Monty Python - Army Protection Racket (w/ english subs)

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MrMarionikos

Күн бұрын

The infamous sketch from episode 8, season 1

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@robertmayfield8746 Жыл бұрын

'I'm a senior officer and I haven't had a funny line yet' 🤣🤣😂😂

@lauriecook2399 Жыл бұрын

*it's only 'cause you couldn't think of a punch line*

@derycktrahair8108 Жыл бұрын

Lower ranks do Comedy. Officers do Tragedy. Sir.

@robertmayfield8746 Жыл бұрын

@@derycktrahair8108 Yes, what kind of senior officer he is, if he doesn't know that.

@derycktrahair8108 Жыл бұрын

@@robertmayfield8746 EXACTLY. well done that man.

@cv507 Жыл бұрын

you wouldnt vvänt sämsüng tv häppen tv yör... happkäppce döyöö -:-

@MegaKnight2012 Жыл бұрын

"Watkins, are you a pacifist?' "No, sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir, I'm a coward"

@robertclive491 Жыл бұрын

The most predictable line in the sketch which is why it's made fun of immediately after.

@gallantcavalier3306 Жыл бұрын

“That’s a very silly line, sit down.”

@gallantcavalier3306 Жыл бұрын

@@rex-up9ln “No, the whole premise is silly, not to mention it is very badly written.”

@robertclive491 Жыл бұрын

@@rex-up9ln Any hack comedian in England could've written that, that's not why Monty Python were great.

@Altinget 18 күн бұрын

@@gallantcavalier3306 That's true. But it's still funny. 😂

@bobdobalina838 Жыл бұрын

I don't know how many times I have seen this but I still have to watch it again and laugh. Thank you so much guys your humor is top shelf and timeless. Rest in peace Terry Jones.

@richardsalazar17 Жыл бұрын

😂😂11111 is ?a 😂is 11😂😂11

@enkisdaughter4795 Жыл бұрын

And Graham Chapman

@AdminAntitask 5 ай бұрын

same, Monty Python are my heroes and the have enriched my life in many ways, and I thank them for that.

@GilbertdeClare0704 25 күн бұрын

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ! Fings BREAK don't vey !🤣🤣🤣🤣Dino and Luigi make my sides hurt no matter HOW many times I watch this. Same with Dinsdale Pirhana, the psychotic East End Gangster🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.....DINSDALE ! ! !

@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын

- ARE YOU THREATENING ME, master Jedi? - Oh, no, no, no! - Whatever made you think that, chancellor? - The chancellor does not think we're nice people, master Windu. - We are your buddies, chancellor. We want to look after you. - It's treason then. The Jedis are taking over. - We can guarantee you that not a single star destroyer will get done over... for 15 bob a week.

@Kris.G Жыл бұрын

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

@veramae4098 4 ай бұрын

President F.D.R. paid off the Mafia to leave the harbors alone during WW II.

@Elmasdrakosinfenixov Ай бұрын

This whole skit from beginning to end is a masterpiece. Loved every moment of it

@harryselwind Жыл бұрын

Most comic writers would think how funny it would be if the army operated a protection racket. Python have a couple of London-Italian spivs trying put the frightners on the British Army: soldiers, tanks, artillery, paratroops and all. Genius.

@laurenceseale Жыл бұрын

They'd probably get away with nowadays if they threatened to misgender a few squadies!

@jimjam51075 Жыл бұрын

I think it's somewhat borrowing from the aesthetic of the Kray brothers.

@anothertime1282 Жыл бұрын

@@jimjam51075 Who, of course, broowed from a long line of criminality. Except that they were not funny.

@raypenny9013 Жыл бұрын

This is my all time favorite Monty python skit. Thanks for uploading this.

@randymillhouse791 Жыл бұрын

Be a shame if somethin' were to happen to it.

@raypenny9013 Жыл бұрын

@@randymillhouse791 I just hope that none of the divisions get done over.

@randymillhouse791 Жыл бұрын

@@raypenny9013 "oops! somethin' got broken."

