Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Bruces
 
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Bruce I (Eric Idle):
Good evening, ladies and bruces!
Bruce II (Michael Palin):
Hello, Bruce.
Bruce I:
G'day, Bruce.
Bruce III (Neil Innes):
How are ya, Bruce.
Bruce I:
How are ya, Bruce.
Bruce II:
What's all this lot, Bruce?
Bruce I:
It's very nice to be here at the Hollywood Bowl this evening! We're all philosophy professors from the University of Woolamaloa, Australia!
All Bruces:
Hey, Australia, Australia, Australia! God love ya!
Bruce I:
I teach Hegelian philosophy, Bruce here teaches Aristotolean philosophy, and Bruce here is in charge of the sheep dip.
Bruce II:
[Cough] Bloody difficult work, I tell ya!
Bruce I:
I'll tell you what, it's thirsty work watching this kind of humor, Bruce. Why don't you just stick out a few of these little free examples from your Esky and leave ----
Bruce II:
What, give these ---- give these Americans our precious cans of ----
[Bruce II throws cans of Fosters from his ice box into the audience.]
Bruce I:
See how awful they are, grasping and go-getting.
Bruce II:
Okay, one over there.
Bruce I:
You can feel morally superior and smug.
Bruce II:
Right, there's one coming right over there. Mind out, charlies! A big one, one big one, there we go!
Bruce I:
All right! Now, the reason we do this, ladies and bruces, is frankly over here we find your American beer is a little like making love in a canoe!
Bruce III:
Making love in a canoe?
Bruce I:
It's fucking close to water!
Bruce II:
Piss!
Bruce I:
Well now, we're going to try and raise the tone a little here by singing a nice intellectual song for for those two or three of you in the audience...
Bruce II:
Right!
Bruce I:
...who understand these things. So, here we go!
All Bruces sing:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietszche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
Bruce I:
Just a...
Bruce II:
How do you like that? All right!
Bruce I:
Let's hold it a second. I can see some of these bruces are in a bit of a playful mood tonight. Ain't that, Bruce?
Bruce II:
Yeah, Bruce.
Bruce I:
Some of the ones that don't have straws up their nose. Anyway, why don't we do something rather... Why don't we get some of these guys to sing along with us? Okay, and some of the Shielas too.
Bruce II:
Ok, I've got the words somewhere.
Bruce I:
Right! Ready!
Bruce II:
Right! Ready!
All Bruces & Audience :
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Bruce II:
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy...
Bruce I:
They're a typical Hollywood audience! All the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates!
Bruce II:
Very philosophical, Bruce, I like it.
Bruce I:
Have we got any...have we got anything bigger to put the words up for these rather shortsighted people?
[Bruce IV (Carol Cleveland) enters.]
Bruce II:
This is Bruce from the Biology Department.
Bruce I:
All right. Okay, here we go.
All Bruces & Audience :
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Bruce II:
Come on!
All Bruces & Audience :
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could take you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietszche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his Dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am !"
Yes Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed.

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