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A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches

John P.

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Monty Python Spanish InquisitionMy wife requested that I post a particular Monty Python skit on the site. Well, posting just one Python video is right out!

No, here at One Man’s Institute for the Exceptional Documentation of Silly Time Wasting Videos we have a rule that one shall post no fewer than 150 videos – and the number of videos posted shall be 150.

Therefore, being that my wife is an HR manager and has to interview tons and tons of mackerels, and furthermore since she gets a kick out of Monty Python’s classic Silly Job Interview… RIGHT! On with it then!

(In fact, as I understand it she conducts all of her own interviews in this manner. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more.)

Additionally, in the spirit of being Halibut, I’ve spent a truly silly amount of time sifting through applicants, while wearing pantys and a bra. No I didn’t! Yes – you did! Right. On with it!

  1. Lumberjack Sketch
  2. Buying a Bed
  3. Hitler in England
  4. Agatha Christie Sketch
  5. Spam
  6. Married
  7. Murderers
  8. Archaeology Today
  9. Mouse Problem
  10. Bicycle repairman!
  11. Most Awful Family In Britain
  12. Albatross
  13. Storytime
  14. Dirty Fork
  15. Blackmail
  16. Bruce
  17. Lingerie Robbery
  18. Lion Tamer
  19. Silly Vicar
  20. Kilimanjaro Expedition
  21. The Visitors Sketch
  22. Trouble at the Mill / The Spanish Inquisition
  23. Aussie hunters
  24. The money programme!
  25. A Man With Three Buttocks
  26. Mattress Skit
  27. How to contradict people
  28. The stolen newsreader
  29. Interesting people
  30. The smuggler
  31. Meat Sketch
  32. Silly Job Interview
  33. Lets talk ant
  34. The Fish Slapping Dance
  35. Timmy williams coffe time!
  36. The Bishop
  37. Semaphore version of Wuthering Heights
  38. Little Red Riding Hood
  39. Exploding Blue Danube
  40. Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson
  41. Flying Lessons
  42. I Wish to Report a Burglary
  43. Confuse-A-Cat Ltd.
  44. Johann Gambolputty
  45. The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker
  46. How Not To Be Seen
  47. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1
  48. Penguins
  49. Undressing
  50. Tiny Words
  51. Italian
  52. Ministry Of Silly Walks
  53. Spectrum
  54. Burglar
  55. My Brain Hurts!
  56. The Llama
  57. Deja Vu
  58. Office Sketch
  59. Tennis Anyone?
  60. River Tossing
  61. Cheese Shop
  62. Mr Clean-Air System, the Boxer
  63. Camel Spotting/You’re No Fun Anymore
  64. The Dirty Vicar
  65. Christmas in Heaven
  66. Prawn Salad waiting room
  67. Secret Service Dentistry
  68. Spot The Looney
  69. Salad Days
  70. I have a theory!
  71. 20th Century Vole
  72. Dead Parrot
  73. Ypres Sketch
  74. Queen Victoria handicap
  75. Travel Agent
  76. Holy Grail – Black Knight
  77. Self Defence Class
  78. Holy Grail – Killer Rabbit
  79. Monty Python- The Bridge
  80. Holy Grail – French Invasion Plan
  81. Holy Grail – Knights of the Round Table
  82. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
  83. Holy Grail – Bloody peasants!
  84. The Funniest Joke In The World
  85. The Upperclass Twit Of The Year
  86. Every Sperm Is Sacred
  87. Hell’s Grannies
  88. Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
  89. Hunting Sketch
  90. Man Who Speak Only Partial Words
  91. Expedition to Lake Pahoe
  92. Whizzo Chocolate Company
  93. Whicker Island
  94. Mr. and Mrs. Git
  95. Rival Documentaries
  96. Pilots’ Banter
  97. Cheap Airline
  98. Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson
  99. Police Station Silly Voices
  100. Art Gallery
  101. International Philosophy
  102. Careers Advisory Board
  103. Me Doctor
  104. How To Irritate People – Need a lift
  105. How To Irritiate People – Restaraunt
  106. Naughty Chemist
  107. Abandoned Sketch
  108. Silly Disturbances
  109. Fish License
  110. Johann Gambolputty
  111. Poofy Judges
  112. Travel Agent
  113. Marriage Guidance Counsellor
  114. Choreographed Conservative Party Speech
  115. Ken Shabby
  116. A Scotsman on a Horse
  117. Fish Club
  118. Falling Minister
  119. Introducing Harry Fink
  120. How to Irritate People – Actors
  121. How to Irritate People – The Joke
  122. Cosmetic Surgery
  123. Norwegian Party
  124. The First Heart Transplant
  125. Pope and Michelangelo
  126. Silly Olimpiad
  127. Antiracist Song
  128. Nudge Nudge
  129. Flying Lessons
  130. The Money Programme
  131. Office Sketch
  132. Hospital sketch
  133. Freemasons Architects
  134. Airline Pilot Practical Jokes
  135. Monty Python – Bavarian restaurant
  136. Monty Python Silly Election Results
  137. The Poet MacTeagel
  138. Gorilla Librarian
  139. Raymond Luxury Yacht

