REACTING TO MONTY PYTHON | Dead Parrot Sketch!

[@haydenstock21]

Dead Parrot has to be up there for best Monty Python sketches, testament to that was when they did the live shows in 2014 and just John Cleese entering the stage saying “I wish to register a complaint” got a massive round of applause

[@MeganRuth]

😂 I can imagine!

[@haydenstock21]

Also very early version of the lumberjack song the last line was “I wish I’d been a girlie, just like my dear mama” but somewhere along the way that got changed to papa

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

this is the version from their first movie "and now for something completely different." which was a refilming of their most popular tv sketches. people often forget about this film thinking they only made 3 films when they actually made four.

[@moeball740]

Saw John Cleese and Eric Idle touring show in 2016 it was hilarious!

[@drwhatson]

The live version (and album) was better.

[@DJ-bj8ku]

What everyone misses at the beginning is how randomly Cleese calls Palin “Miss,” Palin corrects him and Cleese lies about having a cold. Perfect setup for Palin’s gaslighting to come.

[@AlmightyCRJ]

The editor wasn't wrong, it just that few people in public can remember that the Lumberjack song is its own sketch. It originally came from a Barber who had a phobia of hair - who wanted to be a lumberjack. The Dead Parrot sketch ending was just walking off in protest - having ended jn a suspiciously similar pet shop on Bolton with the cage still on the floor.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

this is the version from their first movie "and now for something completely different." which was a refilming of their most popular tv sketches. people often forget about this film thinking they only made 3 films when they actually made four.

[@elingeniero9117]

The girl in the lumberjack song is Connie Booth, John Cleese's wife at the time. John and Connie went on to create and star Fawlty Towers, one of the great Hotelier comedies ever.

[@2old4gamez]

Nerdy fact: The customers name is Mr Praline. He also appeared in my favourite Monty Python sketch, 'Fish Licence'.

[@Isleofskye]

Fun Fact: I knew a Mr. Praline in Chipping Sodbury in 1974.

[@blueeyedraven396]

I had heard that Michael came up with this sketch because he had taken his car to a local mechanic to fix a problem. Then after, the car turned up being worse off than before. When he confronted the shop owner, he would insist in a sketchy was that the car was supposed to act that way and that there was nothing wrong with the car. And it was John's idea to change from a car shop to a pet shop.

[@warmongerel9743]

It was a "Norwegian Blue" parrot. Because Norway is well known for its tropical birds. That's what's great about Python: they slip so many jokes in so fast that you don't catch many of them until you watch it 10 times.

[@The_Enzo]

And a lot of people miss, "Sorry, I have a cold." because that's why he would mistake the shopkeeper for a woman. Cheese Shop is also brilliant. Penguin on the television is a personal fave too. Watching Graham trying not to corpse.....BURMA!

[@ReddwarfIV]

Of course Norway has tropical birds. Why else would they pine for the fjords?

[@warmongerel9743]

@@ReddwarfIV But parrots are tropical. This is a temperate zone.

[@ReddwarfIV]

@@warmongerel9743 They could be carried.

[@warmongerel9743]

@@ReddwarfIV You're a loony

[@DannyD714]

this was from the film "and now for something completely different" which was a collection of tv show sketches redone for a theatrical performance. i like the original versions with a live audience better. the film versions seem a lot dryer without the laughter. the best version of the parrot sketch is on the live album "monty python live at drury lane". no visuals, but cleese's rant is outstanding.

[@alanholck7995]

John Cleese delivered Graham Chapman’s eulogy, saying ‘Graham Chapman, author or the Parrot Sketch is deceased, no more, bereft of life, he rests in peace. Kicked the bucket, bit the dust, snuffed it, and gone to meet the great head of light entertainment in the sky. ……’.

[@MWhaleK]

He is an Ex-Parrot.

[@JabelldiMarco]

Well, these guys could even sing! ...and if you didn't already react to it, you could try the Loretta-sketch from Life of Brian.

