When their co star Graham had died, John Cleese gave a eulogy that included lines from this skit. "Graham has left us now,....passed on....kicked the bucket....competely demised.........."

I LOVE this sketch, followed with "The lumberjack song".

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard that’s great!

@5762dg

2 жыл бұрын

Plus Four Yorkshire Men and The Spanish Inquisition

@josefschiltz2192

2 жыл бұрын

@@5762dg Well, that was totally unexpected!

@dave_h_8742

2 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK oh it is well worth checking out.

@mrcrazyman2930

2 жыл бұрын

You're gonna LOVE that song, I promise.

When they did this live on stage many years later, Cleese and Palin lost their places in the script- either for real or not. After a suitable pregnant pause, they turned to the audience and asked if they could give a prompt for the next line. The entire crowd shouted it out.

@b2bw1955

2 жыл бұрын

The MP guys never lost their places ...the "suitable pregnant pause" was part of their live shows and they would get the audience to interact. More evidence of the genius in the MP cast members. All of them were college educated and preferred to be silly instead of the norm. I would say ...it really paid off ;)

@donrichards271

2 жыл бұрын

@@b2bw1955 I don't remember which interview it was but I'm sure Cleese said that due to Palin's ad libs during this sketch at the Live at the Hollywood Bowl concert he did lose his place and had to ask the audience for help.

@zarrow50

Жыл бұрын

@@donrichards271 Rik Mayall did the same stunt on the Bottom Tours

@jasonprivately1764

5 ай бұрын

​@@zarrow50wasn't Rick in the young ones?

@Steve_Gee74

5 ай бұрын

There was also a live performance at the 1989 Secret Policeman's Ball where Cleese pointed out the parrot was dead and Palin decided to alter the sketch so after he looked at it he said "So it is, there's your money back and a couple of holiday vouchers" And Cleese was completely wrong footed so as her left the stage he ad-libbed "Well you can't say Thatcher hasn't changed some things"

This is one of the best Monty Python sketches, ever.

I love that sketch Amanda. It actually leads on to " The Lumberjack Song" as the shopkeeper leaves the counter and emerges in a forested area, where his girl awaits and a choir of Mounties are waiting. Aside from chuckling at the insanity of it all, I chuckled more at your reaction. Full snort mode and sheer feminine delight. All in all a lovely and heart warming experience for this viewer. You should come on prescription lady. You're a rainbow in a grey world. : - )

@TheGathumpus

2 жыл бұрын

Lumberjack sketch next then? cus "he's a lumberjack and he's OK!"

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Ray, that’s what the channel is all about. That makes me so incredibly happy to hear 😊

@Isleofskye

2 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK : Hi Amanda. You can not do that to us ! The quick Lumberhack Sketch is the continuation of this sketch and is a hilarious 2 minutes :)

@timelordtardis

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isleofskye That's only in the film. In the original television show the previous sketch to that of The Lumberjack Song, was The Barber Sketch with Michael Palin playing a psychotic barber who delights in killing the customers and can't bear to cut hair. "I didn't want to be a barber, I wanted to be... a lumberjack." I guess the blood and the nature of the sketch was deemed not too nice for a cinematic release.

@johncunningham4820

2 жыл бұрын

@@timelordtardis . Ah . The Sweeney Todd sketch , then .

You noticed that there’s no actual end to the sketch as they just move straight into the lumberjack song routine (Just like his dear mama).

I love how much these make you laugh!!! Hearing a snort laugh always makes me chuckle

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😊

@raphaelperry8159

2 жыл бұрын

When you hear the snort you know she's really enjoying it.

@kenglasson2920

2 жыл бұрын

@@raphaelperry8159 LMAO....when she snorts she reminds me of my sadly passed away wife and I just cant help myself from cracking up laughing and a little nostalga. She is just great to watch and enjoy her reactions.

"Oh, ay'm sorry. Ay ave a cold." A classic. But as always, watching "Our Amanda" helpless with laughter is the best bit xxx

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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Amanda, the last Monty Python show was broadcast in 1974 - 48 years ago ! They had a big influence on (young) British culture. We still remember them and talk about them.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s brilliant!