@randymillhouse791 Жыл бұрын

@@raypenny9013 "Things catch fire Colonel..."

@johnb1150 Жыл бұрын

We want to look after the sketch colonel

@fabioernestotagetti5822 Жыл бұрын

Such a funny, brilliant, splendid idea to mix the English army with the Italian mafia 'Fires happen...things burn...'

@mike196212 Жыл бұрын

You never mess with The Colonel. He ALWAYS has the last word. lol.

@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 Жыл бұрын

My favorite character through the series. "Stop the sketch - it's too silly."

@JamaicanCastle Жыл бұрын

"It's only because you couldn't think of a punchline." "Not true!"

@davidekstrand8544 5 ай бұрын

“That’s it! This is getting too silly.”

@gabespiro8902 4 ай бұрын

“Are you threatening me?” “Of course not, we’re extorting you, there’s a difference”

@KneelB4Bacon Жыл бұрын

_"I can guarantee you that not a single armored division will get done over for 15 bob a week."_ lol

@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын

"Aides? Give me Dino and Luigi Vercotti immediately!" (V.V. Putin. 2022/23)

@melchiorvonsternberg844 Жыл бұрын

@@u.v.s.5583 Uhm... One of them is dead and the other one is 80 and retired...

@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 They will still perform better than Russia's military, which isn't living or young either.

@melchiorvonsternberg844 Жыл бұрын

@@u.v.s.5583 No sympathy for the Russians. Greeds from Germany...

@kozmon0t 10 ай бұрын

how much is 15 bob? I never heard of a British King Bob, whose picture is on it?

@johnb1150 Жыл бұрын

I never ever ever get sick of this stuff, when python was on form it was superb, the parody of British patriotism with cleeses narrator who then just undermines it all by diverting from what would normally be an intro to some top secret mission story to instead going to a sketch taking the piss out of army advertisements we still see today which promote how you can do all sorts of stuff if you join the forces but make no mention of the murder aspect and how terrible it really is and then that quickly followed by a parody of the Mafia who are offering protection to an institution that doesn't need protection with it nicely capped off by the colonel who became their way out of the sketch. All in the space of less than five minutes. Nobody today can write like that.

@briwire138 4 күн бұрын

A mate of mine was accepted into the RAF aged 17. On his first day, the officer asked all the newbies if anyone had decided not to continue. My mate put his hand up and came home. From then on we used to call him the Squadron Leader.

@tloco28 Жыл бұрын

One of the top 5 indeed.

@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын

Would be a shame if something happened to it.

@johnguthrie7141 Жыл бұрын

I think most sketches in that episode were stopped by Graham Chapman's colonel insisting that they were silly, including a back to nature sketch with everyone dressed in animal skins.

@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 Жыл бұрын

Monty Python admitted that when they started they had trouble with closing off skits and transitions. Therefore props like the colonel and cartoons were tried. They turned out to have created the best transitions between skits in the history of sketch comedy.

@matejpintar446 Жыл бұрын

@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732ok0❤1

@tranquilthoughts7233 Ай бұрын

"No, sir, i'm not a pacifist, sir, i'm a coward" Golden words

@user-pl6lp5ch3t 2 ай бұрын

Monty python is the funniest comedy show of all time love this sketch😂😂

@gewglesux Жыл бұрын

0:14 that marching!! "15 bob a week , 12 and 6 8 and 6"

@user-oo8xp2rf1k Жыл бұрын

That's actually the reality of the Russian army.

@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын

This British Colonel has much more tanks and paratroopers than the Russians though.

@thePronto Жыл бұрын

The crooks are the officers. It's ludicrous to think that petty crooks could out-muscle the army. Except for Wagner, of course: so I guess Russia is a parody of itself...

@sugandesenuds6663 Жыл бұрын

Historically true, after the soviet union fell bases got visits from the mafia

@rickrandom6734 Жыл бұрын

Not really. In Russia, mafia people are in charge of the army where they are stealing.