[@trevorgoddard2278]

"it's so random" basically sums up Monty Python's Flying Circus, most of the time one sketch would have an obviously contrived link into the next (completely unrelated) sketch. There would often be background activity related to a previous sketch (which can make watching individual sketches more confusing than necessary), and sometimes a background plot which kept showing up in random sketches, like the army officer interrupting sketches complaining about how silly they are getting or the ever popular Spanish Inquisition episode.

[@Ingens_Scherz]

"Silly". My gal, you have it!

[@daveloboda1769]

Absolutely the best of all the brilliant Monty Python sketches.

[@davidmckie7128]

Monty Python's Flying Circus used to do that, morph from one sketch to another. In fact at the beginning there was an animated sketch using the birth of venus and that is the figure and shell you see in the fish tank.

[@HenryCabotHenhouse3]

The original airing of the Dead Parrot sketch actually did not go to the Lumberjack song, the salesman sent the customer across town to their other pet shop. There the customer found the same shop and the same salesman and had another argument. At least that's what I remember from Flying Circus.

[@289hipo]

You are correct, I was 12 when Python was in its heyday. The first shop owner sent Cleese to his other shop in Bolton. When Cleese walks into the "other" shop it's exactly like the first

[@Richard_Ashton]

I remember 'The Lumberjack Sketch' coming after 'The Barbershop Sketch' (A blood-soaked barber who's afraid of cutting hair). Either way they're all good. It was a long time ago, too - 50 years or so.

[@timg5011]

I think that was the TV show: this version of the sketch is from the film "And Now For Something Completely Different".

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

this is the version from their first movie "and now for something completely different." which was a refilming of their most popular tv sketches. people often forget about this film thinking they only made 3 films when they actually made four.

[@IZZY_EDIBLE]

PARROT SKETCH NOT INCLUDED is one of their best compilation movies, which pulled a lot of the best from the series. Highly recommended.

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

The TV show version with the people laughing is far better !!

[@sharonellis8776]

This is classic Monty. They have lots of sketches you can watch. xx

[@petejones879]

In the original sketch from the 1969 series the shop keeper sent him to his brothers pet shop in notlob which was an anagram of Bolton.. You have to watch it to understand it.. To get a replacement.. It was all very silly but funny

[@notvalidcharacters]

Not an anagram, what's that other thing? A palindrome.

[@mizmera]

Loved the job interview.

[@davidmckie7128]

As an aid to learning English it contains many euphemisms for dead.

[@donovanmedieval]

"Dead Parrot" and "The Lumberjack Song" are two different sketches. John;s character's quest to replace his parrot. goes on longer on the TV show "Monty Python's FLying Circus." "The Lumberjack Song" starts with a different sketch in the begiinning on te show. Bevis' Best Girlee is played by John Cleese's wife at the time, Connie Booth.

[@martinbynion1589]

"Bevan"

[@289hipo]

Personally, "Scott of the Sahara" and Mr. Pither "The Cyclist" are in my top 5 , though the "Flying Sheep" that "don't so much fly as plummet" is worth considering

[@lifelover515]

'Monty Python never fails to disappoint.' Oops! We heard what she said but we knew what she meant, as The Two Ronnies might say.

[@troyshilanski380]

So prophetic, no wonder i liked em 40 years ago.

[@Kronmizter]

Hi when i was 1969 they were on top of the world grew up in the late 70`s 80`s they are still my favorites in the comic world!!

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

They are too funny just about all the time.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

If I understand correctly, this version of the sketch was a re-recording, possibly for the compilation movie And Now For Something Completely Different. This sketch has been recorded on at least four separate occasions. My favourite is the version from The Secret Policeman's Ball, performed live, in which Palin is on the verge of cracking up through most of the sketch (as Cleese delivers his lines with ever more vim and flamboyance).

[@lindak3030]

This isn't the best version - I think it may be the worst one actually.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@@lindak3030 - perhaps so, but even the worst version of this sketch is still comedy genius.

