The Piranha Brothers pt. 1

2007 ж. 3 Қаң.
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Ethel the Frog looks at the violence of British gangland.
From Monthy Python Series 2, Episode 1 (Face the Press).

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  • The best Python sketch I reckon, 'They were born, on probation'

    @BassandoForte@BassandoForte15 жыл бұрын
  • OMG I forgot how funny this stuff was. Jones interviewing Chapman and pointing the mic away from him. It's just gags layered on absurdities on top of an insane premise. God love them.

    @00bikeboy@00bikeboy7 ай бұрын
    • I really miss this brand of silly nonsense.

      @alwilson3204@alwilson3204Ай бұрын
  • ‘He was a cruel man, but fair.’ A great line.

    @cushyglen4264@cushyglen426411 ай бұрын
    • Agreed. A line I still use now. 😂😂😂😂

      @peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus696210 ай бұрын
    • It gets changed to 'Vicious but fair' in some versions I believe

      @paulmorphy6187@paulmorphy61879 ай бұрын
    • 😂

      @alfx5432@alfx54329 ай бұрын
  • "Ethel the Frog" is such a nice title for a TV show, even if the contents of the show are completely unrelated. More TV shows should be called "Ethel the Frog"

    @Ant57fr@Ant57fr12 жыл бұрын
  • This is comic gold, the height of nonsense/hilarity blended together with such style as only the British could do. There are wonderful examples of human comedy across the world--it's part of the nature of the all humans to have a sense of humor. The hominids who wandered into Britain and settled just happened to come up with a uniquely wacky way of expressing humor.

    @aaronTNGDS9@aaronTNGDS99 ай бұрын
    • Bless the British, they've got an extra dose of funny genes.

      @cube2fox@cube2fox5 ай бұрын
    • .. .. .. excellent .

      @johngale9098@johngale90983 ай бұрын
  • Such a great piss take of the Kray twins.

    @mkrbrtsn1@mkrbrtsn18 жыл бұрын
  • When I was in high school, Python played on WTTW in Chicago 11:30 on Sunday night. I spent about a month prowling the halls between classes, poking around corners and saying "Dinsdale... Dinnnssssdal?!?" in a pretty good imitation. The vast herds around us thought we were crazy.

    @TheWarriorPoet@TheWarriorPoet17 жыл бұрын
    • Ццццыыыццццццыы́ѳйййфйф

      @tourdekangaroo@tourdekangaroo11 ай бұрын
    • Did you understand all of the references - like this one on Billy Bremner - or did you try and look them up. Easy nowadays with Google. Tough if not impossible in those days.

      @Yorksbloke@Yorksbloke10 ай бұрын
    • Same here! In high school back then and laughing about the naughty bits! Of course keen on discussing the philosopher references, too! Then there was Carol Cleveland...

      @matthewsonnenberg303@matthewsonnenberg30310 ай бұрын
    • Yep remember that in the 70's

      @markevans8054@markevans805410 ай бұрын
    • I remember it being on at 1030 in Chicago on Wttw

      @jimrichardson4055@jimrichardson40559 ай бұрын
  • This is the sketch that hooked me. I knew nothing about the Kray twins, but I knew that this was the funniest bit that I had ever seen. Long live Spiney Norman.

    @kennyhagan5781@kennyhagan5781Ай бұрын
  • I remember watching Monty Python with my sister after we had worked late in a restaurant and laughing our asses off and our dad would come downstairs in his underwear and watch for a few minutes before stating “I don’t get it” which made it even funnier.

    @zekelucente9702@zekelucente970211 ай бұрын
  • Brilliant skit on The Krays!!!!!

    @jeffreymichaeljackson1835@jeffreymichaeljackson183510 жыл бұрын
  • After seeing the Movie "Legend" this sketch is funnier than ever.

    @ericdover6984@ericdover698410 ай бұрын
  • Graham was fantastic in this sketch.

    @han5234@han52349 жыл бұрын
    • This was probably his best moment as a Python, in perhaps their best sketch. This sketch might have also been one of Palin's finest moments. Pure comedy gold.

