Live from the Hollywood Bowl sketch from Monty Python - Communist quiz featuring Marx, Lenin, Che, Mao. A great parody...
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@leljdam31894 жыл бұрын
*How to do comedy:* Step 1: Have a low budget
@the0sanitydokutah9674 жыл бұрын
Step 2: Be a parody
@alexh29474 жыл бұрын
@@historyarmyproductions Sorry is Chinese a race
@historyarmyproductions4 жыл бұрын
@@alexh2947 They are a People, And he certainly isnt portraying them in the best light.
@alexh29474 жыл бұрын
@@historyarmyproductions I know I just get annoyed when people say stuff like that's racist when I've said something about a country
@historyarmyproductions4 жыл бұрын
@@alexh2947 I agree.
@robertn29512 жыл бұрын
The men who wanted to save the working class have no idea what the working class really cares about: football.
@Skyblade122 жыл бұрын
They never wanted to save the working class.
@luizcandidoborges22822 жыл бұрын
The football was not yet created during Marx lifetime, genious!
@JesseArt2 жыл бұрын
@@Skyblade12 Maybe actually read Marx?
@robertn29512 жыл бұрын
@@luizcandidoborges2282 Football Marx's The Capital was published in 1867. The first football association club were formed in 1863. I am not a genius, I am simply well-read.
@Skyblade122 жыл бұрын
@@JesseArt I have read his ideas. They are poorly thought out and don't hold up to any sort of critical analysis. However, I have also studied his life. He sat and fed off his rich capitalist friend's money, and dreamed of how much better the world would be if everyone followed his ideology. He never actually cared about anyone but himself.
@nastynate4916 Жыл бұрын
Some comics make a normal situation into a political joke, Monty python takes something with the most potential for one and does this and I love it
@nightyorb Жыл бұрын
they publicaly shared comunist ideas in the individual marx section, this was some high quality radicalisation techniques and i'm on board with it.
@v3student Жыл бұрын
🌅🏞️😎Also, those scenes from the late 1960's...👀🏘️📚☎️🎾📚 &, thanks, Cheers...{this may be removed later, etc.} 😎
@bogdang8759 Жыл бұрын
this is political af tho
@nastynate4916 Жыл бұрын
@@bogdang8759 what I mean is that it’s like actually funny. It’s comedy before commentary despite being both
@JelMain Жыл бұрын
@@nightyorb On the other hand, a family member was the Ukrainian goalie in the Wolves team.
@matthewsmith26732 жыл бұрын
It kind of blows my mind now that this sketch (1970) was released closer to the time Lenin lived (up to 1924) than the present day
@DialecticRed2 жыл бұрын
wait hold on . . . damn that really is mind blowing
@styraco4739 Жыл бұрын
Mao was also alive at the time. Guevara had died a few years earlier.
@KasumiRINA Жыл бұрын
Well obviously, this is ancient TV.
@SCWhiteJazz Жыл бұрын
@@KasumiRINA What do you mean exactyl by "TV"? ;-)
@SebHaarfagre Жыл бұрын
@@KasumiRINA "Ancient"?
@aldhizak3 жыл бұрын
"Marx" actually looks like Engels, "Lenin" looks a bit like Trotsky, "Che" somehow looks like Castro, "Mao" definitely looks like Tito.
@SignOfCross2 жыл бұрын
And all of them looks like poop
@markschnabel13532 жыл бұрын
Tito Jackson?
@FaithRox2 жыл бұрын
I believe that was part of the joke.
@rayout232 жыл бұрын
@@markschnabel1353 😂
@pastushi28832 жыл бұрын
And "Che" is definitely not a Bolivian..
@Kittymouth3 жыл бұрын
"No one leaves the show empty-handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands." Is a GEM just delivered as a throwaway line!
@tintinismybelgian3 жыл бұрын
They are still empty, but now also detached.
@ReinoutVrijhoef3 жыл бұрын
@@tintinismybelgian well, he’s not going to leave with them, is he?
@tintinismybelgian3 жыл бұрын
@@ReinoutVrijhoef They're still his hands, aren't they? Or, in a communist state, are they considered shared property (e.g., means of production and all that)?
@khangasOozaki3 жыл бұрын
@@tintinismybelgian so you can't claim to be communist and have hands. "hands don't exist in my reality" ~Kaldor Draigo
@tintinismybelgian3 жыл бұрын
@@khangasOozaki Perhaps. You might "have" hands in the sense that they are attached (or unattached) to the body you inhabit, but it is the collective that "owns" the hands, proprietarily speaking, as they exist to serve the interests of the communist revolution.
@kaleygoode1681 Жыл бұрын
I would have thought Karl knew about sports! After all, his wife, Onya, was an Olympic runner! They still use her name at the start of races
@jamescampbell4334 Жыл бұрын
You win the comment section. 👍
@cliffordwebb3656 Жыл бұрын
That's fairly amusing.
@Nick1549994 ай бұрын
I do not get it
@kaleygoode16814 ай бұрын
@@Nick154999 Before beeps, races were started by a human with a pistol that said, "On your marks... get set... GO!" (and shot the pistol at the same time as shouting, "GO!"). "Marks" were objects or lines on the ground before blocks were used. Marx was German but had a huge influence on Russians, Starlin and Trotsky who interpreted his writing differently and formed opposing parties after the Russians Revolution. Onya is a Russian name. Onya Marks sounds like, "On your marks" The joke implies Marks had a familial link to Russia. Jokes need the audience to put together missing information themselves, and they laugh if they're successful; there's a lot to put together in this one so most people won't get it! 🥰
@ben85574 ай бұрын
@@Nick154999 At the beginning of a race, they say "On your marks" which sounds kind of like "Onya marx"
@joeblair34272 жыл бұрын
The true kings of comedy. Sadly Karl lost both hands but Eric Idle was in such a chipper mood he gave him the non materialistic lounge suite for his troubles but wouldn’t give him a hand to get it out the door
@mikeyh02 жыл бұрын
LOL I would give a thumbs up but that would be too ironic.