[@luissanti4574]

This one is so famous! If you search for it, you'll find a Margareth Tatcher speach in which she quotes lines from this sketch.

[@johncook802]

Two alternative versions you may wish to look up; In the secret policeman's ball, John walks on stage and approaches Micheal. Micheal apologies and gives John his money back. John turns to audience "and they say Thatcher has not changed Britain" The other is the stage version from the last reunion concerts at the O2. Each trying desperately to corpses the other, more laughs than the scene itself.

[@RalphWigg1]

The girl in the lumberjack sketch is Connie Booth, John Cleese's wife to be

[@jkorshak]

The original BBC Flying Circus presentation throws in a punchline where a stern, military voice reads aloud a letter complaining about the song, mentioning that many of his best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites.

[@simonagree4070]

There was more to the Dead Parrot Sketch. I've forgotten if it was on the record, the TV show, or the movie, but there was a lot more. More aggravation on Cleese's part, and Palin offers Cleese a backroom affair, which he accepts.

[@mikebunner3498]

Note if your parrot is nailed to its perch that is a clue. Hello pauly! Wakey --wakey!!! He's a lumberjack and he's OK. I dress in women's clothes.... ALL of Monty Python work is silly & funny, all of them! I've enjoy their material for decades...... Later lady!!!!

[@user-te5pb8qf6i]

The girl in the lumberjack song is Connie Booth the maid in Faulty Towers she was married to John Cleese. She later became a psychologist no surprises there. By the way John Cleese real name is John Cheese

[@RalphWigg1]

Did you notice the girl in the Lumberjack sketch was Connie Booth who was John Cleese's wife & played Polly in Faulty Towers?

[@xenxander]

i recall this scene with a lot more ferocious energy. This was a very calm rendition of it. Maybe they redid the scene later with what i remember on the DVD pack which I think was 'flying circus'. I don't think it was 'and now for something completely different' but.. could have been there as well.

[@bumblesquidsmurfgod8304]

If you search on KZbin for Monty Python dead parrot sketch LIVE, the live versions come across as even funnier. I think it's partly because you can't help getting caught up in the laughter of the audience, and also because John Cleese and Michael Palin had had more time to polish up and fine tune the sketch, by the time they were performing it live at sold out concert halls, etc.

[@Mark-xx3gh]

You need to check the “Secret Policeman’s Ball” version

[@MrMoggyman]

The Monty Python Sketch you need to watch is The Fish Slapping Dance. Comedic brilliance.

[@MeganRuth]

I’ve reacted to it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYq2kKp7i5mao7csi=Oh6LjV6Rki8Ep8x9

[@paulwills1459]

You will like the Monty Python election night special 😁

[@paulwills1459]

Fa tim quim bim fatang fatang ole biscuit barrel... Silly party 22,335 . Tom smith sensible party 5 😁

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Most macaws are native to Brazil. We brazilians never refer to any of those as "norwegian blue" lol

[@jjhw2941]

You might also like "Not the Nine O'Clock News - Monty Pythons worshipers", it's meta.

[@darrellpowell6042]

Just as random is the Monty Python sketch is Spam, Spam, Spam. Worth a watch.

[@Poliss95]

Bloody Vikings!

[@MeganRuth]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@lisannebaumholz5028]

I'm Canadian too but a little (!?) bit older than you and grew up in Montreal in the 1960s/70s. In the 70s, the local CBC station would run "Monty Python's Flying Circus" a few nights a week at 11:30 pm following the local news. My mum (who grew up in London), my sister & I always watched it together...even if it was a school night! A family tradition...

[@MeganRuth]

Aw, what a lovely family tradition!!

[@philtreman9944]

Right off the bat - " Norwegian Blue " the JOKE starts there . Norway has no fu***ng parrots cos it's too COLD , ffs.

