Monty Python - live courtroom sketch with Peter Cook.

[@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy]

Love how they have Terry Gilliam just sitting there for no reason, LOL.

[@benik234]

The sketch has been edited - I have the full version in sound only and he was there as the sole 'member of the jury'. Carol Cleveland didn't just sit there either, she had a couple of lines. And quite a lot of the dialogue was taken out as well - for example the list of murder victims at the start was originally even longer...

[@raidenshred]

"Mister Bartlett, you do realize you are meant to be counsel for the defense?" Best gag in the whole thing, and John's reaction.

[@conchubharcinnfhaolaidh3341]

RIP Terry Jones, comic genius

[@azapro911]

"He's not completely dead but he's not at all well."

[@akf2000]

how have i never seen this before?!! Python AND Cook? PYTHON AND COOK

[@Zoras88]

He never wanted to be a lawyer....... He always wanted......to be a lumberjack!

[@freeindeed7]

Cleese is so funny interrogating Cook. thanks for putting this up

[@olleronn616]

I have to say, considering that blunder of an opening, the defense attorney really managed to turn things around!

[@JaneXemylixa]

That's right! Think outside the box and, above all else, believe in your client! (or something to that effect)

[@tonybeards9153]

Peter Cooke and John Cleese together. What a combination 😁😁😁😂😂😂

[@WarwickFry]

Absurdity is so loveable

[@harrietamidala1691]

John Cleese walks in and everybody applauds!

[@Back2Goodtimes]

A part-time lumberjack and part-time lawyer...!

[@Altinget]

He didn't want to be there, he wanted to be a LUMBERJACK. 😂

[@kt9166]

Almost word for word from the original Python TV series. That shows how excellent writing is excellent writing.

[@biggles1111]

-Yes or no! -Yes I murdered these people. -ANSWER THE QUESTION! Always cracks me up, together with John's laugh.

[@ChainNonSmoker]

If he's not completely dead, what's he doing in the coffin? - Oh! It's merely a precaution milord ! Gold, just comedy gold, I can't believe how incredibly talented they were.

[@WarningDontReadThis]

haha xD Peter Cook + Pythons, cant get better.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Funny that Nicholas Parsons was in the list of murder victims as, years later, Peter Cook played Mr Jolly in a Comic Strip Presents episode, where he was a hitman who was supposed to take out Nicholas Parsons.

[@PointlessSillyName]

pineapplepenumbra Brilliant observation! I completely missed that, and I had Mr Jolly Lives Next Door on VHS for years!

[@michealpallett5708]

Just brilliant bring it back

[@flurkoneko]

Rather agreeable, good sir.

[@JohnSmith-my8yp]

I really must protest you shooting my client ---- LOOOOL

[@cathartic555]

Isn't this a combination of about thre Monty Python sketches all combined into a super-sketch?

[@petergedd9330]

Ahh this is what it's all about, just glass of wine and watching my favourite comedians of all time.....Oh Yes...Guilty As Charged!!

[@stravinsky1300]

Judge: He's not completely dead? Mr. Bartlett: No, he's not completely dead, m'lord, no. But he's not at all well. Mr. Aldridge: I'm getting better! Mr. Bartlett: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment!

[@rvdrvd1000]

I didn't think anything was funny, until I discovered British humor.

[@PoshByDefault]

lolz "It's merely a precaution" seems to get you out of anything!

[@davidharrison6615]

sorry im late , i could not find a kosher carpark . thank god im English such madness is what keeps us going !

[@bobbytate9907]

Now THAT is how rock a theatrical comedy sketch

[@Neosaintjimmy]

HAHAHAHAHAH!we've weedled it out of you at last!

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Funny thing is John Cleese (or cheese) is really a graduate of oxford law and being the nuisance to many barristers associations and the talk of Queen's court judges including the high crown judges. A menace trough and through!

[@jongadsby1623]

Wonderful manic comedy and as an Expert Witness of some experience Love the parody!!!! sorry accurate appearance of a Court hearing and the Barristers having their own version of the facts!!!

[@PRR5406]

I wish the sound was better. THis is a send up of another Python routine performed after Cleese took a hiatus from the group.

[@stewarthalliwell]

Still the funniest thing ever

[@cbak12sg]

This looks The Secret Policeman's Ball

[@____Ai____]

the name "arthur aldrige" was used in "at last the 1984 show", a show JC did with graham chapman, tim brooke-taylor and marty feldman before monty python

[@ClaudiaGonzalezKinkyFloyd]

At last the 1948 show 😉

[@rvdrvd1000]

That is hilarious, I apologize as well, I had never heard the reference until now. I'll see if I can drag them up on YT. (I had runts telling me what they would do to me for days, and I am a giant and a monster). Cheers.

