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

[@georgemedia1069]

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

[@tusharg8452]

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

[@Lovesongs-Deathdance]

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

[@andymassingham]

Always loved that kinda non-sequitur opening.

[@pigeonlove]

I don't see the joke

[@mjribes]

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

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

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

[@nunyanunya4147]

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]

It's not dead. It's resting.

[@itsalwayssunnyinpahoa7631]

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

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

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

[@something2105]

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

[@Carnifex20]

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

[@vikingsweden13]

Norwegian blue ROFL

[@simeondermaats]

*IT IS BLOODY DEMISED*

[@raidenmunja5876]

That part got me in tears, i swear

[@newgame897]

@@vikingsweden13 beautiful plumage

[@stellapuppy6086]

Patrick Bateman it’s bleeding de-mised!

[@davidsnow2420]

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]

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

[@andersdottir1111]

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

[@soflodoug]

Benny hill was right behind😂

[@jessicahannah2522]

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.

[@brokensoul8390]

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

[@wmbrown6]

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]

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

[@istvanberta1908]

"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]

@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]

@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]

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

[@NoucheDozzle]

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

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

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]

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]

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

[@alecolivaw2461]

much like those twins

[@sweatermonkey2604]

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

[@ownpetard8379]

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

[@martinclark8162]

Monkeydude, and I thought you were so butch!

[@pamtnman1515]

they were prescient

[@martinclark8162]

@@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]

@@martinclark8162 that is a work of art

[@Mistertudball]

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.

[@CliveGregory]

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]

Did they have Norwegian blue?

[@miklosernoehazy8678]

@@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]

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

[@artsmith103]

Do you wish you were a lumberjack?

[@BKKfreak]

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

[@TomFynn]

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.

[@mato4025]

That might be why they referenced this sketch in the christian interview sketch

[@danthompson1575]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@thevideoclub8562]

@@beorlingo Chapman wrote it IIRC

[@arra3410]

@@beorlingo ooh yes they are

[@ZachariahMBaird]

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

[@raylast3873]

They had to invent a few

[@pi17]

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

[@VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich]

@@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]

@@VladimirIsmaenkAnzorkovich neat, never heard that explicitly stated

[@pigeonlove]

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

[@kalebbruwer]

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

[@TheNextDr]

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]

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

[@ElDuderinoh]

Have you been able to use it yet

[@kalebbruwer]

@@ElDuderinoh no...

[@ElDuderinoh]

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

[@scottkay6495]

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

[@lonestar6709]

_"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]

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

[@cynthiaking406]

Nah, it’s pining

[@GenGamesUniverse]

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

[@terencevangaalen4127]

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

[@Albtraum_TDDC]

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!"

[@Briguy1027]

I love the line "pining for the fjords!"

[@carultch]

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

[@istvanberta1908]

@@carultch paining

[@Ofek_92]

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

[@istvanberta1908]

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

[@sharonwright7932]

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

[@feleouis]

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]

That is contradiction, not irony.

[@philipargo]

@@passthebutterrobot2600 ...might be intentional comedy.

[@nunyabizness199]

Whats the bleedin iron got to do with it ?!

[@theogb]

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]

Susceptible to the power of suggestion

[@MTMF.london]

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

[@ExopMan]

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

[@pigeonlove]

Is that really funny to you??

[@eaglesfan226]

“voom”

[@premanadi]

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

[@Atanu]

@@premanadi The album version is funnier.

[@premanadi]

@@Atanu I agree!

[@hrrrrrrrrrrrn]

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

[@stellapuppy6086]

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

[@jayz8839]

2022 - real life for someone

[@bhmch39]

This comment should have all the thumbs!

[@SamuelBlack84]

"I want to be a woman It's my right as a man"

[@grandwaha]

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

[@capnskiddies]

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

[@robertjensen1048]

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

[@samuelgordino]

Just 20 years? 😃👍

[@Ichijoe2112]

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

[@DJ-bj8ku]

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

[@georgethompson9396]

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

[@chadking1938]

WHAT ABOUT MY BLOODY PARROT???

[@tonstad39]

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

[@wolfgangortner2634]

This is aN EX PARROT

[@wondermaster7271]

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]

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

[@paulo_f1]

When does he say that?

[@Wafflemarine22]

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.

[@simonmullins8124]

"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]

Recognize Mrs Jonathan Cleese?

[@npcx-mq6cr]

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

[@blindleader42]

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

[@cyberiandeprochan7998]

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]

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

[@justjames1111]

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

[@toddcott9510]

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

[@LeafShade]

The rest are ex-hairdressers.

[@BasedRanger]

Am Lumberjack. Can confirm.

[@SelvesteSand]

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

[@Thursdaym2]

..and wear suspenders! Ohhhh

[@pierreii1]

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

[@redsquirrel1086]

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]

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.

[@all_time_Jelly_Fish]

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

[@abdullahalibutler4703]

The "Life of Brian." 'I want to be a woman.' Now that really was 40 years too early 😂

[@Paarthurnaxdova]

“I’ve got a slug”

[@timothymartin3672]

Does it talk?

[@SamuelBlack84]

​@timothymartin3672 Not really

[@tomcat9930]

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

[@Ghostdogsurvivalist]

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

[@tamar5261]

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]

@@tamar5261 61 here.

[@danboyle116]

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

[@francestomic2772]

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]

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 …

[@oldlogin3383]

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

[@sheilarough236]

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]

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]

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

[@dhayris160]

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

[@SelvesteSand]

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

[@gablison]

@@SelvesteSand SHE could be a lesbian.

[@charlesshreeve319]

Hangs around in BARS!

[@billylauwda9178]

@@gablison ArE YoU AssuMInG HiS GeNDEr?

