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[@stevetheduck1425]

Old British joke: 'I want to die in my sleep, like my Dad did; not terrified and screaming, like all his passengers.'

[@suzanne386]

Not heard that one - extremely funny, the funny kind that whenever you think of it you cannot help laughing as strongly as the first time you heard it.

[@mournblade1066]

That's actually attributed to an American, Will Rogers: "When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."

[@Nonconformistwilderbeastman]

😆

[@mollykeane2571]

They were reading the German translation of the joke so they couldn’t understand it therefore they were safe from its deadly effect.

[@neiloliver4745]

"Upper-Class Twit Of The Year" is another legendary Python sketch.

[@Yorksbloke]

“How can they read it and not die?” The British soldiers were reading the German version so they didn’t understand it.

[@andrewmorton9327]

The end of the sketch is missing. It's the part where the Germans devise a counter joke. 'Two peanuts vere valking down ze street. Vun was assaulted!'

[@Boa_Omega]

We'll let you know. They then shot the writer.

[@IcarusDrowning-gz8se]

At 0:0:43 it’s a brave but comedic touch, singing “Every Sperm is Sacred” as if you’re gargling 😂 Good job! 👏

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

One line one thing. The whole scene...now that's something else.

[@urizen7613]

You need to see the Fish-Slapping Dance!

[@MeganRuth]

Thanks for the suggestion! :)

[@kenbshorter4494]

😂😂😂😂

[@robertcreighton4635]

Somebody actually died laughing at a joke. It was a sketch from episode of the goodies. A uk show from the 1970s

[@MeganRuth]

wow really? Surely there was something else going on that was triggered by the laughing?

[@TheCaptain-cf2vp]

The mystery of the man who was reported to have died laughing watching the comedy show The Goodies in the 1970s may have been solved by doctors. Alex Mitchell, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, suffered heart failure after viewing the Ecky-Thump episode in 1975. His granddaughter Lisa Corke, 23, had a near fatal cardiac arrest at home on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in May. She has now been diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome which doctors think could have also caused Mr Mitchell's death. Mr Mitchell's death after laughing for half an hour watching The Goodies made headlines around the world in 1975. 'Breathing funny' Later his wife, Nessie, wrote to the show's stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie to thank them for making his final 30 minutes so enjoyable. Mr Mitchell's son Alex, who was 17 at the time, said: "They just thought it was a heart attack. "After what happened to Lisa I spoke to my sister, who was with my dad at the time, and my mum... and they said it was as though my dad fainted and started breathing funny. "Listening to how Mick [Lisa's husband] described what happened to Lisa it was almost identical symptoms. Lisa Corke has been fitted with an internal cardiac defibrillator "That's when the doctors put two and two together and came up with the idea that actually they think it's hereditary." Consultant cardiologist Dr Pier Lambiase said: "You may find other members of the family that have unexplained deaths and it was put down to a heart attack at the time, but it was actually due to this condition. "I would say given the fact that his granddaughter, I believe, had Long QT Syndrome and the circumstances of the death it would be good circumstantial evidence. "To be absolutely certain you would have to see if there was an abnormality in the gene that causes Long QT Syndrome found in the granddaughter [that] is also evident in other members of the family, particularly the individual who passed away." Mrs Corke was put into a medically induced coma after she suffered the cardiac arrest in May. She said: "They [doctors] know what it is, they know that it is genetic so hopefully they'll be to find if the children have it, if my brother has it and if my father as well. "And hopefully protect future generations in our family." A person with Long QT Syndrome suddenly faints or passes out during exercise, or when experiencing intense emotions, such as fear. Symptoms typically begin in young children, but may occur in newborns and can appear as late as middle age. Courtesy of BBC news

[@robertcreighton4635]

@@TheCaptain-cf2vp fantastic post very informative. Cheers

[@harrymarshall]

,, someone choked on spaghetti 🍝 watching Seinfeld

[@BillySugger1965]

I think the fact that he laughed continuously for 25 minutes had something to do with it, even if it did trigger an underlying cardiac condition. I’d say 50:50 Goodies vs underlying disease.

[@mikryan6567]

Life of Brian

[@alanholck7995]

A non Monty Python film about a funny joke is The Aristocrats; it is a joke that comedians tell each other in a game of one-upsmanship.

[@allendesalme197]

You are missing the end of this skit too, where the Germans try to write their own deadly joke - "One day there was a peanut walking down der Strasse, und he was assaulted.............peanut." It didn't kill any Brits.

[@dudeman301]

That was from their first movie titled,"and now for something completely different"It's a lost gem not many know about.

[@flybobbie1449]

Best Monty Python, the argument sketch.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

I agree.

