The sketch appeared in the first episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus ("Whither Canada"), first shown on 5 October 1969.
His mother (Eric Idle) finds the joke, thinks it is a suicide note, reads it and also immediately dies laughing.
Aware of the deadly nature of the joke, a brave Scotland Yard inspector (Graham Chapman) attempts to retrieve the joke, aided by the playing of very somber music on gramophone records and the chanting of laments by fellow policemen to create a depressing atmosphere.
[3]The German version is described as being "over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke"[3] (at this point a newsreel of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving his "piece of paper" appears on screen).
"[3] Although the joke is followed triumphantly by the German anthem "Deutschland über alles", the attack is ineffective, and merely confuses any Britons listening.
The section (about 34 minutes into the film) where Konstantin Hierl presents the Reichsarbeitsdienst to Hitler is the source of the speech used for the joke.
The first clip shows Hitler saying Insbesondere keiner mehr in Deutschland leben wird... ("In particular, no one will live in Germany anymore [without working for their country]"), subtitled "My dog has no nose".
He described how Ernest Scribbler, played by Michael Palin, laughing himself to death in the sketch, had a huge effect on his early years.