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
Step 2: Be a parody
@the0sanitydokutah9674 жыл бұрын
@@historyarmyproductions Sorry is Chinese a race
@alexh29474 жыл бұрын
@@alexh2947 They are a People, And he certainly isnt portraying them in the best light.
@historyarmyproductions4 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
@alexh29474 жыл бұрын
@@alexh2947 I agree.
@historyarmyproductions4 жыл бұрын
The men who wanted to save the working class have no idea what the working class really cares about: football.
@robertn29512 жыл бұрын
They never wanted to save the working class.
@Skyblade122 жыл бұрын
@@Skyblade12 I was going to make the exact same comment 👊 Glad to have one who can see 😎
@oddlycreatetiff89202 жыл бұрын
The football was not yet created during Marx lifetime, genious!
@luizcandidoborges22822 жыл бұрын
@@Skyblade12 Maybe actually read Marx?
@JesseArt2 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.
@robertn29512 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
@nastynate4916 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.
@nightyorb Жыл бұрын
🌅🏞️😎Also, those scenes from the late 1960's...👀🏘️📚☎️🎾📚 &, thanks, Cheers...{this may be removed later, etc.} 😎
@v3student11 ай бұрын
this is political af tho
@bogdang875911 ай бұрын
@@bogdang8759 what I mean is that it’s like actually funny. It’s comedy before commentary despite being both
@nastynate491611 ай бұрын
@@nightyorb On the other hand, a family member was the Ukrainian goalie in the Wolves team.
@JelMain11 ай 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
@matthewsmith2673 Жыл бұрын
wait hold on . . . damn that really is mind blowing
@DialecticRed Жыл бұрын
Mao was also alive at the time. Guevara had died a few years earlier.
@styraco4739 Жыл бұрын
Well obviously, this is ancient TV.
@KasumiRINA Жыл бұрын
@@KasumiRINA What do you mean exactyl by "TV"? ;-)
@SCWhiteJazz Жыл бұрын
@@KasumiRINA "Ancient"?
@SebHaarfagre 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!
@Kittymouth3 жыл бұрын
They are still empty, but now also detached.
@tintinismybelgian3 жыл бұрын
@@tintinismybelgian well, he’s not going to leave with them, is he?
@ReinoutVrijhoef3 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)?
@tintinismybelgian3 жыл бұрын
@@tintinismybelgian so you can't claim to be communist and have hands. "hands don't exist in my reality" ~Kaldor Draigo
@khangasOozaki3 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.
@tintinismybelgian3 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
@demondwilson7066 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.
@xenoblad6 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.
@Mutterschwein6 жыл бұрын
Xiclotrode Stalin killed anyone that didn't cough at his direction.
@TooCooFoYou6 жыл бұрын
Kaotikrakkerz 22 he cant. he is just brainwashed sheepie
@bodyguardik6 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).
@TooCooFoYou6 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
@kaleygoode1681 Жыл бұрын
You win the comment section. 👍
@jamescampbell4334 Жыл бұрын
That's fairly amusing.
@cliffordwebb365611 ай бұрын
I do not get it
@Nick1549992 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! 🥰
@kaleygoode16812 ай бұрын
@@Nick154999 At the beginning of a race, they say "On your marks" which sounds kind of like "Onya marx"
@ben85572 ай 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
@joeblair3427 Жыл бұрын
LOL I would give a thumbs up but that would be too ironic.
@mikeyh0 Жыл бұрын
shame that joke makes no sense. Materialism is the basis of Marx's whole philosophy (it just meant something different back then)
@ulture Жыл бұрын
May your long third leg never fumble a ball.
@JelMain11 ай 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.
@grizzlygrizzle10 ай бұрын
@@ulture it still means the same thing, it is just one of those words that people use completely wrong.
@gg8298 ай бұрын
John Cleese did not have one line in this skit and he was still hilarious.
@nickv40733 жыл бұрын
Always is
@ieuan._.ch4n9453 жыл бұрын
Of course.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
He did use his funny walk later to exit the stage.
@deanronson63312 жыл бұрын
The look of concentration on his face as he considers the question is fantabulous.
@Jotari2 жыл бұрын
Agreed a hundredfold! Their facial expressions were the most hilarious, I think, particularly Michael Palin as Che. Che!
@SithCelia2 жыл бұрын
Can't believe Trotsky wasn't invited he was a staunch Evertonian
@affectionatepunch4 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
@sovietunion76434 жыл бұрын
@@sovietunion7643 Cricket bats*
@NEWz2064 жыл бұрын
Why didn't they invite Tito? He would have been the smartest one.
@summer201057074 жыл бұрын
@@NEWz206 Ice axes*
@DieterRahm18454 жыл бұрын
trotsky had an unfortunate accident with an ice-pick when it accidentally fell on his skull
@FreaKCSGOHacker4 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....
@stevef9530 Жыл бұрын
Foil Arm's and Hog come close to a modern day MP.
@mikelmart11 ай 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.
@JelMain11 ай 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.
@stevef953011 ай бұрын
@@stevef9530 Any more than Boris' bunch can.
@JelMain11 ай 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.
@tubehound6910 ай 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.
@facundovaldez6990 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!
@bourbonbrigade1968 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.
@thelordofcringe Жыл бұрын
@@bourbonbrigade1968 Che got what he deserved
@danbackslide2957 Жыл бұрын
Well, the people that he didn't personally dispatch with his handgun, anyway.
@gregfielder 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
@SZebS Жыл бұрын
"Marx" actually looks like Engels, "Lenin" looks a bit like Trotsky, "Che" somehow looks like Castro, "Mao" definitely looks like Tito.
@aldhizak3 жыл бұрын
And all of them looks like poop
@SignOfCross2 жыл бұрын
Tito Jackson?
@markschnabel13532 жыл бұрын
I believe that was part of the joke.
@FaithRox2 жыл бұрын
@@markschnabel1353 😂
@rayout232 жыл бұрын
And "Che" is definitely not a Bolivian..
@pastushi28832 жыл бұрын
"The hammers is the name of which english football team" Karl Marx: *has a full existensial crisis*
@carsonreddick34523 жыл бұрын
They were never a football team. It's a trick question ! 🇨🇦 71+ yr old hunter expat
@dereklonewolf90113 жыл бұрын
@@dereklonewolf9011 Every 25 years they are..
