Monty Python: The Parrot Sketch & The Lumberjack Song movie versions HQ

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  • čas přidán 14. 11. 2009
  • Anecdotally, I once found myself IN this pet shop. It was in the Caledonian Road, North London. I wandered in - I was passing and needed something or other - and realised it looked familiar. Then I saw the signed picture behind the counter. It was a still of John and Michael in that "very boutique".
    The shop-owner explained that when they'd done the bit on TV, they'd HAD to do it in the studio - for the audience reaction. But since this was for the FILM ("And Now For Something Completely Different") there would be no live audience. And with the superior definition of a film, a set just wouldn't MAKE it. Real pet shops have CLUTTER. And so they'd gone and found one - HIS.
    I don't know if the shop is still there - if it is, the guy has probably made more money letting people be photographed there (like on the crossing outside the Abbey Road studios) than he has selling Norwegian Blue parrots!
    p.s. xmichelledd asked me if I'd post the following URL - for good karma! I've checked it out and it is what she said it was - a huge DVD set of ALL the Monty Python sketches, on Amazon - so fair enough.
    The URL is: urlsnippy.com/CompleteMontyPyt...
    But please note: Amazon are only able to ship to certain countries - however, if you live in one they DON'T ship to, you should still be able to find a NEW example of this set on EBAY - whose merchants can usually ship ANYWHERE. Just AVOID their "third-party" shipper - "Channel Advisor" - and use the merchant's OWN shipping service. Good luck.
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  • @georgemedia1069
    @georgemedia1069 Před 4 lety +2880

    - 'Ello miss?
    - What do you mean miss?
    - Oh I'm sorry I have a cold

    • @tusharg8452
      @tusharg8452 Před 4 lety +178

      Well, he does like to put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

    • @Lovesongs-Deathdance
      @Lovesongs-Deathdance Před 4 lety +27

      😅😂😅 That's even more funny if one doesn't know the background of the joke! 😅

    • @andymassingham
      @andymassingham Před 4 lety +26

      Always loved that kinda non-sequitur opening.

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove Před 4 lety +10

      I don't see the joke

    • @mjribes
      @mjribes Před 4 lety +18

      That's misgendering. That wouldn't stand in 2020!

  • @sleuthentertainment5872
    @sleuthentertainment5872 Před 2 lety +1643

    I love how half of the sketch is just John Cleese claiming the parrot is dead in many different ways

    • @nunyanunya4147
      @nunyanunya4147 Před 2 lety +28

      if it was shot now days this would be on the extras and they would have only used one ov the lines. probably 'this is an ex-parrot'

    • @andrslnks4804
      @andrslnks4804 Před 2 lety +39

      It's not dead. It's resting.

    • @itsalwayssunnyinpahoa7631
      @itsalwayssunnyinpahoa7631 Před 2 lety +25

      “... this parrot has ceased to exist!”
      LmfAoo 🤣

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic Před 2 lety +18

      Well if you want to get anything done in this country you have to complain till you're blue in the mouth.

    • @something2105
      @something2105 Před 2 lety +2

      @@sleuthentertainment5872 what does them being women have anything to do with it? Looks like misogyny at its best here.

  • @Carnifex20
    @Carnifex20 Před 4 lety +2487

    God I love how he describes the parrot's state.

  • @Thor_Odinson
    @Thor_Odinson Před 3 lety +886

    I never realized that two of the funniest sketches in comedy history were conjoined

    • @NoucheDozzle
      @NoucheDozzle Před 2 lety +12

      I honest to God looked up the lumberjack sketch a few videos before this one. Pleasantly surprised.

    • @MMuraseofSandvich
      @MMuraseofSandvich Před 2 lety +54

      Probably one of the best non sequitur transitions as well.
      "I wanted to be a lumberjack."
      "I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?"
      "YES!! A LUMBERJACK!"
      (later) "What about my bloody parrot!?"

    • @surfwriter8461
      @surfwriter8461 Před rokem +16

      I didn't remember that non sequitur with the two sketches conjoined either, but it's even more creative the way these equally wild, hilarious sketches are linked that way. The shop proprietor keeps trying to avoid admitting the parrot is dead, deflecting in various ways and then finally escapes the annoyed customer altogether by leaping into a fantasy about wanting to be a lumberjack. In doing that, he also ends up unwittingly exposing his secret desire to be a "girly". So his escape from the embarrassment in the shop actually turns out worse for him as he's pelted by rotten fruit and veggies as everyone becomes disgusted by his gender change fantasy.

    • @Retro-uw5ie
      @Retro-uw5ie Před rokem +26

      In flying circus, the lumberjack song came off a sketch about a bblood-soaked barber

    • @alecolivaw2461
      @alecolivaw2461 Před rokem +1

      much like those twins

  • @sweatermonkey2604
    @sweatermonkey2604 Před 3 lety +966

    ”I wish i’d been a girly, just like my dear papa”
    Seriously, the Monty Pythons are geniuses

    • @ownpetard8379
      @ownpetard8379 Před rokem +30

      For TV, he said "like my dear mama". Must have been persuaded that this version is funnier. I think it is.

    • @martinclark8162
      @martinclark8162 Před rokem +2

      Monkeydude, and I thought you were so butch!