@ulture Жыл бұрын
shame that joke makes no sense. Materialism is the basis of Marx's whole philosophy (it just meant something different back then)
@JelMain Жыл бұрын
May your long third leg never fumble a ball.
@grizzlygrizzle Жыл бұрын
The lounge suite was the perfect choice for Marx, a parasitic layabout who never had a real job. He was a 19th century analogue of today's mom's-basement-keyboard-warrior-brony. In My Little Pony Land, there's no student debts, and It's OK to have needs, because the other guy has abilities.
@gg8299 ай бұрын
@@ulture it still means the same thing, it is just one of those words that people use completely wrong.
@nickv40733 жыл бұрын
John Cleese did not have one line in this skit and he was still hilarious.
@ieuan._.ch4n9453 жыл бұрын
Always is
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
Of course.
@deanronson63313 жыл бұрын
He did use his funny walk later to exit the stage.
@Jotari2 жыл бұрын
The look of concentration on his face as he considers the question is fantabulous.
@SithCelia2 жыл бұрын
Agreed a hundredfold! Their facial expressions were the most hilarious, I think, particularly Michael Palin as Che. Che!
@demondwilson7066 жыл бұрын
The best part is that I can't even find a political joke, the fact the entire joke is they don't know about English sports makes it so much better
@xenoblad6 жыл бұрын
ehh... that's kind of a stretch, but it did remind me that Cuba beat America and Dominica Republic in the baseball world classic nearly every time. The world classic is like the Fifa for baseball, but is dramatically less popular. It's also a joke how sad the national baseball team of China is. They literally lose to everyone by 20+ runs.
@Mutterschwein6 жыл бұрын
matthieuriolo Please tell me you don't genuinely believe that socialist governments kill their own athletes' families or actually punished them in any way as harsh as that for not winning sports competitions.
@TooCooFoYou6 жыл бұрын
Xiclotrode Stalin killed anyone that didn't cough at his direction.
@bodyguardik6 жыл бұрын
Kaotikrakkerz 22 he cant. he is just brainwashed sheepie
@TooCooFoYou6 жыл бұрын
Kaotikrakkerz 22 I'm not sure if he did, but I was just messing around given the fact that Stalin had quite the ego (cult of personality).
@73caddydaddy937 ай бұрын
The way Marx goes "aw shit" after losing was a masterstroke
@stevef95302 жыл бұрын
I was a kid at school when Monty Python started, and used to stay up to watch the show which was on about 11pm. It made every other comedy programme look tired and dull, and opened up wonderful new areas. It was so exciting, and the only drawback is that nothing I can think of since has lived up to the promise it made. Now the world is still a mess, and maybe I’m wrong but I think we have nothing like this now. Oh well....
@mikelmart Жыл бұрын
Foil Arm's and Hog come close to a modern day MP.
@JelMain Жыл бұрын
Comedy relies on contrast, the more extreme the better, but political correctness slaps criticism of divergence down. At root, conformity and political extremism are at odds, so there is still plenty of scope.
@stevef9530 Жыл бұрын
@@JelMain political correctness slaps down divergence, not criticism of divergence. I don’t think MP was actually political on the whole, they laughed at everything in a completely anarchic way. People will politicize their comedy because they are like that. There’s trouble now because the pc left can’t tolerate dissent. I don’t remember much complaining about Python in the 60s.
@JelMain Жыл бұрын
@@stevef9530 Any more than Boris' bunch can.
@tubehound69 Жыл бұрын
I was probably around 10 years old when I was introduced to Monty Python. My uncle, who is about 5 years older than me introduced me to it. One of the first skits I saw was the Oscar Wilde “your majesty is like.” Although a lot of the more complex humor in that flew over my head it was still hilarious.
@affectionatepunch4 жыл бұрын
Can't believe Trotsky wasn't invited he was a staunch Evertonian
@sovietunion76434 жыл бұрын
Trotsky was invited, but so was Stalin. so Stalin and Trotsky were fighting each other in the parking lot with baseball bats when they saw each other, and since neither showed up into the studio on time, the producers had to go on without Stalin and Trotsky
@summer201057074 жыл бұрын
Why didn't they invite Tito? He would have been the smartest one.
@DieterRahm18454 жыл бұрын
@@StrongCoreSociety Ice axes*
@FreaKCSGOHacker4 жыл бұрын
trotsky had an unfortunate accident with an ice-pick when it accidentally fell on his skull
@quindariousgooch69084 жыл бұрын
AllSeeingEye ofGod Get out of here with your stupid ass theories people are coming here to watch Monty python not to see your dumb propaganda
@carsonreddick34523 жыл бұрын
"The hammers is the name of which english football team" Karl Marx: *has a full existensial crisis*
@dereklonewolf90113 жыл бұрын
They were never a football team. It's a trick question ! 🇨🇦 71+ yr old hunter expat
@siypic3 жыл бұрын
@@dereklonewolf9011 Every 25 years they are..
@dereklonewolf90113 жыл бұрын
@@siypic lol ⚽️
@Pe6ek3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps learn to spell.
@joaogarcia94882 жыл бұрын
Precious
@hellbooks30246 ай бұрын
The facial expression adopted to portray Mao is just priceless.
@portcullis56222 ай бұрын
An uncanny likeness!😂
@TheSiemek2 жыл бұрын
The best part of the sketch is the subtext in it. It doesn’t matter if you want to help the working class, because football is much more important to the media and in short term also to the masses than their own well-being.
@thatonegamer29212 жыл бұрын
Bread and circuses
@Aireck174 Жыл бұрын
I can see that interpretation but I think now we have the opposite problem and everything is political. I just want to watch a basketball game but I have to hear a sermon about equity or whatever.
@TomDaly943 Жыл бұрын
In 1984 all the proles seemed to care about was the lottery!
@blakerobinson8370 Жыл бұрын
I think its more, you want to help them, yet 1. jobs come from the people you dont like as you just admitted. and 2. you have no idea what the proles enjoy - eg the football and so therefore have nothing in common with them.
