The Cheese Shop is a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It appears in episode 33, "Salad Days". The script for the sketch is included in the book The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2.
John Cleese plays an erudite customer attempting to purchase some cheese from The National Cheese Emporium, purveyor of fine cheese to the gentry (and the poverty-stricken too). The proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (...
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The Cheese Shop is a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It appears in episode 33, "Salad Days". The script for the sketch is included in the book The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2.
John Cleese plays an erudite customer attempting to purchase some cheese from The National Cheese Emporium, purveyor of fine cheese to the gentry (and the poverty-stricken too). The proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (Michael Palin), appears to have no stock, not even cheddar, "the single most popular cheese in the world". A slow crescendo of bouzouki music plays in the background (for which Cleese initially expresses appreciation of the Terpsichorean Muse), but as the sketch progresses it mirrors Cleese's growing anger until he loudly demands the music cease. As Cleese lists increasingly obscure, unsavory, and, in one instance fictional, cheeses to no avail, the proprietor offers trite excuses such as "Ohh! The cat's eaten it." When Palin finally admits...
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