I'm Canadian, and I have known a number of lumberjacks. This is pretty much spot on. Frankly, I don't know how they do it, running across a raft of moving logs, while wearing high heels, their gleaming luxurious long hair streaming in the wind, as they smile and wave. Fabulous! At least until they hit the rapids.
It's not just the song, it the seamless transition from one ridiculous sketch (that never had a proper ending) into a song into two jokes making fun of people criticizing the sketch. I watched this dozens of times and I always laugh at, "I keep falling off!"
The pythons often admitted that writing the ending to a sketch was the hardest bit. So whenever they couldnt think of one they would just make it transition to the next and hope the audience forgot about it.
When I was around 16, my school teachers did this sketch for this school play... The teacher playing Palin was actually a very very boring Physics teacher not very popular with us kids... Before he did this sketch, he got married to another teacher who very much looked like Connie Booth at the time, who, of course, acted as His Best Girlie By His Side... So there he was saying that he never wanted to be a Physics teacher anyway, and that he wanted to be a lumberjack, and sing sing sing... It was hilarious and so nice to see that such a boring looking teacher actually had an amazing sense of humour... Memories!!!
One has to give credit to Connie Booth, who plays this impossibly straight as Palin's "best girl by his side". The ability to do this without totally collapsing into laughter is a skill I'd never master...but she and Carol Cleveland were excellent foils and were up to the task!
Who knows how many takes they had to take? Pythons were meticulous and everything but spontaneous performers. All was very tightly controlled and rehearsed to comic perfection.
People will never get the "sex on the telee-vision" joke who never experienced the novelty of having an 800-lb TV set encased in a wooden box. In the days when a TV was more a piece of furniture than an appliance, the punchline made perfect sense!
Actually a true story from an uncle/aunt who lived in NW Minnesota in the 1940"s. They had a lumberjack neighbor who they invited to Sunday supper. He hesitated whispering he liked to relax and wear women's clothing on Sundays. They said no problem and he would show up in a dress.He was a lumberjack and was OK. True story.
You would be surprised at how many very masculine guys with hard as fk jobs are transvestites. Definitely not trans which is a totally different thing. But each to their own. They don't bother anyone and enjoy a good night out
as a born and bred proud Canadian I proudly accept this as an alternative national anthem. I have participated in it's presentation in several airports and many bars. It's what you sing when you are waiting for the usual late arrival of your Air Canada flight with another bunch of rowdies, or to close out the Local over in the UK.
In remembrance of our lost Pythons, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones. Long life to Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Eric Idle (...and especially Carol Cleveland and Hazel Pethig). They gave me so much comedic joy since 1975, as they do today.
That's like "You'll never fully appreciate Shakespeare until you've seen it in the original Klingon." (Genuine line from one of the Trek movies or episodes.) The original Python broadcasts were of course on BBC2 …🙂
Gary Daniel Of course, Greg. I’ve watched every season multiple times. All Blackadder seasons are very unique in its own way. It’s brilliant. The final shot of the final episode is very heartfelt and poignant.
@stephenc3060 It's the opposing teams national anthem. 🤦♂️It's a sign of respect for both teams. The same thing happens when a Canadian team plays in the United States.🤯 Does that mean Canada's national anthem is the second national anthem of the USA, instead of America the Beautiful, or God Bless America? Wait! Does that mean every country that has ever participated in an Olympics, that was hosted in Canada, their national anthems are also the national anthem for Canada? That's crazy! Canada is gready with the national anthems. As if them having 2 languages in their own anthem wasn't enough, now they're also using other countries anthems.
I saw this when I was ten years old. My best friend in grade five was English, and the Flying Circus was his favourite show. So I knew about lumberjacks, and silly walks, and turning people into Scotsmen, and killer cars, and killer jokes, and freemasonry, and silly disturbances, all before I turned eleven. But I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
John Kroner Holy $#!+ I totally can! In fact I always dreamed SNL would do this with Alec Baldwin when he was either impeached or was voted out of office! “Fake Trump”would do the show’s cold open, trying to spin his way out of his defeat, say he never wanted to be president then goes into this song and dance, with Putin, wearing a blonde pigtail wig, as his best girl, He would then bend down like he’s talking a dump when he sings about going to the lavatory 😄 then he’d open up his shirt and flashing a bra underneath 🤣 and “ Putin “ would be all sad saying he thought Trump was so butch! Then fake Trump would finish the song “I’m a lumberjack and I’m alright and LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!!! “🎶🎵🤣🤣🤣🤣😁 But in all seriousness, let’s vote 🗳 this bastard out in November 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️
Monty Python gets godlike status, and people think it's because every second is incredible. It's not, it's incredibly hit and miss. But when it hits its stride, it strides better than anything. One of the few things that makes me proud to be British.