@vandatavna7681 Жыл бұрын
The reason this sketch makes me laugh is not so much the politics, but because it reminds me of being in a similar position, in the old pub quizzes. The pub quiz was always a popular form of entertainment in the UK ... now there are not so many of them around. But I would sit with my team (at a table with pint of lager) waiting hopefully for a question I could answer (history, geography, zoology etc) which seldom came ! ... it was always football, cricket, tv soaps, or formula one racing ( ... which I know nothing about)! So ... Karl, Vladimir, Che, Mao ... join the club!
@eliwatson79364 жыл бұрын
Karl lived in London for a significant portion of his life, he probably had the best shot at winning
@stardustnation24804 жыл бұрын
A century before this sketch tho
@harryscott29554 жыл бұрын
Lenin lived in London for a couple years
@patp37253 жыл бұрын
And Che was a known sports enthusiast, although he played rugby he also followed a local football team
@JeffDeWitt3 жыл бұрын
And he's buried in England... it's a real Communist plot.
@tomlewis51053 жыл бұрын
@@JeffDeWitt And you have to pay to get in hahahaha
@DrunkenCoward110 жыл бұрын
"Ah, shit..." - Karl Marx What a poet that man was.
@GathGealaich10 жыл бұрын
The most famous of the Marx Brothers, at least in Europe!
@1simo935219 жыл бұрын
GathGealaich he just wasn't as funny as Groucho.
@hansgruber7889 жыл бұрын
Simo nah mate, chico was the funniest
@drscope277 жыл бұрын
Nietzsche claims the ball did not exist, Marx claims its offside.
@milascave27 жыл бұрын
Nietzsche believed that a type of ball was only a means to get a few great balls, and then to achieve even greater balls, until you had the greatest balls of all. (but, for some reason, you then had to repeat the process over and over.)
@recordkeeper47612 жыл бұрын
no one ever gives Friedrich Engels the notoriety he deserves.
@facundovaldez69902 жыл бұрын
This is hilarious! Che was Argentinian, though. The CIA was absolutely positive that he was Bolivian. It is said that when they finally got him, very near to his death, after they read everything they had on him and claimed him to be Bolivian, he laughed.
@bourbonbrigade19682 жыл бұрын
You can only kill a man, an idea lives on! Murderous CIA invaders will be remembered in 100 years as just that. Che will still be a legend, loved by the people!
@thelordofcringe2 жыл бұрын
@@bourbonbrigade1968 che is already remembered as a serial killer pretending to be a socialist lmao He put gay people in camps and tortured everyone he could get his hands on to death. Personally. He was a serial killer who could only get his rocks off to torturing someone to death.
@danbackslide29572 жыл бұрын
@@bourbonbrigade1968 Che got what he deserved
@gregfielder2 жыл бұрын
Well, the people that he didn't personally dispatch with his handgun, anyway.
@SZebS Жыл бұрын
I interpreted that as "leader of the bolivian guerrilla", which to me would make it incredibly funny since that's not what he's known for and also that's when he kicked the bucket
@winsomehax4 жыл бұрын
Marx eyeing Lenin suspiciously at the start... glorious bit of acting/writing.
@immachanguropinin11103 жыл бұрын
Marx would have liked Lenin tho
@jasem2223 жыл бұрын
@Oliver Formby Marx was all about the means justifying the ends. As we all are comrade.
@dragoncrown20293 жыл бұрын
@Oliver Formby Lenin was power hungry commie piece of shit , he was never good for Russia , after Lenin and his Bolshevik party did the coup , all hell broke out in Russia , a resistence against the Bolsheviks ( white army ) was assembled , the civil war between the Bolsheviks and White army caused the death of 9.5 million Russians , it would be best for Russia if Lenin's Bolshevik party never did their coup , so that the awful civil war could be avoided , people who support Lenin are not right in the head , he was an awful power hungry communist , he didn't care how many people his soldiers killed , he only cared about setting up his autoritharian communist state with himself as the dictator
@jeremynewcombe34223 жыл бұрын
@@dragoncrown2029 Just one correction. Civil War was inevitable after the Provisional Government's multiple failings in 1917. The reason Bolsheviks came to power in the first place is because there was a complete power vacuum in Petrograd. The leader at the time Kerensky had no legitimate authority beyond the walls of the Winter Palace, as the historian Orlando Figes liked to say. Some one was going to try and take the charge. It wasn't a matter of if, but when the civil war would occur. Lenin obviously had no reservations about all the horrors Russia would endure, viewing the civil war as the realisation of class struggle.
@abdelaziz31973 жыл бұрын
@@dragoncrown2029 The October Revolution was inevitable, Kerensky's government was unable to deliver to any of the promises they had made, they didn't retreat from ww1, they didn't improve the peasantry's conditions and if that wasn't enough they where about to allow the restoration of the tsar. The bolsheviks had much more popular support than the white guards and you can't deny by no means the huge improvement in life conditions after the civil war, huge increase in literacy rate, massive increase in life expectancy and incredibly quick industrilization. The fact that you think that some guy that was in exile can just snap his fingers and have himself an army capable of defeating the pro-tsarist counter-revolutionaries and make himself the dictator of the USSR is just not right. You should really research what you're talking about, or at the very least have the common sence to know that things don't work like that
but the joke here is that the game show host doesn't know what he is talking about. saying the louge suite is non-materalistic is just using the term incorrectly in the context. I see this sketch as just a means to simplify the discourse and muddy the water on what any of the policy or philosophy of these people were. even more telling that its framed in an popular tv quiz game show where they talk about sports statistics... I'd laugh if more people understood what this skit was really about and what the joke is other then the stuff i'm seeing in the comments of "haha look at these leaders, wasn't socialism bad? haha"
@sciencefictionisreal16084 жыл бұрын
but what about Marxist materialist world view?
@sirperybLakeney4 жыл бұрын
I actually thought the “This non-materialistic lounge suite'' line was the weakest part of the sketch -it was just being too obvious and lighting up a neon sign and pointing excitedly at the joke for those too thick to get it. Still, I suppose part of being a good performer is knowing your audience...