Unfortunatly due to the fact that this article was posted an infinetesimally long time ago, the following videos have been lost to the sands of the Interwebs. If any of you Pythonoholics locate them please drop a comment below and I’ll update the post for everyone’s benefit.

Albatross.

Comments

  1. Just about all these fantastic links are expired or have moved and need to be updated.
    Searched for my favourites and found most but one that get me going every time is called 4 yorkshiremen. Hilarious.

    And how do you get rid of the facebook twitter etc links ofn the right, what a dumb place when the site has no lkeft margin, it covers up so much, even this writing.

    Ron

    Cheers

    Ron

  3. I am trying to trace a Monty Python sketch of a speech given in a church hall. A welcome, I think. The comic effect was created by all the pauses being in the wrong place, altering the meaning of the sentence.
    Please help, I really would very much like to hear thins again.

  4. What is the sketch where the building only stays up if the people believe in it?

  8. I can’t find any of those broken videos as the Interweb gives me one of my heads. So I have stuck blue tack and fish parts to my neighbour’s car instead. I hope this helps.

    Mrs Statin.

  9. Wow this must of taken some time, I was just ploughing through the site when I came accross this. I love monty python, thanks John. P.S my wife is a big fan also, so thumbs up from her.

  10. I love Monty Python! I was just telling some of my friends about this page a few nights ago. We probably spent an hour on here just watching classic Monty Python skits. They have been playing The Meaning of Life recently on Cinemax or Encore and it is one of those movies that I have to watch every time it is on. I love the scene where they sing “Every Sperm Is Wasted”. They could never do a scene like that today. It is so incredibly wrong on so many levels. They have all of these little kids singing about God striking them down for each sperm that can’t be found. Priceless!

    John Cleese is one of my favorite actors in comedy. He is not everyone’s cup of tea so to speak, but he makes me laugh all the time. I miss those guys. The Holy Grail is one of the go to movies we have when we have a card night that involves a lot of alcohol. Even the people that say they don’t like Monty Python find themselves laughing hysterically throughout the movie. Maybe it just becomes funnier when you or drinking or maybe they don’t really despise Monty Python as much as they say they do. Either way, I love it!

    Brian

  12. Late reply to Noel Campbell regarding the Glid of Gloode. This was actually not a python sketch. It was performed on “Not Only, But Also” by Peter Cooke (as the Glid) and Dudley Moore (as the jester who tricks him).

  13. My favourite is the dirty fork sketch. I love the over the top reactions from them especially John Cleese. Its the same type of comedy which made Fawlty Towers so funny too.

  15. Can anybody remember the sketch about S & M? Something about finding a drawing pin and saving it for later???

  17. Does anyone know the name of the sketch where an old guy (mayor or something) is opening a new hospital wing or similar. He’s wheeled out on a mobile lecturn but he can’t think of anything to say except “um” and “ah” repeatedly?
    Cheers.

  19. These are great, thanks for the list :P. Many of the links are broken now, though, and a few of them are repeats, so I don’t think there ever really were 150 XD.

  21. You repeated two skits:

    40 & 98 – Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson
    44 & 110 – Johann Gambolputty

    Weyrleader

  22. Thankyou for this. I just love the Spanish Inquisition one of course but there is so much here I have never seen or possibly forgotten about, (Once you get past 40 the mind starts to go)
    Living in Spain most people don’t get the Nudge Nudge Wink Wink references!

  23. Our wee dog was chewing on yet another bit of wood.
    Naturally I started reciting the glid of gloode to my goode wife.
    Didn’t get past the calmly standing bit.(ho hum).
    This may have been caused from the whole excessive age/alcohol thing.
    In any event I would like somebody else to verify that such a skit existed and possibly supply the text.
    Not to retrieve any dignity (long gone) just for personal interest.
    P.S.Wasn’t game to download any of the sketches (very limited limit thingy) but did have some seriously funny flashbacks browsing through them Noel

  24. You really do have a huge variety of topics on this blog! One minute I’m reading about Woopra and the next I find this GOLD MINE of Monty Python links! This is definitely in my favorites! I could watch The Holy Grail – Bloody Peasants! sketch a thousand times. You inspired me to pull that movie out of my collection for this weekend.

