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  • 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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2887

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

    • @tusharg8452
      @tusharg8452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +178

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

    • @Lovesongs-Deathdance
      @Lovesongs-Deathdance 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @andymassingham
      @andymassingham 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Always loved that kinda non-sequitur opening.

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I don't see the joke

    • @mjribes
      @mjribes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @sleuthentertainment5872
    @sleuthentertainment5872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1652

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

    • @nunyanunya4147
      @nunyanunya4147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      It's not dead. It's resting.

    • @itsalwayssunnyinpahoa7631
      @itsalwayssunnyinpahoa7631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @sweatermonkey2604
    @sweatermonkey2604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +967

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

    • @ownpetard8379
      @ownpetard8379 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @martinclark8162
      @martinclark8162 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Monkeydude, and I thought you were so butch!

    • @pamtnman1515
      @pamtnman1515 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they were prescient

    • @martinclark8162
      @martinclark8162 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@martinclark8162 that is a work of art

  • @Carnifex20
    @Carnifex20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2491

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

    • @vikingsweden13
      @vikingsweden13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Norwegian blue ROFL

    • @simeondermaats
      @simeondermaats 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      *IT IS BLOODY DEMISED*

    • @raidenmunja5876
      @raidenmunja5876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That part got me in tears, i swear

    • @newgame897
      @newgame897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@vikingsweden13 beautiful plumage

    • @stellapuppy6086
      @stellapuppy6086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Patrick Bateman it’s bleeding de-mised!

  • @brokensoul8390
    @brokensoul8390 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1579

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

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Thor_Odinson
    @Thor_Odinson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +888

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

    • @NoucheDozzle
      @NoucheDozzle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @MMuraseofSandvich
      @MMuraseofSandvich 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @alecolivaw2461
      @alecolivaw2461 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      much like those twins

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn ปีที่แล้ว +52

    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.

  • @davidsnow2420
    @davidsnow2420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +483

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

    • @andersdottir1111
      @andersdottir1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

    • @soflodoug
      @soflodoug ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Benny hill was right behind😂

    • @jessicahannah2522
      @jessicahannah2522 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @CliveGregory
    @CliveGregory 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3461

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      Did they have Norwegian blue?

    • @miklosernoehazy8678
      @miklosernoehazy8678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

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

    • @artsmith103
      @artsmith103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Do you wish you were a lumberjack?

    • @BKKfreak
      @BKKfreak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    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.

  • @lonestar6709
    @lonestar6709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    _"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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @cynthiaking406
      @cynthiaking406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nah, it’s pining

    • @GenGamesUniverse
      @GenGamesUniverse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @terencevangaalen4127
      @terencevangaalen4127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Albtraum_TDDC
      @Albtraum_TDDC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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!"

  • @hrrrrrrrrrrrn
    @hrrrrrrrrrrrn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +589

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

    • @stellapuppy6086
      @stellapuppy6086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @jayz8839
      @jayz8839 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2022 - real life for someone

    • @bhmch39
      @bhmch39 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This comment should have all the thumbs!

  • @kalebbruwer
    @kalebbruwer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +811

    "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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @ElDuderinoh
      @ElDuderinoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Have you been able to use it yet

    • @kalebbruwer
      @kalebbruwer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ElDuderinoh no...

    • @ElDuderinoh
      @ElDuderinoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @ExopMan
    @ExopMan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +371

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

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that really funny to you??

    • @eaglesfan226
      @eaglesfan226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      “voom”

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @Atanu
      @Atanu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@premanadi The album version is funnier.

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Atanu I agree!

  • @ZachariahMBaird
    @ZachariahMBaird 4 ปีที่แล้ว +713

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

    • @raylast3873
      @raylast3873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      They had to invent a few

    • @pi17
      @pi17 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich
      @VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich neat, never heard that explicitly stated

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Paarthurnaxdova
    @Paarthurnaxdova 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    “I’ve got a slug”

  • @feleouis
    @feleouis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2382

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      That is contradiction, not irony.

    • @philipargo
      @philipargo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@passthebutterrobot2600 ...might be intentional comedy.