    • @pamtnman1515
      @pamtnman1515 Před rokem +1

      they were prescient

    • @martinclark8162
      @martinclark8162 Před rokem +1

      @@pamtnman1515 Aye, and so's your momma, your gargantuan assed, flatulent, syphilitic, halitosis ridden, 50p per "dentures out special" momma. Your mum, the only person who can blow-start a Harley and suck-start a London bus, the only person who can suck the chrome of a Buicks hubcap and then blow it back on again. If you see her (and who dafuq CAN'T see her fat ass?), tell her the entire footy team and I will be 'round after Tuesday night practice for our weekly "gum banger" bukkake session.

    • @pamtnman1515
      @pamtnman1515 Před rokem +1

      @@martinclark8162 that is a work of art

  • @hrrrrrrrrrrrn
    @hrrrrrrrrrrrn Před 4 lety +587

    “What do you mean miss?”
    *FOUR MINUTES LATER*
    “🎵I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars🎶”

    • @stellapuppy6086
      @stellapuppy6086 Před 4 lety +26

      Musicalgoofball . “ I wish were a girlie just like my dear pap-ar.”

    • @jayz8839
      @jayz8839 Před rokem +1

      2022 - real life for someone

    • @bhmch39
      @bhmch39 Před 2 měsíci

      This comment should have all the thumbs!

  • @davidsnow2420
    @davidsnow2420 Před 4 lety +480

    Saw this when I was a kid when it first aired on the BBC. Dad was in the USAF and we'd been in England for a couple of months and when Python premiered, we could not believe what we were seeing. It became our favorite show and every week we laughed til we cried.

    • @nobrainsnoheadache2434
      @nobrainsnoheadache2434 Před 3 lety +21

      at 11:30 on Saturday night trying desperately to contain my laughter and not wake up the whole house. Failed.

    • @andersdottir1111
      @andersdottir1111 Před 2 lety +27

      ‘Pining for the fjords’ became a catchphrase throughout my teenage years. Loved the pythons.

    • @soflodoug
      @soflodoug Před rokem +4

      Benny hill was right behind😂

    • @jessicahannah2522
      @jessicahannah2522 Před 2 měsíci

      And I've never, not ever, understood MP 'humor'. I've seen so many sketches trying to 'get it', and none has given me even a chuckle. Hearing so many people saying how hilarious they are just leaves me baffled. On the other hand, "Dude, Where's My Car?" left me breathless with laughter, along with the "40-year-old Virgin", and as a throwback, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. So it's not like I don't appreciate and enjoy humor. More modern is Peele and Key's sketches, which slay me. I just don't "GET" Monty Python or their appeal.

  • @feleouis
    @feleouis Před 5 lety +2381

    The irony of being called a lady in the beginning of a sketch, acting irritated and at the end of it telling everyone that you wish you'd "been a girly"

    • @fazilamzirf8887
      @fazilamzirf8887 Před 4 lety +70

      That is contradiction, not irony.

    • @philipargo
      @philipargo Před 4 lety +47

      @@passthebutterrobot2600 ...might be intentional comedy.

    • @nunyabizness199
      @nunyabizness199 Před 4 lety +44

      Whats the bleedin iron got to do with it ?!

    • @theogb
      @theogb Před 4 lety +29

      The two sketches aren't linked. This is the film version which segues into the Lumberjack Song but the original version is different en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch - however, there is no contradiction in this version that I can see. The shopkeeper is plainly concerned/intrigued at being seen as a woman which would work given this is the desire?

    • @mysteryaction6927
      @mysteryaction6927 Před 4 lety +4

      Susceptible to the power of suggestion

  • @brokensoul8390
    @brokensoul8390 Před 12 lety +1576

    "What about my bloody parrot?!"
    Forget the parrot, where did that forest come from?!

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 Před 4 lety +35

      The "Dead Parrot" sketch may have been inspired by a Benny Hill routine set in a taxidermist's shop where the taxidermist on duty sought to pass off a stuffed duck as a parrot (blaming its appearance on "steaming" and "shrinkage"). John Cleese had watched Hill's show in that period, however he couldn't remember that particular bit.

    • @username4441
      @username4441 Před 4 lety +18

      @@wmbrown6 every single good idea i personally have is based off of another one. this is true for everything unfortunately.

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 Před 4 lety +4

      "All this trouble with dead parrots and so, anyway:" I'd rather be a tough man like a lumber jack far from here in the forests of Br Col. Ill have mygirlmywork my lunch, ill go to the lavatorieiiiiii, wear high heels, a bra because in my family we were assholes from the beginning despite, so I ended up in a pet shop." (village people, petshop boys)! EVEN PEOPLE CALL ME" MISS"!!!, because of my nicely styled hair. " GOT IT??

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 Před 3 lety +1

      @Annette Königsheim hi
      It was meant as answer to the question about changing the scene to the forest. Gender douts only on behalf of, beloved, mr Cleese and his Crew. Disturbingly, the owners name is official hungarian, in, westeurop order, user is different. I hope you enjoy "Sth. Complete Different", esp. THE Parrot.

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 Před 3 lety +1

      @Annette Königsheim set it right:Berta(-lan, historically.., Bertrand..) =family name,*-.
      wes
      teuropean vice versa
      Imysef are german Ibought his mobile he left me his e-adress.