@siypic3 жыл бұрын
@@siypic lol ⚽️
@dereklonewolf90112 жыл бұрын
Perhaps learn to spell.
@Pe6ek2 жыл бұрын
Precious
@joaogarcia94882 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!)
@niv8880 Жыл бұрын
This sketch is from the 70s, ChatGpenis
@davidemelia6296Ай бұрын
The way Marx goes "aw shit" after losing was a masterstroke
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"
@larkohiya4 жыл бұрын
but what about Marxist materialist world view?
@sciencefictionisreal16084 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...
@sirperybLakeney4 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.
@4nc3st0r4 жыл бұрын
@@4nc3st0r ^^^^
@sciencefictionisreal16084 жыл бұрын
Karl lived in London for a significant portion of his life, he probably had the best shot at winning
@eliwatson79364 жыл бұрын
A century before this sketch tho
@stardustnation24803 жыл бұрын
Lenin lived in London for a couple years
@harryscott29553 жыл бұрын
And Che was a known sports enthusiast, although he played rugby he also followed a local football team
@patp37253 жыл бұрын
And he's buried in England... it's a real Communist plot.
@JeffDeWitt3 жыл бұрын
@@JeffDeWitt And you have to pay to get in hahahaha
@tomlewis51053 жыл бұрын
"Solid Gold Biggie" was my nickname in college. 🤘
@Thelawncarenut2 жыл бұрын
The soldiers of the United States will have their way with you one day
@charliek115 Жыл бұрын
@@charliek115 Why, are "The soldiers of the United States" all Gay?
@Lamster66 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.
@TheSiemek2 жыл бұрын
Bread and circuses
@thatonegamer2921 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.
@Aireck174 Жыл бұрын
In 1984 all the proles seemed to care about was the lottery!
@TomDaly943 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.
@blakerobinson8370 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!
@vandatavna768111 ай бұрын
"Ah, shit..." - Karl Marx What a poet that man was.
@DrunkenCoward110 жыл бұрын
The most famous of the Marx Brothers, at least in Europe!
@GathGealaich10 жыл бұрын
GathGealaich he just wasn't as funny as Groucho.
@1simo935219 жыл бұрын
Simo nah mate, chico was the funniest
@hansgruber7889 жыл бұрын
Nietzsche claims the ball did not exist, Marx claims its offside.
@drscope277 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.)
@milascave27 жыл бұрын
This is how I feel every time I play Trivial Pursuit and I get the friggin' Sports category.
@Radien7 жыл бұрын
SAME
@jshepard1525 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?
@xcvsdxvsx4 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.
@reasonablespeculation38934 жыл бұрын
Reasonable Speculation That totally sounds like an English translation of a letter written by Marx!!
@Mikebumpful4 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.
@george2009town4 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
@Revolver0cel0t Жыл бұрын
True, I'm 25 and I absolutely love the life of Brian
@HelderGriff11 ай бұрын
Which one was Monty?
@maxi-me10 ай 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.
@idhrenoh202310 ай бұрын
The facial expression adopted to portray Mao is just priceless.
@hellbooks30244 ай бұрын
An uncanny likeness!😂
@portcullis562211 күн бұрын
Marx eyeing Lenin suspiciously at the start... glorious bit of acting/writing.
@winsomehax3 жыл бұрын
Marx would have liked Lenin tho
@immachanguropinin11103 жыл бұрын
@Oliver Formby Marx was all about the means justifying the ends. As we all are comrade.
@jasem2223 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
@dragoncrown20293 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.
@jeremynewcombe34223 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
@abdelaziz31973 жыл бұрын
Funny how Marx looks more like Engels, and Che looks more like Castro.
@Boredman5673 жыл бұрын
I thought this Marx looked like Rasputin!
@Kelveron3 жыл бұрын
@@Kelveron Rasputin wasn't even communist
@valentinogoksirkairesideba39813 жыл бұрын
Also kinda funny how Marx’s accent sounds more Russian than German
@ObamaGaming443 жыл бұрын
And Guevara was Argentinean not Bolivian
@liamtempleman82513 жыл бұрын
ThereIs ASnakeInMy that wasn’t what they were saying
@techdeckofficial3 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. 🤣😂😅
@terryherrera9054 Жыл бұрын
no one ever gives Friedrich Engels the notoriety he deserves.
@recordkeeper47612 жыл бұрын
The fact that they don't even attempt to speak a word makes it even better.
@edwinsamuel50653 жыл бұрын
Agreed 😆 but Mao knew Great Balls of Fire 😆
@TRLgoodvibesdotcom2 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.
@rehoboth_farm2 жыл бұрын
SNL could take a note or two thousand from these guys.
@PaNDaSNiP3R4 жыл бұрын
PaNDaSNiP3R I’m fairly sure they did. Especially the greats from the first few years.
@crysstoll11914 жыл бұрын
Snl is cringe nowadays anyway, used to be great,then was ok, then meh..now it's just sad
@Eisenwulf6664 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.
@heatshield4 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.
@crysstoll11914 жыл бұрын
this is good stuff, needs to be on TV again
@buffy3200 Жыл бұрын
Gorgeous sound at presenting the Lounge Suite. 😁
@achenarmyst21562 жыл бұрын
We need Monty Python’s humor now more than ever.
@mlb55252 жыл бұрын
Russia want to create USSR 2.0 Tomorrow Georgia was their prey. Today - Ukraine. Tomorrow - you will be.
@user-cs5ld9if2y2 жыл бұрын
yeah, communism is a total failure. only North Korea very stubbornly persists with the dudd system. 😐🤪
@jimmyohara26012 жыл бұрын
the world has lost the ability to laugh at itself. everything is offesnsive now. and its depressing.
@frenchfrysz66952 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
@jackpeters49302 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.
@stz97402 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!
@CybrosisEvolved3 жыл бұрын
Yes.. a bit too early if you ask me.
@AndreasDelleske3 жыл бұрын
Him buzzing in for some reason just got me.
@derekralston59672 жыл бұрын
I mean funny yes but also very predictable.
@olliemartinelli40342 жыл бұрын
It's pretty funny that his surname is actually Mao, and it gets listed as Tung, half his given name.
@honourabledoctoredwinmoria31262 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"?
