I remember watching this in 1969/70 when it was first shown on Monty Python. My three flatmates fell about laughing and went to the pub which was full of those who had just watched the show. what a hilarious evening.
I remember being part of a bunch of beered-up Canadians closing out a bar in Los Cabos, Mexico with a rousing version of this. The American tourists were stunned when we convinced them it was the actual Canadian national anthem. It should be, eh?
Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which had just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites. Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Ms.). P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
Note taken. This song only represents one lumberjack, not a generalization of all lumberjacks. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are at least slightly bewildered by the PS you added.
On my first visit to BC I was driving back to town (Prince George) , and got stuck behind a logging truck. That song instantly started playing in my head!
*wiping tears* My mom made up a version of this and sang it to my dog. They'er both gone now. Bet Graham Chapman and my mom are singing a duet of this. PYTHON ROCKS!!
hey, man ime proud to be a lumberjackie (female lumberjack, where ime from) and instead o' doin all those things he sang about, we lumberjackies go to the pub and drink our weight in beer, eat all the nachos and haggus we can consume in our guts then those who r married, like me, we go home to our spouses and have our merry ol' way with them 15 times from Sunday nite! also, we get saturdays off
Out of all of the hilarious Python sketches (Dead Parrot included), this one is my favorite! I could sing it forever. The best part - no one looks at you funny when you sing it! They all either laugh or start singing along! It's amazing! The Power of the Python...
Connie Booth is unsung as the girlfriend in this piece. Watch as she starts to melt after he mentions "likes to press wildflowers". I wonder if she and John Cleese were dating at this time. They were married to write Fawlty Towers, then later divorced. Great American actress living abroad.
I once worked as a Dogwalker for A member of MP. I won’t say which one. One day, some guys were cutting down some very old trees near his property, and he went over to gripe at them about it. He wanted to save the old trees. I thought “Wow… that’s gotta be the worst thing EVER to happen to a Lumberjack! To be yelled at, by a Member of Monty Python! And too be told…YOU ARE NOT OKAY!”
I too, am from British Columbia, and I dress in women's clothing and hang out in bars. And by dressing as a woman and hanging out in bars, I mean I chop down trees, and eat my lunch.
I had a Monty shirt that read "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK". Wearing it in Hawaii and I over hear a Japanese tourist group leader trying to explain to his Countrymen what a lumberjack is. Priceless
I remember the first time I saw this episode on TV. I happened to be walking by the tv and saw it. I fell out laughing when they got to the "puts on womens clothing and hangs around in bars".
One of my favorite funny songs ever. Learned it in summer camp as a teenager. Of course, the camp music teacher didn't teach it to us--a counselor did who was a Monty Python fan. In a recent survey, lumberjacks have the most well-rested profession, so in future I may say my wife sleeps like a lumberjack.
Monty Python is such an indispensable pioneer of comedy, it's amazing to see how it's evolved. Today if this were a Tim and Eric bit, the choir would go along with it the whole time and time would be taken to see that it's as legitimate looking as possible, and if the viewer doesn't get it, the joke's on them.
I’m in my late 60’s - first saw this skit when I was in high school. All these years later I’m still laughin’ my butt off! I hope my great grandchildren are still gettin’ a bang out of Monty Python.
@RudiL94 This show was VERY popular in the US, too. Though you're probably right - most TV programmes do best in their native country, though there are a few that were more popular elsewhere (like 'Neighbours' and 'Baywatch').
There are only two songs in the world where if you start singing them, everyone will join in. The first is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The second is "Monty Python's Lumberjack Song."
I was born and grew up there. This is very accurate about Victoria the capital city where I attended university. That lifestyle is all they talked about at the University Centre cafeteria. I don’t mean lumberjacks.