  • @CliveGregory
    @CliveGregory Před 13 lety +3455

    The Parrot Sketch for the film was indeed filmed in my aunts pet shop on the Caledonian Road in London, named Child's Pet Shop (her married name), it, like the parrot, "is no more". We think it is now a Turkish coffee shop.
    As a kid in the 1970's I worked there assisting my now deceased aunty. They had a very big reticulated python in a large fish tank. It was fed on live rats.

    • @MisterXdotcom
      @MisterXdotcom Před 4 lety +221

      Did they have Norwegian blue?

    • @miklosernoehazy8678
      @miklosernoehazy8678 Před 4 lety +127

      @@MisterXdotcom ... Norwegian Blue...
      ... sounds like they were growing a new strain of cannabis in the forest that every pet shop has in the back...

    • @truckerfromreno
      @truckerfromreno Před 4 lety +202

      She's not deceased, she's pining for the pet shop.

    • @artsmith103
      @artsmith103 Před 4 lety +74

      Do you wish you were a lumberjack?

    • @BKKfreak
      @BKKfreak Před 4 lety +41

      Apparently it was still a pet shop in 2016.
      islingtontribune.com/article/calls-for-cally-pet-shop-to-get-plaque-after-claims-famous-dead-parrot-sketch-was-made-there

  • @Mistertudball
    @Mistertudball Před rokem +42

    My now-deceased brother Tom used to be a semi driver and would spend many hours on the road listening to Monty Python recordings, eventually memorizing them (the cheese shop was a fave) with spot-on tone of voice and accent. Needless to say he was called upon to perform often at family gatherings; hysterical.

  • @danthompson1575
    @danthompson1575 Před 4 lety +499

    Rest In Peace terry jones. You will be greatly missed. You brought laughter to millions, and will not be forgotten for generations to come

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 Před 3 lety +9

      Now mr nigel broomstick jones, an upper class twit, whom his best friend is a tree and in his spare time is a stockbroker, has cease to be, who will announce to us that the penguin on top of our tv set will explode?

    • @Lucas_Jeffrey
      @Lucas_Jeffrey Před 3 lety +13

      All this time I didn't even realize Graham Chapman had died. He died when I was 2 years old but I only found out yesterday lol
      R.I.P. to them both

    • @beorlingo
      @beorlingo Před 3 lety +10

      None of them are in this here pet shop scene. Pls relocate your R.I.P.:s to a more suitable occasion!

    • @thevideoclub8562
      @thevideoclub8562 Před 2 lety +9

      @@beorlingo Chapman wrote it IIRC

    • @arra3410
      @arra3410 Před 2 lety +3

      @@beorlingo ooh yes they are

  • @kalebbruwer
    @kalebbruwer Před 4 lety +809

    "I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?"
    'YES! A LUMBERJACK!"
    I have to find a way to use that some day

    • @TheNextDr
      @TheNextDr Před 3 lety +17

      I am going to have to find this video again in a few years to find out whether you were able to use that line. LoL

    • @Horsley-Green
      @Horsley-Green Před 3 lety +6

      RyanORourkelol This movie is called And Now For Something Completely Different.

    • @ElDuderinoh
      @ElDuderinoh Před 2 lety +4

      Have you been able to use it yet

    • @kalebbruwer
      @kalebbruwer Před 2 lety +3

      @@ElDuderinoh no...

    • @ElDuderinoh
      @ElDuderinoh Před 2 lety +4

      @@kalebbruwer well. Im sorry, this is irrelevant, isn’t it?

  • @scottkay6495
    @scottkay6495 Před 3 lety +111

    Can't believe...over 50 years and I still love this

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn Před rokem +47

    Eric Idle said that one day they were performing that sketch on stage and there not not a sound from the audience. When he peeped through the curtains he realized that the audience was silently mouthing the lines. It was not a performance, it was worship.

  • @lonestar6709
    @lonestar6709 Před 3 lety +381

    _"This Parrot wouldn't voom, if you put 4000 volts through it. It's bleeding demised."_
    That could very well be comedies greatest ever line.

    • @jeffreymcpeak8535
      @jeffreymcpeak8535 Před 2 lety +13

      "pining for the fjords" said hold my dead parrot.

    • @cynthiaking406
      @cynthiaking406 Před 2 lety +3

      Nah, it’s pining

    • @GenGamesUniverse
      @GenGamesUniverse Před 2 lety +7

      @@cynthiaking406 It's run down the curtain AND joined the chior invisible! THIS...is a EX parrot!

    • @terencevangaalen4127
      @terencevangaalen4127 Před 2 lety +2

      That and "I fart in your general direction". Coincidentally spoken by the same man. ;)

    • @Albtraum_TDDC
      @Albtraum_TDDC Před 2 lety +3

      I like the sequence before this:
      Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
      Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
      I also like the later reference:
      "If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!"

  • @ExopMan
    @ExopMan Před 5 lety +369

    "This parrot wouldn't boom if you put 4,000V through it. It's bleeding *demised*."
    Best line lol

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove Před 4 lety

      Is that really funny to you??

    • @eaglesfan226
      @eaglesfan226 Před 4 lety +2

      “voom”

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi Před 3 lety +3

      On the album version, it's 4 million volts.

    • @Atanu
      @Atanu Před 3 lety

      @@premanadi The album version is funnier.

