The Twit of the Year sketch was inspired by some real-life upper-class twits who were John Cleese's neighbors. The man likes his sleep, but they would come home, very drunk, at all hours of the night, slam their car doors, have loud, pointless conversations with each other in the driveway, etc.
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
Oh really? Interesting!
@Aukrenchi176 ай бұрын
@@MeganRuthhello from Cheltenham, I love your OF. Have your tried watching cricket?
@petejones8798 күн бұрын
Americans and Canadians just can't compete with British humour
@Temeraire1016 ай бұрын
As Not the Nine O’Clock said “Have people forgotten how Python suffered for us? How often the sketches failed? These men died for us - frequently!” 😂
@GorgeousRandyFlamethrower-6 ай бұрын
"... And Oliver has run himself over! What a great... twit!" is one of my all time favorite quotes from the Pythons :D
@richardplatt9427Ай бұрын
After the prime ministerships of old Etonians David Cameron and Brian Johnson, this sketch was definitely too kind
@jonathanmurphy31416 ай бұрын
My favorite "sport" of Python is the Philosopher's Soccer Match - Greek vs. German Philosopher's - which even made my Grandfather laugh! The Python's were intellectual, and made such brilliant satire.
@KristineT45256 ай бұрын
We had a Monty Pythons Club in high school. We would gather for movie nights and to watch episodes of the Flying Circus. Then of course there were one-liners used as greetings in the halls. A wink is as good as a nudge to a blind bat!
@ericjanssen3946 ай бұрын
The Silly Olympics wasn’t done for the regular series, but for the “Fliegender Zirkus” German episodes. And STILL gets confused with the classic Upper Class Twits sketch to this day.
@namesake-mx9nl6 ай бұрын
Imagine being at a Python brainstorming session , trying to outdo each other to see who can come up with the most ludicrous ide .
@OJB422 ай бұрын
LOL, the 3000m for people who think they are chickens is peak silliness. Love it!
@MWB51506 ай бұрын
"200m freestyle for non swimmers" ! Hahaha 😂 great video Megan, keep them coming 👍👍👍
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
aha thank you! 😊
@ShawnKavanagh5 ай бұрын
These dudes have so many timeless skits
@suzieredfoxfur69824 ай бұрын
You SO remind me of ME when I was a younger girl back in the late 70s early 80s when my older brother introduced me to Monty Python. My mom hated them but I immediately fell in love with the humor. So glad I found your channel
@mijmijrm6 ай бұрын
FYI. Some of these sports are no longer in the Olympics.
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
oh interesting!
@alonenjersey3 ай бұрын
I suspect that if they were brought back it just might increase global ratings.
@alonenjersey4 ай бұрын
Please Megan. I'd love to see your reaction to the BLACKMAIL skit.
@albin22326 ай бұрын
I used to stay up far too late to watch Monty Python when I was a boy, but my parents let me do it 😂
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
I don't blame you! 😆
@RobertTaylor-gz2fu6 ай бұрын
@@MeganRuth Is Monty Python popular in Canada?
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
@@RobertTaylor-gz2fu I'd say it is!
@alonenjersey4 ай бұрын
Same here. I was the only teenager in my neighborhood watching PBS after 10 p.m.😄
@user-bl6kx5ev7x3 ай бұрын
Same here I’m 64 now
@SilverionX6 ай бұрын
Ah, one of my favorite Monty Python sketches! It's that and mosquito hunter.
@TheRedDevil-19686 ай бұрын
No doubt this what the queue to the Houses Of Parliament bar is like after Parliamentary Question Time.
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
😂 oh absolutely!
@Draegonktyner4 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I grew up on Monty Python thanks to the L.A. public broadcast channel; I was just eleven or twelve when my best friend and I watched many English comedy shows in 1976 on PBS. I still laugh today at the same stuff I watched back then. Cheers, 🥸
@balticstain71504 ай бұрын
This is so true...
