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The sketch is a fairly typical John Cleese and Graham Chapman set-piece. In essence, John Cleese attempts to purchase some cheese from the cheese shop "The National Cheese Emporium"; unfortunately the proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (Michael Palin, again playing the obstructive shopkeeper to Cleese's irate customer), appears to have not one single variety in stock, not even a morsel of Cheddar cheese, 'the single most popular cheese in the world'. The slow crescendo of bouzouki music in the background mirrors Cleese's growing anger as he lists various, increasingly obscure cheeses to no avail. The list comes to a bizarre conclusion with Cleese's desperate request for "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese", to which Palin replies: "Not today Sir, no". The secondary punch line of this sketch is when J

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rdfs:comment	The sketch is a fairly typical John Cleese and Graham Chapman set-piece. In essence, John Cleese attempts to purchase some cheese from the cheese shop "The National Cheese Emporium"; unfortunately the proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (Michael Palin, again playing the obstructive shopkeeper to Cleese's irate customer), appears to have not one single variety in stock, not even a morsel of Cheddar cheese, 'the single most popular cheese in the world'. The slow crescendo of bouzouki music in the background mirrors Cleese's growing anger as he lists various, increasingly obscure cheeses to no avail. The list comes to a bizarre conclusion with Cleese's desperate request for "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese", to which Palin replies: "Not today Sir, no". The secondary punch line of this sketch is when J
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abstract	The sketch is a fairly typical John Cleese and Graham Chapman set-piece. In essence, John Cleese attempts to purchase some cheese from the cheese shop "The National Cheese Emporium"; unfortunately the proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (Michael Palin, again playing the obstructive shopkeeper to Cleese's irate customer), appears to have not one single variety in stock, not even a morsel of Cheddar cheese, 'the single most popular cheese in the world'. The slow crescendo of bouzouki music in the background mirrors Cleese's growing anger as he lists various, increasingly obscure cheeses to no avail. The list comes to a bizarre conclusion with Cleese's desperate request for "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese", to which Palin replies: "Not today Sir, no". The secondary punch line of this sketch is when John Cleese, who at the beginning said he wasn't annoyed by the music, suddenly loudly interrupts the musicians and tells them to stop. Cleese becomes increasingly infuriated and asks the shop keeper if he has any cheese at all. He replies that he does. Cleese says that he's going to ask him that question again, and if he says no he's going to shoot him through the head. The main punch line, of course, is that there is no cheese in the shop; when Palin admits this fact, Cleese shoots him in the head, then says sadly to himself, "What a senseless waste of human life!" In the television programme, the sketch is revealed to be a teaser for Sam Peckinpah's Rogue Cheddar; this provides a link to further discussions of Peckinpah films, see Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days". The commentator then discusses that "Rogue Cheddar" is one example from a genre of films known as "Cheese Westerns" --- a name that deliberately confuses the film genre Spaghetti Western with the Cheese Western omelette.

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