Monty Python team announces new YouTube channel

by Stevie Smith - Nov 20 2008, 13:00

"My brain hurts!" Image: Rightee/Flickr.

With tongues pushed firmly into cheeks, the surviving members of legendary comedy team Monty Python have this week said they're tired of being ripped off by online users and are moving to stamp out the posting of copyrighted Python clips to video-sharing Web site YouTube.

However, rather than following form and simply thowing around legal threats, Cleese, Palin, Idle and co. have instead moved to stop YouTube users from “taking tens of thousands” of their videos by launching a new and dedicated Monty Python channel on the Google-owned service.

“Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands,” the team said in an explanatory rant. "We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell.”

“But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube,” they added.

The completely free channel will arrive as great news for Python fans as its content, taken from the hit TV shows and movies, will arrives as a distinct improvement over the “crap quality videos” usually posted on the site.

However, while free, the Python team have said they'd be only to happy to reap the benefits that will emerge when users “click on the links, buy our movies and TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off for all these years.”

According to an AFP report, the channel's arrival is already proving to be a considerable hit, and has already amassed close to 10,000 subscribers keen on enjoying high-quality classic clips lifted from Monty Python's vault.

You can visit the Monty Python channel directly by clicking here. Or, you can check out the team's announcement clip by clicking below.

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