The Cheese Shop sketch, Monty Python

So funny... and Cleese was great at playing the straight man who puts up with a ton of silliness and then cracks under pressure. Basil Fawlty was a lot like this too.

Looks like cheese shop in the USSR back then :)

OH YA AM BRITISH YOU CANT RACIALLY TELL A JOKE ABOUT ME AS A I DO IT TO MYSELF AND B HAVE NO RACE LARDY DA HA HA ,TRY AS I MAY I CAN NOT RACIALLY TELL A JOKE ABOUT THE BRITSH AS THEY DO IT TOWARDS THEMSELFS ALSO THEY HAVE NO RACE OH YES WE THE BRITISH AS THICK AS 2 SHORT PLANKS HAVE BAND THE WORD NIGER BECUSE ITS A GERMAN WORD FOR BLACK.ALSO YOU CAN NOT HATE BOILS SORES PLAGUE OR DISEASES AS ITS RELIGIOUS HATE AS WE ARE IN BRITIAN. RATHER

Does Cleese turn in to Chevy Chase everytime he puts on a hat??

silwuple from poland

I have always liked this sketch to the point where I have adopted the phras "Such a senseless waste of human life" when I come across a less than reputable character/

Classic. Really well written and performed.

This is THE best there is.

Wallace would not like this cheese shop.

Did not know these many cheese existed 😂

“Curtailed my Walpoling activities”

This is ridiculously good.
So well written.

Horace Walpole??? Is there a joke within a joke that I missed?

A dedicated cheese shop was very rare if it existed at all in those days and likely even rarer now. However, they do indeed exist in smart areas of London; and with ALL SORTS OF CHEESE IN STOCK! 🤔🤗😄

For the album recording, there were a few changes if i remember.
JC actually says 'I don't care how fu**ing runny it is' and then shouts 'Shut that 'fu**ing' bouzouki player up !!
Brilliant !!

I like to imagine that the bowler hat dancers aren't even paid performers in the cheese shop. They just like cheese so much, this is how they celebrate.

Anyway.

I actually went to a cheese factory that only had cheddar left !

I totally forgot how funnily this sketch opens

What episode of the flying circus was this

😂😅😂😅😂

imagine working there




with that music




all day

Skimming through Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole - lol wtf?

Cheddar cheese IS all i know

say Cheese 😁

What does Cleese say after 'I like a nice dance...'? Never been able to work it out.

I actually think this is funnier than the dead parrot sketch.

I don't think an Oxford educated Englishman nowadays can name all the cheeses.

what does it is the final quarter of a second he turns in to a cowboy

This skit is very funny until you realize that it's a microcosm of the late-stage capitalist society we live in today. They really predicted the future on this one!

Norwegian jaalsberg is good stuff!

Did someone tell him "I bet you can't mix an unrelated cowboy appearance in your cheese shop sketch"? Because it seems like it

Where did he get that hat from???

There are no Cheese Shops in Lancaster, where I live! ... So, I buy my cheese at Aldi. Not only do they have plenty of cheese "contaminating" the supermarket, but there is NO annoying music and dancing! 🤣

This is one of my favorites😂

Chrese sounds amazing rn

I honestly just enjoy the music

Bloody marvelous!

This would be a very short sketch in India, they only have Paneer.

so THIS is where Venezuelan beaver cheese came from, thanks Larry

Aaaaahhhh!
The cat ate it!
🧀🐱🧀
Classic Python!

Maybe John should change his name to John Cheese!😂

Blessings and kindest regards David from Australia.
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Ah cheese, bloody good stuff! I had a problem, as a kid trying not to puke when walking past Mac Fisheries, but cheese, no problem.

From Cleese's elaboration at the start there, you can sort of see the inspiration for Fawlty Towers' Mr. Hutchinson.

Monty python were internet before internet was internet 😌

Their finest sketch, better than The Parrot. Alas with a weak ending.

"an act of pure optimism" i love it 😂

It's a great attention getter, the way it starts with the still photos of John walking into the shop.

I remember my father laughing at Cleese's outburst at music very loudly. I sent it this to him and he laughed again.

The everyday absurdism of a cheese shop with no cheese, and shopkeeper who denies it, just kills me.

REALLY!? No cheese at all?

Since hearing this sketch all those years ago, I have made it my life's work to try each of these cheeses at least once. Surprisingly, most of these cheeses actually exist.