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Revision as of 19:07, 7 March 2005 by DePiep (talk | contribs) (More on silly walks.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 14. A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
This sketch involves John Cleese as the Minister of Silly Walks walking to his office. There he's presented with a "walk in progress" by one Mr. Pudney (Michael Palin) — which turns out to be actually not that silly. The Miniter explains that the money needs to be devided between Defence, Education, Roads and Silly Walks.
There's a brief appearance by Mrs. Twolumps serving tea with full silly walk (Carol Cleveland in the Hollywood Bowl version), and for some reason (possibly to display the full range of the minister's silly walks) Terry Jones as a shopkeeper near the beginning of the sketch (not in the Live version).
Addendum: the "some reason" was that the preceding sketch was set in said shopkeeper's shop; it involved an insalubrious man attempting to enquire after a prostitute by erroneously detecting double-entendres in advertisements in the window. The shopkeeper eventually showed him the advertisement which he was after and which turned out to be less subtle than he expected. Then the Minister entered.
A reference to this sketch appears in Fawlty Towers episode The Germans, when John Cleese tries to settle his quarrel by offering I'll do a silly walk for you.
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