That Monty Python 'We Were So Poor' scene

[loud 1]

It claims here that it was first performed on At Last The 1948 Show.

this is true..

sumink to do with barry cryer.

 

[big footed fred]

By eck lad, I was nearly the 5th yorkshireman but was too poor to afford t' penny bus fare t' studio.

 

[Pingu]

By eck lad, I was nearly the 5th yorkshireman but was too poor to afford t' penny bus fare t' studio.

bus?

in my day we had to crawl to t'studio over razor blades

 

[lizzieloo]

My dad does this all the fecking time

Brilliant

 

[big footed fred]

bus?

in my day we had to crawl to t'studio over razor blades

Razor blades, we used to dream o razor blades.
All we had were blunt rusty nails - and no hammer.

 

[TV_Helen]

Wasn't this originally done with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Cleese & Someone else?

Tim Brooke-Taylor. And it's not THAT funny.

 

[gentlegreen]

Tim Brooke-Taylor. And it's not THAT funny.

Nope - Charles Dickens - by miles

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[i_hate_beckham]

Nope its still not funny.

 

[la ressistance]

 

[exleper]

and the vic reeves/eddie izzard re-make:

 

[editor]

and the vic reeves/eddie izzard re-make:

It's not a patch on the Monty Python one is it?

 

[flangelina]

and the vic reeves/eddie izzard re-make:

You had an Vic Reeves / Eddie Izzard remake of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch? We never 'ad that. By 'eck, you didn't know you were born!

In my day, we 'ad to make do with Les Dennis, Bobby Davro, Freddie Starr and Duncan Norvel re-enacting this classic sketch and we were grateful for it, I can tell ya!

 

[lostexpectation]

best sketch ever

thanks poliu for pointing that out

http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext04/ltlps10.txt

bottm't page

"My dear Robinson," the other man rejoined briskly, "if
you imagine I've had no experience of hardship of that
sort, you never made a bigger mistake in your life. Why,
when I first walked into this town I hadn't a cent, sir,
not a cent, and as for lodging, all the place I had for
months and months was an old piano box up a lane, behind
a factory. Talk about hardship, I guess I had it pretty
rough! You take a fellow that's used to a good warm tar
barrel and put him into a piano box for a night or two,
and you'll see mighty soon--"

 

[gentlegreen]

You had an Vic Reeves / Eddie Izzard remake of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch? We never 'ad that. By 'eck, you didn't know you were born!

In my day, we 'ad to make do with Les Dennis, Bobby Davro, Freddie Starr and Duncan Norvel re-enacting this classic sketch and we were grateful for it, I can tell ya!

In my day it would have been Dick Emery or Jim Davidson

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[goldenecitrone]

One of the best Python sketches, closely followed by the book shop sketch, 'Ethel the aardvark was hopping down the road...'

 

[Idaho]

The third best Python Sketch with the argument one 2nd and Flying lessons first.

 

[kyser_soze]

The third best Python Sketch with the argument one 2nd and Flying lessons first.

THIRD SKETCH? AHHH, in my day we dint even 'ave ONE sketch, we 'ad to make do with a doodle and first rough draft and expected to be falling around the floor in stitches immiediately afterwards, else our Father would beat uz to death with a shitty stick.

Etc...

 

[longdog]

I think you'll find it was originally a python sketch that was resurrected for the first Secret Policeman's Ball.

But then it could've originally been a TW3 sketch but I don't think so.

As to why they never show Python any more. In my opinion it's because the vast majority of it just isn't funny any more. It's not aged well I don't think.