Monty Python - Vocational Guidance Counsellor

from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Season 1 - Episode 10
Untitled
Recorded 30-11-69, Aired 21-12-69
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[@BarrelShape]

Palin and Cleese are comic gold when they are in the same sketches.

[@mattbt2k0]

'Enough of this gay banter' xD

[@MarxistKnight]

My sister's a chartered accountant, she doesn't like Monty Python but when I showed her this clip she couldn't help laughing :)

[@mattwardpictures]

The sketch was half-over and I was still in tears over the intro...

[@TheBamChug]

I swear, no bullshit, that EVERY year since I started filing taxes (which was a LOOOOOOONG time ago) I've listed my profession as "Lion Tamer" on my tax returns because of this skit.

[@kennethbrady]

well done.

[@stalhandske9649]

Bravo, sir, bravo.

[@pluransart1795]

Bam Chug isn't doing that illegal?

[@GuruJudge21]

I'm not an expert but I imagine that as long as you accurately report your income and pay your taxes, they don't care enough about what you put down as your profession to get you in trouble.

[@wolfyboy]

perhaps. but if they get the right amount of tax, maybe they won't bother?

[@lordlossize]

ive got a subscription to "the league for fighting chartered accountancy" every week they send me a video of someone suffering the disease, and a pamphlet on how crippling it is. its quite depressing really

[@tastemaker_87]

Love the way Palin uses the chair as a prop in this sketch!

[@theshlohan]

The Larch

[@IrishMan441]

I believe it's pronounced The.....Larch.

[@Rubin_Schmidt]

Lord Castanza..... No it's not. Next you'll be telling me Al-u-min-ium is al-lum-inum, and Sol-der is So-dar. ... Then a bonnet becomes a hood ----- and a boot is a trunk. !!!

[@millicentsquirrelhole582]

And that trunk belongs to a heffalump and toss in the anagram of heffalump and presto!.... you have a pulhaneff....oh, and a telgip too....eh?

[@rockerseven]

it's fun to charter an accountant, and sail, the wide accountantsea...

[@Thoran666]

Are you a Pirate Accountant?

[@footofjuniper8212]

If you ever want to be a great comedic actor, just be exactly like John Cleese.

[@hungwilliam44]

vocational guidance counselorrrrrr

[@sedditguy1836]

hungwilliam Vocational Guidance Counselorrrrrr

[@itsmeagain7246]

Vocational Guidance Counselooooooorrrrrr

[@k.e.l.2432]

Peter Benvenuto Stiegmaier ... Voooocational guidance counseloooorrr.

[@user-ce7es2sv3e]

Enough of this gay banter!

[@mikeclifford8360]

"irrepressibly drab and awful." I have to use that in real life.

[@Totallydistortedfilm]

Ever get the feeling you are Mr. Anchovy and your banal and pitiable life is actually the only thing you'll ever be capable of? It is what you made for?

[@elizabethterlinden3078]

Voltaic Age frequently. Thankfully for my job isn't part of that. The rest of my life though...maybe I need an avocational counselor.

[@mysterioussquirrel4456]

I grew up on Monty Python. My parents didn't get it. They grew up on Morecambe and Wise and World War Two. As a teenager, it was as important to me as was John Peel and Alan 'fluff' Freeman. Without Monty Python we would not have had Fawltey Towers and Michael Palin would not have travelled the World and show us how lucky we are and how we should value what we are. And that power and wealth isn't spread among we humans equitably.

[@stephanginther9051]

John Cleese gave a TED talk on creativity that you should check out. Its both informative and hilarious.

[@infinitive7654]

Mysterious Squirrel power will never be allocated equally, because the nature of power itself is inequality. it gives one something to be, strive to, and achieve. if you want everything to be equal among everyone, then you'd have communism, soviet russia, the gulag, stalin, socialism, and millions dead. we already tried that, 3 or 4 times, it DIDN'T WORK. capitalism is the best system we have, flawed though it may be. so be careful what you wish for....you just might get it.

[@rowiian]

"LION TAMING!!!! 8D" I love how he says that. I think it's his expression. He looks so hopeful and proud, ready to take on the world... And then Cleese goes "yes, yes....", doesn't have the heart to tell him off at once. Love it XD

[@321Worlds]

Awsome piece! At 3:47 when Cleese says "call Mr. Chipperfield and say to her-him" he saves it pretty well!

[@exfoliator]

i love how at 1:46 john cleese starts singing the "vocational guidance counsellor' song again :D

[@pschroeter1]

The this day if I need a small giggle all I have to do is say "The Larch" in my head in the same voice used in the sketch. "He's a lumberjack and he's okay …"

[@LPChipi]

3:34 It's great how he goes full accountant.