OlafttheGreat1998 considering that t-Rex’s speed have been estimated anywhere between 15-25 miles per hour(give or take, idk if that range also includes t-Rex’s on the older side or not) and that with training a human being can reach those speeds(again Idk if it included old t-Rex’s or not so maybe a person who just likes jogging every day might be able to outrun one) it IS do able, the real questions is how good are you at walking/running in heals and what style of heels would be best to run in(my best guess would be one that doesn’t have the heel on the very back of the shoe and has it more in the center of a person’s heal since those ones tend to help keep you’re center of gravity(since it’s location is on one of you’ve balance spots))
Best thing about this sketch is that it starts off completely different with the main joke being about a jittery, anxious barber with psychopathic tendencies
@@isawadelapradera6490 I appreciate your reply, because Monty Python often did have endings, but early on, as they themselves described it, they couldn't come up with "punch lines" good enough to end the sketch so they immediately went into the next one, sometimes tying them together. Or as in "The Spanish Inquisition" sketch's, the so called "punch line" wouldn't arrive until the end of the show.
I invented tree-sitting in 1968. The Corona Virus made the cover of Popular Science Magazine, that same year. For the first time, they had photographed a virus. The Corona virus was BIG, almost a bacteria; perfect for gene-splicing and editing experiments. In 1999, on Yahoo Groups/Paranoid Times, I read about the Double-Whammy Virus -- a tactical bio-weapon, not a doomsday virus, in two strains. The Sociopaths in that story joked about deploying the 2nd strain on Valentine's Day, because the two strains were made for each other. One SPREADS, the other Kills those who were exposed to the Spreader -- 93% within a few hours of infection. That's why it doesn't spread and must be deployed at new locations over and over. OR it can be used to blackmail. But the Sociopaths are NOT crazy. Both strains mutate into benign forms within two years. However, if the Virus fails to turn off a few billion useless h-eaters, the Psychopaths will end global warming with Plan B: Nuclear Winter. So count your blessings.
I grew up in rural Oregon and, as a rite of passage, learned to cut down trees early in life. However, as a consideration bow to safety, I always put on spur boots first and left my high heels and bra on the ground...for celebratory dancing that night!
OMG this is the first time I've seen the real thing! I'm a Canadian who has been singing this for more years than I care to admit to having been alive for. Well done lads!
When my older sister was a baby, my parents would sing this song to her since they didn't know any lullabies (not even Brahms Lullaby or Rock-A-Bye Baby). This is a true story. Oh, and my sister went to college to be a lab worker in a hospital - *not a lumberjack!*
The Pythons were the best and the funniest. How they came up with all these sketches is just amazing. Love everything they did. Thanx for posting this.
Long live the descendants of Python. The Hitchhiker's guide, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Little Brittain, Black Adder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, and all the rest I can't recall because I'm getting old. Oh, to be one of The Young Ones again. LOL.
My parents would watch Monty Python and I would be confused because I thought it was "weird and made no sense" and would leave the room. Then I came of age and started to enjoy it myself and it was part of how I became friends with them. God damn was watching the Dead Parrot Sketch with my mother priceless.
After seeing this the first time some 40 years ago I never forgot it and no matter how many times I've seen it, it still makes me laugh out loud! The Pythons were and are the best.
I first saw this some 40+ years ago and never forgot it. No matter how many times I see it, it makes me laugh out loud every time. The Pythons were and still are the best. Their humor never gets old. It's timeless.
Dear TH-cam: I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song I just watched about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are transvestites and only a few of them cut down trees!
@@nancydarkes-stiles8484 I'm guessing that Seventh Mist is playing off the "complaint" right after the song. "Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them wear dresses!" Cleverly done, Seventh Mist!
My parents used to watch this when I was a kid and I didn't understand it. I forgot about it for a long time. Then as an adult I stumbled across the lumberjack song/skit on TV and it all came back to me! I started singing along with it and could barely finish for laughing so hard.
My Dad always watched British comedy when I was growing up and it was the same way. I didn’t understand why he though it was so damn funny. Now that I’m older I appreciate it and get most of the humor.
This show saved my sanity back in the early 70's when it first came on in northern Ohio. I watched it on recommendation from an uncle and didn't expect much when I first turned it on. Ten minutes later, I'm on my hands and knees on the floor in front of the TV, shrieking with laughter and pounding on the floor. God bless you all, O men of Python.
@@alanlinnebur3139 i just went to Graceland the other day (when the tourists are gone Elvis comes down from upstairs and we watch it in the basement TV room - he had to fake his death , him being a federal agent and all)
I asked my mum in about 1970 what is monty pythons flying circus? She said oh,don't watch that. It was on late,about eleven at night. 50 years later I would say I have a rather strange and warped sense of humour after following Monty Python for 50 years. SPAM. .
