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Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Working Class Playwright"

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    [Knocking at the door]
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    Oh Dad, look who's come to see us,
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    it's our Ken!
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    About bloody time if you ask me.
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    Aren't you pleased to see me, Father?
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    Yes, 'course he's pleased to see you Ken.
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    Alright, woman, alright.
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    I've got a tongue in me 'ead. I'll do t'talking.
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    Bly....I like your fancy suit.
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    Is that what they're wearing up in Yorkshire now?
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    It's just an ordinary suit Father.
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    It's all I've got apart from the overalls.
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    How do you like it down the mine, Ken?
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    Oh, it's not too bad Mum.
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    We're using some new tungsten carbide drills for the preliminary coal-face scouring operations.
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    Ooh, that sounds nice dear!
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    Tungsten carbide drills?
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    What the bloody hell's tungsten carbide drills?
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    It's something they use in coal mining, Father.
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    'It's something they use in coal mining Father,'
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    you bloody fancy talk since you left London.
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    Not that again.
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    He's 'ad an 'ard day, dear,
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    'is new play opens at t'National Theatre tomorrow!
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    Oh, that's good.
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    Good! Good?
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    What do you know about it?
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    What do you know about getting up at five o'clock in morning to fly to Paris,
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    back at the Old Vic for drinks at twelve,
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    sweating the day through press interviews,
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    television interviews,
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    then gettin' back here at ten
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    to wrestle with the problem of an 'omosexual
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    nymphomaniac drug addict,
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    involving the ritual murder
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    of a well-known Scottish footballer.
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    That's a full working day, lad.
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    And don't you forget it!
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    Oh, don't shout at the boy, Father -
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    'Ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?
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    You 'ad to go poncin' off to Barnsley!
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    You and yer coal mining friends.
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    Coal mining is a wonderful thing, Father.
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    But it's something you'll never understand.
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    Just look at you!
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    Oh Ken!
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    Be careful,
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    you know what he's like
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    after a few novels!
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    Come on lad, come on
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    out wi' it.
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    What's wrong with me?
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    Yer TIT!
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    I'll tell you what's wrong with you,
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    your head's addled with novels and poems
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    You come home every evening
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    reading your Chateau Notore
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    And look what you've done to mother -
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    she's fed up with meeting film stars,
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    attending premieres
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    and giving gala lunches!
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    There's NOWT WRONG wi' gala luncheons, lad
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    I've 'ad more gala luncheons than you've 'ad 'ot dinners!
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    Please, please!
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    Aaargh!
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    Oh no!
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    What is it?
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    It's 'is writer's cramp!
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    You never told me about this.
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    No, we didn't like to Ken -
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    I'm alright, I'm alright woman,
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    just get 'im out o' here.
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    Oh Ken, you'd better go.
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    Alright, I'm going.
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    After all we've done for 'im.
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    One day you'll realise there's more to life than culture.
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    There's dirt and smoke -
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    Get out -
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    - and good honest sweat!
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    Get out you little labourer!
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    'Ey, you know Mother,
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    I reckon there's a play there.
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    Get agent on phone.
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    Aye, I think yer right, Frank,
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    it could express,
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    it could express a vital theme of our age.
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    Oh shut up!
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    Shut up!
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    Ah, that's better.
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    Now for something completely different,
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    a man with 3 buttocks.
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    -We've done that!
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    Alright, alright!
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    A man wiv... nine legs
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    -Hah! He ran away!
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    Oh bloody 'ell.
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    Erm...
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    a Scotsman on a horse!
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    ^ Bagpipes play fast melody
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    [ HORSE WHINNIES ]
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    [ CLAPPING ]
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    [ STUTTERING FARTY NOISE ]
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    [ CLAPPING ]
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    Harold! Come back Harold.
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    'Arold, come back!
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    Harold!
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    Oh blast!
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    [ Swanee whistle ]
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    [ RASPBERRY ]
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Title:
Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Working Class Playwright"
Description:

From Episode 2, "Sex and Violence." Starring Graham Chapman, Eric Idle and Terry Jones.
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Video Language:
English, British
Team:
Film & TV
Duration:
03:59

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