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 Жыл бұрын
😂 I can imagine!
@haydenstock21 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Saw John Cleese and Eric Idle touring show in 2016 it was hilarious!
@drwhatson Жыл бұрын
The live version (and album) was better.
@DJ-bj8ku8 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Nerdy fact: The customers name is Mr Praline. He also appeared in my favourite Monty Python sketch, 'Fish Licence'.
@Isleofskye Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: I knew a Mr. Praline in Chipping Sodbury in 1974.
@blueeyedraven3968 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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!
@ReddwarfIV7 ай бұрын
Of course Norway has tropical birds. Why else would they pine for the fjords?
@warmongerel97437 ай бұрын
@@ReddwarfIV But parrots are tropical. This is a temperate zone.
@ReddwarfIV7 ай бұрын
@@warmongerel9743 They could be carried.
@warmongerel97437 ай бұрын
@@ReddwarfIV You're a loony
@DannyD7149 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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. ……’.
@MWhaleK2 ай бұрын
He is an Ex-Parrot.
@JabelldiMarco5 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
"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 Жыл бұрын
"Silly". My gal, you have it!
@daveloboda1769 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely the best of all the brilliant Monty Python sketches.
@davidmckie7128 Жыл бұрын
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.
@HenryCabotHenhouse38 ай бұрын
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.
@289hipo3 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I think that was the TV show: this version of the sketch is from the film "And Now For Something Completely Different".
@cjmacq-vg8um Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
PARROT SKETCH NOT INCLUDED is one of their best compilation movies, which pulled a lot of the best from the series. Highly recommended.
@ronniefarnsworth6465 Жыл бұрын
The TV show version with the people laughing is far better !!
@sharonellis8776 Жыл бұрын
This is classic Monty. They have lots of sketches you can watch. xx
@petejones879 Жыл бұрын
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
@notvalidcharacters9 ай бұрын
Not an anagram, what's that other thing? A palindrome.
@mizmera5 ай бұрын
Loved the job interview.
@davidmckie7128 Жыл бұрын
As an aid to learning English it contains many euphemisms for dead.
@donovanmedieval Жыл бұрын
"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 Жыл бұрын
"Bevan"
@289hipo3 ай бұрын
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
@lifelover5152 ай бұрын
'Monty Python never fails to disappoint.' Oops! We heard what she said but we knew what she meant, as The Two Ronnies might say.
@troyshilanski3809 ай бұрын
So prophetic, no wonder i liked em 40 years ago.
@Kronmizter8 ай бұрын
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-ld2vw2 ай бұрын
They are too funny just about all the time.
@nigeldepledge3790 Жыл бұрын
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).
@lindak30308 ай бұрын
This isn't the best version - I think it may be the worst one actually.
@nigeldepledge37908 ай бұрын
@@lindak3030 - perhaps so, but even the worst version of this sketch is still comedy genius.
@luissanti45748 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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.
@RalphWigg18 ай бұрын
The girl in the lumberjack sketch is Connie Booth, John Cleese's wife to be
@jkorshak8 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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.
@mikebunner34982 ай бұрын
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-te5pb8qf6i3 ай бұрын
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
@RalphWigg15 ай бұрын
Did you notice the girl in the Lumberjack sketch was Connie Booth who was John Cleese's wife & played Polly in Faulty Towers?
@xenxander5 ай бұрын
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.
@bumblesquidsmurfgod83049 ай бұрын
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-xx3gh8 ай бұрын
You need to check the “Secret Policeman’s Ball” version
@MrMoggyman8 ай бұрын
The Monty Python Sketch you need to watch is The Fish Slapping Dance. Comedic brilliance.
@MeganRuth8 ай бұрын
I’ve reacted to it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYq2kKp7i5mao7csi=Oh6LjV6Rki8Ep8x9
@paulwills14596 ай бұрын
You will like the Monty Python election night special 😁
@paulwills14596 ай бұрын
Fa tim quim bim fatang fatang ole biscuit barrel... Silly party 22,335 . Tom smith sensible party 5 😁
@rogeriopenna90149 ай бұрын
Most macaws are native to Brazil. We brazilians never refer to any of those as "norwegian blue" lol
@jjhw29418 ай бұрын
You might also like "Not the Nine O'Clock News - Monty Pythons worshipers", it's meta.
@darrellpowell6042 Жыл бұрын
Just as random is the Monty Python sketch is Spam, Spam, Spam. Worth a watch.
@Poliss95 Жыл бұрын
Bloody Vikings!
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the suggestion!
@lisannebaumholz5028 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Aw, what a lovely family tradition!!
@philtreman99443 ай бұрын
Right off the bat - " Norwegian Blue " the JOKE starts there . Norway has no fu***ng parrots cos it's too COLD , ffs.