[@seanbumstead1250]

You should think about watching the tv show on the buses

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

This and the cheese shop are legendary

[@Griexxt]

They "never fail to disappoint"?🤔

[@MeganRuth]

oops! Did I say that? 😅 Clearly I got my words muddled there! Thanks for catching that 😂

[@jimhoyt5]

How can a sketch from the 70s give a nod to Black Adder which first came on TV in 1983 ???

[@MeganRuth]

No, Blackadder gave a nod to Monty Python! At least in the comments of my last Blackadder reaction, that’s what people seemed to think :)

[@drwhatson]

Python reached their peak c.1973-75, IMO when they'd refined the surreal silliness and sharpened the dialogue for record albums like 'Matching Tie And Handkerchief'.

[@omegadun66]

I'm sorry I have a cold, best line ever

[@jasonwhitehurst7003]

thanks Megan.enjoy the rest of your Monday evening.

[@MeganRuth]

Thank you! You too!

[@barneymiller6204]

Did you see the lava-tree in the back ground?

[@Eyes-of-Horus]

There's also an extension if the Parrot Sketch where John Cleese is sent to another pet shop where he can get a new parrot. Guess who's behind the counter?

[@paulhooker6346]

At last, the full version. Well done my love. Try watching the cheese shop sketch. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧💜

[@ADAMmoor]

hi megan hope ur well and thanks for all ur vids great work

[@MeganRuth]

Hi Adam! I am thanks! Thank you for the lovely comment :) Hope you're well too!

[@daviddragavon7555]

I liked the little old lady street gang, spam-spam, wonderful spam!-(shut up, you vikings!) And my favorite " the Spanish Inquisition " which, of course, no one expects. The dead parrot 🦜 sketch us a classic! Thanks!

[@JayM409]

Greetings from the Majestic forests of British Columbia (Vancouver Island). Dad controlled the remote in our house and we were not allowed to watch Monty Python. I had to go to a friend's house. His parents were English.

[@MeganRuth]

Not allowed to watch Monty Python?! My goodness! That is really unfortunate…

[@3DJapan]

This version of the dead parrot is a remake. I actually found the original funnier but this one is higher quality since it's made for film vs 70s TV.

[@MeganRuth]

Oh interesting! I didn’t know there were two versions. Thanks!

[@aranerem5569]

This is good

[@Hard-Boiled-Bollock]

The first time I ever saw the Lumberjack song when I was about 14, it was only a short clip of it. And I genuinely thought the lyrics were: I sleep all night, I wank all day

[@mfrost71w]

"Michaelangelo to see the Pope" from Secret Policemans Ball charity gig is the funniest sketch Monty Python never did

[@jkpole]

FABULOUS HA HA

[@user-gk9lg5sp4y]

These are two different sketches and they aren't the versions from the Flying Circus TV show, which I prefer, but still pretty much the same and still two of my favorite Python sketches.

[@denniseldridge2936]

Oh you have to see, or hear, the version of the Parrot Sketch from the Live at Hollywood Bowl album. Cleese ratchets up his character to level ten insanity.

[@binaway]

They did a German language version of the song for a special in that country. John Cleese being fluent in the language.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

its not fair. i'm contractually obligated by my good taste to watch any reaction to the monty python tv show. reacting to their movies is common place but their tv show is even better than their movies. one of my favorite episodes was in their last season, after john cleese had left to do "fawlty towers," and its called "Mr. Neutron." its one of the rare episodes that explores a single plot throughout its full half hour. its one of the funniest half hours i've ever experienced. and "monty python's flying circus" provided a lot of wonderful half hours in my life.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

this is the version from their first movie "and now for something completely different." which was a refilming of their most popular tv sketches. people often forget about this film thinking they only made 3 films when they actually made four.

[@OneEyedJack1970]

I'm still baffled by the concept of a parrot native to Norway? I always thought they were tropical birds.

[@vincent4805]

That's part of the joke I'm sure

[@pauldalmau9888]

People have mentioned that this version was not as frantic and, therefore, as funny as others. I agree. My favourite is only an audio recording from the "Live at Drury Lane" album. As far as I know, this was only recorded for audio (unfortunately), but it still packs a mighty punch! ... The whole record is crazy good throughout and generally a bit better than their original studio versions!