@4nc3st0r4 жыл бұрын
I feel people that find that funny conflate communism with post modern theories of consumer criticism. Communists don't think that people buy too many things, and communists don't think people ought to share more and be less selfish. Communism is a critique of the mode of production that leads to amassment of wealth in the hands of few while excluding those wo toil to produce that wealth on the other. It is not a critique of consumption of goods.
@sciencefictionisreal16084 жыл бұрын
@@4nc3st0r ^^^^
@Thelawncarenut2 жыл бұрын
"Solid Gold Biggie" was my nickname in college. 🤘
@charliek1152 жыл бұрын
The soldiers of the United States will have their way with you one day
@Lamster662 жыл бұрын
@@charliek115 Why, are "The soldiers of the United States" all Gay?
@onanysundrymule31444 ай бұрын
It is so poignantly apt that all the questions (apart from Karl's speciality Q & A's) were literally regarding topics of 'Opiates of the Masses'.
@Radien7 жыл бұрын
This is how I feel every time I play Trivial Pursuit and I get the friggin' Sports category.
@jshepard1525 жыл бұрын
SAME
@xcvsdxvsx5 жыл бұрын
Right? Why is sports in there. It doesn't matter. It isn't relevant to anything in the real world. And they treat it like its equal to the other subjects. WTF is that even?
@reasonablespeculation38934 жыл бұрын
The importance of sports entertainment (and entertainment generally) must be continually impressed upon the masses. Even grown men are thrilled to wear clothing emblazoned with the name of their Sports Hero. They have been psychologically infantilized. Important to keep everyone distracted, amused, and most importantly, convinced that they ARE aware of current important events. Concentrate on the trivial, ignore reality. As the Western World is culturally and demographically decimated, the unwitting masses are well fed and immersed in frivolity.
@Mikebumpful4 жыл бұрын
Reasonable Speculation That totally sounds like an English translation of a letter written by Marx!!
@george2009town4 жыл бұрын
You uncoordinated snobs have no fucking idea about the importance of sport to humanity...and the Python sketch was yet another of their BIG misses.
@Boredman5674 жыл бұрын
Funny how Marx looks more like Engels, and Che looks more like Castro.
@Kelveron3 жыл бұрын
I thought this Marx looked like Rasputin!
@valentinogoksirkairesideba39813 жыл бұрын
@@Kelveron Rasputin wasn't even communist
@ObamaGaming443 жыл бұрын
Also kinda funny how Marx’s accent sounds more Russian than German
@techdeckofficial3 жыл бұрын
ThereIs ASnakeInMy that wasn’t what they were saying
@megaotstoy3 жыл бұрын
and Lenin looks more like Dzerzhinsky
@Revolver0cel0t Жыл бұрын
You know monty python are the best of all time when across generations they are still funny and the jokes are still relevant for different people to get, truly genius and pioneers of the comedy genre Especially in movies, everything they made has aged remarkably
@HelderGriff Жыл бұрын
True, I'm 25 and I absolutely love the life of Brian
@maxi-me Жыл бұрын
Which one was Monty?
@idhrenoh2023 Жыл бұрын
Well, the comedy certainly aged well. Not so sure about having Terry Gilliam play a Chinese man and the occasional black face routine in Flying Circus.
@clem25262 жыл бұрын
This is unrealistic, no four leftists could sit in a room for this long without infighting
@hungryyellow21192 жыл бұрын
Truth
@Caboose40912 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@hungryyellow21192 жыл бұрын
@@Caboose4091 Is he wrong
@middleworldwitch481010 ай бұрын
Ye Olde Circular Firing Squad, that's the straight dope!
@chrisb44198 ай бұрын
Marxist Leninists, not "leftists"
@edwinsamuel50653 жыл бұрын
The fact that they don't even attempt to speak a word makes it even better.
@TRLgoodvibesdotcom2 жыл бұрын
Agreed 😆 but Mao knew Great Balls of Fire 😆
@rehoboth_farm2 жыл бұрын
Funny but not realistic at all. In real life none of those idiots ever shut up. That's what makes it funny to me.
@supercool69567 жыл бұрын
Marx looks more like rasputin
@WeDwellinaFiefdom6 жыл бұрын
SuperCool 69 Rah rah Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..
@stefanomemolis95026 жыл бұрын
+Delta3 Actual I heard there's no hell
@stefanomemolis95026 жыл бұрын
+Delta3 Actual by the way, I think Marx would go to the Christian hell, still don't think he would deserve that
@stefanomemolis95026 жыл бұрын
+Delta3 Actual I don't think there can be a worse thing than infinite pain forever
@TheWizardYeof6 жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking
@terryherrera9054 Жыл бұрын
When Monty Python started in the 60s my older brothers watched it and the show always had them laughing so hard . They loved it. Then us younger one's got to watch it with them it was hilarious we always looked forward to it when it came on. It still just as funny as it was back then. 🤣😂😅
@PadraigTomas2 жыл бұрын
Karl Marx lived in England. Unfortunately he died about 12 years before West Ham United was founded in 1895. Bad luck Karl!
@panowa83194 жыл бұрын
RIP to Terry Jones who passed away today.
@shanehenderson87564 жыл бұрын
Should show this at universities that might understand soccer history better!
@danyleon70944 жыл бұрын
So sad news, thanks for the info though, bro !
@blob59074 жыл бұрын
how can he rest when we have people fishing for likes on his death
@diahane0924 жыл бұрын
FUCK! I came here to laugh now I'm crying
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@PAT Warner Sadly ..
@PaNDaSNiP3R4 жыл бұрын
SNL could take a note or two thousand from these guys.
@crysstoll11914 жыл бұрын
PaNDaSNiP3R I’m fairly sure they did. Especially the greats from the first few years.
@Eisenwulf6664 жыл бұрын
Snl is cringe nowadays anyway, used to be great,then was ok, then meh..now it's just sad
@heatshield4 жыл бұрын
it's complete crap now. SNL just hired someone, then fired him before his first appearance because the sjw outrage community went digging and found something insensitive he said years ago.
@crysstoll11914 жыл бұрын
heatshield Wth? That used to be prerequisite for getting on the show! Did Lorne Michaels sell the show or is he turning neo con?
