The Piranha Brothers pt. 2

Ethel the Frog looks at the violence of British gangland.

[@AntonioKatan]

He used... SARCASM... He knew all the tricks... Dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire.

[@MarthaRoseMoore415]

The timing is delicious, as well.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

It sounds like he wrote it. Which reminds me, I'm immoderately glad he was honoured with a knighthood.

[@Bollthorn]

"One of 'em was carrying a...tactical nuclear missile." Genius.

[@aaronTNGDS9]

The sudden close-up of Palin's face when the question of 'Doug' came up is such a brilliant stroke of creativity, as is the whole interview. A lad with a tactical nuclear device being the local constable---Indeed!

[@Hqhq-01]

That whole interview with Palin was a scream. IMHO Piranha Bros was the Python's best sketch in their best episode.

[@althesmith]

Chief Constable. Equivalent of police chief here.

[@mrfantastic407]

"Dinsdale was a perfectly normal person in every way...except...except inasmuch as he was convinced that he was being watched by a giant hedgehog he referred to as Spiny Norman." Priceless stuff.

[@aaronTNGDS9]

The matter-of-fact dead-pan delivery of the British comedians, while hardly moving their lips, is what I personally find so hilarious and endearing. It's a quality that makes the comedy everlastingly hilarious throughout time.

[@mikewalsh5825]

I love how they dance around Dinsdale's (aka, Ronnie Kray) homosexuality: "his work for charity. He took a warm interest in boy's clubs, sailors homes, scouting jamborees," etc. As a teen seeing this for the first time, it all went over my head, so it's even funnier now that I'm older, especially knowing the history of the Krays.

[@coyotesayswhat]

Yes that's what I was thinking. I wonder if the twins ever got to see it because you know Flanagan was on Monty Python several times.

[@demophys4883]

My experience exactly! When I were a lad, we didn't have this internet nonsense, we used carrier pigeons and called it good! I'd never even heard of the Krays, so the joke sailed right over my head, too. But I still laughed like a drain. And the very next day I reduced a classmate and fellow Python fan to helpless giggles by whispering to him that he really knew how to treat a female impersonator! Good times.

[@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962]

This is the result when a madcap but brilliant group are given free rein to do whatever they like. The BBC, and even Python at times, had no idea what they were doing, but it resulted in some of the most sublime comedy in existence.

[@PuddingAtheist]

I thought it was a reference to pedophillia "celebrated American singers, members of the aristocracy, and other gang leaders."

[@dixonpinfold2582]

@@PuddingAtheist Appears to be a sharp call.

[@Thundermonk99]

I love how newscaster John Cleese cuts straight to female impersonator John Cleese. So striking. Not to mention Palin is brilliant in his soliloquy.

[@johncollins8304]

"Female impersonator" -- ah, what clarity we had 50 years ago. Now theyre referred to as trans 🤨😆🤣

[@OreadNYC]

You gotta love the way in which characters from other sketches make cameo appearances in this sketch, such as all the men from the Gas Board (the New Cooker Sketch) and the Minister of Silly Walks.

[@Mdriver1981]

This segment is a good play on the interviews of those that knew the Krays, admitting their violent ways, but were "honorable" characters.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Thanks. I was born far away and well afterwards but this whole thing rang bells. And now I know why, as I indeed had read about the Krays some hazy number of years ago.

[@maddog372]

"Dinsdale was a loony but..he was a happy loony. Lucky Bastard." Omne of my favorite sketches and Graham chapman in that part was priceless.

[@DieFlabbergast]

He was also drunk.

[@Chapps1941]

"Ethel the Frog: (Piranha Brother's)" is their best long skit. All the interviewees are very funny. Sanchez Panza was very funny. Biting the Heads of whippets. Nailing Coffee Tables to heads. He knows how to treat a female impersonator _All so funny_

[@Penningtontj]

I do love how they call back to previous sketches, viz the brown coated men from the gas cooker scene earlier, Ministry of Silly Walks, and much later in the series has Spiny Norman randomly turn up calling Dinsdale again.

[@jamespgray6928]

And Angelo Vercotti. He's Ron Obvious' promoter when he tried to jump the channel.

[@Trev0r98]

"...he used....sarcasm..." still cracks me up to this day.

[@ngobleus]

"Everyone was terrified of Doug...I've seen grown men pull their own heads off instead of seeing him.."

[@hugohackenbush3524]

There are not enough superlatives to describe just how good this is. Nuff said.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Incredibly brilliant!!! Not a word wasted! I used to think RAF BANTER and THE CHEESE SHOP were the best but having seen parts 1 and 2 of this I think this could be the icing on the cake!

