“I’ve had more gala luncheons than you’ve had hot dinners” is a fantastically funny line

My influencer dad never forgave me when I decided to work at the microprocessor plant.

"Hampstead wasn't good enough for you, you had to go poncing off to Barnsley."

One of my personal favorite throwaway jokes. "A man with nine legs." "HE RAN AWAY!"

"You know what he's like after a few novels." LMAO

That growl from chapman after idle says "coal mining is a wonderful thing" is brilliant!!😂😂😂

'You had to go poncin' off to Barnsley...' My favourite line from this wonderful sketch.

John Cleese said that Graham Chapman was the best actor in 'Monty Python' and I agree with him. Graham's accent, timing and the way he delivers his lines in this sketch is perfection. Shame he had such personal demons.

“You come home every night reeling of Chateau Le Tour!”… I love how they swapped the stereotypes in this sketch!

there's more to life than culture. there's dirt and smoke

Back in 1978/79, one of the best teachers in my primary school would routinely shout 'Tungsten carbide drills?!'. I had absolutely no idea what he was going on about at the time but it sounded funny. He was a genius teacher who also recommended we all watch 'Blake's 7' - we did and we loved it though my appreciation of Monty Python came much, much later. What a fantastic and timeless sketch this is.

2:15 "THERE'S NAUGHT WRONG WITH GALA LUNCHEONS, LAD!!!" My pick for the funniest line delivery of all time. Just brilliant!

Growing up in a coal mining village we got quite a lot of mileage out of "Tungsten carbide drill? What the bloody hell is a tungsten carbine drill?" whenever we heard people talking about the mine. Not so many from my generation worked down the pit because Thatcher closed most of them down.

1st time ive seen this sketch. Graham chapman was a comedic genius.

I've been watching MP for over 25 years now. As I get older, this sketch gets funnier and funnier. It's one of the most clever pieces they ever wrote.

He's had a hard day Dear...his new play opens at National Theatre tomorrow...BRILLIANT!

"What's wrong with him?" "It's his writers cramp...."

I reckon this is some of the most sophisticated comedy ever made

This is my favourite MP sketch, funny,clever and witty. "Hampstead wasn't good enough for you was it? You had to go poncing of to Barnsley!"

This was inspired by the the Angry Young Men period in the early 60s.

As a theatre professional this is my favorite Python sketch.

“You know what he’s like after a few novels”. Ha ha.

"Toongsten Carbide Drills????"

"You had to go poncing off to Barnsley" :)

This is Monty Python at their very finest. It's absolutely brilliant how they mix class struggle and total wackiness together. I got tears in my eyes from laughing. "'Ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?!?! Ye had to go poncin' off to Barnsley!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Brilliantly conceived and written. And Graham is at his brilliant, unbeatable best.

The first time I saw this it took a while to sink in that the standard roles - working class father, son trying to make it good in that there London - were reversed. "Hampstead wasn't good enough for you; you had to go poncin' off to Barnsley!" Brilliant.

There's nowt wrong wi' gala luncheons. You were the best Graham. We miss you...

Classic reversal of a premise with very funny results. Great satire of dramatic cliches.

0:13 Exuberance 0:17 Contempt 0:57 Bigotry 1:12 Passion 1:48 Anger 1:55 Conflict 2:02 Truth 2:09 Pity 2:15 Denial 2:24 Revelation 2:36 Sadness Monty Python were masters of Satire comedy!

There's more to life than culture! There's dirt and smoke and good honest sweat!

Coal mining is a wonderful thing, father!

This is my favorite MP sketch of all time. And Terry Jones makes the perfect frumpy housewife. ;)

The comic genius behind this sketch is beyond belief

The old ladies applauding have been cracking me up for 50 years!

When these episodes started to appear on PBS, in the 1970s, my dad watched this sketch and couldn't stop laughing. Funny Stuff!

My dad was so upset that I had gone off to become a factory worker rather than make NPC videos on Tiktok. He always said "ice cream so good yum yum!" But I knew I had a special something, I had a work ethic! I'm so sorry dad.

I actually love Terry Jones in this sketch, he plays that be*drag*gled old lady so well

This is one of Monty python’s best written skits.

Some of the best acting I have ever seen

Ever occur to you that these guys were putting up the kind of abrupt humor of early UKposts creators decades before the internet existed? And they were a hit

Can we take a moment to appreciate that MP threw away a good chunk of this show's budget on a location, film, a costume, a horse, and and animal wranglers just for two throwaway shots of John Cleese on a horse?