@crysstoll11914 жыл бұрын
Eisenwulf666 I stopped watching by the time Ackroid, Newmann, Morris had left (of course Belushi and Radner has upped and died and Chase was gone). Started out on a high.
@buffy3200 Жыл бұрын
this is good stuff, needs to be on TV again
@achenarmyst21562 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous sound at presenting the Lounge Suite. 😁
@tobolulo4 жыл бұрын
The resemblance to Mao is stunning...
@Wrongald4 жыл бұрын
LOL, and thumbs up.... but only because I'm a bit drunk...
@tomxxx96554 жыл бұрын
Remarkable isn’t it 😂
@goatwarrior35704 жыл бұрын
Mao Zedunning
@usernameluis3054 жыл бұрын
Looks like herman goering
@douggriggs14994 жыл бұрын
Except that he wasn't fat enough .... great comment anyway by you.
@seanspindleshanks25293 жыл бұрын
"We're gonna cut off his hands" I'm starting to see the violence inherent in the system.
@namemcpersonsname67723 жыл бұрын
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! He's being repressed!
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@namemcpersonsname6772 Bloody peasant!
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
Oh, quit bitching and let's have tea. Ok, first we'll cut off his hands, and then have tea. Right.
@cowboypilot70593 жыл бұрын
Strange woman laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government!
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
@@cowboypilot7059 Supreme executive power is derived from a mandate of the masses, not from some watery bint, who threw a sword at you!
@MrRobster1234 Жыл бұрын
I used to date a Communist. It didn't work out. I was Russian and she was Stalin.
@wabc2336 Жыл бұрын
Good joke but I'll add that most Russians see Stalin in a positive light
@meciocio3 ай бұрын
what positive light bro? lol. Stalin sent millions of people to the gulag for basically nothing. Russians hated him in his time and definitely still despise him decades after his death.
@theearthguy18143 ай бұрын
@@wabc2336 aye because they'd get killed if they thought any different
@wabc23362 ай бұрын
@@theearthguy1814 Today? No. Since 1991? Also no. Since 1956, when Khruschev denounced Stalin? Also no. Under Stalin? Maybe, but they’d have to do more than just speak ill of him, and a very small percent of people went to prison (or labor camp) for political opposition. (Even 70% of the gulags were non-political inmates)
@AK-Drakoin4 ай бұрын
This is exactly what happens to the smart kid whenever the class has to do a Super Bowl kahoot quiz
@mlb55252 жыл бұрын
We need Monty Python’s humor now more than ever.
@user-cs5ld9if2y2 жыл бұрын
Russia want to create USSR 2.0 Tomorrow Georgia was their prey. Today - Ukraine. Tomorrow - you will be.
@jimmyohara26012 жыл бұрын
yeah, communism is a total failure. only North Korea very stubbornly persists with the dudd system. 😐🤪
@frenchfrysz66952 жыл бұрын
the world has lost the ability to laugh at itself. everything is offesnsive now. and its depressing.
@jackpeters49302 жыл бұрын
@@frenchfrysz6695 not true yet, we can still laugh don’t think like that. There’s so much pain and evil in this world and yet the progressive powers of the west wanna remove any slight chance to laugh
@stz97402 жыл бұрын
@@user-cs5ld9if2y no. Russia is nothing like the ussr. NATO has expanded into Ukraine and on Russias border. Russia is defending themselves from antagonizers.
@CybrosisEvolved3 жыл бұрын
The fact that MT TUNG just comes in and answers a question is comedy at it's finest. You were under the illusion the entire thing was gonna be a staring match. Then BAM - GRAATE BALLS OF FIRE!
@AndreasDelleske3 жыл бұрын
Yes.. a bit too early if you ask me.
@derekralston59672 жыл бұрын
Him buzzing in for some reason just got me.
@olliemartinelli40342 жыл бұрын
I mean funny yes but also very predictable.
@honourabledoctoredwinmoria31262 жыл бұрын
It's pretty funny that his surname is actually Mao, and it gets listed as Tung, half his given name.
@MrHmg552 жыл бұрын
Isn't there another version of this sketch in which the question is about another song and Mao answers, correctly, "Sing Little Birdie"?
@milkynebula762011 ай бұрын
This amount of class and wittiness is restoring the brain cells I've lost today.
@niv8880 Жыл бұрын
Apparently, Coventry City has since won the English Football Cup once, in the 1986-1987 season. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 in the final, with striker Keith Houchen scoring a memorable diving header to level the score at 2-2. This was Coventry City's first major trophy in their history. (ChatGPT!)
@davidemelia62962 ай бұрын
This sketch is from the 70s, ChatGpenis
@johnphelan4215Ай бұрын
Coventry was absolutely robbed in this year’s FA Cup semifinal against Man Utd by a stupid VAR reversal of their game winning goal. Will not be watching the final in protest.
@kri2494 жыл бұрын
Monty Python humour is absolutely timeless. Who would have thought their skits would be relevant and still funnier after so many decades.
@lapdawg604 жыл бұрын
Their themes are rooted in truth. Truth is eternal. And funny AF
@timjohnson11994 жыл бұрын
Any of the Democratic candidates.
@runrig974 жыл бұрын
@@timjohnson1199 True, as John Cleese has noted, Drumpf has no sense of humor whatsoever.
@Dowlphin4 жыл бұрын
Because things rarely ever change. Gotta wait for the complete downfall of Western-capitalist imperialism when there are 49 new countries in America and then check back for how humor has evolved. 😉
@timjohnson11994 жыл бұрын
@@Dowlphin Nahh..... Then we would be like Afghanistan and the Chinese would come and take over. How would you like to be ruled by the Chinese?
@MrVinnie474 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe Marx didn’t get the West Ham question correct!
@jediroya68104 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, given that he lived in London for nearly 35 years!
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
@@jediroya6810 Wasn't he a QPR fan?
@sonnypeart73134 жыл бұрын
Perhaps because he died before the club was founded?
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@@portcullis5622 Nay! Everybody knows that Marx rooted for Chelsea 😂
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
@@oni741 I hear that he also made sneaky visits to Loftus Road.