When they did the show for German TV, he has to rhyme with the German word for bra, "bustenhalter" so changes the last line to "just like me in Uncle Walter."
My first exposure to this bit was when they performed it at the Concert for George (Harrison) at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002. George would have approved, being a big Python fan and good friend of all of them. I myself break into this song fairly regularly, especially in the cold months when wearing a flannel shirt (which with my beard makes me look pretty lumberjack-like).
Back in elementary school my teacher asked the class for Canadian day what should we do. So I suggested getting on stage to and sing the Lumberjack song. Teacher asked what that is so I sung it for her. I got detention for a week🐺🇨🇦
You sir ,ma'ma or whatever you prefer to be called for whatever reason (which I will not bother you about because your reasons are your own) are one of my heros.
I feel really bad. It took like 4 years working for the park service for another ranger to ask if I knew this song. I said no. She then showed it to me, and it freaking changed everything! It is just SOOOOO funny!
'Cause of Monty Python and PBS. I fell in love with British comedy. Oh I was 18 .Now 61 still love British comedy. Now I love an Irish show. Still Game.
It was my freshman year in high school, 1975 when The Flying Circus came to PBS and the day after a new episode was aired, it was all my friends and I wanted to talk about. Great times.
Monty Python's Flying Circus!!! Loved watching them during the 70's! In my area of Detroit, they were the prelude to watching The Benny Hill Show! And I honestly didn't know anything about Benny Hill until the late 80's, only to find out later that he got started years before!
Love living in British Columbia , Where you don't have to be a lumberjack , or dress in women's clothing , but you can if you want to , However, it is very difficult now days on Vancouver island to find the right pair of high heels , when scaling to the top of the tree ;) ... Absolutely Love Monty Python
Me too, rented, ripped and burned courtesy of Netflix. Oh shit! Should I have said that out loud in a public forum? Oh god, I hear the sirens...they're coming for me! Tell my family I....
King Leonidas: what's your profession (translated from Scottish)? "I'm a lumberjack And I'm OK I sleep all night and I work all day (He's a lumberjack And he's OK He sleeps all night and he works all day) I cut down trees I eat my lunch I go to the lavatry' On Wednesdays I go shopping And have buttered scones for tea (He cuts down trees He eats his lunch He goes to the lavatry' On Wednesdays He goes shopping And has buttered scones for tea I cut down trees) I'm a lumberjack And I'm OK I sleep all night and I work all day I cut down trees I skip and jump I like to press wild flowers I put on women's' clothing and hang around in bars (He cuts down trees He skips and jumps He likes to press wild flowers He puts on women's' clothing and hang around in bars?) I'm a lumberjack And I'm OK I sleep all night and I work all day I cut down trees I wear high heels Suspendies' and a bra I wish I'd been a girly Just like my dear pa-pa (He cuts down trees He wears high heels?) (He's a lumberjack And he's ok He sleeps all night and he works all day)"
As someone who was born in the lumberjack village of Littlefork, Minnesota, I must object. According to my father, when our neighbors would offer to cut down trees to pay for medical care, since he was the town doctor, he would decline if he planted the trees. However, if they brought a chicken for payment that might be different, depending on whether or not we had shot a pheasant that day.
I'm Canadian, and I have known a number of lumberjacks. This is pretty much spot on. Frankly, I don't know how they do it, running across a raft of moving logs, while wearing high heels, their gleaming luxurious long hair streaming in the wind, as they smile and wave. Fabulous! At least until they hit the rapids.
For they go hurling down, and down white waters?
Eloquently said, and outrageously funny!! Thanks.
Ut comments made my day right along with this video.
@@RingtailCafe That's where the log driver learns to step lightly, of course.
PointyTailofSatan Right enough on hitting the rapids they're all wet and squidgy and soggy! Hard to keep a hold onto!
It's not just the song, it the seamless transition from one ridiculous sketch (that never had a proper ending) into a song into two jokes making fun of people criticizing the sketch. I watched this dozens of times and I always laugh at, "I keep falling off!"
They learned that from Spike Milligan.
The pythons often admitted that writing the ending to a sketch was the hardest bit. So whenever they couldnt think of one they would just make it transition to the next and hope the audience forgot about it.
I've read somewhere that the Barber Shop Sketch was going to end with the barber's recorded voice. I don't know if that would have worked or not...
More so these days, given televisions are so narrow
When I was around 16, my school teachers did this sketch for this school play... The teacher playing Palin was actually a very very boring Physics teacher not very popular with us kids... Before he did this sketch, he got married to another teacher who very much looked like Connie Booth at the time, who, of course, acted as His Best Girlie By His Side... So there he was saying that he never wanted to be a Physics teacher anyway, and that he wanted to be a lumberjack, and sing sing sing... It was hilarious and so nice to see that such a boring looking teacher actually had an amazing sense of humour... Memories!!!