    Brian

  26. I think you’re after a Rowan Atkinson sketch in which he plays the devil. The John Cleese connection may be because the two have worked together on Amnesty International benefits, so maybe you’ve seen John Cleese do the sketch himself sometime.

  27. Great site! I am trying to track down a Python sketch that I only heard once years ago and only the audio. As I recall, it was John Cleese and he was Beezlebub (I think) and was separating people into groups for assignment to various parts of Hell. That’s all I know and I am hoping you or those who visit the site might be able to sort this out for me. Thanks!

  28. Wow this must of taken some time, I was just ploughing through the site when I came accross this. I love monty python, thanks John. P.S my wife is a big fan also, so thumbs up from her.

  29. Right now on Comcast On Demand you can watch your favorite Monty Python movies with all five available in SD and four available in HD! Every Monty Python movie ever made in one place right in your own living room.

  31. A Monty Python sketch in which a chap called members of the press down to the beach to witness him leap over the English Channel. Was the chap Michael Palin or Terry Jones?

  32. I am trying to identify the sketch name and episode number of the Flying Circus sketch that shows men in suits walking along normally until they see a pretty lady and then they take off running after her. This happens several times. I think one of the guys was an announcer asking no one in particular what made them do that. I think this sketch was at the beginning of the episode. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

  33. Hi everyone,
    it seems there’s a huge bunch of python-experts in here … maybe you can help me:
    I’m looking for a sketch, i’m pretty sure it actually IS a python sketch. The sketch shows a general or some other kind of high ranked military guy, who just got a bad message or something… he then begins jabbering about the next steps and gets more and more excited.. talking at some point about a “holy threefold total mobilization” land, water, air and so on…
    that’s pretty much all i can recall. i have seen all the flying circus episodes but haven’t found it yet, so i started to go through all the movies,life of brian, meaning of life, grail, and now for something completely different, how not to be seen, the hollywood bowl thing and even jabberwocky..still … nothing…
    does anyone have an idea in which production this sketch was shown in, or its name or script or anything ?
    thanks in advance

  35. I’m trying to find a Python sketch which involves a very boring man talking about road directions. I think it is Palin that plays the part and just keeps going on and on about things like taking the A26 as far as a certain roundabout then avoiding the bypass.

  36. The sketch was called “World at War, The Walker Brigade”. You are correct that it was NOT a Monty Python sketch, but was done on Saturday Night Live, during the February 10, 1979 show, Cicely Tyson being the host. I remember watching that one and rolling in the floor as the paratroopers floated down with their walkers, then were such easy targets and were mowed down. The Walker Brigade idea was, indeed, quite a failure. I wish that I could find it on YouTube.

  37. I’m looking for a Monty python video in which there is a very tall man, and you can just see his torso. He is standing next to a regular sized man and the tall man says to the normal sized man, “you have something on your face.” I think they are eating bananas. And then the regular sized man says the same thing to the tall man and a large piece of banana falls from his face.

    Do you know which sketch this is? THANK YOU!!

  38. Does anyone remember an animated short of a postman delivering a christmas card to a man seated in a chair and while the man was looking at this beautiful card it began to evolve into war? Then at the end a knock came at his door and the postman grabbed the card and said wrong address and took the card from him? I am dying to see this one again and if anyone could direct me I would appreciate it.

  39. What a brilliant collection. We’re about to interview the great Mr Cleese on a Sydney radio station and I was sifting around doing some research and came across your site. I laughed so hard! Thank you for compiling the segments. Our interview will air on http://www.2gb.com at around 5.30pm Australian EST if anybody wants to listen in on the net. All the best. Bec

  40. I’ve got it in my head for some reason that it was in one of the Monty Python sketches that the imortal words “Wrap me up in Sellotape and bite me bum I like it”, were said. I told someone recently it was from a Python Sketch, then it started me thinking. You’ll probably know better than me. Any ideas?

  41. Thanks for posting all the wonderful python skits. Has anyone seen the skit “How To Be An Idiot”? One of Cleese’s finest moments. Also I don’t think I’ve seen the skit of the hairdressers climbing Mt. Everest.

  42. please find the walker brigade,it is MP and i saw it about 20 years ago and loved it my brother was there too and we still kid about it.if you do lo0cate it let me know about it thanks

  43. I believe both of those are on “Monty Python’s Previous Record.” Not too sure about the 1st one, but the 2nd one definitely is!