@iacopoguidi7871 Жыл бұрын
00:18 Omg I spotted a mistake! Che Guevara was not Bolivian, he was killed there while leading a guerrilla, but he was Argentinian, and a Cuban citizen as well since he participated in the Cuban revolution! ^_^
@thePronto Жыл бұрын
Here's the real joke: "What English Premier League team is not owned by Russian oligarch after stealing the means of production from the Russian people?
@TheStraatjutter7 жыл бұрын
Che looks like Fidel
@DCI-Frank-Burnside7 жыл бұрын
That sounds like Cold War code.
@TheStraatjutter7 жыл бұрын
Most four word sentences do
@TheStraatjutter7 жыл бұрын
I find Marx looks more like Engels and only Lenin really looks like Lenin, only I think they gave him and Mao hats so they wouldn't have to use bald caps etc. The odd thing is that Mao would have been salvageable if they had given him Lenins costume , since the military uniform in Mao china was basically a blue-er version of the workers uniform. What ever they put him in here makes no sense. Makes you wonder if they changed the sketch last minute.
@lindsayandrew60267 жыл бұрын
Che was also an Argentine, not Bolivian.
@TheStraatjutter7 жыл бұрын
Andrew You can also describe him as having been a Cuban guerrilla commander. It's not wrong but it's not the most understandable use of the English language either. The nationality describes the organisation he had a role of leadership in ( Bolivian guerrilla), not Ché himself. Look at it this way , a US postal service worker with the Canadian nationality is both a 'US postal' worker ánd a Canadian postal worker employed by the US postal service.
@brianarbenz72064 жыл бұрын
Historical stages of development: Tribalism Feudalism Capitalism Socialism Communism Lounge Suite
@BennettParsons14 жыл бұрын
Brian Arbenz you forgot to add: “Running a massive genocide against your own population.”
@sdivine134 жыл бұрын
He wrote communism already
@Neuroticmancer4 жыл бұрын
BennettParsons1 yeah he did it was called capitalism
@sdivine134 жыл бұрын
@@Neuroticmancer you're pretty stupid arent you?
@Deridus4 жыл бұрын
@@sdivine13 Y'all forgot feudalism and tribalism, ya gormless tossers!
@noahbrulesss45744 ай бұрын
"great balls of fire"
@thejkyle3 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I’d go visit my great grandparents and my great grandfather would always be watching Monty Python. I still watch this stuff because of those days. Good memories.
@gabrielesolletico65422 жыл бұрын
That's nice! Thank you for sharing your childhood memories with us!
@oscarmccormack16114 жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace, Terry Jones. Your laughter will ring until the last smile fades.
@philldavies79404 жыл бұрын
Would be interesting to know how Terry ranked himself, he was a keen Medieval historian, whether that was more important to him or monty python. One of Wale's finest.
@jmpopov2 жыл бұрын
He said he's not dead
@richy69ify11 ай бұрын
5 years after this sketch, Coventry City caused a shock winning their first English cup :) 0:52
@realityjunky2 жыл бұрын
Never gets old because it's still relevant.
@leopold75623 жыл бұрын
Monty Python were the masters of the ridiculous sketch and this is no exception. But that throwaway line at the end made me laugh rather more loudly than I was expecting.
@VacantSpirit2 жыл бұрын
well im sure there was tons of similar comedian groups such as finnish Kummeli. Monty Python is lucky to be english so they're known worldwide
@rogink2 жыл бұрын
@@VacantSpirit That's the funniest thing I've seen for a long while!
@lr68846 ай бұрын
All I can think of is the sketch from FC where contestants had to summarize the works of Proust in 10 seconds or less... Something to the effect of "since we don't have a winner, first prize goes to the girl with the biggest tits!"
@ltr17452 ай бұрын
@@VacantSpiritNords aren't funny.🥱😴
@thesturm86865 жыл бұрын
"No one leave this show empty handed, so we just gonna cut off his hands" Sounds spot on
@eagle36764 жыл бұрын
@Focux no it doesn't. Can you even define communism?
@teknical1004 жыл бұрын
Everyone sinks to the lowest common denominator. Except for the people who are more equal than the rest.
@kwaynr13014 жыл бұрын
@John LaFever . Like most people that never read the communist manifesto and then just repeat what other uninformed people said about it, your idea of communism is way off. There is nothing connecting communism to the atrocities committed by 'communist' dictators. I can come up with examples of capitalist countries ruled by dictators that are just as bad. Inform yourself please.
@kwaynr13014 жыл бұрын
@John LaFever yeah sure, get mad, why not? Why exactly do you accuse me of having a ' reading comprehension problem'? So you have read the communist manifesto, or did you read about it? And btw, as far as my memory about the book goes, Marx never promised a 'sweet smelling paradise', instead he warned about economical issues, which for a large part came true. And suggested an alternative for capitalism ( which ,as im sure you know ,is just the next step after feudalism, introduced mostly after the french revolution, together with enlightenment). Instead, it's the capitalist creed that says ' you can become whatever you want as long as you work for it', which is not true for most people. Unless you're rich, you're just a puppet, working to make someone else rich. Or read about it here:en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
@mrde0mrsai4 жыл бұрын
That’s how some countries eliminate poverty: just eliminate the poor people.
@JBarr-lw6kpАй бұрын
Guys, the joke is that these are four of the most important men in political and economic history, and Eric Idle is asking them about soccer. Not that they don't know about it.
@mallow173 Жыл бұрын
Man Love all these guys and Idle rocks!!
@jackdoyle74537 жыл бұрын
Karl Marx spent most of his life in london of course he'd know who the hammers were!
@blindthrall7 жыл бұрын
Was thinking that if anybody would get it, it'd be Marx.
@blindthrall7 жыл бұрын
paul metzler Judging a communist by the contents of his bank account is pointless.
@JD10101011107 жыл бұрын
I think you're confusing Marx and Trotsky. Marx died in London he's buried there. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico city with an Ice pick by agents of Stalin.
@happyflea7 жыл бұрын
Wow, it's been quite a while since I've read anything that discoherently angry. Impressive!