[@smithereens388]

Palin is great, but Graham has the best part as the criminologist: "After all, he only did what most of us simply dream of doing...I..ghr....I'm sorry!" and so forth. Brilliant.

[@Gridseeker]

"A murder is just only a extrovert suicide...Dinsdale was lonely, but a happy lonely! LUCKY BASTARD!" HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

I just realized that Luigi was also the manager for Ron Obvious in another episode.

[@DieFlabbergast]

Yep: gets around, doesn't he?

[@Bellpipe41]

He’s also in the army protection-racket sketch. He and his brother, Dino, try to run it on Graham Chapman’s colonel.

[@ccdaly2561]

One of the ways I wake my husband up in the morning: "Dinsdaaaale"

[@michaelcook68]

Absoloutely brilliant sketch of courses it was a spoof about the krays ..my favourite bits were the schoolmaster trying to explain in mime what they were like ...and Stig O Tracey saying what a smashing bloke Dinsdale was even though he nailed his wifes head to a coffee table and obviously nailed his head to the floor on several occaisons Class

[@DieFlabbergast]

"Even the police began to sit up and take notice." Not much has changed, has it?

[@Driahva]

Sometimes I just hear the word "Dinsdale" from somewhere in the distance. Spiny Norman lives on, somewhere inside the M25.

[@vonPeterhof]

I managed to keep a straight face in the beginning, but the criminologist just broke me down. "...a murderer is only an extroverted suicide. Dinsdale was a looney BUT he was a happy looney. Lucky bastard!" ROFLMAO!!!

[@tv2109]

I have never witnessed anything ever as funny as Python

[@TheAlmightyAss]

"International cuisine, cooking..." Everytime.

[@elijahFree2000]

Nice cameo with Margaret Thatcher in a bar

[@dars5229]

Too feminine to be Thatcher.

[@johnhawken4579]

And Dinsdale says 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I tell him my name's not Clement and then... he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor.

[@djackmanson]

He nailed your +head+ to the floor?

[@davidbarlow350]

Years later and Monty Python are spot on with the UK police,and it is no longer a parody.

[@lordalessan]

"Dimmsdale was a gentleman. And what's more he knew how to treat a female impersonator."

[@sharky8577]

How on earth did they keep their faces straight ? 😂

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

They're actors, it's their job, you know.

[@dylan240269]

"he used sarcasm" hahaha....classic sketch.

[@Endrawnia]

terry Jones has the perfect interviewing voice

[@davidlawrence5]

This is the funniest take on the Kray brothers. Actually, I don't think there are any others.

[@krimskrams]

"Acting on a hunch I spent several months in Buenos Aires as Blind Pew, returning through the Panama Canal as Ratty, in Toad of Toad Hall" *rofl*

[@GregJamesMusic]

Amusingly, Terry Jones later directed and played Toad in a musical adaptation of “The Wind in the Willows” for Disney. (Eric Idle was Ratty, and John and Michael had cameos as well.)

[@andeheas]

Well, I'd noticed that the lad... with the thermonuclear device... was the chief constable for the area" Hahahahaha

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

Q of the Krays: "Do you know the Beatles?" ~ A: "No, but they know us.'

[@Sandor827]

I want one of those "Chinese watches"!

[@dixonpinfold2582]

We all feel the same way.

[@leecox321]

anyone remember a sketch with mrs primis & mrs concusion were she says ``4 hours to bury the cat??` yea it wouldnt keep still anyone uploaded it??

[@davidroosa4561]

HE WOULDNT KEEP STILL!!!

[@Yorksbloke]

Spiny Norman. That takes me back to my youth.

[@Bikutolu]

"Dinsdale?" XD

[@BoyKagome]

He nuked an airplane hanger because of an invisible beaver? ...Monty Python rocks.

[@demophys4883]

Hedgehog. Or, 'edge'og, if you prefer.

[@BoyKagome]

@@demophys4883 Comedy gold is what it is

[@vooduechild]

Doug... used sarcasm, dramatic irony, metophors, pathos, puns, parody, litody, and satire... damn.

[@leonthompson3433]

This is the funniest thing ever...

[@underyourskins]

One of the best

[@VirusMan254]

Murder... is only an extroverted suicide! Who could make that connection? Monty Python! Woo!

[@krimskrams]

strange how this reminds me of the time michael moore interviewed a soldier in iraq, saying "you cant kill someone without killing a part of yourself" how true....

[@JWY1993]

Gotta love accuracy of the "female impersonator" line.

[@micahgee]

thats the best line with Graham's face hehe

[@qhlpp]

lol, i did not expect the minister of silly walks.