[@mandysteadman5812]

Spike milligan grave stone said I told you I was sick. Excellent dark British humour

[@eddisstreet]

Dai Laughing was someone I used to know in Cardiff

[@Greenwood4727]

The JOke Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

[@stevetheduck1425]

Wow, am I glad I don't know that much German!

[@paulelmes]

It's just "Silly German". like in an old comic about th Katzenjammer Kids,I believe

[@Boa_Omega]

The translation was when is the Straw this and something else? yes is ordered forest confinement. Almost translates to something coherent.

[@ggmiethe]

The way I saw this, it was a comment that if you’re going to kill people in war, wouldn’t it be kinder to kill them with laughter? That’s the way I saw it anyway.

[@MeganRuth]

I love that take! 😊

[@neil930]

That piece of paper with the joke written on, is safely hidden in a vault. Somewhere in London 😂

[@MeganRuth]

wait really?? Now I want to find it 😂

[@neil930]

@@MeganRuth I won't be surprised if someone took this seriously and told government lol . Have good weekend ☺️

[@bujin1977]

@@neil930 Insert witty joke about the government *being* the joke here.

[@JHNoble]

it's being studied by top men. top. men. 🤨

[@AgentOccam]

They could read the joke out because they didn't understand German, it was just rote to them. Don't know why I'm making this pedantic point, but you did ask.

[@jonathanross149]

The closest I have seen Hitler laughing was WW2 color footage from his Eagle's Nest retreat.

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

I think there are a few photos of Hitler laughing, there's one of him and Mussolini enjoying a good chuckle in the back of a car, although I dread to think what the joke was!

[@user-gk9lg5sp4y]

I know this video is old by I have to say the sketches from the Flying Circus TV show are better versions than from other performances.

[@markdavidson9100]

This was taken from ‘and now for something completely different’, suited for the American audiences and all done on film. The tv version is studio bound and used in the first episode of python, excellent show…sadly John Cleese left Python a few series in, as he felt the sketches were mediocre, and did fawlty towers, but agreed to be in all the python films…reaction has made my day, thank you

[@sockmonkey22]

We do know the joke…” A farmer bought a pig without a nose.” “How does it smell?” Awful.”

[@MeganRuth]

😂 nice one!!

[@Nonconformistwilderbeastman]

😂😂😂

[@2steelshells]

Who can forget the hostile take over,or the old lady at firing squad,"substancial penalty for early. Withdrwal"

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Can you imagine to laugh so hard that you die?

[@3DJapan]

My favorite sketch was The Spanish Inquisition.

[@MoonlightAce69]

Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@mandysteadman5812]

I adore Python. I'm British and in my 40s. My dad insisted I watch at a young age with spike milligan poems and Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. Extremely funny, obviously surreal. Perhaps dated. But brilliant. Its soo British...but also inclusive.

[@mizofan]

A man died laughing at Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda!

[@Greenwood4727]

the entire tv series are so so funny

[@ShawnKavanagh]

His poor mother was torn with grief Silver linings, though

[@mjwaldrep]

The English read it in German and didn't understand German, that's how they didn't die.

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

No no. It's the killer joke.

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

One of Python Best sketches Ever, in a funny historical WWll way !! 🧐 😆 Didn't you listen earlier, they said they could read out the German but didn't know the meaning !! 🤔

[@jerome4631]

5:30 They don't die because it is in deutch.

[@paulelmes]

nOOOOO IT'S IN Deutsch and not Dutch either

[@Boa_Omega]

Its nonsense that fails to translate but just about makes sense.

[@jerome4631]

Vous chipotez là.

[@crosseyedone7960]

Just as a side issue, there are lots of film showing AH smiling and laughing but for whatever reason they are rarely broadcasted. Sites like Brighteon have lots of ww2 historic unedited film.

[@Muckylittleme]

It is so as not to humanise him. Much in the same way his vegetarianism and loving of dogs and art were kept low key.

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@Muckylittleme Vegetarianism made him fart in company, his love of art was invented so that he could impose his ideas of art on artists (plus he himself could only draw buildings, not people), and his love of dogs is characterised by, disbelieving that cyanide capsules would kill him and his wife quickly enough, he forced Blondi his dog to bite one, and nodded; 'Good, quick enough.' The he shot himself at the same time, making his murder of his own dog pointless.

[@petermitchell6348]

The joke: Warum hat das Huhn die Straße überquert? Um auf die andere Seite zu gelangen. Trans: Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.

[@informedchoice2249]

"How can you read it and not die?"... we'll wait ;)

[@tomfrankiewicz4030]

Monty Python was the inspiration for the original Saturday Night Live

[@MeganRuth]

Really? I didn't know that! So cool!

[@tomfrankiewicz4030]

@@MeganRuth Michael Palin and Eric Idle actually hosted the show back in the seventies

[@scottsoloway]

@@MeganRuthYou still don’t know it because it’s not true. To be sure, Python had an effect on the shows writers and performers, but it was hardly the only source of inspiration..