      @Hqhq-01@Hqhq-013 ай бұрын
    • Agree

      @andyblackwood8794@andyblackwood8794Ай бұрын
    • 'biting the heads off whippets'

      @andyblackwood8794@andyblackwood8794Ай бұрын
    • Lovely stuff.

      @andyblackwood8794@andyblackwood8794Ай бұрын
  • An interesting expose of the London underground in the 1970s. Very historically valuable.

    @wokeeye6441@wokeeye644111 ай бұрын
    • Many references to corrupt politicians, gaydom and the coppers are very close to the truth. The Krays were still alive at the time this was broadcast. I wonder what their reaction was when they saw this.

      @raypurchase801@raypurchase8017 ай бұрын
  • R.I.P Graham Chapman..A Legend!!!!!!

    @sutilversatil@sutilversatil11 жыл бұрын
  • My father was from E. London and I heard stories about the "wide boys" and out and gangsters he knew of and this skit certainly resonates with me in the most hilarious way. I had relatives and met people when I was there who had accents like that. Funniest people I have ever met.

    @rickarnold6704@rickarnold67045 ай бұрын
  • 'he was a cruel man but fair " ah my hero

    @bergamotblonde@bergamotblonde16 жыл бұрын
  • Ethel the frog. Just the title makes me laugh. One of the best scenes they done. Together with Wrong way Norris and Dennis Moore.

    @fredrikmoller629@fredrikmoller6299 ай бұрын
  • "Well one day I was at home threatening the kids"

    @jlhs92@jlhs9215 жыл бұрын
    • 😂

      @doraburany4118@doraburany41189 ай бұрын
  • I love this episode! The whole concept on nailing someone's head to the floor is crazy lol!

    @GreenHairedKaiba@GreenHairedKaiba16 жыл бұрын
    • One my favorites 😂

      @alfx5432@alfx54329 ай бұрын
    • @@alfx5432 lol thanks for reminding me about this after 15 years!

      @GreenHairedKaiba@GreenHairedKaiba9 ай бұрын
    • Only the British, and maybe the Mafia, would come up with a line like that.

      @aaronTNGDS9@aaronTNGDS99 ай бұрын
  • "Screwed my pelvis to a cake stand" 😂

    @thunderbolt2145@thunderbolt21454 ай бұрын
  • Love holding the mic to the one not talking!

    @BrianBattles@BrianBattles8 жыл бұрын
    • +Brian Battles Graham's physical acting is hilarious.

      @gunproofgrandad4381@gunproofgrandad43818 жыл бұрын
  • We called a little kid who lived across the street Dinsdale for years. Not our fault his name was Doug.

    @mikeinla6922@mikeinla692210 ай бұрын
  • oh god "They split me nostrils open!" cant stop laughing

    @SODEMO2007@SODEMO200714 жыл бұрын
  • Mi sketch favorito de todos los tiempos...Lo mejor que hay,me crie mirando a estos grandes...Monty Phyton para siempre

    @sutilversatil@sutilversatil14 жыл бұрын
  • I hear you've been a naughty boy, Clement

    @Luke175@Luke1758 жыл бұрын
    • My name’s not Clement 😗

      @twilitezn@twilitezn4 ай бұрын
  • My family lived in England for four years when I was a child. I recognize the name Billy Bremner as a football player on Leeds United.

    @richstrobel@richstrobel10 ай бұрын
  • The Piranha brothers ran the "other, other operation" protection racket w/"Dean-O" and Luigi Fercotti on British Army bases in the Seventies.

    @thelegendfamily4836@thelegendfamily483610 жыл бұрын
  • Eric's and, especially, Roger's acting are hilariously good in this one

    @AlmostEthical@AlmostEthical9 ай бұрын
    • Excellent acting from whichever of them played Spiney Norman.

      @raypurchase801@raypurchase8017 ай бұрын
    • @@raypurchase801 kzhead.info/sun/q7Jpg9eyg2mXaGw/bejne.html

      @AlmostEthical@AlmostEthical7 ай бұрын
    • Who's Roger?

      @danielwoodhouse5531@danielwoodhouse55317 ай бұрын
    • @@danielwoodhouse5531 Maybe a pseudonym for Ethel the Frog.

