Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Parrot Sketch |American Reaction

[@kingstumble]

With Monty Python you need to engage a sense of the absurd. Don't try to make sense of it.

[@iancomputerscomputerrepair8944]

The parrot sketch and the Lumberjack sketch are well known in the UK, they are considered classic timeless pieces of comedy. I still laughed at them and I laughed at your confusion at seeing the madness of Monty Python. Keep up the great work😄😄😄

[@TTM9691]

Both sketches (and Monty Python) are well known in the USA (and elsewhere).

[@alexfletcher5192]

'The Norwegian Blue' is the joke that goes under the radar. Straight from the suggestion box of Cleese's co-writer, the late Graham Chapman.

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

Pining for the fjords.

[@darrylglynn1557]

A joke from this sketch that many people seem to miss is the breed of parrot (It's actually a Blue and Yellow Macaw). On the sketch they call it a "Norwegian Blue", as if there is a parrot native to Scandinavia. 😂

[@Isleofskye]

You do realise you are creating a Maelstrom with that rather controversial comment...

[@rasmuswi]

Monty Pythons transitions from one sketch to another are often absolutely hilarious. There are comedians that have made a living on sketches that are less funny than Monty Pythons transitions between sketches.

[@Badgersj]

This is a staple of end-of-year sketch shows at schools! Most Brits can recite every line off by heart, "This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to see its maker. This is a late parrot... If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot." And don't get me started on the Lumberjack Song...

[@MichaelYoder1961]

never try to make sense of Monty Python. lol And this is a classic skit

[@pauloliver8130]

Welcome to the dark side that is known as Monty python. They also did some films. The holy grail and the life of Brian are worth a watch.

[@markschattefor6997]

You utter nutcase, this is the introduction to the bright sight. Nothing dark involved with Monty Python, they were utterly white, and fishy.

[@gmf121266]

@@markschattefor6997 Well I think they they were slightly magnolia with a hint of peach.

[@markschattefor6997]

@@gmf121266 Of course they were, I forgot to scrub my dining area before I started tasting the exquisite varieties of spam with spam.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@gmf121266 - SLIGHTLY MAGNOLIA !!! With just a HINT of peach ??? I'm sorry, but NO ONE and I mean, NO ONE.... EXPECTS........................ 'The Spanish Inquisition' TA-DAH !!! 😎😃👍

[@gmf121266]

@@stewedfishproductions7959 Sorry, can I just check. Is this a 5 minute argument or the full half hour?

[@jakedee4117]

Try Monty Python "The Spanish Inquisition" . The Monty Python crew is an example of what happens if you stay at university for too long, they're not bad people just insane.

[@jasminejones7389]

and don't forget The Cheese Shop..

[@hifijohn]

I didnt expect that comment.

[@stevencarr4002]

@@hifijohn Nobody expected that comment.

[@darthgardner]

Monty Python is bizarre at times but welcome to good old fashioned british humour..most of this is now lost in time as we just dont do stuff like this anymore..but its there and its funny !

[@nunc-hic-stans4211]

Hello, I'm re watching Flying Circus for the tenth time I think and I don't know if I'm going insane or what but that "bizarreness" makes more sense with every new watch 🤔😁. Their intelligent, abstract, absurd sense of humor is as great as their acting; sometimes I get lost thinking of their perfect diction while saying very fast very intrincated sentences in a "woman's" high tone, all too difficult 😱. Always welcome a piece of british comedy, greetings from Buenos Aires 👍👋

[@bobby666666]

Two of the most Iconic Monty Python sketches. You need to do Bicycle Repair Man.

[@Pokafalva]

This is LUNATIC British comedy. Don't dissect it - just go with the lunatic flow!

[@TOYSTITCHER]

Hahaaa 🤣 Welcome to the world of Monty Python…..if you follow the trail, it’s quite a ride 🤣🤔😵‍💫😁…almost guaranteed to make you see society and the world in a different light. Thanks for sharing 🤗

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Welcome to the random irreverent world of Monty Python... I'm not sure you got the irony and pathos, especially in the lumberjack song...

[@mjdaniel8710]

I got a big taste of Monty Python in the 1970s when I was a teen and have loved them ever since

[@allangoodger969]

One of the all time classics. Be warned...... if you go down the Monty Python rabbit hole we wont see again for many months. You will need painkillers for your ribs from laughing. Although a lot of Americans just cant understand English and Australian humor.

[@f3aok]

A classic British comedy sketch well known by lots of people over here.😆

[@tubularap]

The sketch is a superb classic, no doubt, but meanwhile ... you trying to make sense of it was a joy in itself :-)

[@tommyvictorbuch6960]

Monty Python was 100% pure genius.

[@jupehe5703]

You have to check their "Black Knight" sketch, it`s just a flesh wound.🤣🤣🤣

[@SomeRandomOldFatGuy]

Monty python's humor is so so stupid and so so good

[@clemstevenson]

The comedy is in the sheer ridiculousness of the situation. Old style lumberjacking, with just muscle power, would have been an exceedingly masculine occupation. Selling dead parrots is an equally ridiculous concept. Who would buy a parrot from a pet shop, without checking that it was alive first?

