Monty Python: Who's There? (1970)

[@terminalpictures]

How the hell are they still finding Python rarities and what else is still floating around? Amazing.

[@indigobunting2431]

This skit and others were aired in Germany and Austria, to fulfill demand. The Monty Pythons learned their lines phonetically if they spoke no German. It is amazingly well done, a tribute to hard work and an eye for the local cultures.

[@iancurtis1152]

IT’S…..Sumerian

[@Innerspace100]

@@iancurtis1152 BURMESE! (I beg your pardon. I paniced).

[@iancurtis1152]

@@Innerspace100 😁

[@paulsarnik8506]

Shades of the four Yorkshire Men 🇬🇧🤓😎✌🏻

[@jaywalker3087]

My father was a Labour Party Secretary and Electoral Agent in Hampstead at this time. I met John Cleese at a fundraiser event and Grahame Chapman at a cheese and wine party in 1974. A year with two General Election's . I was 15 at the time. My mates didn't believe me until I showed them their autographs...😮😅😂

[@enriquesanchez2001]

CHEESE ???🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@BilgemasterBill]

Thanks for getting this up here! It's amazing how they dug this up. For really avid Python fans it must be like them finding a lost play by Shakespeare or a new book of The Bible. It kind of reminds me in style of that Video Arts business training series by John Cleese, some of which are also on KZbin.

[@yellowdark5070]

Oooohhh Graham Chapman always a pleasure find out vídeos of him😍

[@mortalclown3812]

What an upload. Thank you very much... Watched it twice just now. It felt familiar even though I'm sure I've never seen it... Jolly, seamless weaving of facts - to quote Palin's accountant, 'Dull, dull, dweadfully dull!" - juxtaposed with comedic straight-edge. Finding myself extra curious about the MPFC beginnings. This particular sketch hints at directions they might've taken - even using, say, a female in it beyond the usual bird role. To borrow yet another quote from Connie, one of Smiley's people, "... my lovely lads..."

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

This isn't a sketch.

[@benjaminshiels1824]

Classic. Can't believe I've never seen this! 👍

[@gillianhewish4914]

Thats my dad!..Ron Hayward General Secretary of Labour Party and I was there at his recording...wonderful to see this film.

[@pacificostudios]

"He's a solicitor from Cheam. But his heart's in the right place!" -- John must have written this personally.

[@simonsimon325]

Thought that was a Yorkshire vs Lancashire dig from Parky the Yorkshireman.

[@pacificostudios]

@@simonsimon325 - Even though Parkinson reads the line, it is pure MPFC gold. A trademark back-handed comment about the previous sentence.

[@simonsimon325]

I'm talking total bollocks anyway lol. I thought there was a place called Cheam in Greater Manchester, but there isn't so it's got nothing to do with the Pennines rivalry.

[@SEngelsg]

5:38 : Who would have thought that John would imitate his own ~80 year old aged voice so perfectly.

[@-0rbital-]

This isn't a sketch though. It happens to feature some Monty Python members, but it's actually made by the Labour Party.

[@matthewrussell9417]

Any excuse to see Carol Cleveland on screen works for me!

[@stevenmorley1639]

Michael Parkinson narrating, cool 😎

[@mortalclown3812]

Legit?

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

Thanks for the heads-up on the supremely talented and late lamented Alan Rickman RIP ❤

[@stevenpilling5318]

What a little darling Carol Cleveland was!

[@jackfitzpatrick8173]

1:50 That's a replay of the classic "Four Yorkshiremen" skit of the 1950s

[@jimk01]

Amazing, thanks a lot!

[@kluangh1tam]

10:00 Is that Connie Booth? Boy, they do included everyone.

[@maddog8621]

Fantastic!! And Labour!

[@BroonParker]

Whatever Carol Cleveland wanted me to vote, I'd do it. But if this was the supporting film, no wonder Labour lost in 1970.

[@FranktheDachshund]

He wanted to hear about tungsten carbide drills.

[@Gorboduc]

He seemed more like the gala luncheon type, frankly.

[@MrUndersolo]

Tungsten carbide drills? Bloody fancy talk once you got on KZbin!

[@MrMjp58]

What a find.

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Wonderful. What a treasure.

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Now we have digital canvassing and by phone and labor is fo gutted they can't win a general election for nothing.

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

Also got to say in reply to the Le Carré reference Connie's comment to George Smiley 'How's that cow Anne?' (Smiley's wife). Very prescient😂😅😅😅

[@simonsimon325]

Kept expecting Michael Palin to say you're not going into a song while I'm here.

