The Ministry of Silly Walks

"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 14, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired in 1970. A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. This sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing Silly Walks through grants. Cleese, throughout the sketch, walks in a variety of silly ways (including one that briefly imitates the scissor gait of spastic diplegia), and it is these various silly walks, more than the dialogue, that has earned the sketch its popularity. Cleese has cited the physical comedy of Max Wall, probably in character as Professor Wallofski, as important to its conception.

Silly Walks are a compilation of walks that are performed within a strange, weird and “silly” way that allows others to view it in a humorous fashion. This was first noticed within the Monty Python show performed by John Cleese which was viewed in a universal positive response upon other resulting in parodies

Origin

The sketch was shown within British television on the Monty Phython episode ’"Face the Press" which first aired in 1970

Spread

In 2005, the sketch was chosen by a poll taken in Britain as the 15th greatest comedy sketch of all time (and one of 5 Monty Python sketches in the top 50)

A live production was also performed within the ‘Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl’

A Silly Walk generator was also created as a flash with allows users to create their own silly walks using a numerous amount of screen shots which when animated create a moving picture to the user.

Due to back problems and other spinal injuries, John announced that he could not perform the Silly Walk routine due to pain.

As the years went by amid repeated requests to do the sketch, Cleese found it increasingly difficult to perform these walks. He’d say, when told about a new Python Tour, “I’m not doing silly walks.”

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