@daanvos194 Жыл бұрын

Cold war

@stravinsky1300 Жыл бұрын

One little nitpick: the Colonel claims they are extremely careful - so why on earth is he giving information on troop strength to a couple civilians? Must be because he couldn't think of a punchline!

@randymillhouse791 Жыл бұрын

Army base strength is a general known. No, not the famous General Known from WWII.

@ethzero Жыл бұрын

General Known's general whereabouts was a closely guarded secret during the war from all but General Whereabouts, said Caption Dunno.

@johnb1150 Жыл бұрын

Doesn't that just make the comedy more apt that a general is giving away troop strength to a couple of Mafioso?

@AURON2401 4 ай бұрын

Because it's False Information. He's trying to make the army base look more operational than it really is to get more cred. Colonel must've been in the underground for quite a while to know that trick.

@markh.6687 2 ай бұрын

@@randymillhouse791 My name is General Alert, and I'll be taking command as of this instant.

@Noah-wx7fm Жыл бұрын

I thought they were going to turn out to be insurance salesmen

@Benderdonethat 2 ай бұрын

3:01 “It’d be a shame if someone set fire to them” 😂

@LaerrusUK Жыл бұрын

For those who don't get it, it's probably better to watch the whole episode.

@leondarcy7367 Жыл бұрын

500 tanks on ONE base ? The British army has maybe 200 in total nowadays

@DeltaJazzUK Жыл бұрын

Not true. Actually we've about 50.

@goodshipkaraboudjan Жыл бұрын

@@DeltaJazzUK Be a shame if something were to happen to them...

@stalhandske9649 Жыл бұрын

@@goodshipkaraboudjansomething obviously has already. Someone didn't want to pay Luigi and Dino their very reasonable 15 bob a week and look what happened.

@awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481 7 ай бұрын

@@DeltaJazzUK The UK has 213 Challenger 2s and 3,207 "Key Land Platforms". (Ie AFVs)

@poopsmith6853 2 ай бұрын

@@awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481afvs are not tanks. They're analogous to the role of armored cars in the past

@gasmmusic Жыл бұрын

Our general public's not going to understand this, are they?

@LaLibertéEclairantLeMonde 2 ай бұрын

You've...you got a nice army base here colonel...

@ash5834 Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite. Thanks

@FritzyBeat 3 ай бұрын

Don't let this distract you from the fact that he wouldn't appear in a frontal nude scene unless it was valid.

@mordechai- Жыл бұрын

Classic, classic.

@weeblelehmann466 21 күн бұрын

Michael Palin is genius for this! Actually, as I think about it....for alot of reasons.

@johannesbergcrantz 29 күн бұрын

Bwahaha, this was a new one for me 😂

@garthb5139 Жыл бұрын

I like to think this was inspired by Heller's Catch-22. Milo Mindbender in particular.

@o00nemesis00o Жыл бұрын

Was that, "you have to be insane to want to be a soldier, therefore seeking to be relieved on grounds of being insane is proof of sanity"?

@glen1555 Жыл бұрын

He arranged for the air force to bomb their own airfield, then sent the Germans an invoice for cost plus 15%, no one on either side got hurt

@thomaskauser8978 Жыл бұрын

Krays!

@smautomat Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@pops1507 11 ай бұрын

Supreme comedy.

@AmyWinehouse9and14. Ай бұрын

Too silly.

@dackmont 6 ай бұрын

"Fings braik, dunnae?"

@MichaelDembinski Жыл бұрын

Luigi Vercotti - looks and sounds like the prototype of Danny the Dealer from Withnail and I... "Very, very foolish words man. I'll have to give you a dose of medicine and if I spike you you'll know you've been spoken to. If I medicined you you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present...."

@fredflintstoner596 Жыл бұрын

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

@johnb1150 Жыл бұрын

I think you want the Fawlty towers videos, this is Monty python so totally irrelevant...

@fredflintstoner596 Жыл бұрын

@@johnb1150 NO I DON'T SO JUST PROVES HOW STUPID YOU ARE SHERLOCK !