How did a boring physics teacher bag a girl who looked like Connie Booth?
@@Vesnicie beats me!!! None of us understood!! :D :D :D
@@beaurzaiz is it possible he was hung like a moose?
@@unclejoeoakland well, he was a lumberjack in women's clothing after all...
@@beaurzaiz Goes to show you never judge a book by its cover. I wish my teachers had a very good sense of humor.
One has to give credit to Connie Booth, who plays this impossibly straight as Palin's "best girl by his side". The ability to do this without totally collapsing into laughter is a skill I'd never master...but she and Carol Cleveland were excellent foils and were up to the task!
Who knows how many takes they had to take? Pythons were meticulous and everything but spontaneous performers. All was very tightly controlled and rehearsed to comic perfection.
YES, AND BOTH WERE VERY NICE TO EXPERIENCE WITH NO CLOTHES, WHAT WE GOT TO SEE OF THEM ANYWAYS
The tears are real, from the pain of holding that laugh in.
Connie Booth was such a babe
People will never get the "sex on the telee-vision" joke who never experienced the novelty of having an 800-lb TV set encased in a wooden box. In the days when a TV was more a piece of furniture than an appliance, the punchline made perfect sense!
thank you for explaining lmao
I mean you could have sex on an 80s/90s TV, I had one from that era growing up
I mean it still makes sense, tvs have gotten a lot thinner
"I mean, it can't even hold me up!"
It still works now, try it with a modern TV and you'll definitely fall off 😂
Actually a true story from an uncle/aunt who lived in NW Minnesota in the 1940"s. They had a lumberjack neighbor who they invited to Sunday supper. He hesitated whispering he liked to relax and wear women's clothing on Sundays. They said no problem and he would show up in a dress.He was a lumberjack and was OK. True story.
I don’t know who was weirder, the trans lumberjack or your extremely woke and tolerant grandparents!
Very very very unlikely story
You would be surprised at how many very masculine guys with hard as fk jobs are transvestites. Definitely not trans which is a totally different thing. But each to their own. They don't bother anyone and enjoy a good night out
Thats a pissa.
@@Sailingon this is quite true. As the balance of their lives.
40-45 years later? I'm still laughing out loud at this! What great memories!!!! Monty Python set the benchmark for humor!!!!
Careful, you might fall off the telly!
*humour
@@telocity Burma !
Wait , that's for when the penguin on top of my television explodes, isn't it?
Supposedly originally released 1974, puts it 48 years this year.
@@telocity ony if you have sex on it
I think my favorite part of this whole sketch is watching Connie Booth's reactions as the song progresses.
as a born and bred proud Canadian I proudly accept this as an alternative national anthem. I have participated in it's presentation in several airports and many bars. It's what you sing when you are waiting for the usual late arrival of your Air Canada flight with another bunch of rowdies, or to close out the Local over in the UK.
The way Connie Booth's smile evaporates when Bevis admits to wearing women's clothes is classic!😂
In remembrance of our lost Pythons, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones. Long life to Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Eric Idle (...and especially Carol Cleveland and Hazel Pethig). They gave me so much comedic joy since 1975, as they do today.
Absolutely! & Connie Booth?
@@gretagreebling Yes indeed.....
John Cleese is certainly a lost Python, even though last time I checked he was still alive.
@@AndrewBlucher I'm a bit out of the loop... What'd he do?? 👀
@@aplant9980 Simplest explanation: the Bazil Faulty character wasn't satire.
I watched the original PBS broadcasts in the early 70's...it warped my little mind and I've never regretted it!
carol saw it onKERAdallas in 71 i think your right it warped me also
never straightened out than you PYTHONS
Yeah, me too.
That's like "You'll never fully appreciate Shakespeare until you've seen it in the original Klingon." (Genuine line from one of the Trek movies or episodes.)
The original Python broadcasts were of course on BBC2 …🙂
‘Til the day I die....
Monty Python will be the height of comedy for me.
Gary Daniel
Of course, Greg.
I’ve watched every season multiple times.
All Blackadder seasons are very unique in its own way. It’s brilliant.
The final shot of the final episode is very heartfelt and poignant.
Gary Daniel
Sorry, I was sleepy and I saw Greg instead of Gary!
Gary Daniel if I ever see GreGaryous coming to my area, rest assured I will pay to see it.
Pure genius,the comedians back then are different than today's,they actually make you laugh.
Gary Daniel Oh, that is funny. I do love puns.
This is Canada's second national anthem. It brings a maple-syrupy tear to my eye.
If this is Canada's 2nd national anthem, then what's that song they sing after O Canada when a team from the US plays hockey up there?
It’d be hilarious to hear this before a Leafs-Habs game.