@fedpoulton

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be pedantic, but Monty Python started in 1969 and the Parrot sketch is in the first series. It's still brilliant though and if I have to complain about something in a shop I always start with " I'd like to register a complaint" 1 person did actually get the reference once and we tried to reenact it, but it didn't really work.

@StockportJambo

2 жыл бұрын

@@fedpoulton You have to follow it up with "Hello, miss?" or people won't get it.

When I was in sixth form many many years ago, my friends and I knew most of the Monty Python sketches and films off by heart. We used to confuse our teachers by sitting around during breaks and conversing in Monty Python Lines. Still laugh very hard when I see this one

@b2bw1955

2 жыл бұрын

My brother and myself did the same thing. We knew all the Monty Python stuff and confused our parents by conversing in Monty Python Lines. Epic!

This sketch was first performed in 1969! Back then it passed me by. In later years I appreciated the humour. The fact that this sketch can still generate such a positive reaction from you in this day and age is tantamount to its enduring popularity. However, I did notice that there were more than a couple of lines within that sketch, which were typically British, you did not appear to react to. Aficionados in the history of British humour will be talking about this sketch long after I’m gone. (Still chuckling after the Sean Lock ‘Carrot in the box sketch’ which was new to me - thank you. Don’t forget though, Billy Connolly, ‘Dwarf on a bus’)

@marjielalonde3875

2 жыл бұрын

OMG dwarf on a bus is hilarious!

@TTM9691

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this sketch was first performed in 1969.....and that's the version she should have watched, instead of this inferior, lifeless version.

The parrot sketch was an actual event fron John Cleese . He had a difficulty returning a toaster to a store, he brought the event up to the guys when he droned on upon it he decided to make a skit about the process of returning it. Everyone else though, mentioned that while amusing it just really was not funny. At the time Graham whom was nearby said " johnny, its just not funny. How about you make it about a parrot." ....the birth of a legend....

You MUST see the Lumberjack skit next!!!! ...also the Ministry of Silly Walks

John & Michael are a hoot!!!! Per your usual, you laughed and snorted. These guys are super funny,,, Tske care and keep them honest in jolly old England!!!!! Lastly, I hope your children are well.......

@LADYRAEUK

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :) they are thank you very mcuh for asking. I hope you're having a lovely weekend

Some decades later, when one party did extremely poorly in a British election, one newspaper had the headline "It's a Dead Party," with a picture of a dead parrot.

Cleese and Chapman wrote together a lot. Graham Chapman came up with "Norwegian Blue." And he might also have come up with the line, "He's pining for the fjords."

I had tears pouring from my eyes from laughing at you just as much as I did from Monty Python - just love your videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😍

The Monty Python Crew . Certifiable Lunatics , the Lot . And some of the Cleverest Comedy of all time , God Bless them . Cheers from Australia , Amanda .

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

😊👍🏻

I grew up watching Monty Python on late night TV in the 70s ( USA). Some very funny, insane maybe comics. The list of sketches that I love is as endless as the laughs I got from them. The hide and seek, the arguments, the lumberjack song, so many little cracks in between and during you have to pay attention not to miss any.

The clip is from "And Now for Something Different" which a special recording of sketches (re-recorded, not clips) from the TV show to help introduce Monty Python to a US audience. That is why some sketches are in a different order. A certain sketch may not be included in the movie. Since the Barbershop Sketch wasn't in the movie, the Lumberjack Song was paired with the Dead Parrot Sketch. The Barber Shop sketch does segue better into the Lumberjack Song, though, IMHO.

Michael and John work so well together. Their skits are always funny. ALWAYS!!!!! Take care lady....

I especially loved this reaction video because I expected a deep body laugh combined with a snort. You did not disappoint. Monty Python and all the comics are legendary. I was anticipating the lumberjack sing. LoL Great video, thanks for the morning lajugh. Rob Than

Staple of end-of-year school drama society presentations!

