HackerTube
HomeLongsLikedHistoryWatch laterCategoriesPlaylistsSettings

Argument - Monty Python

palestne1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2019-2025
YouTube
9.8M views · 9 years ago · comedy · evergreen

The classic Monty Python 'Argument Clinic' sketch, lightly trimmed, in which a man pays for an argument and gets contradiction instead.

Mostly posted as a joke reply in arguments, with one commenter recommending it as a lovely skit about how to argue.

Stand-up & sketch comedy#montypython#argumentclinic#sketchcomedy#humor

8 comments from Hacker News

@mooreed2025 · in “How to win an argument with a toddler”

Post reminds me of the absolutely lovely Monty python skit [1] that is not only humorous, but has a lot you can learn from. [1]: ▶ this video

RecommendsView on HN
@slowhadoken2024 · in “The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault”

This is a Monty Python skit. Chomsky called him amoral and his philosophy fake. He doesn’t disagree with Foucault’s “philosophy” he thinks it’s fake. A moral person doesn’t swingle people with lies. ▶ this video

JokeView on HN
@happytiger2024 · in “GPT Chats with T-Mobile Support to get discounts”

I’m you want me to go on arguing, you’re going to have to pay for another 5 minutes. Every time one of these enshitification AI customer service startups pops up I always think of the ultimate form of where this is going… to people paying to argue with people. Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second. Imagine all of these things succeeded eventually and Customer Service completely saturated by talking to bots, to which they then have to deploy bots, and in very short order essentially becoming a bot API layer for Customer Service issues with gamification driving at the core. It’s almost inevitable. So then, people will want to develop the debate skills. They will feel like they are missing out in the negotiating skills people used to have. There will be coaches to help people learn how to deal with the skills set of negotiation, as all negotiation is now automated (which is, at the root, all this business is — its automated negotiation). Which leads my brain to believe that Monty Python was prescient and this will become a reality. ▶ this video

JokeView on HN
@yarg2022 · in “Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories”

> so he has a Constitutional right to publish on GitHub. No he doesn't, he's merely allowed to do what Github lets him do. Anyway, this is getting rather silly, so I'll leave you with this: ▶ this video .

JokeView on HN
@failwhaleshark2021 · in “Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz”

That sounds like contention you've observed correlates with established, balkanized tribal factions. Perhaps it's most typically bikeshedding about minutiae in order to have an argument. Argument - Monty Python ▶ this video

JokeView on HN
@chrisco2552021 · in “First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States”

Reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit, where a guy goes to a clinic to pay to argue with someone: ▶ this video "I'd like to have an argument, please."

JokeView on HN
@moomin2020 · in “Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked”

First off, you definitely should watch this: ▶ this video But the point is the post just literally contradicted the previous post. There's not a lot of places to go from there.

JokeView on HN
@s_gourichon2019 · in “PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild”

"Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." link ▶ this video

JokeView on HN
Argument Clinic6:22

Argument Clinic

TheFullMontyPython
1.7M views • 18 years ago
Monty Python Dead Parrot4:04

Monty Python Dead Parrot

Cinematheia
1.5M views • 12 years ago
Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook4:31

Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

rylxyc
2.8M views • 19 years ago
Oscar, James and George in the company of Bertie2:52

Oscar, James and George in the company of Bertie

DanHadan
99K views • 17 years ago
Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python3:14

Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python

TheFullMontyPython
2.3M views • 18 years ago
Ministry of Silly Walks2:51

Ministry of Silly Walks

TheVOJ
3.4M views • 9 years ago
Monty Python Royal Society For Putting Things On Top of Other Things2:16

Monty Python Royal Society For Putting Things On Top of Other Things

Tyler Bird (7hunderbird)
5.8M views • 12 years ago
Monty Python - How To Do It1:19

Monty Python - How To Do It

feraldarryl
771K views • 19 years ago
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen3:14

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

Weidmoo
589K views • 14 years ago
A Bit of Fry & Laurie   Concerning Language7:24

A Bit of Fry & Laurie Concerning Language

Fun English Lessons
773K views • 11 years ago
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen3:14

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

Lizzie Steven
4.9M views • 20 years ago
The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch3:36

The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch

onemediamusic
3.1M views • 15 years ago
Planning a Heist - Key & Peele1:02

Planning a Heist - Key & Peele

Key & Peele
5.8M views • 5 years ago
Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele3:02

Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele

Comedy Central
233.3M views • 14 years ago
Monty Python: What have the Romans ever done for us?1:16

Monty Python: What have the Romans ever done for us?

Kenny Teeology
81K views • 11 years ago
She's a witch!4:16

She's a witch!

NM05
13.1M views • 20 years ago
Monty Python - The Machine that goes PING!3:41

Monty Python - The Machine that goes PING!

Sublimate
141K views • 3 years ago
C is for Contrafibularity | Blackadder The Third | BBC Comedy Greats1:47

C is for Contrafibularity | Blackadder The Third | BBC Comedy Greats

BBC Comedy Greats
2.3M views • 16 years ago
Ricky Gervais Humanity - Guitar Lessons0:56

Ricky Gervais Humanity - Guitar Lessons

D Somebody
326K views • 8 years ago
George Carlin - Idiot and Maniac0:21

George Carlin - Idiot and Maniac

Luis Rodrigues
132K views • 14 years ago