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi Před 3 lety +1

      @@Atanu I agree!

  • @grandwaha
    @grandwaha Před 4 lety +137

    The Lumberjack song is my LAST Chance alarm clock music. My wife hates me for it

    • @johnnyhyperborean1035
      @johnnyhyperborean1035 Před 3 lety +16

      Your alarm clock song should be the hello polly lines
      1:12

    • @capnskiddies
      @capnskiddies Před 3 lety +6

      My da uses "High-Ho" from Snow White & The Seven Dwarves. Drives the ma mental.

  • @robertjensen1048
    @robertjensen1048 Před 3 lety +253

    These guys were at least 20 years ahead of their time. Just amazing material.

    • @samuelgordino
      @samuelgordino Před rokem +7

      Just 20 years? 😃👍

    • @Ichijoe2112
      @Ichijoe2112 Před rokem +3

      Try around twice that current year was seven years ago,as it was. And work your way back.

    • @DJ-bj8ku
      @DJ-bj8ku Před rokem +7

      That’s what happens when geniuses are given freedom to do their thing.

    • @georgethompson9396
      @georgethompson9396 Před rokem +1

      What was happening 20 years after wasn’t in the same stratosphere.

  • @Briguy1027
    @Briguy1027 Před 4 lety +319

    I love the line "pining for the fjords!"

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 4 lety +17

      It's pining for the fjords, while the pet shop keeper is pining for the mighty rivers of British Columbia.

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 Před 4 lety

      @@carultch paining

    • @Ofek_92
      @Ofek_92 Před 4 lety +6

      @@istvanberta1908 it's not "paining", it's passed on. It has ceased to be!

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Ofek_92 Oh you simple minded! IT RUNNED DOWNTHE COURTAIN AND JOINED THE CHOIR INVISIBLE.
      With Love......

    • @sharonwright7932
      @sharonwright7932 Před 4 lety

      Briguy1027 It’s what has stuck with me for half a century!

  • @ZachariahMBaird
    @ZachariahMBaird Před 4 lety +711

    I didn't know Brits had so many words for "dead."

    • @raylast3873
      @raylast3873 Před 4 lety +27

      They had to invent a few

    • @pi17
      @pi17 Před 4 lety +7

      @skankhunt 42 why would a dead guy kick a bucket lol...

    • @VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich
      @VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich Před 4 lety +71

      @@pi17 kicked the bucket means dead by hanging, when they hang people they use a bucket for a step and kick it so people get hanged

    • @irok1
      @irok1 Před 4 lety +18

      @@VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich neat, never heard that explicitly stated

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove Před 4 lety +3

      @skankhunt 42 exactly they failed to use the more colourful expressions, probably to dumb-down and attract international audiences

  • @MTMF.london
    @MTMF.london Před rokem +38

    I've seen the Parrot Sketch more than a hundred times but it never fails to stop me falling off my chair laughing.

  • @Paarthurnaxdova
    @Paarthurnaxdova Před 3 lety +88

    “I’ve got a slug”

  • @all_time_Jelly_Fish
    @all_time_Jelly_Fish Před rokem +16

    so many brilliant sketches with just Cleese and Palin. Parrot, cheese shop and Argument clinic. Them bickering is always gold

  • @simonmullins8124
    @simonmullins8124 Před 9 lety +1076

    "Listen, I didn't want to work in a pet shop. I wanted to be a lumberjack!'
    "I'm sorry, this is irrelevant isn't it?"
    "YES! A lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as I walk down the mighty rivers of British Colombia! The giant Redwood, the Larch, the Fir, the mighty Scotch Pine!"
    "WHAT ABOUT MY BLOODY PARROT?!?!?!'
    One of the greatest scenes in humor. Thank you Monty Python. (:

    • @baskervillebee6097
      @baskervillebee6097 Před 5 lety +5

      Recognize Mrs Jonathan Cleese?

    • @npcx-mq6cr
      @npcx-mq6cr Před 4 lety +8

      We do have slightly more larch trees here than Norway has parrots, but we keep them in the corner closest to Alberta.

    • @blindleader42
      @blindleader42 Před 4 lety +2

      @@npcx-mq6cr Not too many Giant Redwoods, though. 😊 Other than any that might have been planted in parks here and there.

    • @cyberiandeprochan7998
      @cyberiandeprochan7998 Před 4 lety +7

      And I thought this is what they called a "we have come so far but i don't know how to end this, well I don't know let's go this way and wrap it up" kind of sketch.

    • @cozylime_2006
      @cozylime_2006 Před 4 lety +4

      THIS IS A LATE PARROT!!!!!!!!!

  • @toddcott9510
    @toddcott9510 Před 5 lety +466

    Its a little unknown fact that most lumberjacks start by working in pet shops.

    • @LeafShade
      @LeafShade Před 4 lety +19

      The rest are ex-hairdressers.

    • @BasedRanger
      @BasedRanger Před 4 lety +12

      Am Lumberjack. Can confirm.

    • @SelvesteSand
      @SelvesteSand Před 4 lety +9

      Little unknown? So it's very known, then?