      @raypurchase801@raypurchase8017 ай бұрын
  • Comedic genius . The twists and turns. Wonderful

    @roymarsh8077@roymarsh80776 ай бұрын
  • The Krays, brutal poofs. Just love this episode.

    @LMatters1@LMatters110 ай бұрын
    • I learned about the Krays years after I first saw this sketch. At first, I just thought it was a brilliant bit of nonsense - and I watched and listened to it over and over, had the TV episode on video tape and I also had the album. After hearing about the Kray Twins and their careers, everything kind of came together.

      @douglassun8456@douglassun84564 ай бұрын
    • Only one of them was gay.

      @DieFlabbergast@DieFlabbergast4 ай бұрын
    • ​maybe 🤔

      @davemoore9901@davemoore9901Ай бұрын
  • One of my favorite Python sketches.

    @Bizarronumber4@Bizarronumber416 жыл бұрын
  • Watched these from 1969 as a 20 year old in England. Reminded me after reading this anecdote from Bob Hope, years later. Bob Hope reminisced that he was playing a theatre in Chicago in the 30s when Capone ruled the city. Hope was already quite famous by then. During the show his straight man said, 'My brother slapped Al Capone's face last week'. Hope said, 'He's a brave man, where is he? I'd like to shake his hand'.The straight man replied, 'I'm not gonna have him dug up just for that!' It got a big laugh in the theatre.. Later, Hope said he was relaxing in his hotel room with a drink before bed, and the phone rang. A classic gangster voice on the line (not Capone, obviously one of his lieutenants) said, 'Are youse Bob Hope de comedian?' Hope cautiously said, 'Yes'. 'I believe youse told a joke about Mr Capone last night, and Mr Capone would prefer you didn't tell dat joke again'. Hope said, 'Yes sir, no problem, sorry sir, never, again'. And he never did, of course. I wonder if a Kray brother rang Python from prison? 😂 Only joking. They were doing 30 years then and died in prison. Superb sketch as 99% of Python sketches are. 'He was a cruel man, but fair'. Always remember that line as other people have commented that it was their favourite.

    @peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus696210 ай бұрын
  • I totally forgot they were "Born, on probation..." 😂

    @PaulRudd1941@PaulRudd19412 ай бұрын
  • when terry jones and graham chapman do the interview where he messes up the timing of the microphone is great

    @iconoclast137@iconoclast13727 күн бұрын
  • This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.

    @SiruselVaranus@SiruselVaranus16 жыл бұрын
  • Their father, Arthur Piranha, a scrap metal dealer and TV Quiz Master...........

    @Brendanvio@Brendanvio13 жыл бұрын
  • "I've been told Dinsdale Piranha nailed your head to the floor" "No, never! He was a smashing bloke, used to buy his mother flowers and that. He was like a brother to me." "But police actually have film of Dinsdale nailing your head to the floor." "Well, yeah, he did that." "Why?" " Well, I 'ad transgressed the unwritten law" " What had you done?" "Er, he didn't tell me that, but he said their was a case and that's good enough for me with old Dinsie. I 'ad to insist! He wanted to let me off!"

    @bootymanager@bootymanager15 жыл бұрын
    • That's my favourite part, because that's exactly how certain people talked about the krays 😂 As though they were really nice blokes, and not homicidal gangsters 😂

      @andysmallwood3300@andysmallwood330027 күн бұрын
  • This was my all-time favorite skit from the Flying Circus

    @BaldwinVoice@BaldwinVoice7 ай бұрын
  • 'The Golden Age of Ballooning' and 'Mr Neutron' episodes were also single uninterrupted sketches.

    @TheMorticeLock@TheMorticeLock12 жыл бұрын
  • -Best Part- Reporter: He nailed your head to the floor? Vince: At first, yeah. Perfect!.

    @Filmdude2001@Filmdude200114 жыл бұрын
  • The Piranha Brothers are being incorporated into the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

    @neonatalpenguin@neonatalpenguin13 жыл бұрын
  • TV quizmaster...lol this one is timeless

    @adi87tya@adi87tya17 жыл бұрын
  • Yup def Graham Chapman, my favourite part of any Monty sketch! ...and then he nailed my head to the floor! ha! Amazing

    @ultraflash@ultraflash15 жыл бұрын
  • Ooh, never noticed that the Pythons used a clip from Jean Sibelius' work (however short!), at 0:17 here. It's Intermezzo from _Karelia Suite_ (composed in 1893.) It's one of my favorites too!

