John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson - Beekeeping

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Atkinson: "Good Evening. Tonight, we're taking a look, at Bee Keeping.

And here to tell us all about it, we have in the studio a man who has

been keeping bees for over fourty years! Mr Reginald Prawnbough. Good

evening Mr Prawnbough.

Cleese: "Good Evening"

A: "Tell me, what first interested you in the bee World?"

C: "Well, erm, even as a child I used to.."

A: "Shh!"

C: "I'm sorry, shouldn't I have said that?"

A: "No of course you should. Pay no attention please, when I say

"Shh!" it's just a nervous mannerism I picked up.If I want you to keep

quiet I will say "shush!"

A: "You were saying.."

C: "Oh I see, well er, even as a child I used to wander round.."

A: "Sh!"

C: "Oh ye-sorry, in the in the fields, erm, near my house watching

bees fly from flower to flower"

A: "Sh!"

C: "and, er, taking note of the flowers that they visited"

A: "Shush!"

C: "Was that wrong?"

A: "I'm so sorry, did I say "Shush"? I meant "Shh!"

A: "Do go on, it's er, most interesting"

C: "And so I have grown to love the little er

A: "Sh"

C: "…creatures. You know, er nature really has produced a little

masterpiece in the life of the bee"

A: "QUARK!"

A: "I'm so sorry I er, I'm afraid that's a relection action to, I

squawk whenever someone mentions the word "life" QUARK! you see even,

even when I mention it myself. I should have told you. Please, Go

on.."

C: "Oh, very well. Well, erm bees, ah as you know, are divided into"

A: "Sh"

C: "d-different, ah, catagories"

A: "ShhhhhhhhHHHHHHH!"

C: "The queen bee, ah, and the worker bee whos life span."

A: "QUARK!"

C: "Who's erm,"

C: "who's living expectancy is only, ah one year"

A: "Sh"

C: "The work bees on the other hand have a much longer"

A: "shush"

C: "Do you want me to stop?"

A: "Yes, you were just about to say "Life" QUARK!"

C: "I, I wasn't"

A: "I'm so sorry. Please, continue…"

C: "Well, as I was saying, the worker bees do have a much longer life"

A: "QUARK!"

C: "I'm sorry, I didn't..I didn't mean to say life

A: "QUARK!"

C: it's just you've got me rather rattled"

A: "Sh"

C: "Well this is how the bee comunity works. The"

A: "Sh"

C: "The queen bee, stays in the hive"

A: putttt

A: puttttt

C: "Was that because I said hive?"

A: "Pardon? Sh"

C: "Well, did you make that noise? Because I said hive?"

A: "Oh no no no no. No"

C: "Well why did you make it then?"

A: "Well I was just practicing"

C: "Practicing?"

A: "Practicing for a word you're bound to say, very soon."

A: "Do go on.."

C: "While the worker bees.."

A: "sh"

C: "..Fly from flower to flower.."

A: "sh"

C: "..collecting.."

A: "Sh"

C: "..the…"

A: "Shh"

C: "Pollen"

A: puttttt

C: "I see, 'pollen'"

A: putttt

C: "Pollen! Pollen! Pollen!"

A: putttt putttt putttt

C: "I mean this is just the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my

life!"

A: QUARK!

C: "I mean every time I say 'Pollen'

A: putttt

C: "or hive"

A: "Shh"

C: "or, or, or 'life'"

A: QUARK!

C: "I mean how did you ever become an interviewer?!"

A:

C: "What's going on now? Is this because I said 'interviewer'?"

A

C: "Interviewer! Interviewer! Interviewer! Interviewer!"

C: "Interviewer! Interviewer! Interviewer! Interviewer!"

A: "QUARK! QUARK! Shh!" etc etc