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

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    - Aye
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    - Oh dad! Look who's come to see us. I'ts our Ken!
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    - Aye, and 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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    All right, woman, all right. I've got a tongue in my head. I'll do 'talkin'.
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    - Aye ... I like yer fancy suit. Is that what they're wearing up in Yorkshire now?
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    - It's just an ordinary suit, father... it's all I've got apart from the overalls.
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    - How are you liking 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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    - Oh that sounds nice, dear...
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    - Tungsten carbide drills! 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'. You' re bloody fancy talk since you left London.
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    - Oh not that again.
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    - He's had a hard day dear... his new play opens at National Theatre tomorrow.
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    - Oh that's good.
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    - Good! Good? What do you know about it?
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    What do you know about getting up at five o'clock in t'morning to fly to Paris...
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    back at the Old Vic for drinks at twelve, sweating the day through press interviews,
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    television interviews and getting back here at ten to wrestle with the problem of a
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    homosexual nymphomaniac drug-addict involved in the ritual murder of a well known Scottish footballer.
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    That's a full working day, lad, and don't you forget it!
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    - Oh, don't shout at the boy, father.
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    - Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?...
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    You had to go poncing off to Barnsley.
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    You and yer coal-mining friends.
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    - Coal-mining is a wonderful thing father, but it's something you'll never understand.
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    Just look at you!
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    - Oh Ken! Be careful! You know what he's like after a few novels.
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    - Oh come on lad! Come on, out wi' it! What's wrong wi' me?... ye 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 reeling of Chateau La Tour...
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    - Oh don't, don't.
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    - And look what you've done to mother!
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    She's worn out with meeting film stars, attending premieres and giving gala luncheons...
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    - There's nowt wrong wi' gala luncheons, lad!
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    I've had more gala luncheons than you've had hot dinners!
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    - Oh please!
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    - Aaaaaaagh!
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    - Oh no!
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    - What is it?
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    - Oh, it's his writer's cramp!
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    - You never told me about this...
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    - No, we didn't like to, Kenny.
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    - I'm all right! I'm all right, woman. Just get him out of here.
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    - Oh Ken! You'd better go...
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    - All right. I'm going.
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    - After all we've done for him...
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    One day you'll realize there's more to life than culture... There's dirt, and smoke, and good honest sweat!
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    - Get out! Get out! Get OUT! You ... LABOURER!
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    - Hey, you know, mother, I think there's a play there.... get t'agent on t'phone.
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    Aye I think you're right, Frank, it could express, it could express a vital theme of our age...
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    - Aye.
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    Oh shut up!
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    Shut up!
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    Oh, that's better.
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    Now for something completely different... a man with three buttocks...
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    - We've done that!
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    Oh all right. All right!
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    A man with...
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    ...nine legs.
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    - He ran away.
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    Oh... Bloody Hell! Er ... a Scotsman on a horse!
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    Harold! Come back, Harold! Harold! Come back, Harold! Oh, blast!
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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