    • @Thursdaym2
      @Thursdaym2 Před 4 lety +4

      ..and wear suspenders! Ohhhh

    • @pierreii1
      @pierreii1 Před 4 lety

      one in particular ended up being a Jockey. Ron torcutti Who rode Secratrait

  • @Ghostdogsurvivalist
    @Ghostdogsurvivalist Před 4 lety +99

    5 Minutes and 55 seconds of time well spent. Still as funny as when first aired.

    • @tamar5261
      @tamar5261 Před 4 lety +8

      I have watched it a thousand times since I was a kid, I just watched it again and laughed out loud. I'm 62

    • @Ghostdogsurvivalist
      @Ghostdogsurvivalist Před 4 lety +4

      @@tamar5261 61 here.

  • @justjames1111
    @justjames1111 Před 2 lety +42

    Just absolutely brilliant, I wonder how many realised that so many years later this would be a classic.

  • @dillon1320
    @dillon1320 Před rokem +17

    Monty Python, the best thing me and my Dad have in common, so glad he got me into this when I was young. We just dont have humor like this anymore.

  • @danboyle116
    @danboyle116 Před 5 lety +135

    Two of the best sketches from one of the funniest damn shows. Ever.

  • @barefootbeachrunner9498
    @barefootbeachrunner9498 Před 4 lety +88

    "This is an ex parrot"
    Best line 😂😂

  • @oldlogin3383
    @oldlogin3383 Před 4 lety +25

    x2 absolute classics back-to-back in the same show. We were blessed.

  • @chadking1938
    @chadking1938 Před 10 lety +1072

    WHAT ABOUT MY BLOODY PARROT???

    • @tonstad39
      @tonstad39 Před 8 lety +4

      +Chad King I'll refund it and instead you can ave this parakeet.

    • @wolfgangortner2634
      @wolfgangortner2634 Před 5 lety +7

      This is aN EX PARROT

    • @wondermaster7271
      @wondermaster7271 Před 4 lety +2

      You shouldn't of brought it as it was obviously dead when you brought
      It's your own fault so get out and stop harnessing the guy

    • @kurtdriver
      @kurtdriver Před 4 lety +2

      @@wondermaster7271 Exactly, Chad if you keep harnessing other guys we'll wonder about you.

    • @paulo_f1
      @paulo_f1 Před 3 lety

      When does he say that?

  • @elli_lovesmusic
    @elli_lovesmusic Před 4 lety +77

    Absolutely adore the “I thought you were so butch!” She for sure knew about her lumberjack

  • @redsquirrel1086
    @redsquirrel1086 Před rokem +15

    I had the privilege of meeting Michael Palin at one of his book signings a few years ago.
    I thanked him for his body of work over the years and he was modesty personified.
    Definitely one of my heroes.

    • @kentvesser9484
      @kentvesser9484 Před 6 měsíci +1

      He did a pair of very interesting travel shows for the BBC I believe called Pole to Pole and Around the World in 80 Days, which were really fun. I think they aired back in the 90's. Terry Jones also had a fun series about life in the Middle Ages based on where you were in society.

  • @sheilarough236
    @sheilarough236 Před rokem +28

    My son saw the lumberjack song when he was around 10. He later would go around the house, singing it at the top of his lungs

    • @SophieBird07
      @SophieBird07 Před rokem +6

      My son too. I remember him cracking up when I had to go return some purchase once and I had muttered that I hoped this wasn’t going to be dead parrot scene.

    • @ddthewolf
      @ddthewolf Před 11 měsíci +2

      That was roughly my age when my sisters and I heard it, along with our dad, we always sang it together lol

  • @tomcat9930
    @tomcat9930 Před 3 lety +3

    Late 1974 and 1975 every sat nite watching SNL and getting stoned,couldnt wait for Monty Python to come on..

  • @dhayris160
    @dhayris160 Před 5 lety +329

    I'm starting to think that lumberjack doesn't actually sleep all night.

  • @Argonaut121
    @Argonaut121 Před 4 lety +9

    Beautiful plumage...pining for the fjords...Buddies and I used to smoke a bit of weed and recite this from memory back in the day.

  • @Holymakinaw
    @Holymakinaw Před 4 lety +430

    For the "Lumberjack" sketch........As a Canadian man, I can corroborate this accurate and "distilled" view of Canada. My friends and I love to cut down Redwoods, deep in British Columbia's Thompson/Okanagan forest region, whilst wearing high heels and a bra. I love the outdoorsy life, but I also wish I was a girly, just like my dear Papa.

    • @lockandload4498
      @lockandload4498 Před 4 lety +6

      Lol good one

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Před 4 lety +7

      Good one, eh?

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove Před 4 lety +4

      I'm surprised you have any big trees left in Canada. One of my great grandparents ran a haulage firm made a lot of money transporting it to the US.

    • @walshwil
      @walshwil Před 4 lety +4

      @@pigeonlove What a coincidence! My great grand father and his father were master millwrights and owned a few water\wood mills. By the age of 9, my grand-father had lost both of them, so we don't really know what happened with the wood, but we think it was for domestic use. The mills also served as hydro-electric power plants : what pioneers they were

    • @fargeeks
      @fargeeks Před 4 lety +1

      What is mountie?

  • @dragonsamurai559
    @dragonsamurai559 Před 4 lety +29

    Legend says that man is waiting for a new parrot to this day

    • @ZombrexAbuse
      @ZombrexAbuse Před rokem

      Didn't he get a refund at last in '89?