@Catcrumbs7 жыл бұрын
Adolf Hitler never went by the name 'Shickelgruber'. www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/opinion/l-hitler-never-really-was-schicklgruber-016390.html
@bleepinfireman10 жыл бұрын
That Mao face
@politure7 жыл бұрын
it's borderline lol
@SandlotRider7 жыл бұрын
Looks like Elizabeth the 2nd
@Plafintarr6 жыл бұрын
*correction: it's borderline lmao
@jamsch56926 жыл бұрын
I am fucking beautiful
@jeremymullins12946 жыл бұрын
it's Terry Gilliam. That's all that matters.
@the6ig6adwolf2 жыл бұрын
This is bloody brilliant 🤣
@dionysius1b8702 жыл бұрын
I love M.P. and I never seen this skit! Ty for posting! Lnao
@Eza_yuta4 жыл бұрын
Karl Marx look like Rasputin and Che Guevara look like Fidel Castro 😂
@Cjnw4 жыл бұрын
Marx looks a little like Keanu Reeves
@Eza_yuta4 жыл бұрын
@@Cjnw Wha- How dare you.
@glennwilliams65224 жыл бұрын
@space cowboy#2 Vlad Putin is Rasputin but Karl Marx is but another foreigner in London.
@BritishTea-eater4 жыл бұрын
He looks like Friedrich Engels, one of the famous Communists. Marks, Engels and Lenin
@ekklesiast4 жыл бұрын
And Lenin looks like Trotsky
@mcaddicts9 жыл бұрын
Why did Marx end up in the final round, Mao was the only one who answered a question. Just plain silly.
@doctorwhofan25639 жыл бұрын
mcaddicts "Just plain silly" is the entire point of Monty Python.
@mcaddicts9 жыл бұрын
Yeah I realize that and was making reference to the running joke of the silliness.
@doctorwhofan25639 жыл бұрын
mcaddicts Oh. Well, stop that. It's silly.
@mcaddicts9 жыл бұрын
All right I'll get on with it.
@chiefjudgefish41938 жыл бұрын
+mcaddicts YES! Get on with it!
@cykoelektryko14825 ай бұрын
17 Years later Coventry City won the FA cup. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3:2 (a.e.t).
@squatch5457 жыл бұрын
Damn, I was hoping Marx would win the lounge suite.
@feartheghus5 жыл бұрын
He had enough free shit given to him in real life.
@leplancoop85844 жыл бұрын
@@feartheghus Like his 7 dead kids ? That was a free gift from society right ?
@feartheghus4 жыл бұрын
Le PlAn CoOp no but all the draining he did from family member’s funds and all the mooching he did while producing nothing was.
@leplancoop85844 жыл бұрын
@@feartheghus I wouldn't call writing over 20 books nothing... but sure...
@Dmitry TKR it's hahahaha in Portuguese, I'm mexican anyway
@dr.floridaman48053 жыл бұрын
The works of the worker. Marx logic would have the couch maker own all his couches and no bread.
@spiicypotato3 жыл бұрын
@Jim Goose Why are you booing him? He’s right!
@dr.floridaman48053 жыл бұрын
@@spiicypotato lmao. He dipped out. His phone maker wanted his work back.
@theoneandonlyjonasv Жыл бұрын
"Grate-uh Bowls of Fye-yah?" Comedy gold! lol
@allenlovell16042 жыл бұрын
Agreed, we need all the comedians and laughter we can get ! We need Benny, Dave, Rodney, and George so badly right now ! Sadly they have all passed away !:(
@shaunhouse86347 жыл бұрын
Strangely Coventry City won the English FA Cup for the only time only five years after this was made
@nosuchthing87 жыл бұрын
Shaun House wow!
@kieranwilcox77397 жыл бұрын
Shaun House only 5 years, that's long enough for that to not be relevant
@NyantoDesu7 жыл бұрын
Shaun House Nothingham Forest has won the Champions League. Anything is possible!
@rcalibre98147 жыл бұрын
ObviousBaitYetYouStillFellForIt 0
@Curratum7 жыл бұрын
This is the sort of thing I trawl the comments for!
@vonskull10 жыл бұрын
At least Marx knows offsides when he sees it.
@ErinStevens1210 жыл бұрын
I still think the German's made a huge mistake by subbing him in for Wittgenstein.
@jturon91846 жыл бұрын
I liked the days of Socrates.
@ryanadams09222 жыл бұрын
Seeing this 14 years later with 14 million views is quite something
@patrickmccarron5059 Жыл бұрын
That lounge suite is sweet.
@lhistorienchipoteur99683 жыл бұрын
1:15 Covetry city won in 1987. Seven years after this sketch.
@yinoveryang42464 жыл бұрын
Terry Gilliam pulling that face. Wouldn't get away with that these days.
@DL-cd7ew4 жыл бұрын
SJW's would sh-t
@dom27524 жыл бұрын
@@DL-cd7ew i mean probably cause its racist?
@DL-cd7ew4 жыл бұрын
@@dom2752 - You mean comedy 😇
@dom27524 жыл бұрын
@@DL-cd7ew can comedy not be racist?
@DL-cd7ew4 жыл бұрын
@@dom2752 - Do you go after black people who impersonate a white person, and call them racist too?
@kristopherloviska9042 Жыл бұрын
Python would be crucified today for Gilliam's portrayal of Mao.
@superbrain7852 Жыл бұрын
I mean... Are they? This isnt a "would" scenario.
@ReasonAboveEverything Жыл бұрын
@@superbrain7852 yes, we both know that would happen...
@superbrain7852 Жыл бұрын
@@ReasonAboveEverything What do you mean "would", is this not a sketch today? Look into the comments, do you see anyone, a single person saying "uh thats yellow facing"? Youll probably find one eventually, but for very person who says that, there are thousands of people like you guys. Chill out, why be so speculative, they arent getting crucified, thats a fact, nothing to discuss here.
@shieldphaser5 ай бұрын
Honestly this perfectly encapsulates why I don't like games like trivial pursuit.
@josephgarfield33633 жыл бұрын
The attention to detail is the best part of this skit, Great Balls of Fire came out in 1957, when Mao was still alive, so it is entirely possible he actually knew the answer.