@Jon77Levy Жыл бұрын

@@johnb1150 It's not "totally irrelevant"... it's just "something completely different"! Ba-dum tshhhhh...

@johnb1150 Жыл бұрын

@@Jon77Levy well done on the laboured reference, I duno why people plaster great slabs of dialogue on these pages, he doesn't make any comment about the vid and then quotes another show of which we know the dialogue too, pointless.

@emillyyelen5169 Жыл бұрын

@@johnb1150 dont be so anal ffs...

@gettyz Жыл бұрын

15 bob is maybe 3/4 of 1 pound. Haha.

@gewglesux Жыл бұрын

whats that "8 and 6" is the some kind of new math?

@malcolmdale9607 26 күн бұрын

@@gewglesux eight shillings and six pence in old money - about 43 pence today

@gewglesux 26 күн бұрын

@@malcolmdale9607 Thanks!! I was curious!!

@markallen1782 Жыл бұрын

When you needed 10 seconds to get the film projector up to speed..

@zacharyboni1118 Жыл бұрын

Semprini.

@Lattamonsteri Жыл бұрын

Right, what's all this then?!

@zacharyboni1118 Жыл бұрын

@@Lattamonsteri Nothing, officer! I swear!

@Zzyzzyzzs Жыл бұрын

OUT!

@painkillerjones6232 Жыл бұрын

Semprini?????

@MrDannMann Жыл бұрын

My hovercraft is full of eels!

@AmyWinehouse.914 Жыл бұрын

Did they come for the 5min argument or the full half hour?

@tolfan4438 Жыл бұрын

I wanted to see the cartoon

@caseytaylor8093 7 ай бұрын

E-4s getting brave

@Cj-ou8jq Жыл бұрын

0:20 that was the WORST to the rear ever!!!

@ksrmk Жыл бұрын

fings break, Colonel,

@cster9261 8 ай бұрын

500 tanks? A British tank regiment is usually about 56 tanks

@JimTimber Жыл бұрын

Ha ha ! ..superb !!

@censorduck Жыл бұрын

it's funny that this pretty much actually happens in russia.

@dottieobrien2606 Жыл бұрын

God. Ch

@CailenCambeul Жыл бұрын

I was intending to make a comment on this video, but KZfaq has banned me from making comments. Sorry about that, chaps.

@Zaradeptus Жыл бұрын

This is literally the Russian Army

@user-oo8xp2rf1k Жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking .

@thePronto Жыл бұрын

And the crooks putting the squeeze on the officers are called Yevgeny, not Luigi.

@thichinhphan4010 2 ай бұрын

Is it? I've seen videos of youtubers showing foreign men being surprised and complaining that fighting for Ukraine is far more different from playing CoD. They even said it would be lucky to return home safely instead of dying in Ukraine. 🤔

@Applecompuser Жыл бұрын

Chapman reminds me of what a British WW2 might have been like.

@J-Loe Жыл бұрын

1:31

@damocles8417 10 ай бұрын

The Kray twins?

@deanronson6331 Жыл бұрын

I'm a Python fan, but I always thought breaking the dramatic reality device had been overused and looked like a cop-out.

@michaellavery4899 Жыл бұрын

No it hasn't.

@deanronson6331 Жыл бұрын

@@michaellavery4899 Your eloquence is stupe(d)fying. Let me guess your answer: "No, it isn't."

@michaellavery4899 Жыл бұрын

@@deanronson6331 It could be.

@lastburning Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Breaking the fourth wall is easy. Meta is easy.

@wehosrmthink7510 Жыл бұрын

In 1970, 4th wall was very rare and therefore NOT overused at all. Maybe in 2023. Context.

@artificialanimeuniverse5063 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Lupinthe3rd. Жыл бұрын

@chuffmunky Жыл бұрын

Set it in Russia and it's a documentary not a comedy sketch

@taunteratwill1787 Жыл бұрын

The colonel was right, this was very bad written. 😎

@hellomoto2084 Жыл бұрын

"unoccupied britain " well since when was britain occupied anyway in ww2 ?

