The first version was John Cleese as the bookseller and Marty Feldman as the customer.
@knownpleasures
2 жыл бұрын
Even memorising that dialogue is amazing in and of itself
@chadstingray5536
Ай бұрын
Graham Chapman was a “regular” on “The Big Show”, largely performing 2 man sketches with fellow Brit Joe Brown. Most of the material was from “At Last The 1948 Show”. There is also a version of the Bookshop Sketch featuring John Cleese & Connie Booth, found on the album “The Mermaid Frolics”. ( An early Amnesty International stage show.)
@Grimhere
10 жыл бұрын
Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying
@adriansligar
7 жыл бұрын
Carl Grimace
@5Cats
6 жыл бұрын
It's a children's classic, I read it to kids all the time ;-)
@MaskedMan66
2 жыл бұрын
An activity not known in the United States, where this show was broadcast. That's why she joined the Marines. :-)
@MeteoXavier
3 жыл бұрын
Watching Graham Chapman play the straight man in a conventional sketch setup is just as weird as watching Graham Chapman being weird in any of his other sketches.
@perryamberson
6 жыл бұрын
The other actor is indeed Joe Baker. As noted in a previous comment, this performance comes from a short-lived NBC variety series called 'The Big Show' (March-June 1980). More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Show_(TV_series)
@perryamberson
6 жыл бұрын
Here's the audio portion of the 'At Last... The 1948 Show' version. kzitem.info/news/bejne/rptpzGuogmtygqA
@michaellopez6568
4 жыл бұрын
It was also on the 'Contractual Obligation Album.'
@einysjame
13 жыл бұрын
Graham is just so very best! So thank you for posting!
@misfit2022
3 жыл бұрын
Ok for novelty but the customer is no Marty Feldman or Graham Chapman imho
@solarpenguin1
12 жыл бұрын
Did Ethel the Aardvark join the marines before or after she went quantity surveying?
@MafiosoGame
3 жыл бұрын
Almost certainly. Such wonderful adventures, that Aardvark . . .
@MafiosoGame
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry for the late reply, it took me 9 years to think of it.
@williamdonnelly224
2 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@craigcordes1908
Жыл бұрын
Ha Ha Ha
@ccrider3435
Жыл бұрын
@@MafiosoGame 🤣
@realemetic1
3 жыл бұрын
After being used to Graham playing the other role my whole life this was very weird! Only recently I learned it didn't first appear on the Contractual Obligation album.
@rocketpost1
3 жыл бұрын
The customer looks something like Ronnie Barker with a padded waist and a ridiculous haircut but I can't remember him appearing with any of the Pythons apart from John Cleese in that famous sketch about class which I think was on the Frost Report back in the 60s. Remember John was tall and upper class, Ronnie Barker was middle class and Ronnie Corbett was lower class.
@MaskedMan66
2 жыл бұрын
His name is Joe Baker.
@sfex9
6 жыл бұрын
I started feeling very bad when I realized that I've seen the over-the-top bookseller's reaction when he could meet the customer's request at last in real life, and the customer was me.
@paulcado4281
3 жыл бұрын
Good stuff
@writeract2
3 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline
13 жыл бұрын
@marksoutof10 He may be referring to a theory that pronounciation stays the same when people are moving, or migrating. Meanwhile the way people talk changed in the UK. It changed slowly, of course, but faster than elsewhere.
@jeremymusk
12 жыл бұрын
I believe the DeLuise special was aired in 1983. Maybe slightly earlier or later, but no later than '84.
@78rpmblog
12 жыл бұрын
There is a version with John Cleese and Connie Booth as well.
@howardp.lovecraft4499
6 жыл бұрын
I knew I wasn't crazy... I remember seeing it. Can't seem to find it though...
@petercushingsexcrementnigh7250
5 жыл бұрын
And me
@Noycey64
3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Never seen that version.
@williamhenry4986
2 жыл бұрын
And Cleese and Marty fieldman the original
@chadstingray5536
Ай бұрын
It’s on the album, “The Mermaid Frolics”. ( A live stage show for Amnesty International … not sure if it’s been produced for c.d. or later media.)