  44. I remember a scetch or LP recording at least which invloved a King, Princess and a Prince Walter who was to marry the Princess (he was in the Book of Princes and in the Forward.) The King played his Hammond organ and sang a funny song like this: “Yar-de-a-bugedy-rum-fink-atoo-ni-ni-ni-yahoooo!”
    What is the name of this bit? Is it here on the site and if not what is the title of the LP it is on? Please, I want my son to here it. Also, I’m looking for one where Palin (?) intoduces us to “The Wonderful World of Sound!” where he plays sounds of an Ant and Wood Louse magnified many times amonst others. What is that one called?

  45. I have been looking to at least verify the “The Walker Brigade” did exist. Thanks for letting me know I did not imagine it. I cannot find it in any copy of MP that I can rent or purchase. I’m sure it will be a let down after 25 years of searching but I hope to see it once more before I die. Thanks for any help.

  49. The Walker Brigade was a send-up of WWI documentaries. In this instance, the subject was a brigade of soldiers who fought their way through the trenches, crawling on their bellies beneath machine gun fire, lobbing grenades and such while laboriously taking with them their unwieldy aluminum “walkers” (like those typically found in nursing homes, etc.) The narrative was quite somber and grave. The gag was quick and silly, but it was, at first glance anyway, a very funny bit

  50. Could anyone tell me the name of the sketch with the lines:

    ” Who can say they’ve never set fire to some great public building? I know I have.”

    This is driving me crazy(er)

    Thanks

  51. I’m looking for the sketch about the mountain climbing expedition up the street in a town. Anyone know which one this is?

  52. Trying to find out about one sketch in particular, yet I’m not even sure if it’s from Monty Python to begin with! My husband is trying to find a sketch that has to do with a ‘walker brigade’ (I think it’s a spoof on some old war films or documentaries….not all that sure, though).

    Any help would be appreciated!

    • It’s not a Python sketch. Bill Murray did a pseudo war documentary sketch on SNL about the Walker Brigade as Richard Burton. It was a story about an idiotic WWII plan to train geezers with walkers and have them march toward Nazi lines in the hope that the Nazis’ spirit of fair play would prevail over their training to machine gun the enemy. The whole thing worked out badly for the Walker Brigade. No survivors. No one ever tried it again.

  55. as much as i agree that enough is enough, the very name of this site is justification for the inclusion of as many sketches as our associates and fellow players choose to locate. besides some of then actually like them. sic.

  56. We Brits may not be good at much but comedy is something we are proud of.

    Useless fact number 174 – John Cleese was an accountant before he became famous.

  60. So much videos.Whats the point in posting them in such a number.I think at least 20 were enough.Because i didn’t like this “Monty Python” Thing.

  63. okay, that just isn’t fair. finding this on a monday will keep me occupied for most of the week! I cried laughing on Monty Python – Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1.

  68. What was the one where the penguin explodes on the TV set??? That was one of the best of Monty Python….

  69. Ok. I’ve gone through and updated as many as I could find. There are still some missing, but I managed to fill in about 2/3rds of them at least.

    Thanks again for the assistance.

    John

  70. A,

    Thanks for the fantastic reporting there! I really appreciate it. I’m working on getting those videos replaced right now.

    John

  71. your links are not doing too well: 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 21, 22, 24, 26, 33, 44, 47, 57, 59, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 82, 84, 90, 93, 100, 102, 104, 107, 108, 111, 113, 114, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, 134, 135, 146, and 147

  73. I love you. I found them on all Youtube, but I’m sure I’ve only seen 1/3 of the beautiful beauties that Monty Python has produced over the years.

    Thanks! <3

  75. Hmmm. That’s bad news. :-( If anyone comes across one that is broken please let me know which ones and I’ll replace them if possible. Otherwise I’ll have to go through them when I get a chance and try to fix them up.

    John

  76. Looks like a lot of the YouTube vids have been pulled down. Sadly, the 150 is shrinking rapidly if you’re counting valid links.

  77. Ahhh, but Bob… You aren’t giving me credit for the interview skit which is actually embedded in the page! Hint, hint…nudge, nudge… wink, wink.

    John

  78. no fewer than 150? so how come there’s only 149? eh? eh?
    anyway, classic comedy, they don’t make em like this anymore.

  79. I love them, I sit here and click me from one sketch to the next, loughing my a.. off and forget about the work… Thank you guys for force me to overtime… (I am self employed, so nobody has to pay for me)

    cheers

    Rhoody