    @stalhandske9649@stalhandske964910 ай бұрын
  • Classic line amongst classic lines. Classicest I'd say.

    @Ant57fr@Ant57fr12 жыл бұрын
  • I always subscribe to those who upload monty's silly sketches!

    @vardellsfolly5200@vardellsfolly52008 жыл бұрын
  • Spinny norman 😂😂

    @ackerjawaka4742@ackerjawaka474210 ай бұрын
  • this is one of the best sketches ever! *lol* i completely forgot this one! "starring...billy bremner"

    @krimskrams@krimskrams16 жыл бұрын
  • IIRC the MCC still controlled/had the biggest voice in the game worldwide at the time this episode was filmed.

    @thelegendfamily4836@thelegendfamily483610 жыл бұрын
  • Y'know, my parents know a builder who sounds almost exactly like that! (minus the kid-threatening part; he's actually a nice guy.)

    @DaL33T5@DaL33T512 жыл бұрын
    • .. & did he nail there heads to a coffee table?!

      @johngale9098@johngale909810 ай бұрын
    • @@johngale9098Worse: he used sarcasm.

      @pronkb000@pronkb0003 ай бұрын
  • "...chains me to the back of the tank, and take me for a scrape around the Dinsdale's place"

    @Fongolitus@Fongolitus6 күн бұрын
  • Born on probation. 😂

    @mortalclown3812@mortalclown381210 ай бұрын
  • The real ones had just been sent down by then, but their influence still carried on................Funny sketch, and quite brave considering !

    @manofweed1@manofweed110 ай бұрын
  • The interview looks like something Steve Farrell would steal.

    @johnhofstetter5515@johnhofstetter55157 ай бұрын
  • Ethel the Frog. Love it!

    @ralphgilbert23@ralphgilbert2311 ай бұрын
  • Cleese you brilliant genius.

    @MasteroftheForce1337@MasteroftheForce133717 жыл бұрын
  • The true Beatles of comedy!

    @larrymcmonagle738@larrymcmonagle738Ай бұрын
  • The Krays. I remember this from 1973 on PBS.

    @johngore7744@johngore774411 ай бұрын
  • Oof Da, "Slit up a treat"?? 😮😦😯😮😮!

    @bold810@bold8102 ай бұрын
  • At the age of 15 The Piranha Brothers started attending primary school Hmmmm

    @danielwoodhouse5531@danielwoodhouse55317 ай бұрын
  • You, uh... got a nice army base here, Colonel...

    @ReyaitheShadowWolf@ReyaitheShadowWolf10 жыл бұрын
  • The whole thing is quite funy..

    @Kevin-cc8qk@Kevin-cc8qk2 ай бұрын
  • pisstake on how people always romance the krays

    @tonycavanagh1929@tonycavanagh19296 ай бұрын
  • Alas, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones have both joined the choir invisibule.

    @ilokivi@ilokivi4 ай бұрын
  • I love Ethel The Frog

    @Hero1957@Hero195716 жыл бұрын
  • Nailed your head to the floor. Preferential treatment.

    @clivenaylor5392@clivenaylor539210 ай бұрын
  • I like Eric Idle's voice.

    @toddreeder8010@toddreeder80108 жыл бұрын
  • Does anyone have any idea what that intro music is at the very beginning?

    @CptSchmidt@CptSchmidt13 жыл бұрын
  • Vinc Snetterton Lewis, my role model.

    @2old4gamez@2old4gamez10 жыл бұрын
  • 3:46 - Best. Name. Ever.

    @srbrant5391@srbrant53914 ай бұрын
  • Any relation to the Krays is purely deliberate....

    @asldkjaslkdj@asldkjaslkdj6 ай бұрын
  • So funny. 😂😂😂

    @1emmajones@1emmajones11 ай бұрын
  • First they began to operate what they called The Operation. In it, they would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid them the so-called protection money. Four months later, they started another operation which they called The Other Operation. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later, they hit upon The Other Other Operation. In this, the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them they would beat him up.