@eastportland
13 жыл бұрын
@eastportland And another difference between US and UK: the Brits think a hundred miles is a long way. And the Yanks think a hundred years is a long time.
@wazzal7
13 жыл бұрын
Wow! What is this from??
@henrilebranleur3701
9 жыл бұрын
It looks to me that the customer in this is played by Joe Baker, a British impressionist who went to America in the early 1970's.
@DieOrLive9
7 жыл бұрын
who cares
@perryamberson
6 жыл бұрын
Someone asked in an earlier comment.
@jhamer9162
5 жыл бұрын
Joe Baker was always good for a laugh. A naturally funny guy.
@waynej2608
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember him. He did a decent impression of Lou Costello. Long time ago. I thought his name was Wally Baker. Oh well.
@Oppeldeldoc1
3 жыл бұрын
@@jhamer9162 He's very underrated.
@mkarmam
13 жыл бұрын
@themontypythonmuseum Yep, sorry I got confused. I was thinking of the other bookstore sketch with Idle playing the tobacconist and Cleese as the shop owner. They are all in that sketch. But, I finally found that one. Thanks.
@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline
13 жыл бұрын
@mkarmam There never was a version with Terry Jones AFAIK. The other versions are with Marty Feldman and John Cleese.
@misfit2022
3 жыл бұрын
@Amy Winehouse That’s Graham Chapman not Terry Jones
@u.v.s.5583
3 жыл бұрын
When Dickens is not thorough enough.
@Sinjinator
12 жыл бұрын
I never get to hear the rest of "Ethel the Aardvark" :(
@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline
13 жыл бұрын
@mkarmam Oh, you mean the Hungarian phrasebook?
@williamhenry4986
2 жыл бұрын
John Cleese Marty Feldman is the original and by far the best
@pulpstress
13 жыл бұрын
@H4rryF OOh! I'm going to have to search for that, then. I haven't heard that in AGES.
@jeremymusk
12 жыл бұрын
This sketch really got around - I remembered being shocked and appalled that it was performed (without proper attribution - I made a point of sticking around for the credits) by Dom DeLuise and Charles Durning on a DeLuise special. Both men could be very funny, but man, not in that case. (Incidentally, I'm almost certain this is from a short-lived NBC program called "The Big Show," which was a failed attempt to do a live, Ed Sullivan-style variety show in 1980. Chapman was a regular, sadly.)
@tranzco1173
3 жыл бұрын
Black Books did it too. I've seen this like five different versions - and didn't know this was the original, but of course it's a Python.
@johnskinnwr4629
Жыл бұрын
@@tranzco1173 The oregmal was jphn clease and marty feldmen.the best one ever
@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline
12 жыл бұрын
That's correct, it was The Big Show. I didn't know of that other version. Do you know when this was done? It would be vaguely interesting to find as a curiosity. Marty Feldman also did the sketch on the Dean Martin show, but that's OK as he was one of its writers, it comes from a now-lost episode of At last the 1948 show.
@DavidLeeKersey
7 жыл бұрын
The sketch was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman for At Last the 1948 Show and was first performed by John Cleese and Marty Feldman. While I've not seen video the audio of the original performance does exist. Mr. Cleese talks about it in his book So, Anyway...
@johnhawken4579
4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidLeeKersey I'm sure ? on the contractual obligation album customer is Terry Jones 💔 sadly died today . Shopkeepers John Cleese . . creases me up in stitches.. 101 ways to start a fight by an Irishman whose name eludes me 😅😊 with this & maybe others no characters named ! Have seen Marty Feldman skit .. Brilliant .
@misfit2022
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnhawken4579 No it’s Graham Chapman
@mgushulak
12 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Graham Chapman playing the harried shopkeeper. But who's the chap playing the difficult customer? And when was this broadcast, and on what show?
@petercushingsexcrementnigh7250
5 жыл бұрын
mgushulak me
@oldboehne1153
5 жыл бұрын
Back when there were bookshops
@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline
5 жыл бұрын
And when there was Graham Chapman, too. :)
@waynej2608
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheMontyPythonMuseumOnline Well, we still have bookshops. But, I do miss Graham Chapman. Great skit! Ty.