My future plans: Buy checked shirt, the one that Michael has Buy a big jumper, and wear it on this shirt Take it off in random moments of my life saying that I don't want to do the thing I do now, anymore Break into a song, informing everyone that I've always wanted to be a lumberjack
I remember watching this in 1969/70 when it was first shown on Monty Python. My three flatmates fell about laughing and went to the pub which was full of those who had just watched the show. what a hilarious evening.
I remember being part of a bunch of beered-up Canadians closing out a bar in Los Cabos, Mexico with a rousing version of this. The American tourists were stunned when we convinced them it was the actual Canadian national anthem. It should be, eh?
All rise for the stereotypical Canadian national anthem.
Does Dogmeat like Poutine ?
Jason Liu In Canadian Fallout we have Polarbear meat.
Dexter: The Alternate Ending
Best comment I’ve ever seen on CZcams. 👊
The writers could at least have gone off as decent if they had that at the end. Yknow just to nail in they didn't know what do do with the show.
Dexter was captivating and had so many great actors!
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which had just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Ms.).
P.S.
I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
Note taken. This song only represents one lumberjack, not a generalization of all lumberjacks. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are at least slightly bewildered by the PS you added.
איתי אלדד Nice, I was just looking for what they cut off the end of that sketch... You saved Google from my manly one-finger typed search.
Sew Sumi Just make sure your pinky is out when you type. Need to have proper form and all.
What's long and hard on a lumberjack-grade one!
Classic ignorance, good luck Brah
I don't know how many times I've listened to this already, but I never get tired of it.
Same bro
As a trucker I've known a lot of loggers over the years and only a handful of them were transvestites. All loadermen for some reason...
A thousand years from now they will watch this skit and laugh. Kudos to you Michael Palin
I live in British Columbia, and I find this to be a fairly accurate demonstration of local culture .
lmao Right?
Yes your from BC we chop down trees :) and go home to put a skirt on before going to the bar 🍻🥸👍🇨🇦🎈✨
On my first visit to BC I was driving back to town (Prince George) , and got stuck behind a logging truck. That song instantly started playing in my head!
Yes, definitely. As a British Columbian, that is what makes the song even more hilarious.
This is the reason why Monty Python is not just ordinary comedy, the cleverness of the show amuses every brain cell of mine.
Some of my best friends are lumberjacks, and only some of them are transvestites.
The almighty Gaben
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Palin's face throughout the sketch is priceless. I don't know how many times I've seen this and it still cracks me up.
They should have ended the TV show Dexter with this
Yes they should of. Better than seeinDexter just sitting there and then it ends.
*wiping tears* My mom made up a version of this and sang it to my dog. They'er both gone now. Bet Graham Chapman and my mom are singing a duet of this. PYTHON ROCKS!!
Why Graham Chapman ? This is Michael Palin !
@@falmircamion3534 probably because Chapman "has ceased to be" but Palin is still alive
Oh, yes, sorry. I didn't catch the details (English is not my mother tongue)
hey, man ime proud to be a lumberjackie (female lumberjack, where ime from) and instead o' doin all those things he sang about, we lumberjackies go to the pub and drink our weight in beer, eat all the nachos and haggus we can consume in our guts then those who r married, like me, we go home to our spouses and have our merry ol' way with them 15 times from Sunday nite! also, we get saturdays off
17 years later and Canada hasn't changed a bit!
still brilliant, no matter how many times one has seen it
Now she knows why her knickers keep disappearing...
Out of all of the hilarious Python sketches (Dead Parrot included), this one is my favorite! I could sing it forever.
The best part - no one looks at you funny when you sing it! They all either laugh or start singing along! It's amazing! The Power of the Python...
I use to smoke Mexican grass and watch this show in the 70s. Good time
You cut off the best part. The complaint letter at the end!
The dexter version: I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok. I kill all night and I work all day!
Dexter in womens underwear is truly a frightening vision.
CURSE YOU 4CHAN!!!!!
The real national anthem of Canada
He's a lumberjack, eh?
Haven’t seen this in years. Shows eternity of internet.