@Ericwvb2 Жыл бұрын
Since this was filmed in 1982 it wasn't exactly ancient history back then (25 years earlier). Today's question might include a question about Michael Jackson's "Bad" which came out in 1987 or 35 years ago (ok now I feel old).
@stevenleighton1947 Жыл бұрын
Of course he knew the answer!!! he answered the question.
@kozmonauta05153 жыл бұрын
2:53 Reminds me of when an old man stood next to a bridge with a knight and asked him what's Assyria's capital
@brucevertrees47403 жыл бұрын
It’s definitely not a casual and easy-going capital
@suddenlyfrogs19063 жыл бұрын
I don't know that! (I bet Arthur knew it was Ashur because of some silly debate before the opening credits...)
@peterleadley71033 жыл бұрын
Ninevah. where's my sofa?
Жыл бұрын
How did they manage to get all those famous people in the same room?
@JDWalkerDrummer4 жыл бұрын
I was really hoping that when Mao won $10, it'd be redistributed to the other contestants and everyone would have $2.50.
@markbrookman82334 жыл бұрын
Naaa... that's not how Communism is implemented in reality... More like: $9.95 to the "Party", and 5c for the masses...
@dungusmcgee14174 жыл бұрын
And then everyone starves.
@dragons_red4 жыл бұрын
Only the masses have to share, and they made share what little they are given. All the money stays at the top with the party leaders. Absolute power as they say....
@dungusmcgee14174 жыл бұрын
@@dragons_red That absolute power stuff is a load of nonsense. Doesn't explain anything. There have been plenty of examples where absolute power has not corrupted and current examples today how partial (democratic) power has corrupted and the problem with partial power is it leaves anyone in it paralyzed to kick out any one who is corrupt. At least absolute power depends on the nature of the person themselves. I would take Marcus Aurelius over any of these Orwellian U.N bureaucrats anyday. Who voted them in anyway? Democracy sucks, but so does socialism and communism. Also fuck Hitler.
@dungusmcgee14174 жыл бұрын
@Jake Williams For sure. But the state's will swing blue soon, then the only option will be for republicans to move futher left and shift the Overton window further and further left. You can already see it with gay and trans advocacy as well other policies that would of never been adopted 50 years ago
@vilstef69884 жыл бұрын
About everything I know about English Football I've learned from this Monty Python sketch.
@ralphmarx75544 ай бұрын
The irony is that most of them would know these at a drop of a hat... except Mao. I think Mao liked baseball more
@ryanmuro Жыл бұрын
I’m not a proletariat, I’m temporally embarrassed bourgeoise
@christopherfaulkner919710 жыл бұрын
I like that one of the jokes is now out-of-date as Coventry won the cup in 1987.
@harker2460110 жыл бұрын
"Che" looks a lot like Fidel Castro.
@StevieGG0810 жыл бұрын
And Marx looks like Engels. Don't think it's a coincidence.
@billyb60016 жыл бұрын
Everyone had beards
@g2knows7526 жыл бұрын
Che looked like a pussy in real life.
@jeffreylebowski2856 жыл бұрын
chaostrich, he looks nothing like the real Che (other ban the beard)
@at0micwerew0lf6 жыл бұрын
chaostrich strangely, so does Justin Trudeaux...
@cayk4812 жыл бұрын
i like how everyone in the audience got excited when they announced karl marx
@hankkingsley93002 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites
@blondthought51754 жыл бұрын
This skit must have sailed right over my head when watching Monty Python as a child.
@zeverin75184 жыл бұрын
@blue heeler *makes fun of people's intelligence based on their hair colour *uses the preposition 'of' instead of the auxiliary verb 'have' because it sounds more or less the same classic
@zeverin75184 жыл бұрын
@blue heeler My prrrrrecious! or did you mean ''you're'?
@zeverin75184 жыл бұрын
@blue heeler 😘
@blondthought51754 жыл бұрын
@blue heeler I was born brunette, like Stalin.
@michaelmerck75764 жыл бұрын
To me it was just the British accents and the British sense of morality that made them funny,they took being British and all its inane customs to task by a high level of hyperble which when done by real Brits was hilarious
@rixxy92044 жыл бұрын
"Beautiful, non-materialistic lounge suite"
@andrewdick46472 жыл бұрын
The Monty team are still the best in the west ...50 years later.. priceless gems
@sgt.miltonosiris44902 жыл бұрын
Marx lived in London a number of years, but sadly he passed away in 1883, 12 years before the founding of West Ham United FC :(
@filthylucreonyoutube2 жыл бұрын
50 years later, and one of their clips gets 13 million views and 10K comments. Pure. Genius.
@PunkParrot4 жыл бұрын
"Great balls of fire?" I'm so glad I found this video again lmao
@teebrinner59392 жыл бұрын
😃😃😃
@90Eight.65 ай бұрын
the guy playing Tung is squinting so goddamned hard
@duncanurquhart52784 ай бұрын
1:13 they all kind of half-nod like that's the reason they didn't answer LMAO
@bingus12565 жыл бұрын
"Great buarrs of a-fiyah?"
@u.v.s.55834 жыл бұрын
Yes it was indeed! Very well challenged!
@ponraul12214 жыл бұрын
lmao
@jeffblack50244 жыл бұрын
LordOfTheHunt In the original British version, it was a Eurovision Song Contest winner called ‘Sing Rittle Birdy’
@RonWylie-gk5lc4 жыл бұрын
@@jeffblack5024 Ha ha has
@Forcystus858 жыл бұрын
"No one leaves this show empty-handed...so we're gonna cut of his hands" lol, so that's where Izzard got the joke he used in his quiz show act in Definite Article. Then again Izzard does make a ton of Python references in his comedy.
@Bialy_15 жыл бұрын
Socialist stealing form someone? Shocking! hehe
@hatespeach98354 жыл бұрын
Well izzard is a jew.... just like marx You they ever did any work of their own?
@LOTRmeme4 ай бұрын
John Cleese & Eric Idle… they’re all fantastic but those two- heavy hitters