@clickrick
3 жыл бұрын
Back when people were allowed to go into shops.
@thekarmaboy
12 жыл бұрын
@eastportland Almost nobody sounds like royalty here in the UK, apart from the Royals that is. Everywhere you go people sound different. Look up clips from a show called "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" ;)
@Dulcimerist
13 жыл бұрын
@marksoutof10 Yeah! It's supposed to sound like "pie-thon." :)
@lucyhurst2534
4 жыл бұрын
Dulcimerist no it isn’t. Not if you pronounce it correctly.
@JoshuaCraigStrain
5 жыл бұрын
Marty Feldman did this on his TV show . Cleese does an audio version with Terry Jones on a Monty Python record - This one's okay , but I don't really dig the customer Joe Baker guy in that role . I think the best version obviously , would be Cleese and Feldman - Too bad that didn't happen , unless they ever did it when both were on At Last The 1948 Show - Yeah , they sure did . It's the original version . Guess I just backwards engineered this one by accident
@CarlosPBeltran
Жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/u4-itYpthF-pgoo
@mkarmam
13 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where to find the version with Terry Jones? It is really the only good version.
@misfit2022
3 жыл бұрын
There isn’t one
@Oppeldeldoc1
3 жыл бұрын
@@misfit2022 mkarmam must have meant on that album. Does that mean Terry Jones never performed it?
@misfit2022
3 жыл бұрын
@@Oppeldeldoc1 Correct
@williamhenry4986
2 жыл бұрын
No it isn’t Marty fieldman and John Cleese is the original and by far the best
@Axess-sv8nq
4 жыл бұрын
I can't buy that, it's TORN!!
@Andy-lm2zp
3 жыл бұрын
is that copyright with two p's?
@timclark2818
11 жыл бұрын
Who is that with Graham Chapman in that sketch?
@petercushingsexcrementnigh7250
5 жыл бұрын
Tim Clark me
@uranrising
3 жыл бұрын
Joe Baker.. Greetings from East Anglia in England.
@swingindoorspro2
13 жыл бұрын
who's the other actor?
@chadstingray5536
Ай бұрын
Joe Baker is the other man. He’s British, but, he did a lot of U.S. telly in the 70s/80s. Sort of a “quick, we need a really Brit” performer. He teamed with Graham Chapman for almost all of the skits he did on “The Big Show”.
@swingindoorspro2
Ай бұрын
@chadstingray5536 now I would recognize him from playing Zach Galligan's butler in the 80's horror comedy Waxworks
@pulpstress
13 жыл бұрын
Oh deary me. It's the expurgated version, not the edited one. GAH!
@deletesoon70
3 жыл бұрын
Who's this guy? What show is this from?
@altair8598
2 жыл бұрын
OK, but not as good as the Feldman versions with either Cleese or Junkin.
@jorgeferreira2009
3 жыл бұрын
So this is the american version ...
@zoewells3160
4 жыл бұрын
This is too Americanised. The album one, which I know wasn’t the original one either, is by far the best.
@thomasd4738
Ай бұрын
good lord the audience is so distracting
@eastportland
13 жыл бұрын
@marksoutof10 Rubbish! Not all Americans pronounce it that way. Here in "new England" we say Pie-thon (like marathon). But the pronunciation of our town of Bath would make you cringe. And have you heard? The British dialect is a modification of the way many Americans talk, so you (I assume you're a Brit) can sound like nobility and the royals. And from our Revolutionary War on, we made at least four different major dialects across this vast continent - intentionally not like the king's speech.
@lucyhurst2534
4 жыл бұрын
Ugh I love Americans trying to sound like they know what their talking about and somehow manages to crowbar in a reference to the last time they won a war.
@mrtactica
3 жыл бұрын
Americans can even screw up a great sketch!
@chadstingray5536
Ай бұрын
Er … both performers are Brits. ( Unsure if the lady walking out was American.)
@laurieprice535
11 ай бұрын
You can tell its an old skit because bookshops dont exist anymore Jeff Bezos destroyed them all
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