From the Four Yorshiremen W-Pedia article:

"The sketch was originally written for the British television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show, and was co-written by the show's four writer-performers: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Marty Feldman. The original performance of the sketch by the four creators is one of the surviving sketches from the program and can be seen on the At Last the 1948 Show DVD ... As a result of the numerous Python performances, and the comparative obscurity of At Last The 1948 Show, the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch is widely and incorrectly considered to be a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch."

For those who don't know, or were too young to remember, the song's title quote is from Mark David Chapman

also starring marty feldman & graham chapman. this is from 1967.

And another one...I shall flood these halls with ArtieTSmith until his light of brilliance doth rain upon thee.

And he does a killer Graham Chapman.

Wait a minute, wasn't this made for the Beatles Anthology? If I recall correctly these were just takes of songs that they never completed as a group that got the final mix laid down and published. Okay I just checked Wiki:

"All of the then-surviving Beatles members filmed new interviews to add to older interviews with John Lennon, who was murdered by Mark David Chapman in 1980. The first episode ended with a promotional video for the brand new Beatles track, "Free as a Bird", created from an archive Lennon recording supplied by his widow Yoko Ono."

"O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not to the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves. Wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not.... But to be learned is good if you hearken to the counsels of God." 2 Nephi 9:28-29

The persons who made this video would no doubt read this verse and then come up with clips that say, "Oh yeah? There are plenty of athesists who are rich! They profited!" It simply betrays a profound misunderstanding of spiritual matters.

"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loseth his soul? Or what shall he give in exchange for his soul?" Mark 8: 36-37

In the eyes of course of the natural man, they dismiss the afterlife and the 'soul' of man as a fanciful legend used to decieve the gullible - to keep the 'commoners' down, as Napoleon suggested, and trick them into giving money/power to the leaders of the churches.

The natural man's existence consists only of the things they can experience with their senses - taste, sound, touch, hearing and sight. And for them, death means the end of all that, and they have nothing to look forward to but decay in the ground and oblivion. Which is why you constantly hear them saying things like "You only go around once" or "you only live once", which is simply the modern-day re-wording of "Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die."

The subconscious message projected in that is "you'd better do drugs, have sex, drink and gratify all your pleasures now, because once you're dead it's all over".

Which is why the atheist fights so hard against the notion of God and an afterlife, because the possibility of it's existence is terrifying to them. Think back to the movie "Ghostbusters" (since the atheist generally loves hollywood so much). When the prospect of apocolypse was raised, the mayor said "What if you're wrong?" Bill Murray replied, "If we're wrong, nothing happens! But if we're RIGHT...."

Hence, the atheist points to signs of worldly success and says "if God exists, and if those who don't believe are punished, why are these guys so rich and successful?" And again "If religious people are so great, why are so many of them sinners?" And again, "If God's teachings are so wonderful, why did religous leaders cause so much violence in history?" And all these are used, not as impetus to improve future generations, but as excuses to permit current acts of depravity.

A profound misunderstanding. Which is why atheists can point at examples of failed Christian heterosexual marriages and conclude that the entire system is flawed and should be abolished. They can support the spread of porn and say "if you don't like it just don't look, no one's forcing you". But if a billboard showing a picture of Christ and the 10 commandments were raised with the same headline (If you don't like it, just don't look), they'd fight to have it torn down.

"I've always said there's nothing an agnostic can't do as long as he really doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not." Graham Chapman

How could you not love this?

1) B.B. King playing (how does he make it sound like that?)
2) B.B. King singing
3) Tracy Chapman singing (and she doesn't get overshadowed by B.B. King)

I would think that for any artist it must be the high point of a career when you do something like this. I mean, when you're doing a duet with B.B. King, you have to be thinking, "yup, I guess I really am a musician now".

Classic Monty Python's Flying circus. I have been looking for this clip for a while. Its one of my favourites. I love Cleese hamming it up as Hitler...I mean hilter and Micheal Palin does a great job as Himmler. Its one of the few sketches that the boys do that portrays real people. What makes it so funny is that Cleese, Palin, and the late Graham Chapman actually resemble those characters so much.

Jean Baudin is a bassist...this is a bass...not a chapman stick. The chapman stick's strings fan from the center thicker out to thinner, plus all of the frets run straight up and down. Jean Baudin's basses are all strung like a bass or guitar with the strings decreasing in thickness, and the frets are fanned down the neck. The technique that he is using to play this song is called "tapping" and it's widely used in the bass community, especially seen used by solo artists such as Jean. These enourmous basses with 6+ strings are refered to as monster basses. Jean Baudin just finished building a 12 string bass. Pictures are on his site at: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=13522698 or go to his main site at www.jeanbaudin.com.

A Chapman Stick is a realatively new instrument, and although it has strings, it's almost more similar to a keyboard than a guitar. You don't 'pluck' the strings, you simply touch them, which is why both hands can move seperately on totally different parts of the scale. They really are cool, and this is a perfect example why.

bobbob, whats a Chapman stick?

That's a Chapman stick, not a bass.