REACTING TO MONTY PYTHON | Dead Parrot Sketch!

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@JabelldiMarco 8 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.

@haydenstock21 Жыл бұрын

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.

@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

@DJ-bj8ku 11 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.

@yt45204 11 ай бұрын

There's no such thing as "gaslighting", it's made up by mentally unstable people

@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.

@blueeyedraven396 11 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!

@ReddwarfIV 10 ай бұрын

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

@warmongerel9743 10 ай бұрын

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

@ReddwarfIV 10 ай бұрын

@@warmongerel9743 They could be carried.

@warmongerel9743 10 ай бұрын

@@ReddwarfIV You're a loony

@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.

@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.

@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.

@daveloboda1769 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the best of all the brilliant Monty Python sketches.

@Ingens_Scherz Жыл бұрын

"Silly". My gal, you have it!

@DannyD714 Жыл 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. ……’.

@MWhaleK 5 ай бұрын

He is an Ex-Parrot.

@HenryCabotHenhouse3 11 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.

@289hipo 6 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

@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

@notvalidcharacters Жыл бұрын

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

@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).

@lindak3030 11 ай бұрын

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

@nigeldepledge3790 11 ай бұрын

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

@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"

@RalphWigg1 9 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?

@Kronmizter 11 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!!

@John-i8k9n 6 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

@sharonellis8776 Жыл бұрын

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

@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.

@luissanti4574 11 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.

@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!!

@xenxander 8 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.

@bumblesquidsmurfgod8304 Жыл 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.

@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!

@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.

@troyshilanski380 Жыл бұрын

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

@MrMoggyman 11 ай бұрын

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

@MeganRuth 11 ай бұрын

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

@mizmera 8 ай бұрын

Loved the job interview.

@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.

@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…

@davidmckie7128 Жыл бұрын

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

@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?

@bumblesquidsmurfgod8304 Жыл 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.

@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!

@philtreman9944 6 ай бұрын

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

@lifelover515 5 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.

@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

@ronniefarnsworth6465 Жыл бұрын

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

@CyberBeep_kenshi Жыл бұрын

This and the cheese shop are legendary

@289hipo 6 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

@omegadun66 Жыл бұрын

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

@mikebunner3498 Ай бұрын

This is another John & Michael sketch. "It's dead!" It has passed on! An ex parrot! You stunned him.. How about a slug?? I wanted to be a lumberjack! Later lady.

@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'.

@Jimi-ld2vw 5 ай бұрын

They are too funny just about all the time.

@RalphWigg1 11 ай бұрын

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

@jkorshak 11 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.

@Mark-xx3gh 11 ай бұрын

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

@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!

@OneEyedJack1970 Жыл бұрын

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

@vincent4805 6 ай бұрын

That's part of the joke I'm sure

@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.

@jasonwhitehurst7003 Жыл бұрын

thanks Megan.enjoy the rest of your Monday evening.

@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

@paulwills1459 9 ай бұрын

You will like the Monty Python election night special 😁

@paulwills1459 9 ай бұрын

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

@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.

@rogeriopenna9014 Жыл бұрын

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

@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 :)

@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.

@mikebunner3498 5 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!!!!

@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.

@showmoke Ай бұрын

Where’s the audience in this sketch? When I first saw the original, there was a live audience laughing their heads off at this.

@jjhw2941 11 ай бұрын

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

@glynluff2595 Жыл бұрын

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

@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.

@pauldalmau9888 Жыл 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!

@barneymiller6204 9 ай бұрын

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

@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.

@seanbumstead1250 Жыл бұрын

You should think about watching the tv show on the buses

@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

@777petew 11 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. :-)

@mfrost71w Жыл бұрын

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

@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 😂

@aranerem5569 Жыл бұрын

This is good

@mistofoles Жыл бұрын

Hi, Meganm just suscribed to you :)

@MeganRuth Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@tHiNk413 19 сағат бұрын

I always feel like the first version from Circus is straighter, better and more on point. Raw if you will

@jkpole Жыл бұрын

FABULOUS HA HA

@aires69uk Жыл бұрын

Is your head heavy?

@vallee3140 Жыл бұрын

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

@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! :)

@jedsithor Жыл бұрын

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

@michaelschroeck2254 Жыл бұрын

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

@oneoddsockk Жыл бұрын

Pie-thun 😉

@RossM3838 2 ай бұрын

Pining for the fiords

@lukemullett7506 Жыл бұрын

Bump

@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

@exile220ify Жыл 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 :)