Talk:Four Yorkshiremen

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any way to to work the "had to walk uphill both ways, in the snow, barefoot" part back in? :p well, at least the uphill part is right (according to Slashdot_subculture#Lines_and_phrases

Why? It has nothing to do with this sketch. Matt Deres 21:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

"Recently"?

"The original show had long been thought lost until it was released on DVD recently". What is recently? This needs to be reworded in absolute terms.

It's meaningless anyway, the show was repeated on BBC television about fifteen years ago. --McGeddon 06:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Another non-Monty Python performance of this sketch

Does anyone else remember Marty Feldman performing this sketch on The Golddiggers? I remember watching this sketch as a kid (in that performance, there were only two Yorkshiremen), & was afterwards puzzled that it was so firmly connected with Monty Python.

Dead Link

http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.98.12.148 (talk) 13:51, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

NOT a DEAD LINK. I have just checked this link out and it works perfectly. It is definitely NOT a dead link. Figaro (talk) 09:02, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

It's pining for the fiords. —Tamfang (talk) 23:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Merge into List article?

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Undertakers sketch for a merge proposal affecting this article. --Noleander (talk) 20:47, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Antecedent - Stephen Leacock

Might the humorist Stephen Leacock not be credited in the article with providing what is at least an obvious antecedent to the sketch? Here's a passage from his 'Self-Made Men' (1910):

"Why, when I first walked into this town I hadn't a cent, sir, not a cent, and as for lodging, all the place I had for months and months was an old piano box up a lane, behind a factory. Talk about hardship, I guess I had it pretty rough! You take a fellow that's used to a good warm tar barrel and put him into a piano box for a night or two, and you'll see mighty soon—"

"My dear fellow," Robinson broke in with some irritation, "you merely show that you don't know what a tar barrel's like. Why, on winter nights, when you'd be shut in there in your piano box just as snug as you please, I used to lie awake shivering, with the draught fairly running in at the bunghole at the back."

"Draught!" sneered the other man, with a provoking laugh, "draught! Don't talk to me about draughts..."

..... and so on. 92.3.6.214 (talk) 08:54, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Doubt that he was the first to come up with the basic idea of comically exaggerating one-upmanship in personal hardship stories... AnonMoos (talk) 09:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

References

Using a Youtube comment as a reference

The commentary after the mention of the Hungarian cover of the sketch is sourced to a Youtube comment, which are essentially untraceably anonymous. Is this an acceptable reference? 86.7.223.84 (talk) 01:57, 28 January 2019 (UTC)