One of the most famous of all comedy sketches. A great reaction.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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I think comedy sketches that you review should be scored in Amanda snorts. You always set me off laughing when you start snorting. ❤️

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I’m glad, I can’t control itv🤣

As far as I remember what lead to this sketch was that they had been flipping through a thesaurus and ended up checking all the alternative terms and phrases for "it's dead", and then decided: we have to create a sketch using as many of these as possible. (not sure anymore where I read it, but I think it might have been in Doulas Adam's autobiographic memories in "The Salmon of Doubt")

@nagranoth_

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know about that. I do know the pet store guy was based on a car mechanic one of the Pythons knew, who'd always come up with ridiculous excuses why his work was shoddy.

Great you enjoy UK humour. We often say that our humour wouldn't work in America but Ricky Gervais has proved that wrong with his tour there. As you've probably noticed, the Brits can take a joke against themselves but (to me) the Americans would think that disrespectful and be offended. Keep up the good work.

@LADYRAEUK

6 ай бұрын

that's fair enough :)

Possibly the best comedy ever!!🤣😂😂🤣😂

You've got to watch the Lumberjack song. Have you watched any of there live show recorded in London in 2014. It's called "one down five to go" in reference to the death of Graham Chapman.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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I was waiting for I'm a lumberjack ...lol 😂

he Pthhons at brilliant, my parents wouldn't let me watch them when i was growing up but the did occasionally gor out 😋 Had a few of their albums in later life. Keep the reactions coming Amanda loving what I've seen so far.

this is technically only half the sketch. as Michael Palin walks through the door into a Canadian forest and starts singing the Lumberjack song. The Cycling Tour episode from series 3 of Monty Python was filmed in Jersey. the firing squad scene was filmed at Fort Regent.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Ah I didn’t know that!

@jeanlongsden1696

2 жыл бұрын

@@LADYRAEUK another Python- Jersey connection is ... George Harrison financed the movie The Life of Brian through his Handmade Films Jersey bank account.

Always a good one! A little trivia for you. Clease and Palin revised this sketch, and performed it at Terry Giliam's funeral.

Amanda, I love when you do reactions to Monty Python. :) Some of my favorite Python sketches are 'The Four Yorkshiremen', The Philosophers Football Match', 'The Upper-Class Twit of the Year' and of course 'The Ministry Of Silly Walks'.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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@stevet7695

2 жыл бұрын

The Four Yorkshireman sketch was not a Python sketch, although they did perform slightly different versions of it in their live shows. It was written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman and first performed in their TV series 'At Last the 1948 Show'.

a very good sketch. I also liked the cheese shop and the arguement clinic sketches.

Years ago I had a tape of this sketch produced for a adult audience. Where as Michael P goes into the lumberjack song, on the tape John Cleese is offered a halibut with feathers and a tail stapled on. If you laughed out loud at the TV version, you would fall of your chair at the tape! Great vid Amanda - Thanks.

”Wakey, Wakey!!!” How can you not laugh at that?

Nono Ono!! You have to see it with the Lumberjack Song sketch as well! The two run into each other - the Dead Parrot sketch actually ends by morphing into a totally non-related song about being a cross-dressing Lumberjack!

Kudos to that parrot, when it plays dead, it's an Oscar winning performance! 🤣

@Greenwood4727

2 жыл бұрын

Its not dead its Just Pining

MONTY PYTHONS were the cement beneath our wounded feet after just walked through puberty - and your own brain didn't know any second of your life where you are/were! But the humour was stable! And what they were the "institutions" to stabilize and confirm this? IN YOUR NEXT CINEMA!!! Monty Pythons - you were my Life-Saviour - by HUMOR!!!

Absolutely one of my favorite Python sketches. Oh, who am I kidding, ALL the Python sketches are my favorite. On their "Live from City Center" album, they end the sketch with John Cleese saying, "So, you want to come 'round my place?" and Michael Palin answering, "Thought you'd never ask." Btw...shameless plug.....I just finished reading John Cleese's memoirs "So Anyway......" a couple weeks ago. Very, very good...I recommend it for any Python fan.

Brilliant! I hope you have got the Monty Python album, record, downlease or whatever you call it these days? Its called Monty python sings & its fantastic! Wishing you all the best.....