[@Penningtontj]

DINSDALE. DINSDALE. DINSDALE! DINSDALE! DINSDALE!

[@rhysnaylor]

"Sancho Panza (Mr. Organs) spoilt an otherwise impeccably choreographed rape scene with his unscheduled arrival and persistant cries of 'What's all this then?'.

[@SLjimbolian]

".....he used SARCASM." :( LOL

[@krimskrams]

that cracks me up every time! *lmao*

[@solemnpeace8834]

much coming true now ea everything inside me , whats the flock ,midnight ride , etp

[@HarryShec35]

*EXPLOSION* "even the police began to sit up, and take notice"

[@chuckles12358]

He used sarcasm 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shitsumeilegumovitch]

Yeah, I think he is too. He stumbles over his words a couple of times. But his "crazy" looks are brilliant.

[@Tareltonlives]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE MINISTRY OF SILLY WALKS! Wait....

[@MillebilleKrokodille]

Muhihaha.... The Silly walk........:)

[@WristCutGauze]

@OrontesRM My favorite Python of all time. :D

[@chuckles12358]

That was right out 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Endrawnia]

LMAO that just made me split a seam

[@JohnWilliams-zu8wg]

Goodbye....mother....

[@srbrant5391]

5:22 - If there is but _one_ fragment of our civilization left behind, it needs to be this.

[@bold810]

OHH-! wait a tick, @5:20- Terry Jones mentions someone named "Blind Pugh". ... John Cleese played a character named Blind Pew in "Yellowbeard" . Coincidence? 😮

[@carolebrown-op7jg]

Blind Pew is a sinister blind ex-pirate in RL Stevenson’s Treasure Island

[@parkman35]

This is supposed to be a spoof on the Kray Brothers who terrorized London in the 60's....

[@ichimonji1988]

From 1:20 to 1:38 is the most British thing I've ever seen.

[@nintendo1889x]

1:40 A murder is only an extroverted suicide.

[@HarryShec35]

Yes the CHINESE watch... goodbye...mother. ,SHUT THAT BLEEDING DOOR! ...mother. lol

[@Hero1957]

He was a cruel man, but fair.

[@peterszigeti7476]

Give me English subtitles and I send you a hug.

[@petermaxwell4904]

that was right out,..

[@andrewphillips9391]

Dinsdale was a loony, but he was a happy loony...

[@mahound9]

I'm pretty sure that he's drunk there. Even so, he does a good job.

[@antellmarkus9568]

I can't be blamed I was born in December 66, what luck.

[@smithereens388]

I stand corrected... :)

LUIGI VERCOTTI???? help me with the name! please

[@paulyearwig]

...I was terrified of 'im... ...everyone was terrified of Doug.. ...I seen grown men pull their own 'eads off rather than see Doug...

[@KlausKokholmPetersen]

a bit of both.

[@davidwlorch]

litotes

[@RasMajnouni]

Spiny Norman the Hedgehog was my Uncle as well as my Grandfather

[@sharky8577]

I’m sure the Pythons created these female characters so they could dress in women’s clothes - and nothing wrong with that😂

[@StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY]

Everyone was frightened of Doug.....he used his position of......power....he was the controller of BBC2 and, subject to ratification by Jimmy Saville, errmmm....he could...(swallow nervously).......well, 'e could destroy a public persona wiv one column in The Sun.

[@StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY]

By the way.....you ain't seen me, right!?

[@garybrockwell2031]

LUTON 😅🎬🇬🇧💪🤣😍🤩 Sancho Panza🗣️📢😁

[@almadora]

"...the chinese watch..." mmm, that's a scream.

[@bigjohnknew]

What’s all this then?

[@8DX]

A looney, you looney!

[@MassiveLib]

Female impersonaters now have huge rights...

[@Tareltonlives]

"As for the performance of Superintendent Harry "Snapper" Organs as Sancho Panza, the audience were bemused by his high-pitched Welsh accent and intimidated by his abusive ad-libs."

[@Jotunn54]

what did he do? He used... sarcasm.

[@NYCBG]

A murder is only an extroverted suicide!

[@MasteroftheForce1337]

He used...sarcasm. ROFL!

[@ElleRoni]

...Dinsdale?

[@CoolSafflina]

Bye Bye. Mother. ha!

[@trainscranesandtrivialtale7262]

Chapman really struggling with his lines as the criminologist, although he's brilliant in the film segment as Vince Snetterton Lewis

[@dvfmliv]

DINSDALE!!!!!

[@CommissarTommy22]

whats all this then!?

[@linapleachimPL]

dinsdale...dinsdale...:P

[@jasobres]

Dinsdale???