  • @Ghost-ql3hl
    @Ghost-ql3hl Před 4 lety +73

    I feel this is appropriate to watch in honour of terry

  • @francestomic2772
    @francestomic2772 Před rokem +8

    Saw this so many years ago when it first aired in the states. My bro & his bro in law taught my 3 yr old niece all the words. The grandparents didn't appreciate it but we were gut laughing. The more we laughed the more gusto she put into it. My ribs hurt the next day. The grandparents thought we were horrible. She's now in her 30s & we still tease her about it.

    • @1ihws
      @1ihws Před rokem +4

      Lol - I grew up with it, courtesy of “the family dynamic” - to the point where some of those “old mates” being such quaint folks they hung stuffed blue parrots in their toilets …and it’s still one of the funniest skits ever …

  • @renadromey620
    @renadromey620 Před 5 lety +90

    He's pining for the fjords!!!

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 Před 4 lety +2

      So is Boris Johnson.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 4 lety +7

      @@luisreyes1963 Boris Johnson is no more. He has joined the parliament invisible and pushing up the daisies. He is ex Boris Johnson.

    • @raylast3873
      @raylast3873 Před 4 lety

      Ah shit, he came back as a zombie.

    • @zephyrsbusiness6437
      @zephyrsbusiness6437 Před 3 lety

      @@u.v.s.5583 I'd better replace him then

  • @hefipaleburp9543
    @hefipaleburp9543 Před 8 lety +232

    Palin and Cleese my two favorite from the Pythons. Ellow parrot waky waky! tap tap.

    • @markabicht4535
      @markabicht4535 Před 4 lety +6

      What makes it all the more funnier is how they play it straight without cracking up.

    • @scottrackley4457
      @scottrackley4457 Před 4 lety +4

      @Rodger Hodgson Mr. Idle is mine as well

    • @renegader3d
      @renegader3d Před 4 lety +6

      I think Graham was my favorite, but Palin and Cleese had the best sketches

    • @renegader3d
      @renegader3d Před 4 lety +6

      Rodger Hodgson Idle is fantastic, his bits in the movies are incredible but I think Graham’s silliness and the chemistry of Palin and Cleese are slightly better. There’s not a weak python in the bunch.

    • @scottrackley4457
      @scottrackley4457 Před 4 lety +3

      @@renegader3d truth, Palin and Cleese could play off each other very well, I wouldn't be surprised if they ad libbed half of their dialogue

  • @Titan52berg
    @Titan52berg Před 5 lety +129

    I've got a nice cuttlefish for you if you wake up polly!
    Now, that's what I'd call a dead parrot!
    Naw! He ain't dead! He's just restin!

    • @ranedae
      @ranedae Před 4 lety +2

      I can't believe I've always heard that as "cup of fish" and thought, that's weird. Kept parrots aren't fed fish typically! LOL

  • @bathtub_jim7652
    @bathtub_jim7652 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Beautiful plumage.

  • @aidangriffiths5075
    @aidangriffiths5075 Před rokem +13

    I love that it's a Norwegian parrot 😂

    • @alkholos
      @alkholos Před 11 měsíci

      Sadly, that species is extinct.

  • @steveford8999
    @steveford8999 Před 4 lety +24

    I cannot begin to tell you how much I love this skit.
    Every bloody time I watch it I LOL. Literally.

    • @mikentx57
      @mikentx57 Před rokem

      The parrot Sketch has often been noted as their most famous sketch.

  • @TheAtheist22
    @TheAtheist22 Před rokem +53

    It is incredible how deep their satire ran. To the bone! And it is very sad that in today’s world Monty Python sketches are almost unthinkable. And we need to make that possible again.

  • @crusherbmx
    @crusherbmx Před 3 lety +70

    We actually had a parrot sketch episode a couple months ago....tried to return a snail we just bought, told the guy it was dead, he said it was just resting, they do that....I thought he was kidding...he wasn't.....I'm in Canada but he didn't start talking about being a lumberjack.....

  • @PlanesTrainsEverything
    @PlanesTrainsEverything Před 2 lety +18

    I love the way the classic parrot sketch blends seamlessly into the classic lumber jack sketch.

  • @critter7052
    @critter7052 Před 7 lety +37

    Two classic Monty Python sketches together! Thanks for posting, morpheusatloppers!

    • @cockroachcharlie5619
      @cockroachcharlie5619 Před 5 lety +5

      The best part of the Lumberjack song is that they could segue it into nearly ANY of their sketches and it would work.

    • @zephyrsbusiness6437
      @zephyrsbusiness6437 Před 3 lety

      @@cockroachcharlie5619 All they'd need is for Sir Michael Palin to have some major role in the previous sketch and he can segue into it flawlessly

  • @davidc3857
    @davidc3857 Před 7 lety +199

    Hello Polly, wakey wakey!

    • @max-davy
      @max-davy Před 4 lety +8

      *thump thump thump*
      This is your 9:00 alarm call!

    • @Daniel_Huffman
      @Daniel_Huffman Před 4 lety +5

      *Thump thump thump*
      *Toss*
      *Plop*
      Now that's what I call a dead parrot.