This is one of my fave Monty Python bits of all time! This song has a tendency to get stuck in my head quite a bit.
This and the Galaxy song.
I thought this instantly when the "Professional Lumberjack 2016" was announced
Connie Booth is unsung as the girlfriend in this piece. Watch as she starts to melt after he mentions "likes to press wildflowers". I wonder if she and John Cleese were dating at this time. They were married to write Fawlty Towers, then later divorced. Great American actress living abroad.
From what I've gathered from Cleese's biography, he married Connie Booth before Monty Python was even assembled in 1969
I once worked as a Dogwalker for A member of MP. I won’t say which one.
One day, some guys were cutting down some very old trees near his property, and he went over to gripe at them about it. He wanted to save the old trees.
I thought “Wow… that’s gotta be the worst thing EVER to happen to a Lumberjack! To be yelled at, by a Member of Monty Python! And too be told…YOU ARE NOT OKAY!”
200 years from now, it will still be a classic.
This will be loved throughout time. in 100 years, this will still be shown everywhere
I too, am from British Columbia, and I dress in women's clothing and hang out in bars. And by dressing as a woman and hanging out in bars, I mean I chop down trees, and eat my lunch.
I had a Monty shirt that read "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK". Wearing it in Hawaii and I over hear a Japanese tourist group leader trying to explain to his Countrymen what a lumberjack is. Priceless
this is great! i love how as the song progresses the initial thought towards the lumberjack slowly changes with the song.
What about my bloody parrot?!
Tom R It's probably dead... or hanging around the cheese shop.
Gillian Quigley Its not dead it's resting
xXGodEater after a long sqwauk I imagine?
beautiful plumage...
+Alexis virus
This has to be my favorite skit, along with the Dead Parrot and the Village Idiot.
I remember the first time I saw this episode on TV. I happened to be walking by the tv and saw it. I fell out laughing when they got to the "puts on womens clothing and hangs around in bars".
This song was so ahead of it's time it included a letter of complaint at the end of it.
I've often seen the phrase, "I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok," in a few different computer games, and came here to discover the origins of it.
One of my favorite funny songs ever. Learned it in summer camp as a teenager. Of course, the camp music teacher didn't teach it to us--a counselor did who was a Monty Python fan. In a recent survey, lumberjacks have the most well-rested profession, so in future I may say my wife sleeps like a lumberjack.
One of their finest moments, actually.
Nice shout out to British Columbia, love the Mountie choir!
Monty Python is such an indispensable pioneer of comedy, it's amazing to see how it's evolved. Today if this were a Tim and Eric bit, the choir would go along with it the whole time and time would be taken to see that it's as legitimate looking as possible, and if the viewer doesn't get it, the joke's on them.
I’m in my late 60’s - first saw this skit when I was in high school. All these years later I’m still laughin’ my butt off! I hope my great grandchildren are still gettin’ a bang out of Monty Python.
Glad to see the work of Jones and Chapman are still being viewed and appreciated.
My favorite part is that the girl standing next to the barber/lumberjack can't quit laughing.
i want to be a bicycle repair man
My dad sung me parts of this song to me quite a lot as a child, I never knew it's source until recently.
I like how Graham Chapman's Mounty takes so long to catch on.
I love how the song completely devolves until the choir gives in and his wife runs off, probably perparing to divorce him.
283 people thought he was so rugged
A rare thing. A genuinely funny Python sketch.
The only time that a bathroom was referred to in a song! Classic!
My AP teacher showed us this clip to help us remember the 'war' between Maine and Canada. I will never forget the flapjack war now!
I'm sorry, but I just can't stop singing it randomly throughout the entire day.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay
I sleep all night and I work all day!~
The mounties had trouble keeping a straight face. Trouble as in, they failed miserably.
Trouble is English. Can you speak you it?