@petebeatminister4 ай бұрын
The Olympics sketch is not shown so often, thanks!
@robertcreighton46356 ай бұрын
One of my favourites
@maximilianschmid98903 ай бұрын
"Sam? All."
@mikecross51706 ай бұрын
Hi Megan. Take a look at Spike Milligan "Oirish Olympics ". Similar idea but years earlier I thinķ.
@ftumschk6 ай бұрын
Actually, Python got there first, by eight years! The O'Lympics featured in Spike's "Q7" in 1978, but "Upper Class Twit" first aired in 1970.
@mikecross51706 ай бұрын
@@ftumschk Thanks for putting me right !
@ftumschk6 ай бұрын
@@mikecross5170 My pleasure. I'm a huge fan of Spike and the Pythons myself, but had to look that up.
@Lukeislost6 ай бұрын
Woooo great vid
@bluecedar79146 ай бұрын
SOOOOO entirely appropriate that this appeared on my recommended videos after watching a GB News interview hosted by Jacob Rees-Mogg.
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
😂 I love this!!
@lifelover5156 ай бұрын
Great choice. I fairly near wet myself when I first saw it back in the day.
@liamthompson90906 ай бұрын
Bormann of Brazil😂
@RedVynil5 ай бұрын
That was VERY short!! The original was 7:00 long..
@matthewbryant87476 ай бұрын
Interesting you talking about politicians a have race where people peeing in bushes I remember seeing something about festival or beer festival where they took photos of politicians and put on sticks in the ground and people could wee on them
@paulmaxey63776 ай бұрын
Spike Milligan always said that Monty Python 'stole' his material and the Twit of the Year is an example of this. Spike did exactly the more or less the same sketch a few years before: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ6thKWMg7ChqJI
@starmanfaned6 ай бұрын
His best friend is a tree
@chemistmanuk6 ай бұрын
50+ years old now 😮
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
wow! That's crazy!
@charcolew6 ай бұрын
Who could possibly compete with Jacob Rees-Mogg these days for UCTOTY? His children's names are as ridiculous as the ones used in the sketch!
@timholder68256 ай бұрын
They are all, in fact, upper class.
@ftumschk6 ай бұрын
The only truly posh Python was probably Michael Palin, in terms of family background and schooling. The others were basically middle class grammar-school boys... apart from Cleese, whose mother happened to inherit some money which allowed her to pay for his private education. Even so, his father was an insurance salesman, which is hardly an upper-class job.
@Reaction-Starts-At6 ай бұрын
0:22
@josefschiltz21926 ай бұрын
The government? What a coincidence!
@Poliss956 ай бұрын
John Cleese would win Upper Class Twit of the Year these days. He's turned into the very people he was taking the P out of.
@MeganRuth6 ай бұрын
oh no don't tell me that! That's so unfortunate...
@Poliss956 ай бұрын
@@MeganRuth Cleese: “[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese said. “You do know the British have been slaves twice, right?” Cleese continued: “I want reparations from Italy.” “And then the Normans came over in 1066... they were horrible people from France and they colonised us for 30 years and we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.” In a final explanation of his remarks, Cleese said: “The thing is, I’m going to be dead soon. That’s why I’m in favour of global warming - I don’t want to be cold ever again.” 'Some years ago I opined that London was not really an English city any more Since then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation So there must be some truth in it... I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU.'
@dupersuper19386 ай бұрын
@@MeganRuth I'm not entirely sure what this poster's on about.
@Poliss956 ай бұрын
@@dupersuper1938 Maybe you haven't been paying attention to what Cleese has been ranting on about for the last few years?
@mijmijrm6 ай бұрын
@@Poliss95 - yes ... when someone has views i don't agree with, i say they're ranting too.
@larryk7312 ай бұрын
Both sketches are only slightly politically incorrect and offensive and brilliant. lol You couldn't make them today.