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The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch is a parody of nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficult childhoods. Four Yorkshiremen reminisce about their upbringing, and as the conversation progresses, they try to outdo one another, their accounts of deprived childhoods becoming increasingly absurd. The sketch was originally written and performed for the 1967 British television comedy series ''At Last the 1948 Show'' by the show's four writer-performers: Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. 〔(Radio interview with Tim Brooke-Taylor ) — includes comments about the "''Four Yorkshiremen sketch''"〕〔The story of Britain's favourite sitcom "''Fawlty Towers''", by Graham McCann, published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, England, U.K., in 2007 ISBN 978-0-340-89811-6 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-340-89812-3 (paperback)〕 Barry Cryer is the wine waiter in the original performance and may have contributed to the writing. A near derivative of the sketch appears in the BBC Radio show ''I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'' Series 7, Episode 5 on 9 February 1969, in which the cast, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, David Hatch, in the guise of old buffers at a gentlemen's club, employ the same trope of out-doing each other for hardship, this time in the context of how far and how slowly they had to walk to get to various places in former days. It even ends with the same payoff line "...and if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you..." The original performance of the sketch by the four creators is one of the surviving sketches from the programme and can be seen on the ''At Last the 1948 Show'' DVD. == Later performances == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Four Yorkshiremen sketch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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