[@MDE_never_dies]

I showed my friend who was a Chartered Accountant this video, he drives buses now.

[@janeappleseed2154]

This is why I'm scared of becoming an accountant.

[@Vitao17]

Vocational Guidance COUNCELLOOOOOOOOOO...

[@E1craZ4life]

Vocational Guidance Counseloooooooo...

[@daleksupreme2913]

I checked wikipedia to find out what exactly chartered accountancy is and lost consciousness after two sentences

[@IrishMan441]

What a senseless waste of human life....

[@LazyLee]

A Lion Taming Hat? TF2's gonna eat this up.

[@GarretGoodbarrel]

Lee Lebensbaum People still play TF2?

[@GarretGoodbarrel]

steini19o4 I browse comments after i watch the sketches :P

[@_Singularity_]

I believe Tf2 is still one of the most played games on Steam

[@SilverBullet27188]

Michel Palin is the only Python that gives me hard time trying to see though his disguises.

[@FriedGold8942]

"Yes, a hat, a lion taming hat, a hat with "Lion Tamer" on it! I got it at Harrod's." It's that line right there that gave away the impression that this guy's a loony.

[@atnasomfg]

"Enough of this merry banter" is a fantastic lane

[@FlyingDelorean1]

"Do you have any qualifications?" "Yes, I've got a hat" TF2 in a nutshell

[@infinitygenealpa]

Michael Palin is f'n funny

[@keeperofthecheese]

"Enough of this gay banter" LOL

[@communiqation]

and do these lions eat ants? yes. ah, you see Mr. Anchovy, what you have seen in the zoos are in fact anteaters. what?

[@jackson76724]

There's more Monty Python classics then I realised. Thanks KZbin❤😂😂😂

[@dannycalypse]

Yes, there's a different version appearing in the movie "And Now For Something Completely Different".

[@fjdkfdfjdf33]

I just sent in my donation to this worthy cause.

[@Thegadgetman16]

As a trainee accountant, I can affirm some truth in this. It's learning the accounting standards that does you in.

[@doctorpc1531]

two years later, how are you feeling?

[@themaninacan]

DoctorPC he ded

[@Thegadgetman16]

Pretty much.

[@janeappleseed2154]

This was a rollercoaster ride of a comment chain. Bravo, everyone! Bravo! *Clapping*

[@Endrawnia]

i love how cleese starts singing the "vocational guidence counselor" song write after he tells pallin to go back to the office lol

[@jackolas2007]

Wtf I never noticed that before!

[@Scixxy]

Exactly the thing I needed today.

[@DaL33T5]

Remember kids: Winners don't punch numbers.

[@Steve17010]

Chartered accountancy would be a lot more exciting if the British government really did tax "Thingy"!

[@Staszu13]

Ok, that was ten curtains and fanfares, interrupted after four by emcee, then Jones, Idle, Chapman and (onscreen) Cleese doing the sung intro, and Cleese looking at his watch all for a total of 1:09.

[@ChrisHenniker]

When I was a college, I had to study local government. Believe me, it was as dull as chartered accountancy.

[@darkprose]

"...shouldn't you work your way toward lion taming, maybe via banking..." LOL

[@NotOnPorpoise]

If anyone cares, they're singing a root position dominant 7th chord, with John Cleese singing the minor seventh.

[@cupguin]

I only managed four days of an accounting course in no small part because every time someone said chartered accounting I would laugh. If not for the vocational guidance counsellor sketch I might have ended up as a chartered accountant.

[@occamsrayzor]

What he really wanted to be was... a lumberjack!

[@RachelHC]

I never noticed that before! Thanks!

[@Staszu13]

That was 11 fanfares + curtains, interrupted after 4 by emcee, Jones & Chapman duet at the start, then Idle, then Palin, then oncam Cleese singing, then waiting about all totalling about 1 minute

[@mlrichardson84]

And they look like this...RAWRRR!!!

[@SquirrelGamez]

I love how he randomly had a picture of a scary lion

[@redsox1006]

i love how the guy starts singing "vocation guidance counsellor" again at 1:46

[@kingjensen8091]

3:20 TF2 in a nut shell

[@tobiastrier]

Michael Palin is my all time my favourite Python

[@heyjoesoap]

I watch Monty Python on KZbin a lot, so literally ALL of them are Monty Python sketches.

[@8DX]

Me too! But then it wouldn't by the Pythons if they said what you're expecting them to say =)

[@Kukijiro]

I loved the start.

[@GirGir183]

3:47 "look here, I've got a 45 year old chartered accountant with me"!k Palin was only 26 at the time.

