0:00:00.000,0:00:00.786 [applause] 0:00:00.786,0:00:01.449 [laughter] 0:00:01.449,0:00:02.734 Minister: Times, please. 0:00:02.734,0:00:03.823 Shopkeeper: Ah yes, sir, here. 0:00:04.443,0:00:05.439 Minister: Thank you. 0:00:05.439,0:00:06.109 Shopkeeper: Yep. 0:00:06.459,0:00:07.769 [laughter] 0:01:12.187,0:01:13.057 Minister: Good Morning. 0:01:14.177,0:01:15.327 I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, 0:01:15.327,0:01:19.037 but I'm afraid my, uh, my walk has become rather sillier recently, 0:01:19.037,0:01:20.757 and so it takes me a rather long time. 0:01:21.991,0:01:24.351 Now then, um, what was it again? 0:01:24.351,0:01:27.041 Mr. Pudey: Well, sir, I have a, uh silly walk, 0:01:27.041,0:01:30.080 and I'd like to obtain a government grant to help me develop it. 0:01:30.436,0:01:32.507 Gentleman: I see. May I see your silly walk? 0:01:32.507,0:01:34.507 Mr. Pudey: Yes, certainly, yes. (clears throat) 0:01:37.139,0:01:37.929 [laughing] 0:01:54.191,0:01:55.351 Minister: That's it, is it? 0:01:55.351,0:01:56.371 Pudey: Yes, that's it, yes. 0:01:56.371,0:01:59.999 Minister: Mm-hmm. It's not particularly silly, is it? 0:01:59.999,0:02:02.019 I, I mean the right leg isn't silly at all, 0:02:02.035,0:02:05.915 and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternate step. 0:02:05.919,0:02:08.983 Pudey: Yes. I think that with government backing, I could make it very silly. 0:02:09.473,0:02:12.633 Gentleman: Mr. Pudey, the very real problem is that of money. 0:02:12.633,0:02:18.226 I'm afraid that the Ministry of Silly Walks is no longer getting the kind of support it needs. 0:02:18.226,0:02:22.732 You see, there is Defense, Social Security, Health, Housing, Education, Silly Walks. 0:02:22.732,0:02:25.106 They're all supposed to get the same, 0:02:25.106,0:02:30.056 but last year, the government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Walks 0:02:30.056,0:02:33.498 than it did on National Defense. 0:02:33.498,0:02:40.098 Now we get $348,000,000 a year which is supposed to be spent on all our available products. 0:02:42.096,0:02:43.176 Have coffee? 0:02:43.436,0:02:44.374 Mr. Prudey: Yes, please. 0:02:44.374,0:02:47.214 Minister: Mrs. Two-lumps, would you bring us in two coffees please? 0:02:47.214,0:02:48.574 Mrs. Two-lumps: Yes, Mr. Teabag. 0:02:50.470,0:02:51.810 Mr. Teabag: Out of her mind. 0:02:52.210,0:02:56.226 Now, the Japanese have a man who can bend his leg back over his head 0:02:56.226,0:02:58.766 and back again with every single step. 0:02:58.766,0:03:01.706 While the Israelis . . . ahhh, here's the coffee. 0:03:01.994,0:03:02.824 [laughter] 0:03:02.824,0:03:03.974 [china clattering] 0:03:07.851,0:03:09.021 Thank you, Velvet. 0:03:14.244,0:03:16.294 You're really interested in silly walks, aren't you? 0:03:16.294,0:03:17.354 Purdey: Oh ra-ther, yes, 0:03:17.354,0:03:18.994 Teabag: Well, take a look at this then. 0:03:19.254,0:03:19.834 [thud] 0:03:21.708,0:03:22.458 [music] 0:03:26.523,0:03:27.233 [laughter] 0:03:54.470,0:03:55.380 Teabag: Mr. Pudey? 0:03:56.180,0:03:56.890 [crash] 0:03:56.890,0:03:58.488 I'm not going to trade skirts with you. 0:03:58.488,0:04:02.348 I'm going to offer you a research fellowship on the Anglo-French Silly Walk. 0:04:02.348,0:04:03.928 Prudey: La Marche Futile? 0:04:04.314,0:04:05.114 Beunjour.... 0:04:05.916,0:04:07.226 (speaking French ) 0:04:10.864,0:04:12.294 ...La Marche Comique... 0:04:12.308,0:04:14.258 (French continues) 0:04:18.942,0:04:21.762 mon ami' ...a je la patique.. 0:04:22.948,0:04:23.898 Oh! Merci .... 0:04:23.898,0:04:27.898 (French) 0:04:36.773,0:04:40.773 (humming French National Anthem) 0:04:42.553,0:04:46.553 (music for French National Anthem)