@stephenc3060 It's the opposing teams national anthem. 🤦♂️It's a sign of respect for both teams. The same thing happens when a Canadian team plays in the United States.🤯 Does that mean Canada's national anthem is the second national anthem of the USA, instead of America the Beautiful, or God Bless America? Wait! Does that mean every country that has ever participated in an Olympics, that was hosted in Canada, their national anthems are also the national anthem for Canada? That's crazy! Canada is gready with the national anthems. As if them having 2 languages in their own anthem wasn't enough, now they're also using other countries anthems.
I love how every verse starts with "I cut down trees", it's still the most importaint thing
I saw this when I was ten years old. My best friend in grade five was English, and the Flying Circus was his favourite show.
So I knew about lumberjacks, and silly walks, and turning people into Scotsmen, and killer cars, and killer jokes, and freemasonry, and silly disturbances, all before I turned eleven.
But I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!!!!!!
No one expected that!
@@NondescriptMammal this one is the one shown on flyig circus
@@NondescriptMammal you just sent me the link for this exact video
Who did?
I love the Mounties Chorus! 🥰
Especially Cleese and Chapman.
I love how the singing mounties start looking disturbed and confused as they sing.
picure Trump singing as the lumberjack lol
John Kroner Holy $#!+ I totally can! In fact I always dreamed SNL would do this with Alec Baldwin when he was either impeached or was voted out of office! “Fake Trump”would do the show’s cold open, trying to spin his way out of his defeat, say he never wanted to be president then goes into this song and dance, with Putin, wearing a blonde pigtail wig, as his best girl, He would then bend down like he’s talking a dump when he sings about going to the lavatory 😄 then he’d open up his shirt and flashing a bra underneath 🤣 and “ Putin “ would be all sad saying he thought Trump was so butch! Then fake Trump would finish the song “I’m a lumberjack and I’m alright and LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!!! “🎶🎵🤣🤣🤣🤣😁
But in all seriousness, let’s vote 🗳 this bastard out in November 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️
me to
That makes the entire song.
So funny
Monty Python gets godlike status, and people think it's because every second is incredible. It's not, it's incredibly hit and miss. But when it hits its stride, it strides better than anything. One of the few things that makes me proud to be British.
The way the girl's smile slowly fades 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Many of my friends are lumberjacks, and very few of them are transvestites."
'I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars'. Ooh, my kind of guy.
The high heels help to spike into trees as you climb them
Obviously. Why else would we have invented those monstrosities? To run away from T-Rexs?
OlafttheGreat1998 considering that t-Rex’s speed have been estimated anywhere between 15-25 miles per hour(give or take, idk if that range also includes t-Rex’s on the older side or not) and that with training a human being can reach those speeds(again Idk if it included old t-Rex’s or not so maybe a person who just likes jogging every day might be able to outrun one) it IS do able, the real questions is how good are you at walking/running in heals and what style of heels would be best to run in(my best guess would be one that doesn’t have the heel on the very back of the shoe and has it more in the center of a person’s heal since those ones tend to help keep you’re center of gravity(since it’s location is on one of you’ve balance spots))
This may be the only use for high heels!
Works for me.
The video wasn't funny, but your comment IS! Nice!
Best thing about this sketch is that it starts off completely different with the main joke being about a jittery, anxious barber with psychopathic tendencies
As Python often said, “And now for something completely different!”
Or the parrot sketch, in Meaning of Life
The secret of Monty Python was that they never knew how to best end a sketch, so they just careened off into the next one!
@@charlie-obrien Michael Ellis episode is begging to prove you wrong on the "never knew how to best end[...]"
@@isawadelapradera6490
I appreciate your reply, because Monty Python often did have endings, but early on, as they themselves described it, they couldn't come up with "punch lines" good enough to end the sketch so they immediately went into the next one, sometimes tying them together.
Or as in "The Spanish Inquisition" sketch's, the so called "punch line" wouldn't arrive until the end of the show.
This is what 40 plus years ago. .I still find myself humming it from time to time.
Loved the show great writing.
I invented tree-sitting in 1968. The Corona Virus made the cover of Popular Science Magazine, that same year. For the first time, they had photographed a virus. The Corona virus was BIG, almost a bacteria; perfect for gene-splicing and editing experiments.
In 1999, on Yahoo Groups/Paranoid Times, I read about the Double-Whammy Virus -- a tactical bio-weapon, not a doomsday virus, in two strains.
The Sociopaths in that story joked about deploying the 2nd strain on Valentine's Day, because the two strains were made for each other. One SPREADS, the other Kills those who were exposed to the Spreader -- 93% within a few hours of infection. That's why it doesn't spread and must be deployed at new locations over and over.
OR it can be used to blackmail. But the Sociopaths are NOT crazy. Both strains mutate into benign forms within two years.
