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

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 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)

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)