@MrHmg552 жыл бұрын
This is bloody brilliant 🤣
@the6ig6adwolf2 жыл бұрын
The resemblance to Mao is stunning...
@tobolulo4 жыл бұрын
LOL, and thumbs up.... but only because I'm a bit drunk...
@Wrongald4 жыл бұрын
Remarkable isn’t it 😂
@tomxxx96554 жыл бұрын
Mao Zedunning
@goatwarrior35704 жыл бұрын
Looks like herman goering
@usernameluis3054 жыл бұрын
Except that he wasn't fat enough .... great comment anyway by you.
@douggriggs14994 жыл бұрын
Marx looks more like rasputin
@supercool69567 жыл бұрын
SuperCool 69 Rah rah Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..
@WeDwellinaFiefdom6 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
@stefanomemolis95026 жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking
@TheWizardYeof6 жыл бұрын
This amount of class and wittiness is restoring the brain cells I've lost today.
@milkynebula76209 ай бұрын
Karl Marx lived in England. Unfortunately he died about 12 years before West Ham United was founded in 1895. Bad luck Karl!
@PadraigTomas2 жыл бұрын
Monty Python humour is absolutely timeless. Who would have thought their skits would be relevant and still funnier after so many decades.
@kri2494 жыл бұрын
Their themes are rooted in truth. Truth is eternal. And funny AF
@lapdawg604 жыл бұрын
Any of the Democratic candidates.
@timjohnson11994 жыл бұрын
@@timjohnson1199 True, as John Cleese has noted, Drumpf has no sense of humor whatsoever.
@runrig974 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. 😉
@Dowlphin4 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?
@timjohnson11994 жыл бұрын
RIP to Terry Jones who passed away today.
@panowa83194 жыл бұрын
Should show this at universities that might understand soccer history better!
@shanehenderson87564 жыл бұрын
So sad news, thanks for the info though, bro !
@danyleon70944 жыл бұрын
how can he rest when we have people fishing for likes on his death
@blob59074 жыл бұрын
FUCK! I came here to laugh now I'm crying
@diahane0924 жыл бұрын
@PAT Warner Sadly ..
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
"Grate-uh Bowls of Fye-yah?" Comedy gold! lol
@theoneandonlyjonasv10 ай бұрын
"We're gonna cut off his hands" I'm starting to see the violence inherent in the system.
@seanspindleshanks25293 жыл бұрын
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! He's being repressed!
@namemcpersonsname67723 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.
@waynej26083 жыл бұрын
Strange woman laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government!
@cowboypilot70592 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!
@waynej26082 жыл бұрын
"No one leave this show empty handed, so we just gonna cut off his hands" Sounds spot on
@thesturm86864 жыл бұрын
@Focux no it doesn't. Can you even define communism?
@eagle36764 жыл бұрын
Everyone sinks to the lowest common denominator. Except for the people who are more equal than the rest.
@teknical1004 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
@kwaynr13014 жыл бұрын
That’s how some countries eliminate poverty: just eliminate the poor people.
@mrde0mrsai4 жыл бұрын
the guy playing Tung is squinting so goddamned hard
@90Eight.63 ай бұрын
Never gets old because it's still relevant.
@realityjunky2 жыл бұрын
Karl Marx spent most of his life in london of course he'd know who the hammers were!
@jackdoyle74537 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.
@blindthrall7 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.
@JD10101011107 жыл бұрын
Wow, it's been quite a while since I've read anything that discoherently angry. Impressive!
@happyflea7 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
@Catcrumbs7 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe Marx didn’t get the West Ham question correct!
@MrVinnie474 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, given that he lived in London for nearly 35 years!
@jediroya68104 жыл бұрын
@@jediroya6810 Wasn't he a QPR fan?
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
Perhaps because he died before the club was founded?
@sonnypeart73134 жыл бұрын
@@portcullis5622 Nay! Everybody knows that Marx rooted for Chelsea 😂
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@@oni741 I hear that he also made sneaky visits to Loftus Road.
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
1:13 they all kind of half-nod like that's the reason they didn't answer LMAO
@duncanurquhart52782 ай бұрын
I love M.P. and I never seen this skit! Ty for posting! Lnao
@dionysius1b8702 жыл бұрын
Che looks like Fidel
@TheStraatjutter7 жыл бұрын
That sounds like Cold War code.
@victorblackley83727 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.
@TheStraatjutter7 жыл бұрын
Che was also an Argentine, not Bolivian.
@lindsayandrew60267 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.
@TheStraatjutter7 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.
@leopold75623 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
@VacantSpirit2 жыл бұрын
@@VacantSpirit That's the funniest thing I've seen for a long while!
@rogink2 жыл 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!"
@lr68845 ай бұрын
@@VacantSpiritNords aren't funny.🥱😴
@ltr174524 күн бұрын
Man Love all these guys and Idle rocks!!
@mallow173 Жыл бұрын
“english football cup” - this sketch was definitely tailored to an american audience. The FA Cup may mean something very different to the yanks, LOL.
@nl58288 ай 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.
@thejkyle3 жыл бұрын
That's nice! Thank you for sharing your childhood memories with us!
@gabrielesolletico65422 жыл бұрын
Karl Marx look like Rasputin and Che Guevara look like Fidel Castro 😂
@Eza_yuta4 жыл бұрын
Marx looks a little like Keanu Reeves
@Cjnw3 жыл бұрын
@@Cjnw Wha- How dare you.
@Eza_yuta3 жыл бұрын
@space cowboy#2 Vlad Putin is Rasputin but Karl Marx is but another foreigner in London.
@glennwilliams65223 жыл бұрын
He looks like Friedrich Engels, one of the famous Communists. Marks, Engels and Lenin
@BritishTea-eater3 жыл бұрын
And Lenin looks like Trotsky
@ekklesiast3 жыл бұрын
The Monty team are still the best in the west ...50 years later.. priceless gems
@andrewdick46472 жыл бұрын
When I first went to University I can remember that LOADS of people had posters of Che Guevara on their walls ! This skit is so funny cos all the questions/ answers are to do with sport or music, none really to do with politics other than Karl Marx’s questions for the ‘ non materialistic’ lounge suite, but the answer is re Wolverhampton Wanderers ( don’t ask !! ) winning the English football cup !
