A game of one-upmanship (The Four Yorkshiremen Monty Python style)

[Lost_Girl]

I have met many Monty Python fans in and around the threads. One of my favourite skits is The Four Yorkshire men where they each try and beat each other to tell the tale of hardship of growing up.

I thought it might be fun to try a game of one-upmanship and see if we manage a laugh or two ourselves. If you're not familiar with the skit, look it up on youtube, it's worth a look even if you don't feel like joining in.

Edit: here's the clip below -CB

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[blondguy]

Hey Carol 🙂

I remember 'Life of Brian'.....but even with watching Chris's clip (which was a classic) I just dont get it....

Is it like the humour in Flying High?

'Do we have clearance clarence?'....and 'we have to get these these people to a hospital'....

Response ' what is it'?

Reply 'its a big building with patients but thats not important right now' 🙂

I am a Fawlty Towers addict who are I think are the monty python writers.......ummm..same as 'A Fish called Wanda' or am I on the wrong track?

Bayleaf has made a mega post and good on him.....I just dont get it..at all...unless I have too much on my plate at the moment of course..

"Just dont mention the war"

🙂 x

[Kazzl]

Hahaha, never mind Paul ... looks like we picked the wrong day to give up smoking 😄 (Flying High reference for others).

Carol - Two heads! Luxury! Where I was born we all had to share one brain between us!

xx

[blondguy]

Thankyou Kazzl. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit my therapy/smoking...

Whatever you do......dont mention the war....(Reference Faulty Towers for others) 🙂

Great thread Carol xx

[Lost_Girl]

Kaz, weren't you lucky to have people to share with.

I longed to have people to share things with. The nearest person was at the shop where it took a full day just to hop there and it woul dc be closed by the time I got there and then I'd have to camp overnight and wait for it to open, all the time keeping one eye open for the killer pigeon.....

[Bayleaf]

Sounds like you had a choice of eyes Carol. You were lucky! We were so poor that we only had one eye for the whole family and we had to take turns using it. My turn was usually on Thursday so I never got to see the footy on Saturday, a fact which I blame for my lack of superstardom, and I was forever losing my pidgeon, which became seriously underfed and went feral left home.

Aye, we ad it tough.

[blondguy]

Oh my lord...the Irish....Was Faulty Towers written by some of the Monty Python crew?....Aye

[Moonstruck]

As far as I know, Fawlty Towers was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth (who played Polly), not by the whole Python crew. "Why would a lovely girl like this, be interested in a lily-livered, brilliantined, stick insect like you!!"

And I think the Python crew had disbanded way before Fish called Wanda came along -I don't know who wrote it. It also starred John Cleese and another Python, Michael Palin. (I have totally gotten off the thread of this thread....sorry folks but you're all so good at it.....I can't think of anything up to your standard....yet)