@melchiorvonsternberg844 Жыл бұрын

The channel islands...

@ulfpe Жыл бұрын

Its like Prigozyn and Putin

@thePronto Жыл бұрын

He's right, that was painful. It had promise, but just didn't develop.

@marcokite Жыл бұрын

it was genius

@yermanoffthetelly Жыл бұрын

This is pretty much what the Wagner group did in Russia 😂

@antispindr8613 2 ай бұрын

They were going to attack Moscow - but ran away when things did not go there way

@lastburning Жыл бұрын

A lazy way to end a sketch. Meta is easy. It's easy to break the 4th wall. The other way, is hard.

@zlatanibrahimovic8329 11 ай бұрын

its only because they couldnt think of a punchline

@shannonkohl68 9 ай бұрын

@@zlatanibrahimovic8329 Which is a big part of why this sketch is terrific. Even the great Monty Python could not think of a punchline every time, and they weren't afraid to admit it on TV.

@JohnyG29 4 ай бұрын

Why provide subtitles in the same language they're speaking? Utterly pointless.

@malcolmdale9607 26 күн бұрын

in case you are deaf?

@JohnyG29 2 күн бұрын

@@malcolmdale9607What?

@tbrasc0 Жыл бұрын

This is like life in the Russian army before the invasion of Ukraine.

@effingsix3825 Жыл бұрын

Ukrainian colonel is visited by the west and then the Russians…..

@artey6671 Жыл бұрын

I don't get it. What's supposed to be funny about this?

@Rapture_Ready_Rabbit Жыл бұрын

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@malcolmdale9607 26 күн бұрын

Believe whatever nonsense makes you happy, but don't try to ram it down my throat please.

@Rapture_Ready_Rabbit 26 күн бұрын

@@malcolmdale9607 Firstly Malcolm, it's NOT nonsense and how dare you disrespect proper traditional Chrtistian beliefs in a country built on the right to freedom of religion. Secondly, pretty soon you will find out just how REAL it all is. But for you it will be too late. Thirdly, nobody is ramming anything down your throat - you can skip reading comments whenever you like. What's amazing is that you felt compelled to have YOUR say in response to an 11 month old comment. Seems like something struck a nerve there Malcom. Anyway, hey have a nice day.

@bert-qu3iq 25 күн бұрын

@@Rapture_Ready_RabbitI'd like to but the bit about eating his body and drinking his blood is kind of a squeamish thing for me. You see I'm vegan and I'm wondering if you have a version in say, tofu and Gatorade maybe? And Judea's kinda hot and dusty. And nails thru the hands and feet? Really? If you moved it to Cancun, with happy- hour margaritas and nachos, I'd be interested.

@Rapture_Ready_Rabbit 25 күн бұрын

@@bert-qu3iq Be careful.... The Holy Bible says in Galatians 6:7 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked"

@bert-qu3iq 25 күн бұрын

@@Rapture_Ready_Rabbit I dunno, God seems like a cool dude. Kinda guy you'd share a spliff with and a six pack of Stella. Y'know what pisses him off though are pompous, holier-than-thou, bible thumpin' hypocrites who think they speak in his name and are so weak willed they can't even enjoy the life he's gifted them but think they deserve an afterlife paradise. I'm not mocking him, dimwit, it's you who makes my skin crawl.

@mikevanroy9356 10 ай бұрын

E-4 Mafia be like this.

@danielfournier735 Жыл бұрын

Not ! Comical not ! Entertaining. Lame ! Nonsense ! With fake laugh tracks or people laughing that don't know any better.

@Hereford1642 Жыл бұрын

Yehhhhs. Nohhnseeense. Naughty naughty nonsense. Come along Eccles, let's get out of here.

@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын

It is extremely poorly written, but the playing is even worse. This sketch is too silly and should have been cancelled. Also, it does not have a punchline.

@markh.6687 2 ай бұрын

I've used some of the brother's lines in other video comments. You, ah, might want to find those and read them. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you....