[@BaalsJurisdiction]

that's because you've been watching videos related to them, I get monty python as related videos when I'm on music videos

[@marsza11jm]

Basil Street, oh dear, I've fallen from my chair.

[@jenns555]

and they look like this. classic.

[@computernerd1101]

Classic Straight Man vs Funny Man sketch - although this Straight Man does a surprisingly good job of keeping his cool against the Funny Man.

[@daniel121212121212]

I'm going to become a charted accountant soon, can't wait!

[@Firewurxmusicismylife42055569]

lol we have to watch this for our pshe homework on work experience and job interviews... =)

[@Rockstar31496]

Monty python is addictive . . . maybe there should be a PSA on it . . .

[@lysol5555]

"Exciting? No it's not. It's dull, dull, dull, my god it's dull. It's so desperately dull and tedious and stuffy and boring and desperately dull!"

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Don't be fooled people. 27 years I sent money to TLFFCA and not 1 chartered accountant was saved. A much more worthwhile charity is The League For Fighting Futile Charitable Donators, who's details can now be found on the Internet. Good day.

[@MIQofDMC]

...and now for something completely different.

[@GoldeneyeMarine]

"And do these lions eat ants?" LOL

[@pockypurse]

'Can'tcha help me?' GAH. ;3; I'll help you, Michael!

[@A1Authority]

" VOCATIONAL GUIDENCE COUN CEL OURRRR!!!!"

[@MaximumHeresey]

"And they LOOK, like THIS!" ROWRRRRR ARRRRRRGH

[@Urchino1337]

@cedarhawk But there opinion is diffrent to ours so we CLEARLY have to make some sort of large song and dance to bring this to the attention of the public.

[@Tareltonlives]

"And they look like THIS! RAAAAAAAR!" XD

[@Duffyhealth]

one of my friends is going to become a chartered accountant - i was a little jelous momentarily until i stumbled across this - ahh python you rule!!! :)

[@nonubusiness]

I'm very sorry to hear that. Most people would have moved out of Mum's house by now. Still, this sketch was nice.

[@wardnikoff]

@christianalexlea you may be thinking of the movie "and now for something completely different" where that movie was simply many of the skits from the series redone for the movie..

[@headlikeanorange]

@moxie96 I think that's in And Now For Something Completely Different, their first movie? It's been a while, I could be wrong. I do remember an animation, though.

[@poorsonwelles]

HAHA that's the best part of the sketch!

[@TMQwuke]

You have my blessings and I hope you can beat the disease before it takes you.

[@LootzO]

Yup!!

[@EvilMouseOfDoom]

I totally expected him to say lumberjack at 2:50

[@zurabinho]

@AntonIceChill The DVD must be the feature film "And now for something completely different", where they remade some of their sketches from the first two seasons of their TV show, the Flying Circus, with incredible transitions :) The film was their first to be released in theaters. This obviously comes from the TV show, and the version you're referring to from the movie, so this is the original.

[@thevideogamenerd100]

omg so sad I'm definitely going to donate

[@collegeman1988]

I was afraid this was going to happen when I hired a career counselor over 10 years ago, but fortunately, it didn't happen.

[@murielsartre]

It's posted under "Monty Python Working Class Playwright"

[@supersesqui]

What do you call all the UK chartered accountants 5000 feet underwater ? ...... A Bloody Good Idea !!!!!

[@RS250Squid]

And it looks, like THIS! RAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWR!

[@Mysterioux]

Palin is really sweet here. :3

[@rdihel]

14 people are in chartered accountancy!

[@MUTHA70]

He's not a CPA or NIA...he's a Chartered Accountant...i think that says it all. LMAO

[@clemstevenson]

Become the first Royal Navy lumberjack!

[@6020e3]

@TheTechnoToast i think jones and chapman started at the same time, as you can hear two voices in the beginning and not one.

[@MsHarpsychord]

we just got trolled by the past for from 00:00 to 00:50...

[@vivianturner3018]

Generic Rarity 8

[@Achw3l]

That would be a great profession, taming ant eaters

[@F00dTube]

"Nasty pointy teeth"; you say? :D

[@ErichoTTA]

4:56 was the best. It's funny to imagine an anteater tamer.

[@jsmcguireIII]

He should have been a lumberjack. (Time enough I think, for a piece of wood)

[@NotOnPorpoise]

actually, B is the root but because it's a dominant seventh it's actually in the key of E.

[@killernat]

2:55 thought he would say LUMBERJACK

[@Sutskoen]

*raises a hand* it's a north european humour! :) granted, MP is an elite humouror