[@xavierkreiss8394]

Inspired, no doubt by the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

[@gailbirchall2163]

Monty Python always took the madness of the establishment and threw it back into its face, and so many really good programmes that did this, The Week that Way, etc. You could not get away with it now. MP'S were outraged when The New Statesman came along, with Rick Mayal

[@mortalclown3812]

Glad to see your words here. Curious: You don't think they could get away with it now? It seems like folks would be starving for genius like TNS. After all, those puppets are a far cry from the kind of evisceration scripted TV can deliver. TNS was truly amazing programming. Will never forget getting to see it back in the late 80s. Yank here, too, fwiw, and felt quite ripped off by nearly all American TV after seeing this. Still do, come to think of it. RIP, Ric. Never anyone close to him. 🌍🇬🇧🔭✨🌙💙🙏

[@MrRaulstrnad]

its cute but in the long term labour became part of the establishment ruling class long, long before 1970, this is largely indisputable monty python making cutsie wootsie films like that was just what uk rulers permitted and permit now- no real societal choice except that we can feel good that one part of the ruling class employed funnier clowns i hate to say it but monty python in doing this is in the long tradition of court jesters, the peasants can have a laugh while nothing ever changes but in a way its not surprising-monty python were a bunch of oxbridge graduates working for the bbc-background is serving the ruling class now, i dont deny that monty python were hilarious but to pretend that were somehow subversing the staid ununderstanding establishment is unrealistic at best

[@charlottewebb3364]

Compare the rant from the labour party man with the Four Yorkshire men sketch. Very similar?!

[@chrisellis1232]

When there was a difference between the parties, not now though, WEFminster is a Uniparty where they all wear different coloured badges but all feed from the same trough 🤔

[@jay-day]

Strange how most of the people surveyed look an awful lot like that guy John Cleese on Monty Python. 😆😂🤣

[@CoinOfFaith]

That was more depressing than a nuclear war.

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

Connie looks beautiful and agreed Michael Palin is a brilliant actor❤

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

This is an actual Labour Party video, FYI.

[@marknestbox]

I believe that I just lost my sanity in 15 minutes.

[@dyveira]

So the Labour Party funded a Monty Python sketch. 😂

[@flagwanker6346]

Probably

[@suzyqualcast6269]

B O O!!

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Most artists and creatives skew left, historically. It's why fascists hate artistic freedom.

[@seamusbyrne7820]

@@Pagliacci_Rex Why would the Italian trade union movement from the 1930s hate artistic freedom, if they're also on the left?

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

@@seamusbyrne7820 lol, the term was coined in 1919 by Mussolini and what makes you think a union is automatically left wing?

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

Vincera🎉😊❤

[@NoosaHeads]

Why the Python team would be advocating for Labour, I do not know. Connie Booth was gorgeous. She would have been about 25 in this film.

[@paulquinn7980]

The Scottish candidate remained me of Diane Abbott😜😜

[@medicalmisinformation]

Ian cries like Stan Laurel.

[@glnnchrstphr9717]

A bit of the 4 yorkshire men.

[@tabascocat5102]

So the Pythons were Labour. Cool. No surprise there then

[@user-tf9fh4sy4c]

Careers Guidance officer : `Tomkinson,you are accused of being a bigot,a racist,a thief,a fraudster,a pervert and an anti semite. Have you considered a career in the Labour party ?`

[@JohnnyReb1976]

7:21 so true.

[@lorrainegunn4111]

The "JARGON" sketch was reminiscent of the way former President Trump used to pull phony numbers out of thin air without anything to back them up!

[@bokhans]

There is a spin of version of this with 4 posh gentlemen bragging about their horrible upbringing.

[@vyvyangreen]

Well, I certainly didn't expect the Labour Party, I thought that I would be getting something that I'd find interesting, entertaining and of import to me.....

[@peterbuckby7319]

Made me smile. As well as how the government think they could manipulate us. Especially python fans

[@MrRaulstrnad]

but they can manipulate you- its cute but in the long term labour became part of the establishment ruling class long, long before 1970, this is largely indisputable monty python making cutsie wootsie films like that was just what uk rulers permitted and permit now- no real societal choice except that we can feel good that one part of the ruling class employed funnier clowns i hate to say it but monty python in doing this is in the long tradition of court jesters, the peasants can have a laugh while nothing ever changes but in a way its not surprising-monty python were a bunch of oxbridge graduates working for the bbc-background is serving the ruling class now, i dont deny that monty python were hilarious but to pretend that were somehow subversing the staid ununderstanding establishment is unrealistic at best

[@markpage9886]

Carol Cleveland.... Gorgeous.

[@iancurtis1152]

Michael Palin thought so too😁

[@Orphen42O]

This skit must have been the inspiration of the "Four Yorkshire Men". This skit is reminiscent of a real scene in the UK series "First Among Equals".

[@MrMjp58]

The Yorkshire sketch had been on ‘Not the 1948 show’ a year or two earlier.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Tim Brooke-Taylor wrote it years before this.

