Never Be Rude to an Arab is a satirical

Satire

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 song by the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a BBC TV sketch comedy series. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines...

. It appears as sung by Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....

 in the theatrically released concert film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a 1982 concert film in which the Monty Python team perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl. The show also included filmed inserts which were mostly taken from two Monty Python specials, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, which had been...

as well as on the album Monty Python Sings

Monty Python Sings

Monty Python Sings is a comedy album of songs written by the Monty Python team.The song "Oliver Cromwell" was never released prior to this album...

.

The song dispenses advice about not resorting to xenophobic insults, beginning with Arabs and moving on to other races you should not insult—"an Israeli, a Saudi or Jew" and an "Irishman."

The song then becomes (intentionally) offensive in its own right as it declares that you should never poke fun at a "nigger

Nigger

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", a "spic" or a "wop

Wop

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" or a "kraut

Kraut

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". Jones starts to sing "And never put...", but gets no further as he is suddenly blown up. In the Hollywood Bowl version, he is immediately dragged offstage by a costumed monster.

At the Hollywood Bowl, Jones returned on the other side of an intervening sketch to sing "Never be rude to a Polack

Polack

The noun Polack , in the contemporary English language, is a derogatory reference to a person of Polish descent. It is an Anglicisation of the Polish language word Polak, which means a Polish male person...

..." before being blown up again. He is again dragged offstage, this time by a Christmas tree.