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| “ | It's not much of a cheese shop, is it? | „ |
| ~ The Customer's most famous line. |
The Customer is a minor antagonist in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Unlike most villains in Monty Python, he seems to be the most normal and has little to no silly or crazy characteristics, with the only thing close to that being his comedically good vocabulary.
He was portrayed by John Cleese, who also played the French Taunter and The Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the High Priest in Monty Python's Life of Brian, Eric's assistant in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and Mungo the Cook, The Robber, Mr. Hilter and the Narrator of "How Not to be Seen" in Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as Cat R. Waul in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Dr. Glickenstein in Igor, and King Gristle Sr. in Trolls.
Biography[]
One day, the unnamed man decides to partake in buying some cheese after growing quite "peckish". He encounters the cashier Mr. Henry Wensleydale who 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 The Customer's growing anger as he lists various, increasingly obscure cheeses to no avail. The list comes to a bizarre conclusion with the man's desperate request for "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese", to which Henry replies: "Not today Sir, no". The secondary punch line of this sketch is when the man, who at the beginning said he wasn't annoyed by the music, suddenly loudly interrupts the musicians and tells them to stop. They stop reluctantly. He becomes increasingly infuriated and asks the shop keeper if he has any cheese at all. He replies that he does. The Customer 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 Wensleydale admits this fact, the man shoots him in the head, then says sadly to himself, "What a senseless waste of human life!", puts a Stetson on his head and walks off akin to a western movie.
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