However, if the Virus fails to turn off a few billion useless h-eaters, the Psychopaths will end global warming with Plan B: Nuclear Winter. So count your blessings.
@@humboldthammer Almost 50 yrs ago this , '72 prolly
@@postersandstuff Test Your Math -- spot the error. Borrow $33 trillion / Blow it all up = Peace and Prosperity.
give up? . . . dividing by zero
What kills me with laughter is, as the song goes on, the girl grows horrified
As do the mounties!
This will always be a classic.
2 years later and as far as I can see,
you're not wrong.
The high point for Monty Python.
Nothing wrong with buttered scones
I mean, have you tried buttered scones?
Because i haven't but they do sound good!
Whipped cream and jam or go home
Im partial to strawberry scones myself. Quite good with a good cup of coffee
For lunch yes. Not for tea
@@gagasmancave8859 They're definitely a teatime food....
I grew up in rural Oregon and, as a rite of passage, learned to cut down trees early in life. However, as a consideration bow to safety, I always put on spur boots first and left my high
heels and bra on the ground...for celebratory dancing that night!
The acting of this is as good as the whole premise of the humor. I watch this often and it never stops entertaining me.
The part that really sells this is the growing concern from Connie Booth and the Rockies choir.
OMG this is the first time I've seen the real thing! I'm a Canadian who has been singing this for more years than I care to admit to having been alive for. Well done lads!
As a bud light drinking trucker this what I listen to
Not gonna lie that Sex on TV is still one of the best dad jokes in the history of ever.
That's good, but I topped that.
I took my cousin's saxophone and placed it on top of his TV.
You can see where I went with it ;)
It came last
Sadly, not to the Zurichians.
I love it so much :)
BURMA!
When my older sister was a baby, my parents would sing this song to her since they didn't know any lullabies (not even Brahms Lullaby or Rock-A-Bye Baby). This is a true story. Oh, and my sister went to college to be a lab worker in a hospital - *not a lumberjack!*
Absolutely awesome!!! Comedy that never gets old. I love it. 😺😺😺😺🇺🇸☮️
The Pythons were the best and the funniest. How they came up with all these sketches is just amazing. Love everything they did. Thanx for posting this.
Long live British comedy.
Long live the descendants of Python. The Hitchhiker's guide, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Little Brittain, Black Adder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, and all the rest I can't recall because I'm getting old. Oh, to be one of The Young Ones again. LOL.
Keeping Up Appearances and Father Ted are really good too! 😊👍
@@herbbluntman2287 Mitchell and Webb
Watching it made Bertie Wooster (aka, Hugh Laurie) my first crush.
Why does British Comedy always seem to involve men wearing women's clothing?🤔
This is real comedy by talented comedians unlike the crap we are force fed today
Absolutely brilliant !! I can't imagine my youth without Monty Python in it ...they were a huge part of our lives , then and now...
Wow! As a Canadian kid l used to hear kids at school singing this and never knew where it originated.
I like when the Mounties throw up their hands and walk away. Lol. 😂
After hearing this I started singing to my cat. I'm a kitty cat and I'm ok. I sleep all night, and I sleep all day.........
This is one of my favorite songs by this cast.i have the full DVD set of their shows.fabulous
My dad showed me this about 9 years ago and I had forgotten about it
Glad to see it again
CarrionCanSir was he trying to tell you something :P
My parents would watch Monty Python and I would be confused because I thought it was "weird and made no sense" and would leave the room. Then I came of age and started to enjoy it myself and it was part of how I became friends with them. God damn was watching the Dead Parrot Sketch with my mother priceless.
After seeing this the first time some 40 years ago I never forgot it and no matter how many times I've seen it, it still makes me laugh out loud! The Pythons were and are the best.
I first saw this some 40+ years ago and never forgot it. No matter how many times I see it, it makes me laugh out loud every time. The Pythons were and still are the best. Their humor never gets old. It's timeless.
Sorry for writing my comment twice. I must be experiencing that strange phenomenon of Deja Vu! Fans will get the reference.
I'd like to publicly thank Monty Python for the sense of humor that I possess today. LOL!!!
Who here first saw Monty Python on PBS as a kid and fell in love at first sight Thank You You Beautiful Lunatics
Dear TH-cam: I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song I just watched about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are transvestites and only a few of them cut down trees!
@@nancydarkes-stiles8484 I'm guessing that Seventh Mist is playing off the "complaint" right after the song. "Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them wear dresses!" Cleverly done, Seventh Mist!
I watched this tooo
Mine too, and only a handfull hang around in bars!
LMAO. While my husband has never been a lumberjack, he has dressed up as female characters for Halloween the last two years.
@@jenniferwilson3394 As long as he doesn't hang around in bars on Halloween!
as a trans lumberjack who hangs in bars, I endorse this
But are you a friend of the Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Ms.)?