@christinescarff49202 жыл бұрын
Not many people get this. The point of the sketch is to show how out of touch these philosophers and political ideologues were with working class culture/ people - EXACTLY the people that they wrote at length about.My Dad is working class and he loooves football. He wouldn‘t know where to start with The Communist Manifesto.
@MGSVxBreakpoint2 жыл бұрын
@@MGSVxBreakpoint My dad was working class from Liverpool , though he became a graduate civil engineer and played rugby and never went to a football match on his life to my knowledge , though he’d deliberately wind me up by asking me how The Wolves ( W’ton Wanderers ) we’re doing . He however was VERY interested in politics and semantics and drove his MP bonkers with his letters to him, to Parliament, to Prince Philip and to the local paper !
@christinescarff49202 жыл бұрын
@@christinescarff4920 yes, well, the working class can exhibit middle class behaviour. Doesnt change the fact that football is associated with working people - hence the sketch
@MGSVxBreakpoint2 жыл бұрын
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Yes, I know , but really when you look at the price of season tickets and new football strips for kids which change every season, it’s a wonder anyone ‘ working class ‘ can afford to support football teams ! AND , as a former senior Tax Inspector, I won’t start on about the corruption in the ownership of football clubs - oligarchs, Saudi princes - the list goes on !
@christinescarff49202 жыл бұрын
@@christinescarff4920 TV licence m8. Now working folks can watch footie low cost aaand get none of the real experience. Win!
@MGSVxBreakpoint2 жыл бұрын
That Mao face
@bleepinfireman10 жыл бұрын
it's borderline lol
@politure7 жыл бұрын
Looks like Elizabeth the 2nd
@SandlotRider7 жыл бұрын
*correction: it's borderline lmao
@Plafintarr6 жыл бұрын
I am fucking beautiful
@jamsch56926 жыл бұрын
it's Terry Gilliam. That's all that matters.
@jeremymullins12946 жыл бұрын
Historical stages of development: Tribalism Feudalism Capitalism Socialism Communism Lounge Suite
@brianarbenz72064 жыл бұрын
Brian Arbenz you forgot to add: “Running a massive genocide against your own population.”
@BennettParsons14 жыл бұрын
He wrote communism already
@sdivine134 жыл бұрын
BennettParsons1 yeah he did it was called capitalism
@Neuroticmancer4 жыл бұрын
@@Neuroticmancer you're pretty stupid arent you?
@sdivine134 жыл бұрын
@@sdivine13 Y'all forgot feudalism and tribalism, ya gormless tossers!
@Deridus4 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 :(
@sgt.miltonosiris4490 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorites
@hankkingsley93002 жыл бұрын
Why did Marx end up in the final round, Mao was the only one who answered a question. Just plain silly.
@mcaddicts9 жыл бұрын
mcaddicts "Just plain silly" is the entire point of Monty Python.
@doctorwhofan25638 жыл бұрын
Yeah I realize that and was making reference to the running joke of the silliness.
@mcaddicts8 жыл бұрын
mcaddicts Oh. Well, stop that. It's silly.
@doctorwhofan25638 жыл бұрын
All right I'll get on with it.
@mcaddicts8 жыл бұрын
+mcaddicts YES! Get on with it!
@chiefjudgefish41938 жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace, Terry Jones. Your laughter will ring until the last smile fades.
@oscarmccormack16114 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.
@philldavies79404 жыл бұрын
He said he's not dead
@jmpopov Жыл бұрын
This is unrealistic, no four leftists could sit in a room for this long without infighting
@clem25262 жыл бұрын
Truth
@hungryyellow21192 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@Caboose40912 жыл бұрын
@@Caboose4091 Is he wrong
@hungryyellow21192 жыл бұрын
Ye Olde Circular Firing Squad, that's the straight dope!
@middleworldwitch48108 ай бұрын
Marxist Leninists, not "leftists"
@chrisb44197 ай бұрын
i like how everyone in the audience got excited when they announced karl marx
@cayk4812 жыл бұрын
Damn, I was hoping Marx would win the lounge suite.
@squatch5457 жыл бұрын
He had enough free shit given to him in real life.
@feartheghus5 жыл бұрын
@@feartheghus Like his 7 dead kids ? That was a free gift from society right ?
@leplancoop85844 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.
@feartheghus4 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
@HelderGriff3 жыл бұрын
The works of the worker. Marx logic would have the couch maker own all his couches and no bread.
@dr.floridaman48053 жыл бұрын
@Jim Goose Why are you booing him? He’s right!
@spiicypotato3 жыл бұрын
@@spiicypotato lmao. He dipped out. His phone maker wanted his work back.
@dr.floridaman48053 жыл 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
@ralphmarx75543 ай бұрын
Honestly this perfectly encapsulates why I don't like games like trivial pursuit.
@shieldphaser3 ай бұрын
Terry Gilliam pulling that face. Wouldn't get away with that these days.
@yinoveryang42464 жыл бұрын
SJW's would sh-t
@DL-cd7ew4 жыл бұрын
@@DL-cd7ew i mean probably cause its racist?
@dom27524 жыл бұрын
@@dom2752 - You mean comedy 😇
@DL-cd7ew4 жыл бұрын
@@DL-cd7ew can comedy not be racist?
@dom27524 жыл бұрын
@@dom2752 - Do you go after black people who impersonate a white person, and call them racist too?
@DL-cd7ew4 жыл бұрын
Strangely Coventry City won the English FA Cup for the only time only five years after this was made
@shaunhouse86347 жыл бұрын
Shaun House wow!
@nosuchthing87 жыл бұрын
Shaun House only 5 years, that's long enough for that to not be relevant
@kieranwilcox77397 жыл бұрын
Shaun House Nothingham Forest has won the Champions League. Anything is possible!
@NyantoDesu7 жыл бұрын
ObviousBaitYetYouStillFellForIt 0
@rcalibre98147 жыл бұрын
This is the sort of thing I trawl the comments for!
@Curratum7 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 !:(
@allenlovell16042 жыл бұрын
Python would be crucified today for Gilliam's portrayal of Mao.
@kristopherloviska9042 Жыл бұрын
I mean... Are they? This isnt a "would" scenario.
@superbrain7852 Жыл бұрын
@@superbrain7852 yes, we both know that would happen...