    • @titanicboy2722
      @titanicboy2722 Před 3 lety

      1:10 please call peta

    • @titanicboy2722
      @titanicboy2722 Před 3 lety

      Also “nah he is stunned”

  • @seanoneill5799
    @seanoneill5799 Před 9 měsíci +2

    It just took me 50 years to notice John Cleese went from main co-character to back-up singer in the same skit. Must be the salmon mousse with lemon curry I ate last night.

  • @same1eka
    @same1eka Před 3 lety +22

    "If i didnt nail him down he wouldve muscled his way thru the bars. Boof." Best line ever.

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube Před 4 lety +13

    a classic, ages like a fine wine.

  • @fredgrove4220
    @fredgrove4220 Před 4 lety +363

    No one makes sketches like that any more, mores the pity.

    • @peger
      @peger Před 4 lety +26

      The show would be canceled after the first episode because of ass pain and fake outrage

    • @Proman476
      @Proman476 Před 4 lety +3

      Because it's shit and about as funny as a migraine.

    • @shoaibmalik9096
      @shoaibmalik9096 Před 4 lety

      Ikr

    • @Proman476
      @Proman476 Před 3 lety

      @Annette Königsheim There's no humour, they couldn't even think of punchlines and I dont like coarse humour dipshit.

    • @Proman476
      @Proman476 Před 3 lety

      @Annette Königsheim It's crap and I am intelligent.

  • @AstronomyDomine
    @AstronomyDomine Před 4 lety +40

    “Im sorry this is irrelevant isn’t it?”
    Yes

  • @NicGoldenEddie
    @NicGoldenEddie Před 2 lety +4

    This always brings me to tears. Every time some new detail that’s just super great 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Iggywiggywoo
    @Iggywiggywoo Před 5 lety +106

    John Cleese says yells "Polly!" In both Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.

    • @skzion2
      @skzion2 Před 5 lety +3

      Pete 1989 Nice get.

    • @petermaxwell2965
      @petermaxwell2965 Před 4 lety +3

      Pretty Polly !

    • @roberthuppert4912
      @roberthuppert4912 Před 4 lety +12

      @Ubiquitary Beat me to it Ubiquitary! Also,Connie Booth is one of John Cleese's many ex-wives!😂

    • @leighfennell7890
      @leighfennell7890 Před 4 lety +2

      @Ubiquitary We all realized that. Did you know that Connie Booth and John Cleese used to be married?

    • @jackburns6403
      @jackburns6403 Před 4 lety +2

      @@leighfennell7890 Yeah, that also made filming season 2 of Fawlty Towers difficult as the two had to work together after divorce

  • @salvagedb2470
    @salvagedb2470 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Best of 70'S British Comedy you will ever get..

  • @stevencoffman34
    @stevencoffman34 Před 3 lety +11

    Two classic Python sketches dead parrot and lumberjack song

  • @tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283

    “Norwegian Blue Parrot, pining for the fjords” lol

  • @charleswills4554
    @charleswills4554 Před 4 lety +14

    Truly one of the greatest sketches ever

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 Před 4 lety +24

    Today September 25th 2019, the Attorney General said "This Parliament is dead" made me think of this, maybe he would like to be a lumberjack.

  • @timwall6187
    @timwall6187 Před rokem +7

    They were ahead of their time. Still hilarious. I miss those days.

    • @jonsnow7586
      @jonsnow7586 Před 10 měsíci

      Ahead of their time? Not sure a sketch involving a man being pelted with fruit and called a pansy for expressing his desire to dress in women's clothes would go down too well in today's society 😂

  • @aseagull7703
    @aseagull7703 Před 4 lety +12

    0:55
    That’s my favourite part
    HELLO POLLY WAKEY WAKEY

  • @davidkopec9442
    @davidkopec9442 Před 2 lety +18

    I love how Cleese goes from disgruntled pet store customer to singing in the Canadian Mountie Choir…

  • @_BhagavadGita
    @_BhagavadGita Před 3 lety +3

    "Oh, well of course it was nailed there. I mean, if I hadn't nailed it there it would have muscled up to those bars and BOOM!!" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. I mean..picturing the parrot muscling up to those bars!!! That's classic!!

  • @tramline008
    @tramline008 Před rokem +2

    I showed this sketch today (2022) to my class of 18 year old Students. They watched it silently with absolutely no expression. The whole idea of it being funny was completely lost to them...

    • @ruizheli1974
      @ruizheli1974 Před rokem

      They probably thought it'd be able-ist to call the parrot dead hahaha

    • @ruizheli1974
      @ruizheli1974 Před rokem

      Try showing them that "I want to be a woman" clip from Life of Brian as well and see what happens.
      Actually, on a second thought don't try that.

    • @Joke_Bidumb
      @Joke_Bidumb Před rokem

      Current gen 18 year olds don't understand the concept of humor. They were probably sitting there wondering if they should be offended by it.

    • @jessicahannah2522
      @jessicahannah2522 Před 2 měsíci

      I'm in my 60's and have always found Monty Python unendurably boring. Never "got" the supposed humor in their idiotic sketches. I've watched so many of their sketches, specials, etc trying to see why so many find them HILARIOUS, and...nothing. Never once even a chuckle. It truly baffles me what could be considered funny in any of it.
      On the other hand, I find Key and Peele sketches hilarious lol. The "40-year-old Virgin" left me in pain from laughing so hard. I absolutely love "Dude, Where's My Car?" for the campiness and hilarity, so it's not that I don't enjoy humor, or even stupid humor.
      I just cannot 'get' what MP is doing that is 'hilarious' or even remotely funny.

