Four-Yorkshiremen-Sketch

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch is a parody of nostalgic conversations about simple descent or difficult childhood. Four Yorkshiremen sit together and share childhood memories. Since each his previous speaker tries to excel at human misery ( "You have all lived together in one room? What we would have been happy if we had ever had a room !"), The narratives increase ever further into the completely absurd ("we had to work 29 hours a day - and still pay the factory owner for it " ) and culminate in the Pointe " When you tell the young people today - they will not believe it. "

The sketch was originally written for the 1967 British television series produced At Last the 1948 Show, with all four authors and performers of the show it participated: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke- Taylor and Marty Feldman. The premiere of the sketch by the four inventors is one of the few surviving sketches from the program and could be seen on the At Last the 1948 Show DVD last.

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was by Monty Python during their live shows Live at Drury Lane (1974, no video recording available ) and Live at the Hollywood Bowl ( 1982) listed, each performance is just slightly different from the others. The sketch was also three Pythons ( John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones) and Rowan Atkinson for The Secret Policeman's Ball, the 1979 Amnesty International benefit gala listed.

In a conscious tribute to the performance in the '79 Amnesty show the sketch for Amnesty Show 2001 We Know Where You Live, Live was listed again - for the occasion by Eddie Izzard, Harry Enfield, Alan Rickman, and Vic Reeves.

Because of the many Python performances and the relative obscurity of the show At Last The 1948 show of " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch is often mistaken for an original Monty Python's Flying Circus skit.

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