looxury

[kip_w]

.
My favorite Monty Python sketch is, of course, Four Yorkshiremen. I got to see Eric Idle do that with his current posse on his most recent dive through Norfolk. I'm a lucky, lucky, lucky bahstad. I have a bookmark on YouTube to another performance of the sketch, with Rowan Atkinson, but somehow, it's gone bye-bye.

[Error: unknown template video]

But all is not lost. Here's a tribute to the original performed by a quartet of promising enough lads called Alan Rickman, Eddie Izzard, Harry Enfield and Vic Reeves. With some practice, they could be pretty good.

[Error: unknown template video]

I don't know if I ever had a link to a clip of the original original sketch, which preceded the Pythons' very existence (as a group). If any of you find it, I am interested.
.

Comments

[meggins.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I find that second bunch highly skeptical.

*bwah hah hah*

Thanks for sharing.

[rtred.livejournal.com]

Snag the VideoDownloader applet for Firefox and snag any vids that are truly interesting. That way you can have them when YouTube removes them. Sure, they're in FLV format, but better that than not at all!

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Well, Keepvid would at least let me put anything in FLV into a format that can be seen on my iPod. I might pick up the extension, if I'm thinking of it. If it's quicker than just going to keepvid.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I too really like the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, though (picayune alert) I wouldn't call it a Monty Python sketch since it wasn't written for and was never used in the TV show or (AFIK) any of their other canonical work. I think I saw it in "The Secret Policeman", and some of the Four were Pythons but others weren't.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

They did perform it on stage, and it's on their live album "Live at Drury Lane". Strangely, none of the actors was Cleese; he wrote the sketch (probably with Chapman and perhaps Marty Feldman).

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I said "preceded the Pythons' very existence as a group" because I can't recall offhand if it originated with "Do Not Adjust Your Set" or "At Last, the 1948 Show" or something else. I first heard it as part of their Hollywood Bowl show, and it instantly became my favorite sketch that they'd done.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall Marty Feldman in the original version, possibly delivering the punch line. (See comment below.)