    • @nunyabizness199
      @nunyabizness199 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Whats the bleedin iron got to do with it ?!

    • @theogb
      @theogb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Susceptible to the power of suggestion

  • @danthompson1575
    @danthompson1575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@beorlingo Chapman wrote it IIRC

    • @arra3410
      @arra3410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@beorlingo ooh yes they are

  • @Briguy1027
    @Briguy1027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    I love the line "pining for the fjords!"

    • @carultch
      @carultch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carultch paining

    • @Ofek_92
      @Ofek_92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @istvanberta1908
      @istvanberta1908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @sharonwright7932
      @sharonwright7932 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @grandwaha
    @grandwaha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

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

    • @johnnyhyperborean1035
      @johnnyhyperborean1035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @capnskiddies
      @capnskiddies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @scottkay6495
    @scottkay6495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

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

  • @MTMF.london
    @MTMF.london ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

  • @tomcat9930
    @tomcat9930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @robertjensen1048
    @robertjensen1048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +254

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

    • @samuelgordino
      @samuelgordino ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Just 20 years? 😃👍

    • @Ichijoe2112
      @Ichijoe2112 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @DJ-bj8ku
      @DJ-bj8ku ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @georgethompson9396
      @georgethompson9396 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @toddcott9510
    @toddcott9510 5 ปีที่แล้ว +466

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

    • @LeafShade
      @LeafShade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The rest are ex-hairdressers.

    • @BasedRanger
      @BasedRanger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Am Lumberjack. Can confirm.

    • @SelvesteSand
      @SelvesteSand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @Thursdaym2
      @Thursdaym2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ..and wear suspenders! Ohhhh

    • @pierreii1
      @pierreii1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @chadking1938
    @chadking1938 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1072

    WHAT ABOUT MY BLOODY PARROT???

    • @tonstad39
      @tonstad39 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @wolfgangortner2634
      @wolfgangortner2634 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is aN EX PARROT

    • @wondermaster7271
      @wondermaster7271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @paulo_f1
      @paulo_f1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      When does he say that?

  • @Ghostdogsurvivalist
    @Ghostdogsurvivalist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

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

    • @tamar5261
      @tamar5261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tamar5261 61 here.

  • @redsquirrel1086
    @redsquirrel1086 ปีที่แล้ว +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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @dillon1320
    @dillon1320 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @sheilarough236
    @sheilarough236 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @barefootbeachrunner9498
    @barefootbeachrunner9498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    "This is an ex parrot"
    Best line 😂😂

  • @all_time_Jelly_Fish
    @all_time_Jelly_Fish ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @simonmullins8124
    @simonmullins8124 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1077

    "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 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Recognize Mrs Jonathan Cleese?

    • @npcx-mq6cr
      @npcx-mq6cr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @cyberiandeprochan7998
      @cyberiandeprochan7998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @elli_lovesmusic
    @elli_lovesmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

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

  • @francestomic2772
    @francestomic2772 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 …

  • @aidangriffiths5075
    @aidangriffiths5075 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love that it's a Norwegian parrot 😂

    • @alkholos
      @alkholos 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sadly, that species is extinct.

  • @dhayris160
    @dhayris160 5 ปีที่แล้ว +329

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

    • @MultiJebusChrist
      @MultiJebusChrist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Not with his wife, anyways...

    • @SelvesteSand
      @SelvesteSand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MultiJebusChrist He *could* be a lesbian, you know.

    • @gablison
      @gablison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SelvesteSand SHE could be a lesbian.

    • @charlesshreeve319
      @charlesshreeve319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hangs around in BARS!

    • @billylauwda9178
      @billylauwda9178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gablison ArE YoU AssuMInG HiS GeNDEr?

  • @justjames1111
    @justjames1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

  • @salvagedb2470
    @salvagedb2470 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Argonaut121
    @Argonaut121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @danboyle116
    @danboyle116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +135

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

  • @dragonsamurai559
    @dragonsamurai559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

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

    • @ZombrexAbuse
      @ZombrexAbuse ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @oldlogin3383
    @oldlogin3383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

  • @Ghost-ql3hl
    @Ghost-ql3hl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I feel this is appropriate to watch in honour of terry

    • @crackedanvilblacksmithing3932
      @crackedanvilblacksmithing3932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I mean he isn't in this one

    • @CoastGhost13
      @CoastGhost13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@crackedanvilblacksmithing3932 He's the singing mountie kneeling on the right. sooo kinda?