A bizarre reversal of roles in which the son of a haughty playwright became a humble coal miner.

These guys were way before my time, but I love them so much! I used to stay up at night and watch them on a comedy channel that showed reruns. They are simply brilliant and have brought me so much joy to me. This sketch is one of my favorites.

We love them all, they're all very talented...but there's something special about Graham. Such glorious conviction, such a perfect balance of serious & unserious.

Such genius writing, another classic Python sketch.

The Pythons were pure genius…the most brilliant comedy in history

There's always a nugget of comedy gold from Python I haven't seen for ages😂

The sketch is almost identical to the first episode of Coronation Street. Ken Barlow has returned home from College and his dad is sitting at the table, in shirt sleeves. Mum is fussing Ken, but there's an altercation over a HP sauce bottle being on the table - obviously where the idea for the skit came from.

Oh, Ken, be careful; you know what he is like after a few novels! Only came across this last week, and it is up there with: "Trouble at Mill", another Chapman gem!

3 people went poncing off to Barnsley.

Graham Chapman was an absolute gem, just brilliant, such talent ❤️🙏

Terry Jones is the resident mom of monty python!

A man wiv...9 legs (He ran away) 😂

Chapman's comedic genius laid bare and plain for all to see.

Poncin of to Barnsley,the genius of the pythons

Of all the MONTY PYTHON sketches,THIS has got to be the one that really makes me laugh the most Graham Chapman has got to be the most underrated "dramatic" actor if their ever is one.R.I.P Graham.

Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Eric Idle do brilliant acting here.

You know what he's like after a few novels!

Tungsten carbide drills!

Chapmans greatest performance!

'You know what he's like after a few novels'.

‘Ohh Ken you know what he’s like after a few novels’

Wonderful Python sketch, always in my top ten.

One of the earlier "Let's flip this trope on its head and have the hardass dad be the fancy artsy playwright and the soft-spoken son be the guy who goes to coal mining 20 hours a day" examples in pop culture.

Chapman magnificent when sober. Later series saw him pissed & forgetting lines. He drank his way through Grail but had less nerves on the film set than in front of studio audiences. By the time of filming Brian he was teetotal & using his medical training to mend any poorly cast & crew in Tunisia. All six Pythons contributed different elements to the group. I feel Graham was the wilder / off-kilter of them. He provided a crazier spark - & was always the one I was drawn to.

Chapman's band collar shirt is looking pretty fashionable here

This is probably my favorite Python sketch. And that's saying something!

"There's more to life than culrure. There's dirt and smoke..."

Its surprisingly to me how many people have to have this skit explained to them. Doesn't that take the impact out of it?

I just watched vintage coronation st. And this pops up. They were brilliant.

Tungsten carbide, LUXURY! 😮😂😂😂

I forgot how freaking funny this sketch was! 🤣🤣🤣

the singluar "HA!" after 'a man with nine legs' *chef's kiss*

Terry Jones is struggling not to laugh in this sketch haha!

Writer's cramp😂😂😂

The BBC will never be able to make anything half as good as this again.

Apparently Monty Python predicted social media influencers.

So brilliant acting. One of my favourite Python's.

So many brilliant lines in this sketch. 🤣🤣🤣

One of the many brilliantly funny sketches that I still remember the exact lines: Monty Python- still relevant to our time now.

My fav sketch of theirs, so beautifully written and performed

That's a full working day, lad!

“You know what he’s like after a few novels.” 🤣

Magnificent

Moral of all this : Dont ever poncing off to Barnsley.

That’s a full working day lad and don’t you forget it!

Graham Chapman was far and away the best actor of the ensemble, here he is at his peerless best.

2:41 “There’s more to life than culture!”

This sketch >>>>> Ministry of Silly Walks.

One of their cleverest twists on life!

What a brilliant reverse skit.many years old now but the humour is not threadbare and terry jones always played a brilliant housewife R I P….

You know what he's like after a few novels 😂

That's a full working day , Lad .

Just about perfect

What a great concept for a sketch 🤣

This is the sort of reversal comedy Oscar Wilde made a specialty.

"And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks!"😅🤣😂

Even though British coal mines are basically a thing of the past, the sketch still works 50 years later as it's so well written and performed.

The greatest Python sketch ever IMO, it's absolute genius