[@springinfialta106]

The guy with the funny mustache had a lot in common with the Labor Party.

[@MrUndersolo]

You need to be more specific with this group.

[@charcolew]

So that's why Labour lost the 1970 election - poor doorstepping skills!

[@PRR5406]

If the 1970 elections come up again, I'm voting Labour! I just don't know why.

[@terrymann1341]

Is it me or was that the late Alan Rickman playing the young student?

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Looks similar. Off to research it.

[@mortalclown3812]

It was not him. But I can see why folks might think so.

[@carolynbares7643]

I thought the same thing.

[@drwhatson]

A Labour canvasser today: "Good morning si... er, mada... er, may I ask... what are your pronouns?"

[@Mistwolfss]

2:52 it should have been " for labor, against labor, or in labor"

[@petejones879]

Carol Cleveland... I would

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

The 'young woman' looks old before her time or maybe that's just the headscarf 😂

[@jamerv86]

The establishment probably took it as a training film for themselves despite being a joke.

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

It's not a joke.

[@00bikeboy]

The delicious Carol Cleveland. Damn.

[@TheSingleTrucker]

Imagine, if you will. A party throws bouncy balls and I have to catch them all. Yes, Prime Minister. 5%? Agreed.

[@noname-by3qz]

Definitely a new one for me. Seems like an actual pro labor commercial almost. 🤔

[@octaviussludberry9016]

So? It's also 50 years ago. Labour were a different animal back then.

[@priscianusjr]

It's not a pro-Labour commercial, it's a Labour Party training film.

[@bjsmith5444]

No Eric Idle, I'm guessing he wasn't a Labour supporter.

[@deborahcrawford9079]

Who’s the young guy? Could it be Alan Rickman?

[@mortalclown3812]

It was not, but there was a resemblance.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

The genesis of 3 yorkshiremen?

[@premanadi]

That sketch predates this by about three years. It was first performed on "At Last the 1948 Show" in 1967.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

@@premanadi Ah - thanks :D then the comment should read “3 yorkshiremen - revisited”

[@Innerspace100]

They were four, weren't they...?

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

@@Innerspace100 Turns out one identified as a mouse ….

[@Innerspace100]

@@whynottalklikeapirat Oh dear...

[@petejones879]

Killer line from parky... By people I include you lol

[@BalinChainly]

This is ror real?

[@mortalclown3812]

Indeed.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Si

[@flagwanker6346]

Pre 4 Yorkshireman

[@premanadi]

No, that was three years earlier, in 1967. At Last the 1948 Show.

[@PatricioGarcia1973]

Jokes aside, is the Labour Party like the Peronist political party in Argentina? Full of pamflets that tell what they did but no has ever seen it..

[@Maldoror200]

💀..remarkably penetrating.., even, perhaps, a wee bit CONTROVERSIAL..,(shudders.. )..😳

[@randymillhouse791]

7:11: The American accent is hilarious! 7:23: TRUMP & THE BISHOP!

[@johnbarroll1120]

priceless expressions and reactions of typical disillusioned middle class english voters circa 1960s.

[@MrGranfield]

Labour lost the 1970 General Election!

[@drachenrecke5090]

That wasn`t silly at all.

[@MrRaulstrnad]

cute but in the long term labour became part of the establishment ruling class long, long before 1970, this is largely indisputable monty python making cutsie wootsie films like that was just what uk rulers permitted and permit now- no real societal choice except that we can feel good that one part of the ruling class employed funnier clowns i hate to say it but monty python in doing this is in the long tradition of court jesters, the peasants can have a laugh while nothing ever changes but in a way its not surprising-monty python were a bunch of oxbridge graduates working for the bbc-background is serving the ruling class now, i dont deny that monty python were hilarious but to pretend that were somehow subversing the staid ununderstanding establishment is unrealistic at best

[@jamistarbrite]

amusing but too informercal

[@mortalclown3812]

🤦

[@QuinctiliusVarus]

And the Tories won!

[@rolfdejonge3915]

✌️🥸💥🌟🌀🌐 @#rolfdejonge@

[@jaywalker3087]

My father was a Labour Party Secretary and Electoral Agent in Hampstead at this time. I met John Cleese at a fundraiser event and Grahame Chapman at a cheese and wine party in 1974. A year with two General Election's . I was 15 at the time. My mates didn't believe me until I showed them their autographs...😮😅😂

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

It is zero wonder that you cower behind a fraudulent fake "name"!

[@anne40hillpiggott30]

I was 18 and was far too green, gullible and influenced by my parents' middle class political preferences. Cleese always played the posh bloke and Chapman the slightly out-there one. So I was the 'floating voter who couldn't make up their mind. Some months later I was a college drop-out and am sure I would have run away with Alan Rickman given half a chance 😅.