@ReasonAboveEverything 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.
@superbrain7852 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.
@josephgarfield33633 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).
@Ericwvb2 Жыл бұрын
Of course he knew the answer!!! he answered the question.
@stevenleighton194710 ай бұрын
I was really hoping that when Mao won $10, it'd be redistributed to the other contestants and everyone would have $2.50.
@JDWalkerDrummer4 жыл бұрын
Naaa... that's not how Communism is implemented in reality... More like: $9.95 to the "Party", and 5c for the masses...
@markbrookman82334 жыл бұрын
And then everyone starves.
@dungusmcgee14174 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....
@dragons_red4 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
@dungusmcgee14174 жыл бұрын
17 Years later Coventry City won the FA cup. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3:2 (a.e.t).
@cykoelektryko14823 ай бұрын
Ah yes I remember this game show
@karlmarx7511 Жыл бұрын
This skit must have sailed right over my head when watching Monty Python as a child.
@blondthought51754 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 😘
@zeverin75184 жыл бұрын
@blue heeler I was born brunette, like Stalin.
@blondthought51754 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
@michaelmerck75764 жыл бұрын
At least Marx knows offsides when he sees it.
@vonskull10 жыл бұрын
I still think the German's made a huge mistake by subbing him in for Wittgenstein.
@ErinStevens1210 жыл бұрын
I liked the days of Socrates.
@jturon91846 жыл бұрын
not Eric having the audacity to call a lounge suite "non-materialistic" on a stage full of dialectical materialists
@dixonballes29407 ай бұрын
The 'Hook' was Mao BUZZING in...I cackled before he answered, then I died laughing with 'Gwate Bawls Of Fire'.
@GenX9r9r2 жыл бұрын
"Great balls of fire?" I'm so glad I found this video again lmao
@PunkParrot3 жыл бұрын
😃😃😃
@teebrinner59392 жыл бұрын
1:15 Covetry city won in 1987. Seven years after this sketch.
@lhistorienchipoteur99682 жыл бұрын
The very definition of timeless
@Zejjnt Жыл бұрын
That lounge suite is sweet.
@patrickmccarron505911 ай 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
@kozmonauta05153 жыл бұрын
It’s definitely not a casual and easy-going capital
@brucevertrees47403 жыл бұрын
I don't know that! (I bet Arthur knew it was Ashur because of some silly debate before the opening credits...)
@suddenlyfrogs19063 жыл бұрын
Ninevah. where's my sofa?
@peterleadley71033 жыл бұрын
you folk made my childhood in the 70'S amazing FUNNY IT HELPED ME
@heyheynowinga997210 ай бұрын
About everything I know about English Football I've learned from this Monty Python sketch.
@vilstef69884 жыл бұрын
I’m not a proletariat, I’m temporally embarrassed bourgeoise
@ryanmuro Жыл бұрын
Sempre stati geniali ❤
@marcopulidori219410 ай бұрын
Marx looking like Rasputin, Che Guevara like Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong like Mussolini (lmao)
@sonofnyx94375 жыл бұрын
Sonofnyx LMFAO!! True 🤣
@oni7414 жыл бұрын
@@jetstream6389 Absolutely 👍🏻
@oni7414 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.
@Forcystus858 жыл бұрын
Socialist stealing form someone? Shocking! hehe
@Bialy_14 жыл бұрын
Well izzard is a jew.... just like marx You they ever did any work of their own?
@hatespeach98354 жыл бұрын
Mao knew "Great balls of fire" becuase he was known for having Venereal disease. Gold
@TheRealSharpe2 жыл бұрын
he was also the only one who was alive when the song came out
@yotsugiononoki2842 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! ^_^
@iacopoguidi7871 Жыл бұрын
This has ruined my education. Was talking about Marxism and Marx during a lecture... Kept thinking about the Hammers.
@Gamer_Rade10 жыл бұрын
Communism for pretty middle class girls
@rafasounds20107 жыл бұрын
Forgot about the sickles, hm?
@Dowlphin7 жыл бұрын
Well I mean the concepts of Marxism are just as much of a joke
@urbanzero29977 жыл бұрын
Curious when covering this did you learn about how it actually fails when attempted
@bighands696 жыл бұрын
i am sure you had a smirk on your face as you were listening to the lecture.
@imjelo6 жыл бұрын
"No one leaves this show empty handed, so we're going to cut off his hands."
@lynnlo4 жыл бұрын
@Rutger Thyssen Bullshit. Lenin, Mao and Che Guevara did worse things.
@sebastiamarques32744 жыл бұрын
@@sebastiamarques3274 Why do you assume that pointing out one man's bad things is meant to excuse other men's bad things?
@inkmaster54804 жыл бұрын
@@sebastiamarques3274 hello im a chilean and saying pinochet didn't things worse than them just shows up how blind by the right wing you are
@ximenaespinoza21064 жыл бұрын
Ximena Espinoza cheers !
@kendallwilson66544 жыл бұрын
best summary of how communism was executed in history
@oldcowbb3 жыл бұрын
O god, the British!
@marionmarino16167 ай бұрын
...and an American. Wait, what does that even mean?
@arthurdent97455 ай бұрын
@@arthurdent9745 The English sense of humor is unique - it is less obvious than the American which kind of hits you over the head.
@marionmarino16165 ай бұрын
John Cleese & Eric Idle… they’re all fantastic but those two- heavy hitters
@LOTRmeme2 ай бұрын
no one leaves the show empty handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands. i died.
@serotonin385710 жыл бұрын
it didn't explain the teddy bear they threw at him though
*How to do comedy:* Step 1: Have a low budget
Step 2: Be a parody
@@historyarmyproductions Sorry is Chinese a race
@@alexh2947 They are a People, And he certainly isnt portraying them in the best light.
@@historyarmyproductions I know I just get annoyed when people say stuff like that's racist when I've said something about a country
@@alexh2947 I agree.
The men who wanted to save the working class have no idea what the working class really cares about: football.
They never wanted to save the working class.
@@Skyblade12 I was going to make the exact same comment 👊 Glad to have one who can see 😎
The football was not yet created during Marx lifetime, genious!
@@Skyblade12 Maybe actually read Marx?
@@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.
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
they publicaly shared comunist ideas in the individual marx section, this was some high quality radicalisation techniques and i'm on board with it.