  • @yessure5291
    @yessure5291 Před 4 lety +17

    Years later and still really funny !!

  • @lovenotwar598
    @lovenotwar598 Před 5 lety +54

    Its lowered the curtain and joined the choir invisible

  • @mwg911hk
    @mwg911hk Před 3 měsíci

    I like how they do these sketches multiple times in different settings. Its like a band performing the same song in different cities. Good stuff!

  • @K-o_S
    @K-o_S Před 4 měsíci +1

    And now for something completely different.
    *EXPLODES*

  • @lisaknox4113
    @lisaknox4113 Před rokem +4

    My favorite skit!
    It always cracks me up!

  • @666Tomato666
    @666Tomato666 Před 11 lety +44

    and now for something different... a lumberjack

  • @CP-tm7be
    @CP-tm7be Před 7 měsíci +1

    That throwaway comment at the beginning kills me every time I see it. "What do you mean "miss"?? "...I'm sorry, I have a cold."

  • @Yetipfote
    @Yetipfote Před rokem +3

    I love British humor. I don't know many in my peer group but I love it!

  • @cordingdesert9566
    @cordingdesert9566 Před rokem +3

    I like how they were on board up too and including him going to bars in women's clothing. Lol

  • @Jonesmalone562
    @Jonesmalone562 Před 3 lety +3

    *PINING FOR THE FJORDS!?!?!*

  • @thrashmetal1017
    @thrashmetal1017 Před 2 lety +2

    THE WAY HE BANGED TGE OARROTS HEAD ON THE TABLE😂😭😭🤣🤣

  • @Albtraum_TDDC
    @Albtraum_TDDC Před 2 lety +1

    "If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!"

  • @MacBaker82
    @MacBaker82 Před 11 lety +34

    Classic Monty Python. Two of their best sketches!

  • @mahandraradityaputra338
    @mahandraradityaputra338 Před 4 lety +22

    The lumberjack: "The larch!"
    Me: *The Larch*

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Před 4 lety +3

      Slide #1

    • @willywins0446
      @willywins0446 Před 2 lety

      EPISODE 12B
      How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
      NO. 1
      THE LARCH
      The larch. The... larch.

  • @derricklogan2058
    @derricklogan2058 Před 3 lety +1

    When I was about 14 or 15 years of age in the Cities of Detroit, a young man named, Raynard Harris, who lived in Highland Park and worked for the Dept of Recreation, introduced me to the British comedy of Monty Python's Flying Circus! This was about 1975. Prior to that, I had not heard of them, but since then, I began to understand British humor and I have been laughing 😂🤣😃😅 ever since! (Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers, etc.) Love 💕 the Funeral Parlor Sketch on Cannabalism and The Barbershop/Lumberjack Song Sketch! John Cleese/Q-007!!

  • @fanfaretloudest
    @fanfaretloudest Před 3 lety +1

    Saw this version of the skits first b4 I got to see the tv show. Loved both of 'em!

  • @randytrader3026
    @randytrader3026 Před 4 lety +9

    Can't help but think they might have been growing something else in those woods.. nothing like British humor.. "Brilliant "....
    I think I'll watch.. The holy grail.. again for the 1,000,000th. time..

  • @BlinkOfAnEye1331
    @BlinkOfAnEye1331 Před 5 lety +38

    “WHAT ABOUT MY BLOODY PARROT” 🦜

  • @davidcurtis7547
    @davidcurtis7547 Před rokem

    Just pining for the fjords , now you've stunned him . Beautiful plumage the Norwegian Blue

  • @lissy.doerfler
    @lissy.doerfler Před 2 lety +3

    🤣🤣🤣
    Timeless Humor. Just adorable.

  • @MMuraseofSandvich
    @MMuraseofSandvich Před 2 lety +3

    "And now for something completely different."

  • @marjoriehague4388
    @marjoriehague4388 Před 4 lety +8

    Whenever I feel out of sorts, come here, can't leave before laughing my head off.

  • @librarian66
    @librarian66 Před rokem

    Loved these guys as a kid and they're still hilarious today!

  • @_REVERIE
    @_REVERIE Před 3 lety +8

    THIS IS A L-L-L-LATE PARROT!

  • @klackon1
    @klackon1 Před 4 lety +3

    I find these two sketches as amusing today as I did when they were first aired on TV when I was about 15 years old. My mates and I used to re-enact the parrot sketch and sing the lumberjack song regularly in our electronics workshop in the mid seventies. Some Python's sketches failed, but others were eye wateringly funny.

  • @lydialapias6551
    @lydialapias6551 Před 4 lety +8

    If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would of been pushing up the daisies 😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂 got me all kinds of lmao

  • @michaeldeierhoi4096
    @michaeldeierhoi4096 Před rokem +1

    This is truly one of the great moments in TV comedy!!!

  • @moonstoneway2694
    @moonstoneway2694 Před 6 měsíci

    Thanks! This popped up after it was mentioned in a court case recently.

  • @judeconradfrancis
    @judeconradfrancis Před 4 lety +11

    this parrot is no more. its an ex-parrot
    xD