[@drmoonrat]

This is sort of a mixture of alot of the court room sketches from the Monty Python series.

[@JRalloveragain]

2:51 - 2:55 had me in stitches...LOL!!

[@SethHesio]

Soooo interesting

[@nancyl2]

@PsychiatristLarch "Ditto????" I was trying to strain my ears to hear too. Quite a show this was. A little shout out to We The People, this is really how your courts are run. :-) WOW-ing this little vid is. YEP!!! Shared by some angel that is so brilliant. :-) Thanks!!. :-)

[@TheseDarkWoods]

Damn good!

[@Neosaintjimmy]

3 people were part of the panzer staff in basington.

[@ThingsWeSaidToday]

9:21 Michael Palin's back ........ *happy fangirl sigh*

[@drmoonrat]

@GTXanatos13 A great mixture indeed. A wonderful performance.

[@isammolina4842]

Pobre Cook.Tuvo que ser testigo directo de toda la locura😆😂😃

[@Debunker246]

thanks for uploading this..

[@Jcolinsol]

Mario Fercotti, and Arthur Buddha.

[@sabercruiser.7053]

DOPE.PERIOD

[@russellthompson9271]

WARNING: Their is a troll on KZbin who typed nasty, hurtful remarks on my video. I mime to the Facts sketch with Peter Cook and John Cleese. I was called a loser, a "f'ing t*t", and my video is "crap". Please avoid this person at all costs.

[@geekdave01]

No harm no foul fella. They're deffo on youtube. Hope you enjoy.

[@MrsFgSuperman]

3:06 to 3:10 GORGEOUS!!!

[@rvdrvd1000]

Thanks.

[@connfyoozed]

Yes, it is. Good eye.

[@GTXanatos13]

@drmoonrat All of the best bits, no doubt about that.

[@Nosregni]

Palin's character never wanted to be a lawyer. He wanted to be...

[@alexpaylor1365]

Funnily Cleese graduated from Oxford as a lawyer and Graham Chapman qualified as a doctor, but neither ever practiced per their degrees.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

@@alexpaylor1365 i mean how could they after they mocked their respectives fields coallague?😂😂😂 They regarded as menace after their skits

[@AshLuvsJonnyStew]

LOLOLOL fucking brilliant....and MY GOD could Mike's pants be any tighter PHWOAAAAARRR!!

[@VioletSadi]

You do realise you are the Defence? Oh, damn.

[@nancyl2]

WOW this is ~~~~~~~~no words to describe what is really being put in front of our manipulated beings faces. Chilling.

[@modulfleirfall]

ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!

[@mrblifil]

Where was Idle while all this was happening? This sketch plays much better live than the one they shot for TV.

[@alexpaylor1365]

Idle played an accused at the beginning of the TV sketch.

[@mybrainhurts792]

Cleese at his funniest

[@paul1964uk]

Isn't that skit at the end from Spike Milligan?

[@PsychiatristLarch]

Can anyone make out what they were saying at the end of the video? I've always found it interesting to hear the comedian's take on a performance, and it sounds like that is what they are talking about. I'm not sure though. Help?

[@alangranville284]

Does anybody know of a sketch (I think i only heard it on radio) where Dudley is a Welsh music teacher and Peter Cook a millionaire who wants to learn to play Beethoven's Moonlight sonata on the piano by next week just to impress his friends. Would love to hear or see it again.

[@ysgol3]

I heard this on a Not Only But Also record years ago, I reckon it was part of the TV series but may (only may) have been wiped.

[@agatebay]

ALAN GRANVILLE

[@alexpaylor1365]

It was for his wife's birthday.

[@ysgol3]

Alan - BTW, typically of Pete and Dud, the piece 'Peter' wanted to learn on the PIANO was Beethoven's 5th, as he says to Dud in the sketch 'Have you heard of it ?' Peter is also convinced the reason there are black and white keys is that the black ones are louder, otherwise what's the point of different colours ?

[@Back2Goodtimes]

Haha... Kosher Car Park...!! Ha-ha-ha-ha

[@rvdrvd1000]

Fucking Cleese, what a madman.

[@Johntheheroman]

Oh dear, I dearly love them all but not their best impo.

[@barry7608]

Not at all unlike a real Kangaroo court I bore witness to here in Australia. Not mass murder but carried a 13 year sentence and the flippancy almost a match. Thanks but sadly close to the truth.