[@flamboyantroach]

@@gablison *he/him lesbians exist*

[@elli_lovesmusic]

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

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Seems he's more of a lumberjill. ;)

[@anonymousperson6462]

Kept on trying to figure out what her last word was.

[@Argonaut121]

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

[@Holymakinaw]

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]

Lol good one

[@charlie-obrien]

Good one, eh?

[@pigeonlove]

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.

[@totem95]

@@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]

What is mountie?

[@barefootbeachrunner9498]

"This is an ex parrot" Best line 😂😂

[@smokeyarcade]

He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!

[@Ghost-ql3hl]

I feel this is appropriate to watch in honour of terry

[@crackedanvilblacksmithing3932]

I mean he isn't in this one

[@CoastGhost13]

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

[@crackedanvilblacksmithing3932]

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

[@dragonsamurai559]

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

[@ZombrexAbuse]

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

[@crusherbmx]

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.....

[@soaringvulture]

Did it talk?

[@hefipaleburp9543]

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

[@markabicht4535]

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

[@scottrackley4457]

@Rodger Hodgson Mr. Idle is mine as well

[@renegader3d]

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

[@renegader3d]

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]

@@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

[@critter7052]

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

[@cockroachcharlie5619]

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

[@zephyrsbusiness6437]

@@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

[@davidcurtis7547]

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

[@renadromey620]

He's pining for the fjords!!!

[@luisreyes1963]

So is Boris Johnson.

[@u.v.s.5583]

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

[@raylast3873]

Ah shit, he came back as a zombie.

[@zephyrsbusiness6437]

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

[@timwall6187]

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

[@jonsnow7586]

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 😂

[@tramline008]

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]

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

[@ruizheli1974]

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]

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]

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.

[@PlanesTrainsEverything]

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

[@steveford8999]

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

[@mikentx57]

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

[@klackon1]

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

[@DawnLevendula]

they hurt my brain,

[@Iggywiggywoo]

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

[@skzion2]

Pete 1989 Nice get.

[@petermaxwell2965]

Pretty Polly !

[@roberthuppert4912]

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

[@leighfennell7890]

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

[@jackburns6403]

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

[@seanoneill5799]

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.

[@Titan52berg]

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]

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

[@_BhagavadGita]

"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!!

[@davidc3857]

Hello Polly, wakey wakey!

[@max-davy]

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

[@Daniel_Huffman]

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

[@titanicboy2722]

1:10 please call peta

[@titanicboy2722]

Also “nah he is stunned”

[@monumentofwonders]

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

[@TheAtheist22]

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.

[@biankacosma]

"It's pining for the Fjords" - a line for Eternity 😂

[@charleswills4554]

Truly one of the greatest sketches ever

[@tomitstube]

a classic, ages like a fine wine.

[@AstronomyDomine]

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

[@yessure5291]

Years later and still really funny !!

[@julianaylor4351]

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.

[@fredgrove4220]

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

[@peger]

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

[@Proman476]

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

[@shoaibmalik9096]

Ikr

[@Proman476]

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

[@Proman476]

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

[@aidangriffiths5075]

I love that it's a Norwegian parrot 😂

[@alkholos]

Sadly, that species is extinct.

[@douglasmachacek9579]

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?"

[@Yetipfote]

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

[@johnrose1641]

Came here from a Udemy Python course and now I can’t get enough of Monty Python skits.

[@same1eka]

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

[@coldlakealta4043]

as a loyal Canadian, I hold this close to my heart as the spiritual National Anthem of my country. I have been known to hum it in places like foreign airports.

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

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

[@patricioestebanobergparra1873]

That's will be horrible

[@mwg911hk]

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!

[@lovenotwar598]

Its lowered the curtain and joined the choir invisible

[@EyehatePersona5]

My friend and I did this skit for drama class. We got a very good mark and I had so much fun working on the project

[@NicGoldenEddie]

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

[@derricklogan2058]

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!!

[@shmulikanglister]

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

[@BarbusCraft]

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]

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

[@randytrader3026]

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..

[@666Tomato666]

and now for something different... a lumberjack

[@jellowtaco6401]

Completely

[@Prince__Teclis]

My dad started showing Monty Python to my younger siblings a while back. Fast forward a few months and he breaks the news the family budgie is dead and the first response from my little sister in return was "are you sure its not just resting?"

[@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283]

“Norwegian Blue Parrot, pining for the fjords” lol

[@fanfaretloudest]

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

[@stevencoffman34]

Two classic Python sketches dead parrot and lumberjack song

[@marjoriehague4388]

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

[@stevechristie2569]

Marjorie are you aged 23-36?

[@lydialapias6551]

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

[@TimberwolfC14]

2 of the most iconic comedy sketches ever made The comedy is timeless

[@truthmatters-jt5up]

for me, it's the argument. especially the long version.

[@davidkopec9442]

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

[@weo-mum-mum]

Oh Lord, I'm older than this sketch, lol. Just as funny now as it was back in the day.

[@briand2614]

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

[@okee9]

Palins expressions in any sketch always cracked me up

[@MacBaker82]

Classic Monty Python. Two of their best sketches!

[@jamespace1965]

Let's not forget the argument sketch.

[@CP-tm7be]

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."

[@jbanks979]

It’s always amazing to me how something as famous as the dead parrot sketch has no defined ending (since the original had Graham Chapman’s colonel declaring it too silly). I think when they did it on SNL in the mid 90’s they basically propositioned each other for a date

[@jasonland455]

Oh this is just silly John Cleese you are a silly silly man and I hope you are well you’ve brought me joy and laughter for years thank you sir

[@cordingdesert9566]

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

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

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

[@aseagull7703]

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