🌅🏞️😎Also, those scenes from the late 1960's...👀🏘️📚☎️🎾📚 &, thanks, Cheers...{this may be removed later, etc.} 😎
this is political af tho
@@bogdang8759 what I mean is that it’s like actually funny. It’s comedy before commentary despite being both
@@nightyorb On the other hand, a family member was the Ukrainian goalie in the Wolves team.
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
wait hold on . . . damn that really is mind blowing
Mao was also alive at the time. Guevara had died a few years earlier.
Well obviously, this is ancient TV.
@@KasumiRINA What do you mean exactyl by "TV"? ;-)
@@KasumiRINA "Ancient"?
"No one leaves the show empty-handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands." Is a GEM just delivered as a throwaway line!
They are still empty, but now also detached.
@@tintinismybelgian well, he’s not going to leave with them, is he?
@@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)?
@@tintinismybelgian so you can't claim to be communist and have hands. "hands don't exist in my reality" ~Kaldor Draigo
@@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.
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
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.
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.
Xiclotrode Stalin killed anyone that didn't cough at his direction.
Kaotikrakkerz 22 he cant. he is just brainwashed sheepie
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).
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
You win the comment section. 👍
That's fairly amusing.
I do not get it
@@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! 🥰
@@Nick154999 At the beginning of a race, they say "On your marks" which sounds kind of like "Onya marx"
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
LOL I would give a thumbs up but that would be too ironic.
shame that joke makes no sense. Materialism is the basis of Marx's whole philosophy (it just meant something different back then)
May your long third leg never fumble a ball.
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.
@@ulture it still means the same thing, it is just one of those words that people use completely wrong.
John Cleese did not have one line in this skit and he was still hilarious.
Always is
Of course.
He did use his funny walk later to exit the stage.
The look of concentration on his face as he considers the question is fantabulous.
Agreed a hundredfold! Their facial expressions were the most hilarious, I think, particularly Michael Palin as Che. Che!
Can't believe Trotsky wasn't invited he was a staunch Evertonian
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
@@sovietunion7643 Cricket bats*
Why didn't they invite Tito? He would have been the smartest one.
@@NEWz206 Ice axes*
trotsky had an unfortunate accident with an ice-pick when it accidentally fell on his skull
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....
Foil Arm's and Hog come close to a modern day MP.
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.
@@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.
@@stevef9530 Any more than Boris' bunch can.
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.
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.
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!
@@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.
@@bourbonbrigade1968 Che got what he deserved
Well, the people that he didn't personally dispatch with his handgun, anyway.
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
"Marx" actually looks like Engels, "Lenin" looks a bit like Trotsky, "Che" somehow looks like Castro, "Mao" definitely looks like Tito.
And all of them looks like poop
Tito Jackson?
I believe that was part of the joke.
@@markschnabel1353 😂
And "Che" is definitely not a Bolivian..
"The hammers is the name of which english football team" Karl Marx: *has a full existensial crisis*
They were never a football team. It's a trick question ! 🇨🇦 71+ yr old hunter expat
@@dereklonewolf9011 Every 25 years they are..
@@siypic lol ⚽️
Perhaps learn to spell.
Precious
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!)
This sketch is from the 70s, ChatGpenis
The way Marx goes "aw shit" after losing was a masterstroke
Absolutely brilliant sketch. *_“This non-materialistic lounge suite.”_*
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"
but what about Marxist materialist world view?
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...
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.
@@4nc3st0r ^^^^
Karl lived in London for a significant portion of his life, he probably had the best shot at winning
A century before this sketch tho
Lenin lived in London for a couple years
And Che was a known sports enthusiast, although he played rugby he also followed a local football team
And he's buried in England... it's a real Communist plot.
@@JeffDeWitt And you have to pay to get in hahahaha
"Solid Gold Biggie" was my nickname in college. 🤘
The soldiers of the United States will have their way with you one day
@@charliek115 Why, are "The soldiers of the United States" all Gay?
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.
Bread and circuses
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.
In 1984 all the proles seemed to care about was the lottery!
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.
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!
"Ah, shit..." - Karl Marx What a poet that man was.
The most famous of the Marx Brothers, at least in Europe!
GathGealaich he just wasn't as funny as Groucho.
Simo nah mate, chico was the funniest
Nietzsche claims the ball did not exist, Marx claims its offside.
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.)
This is how I feel every time I play Trivial Pursuit and I get the friggin' Sports category.
SAME
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?
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.
Reasonable Speculation That totally sounds like an English translation of a letter written by Marx!!
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.
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
True, I'm 25 and I absolutely love the life of Brian
Which one was Monty?
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.
The facial expression adopted to portray Mao is just priceless.
An uncanny likeness!😂
Marx eyeing Lenin suspiciously at the start... glorious bit of acting/writing.
Marx would have liked Lenin tho
@Oliver Formby Marx was all about the means justifying the ends. As we all are comrade.
@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
@@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.
@@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
Funny how Marx looks more like Engels, and Che looks more like Castro.
I thought this Marx looked like Rasputin!
@@Kelveron Rasputin wasn't even communist
Also kinda funny how Marx’s accent sounds more Russian than German
And Guevara was Argentinean not Bolivian
ThereIs ASnakeInMy that wasn’t what they were saying
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. 🤣😂😅
no one ever gives Friedrich Engels the notoriety he deserves.
The fact that they don't even attempt to speak a word makes it even better.
Agreed 😆 but Mao knew Great Balls of Fire 😆
Funny but not realistic at all. In real life none of those idiots ever shut up. That's what makes it funny to me.
SNL could take a note or two thousand from these guys.
PaNDaSNiP3R I’m fairly sure they did. Especially the greats from the first few years.
Snl is cringe nowadays anyway, used to be great,then was ok, then meh..now it's just sad
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.
heatshield Wth? That used to be prerequisite for getting on the show! Did Lorne Michaels sell the show or is he turning neo con?
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.
this is good stuff, needs to be on TV again
Gorgeous sound at presenting the Lounge Suite. 😁
We need Monty Python’s humor now more than ever.
Russia want to create USSR 2.0 Tomorrow Georgia was their prey. Today - Ukraine. Tomorrow - you will be.
yeah, communism is a total failure. only North Korea very stubbornly persists with the dudd system. 😐🤪
the world has lost the ability to laugh at itself. everything is offesnsive now. and its depressing.