The best variation of this sketch, bar none, was performed... ...at the public memorial service after the passing of Graham Chapman, another member of the Python troupe. It was incorporated into the eulogy given by John Cleese during the service. . Yes, the video is on YT.

beautiful plumage on the Norwegian blue... I like the version where there's a convoluted sequence of the John Cleese customer being sent elsewhere and being told he's gone to the wrong place because the place name is a palindrome and the customer gets annoyed saying "the palindrome for Bolton would be Notlob... It don't work".... Don't know if that version is online anywhere...

Remember back in the seventy's when the Swedish television started showing Monty Python my parents were stunned the first to - three episodes .It was a whole new concept of humor and not anything they have seen before...

Amanda, another great reaction, BUT again you forgot the tissues!🤣 The snort laugh is back!🤣🤣

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I know it 🤣🤣🤣

A fun fact about the lumberjack song that follows after this sketch: it was actually written by George Harrison of the Beatles.

Very hard to fake a snort laugh like that.. Good to see genuibe reactions and your personality is amazing 💙

Beautifully written and performed fine British comedy, both Michael Palin and John Cleese are fantastic, as were the entire team, my favourite always...Terry Jones!...Thanks for the tribute!..🤭😁😂👏👏👏✌️👍

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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Probably the most famous Python sketch, a lot of us can recite it word to word, it's a true comedy classic!, there are so many brilliant sketches it's hard to pick just one but do check out the animations by Terry Gilliam, they are hilarious!

Of course this sketch leads to the classic Lumberjack Song which is also a must see.

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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A few of my other favorites include the argument clinic, the cheese shop, the four yorkshiremen, and the phone-in.

We used to act this sketch out on the school bus

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

There are some videos of live Monty Python sketches, including some where the audience is saying the next line before it's said on stage and there's a alternate ending of the dead parrot sketch.

Once when they performed this sketch on stage Michael Palin completely killed Cleese by changing the dialogue to this: Palin: "I've got a slug". Cleese: "Does it talk?". Palin: "It was muttering abit this morning". So many funny silly things in this sketch. For some reason i found it the most funny that the parrot apparently is norwegian.

Amanda, you should watch the live version where John Cleese (customer) goes high pitch saying "fields" and makes Palin (shopkeeper) laugh. React to that. I'm sure you'll find it funnier 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️

"The Argument Sketch" is a Monty Python classic. 😀

@dandeliondown7920

2 жыл бұрын

Also, the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch. 😆

one my favorite sketches also loved the Banana Sketch.

I think one of the best Monty Python sketches is "The Ministry Of Silly Walks"

The cheese shop sketch is a must if you haven't watched it.

oooh you must follow straight to the lumberjack song, the two sketches are related. Watch it, it's friggin' hilarious!

At Graham Chapman's (coauthor) funeral, John Cleese reprised the sketch and used all the euphemisms for dead used in the sketch when he delivered the eulogy

When they did this sketch at the Drury Lane theater, they added "He's fuckin' snuffed it!". Brought the house down. The whole audience, who knew the sketch word-for-word, went wild. The Parrot Sketch is one of the most brilliant pieces of comedy. It captures the absurdity of life that ends in death. It is humanity giving the finger to the Universe, saying "Hah! I have something that all the galaxies and stars will never know: laughter. We know. You don't and never will".

Me and my best friend in high school did this skit for the talent show, we won best act.

The Knights of the Round Table song from their Holy Grail film used to be my ringtone 😃

Brilliant episode. I love your reactions.😀 I’m now singing the lumberjack song in my head. 😀

There are so many classic videos from MPFC, and nearly everyone says that The Dead Parrot Sketch in in their top 5. Other's include: "The Ministry of Silly Walks," "The Cheese Shop" and "The Argument Clinic." But my all-time favorite (and it may be the shortest sketch they every did, only about 10-15 seconds,) is "The Fish Slapping Dance." I have no idea why I find it so funny, but it really is, and I'm laughing just typing in the name! Have you ever seen "Monty Python & The Holy Grail?" If you haven't seen it, be sure to watch the opening credits! So many reviewers I've seen completely missed them!

NOOO, you HAVE to immediately follow with the lumberjack song! They go together.

