "Barber?", he said "no, Hairdresser" so that clarified that.

[@markmorrison4539]

"Why not drop in at Ricky Pule's!"-LOL

[@hni7458]

Hill(sic)arious! I regret to say Sir Christian Bonington didn't ask Monty P for help after all.

[@chavruta2000]

gotta go back to early Monty Python to get the truly weird stuff like this.

[@jessiethegeek]

omigosh that was the funniest thing. Micheal is so good at being effeminate. and i love eric idles hair in this "Dr scholls mountaneering sandals" "A blowdry and rinse,we couldnt go out for a few days" Almost fell off the couch

[@jamesbong4928]

😂🤣😂

[@gilwood7530]

Thats the one that still kills me

[@FreeMusicTube]

I love documentaries

[@margaretthatcher6828]

This never gets old...

[@Driven2Beers]

At the Mountains of F*gness! Love this sketch! 🌈

[@MrPicklerwoof]

01:57 I have no idea why, but John Cleese is brilliant here. He has no lines whatsoever but somehow he's hilarious.

[@Turambar3791]

I thought the same XD

[@divinitaazteca]

I think he actually mumbles Bitch to the lady lol

[@frankhanlon3624]

OMG! I've only watched the entire series 3000 times and totally missed that!

[@davebellamy4867]

​@@divinitaaztecaYes he did. I didn't notice until I read your comment. Gave me an excuse to watch it a tenth time.

[@alpha51omega38]

As a high altitude mountaineer decades ago, I laugh so hard seeing this as it truly mocks one of the 'holiest' of British traditions. The claim that Brits had back in the early days to Everest and all top mountaineering in the world in those decades. A great clip.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

First guys (with certainty) at that peak were Kiwi and Sherpa.

[@pootdaggy2657]

Half expected to see Dennis Moore riding up to the rescue leading 200 troops of the McKamikaze's.

[@Sedalb]

I need to get myself some Dr. Scholls mountaineering sandals!

[@ChrisSummerfield]

Zany and ahead of there time with the greatest of humor.

[@leijenburgh01]

Dutch cheesmakers, “the salty Clogs” reached K2 first and discovered that the view was gouda, and couldn’t resist bringing a little whey to the top!

[@johnellis955]

Many decades ago The Goons did a TV cartoon of the team mounting an expedition to get a Grand piano to the top of Everest. I thing the Python team were probably inspired by the efforts of Minnie and co.

[@roys8870]

Monty Python was way ahead of its time. They could have done a skit today on the "Rainbow Space Force". But maybe not. They will be cancelled immediately by very serious people who do not see the humor in it.

[@momeara7482]

Humour

[@TornadoCAN99]

Even funnier now that Everest expeditions have become some common and commercialized today.

[@reuireuiop0]

Yeah, that map of routes taken (2m22) might well be a realistic view of how things are today, people have to be walking in line to reach ... Oh wait.. That map proves, no one really kept in line ! No wonder so many freeze to death up there.

[@leonwatts1420]

British humour at its best which only the British would get. Totally the best lmao

[@tmoln2131]

Back in the day ....Well taken in Canada as well....a British "colony" 🙂

[@KatWoodland]

Canned laugh tracks are the real star of the show here. How can anyone hear the jokes?

[@wildfood1]

"Taking with them the last of the hair nets." One setback after another...

[@z2u]

this is the brilliance of the the Brits - never to be seen again

[@deeprollingriver52]

I’m going camping with my dog this month. Maybe I can set up a base salon for dog grooming