[@howardchambers9679]

Fish licence!!

[@clemstevenson]

@@howardchambers9679 Eric, the half a bee!

[@AlmightyCRJ]

The funniest joke in the world sketch (the joke that won the war)

[@mikejankowski6321]

OH YES!!! And the Argument Clinic and Ministry of Silly Walks.

[@everilmatthews3483]

Trying to make sense of Monty Python is like disecting a frog, nobody laughs and the frog dies!

[@gillcawthorn7572]

Look ,if you want to react to British humour you must expect a great deal of weird stuff .We Brits like eccentricity and if something can be held up to be ridiculous, so much the better .

[@davidpelc]

i don´t know if in UK is it also called "abstract humor" which we Czechs very good understand and i would say we have very simmilar sence of humor like British...dark, abstract, no taboos. She is killing the scatch with questions like "i have never seen a parrot rest like that before".

[@gillcawthorn7572]

@@davidpelc Yes ,some times the reactor needs to let something play through first. But it is her channel and her decision how it is done ,

[@davidpelc]

@@gillcawthorn7572 of course she has full right to react and to say whatever she wants. I like some of her reactions, and it's interesting how many Americans don't understand abstract humour.

[@hawkmaster381]

Monty Python was notorious for suddenly jumping to totally unrelated scenes.

[@s.oliver3687]

Some other Monty Pythons sketches: Argument Clinic Kilimanjaro Expedition The Ministry of Silly Walks

[@emiliajojo5703]

These sketches are also common knowledge in Germany, monty python is absolute part of culture.I'll never forget the mice orgel...

[@jean-francoispirenne6518]

The best one of Monthy Pythons is the first one I saw in 1970: The Killing Joke.

[@powerpointgamer]

This was a really interesting reaction, but may I respectfully suggest that when you watch any Monty Python sketch you avoid trying to make a common sense narrative out of it as I don't believe that any common sense narrative was ever put into it. It's classic British humour of the 1960s & 70s alongside others like 'At Last, The 1948 Show'. I lived it and I loved it while my parents couldn't get it at all.

[@Isleofskye]

Tru Say,Mi Bredda. Preach those words,mi bredrin. Zeen Rastaman...

[@Greenwood4727]

this is from the film they made, and now for something completely different. they had a 4 series tv series with a lot more anarchic sketches

[@BaxterThewall]

Monty Python... welcome to the world of absurd 😂

[@Badgersj]

Darling, stop trying to apply logic to Monty Python!

[@mikejankowski6321]

Monty Python logic: "If she weighs the same as a duck..."

[@seetaami5810]

Oh, but those parrots of the Norwegian jungles stun so very easily. Afterwards, and beyond, they tend to pine for rest, preferably on their final resting place.

[@jenniferjacobs228]

Monty Python should never be analised...they were crazy hahaha

[@andersgranstrom7128]

Hahahahahaa.... Such a classic!! 🤣😂🤣 Thanks!!

[@hywelw]

You don't try to make sense of Monty Python... it's the entire absurdity of the comedy that makes it so funny. Many other British shows have come out since with a similar humour - but this was ground breaking as it was the first. It sort of reverberates some of the humour that could be seen in the Music Halls of the early 1900s.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

The live version from the TV series with a studio audience is actually much funnier.

[@Isleofskye]

Dick Emery-The Milkman and also The Driving Instructor are your sense of humoUr:)

[@everilmatthews3483]

It's Monty Python!

[@hifijohn]

their argument clinic is very funny no, it isn't yes it is no, it isn't yes, it is.

[@stephenpriest2766]

I remember when I first saw the dead parrot sketch from the television 📺 show. I was a kid and I watched it with my mother. We laughed so hard! I think 🤔 the television version was better because John Cleese was more animated, especially with his thesaurus speech about the dead parrot 🐦. The audience reaction added to the humor.

[@geraldinemaigne8463]

My thoughts exactly.

[@js0988]

Great plumage!

[@peterbooth793]

Another British comic you may like is Marty Feldman 😳. Better known as Eyegor, I mean Igor, Young Frankenstein 😉.

[@fredmila]

They merged the parrot sketch into the lumberjack one because they did not know how to finish it.

[@stefanpettersson5285]

Look for "funniest scenes of Monty python"...it's about 28 mins long but I promise you it will be a well spent half an hour 😂😂😂

[@arnodobler1096]

"Mr. Bean" by Rowan Atkinson .🤣🤣

[@ltsecomedy2985]

Hi Tysheen, I`m not sure if I mentioned this one before but I`d love to see you react to (Why Michelangelo Didn't Paint the Last Supper) by Monty Python team.

[@debjorgo]

Py - thon, like the snake.