My favorite sketch by them is from Live at the hollywood bowl, "Live in the lake "or whatever it´s called.

"lovely plumage" BTW you've got to check out the "Argument Clinic" skit. It's one of their best.

Love monty python too life of Brian being one of my favourite films of all time great content amanda hope you and your family are all doing OK?

I used to watch Monty Python's' Flying Circus way back in the early/mid 70's. My mother hated me watching it but I loved it. I think it was on BBC2 at 8pm on a Saturday. We only had BBC1 and BBC2 back then. ITV came later. Whatever was on at the Weekend we used to play out the sketches all the following week! Some of the other kids thought we were stark staring mad! (I think we were, especially when we all used to do the "Silly Walks"!). I was going to school in Frinton at the time and live in Thorpe-le-Soken. It was called Gunfleet School back then, now Tendring Technical. Fun days! "Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time rewritten every line And if we had the chance to do it all again Tell me Would we Could we".......

That sketch is up there with the 'Two Ronnies' Four Candles/Fork Handles one.

@tonys1636

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately sketches such as this will never be written today, comedy has got too PC. Some of the Benny Hill sketches and the TV series 'Till Death Us Do Part' will never be shown on TV again.

Probably one of my favourite Python scenes of all time lol

Recommendation: the "Mr. Creosote" segment from the film "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life" Best quote: "But monsieur.... it's just a wafer thin mint!"

Monty Python was on PBS very very late (after 10pm?) in my area in the 70s. I spent many nights laughing hard enough to wake the children.

One of the all time best

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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You should give their television shows a look including the ministry of funny walks sketch😂

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻will do!

I love the nudge, nudge sketch the warm gravel sketch is worth watching too.

Sorry for the late reply, I'm so glad you liked it, and the lumberjack song, which it leads into you will probably like too 😀

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

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I think you would LOVE the series they did 1-3 imo are the funniest

Hello Amanda, it's heartwarming to see your natural reaction where you nearly disappear snorting and cackling - it always seems to be funnier than the sketch. I'm glad you watch these "live" as if you saw them earlier you'd probably be more blase. How about watching one where you try not to laugh ? ( though you might explode ! )

@LADYRAEUK

2 жыл бұрын

Hahah I don’t think I could do it 🤣

Lumberjack song which follows the parrot sketch is brilliant

0:41 "Oh I'm sorry I have a cold" Like that explains it 💀

Now that you've seen the parrot sketch - you have to watch Python live at the Hollywood Bowl.

'that's what i call a dead parrot'....'naa, he's stunned'....xD

I'm dating myself here, I saw the live studio sketch back in the 70's when Python was on every Sunday on PBS. It was hilarious. The live O2 show was hysterical when Cleese and Palin kept losing their places. Thank you Amanda for bring back such fond memories. You're the best!

epic. I love the lumberjack song too. pure genius

I love this sketch and The Hungarian Phrasebook sketch.

I'm lying down the floor for laughing and drown in my own tears... And THAT after nearly 50 years! While the later talk between each other in my ears there was just the TOK-TOK-TOK by the parrot's headbone on the desk!!! JOHN CLEESE and MICHAEL PALIN at their's BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You need to watch a full programme of Monty Python where all the sketches link together. Eg Blackmail, naughty bits etc etc.

Man... This takes me back!!!!

It was on PBS so it was educational when you had to tune the ears. Some of us listened and learned.

This is perhaps the single best sketch in the history of Comedy, if not the best - then easily top 3. And yet, it's so simple - it starts with a ridiculous premise and it gets funnier from there.

you cant stop it there!!!! we need the lumber jack song!!!

Thank you....... I had forgotten how funny that sketch was !!!

l have not seen this one for a long time .. it was a great chip to watch and it was so funny as well

The two Ronnie's and the Duck AMANDA RAE its really funny

Yup, dangerous humor. First time I saw this skit many years ago I was with a friend who was NORMALLY quite quiet and reserved. - it was a bit scary, out of control laughter to the point that he was having trouble breathing.

"Hello, Polly!!!! I've got nice bundle of fish, if you wake up, mister Polly-parrot!!!"