    • @crackedanvilblacksmithing3932
      @crackedanvilblacksmithing3932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@CoastGhost13 true just not.the main focus. But nevertheless great to rember what he accomplished with his friends

  • @Holymakinaw
    @Holymakinaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lol good one

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Good one, eh?

    • @pigeonlove
      @pigeonlove 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What is mountie?

  • @renadromey620
    @renadromey620 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    He's pining for the fjords!!!

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So is Boris Johnson.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah shit, he came back as a zombie.

    • @zephyrsbusiness6437
      @zephyrsbusiness6437 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @crusherbmx
    @crusherbmx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.....

  • @bathtub_jim7652
    @bathtub_jim7652 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful plumage.

  • @hefipaleburp9543
    @hefipaleburp9543 8 ปีที่แล้ว +232

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

    • @markabicht4535
      @markabicht4535 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @scottrackley4457
      @scottrackley4457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Rodger Hodgson Mr. Idle is mine as well

    • @renegader3d
      @renegader3d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @renegader3d
      @renegader3d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283
    @tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Norwegian Blue Parrot, pining for the fjords” lol

  • @K-o_S
    @K-o_S 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And now for something completely different.
    *EXPLODES*

  • @stevencoffman34
    @stevencoffman34 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Two classic Python sketches dead parrot and lumberjack song

  • @Titan52berg
    @Titan52berg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    a classic, ages like a fine wine.

  • @tramline008
    @tramline008 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @ruizheli1974
      @ruizheli1974 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @monumentofwonders
    @monumentofwonders วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    No matter how many times you see this, it's funny.

  • @PlanesTrainsEverything
    @PlanesTrainsEverything 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @davidc3857
    @davidc3857 7 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Hello Polly, wakey wakey!

    • @max-davy
      @max-davy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @Daniel_Huffman
      @Daniel_Huffman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @titanicboy2722
      @titanicboy2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      1:10 please call peta

    • @titanicboy2722
      @titanicboy2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also “nah he is stunned”

  • @mwg911hk
    @mwg911hk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @_BhagavadGita
    @_BhagavadGita 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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!!

  • @timwall6187
    @timwall6187 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @jonsnow7586
      @jonsnow7586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 😂

  • @seanoneill5799
    @seanoneill5799 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @AstronomyDomine
    @AstronomyDomine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

  • @same1eka
    @same1eka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

  • @Iggywiggywoo
    @Iggywiggywoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

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

    • @skzion2
      @skzion2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pete 1989 Nice get.

    • @petermaxwell2965
      @petermaxwell2965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pretty Polly !

    • @roberthuppert4912
      @roberthuppert4912 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @leighfennell7890
      @leighfennell7890 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @jackburns6403
      @jackburns6403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @steveford8999
    @steveford8999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

    • @mikentx57
      @mikentx57 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @alex35agm
    @alex35agm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a Canadian the lumberjack skit is hilarious.

  • @Yetipfote
    @Yetipfote ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @MMuraseofSandvich
    @MMuraseofSandvich 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "And now for something completely different."

  • @Albtraum_TDDC
    @Albtraum_TDDC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @EATSLEEPDRIVE2002
    @EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    -Well, he's...pinin' for the
    fee-ords!
    - ....."pænin' for the fjords??"

  • @cordingdesert9566
    @cordingdesert9566 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @davidkopec9442
    @davidkopec9442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @davidcurtis7547
    @davidcurtis7547 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @thrashmetal1017
    @thrashmetal1017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Jonesmalone562
    @Jonesmalone562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *PINING FOR THE FJORDS!?!?!*

  • @aseagull7703
    @aseagull7703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @derricklogan2058
    @derricklogan2058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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!!

  • @yessure5291
    @yessure5291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Years later and still really funny !!