[@paolow1299]

The soldiers reading out the joke don't understand German so it doesn't harm them .to answer your question .

[@xavierkreiss8394]

How can you read it and not die? You ask. Well, if it's in German only the enemy understands it.

[@tubaviewa2624]

Thei're not common with the german tounge...?!? ^^ Love this. Regards. 👍

[@harrymarshall]

The parrot sketch 🐦

[@nickgrazier3373]

Did you not know it was originally a weekly series that lasted forever (haven’t checked for how long) but the national electric grid peaked just before then all the inhabitable villages, towns and cities went quiet until half way through, then the grid peaked again, then all habitable streets went dark again until the end of the show. I personally liked the fish fight scene!! This was part of the aging of the British humour time!!

[@ssokolow]

Are you sure that wasn't something like the soap opera Coronation Street? Flying Circus only ran for two seasons (plus a few extra "season 3" ones made for the German market for some reason) and what I heard was that they were a bit too far ahead of their time and the series didn't do that well because of it.

[@777petew]

The joke was actually what Hitler said. Don't listen to it again or you will be in great peril. 😆

[@MeganRuth]

oh dear!! 😂

[@mandysteadman5812]

Python mocked society in British culture. The class system. That's still relevant today. Unfortunately, they didn't understand or represent women or anyone else

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Another one of my favorites. 5:30 They just said they translated it to German and the British didn't understand German. Xd

[@oxfamshop]

They would tell you the joke but they would have to kill you 😀😀😀😀

[@michaeltomsic9485]

The real joke is that it doesn't translate to German. Smell/ sniff isn't the same as smell/ reek in German

[@dannyspelman1468]

They could read the joke and not die because they were reading it in German but couldn't understand German.

[@colinglen4505]

They can read it and not die because it's written in German and the Brits don't understand German.

[@MeganRuth]

True!! Thanks :)

[@colinglen4505]

@@MeganRuth If you feel like tackling a full movie, then 'The Life of Brian' by the Python team is a good choice; i'd like to see your reaction to that. 🙂

[@HADJEE]

The style of helmets distinguish the British from the Germans. Because they were the same colour you didn't recognize their difference. You obviously didn't get the, "joke", so you are safe! And, stay away from the jellied eels!

[@AlanCanon2222]

Happy Canada Day!

[@MeganRuth]

Thank you! 😊🇨🇦

[@praetoriancorps]

This is interesting. Didn't know there were two versions of this sketch. I watched this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5awn4OvqtioeKc which is I think is an older version of this same sketch. It's clearly the same actors.

[@mikebunner3498]

I amnew to your channel Megan. You are from north of the border??? Do me a favor and stay "about" please. These guys are so funny you may laugh until you cry!!!! We'll see. Take care!!!! Thanks lady....... Until the next time.

[@martinconnors6200]

Omg you're gorgeous

[@NigelIncubatorJones]

That doesn't look like the full skit.

[@honestchris7472]

They were reading it in German and they did not understand the joke.

[@MeganRuth]

ahh right! Thanks!

[@rafalkaminski6389]

What have you actually sung?

[@nickgrazier3373]

It’s in German the tellers don’t know German!

[@peterdore8690]

Can I say it now 🤔 Happy Canada Day ❤

[@MeganRuth]

Yes you can!! Thank you! 😊🇨🇦

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

...that's all?

[@user-jg5ie8rc1s]

I haven't watched the whole video, yet, so I only hope it wasn't like Great Expectations when I read it...not all I hoped it would be. I'm fairly sure you can die laughing, but I probably won't. I want to die in my sleep, not screaming like the passengers in my car. Thank you Bob Monkhouse.

[@MeganRuth]

😂 fair enough! To be fair, dying in your sleep would probably be the best way to go.

[@user-jg5ie8rc1s]

@@MeganRuth You're not wrong, to be fair.

[@channel55andaboxoftissues16]

You've seen The Meaning of Life, right?

[@MeganRuth]

I haven't! It's on my list, though :)

[@harrymarshall]

Ofc this couldn't really happen,, as everyone knows 😜 lack of humour 🎉

[@RodRuth]

We can never know what the joke is.....

[@davidlawrence5091]

If you put the German words into Google translate (which are actually just gibarish) then it comes up as a fatal error.

[@jamesohara4295]

It Stinks! :)

[@dolfin98]

If you take the pythons too literally then you completely miss the humour. I have noticed that Americans in particular (and Canadians) are prone to trying to over interpret the meaning of the joke instead of riding the wave

[@jasongoodacre]

"How can you read it and not die?" ... Simple, you don't understand German.

[@PLChrupek]

I've stopped watching after "and I react to British things".