@@logopolizer7602 alas, I am not
Did you kiss the radio announcer too?
@@nurlindafsihotang49 of course I did
I just want to know how they can get away with sex on the telly.... I keep falling off too!
My dad was a lumberjack. He died when the tree he was felling squashed him flat like a pancake. I miss that tree so much.
Did he leave you his suspendies and bra to you as part of your heritage?
This entire sequence from the barber to the end text was perfect
When I was in high school in the 70’s EVERYONE had to do this skit! School, camp…They didn’t have Mountie uniforms so they all dressed as lumberjacks.
YES omg.
The original Chad and Femboy hybrid
My son graduated from the University of Illinois in Forestry, and we made "He's a Lumberjack" the theme of his graduation party.
The best choice! 😁
@@lupodelupis3672 Arguably, the _only_ choice!
You KNOW it took British humor to set us free.
Just loved that show.
Love those old Monty Python Flying Circus episodes. Also the late Benny Hill.
My parents used to watch this when I was a kid and I didn't understand it. I forgot about it for a long time. Then as an adult I stumbled across the lumberjack song/skit on TV and it all came back to me! I started singing along with it and could barely finish for laughing so hard.
My Dad always watched British comedy when I was growing up and it was the same way. I didn’t understand why he though it was so damn funny. Now that I’m older I appreciate it and get most of the humor.
This show saved my sanity back in the early 70's when it first came on in northern Ohio. I watched it on recommendation from an uncle and didn't expect much when I first turned it on. Ten minutes later, I'm on my hands and knees on the floor in front of the TV, shrieking with laughter and pounding on the floor. God bless you all, O men of Python.
And was that when you started wearing women's clothing?
@@alanlinnebur3139 i just went to Graceland the other day (when the tourists are gone Elvis comes down from upstairs and we watch it in the basement TV room - he had to fake his death , him being a federal agent and all)
I asked my mum in about 1970 what is monty pythons flying circus?
She said oh,don't watch that.
It was on late,about eleven at night.
50 years later I would say I have a rather strange and warped sense of humour after following Monty Python for 50 years. SPAM. .
I Swear I've Heard A Version Where He Says "I Wish I'd Been A Girly, Just Like My Dear Papa".
Yes they did a version !
When they did the show for German TV, he has to rhyme with the German word for bra, "bustenhalter" so changes the last line to "just like me in Uncle Walter."
There have actually been a couple of versions.
You are thinking of the version in their 1971 movie "And Now For Something Completely Different".
I saw this in its original broadcast. I am sure I also heard "I Wish I'd Been A Girly, Just Like My Dear Papa".
This was back when the Canadian Mounties were nice and civil. They didn't trample old ladies with their horses.
My first exposure to this bit was when they performed it at the Concert for George (Harrison) at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002. George would have approved, being a big Python fan and good friend of all of them.
I myself break into this song fairly regularly, especially in the cold months when wearing a flannel shirt (which with my beard makes me look pretty lumberjack-like).
I'm pleasantly surprised this hasn't been cancelled!
Well I'm a trans woman who wasn't offended by the trans jokes, I found them amusing.
I just watched this episode. Such an classic comedy show. One of the best ever.
I remember seeing this on Monty Python! Good then and today! :-D
1:22 - I love how the lower right singer swings right back into it for the chorus
I am from British Columbia and my dear old Papa was a lumber jack.
@Gary Daniel to late, but granny is ok with it.
don't you mean like your dear mama ;) lol
@@celticguy197531 nope , mama was a hippie.
@@madmann5373 fair dos lo2l but the original ending to the song was "like my dear mama"
@@celticguy197531 ha ha I get your joke now, that is just funny Happy 420😘🇨🇦
Till the day that I die, a flannel shirt will always remind me of this great song.
Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites.
I've had this damn song stuck in my head for two days. Pure fun listening to it again.
Back in elementary school my teacher asked the class for Canadian day what should we do. So I suggested getting on stage to and sing the Lumberjack song. Teacher asked what that is so I sung it for her. I got detention for a week🐺🇨🇦
legend.
So worth it....
You’re a hero to the world.
You sir ,ma'ma or whatever you prefer to be called for whatever reason (which I will not bother you about because your reasons are your own) are one of my heros.
Meh, she should have got detention for not knowing it
Due to subject matter this song is banned in Florida.
cool
I know you meant this as a joke, but this could be true
Why did the lumber train stop in the woods...?
To let the lumberjack off.
I feel down in the dunps today and
this made laugh so much I snotted.Thanks You Crazy Buggers
Bloody Genius
I feel really bad. It took like 4 years working for the park service for another ranger to ask if I knew this song. I said no. She then showed it to me, and it freaking changed everything! It is just SOOOOO funny!