[@bumblesquidsmurfgod8304]

There is at least one version of this sketch that comes across as even funnier, perhaps partly because you can hear the audience laughing madly, and the laughter is infectious. It might be on the album Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl...? Not sure. I'm come back and let you know if I find it.

[@vallee3140]

Funny but I never did understand, why this was so popular, love the song though.

[@fgrady1]

These were exerpted from the film “And Now For Something Completely Different”. The versions from their series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” had audience reactions and were better.

[@glynluff2595]

They had to give up on the Dead Parrot sketch the audience were chanting with them up to the expurgated part!

[@777petew]

Regarding the parrot, I thought John Cleese could have been a bit clearer in describing it as dead. I don't think he used enough descriptive words. It seemed confusing to me. :-)

[@FSMDog]

Try 'Not the Nine O clock News'.... early days of Rowan Atkinson....

[@MeganRuth]

I've reacted to a few of their sketches! :)

[@mistofoles]

Hi, Meganm just suscribed to you :)

[@MeganRuth]

Thank you! 😊

[@eltelsopwith6014]

This is not the original TV sketch, which I watched live. It does not contain the word Notlob. Love to chat but I've got to put a tuck in the Airedale. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqfYiGmqhpVlZ5o

[@Poliss95]

Ah. The palindrome of Bolton.

[@DaveCrokaert]

This is a redone version. The original version is much longer, involves Cleese going to a different (but same) shop in Notlob/Bolton and ends with Cleese refusing to go on because the sketch has become too silly.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

British comedies are all so smart. Compare the Office to the Hollywood the Office! They’re apples and oranges really.

[@jedsithor]

Personally I prefer the original version from Flying Circus, largely because of the Notlob joke lol

[@aires69uk]

Is your head heavy?

[@lukemullett7506]

Bump

[@cyphi474]

I like original sketch more. Its more fluid.

[@oneoddsockk]

Pie-thun 😉

[@Griexxt]

This is typical of how the MP tv show worked. Sketches would very seldom have a punch-line, but would instead just transition into the next one, more or less seamlessly. Often less.

[@MeganRuth]

ah ok! How fun :)

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

this is the version from their first movie "and now for something completely different." which was a refilming of their most popular tv sketches. people often forget about this film thinking they only made 3 films when they actually made four.

[@exile220ify]

Alas, this version (from "And Now For Something Completely Different") is weaker than the version they did in the original Monty Python series. It's all about the comedic timing :)

[@martinconnors5195]

You're beautiful Megan. Omg

[@bobtausworthe2671]

I prefer the original version of this from the series. It had better timing.

[@petejones879]

Megan.. Why are you sat at a funny angle leaning to one side

[@paulwills1459]

Try the gay sniffing salad days review

[@paulwills1459]

Make sure it's the 3 min 17 sec salad days . Or you miss the beginning 😔

[@barbarakiewe4917]

Spam spam spam spam! Oh please?

[@beds139]

The tv version is funnier. They are going through the motions here.

[@peterdubois65]

If you're a python fan please check out not the nine o'clock news Monty python worshippers 😂

[@MeganRuth]

I've reacted to a few of their sketches already! So funny 😆

[@peterdubois65]

@MeganRuth if you liked life of Brian you have to watch Monty python worshippers

[@cowlico]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@beds139]

Only yanks say London,England.

[@MeganRuth]

I say London, England because my family is from London, Ontario, Canada. I’m not a “yank” as I’m Canadian.

[@Poliss95]

That's the movie version. Not nearly as funny as the TV original.

[@smatsri]

only fans?

[@mikedown1250]

funny , but wouldn't go down in todays PC politics

[@timg5011]

Why not?

[@Poliss95]

Why not?

[@andrewq159]

@@timg5011 It's not PC to reject a man because he likes cross-dressing.