[@rvdrvd1000]

I get a lot of that by computer, just never to my face. Not once in my life has any man or boy said something like that directly to me. Fear is a great preventative for stupidity, it seems.

[@marknestbox]

I BELIEVE HE WAS NOTORIOUSLY INNOCENT.

[@isammolina6886]

Función a beneficio de Amnesty International. The secret policeman balls. 1976'.

[@geekdave01]

LOL, sorry sir. It's from a Derek and Clive sketch. I thought you may get the reference as you mentioned British humour. No offence meant.

[@adiosepic1829]

Damn, humor really must be cultural.

[@egparis18]

***** I'm British like them, and a fan, but I don't think this is one of their best. Try some of the other sketches (Piranha Brothers ?)+ anything with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore together.

[@adiosepic1829]

Thanks Monsieur Oeuf, I'll give them a go.

[@bigfan1041]

im not british and i think this is great.

[@beast666400]

Cleese is the funniest man ever born. Ever

[@stormcloudsabound]

He's on stage with Peter Cook, dude, he can't compete!

[@honeybeebadger]

yes I agree he is in a very small group that includes Mel Brooks Barry Humphries

[@justinpino8115]

Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx

[@kayper54]

I'm assuming this is from one of the Amnesty International shows. Does anyone know the year this was filmed?

[@PartTimeSarah2]

1976, I believe

[@TheDawgKatcher]

NOT Python, years before Python!

[@colinbaker3916]

TheDawgKatcher It’s years after Python. This is from the late 70s. The Basingstoke/Cole Porter dialogue had been in the Sapper Walters sketch in the last series.

[@chcetwojqubek]

A HA HA HA!

[@1randomfatdude]

@Nosregni A LUMBERJACK!!!

[@pemj7360]

2023 . This would be a normal court case n today's England 😅😅

[@WilliamZeebub]

i learned that Terry Jones has Alzeimhers.. but has Terry forgotten the world, John. Or has the world forgotten Terry?

[@quasarsphere]

WilliamZeebub It'll be a long time before the world forgets Terry.

[@philipusher4282]

I think they were all having a lot more fun than we were.

[@Sundae_Times]

Incorrect. If you didn't get it, you're in the minority.

[@Floedekage]

Kinda reminds me of Dürrenmatt...

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

he is not dead my lard.. but he is not at all well john cheese...geez...

[@WarwickFry]

what happend to the moustache?

[@BlobTheBunny]

I like the Office. :c

[@rossmcl177]

What show is this taken from?

[@isammolina4842]

rossmcl177 se trata de las funciones a beneficio de Amnesty international. Entre el 76' y el79'.primero en Francia y dado el éxito lo llevaron a Londres. Se llama :Secret policeman balls.

[@giulia3710]

What does Cleese say at 2:30? "We've wheedle it out..."? Thanks

[@BFBCFTW]

Out of you at last!

[@ryanbrownnew]

Oddly enough this is a sketch that was in series 4 of monty python which john cleese wasn't in.

[@isammolina4842]

Mike esta divino con esos jeans hummm 😈😆😉😜👌💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@spice_chai]

Why did they bring in a half dead person?

[@IntheeyesofMorbo]

2 people in the audience are mostly dead

[@AshLuvsJonnyStew]

what is this from BTW> is it from a DVD?

[@GTXanatos13]

No good can come of any Python policeman named Pan-Am. Almost as bad as anyone played by Chico Marx.

[@tukito101]

XD

[@loolylooly81]

Sorry I couldn't find a Kosher car park!!! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@ShamelessHorse]

Thanks, I missed that one because I thought he said "closer car park"

[@loolylooly81]

Hehehehehehheheheheheheheh

[@flappospammo]

i get sick of the screaming by the python lot , peter cook was and still is an utter genius

[@SleutherStrode]

that's because you're an arse hat

[@eva12591]

Where did you take this video from?

[@geekdave01]

It ain't Python if you don't have Cleese

[@Marschallplan]

One down - five to go. More stable than the Beatles.

[@jeffreygray4670]

when was this taped and where?

[@markschildberg1667]

This was filmed in 1976 at the first benefit for Amnesty International at Her Majesty's theater, in London.

[@jeffreygray4670]

Mark Schildberg Brilliant......

[@markschildberg1667]

***** This first benefit was called Pleasure at Her Majesty's. The second benefit was called The Secret Policeman's Ball.

[@groovynut222]

rub me.