@@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
@@user-cs5ld9if2y no. Russia is nothing like the ussr. NATO has expanded into Ukraine and on Russias border. Russia is defending themselves from antagonizers.
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!
Yes.. a bit too early if you ask me.
Him buzzing in for some reason just got me.
I mean funny yes but also very predictable.
It's pretty funny that his surname is actually Mao, and it gets listed as Tung, half his given name.
Isn't there another version of this sketch in which the question is about another song and Mao answers, correctly, "Sing Little Birdie"?
This is bloody brilliant 🤣
The resemblance to Mao is stunning...
LOL, and thumbs up.... but only because I'm a bit drunk...
Remarkable isn’t it 😂
Mao Zedunning
Looks like herman goering
Except that he wasn't fat enough .... great comment anyway by you.
Marx looks more like rasputin
SuperCool 69 Rah rah Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..
+Delta3 Actual I heard there's no hell
+Delta3 Actual by the way, I think Marx would go to the Christian hell, still don't think he would deserve that
+Delta3 Actual I don't think there can be a worse thing than infinite pain forever
That’s what I was thinking
This amount of class and wittiness is restoring the brain cells I've lost today.
Karl Marx lived in England. Unfortunately he died about 12 years before West Ham United was founded in 1895. Bad luck Karl!
Monty Python humour is absolutely timeless. Who would have thought their skits would be relevant and still funnier after so many decades.
Their themes are rooted in truth. Truth is eternal. And funny AF
Any of the Democratic candidates.
@@timjohnson1199 True, as John Cleese has noted, Drumpf has no sense of humor whatsoever.
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. 😉
@@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?
RIP to Terry Jones who passed away today.
Should show this at universities that might understand soccer history better!
So sad news, thanks for the info though, bro !
how can he rest when we have people fishing for likes on his death
FUCK! I came here to laugh now I'm crying
@PAT Warner Sadly ..
"Grate-uh Bowls of Fye-yah?" Comedy gold! lol
"We're gonna cut off his hands" I'm starting to see the violence inherent in the system.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! He's being repressed!
@@namemcpersonsname6772 Bloody peasant!
Oh, quit bitching and let's have tea. Ok, first we'll cut off his hands, and then have tea. Right.
Strange woman laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government!
@@cowboypilot7059 Supreme executive power is derived from a mandate of the masses, not from some watery bint, who threw a sword at you!
"No one leave this show empty handed, so we just gonna cut off his hands" Sounds spot on
@Focux no it doesn't. Can you even define communism?
Everyone sinks to the lowest common denominator. Except for the people who are more equal than the rest.
@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.
@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
That’s how some countries eliminate poverty: just eliminate the poor people.
the guy playing Tung is squinting so goddamned hard
Never gets old because it's still relevant.
Karl Marx spent most of his life in london of course he'd know who the hammers were!
Was thinking that if anybody would get it, it'd be Marx.
paul metzler Judging a communist by the contents of his bank account is pointless.
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.
Wow, it's been quite a while since I've read anything that discoherently angry. Impressive!
Adolf Hitler never went by the name 'Shickelgruber'. www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/opinion/l-hitler-never-really-was-schicklgruber-016390.html
Can’t believe Marx didn’t get the West Ham question correct!
Absolutely, given that he lived in London for nearly 35 years!
@@jediroya6810 Wasn't he a QPR fan?
Perhaps because he died before the club was founded?
@@portcullis5622 Nay! Everybody knows that Marx rooted for Chelsea 😂
@@oni741 I hear that he also made sneaky visits to Loftus Road.
1:13 they all kind of half-nod like that's the reason they didn't answer LMAO
I love M.P. and I never seen this skit! Ty for posting! Lnao
Che looks like Fidel
That sounds like Cold War code.
Most four word sentences do
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.
Che was also an Argentine, not Bolivian.
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.
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.
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
@@VacantSpirit That's the funniest thing I've seen for a long while!
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!"
@@VacantSpiritNords aren't funny.🥱😴
Man Love all these guys and Idle rocks!!
“english football cup” - this sketch was definitely tailored to an american audience. The FA Cup may mean something very different to the yanks, LOL.
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.
That's nice! Thank you for sharing your childhood memories with us!
Karl Marx look like Rasputin and Che Guevara look like Fidel Castro 😂
Marx looks a little like Keanu Reeves
@@Cjnw Wha- How dare you.
@space cowboy#2 Vlad Putin is Rasputin but Karl Marx is but another foreigner in London.
He looks like Friedrich Engels, one of the famous Communists. Marks, Engels and Lenin
And Lenin looks like Trotsky
The Monty team are still the best in the west ...50 years later.. priceless gems
When I first went to University I can remember that LOADS of people had posters of Che Guevara on their walls ! This skit is so funny cos all the questions/ answers are to do with sport or music, none really to do with politics other than Karl Marx’s questions for the ‘ non materialistic’ lounge suite, but the answer is re Wolverhampton Wanderers ( don’t ask !! ) winning the English football cup !
Not many people get this. The point of the sketch is to show how out of touch these philosophers and political ideologues were with working class culture/ people - EXACTLY the people that they wrote at length about.My Dad is working class and he loooves football. He wouldn‘t know where to start with The Communist Manifesto.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint My dad was working class from Liverpool , though he became a graduate civil engineer and played rugby and never went to a football match on his life to my knowledge , though he’d deliberately wind me up by asking me how The Wolves ( W’ton Wanderers ) we’re doing . He however was VERY interested in politics and semantics and drove his MP bonkers with his letters to him, to Parliament, to Prince Philip and to the local paper !
@@christinescarff4920 yes, well, the working class can exhibit middle class behaviour. Doesnt change the fact that football is associated with working people - hence the sketch
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Yes, I know , but really when you look at the price of season tickets and new football strips for kids which change every season, it’s a wonder anyone ‘ working class ‘ can afford to support football teams ! AND , as a former senior Tax Inspector, I won’t start on about the corruption in the ownership of football clubs - oligarchs, Saudi princes - the list goes on !
@@christinescarff4920 TV licence m8. Now working folks can watch footie low cost aaand get none of the real experience. Win!