    @NYCentralSpotter1070@NYCentralSpotter107010 жыл бұрын
    • genius.

      @FrazerRice@FrazerRice10 жыл бұрын
    • This, for the Piranha Brothers, was a turning point.

      @Penningtontj@Penningtontj9 жыл бұрын
  • Spiny Norman

    @JamesSmith-zk8gl@JamesSmith-zk8gl9 ай бұрын
  • I WAS a man in a brown coat lol

    @iansaville5496@iansaville54969 ай бұрын
  • Sibelius - Karelia Suite, 1st movement: Intermezzo

    @flautobasso@flautobasso13 жыл бұрын
  • It's a fair cop, but society is to blame.

    @teenonator@teenonator16 жыл бұрын
  • He just nailed my pelvis to a coffee table...

    @WristCutGauze@WristCutGauze15 жыл бұрын
    • Cake stand.

      @golden.lights.twinkle2329@golden.lights.twinkle232911 ай бұрын
  • The best parts are the school interview at 2:14 and the line "and tv quiz master". i lmfao at those. i have this on a dvd called "Micheal Palin's Personal Best", i also own "Eric Idle's Personal Best", "Life of Brian", "Holy Grail", "And now for something completly different", "Almost the truth", "At last the 1948 show". and this christmas, i hope to find the flying circus box set.

    @goodiesguy@goodiesguy13 жыл бұрын
  • @flautobasso THANK YOU :D

    @CptSchmidt@CptSchmidt13 жыл бұрын
  • Doug and Dinsdale were born, on probation... XD

    @ReyaitheShadowWolf@ReyaitheShadowWolf11 жыл бұрын
  • I just saw the trailer for the new Tom Hardy movie, Legend, and realized that the Piranha brothers were based on real people. Funny shit.

    @joshcarrico6534@joshcarrico65348 жыл бұрын
  • It was a huge joke that the Piranha Brothers were 'sentenced to 400 years'. In the USA that happens routinely. I always wonder how long they really keep the corpse in the cell.

    @qwadratix@qwadratix3 ай бұрын
  • wasn't a cake stand?

    @MisterSynyster@MisterSynyster15 жыл бұрын
  • Stig?! Wasn't he a Rutle? Lol.

    @BethGoth15@BethGoth1516 жыл бұрын
  • I'm not British, so I have to ask; what is the MCC?

    @j0njn@j0njn12 жыл бұрын
    • Marylebone Cricket club. (MCC) I think they run the Lords cricket ground. Very pukka...

      @johnthompson16@johnthompson1611 ай бұрын
  • Coach Red Ruffinsore use to date that'n yah? 🎉

    @bold810@bold8103 ай бұрын
  • @kenfig I must agree with you. I find this and Full Frontal Nudity two of my favourites.

    @Brendanvio@Brendanvio13 жыл бұрын
  • I want a conversation pit.

    @greyforge27@greyforge2711 жыл бұрын
  • love it at 5:09

    @jaspernatchez@jaspernatchez7 жыл бұрын
  • What did Clement do I wonder 😆🤔

    @garyfrombrooklyn@garyfrombrooklyn3 ай бұрын
  • A Kray bros reference?

    @Pagliacci_Rex@Pagliacci_Rex10 ай бұрын
  • Cartesian dualism

    @robertjsmith@robertjsmith2 ай бұрын
  • He sawed my head off... kind enough chap though...

    @ZacHawkins42@ZacHawkins426 жыл бұрын
  • 0:16 on Jean Sibeliuksen säveltämästä Karjala-sarjasta. Torilla tavataan!

    @haijyvelho@haijyvelho7 жыл бұрын
  • John cleese is so funny in drag ........

    @Kevin-cc8qk@Kevin-cc8qkАй бұрын
  • 4:35 Charles Paisley the baby crusher? But what about Frank Goliath the Macedonian?

    @alan-sk7ky@alan-sk7ky11 ай бұрын
  • @ about :13: BILLY BREMNER!!

    @thelegendfamily4836@thelegendfamily483614 жыл бұрын
  • Why the caned laughter

    @barryriley4987@barryriley49876 сағат бұрын
  • Where's Spiny Norman?

    @patrickneylan@patrickneylan10 ай бұрын
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