@seanbumstead1250 Жыл бұрын
You should think about watching the tv show on the buses
@CyberBeep_kenshi Жыл бұрын
This and the cheese shop are legendary
@Griexxt Жыл бұрын
They "never fail to disappoint"?🤔
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
oops! Did I say that? 😅 Clearly I got my words muddled there! Thanks for catching that 😂
@jimhoyt5 Жыл бұрын
How can a sketch from the 70s give a nod to Black Adder which first came on TV in 1983 ???
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry I have a cold, best line ever
@jasonwhitehurst7003 Жыл бұрын
thanks Megan.enjoy the rest of your Monday evening.
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
Thank you! You too!
@barneymiller62045 ай бұрын
Did you see the lava-tree in the back ground?
@Eyes-of-Horus Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
At last, the full version. Well done my love. Try watching the cheese shop sketch. 🏴🇬🇧💜
@ADAMmoor Жыл бұрын
hi megan hope ur well and thanks for all ur vids great work
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
Hi Adam! I am thanks! Thank you for the lovely comment :) Hope you're well too!
@daviddragavon7555 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Not allowed to watch Monty Python?! My goodness! That is really unfortunate…
@3DJapan Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Oh interesting! I didn’t know there were two versions. Thanks!
@aranerem5569 Жыл бұрын
This is good
@Hard-Boiled-Bollock Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
"Michaelangelo to see the Pope" from Secret Policemans Ball charity gig is the funniest sketch Monty Python never did
@jkpole Жыл бұрын
FABULOUS HA HA
@user-gk9lg5sp4y Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
They did a German language version of the song for a special in that country. John Cleese being fluent in the language.
@cjmacq-vg8um Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I'm still baffled by the concept of a parrot native to Norway? I always thought they were tropical birds.
@vincent48053 ай бұрын
That's part of the joke I'm sure
@pauldalmau98889 ай бұрын
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!
@bumblesquidsmurfgod83049 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Funny but I never did understand, why this was so popular, love the song though.
@fgrady1 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
They had to give up on the Dead Parrot sketch the audience were chanting with them up to the expurgated part!
@777petew8 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Try 'Not the Nine O clock News'.... early days of Rowan Atkinson....
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
I've reacted to a few of their sketches! :)
@mistofoles10 ай бұрын
Hi, Meganm just suscribed to you :)
@MeganRuth10 ай бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@eltelsopwith6014 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Ah. The palindrome of Bolton.
@DaveCrokaert Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
British comedies are all so smart. Compare the Office to the Hollywood the Office! They’re apples and oranges really.
@jedsithor Жыл бұрын
Personally I prefer the original version from Flying Circus, largely because of the Notlob joke lol
@aires69uk Жыл бұрын
Is your head heavy?
@lukemullett7506 Жыл бұрын
Bump
@cyphi474 Жыл бұрын
I like original sketch more. Its more fluid.
@oneoddsockk Жыл бұрын
Pie-thun 😉
@Griexxt Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
ah ok! How fun :)
@cjmacq-vg8um Жыл бұрын
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.
@exile220ify10 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
You're beautiful Megan. Omg
@bobtausworthe2671 Жыл бұрын
I prefer the original version of this from the series. It had better timing.
@petejones879 Жыл бұрын
Megan.. Why are you sat at a funny angle leaning to one side
@paulwills14596 ай бұрын
Try the gay sniffing salad days review
@paulwills14596 ай бұрын
Make sure it's the 3 min 17 sec salad days . Or you miss the beginning 😔
@barbarakiewe4917 Жыл бұрын
Spam spam spam spam! Oh please?
@beds139 Жыл бұрын
The tv version is funnier. They are going through the motions here.
@peterdubois65 Жыл бұрын
If you're a python fan please check out not the nine o'clock news Monty python worshippers 😂
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
I've reacted to a few of their sketches already! So funny 😆
@peterdubois65 Жыл бұрын
@MeganRuth if you liked life of Brian you have to watch Monty python worshippers
@cowlico Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@beds139 Жыл бұрын
Only yanks say London,England.
@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын
I say London, England because my family is from London, Ontario, Canada. I’m not a “yank” as I’m Canadian.
@Poliss95 Жыл бұрын
That's the movie version. Not nearly as funny as the TV original.
@smatsriАй бұрын
only fans?
@mikedown1250 Жыл бұрын
funny , but wouldn't go down in todays PC politics
@timg5011 Жыл бұрын
Why not?
@Poliss95 Жыл бұрын
Why not?
@andrewq159 Жыл бұрын
@@timg5011 It's not PC to reject a man because he likes cross-dressing.