That Mao face
it's borderline lol
Looks like Elizabeth the 2nd
*correction: it's borderline lmao
I am fucking beautiful
it's Terry Gilliam. That's all that matters.
Historical stages of development: Tribalism Feudalism Capitalism Socialism Communism Lounge Suite
Brian Arbenz you forgot to add: “Running a massive genocide against your own population.”
He wrote communism already
BennettParsons1 yeah he did it was called capitalism
@@Neuroticmancer you're pretty stupid arent you?
@@sdivine13 Y'all forgot feudalism and tribalism, ya gormless tossers!
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 :(
One of my favorites
Why did Marx end up in the final round, Mao was the only one who answered a question. Just plain silly.
mcaddicts "Just plain silly" is the entire point of Monty Python.
Yeah I realize that and was making reference to the running joke of the silliness.
mcaddicts Oh. Well, stop that. It's silly.
All right I'll get on with it.
+mcaddicts YES! Get on with it!
Rest in Peace, Terry Jones. Your laughter will ring until the last smile fades.
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.
He said he's not dead
This is unrealistic, no four leftists could sit in a room for this long without infighting
Truth
Bruh
@@Caboose4091 Is he wrong
Ye Olde Circular Firing Squad, that's the straight dope!
Marxist Leninists, not "leftists"
i like how everyone in the audience got excited when they announced karl marx
Damn, I was hoping Marx would win the lounge suite.
He had enough free shit given to him in real life.
@@feartheghus Like his 7 dead kids ? That was a free gift from society right ?
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.
@@feartheghus I wouldn't call writing over 20 books nothing... but sure...
Cameface H he was a teacher numnuts
"...that wonderful non-materialistic lounge suite"
I read this just when Idle said it kkkkkkkk
@Dmitry TKR it's hahahaha in Portuguese, I'm mexican anyway
The works of the worker. Marx logic would have the couch maker own all his couches and no bread.
@Jim Goose Why are you booing him? He’s right!
@@spiicypotato lmao. He dipped out. His phone maker wanted his work back.
The irony is that most of them would know these at a drop of a hat... except Mao. I think Mao liked baseball more
Honestly this perfectly encapsulates why I don't like games like trivial pursuit.
Terry Gilliam pulling that face. Wouldn't get away with that these days.
SJW's would sh-t
@@DL-cd7ew i mean probably cause its racist?
@@dom2752 - You mean comedy 😇
@@DL-cd7ew can comedy not be racist?
@@dom2752 - Do you go after black people who impersonate a white person, and call them racist too?
Strangely Coventry City won the English FA Cup for the only time only five years after this was made
Shaun House wow!
Shaun House only 5 years, that's long enough for that to not be relevant
Shaun House Nothingham Forest has won the Champions League. Anything is possible!
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This is the sort of thing I trawl the comments for!
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 !:(
Python would be crucified today for Gilliam's portrayal of Mao.
I mean... Are they? This isnt a "would" scenario.
@@superbrain7852 yes, we both know that would happen...
@@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.
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.
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).
Of course he knew the answer!!! he answered the question.
I was really hoping that when Mao won $10, it'd be redistributed to the other contestants and everyone would have $2.50.
Naaa... that's not how Communism is implemented in reality... More like: $9.95 to the "Party", and 5c for the masses...
And then everyone starves.
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....
@@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.
@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
17 Years later Coventry City won the FA cup. They beat Tottenham Hotspur 3:2 (a.e.t).
Ah yes I remember this game show
This skit must have sailed right over my head when watching Monty Python as a child.
@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
@blue heeler My prrrrrecious! or did you mean ''you're'?
@blue heeler 😘
@blue heeler I was born brunette, like Stalin.
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
At least Marx knows offsides when he sees it.
I still think the German's made a huge mistake by subbing him in for Wittgenstein.
I liked the days of Socrates.
not Eric having the audacity to call a lounge suite "non-materialistic" on a stage full of dialectical materialists
The 'Hook' was Mao BUZZING in...I cackled before he answered, then I died laughing with 'Gwate Bawls Of Fire'.
"Great balls of fire?" I'm so glad I found this video again lmao
😃😃😃
1:15 Covetry city won in 1987. Seven years after this sketch.
The very definition of timeless
That lounge suite is sweet.
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
It’s definitely not a casual and easy-going capital
I don't know that! (I bet Arthur knew it was Ashur because of some silly debate before the opening credits...)
Ninevah. where's my sofa?
you folk made my childhood in the 70'S amazing FUNNY IT HELPED ME
About everything I know about English Football I've learned from this Monty Python sketch.
I’m not a proletariat, I’m temporally embarrassed bourgeoise
Sempre stati geniali ❤
Marx looking like Rasputin, Che Guevara like Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong like Mussolini (lmao)
Sonofnyx LMFAO!! True 🤣
@@jetstream6389 Absolutely 👍🏻
"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.
Socialist stealing form someone? Shocking! hehe
Well izzard is a jew.... just like marx You they ever did any work of their own?
Mao knew "Great balls of fire" becuase he was known for having Venereal disease. Gold
he was also the only one who was alive when the song came out
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! ^_^
This has ruined my education. Was talking about Marxism and Marx during a lecture... Kept thinking about the Hammers.
Communism for pretty middle class girls
Forgot about the sickles, hm?
Well I mean the concepts of Marxism are just as much of a joke
Curious when covering this did you learn about how it actually fails when attempted
i am sure you had a smirk on your face as you were listening to the lecture.
"No one leaves this show empty handed, so we're going to cut off his hands."
@Rutger Thyssen Bullshit. Lenin, Mao and Che Guevara did worse things.
@@sebastiamarques3274 Why do you assume that pointing out one man's bad things is meant to excuse other men's bad things?
@@sebastiamarques3274 hello im a chilean and saying pinochet didn't things worse than them just shows up how blind by the right wing you are
Ximena Espinoza cheers !
best summary of how communism was executed in history
O god, the British!
...and an American. Wait, what does that even mean?
@@arthurdent9745 The English sense of humor is unique - it is less obvious than the American which kind of hits you over the head.
John Cleese & Eric Idle… they’re all fantastic but those two- heavy hitters
no one leaves the show empty handed, so we're gonna cut off his hands. i died.
it didn't explain the teddy bear they threw at him though
Bram consolation prize
RIP
so did Victor Jara.