  • @NicGoldenEddie
    @NicGoldenEddie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @666Tomato666
    @666Tomato666 11 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    and now for something different... a lumberjack

  • @lisaknox4113
    @lisaknox4113 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My favorite skit!
    It always cracks me up!

  • @douglasmachacek9579
    @douglasmachacek9579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He's pinning for the fiords. Hahahahaha. OMG! The best comedy group ever! I live in Cleveland OH, and remember watching this on PBS when I was a kid, my dad asked "Do you understand this?" I said "Yes. How can you not?"

  • @critter7052
    @critter7052 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

    • @cockroachcharlie5619
      @cockroachcharlie5619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @lissy.doerfler
    @lissy.doerfler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    🤣🤣🤣
    Timeless Humor. Just adorable.

  • @TheAtheist22
    @TheAtheist22 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @_REVERIE
    @_REVERIE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @fredgrove4220
    @fredgrove4220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +363

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

    • @peger
      @peger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @Proman476
      @Proman476 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @shoaibmalik9096
      @shoaibmalik9096 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ikr

    • @Proman476
      @Proman476 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Proman476
      @Proman476 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @charleswills4554
    @charleswills4554 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Truly one of the greatest sketches ever

  • @CP-tm7be
    @CP-tm7be 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +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."

  • @RonWylie-gk5lc
    @RonWylie-gk5lc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you imagine being a lumberjack and over the years having this sung to you everywhere

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @randytrader3026
    @randytrader3026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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..

  • @titanicboy2722
    @titanicboy2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:10 CALL PETA!!!

  • @cynthiacronin2794
    @cynthiacronin2794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wakey, wakey!! Lol 😅🤣 😂!

  • @lovenotwar598
    @lovenotwar598 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Its lowered the curtain and joined the choir invisible

  • @shmulikanglister
    @shmulikanglister 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That's Connie Booth who stands with Michael Palin in the song. She played with John Cleese in Fawlty Towers.

    • @BarbusCraft
      @BarbusCraft 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Connie co-wrote Fawlty Towers with John. Connie and John were married during the Monty Python area, They were married when they started Fawlty Towers but had divorced by the time they started the second season.

    • @jimmyhawk3270
      @jimmyhawk3270 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah and her name was "Polly"! Ha, ha! Talk about a callback!

  • @scottrackley4457
    @scottrackley4457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That callback to the larch...priceless

  • @mico6691
    @mico6691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Back when the world was still sane.

    • @mediamattersismycockholste562
      @mediamattersismycockholste562 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      no shit.

    • @paddypup1836
      @paddypup1836 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya the most sane period was around 1914 to 1945!

    • @drscopeify
      @drscopeify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paddypup1836 No, when the world was not politically correct and jumps from every little joke and turns anything and everything in to a personal offense. Art died in the hands of political correctness.

    • @FingersCrossedBeauty
      @FingersCrossedBeauty 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      DrScopeify It’s always the people who complain about “political correctness” that are too braindead to see the irony in the fact that YOURE literally the ones who run around on all corners of the internet whining and being offended about how ~everyone is just so offended over everything these days.~ Like no one here was calling this sketch problematic at all. And if you like this type of humor, then watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia or the Whitest Kids U’Know. Always Sunny has been on for over a decade and they’re still making hilarious shit. WKUK are a sketch group from the mid 2000s who just recently got back together, and they’re great. People are still making this type of stuff, you just have your head shoved so far up your ignorant ass that you prefer complaining about a nonexistent problem instead of actually discovering new things you might enjoy.
      It’s also funny how so many of you idiots seem to think “political correctness” has “killed” art when literally all that’s happened is that people have realized that 1.) racism isn’t funny or ok 2.) rape isn’t funny or ok 3.) slurs aren’t funny or ok, and 4.) if you are gonna joke about those things, just don’t be a f-cking asshole about it. Like, so sorry you can’t just walk around spewing the N word without justifiably getting your ass beat, but the world has evolved past the 1700s, and it’s time you trilobites do too.

  • @briand2614
    @briand2614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I just realized the girl is a very young Connie Booth who was in Fawlty Towers.