[@quasarsphere]

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to check out the "Are We The Baddies?" sketch by Mitchell & Webb. Enjoy! :)

[@mariaefelices6543]

Epic monty you shocked my lovely lady ms uk

[@johnbyrd7400]

You gotta check out the Martin Luther skit. Are You Being Served was also a funny show. I haven't seen much but also The Mighty Bosh is good.

[@txellblanxer9060]

I can’t believe you haven’t watch this before. And I’m from Barcelona…I mean, Monty Python

[@777petew]

With Monty Python humour you don't ask what's that got to do with it? No one knows. It's random comedy.

[@rammsteinrulz16]

THIS. IS AN EX- PARROT.

[@coot1925]

No point in trying to make too much sense out of python. I've stood right where they filmed that. Black park, iver heath, Buckinghamshire, England. It's right next to pinewood studios where they film loads of big movies like star wars and James bond. Not far from where I used to live.

[@mikejankowski6321]

That makes you almost a celebrity. As for myself, I live about 30 miles from where Captain Kirk fought the Gorn.

[@johankaewberg9512]

Know that when the lumberjack song was made, transsexuality had only been legal a few years. And would still be punishable in scotland for a decade. A century earlier it was a capital offense in all of the UK.

[@johnveerkamp1501]

IN THE NETHERLANDS THE SIRIES WHERE ON DUTCH TV.

[@coffeindrinker2581]

Hallo Tysheen and welcome to Monthy Python's crazy world . and the name Python pronounced with a P in the beginning so there is nothing special about the name . Greetings from Stockholm ....

[@StaffanRudnick]

The parrot sketch can be used politically too :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoKZhZqXha-WiJI&ab_channel=TellyFarnsworth These sketches are different from the TV series. The parrot sketch is longer and the lumberjack is a hairdresser if I remember correctly.

[@Hammarspiken]

Hi Tysheen (: you are awsome (: the next the singer is John Cleese wife (: you have to check out John Cleese movie. " A fish called Wanda " from 1988 its my favorit funny movie(: 🇺🇲. Jamie lee Curtis Kevin Kline. And 🇬🇧. Michael Palin John Cleese Cyntia Cleese 👍 if you not react on it so. Just look on it privat (: its high score english humor (: 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇸🇪

[@larryk731]

The whole point to this sketch is to use as many euphemisms for dead as possible. Don't apply logic - it's illegal to do that.

[@howardchambers9679]

Monty Python at the Hollywood bowl. Oh and it's Pythun not py thon.

[@philharris5848]

Try the classic British comedy series "Rising Damp" it's soooooo funny. I guarantee you'll love it 😄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

[@TTM9691]

Damn. This ISN'T the right version, sorry to say. This is the lousy movie version (they took the best sketches from the TV show - which was performed live in front of an audience) and put them into a movie. It's way better in the original. (The Lumberjack Song is part of an entirely different sketch) Love seeing you check out Python though! Just make sure they're the TV versions, because they were a TV show. (they did make some classic movies: Holy Grail, Life Of Brian and Meaning Of Life).

[@chimeraaretina1450]

Sorry but look at your screen. You are in great and the movie in small Everybody can watch what is important for you...... But sorry , here the stars are the Monty Python's Come back on planet earth.......

[@mikemikemick]

Try some more old British comedy like. Dick Emery - The Milkman.

[@colinhedges4689]

I know this is a sexist comment but…… this lady is the only woman reactions from can watch 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@resipsaloquitur1857]

Tysheen is taking all the obvious silly humor so seriously!!! This is meant to be zany humor and needs NO analysis at all-just laughter!! Does she try to analyze the Three Stooges or the Marx Brothers or Benny Hill the same way!!?? I love most of her reactions but she needs to let go and just laugh at the craziness. Period.

[@jillhobson6128]

You really don't get British humour do you? PS cut out the background music.

[@steveholt6517]

I wish I could watch this without the stupid commentary

[@TheoZoffrok]

The great news is that you can. Now off you trot!

[@patverum9051]

Available on YT without commentary, are YOU stupid or what?

[@taxidude]

Stop looking for a story ending with a punchline! Our comedy doesn't work that way. You're being far too literal. Let go of your reason and just go with the sketches all the way without question.

[@MeStevely]

Woke killed comedy. So sad.

[@LamirLakantry]

Wow, that sketch did not age well. Just cringing at the transphobia.

[@appytight8468]

As many have noted, woke is killing comedy.

[@LamirLakantry]

@@appytight8468 Only comedy that relies on the shortcut of mocking minorities and underprivileged as their punchline. It was lasy to begin with. It's like seeing someone bullying an overweight person and calling it out, then being told that your ruining bullying. Well then good! If that's what your comedy is based on then it deserves to be forgotten.

[@appytight8468]

@@LamirLakantry But strangely enough, it hasn't been forgotten, has it? Perhaps in your eagerness to find and take offence at anything and everything you haven't quite got this right. Cause for a pause for thought?

[@fetlocks3]

Its called English humour, remember only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, and of course we are all, windswept and interesting !.