Dunam His english is fine, the only thing missing is a 'y' after 'the' before 'failed'
One typo. Besides, I find that there is a huge difference between English, and American.
Yes, however Dunam can't read
And Austrialian there is to much change two.
"I'm a Kumber Jack and I'm ok..."
KUMBER JACK!!!
Six years and this guy hasn't seen his mistake LOL
She was only the wood cutter's daughter, but she gave all the boys circular saws
Give me props... I'm 15 and I've been a lumberjack for 2 years... Although this is incredible offensive, I'm OK.
You're a lumberjack and you're OK.
You sleep
All night and you work all day!
Just like your dear Mama?
lol
@RudiL94 This show was VERY popular in the US, too. Though you're probably right - most TV programmes do best in their native country, though there are a few that were more popular elsewhere (like 'Neighbours' and 'Baywatch').
Even Dexter always wanted to be a lumberjack.
the larch
Wolverine's song.
because of this song, one of my earliest IGM names was lumberjack
i love the mounties. theyre the best
"he puts on women clothing, and hangs around in bar?"
Does he worship Treesus Christ?
Wouldn't Yew like to know?!
thedoctorand whoever he worships, that’s pine by me.
HAIL MESSIAH!
I use to watch Monty Python, still remember that song.
DEXTER
Can you imagine what it's like, cutting off the same heads for EIGHT SEASONS?
There are only two songs in the world where if you start singing them, everyone will join in. The first is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The second is "Monty Python's Lumberjack Song."
You forgot Bohemian Rhapsody
Ted Cruz's official campaign song.
When I was in high school, you were part of the crowd if you liked George Carlin. BUT, you were a geek if you LOVED MPFC. Man, I LOVED MPFL!
@1953Poppa She was also in Faulty Towers another comedy John Cleese was in
oh my god! its been 20 years since i last saw this skit.. i showed my son whos 10 and he loved it. i love you Monty Python!!
As a british Columbian i gotta say this is a pretty accurate stereotype
Every person that becomes a Canadian citizen should be required to watch this.
I was born and grew up there. This is very accurate about Victoria the capital city where I attended university. That lifestyle is all they talked about at the University Centre cafeteria. I don’t mean lumberjacks.
bruce jenners theme song
Hahahahaha good one
Still makes me laugh from the first time I watched it
Classic! And GREAT!!! 💚
Strange looking Mountie uniforms, EH?
My unrequested renditions of this at gatherings is guaranteed to have friends looking at me askance!
Never gets old, timeless, gives me a lift, 😂, the pythons were a rare breed💪💪👀🙄😱😉😇🤣🤣🤣
"Oh, Bevis! I thought you were so rugged!"
Always loved seeing Cleese & Chapman as Mounties...
A classic. 👍
Ha ha ha. I just posed this to Facebook after I watched the finale.
You have to appreciate a guy who's willing to sing about how much he likes to wear women's clothing.
Well they all crossdressed on that show so he's not exactly lying😅
One day when I grow up I wanna be a lumber jack too!!!!
Lol I didn't know lumberjacks could leap from tree to tree. Now I want to be a lumberjack.
I don't understand a lot of what they sing, but what I do I find freaking hilarious.
My future plans:
Buy checked shirt, the one that Michael has
Buy a big jumper, and wear it on this shirt
Take it off in random moments of my life saying that I don't want to do the thing I do now, anymore
Break into a song, informing everyone that I've always wanted to be a lumberjack
138 people are straight lumberjacks
135 lumberjacks found this video and didn't have a sense of humor.
Hey i'm from British Columbia! He's talking about Jack! He's a jolly good lumberjack.
I love British humor. Monty Python rules.
Monty Python were the BEST ❤️❤️
I know just what series you're referring to! Best ending, ever!!!
Canada's true national anthem.
Thank you for this it really improved my day
i saw this early today and it has been stuck in my head all day. it will never leave
Yup, I am a Hoser and I love the stereotypical Mounties lmao