God bless the queen, and her subject's humor
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs) 😂😂
"I keep falling off!" Hilarious
H0lystrike he literally had sex ON the tv.
It came last
'Cause of Monty Python and PBS.
I fell in love with British comedy.
Oh I was 18 .Now 61 still love British comedy.
Now I love an Irish show. Still Game.
I discovered the pythons when I was 18 too 😊
Still game is Scottish :)
@@thebgpikester Oh your right. I thought I typed Scottish.
It's like you think of a word and something else come's out of your mouth.
It was my freshman year in high school, 1975 when The Flying Circus came to PBS and the day after a new episode was aired, it was all my friends and I wanted to talk about. Great times.
I met the Pythons at the age of 15, I am 33, and they were broadcasted on public tv at midnight.
I don’t know what’s funnier his backup singers bailing with disgust or Connie Booth crying
I could be at a funeral for a love one.
A car drives by playing this song... I'll still laughing 😆
Carol Cleveland's slowly growing disillusionment is priceless.
She's a honorary python.
That's not Carol Cleveland, it's Connie Booth (once married to John Cleese, and with whom he co-created Fawlty Towers).
That's Connie Booth. John Cleese's ex-wife.
The Ultimate Reductionist Hahaha... how people can give this comment a thumbs up when you don’t recognise Connie Booth is a mystery.
Connie Booth was quite the hot bird.
Absolutely love this from an old Aussie 💜
Hello Lynette, How are you doing?
Monty Python's Flying Circus!!! Loved watching them during the 70's! In my area of Detroit, they were the prelude to watching The Benny Hill Show! And I honestly didn't know anything about Benny Hill until the late 80's, only to find out later that he got started years before!
Sunday evenings my buddies and I all gathered and watched! Great memories!
Love rewatching over and over to focus on each individual Mounty’s reactions
Love living in British Columbia , Where you don't have to be a lumberjack , or dress in women's clothing , but you can if you want to , However, it is very difficult now days on Vancouver island to find the right pair of high heels , when scaling to the top of the tree ;) ... Absolutely Love Monty Python
Vancouver Island and all of BC is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Would love to live there.
My dad started singing this randomly in the car was never sure about him after that
😂😂
He was probably just cheerful...it is a cheery song...
You had a dad that you were once sure about?
Me looking at thumbnail: *gasps* it’s something Canadian! *clicks*
Monty Python's Flying Circus, I have every episode on dvd ...Awesome
Me too, rented, ripped and burned courtesy of Netflix. Oh shit! Should I have said that out loud in a public forum? Oh god, I hear the sirens...they're coming for me! Tell my family I....
You mentioned pirating off Netflix on a TH-cam comment section. I am surprised TH-cam hasn’t offered you stock in their company yet.
@@herbbluntman2287 The FBI is knocking at the door.
Back in the day when you where allowed to make a joke
oh, there are plenty of good edgy gay/trans jokes now, it’s just that queer folks are the ones writing them
An absolute national treasure . Long may he continue.
Far far better than SNL ever was. Flying Circus was just so damn weirdly random in their skits.
And now for something completely different
Nothing Like the mighty Fraser River. Love the Fraser Canyon. Driven it many times.
Nowadays, this would be considered offensive; and the whole Monty Python crew would have gotten cancelled. Ah, back when skits could be funny. *:D*
What? No protests of the outraged mounties ending? Poor thing was just trying be true to themself.
And here we are in 2022... Need I say more?
Thanks to BBC and PBS for bringing Monty Python to America. It was a must see every week back in the day.
The Barber Sketch that preceded this song was another of the Pythons' best moments.....
Michael Palin resisting that Sweeny Todd impulse was comedy gold!
King Leonidas: what's your profession (translated from Scottish)?
"I'm a lumberjack
And I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
(He's a lumberjack
And he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day)
I cut down trees
I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatry'
On Wednesdays I go shopping
And have buttered scones for tea
(He cuts down trees
He eats his lunch
He goes to the lavatry'
On Wednesdays He goes shopping
And has buttered scones for tea
I cut down trees)
I'm a lumberjack
And I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women's' clothing and hang around in bars
(He cuts down trees
He skips and jumps
He likes to press wild flowers
He puts on women's' clothing and hang around in bars?)
I'm a lumberjack
And I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I wear high heels
Suspendies' and a bra
I wish I'd been a girly
Just like my dear pa-pa
(He cuts down trees
He wears high heels?)
(He's a lumberjack
And he's ok
He sleeps all night and he works all day)"
You're a Very funny Lumberjack Son ♥.
As someone who was born in the lumberjack village of Littlefork, Minnesota, I must object. According to my father, when our neighbors would offer to cut down trees to pay for medical care, since he was the town doctor, he would decline if he planted the trees. However, if they brought a chicken for payment that might be different, depending on whether or not we had shot a pheasant that day.