Monty Python - Lumberjack Song

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  • @sinisterminister6478
    @sinisterminister6478 4 роки тому +4795

    As a Canadian and former logger I can state unequivocally that due to safety concerns we are no longer able to wear high heels while working in the bush.😂🇨🇦

    • @mhansen09
      @mhansen09 4 роки тому +77

      Covid restrictions, I suppose.

    • @jasem222
      @jasem222 3 роки тому +123

      This former NZ logger agrees with you. We got a lot of our techniques from the Canadian loggers, including safety standards. My high-heels when working as a pole-man at the skid site wasn't so bad in the summer, but the winter here just fucked them totally. As well as ruining my tights.

    • @carol-d-60s
      @carol-d-60s 3 роки тому +11

      Hahahaha

    • @nicolaihilckmann4677
      @nicolaihilckmann4677 3 роки тому +3

      Liar

    • @mistofigo
      @mistofigo 3 роки тому +20

      I bet there must have been strong protests for this from the lumberjack syndicate...

  • @svire3370
    @svire3370 4 роки тому +2841

    I was on a ferry trip and there was this absolutely HUGE finnish dude who sang this at the karaoke. He totally nailed it.

    • @rhettpeter83
      @rhettpeter83 4 роки тому +22

      I remember that

    • @jackdavids2723
      @jackdavids2723 3 роки тому +24

      Was he cute?

    • @speleokeir
      @speleokeir 3 роки тому +51

      I'm disappointed he didn't sing the Finland song:
      "Finland, Finland, Finland,
      The place where I'd quite like to be..."

    • @nickburns904
      @nickburns904 3 роки тому +2

      Hilarious 😆

    • @standymon4990
      @standymon4990 3 роки тому +34

      You were on a Ferry trip? Or "Fairy" trip?

  • @ChargeJN
    @ChargeJN 4 роки тому +3161

    As a Canadian, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate to our day to day life

    • @jlaw7670
      @jlaw7670 4 роки тому +86

      If you're not dodging singing Mounties while driving down Yonge Street, you gotta watch out for all those lumberjacks wearing women's clothing.

    • @gerrymcgarry928
      @gerrymcgarry928 4 роки тому +11

      You must not be a millennial 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍

    • @vickydefelice7115
      @vickydefelice7115 4 роки тому +2

      Haha.

    • @yuukibean707
      @yuukibean707 4 роки тому +22

      I'm a Torontonian, and even I have to see those mounties everyday, I can confirm this sketch is the truth as well!

    • @mattmc9812
      @mattmc9812 4 роки тому +24

      Especially with trudeau in charge

  • @ozzybloke-craig3690
    @ozzybloke-craig3690 3 роки тому +544

    Monty Python still holds up all these decades later haha

    • @jmurray1110
      @jmurray1110 Рік тому +6

      Terminology is a little outdated though
      It’s either cross dresser or transgender person depending on the intention
      Transvestite has seriously fallen out of favour

    • @displaychicken
      @displaychicken Рік тому +11

      @@jmurray1110has throwing rotten vegetables at them fallen out of favour?

    • @jmurray1110
      @jmurray1110 Рік тому +1

      @@displaychicken probably has t happen in decades but it’s not exactly uncouth (unless they have a tomato allergy that is)

    • @cvltist.
      @cvltist. Рік тому +5

      @@displaychicken you had to make this a race issue didn't you?

    • @SagaDraws
      @SagaDraws Рік тому +3

      ​@@displaychickenah, so you're that kind of person

  • @Amalthea16
    @Amalthea16 2 роки тому +163

    This was filmed in late 1970. Connie Booth gave birth to her and John Cleese's daughter in early 1971. If you look closely, you can see she is pregnant here. Probably why they shot most of the film right above her waist.

    • @igystrvigy
      @igystrvigy 3 місяці тому

      What is this originally from, an episode? A movie?

    • @TheLazyHalfSRanch
      @TheLazyHalfSRanch 3 місяці тому

      ​@@igystrvigyepisode en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song

    • @RonInbar
      @RonInbar 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@igystrvigyI think this version is from "Something Completely Different"

    • @bobbendesky3851
      @bobbendesky3851 2 місяці тому

      @@RonInbar I thinkyou are right.
      On the TV show version she says I thought you were so rugged; on this version she says I thought you were so Butch.

    • @Jojoseahorse
      @Jojoseahorse Місяць тому +1

      @@bobbendesky3851 And I was sure he sang "Just like my dear papa", not "mama"; here he sings both :)

  • @ernesthemingway9094
    @ernesthemingway9094 8 років тому +2445

    Way ahead of its time.

    • @TheBillStickers
      @TheBillStickers 8 років тому +36

      I think Ernest Hemingway said it best

    • @simonwoods8809
      @simonwoods8809 5 років тому +97

      These days it would be called transphobia or something like that...

    • @johnbull9195
      @johnbull9195 5 років тому +55

      @@simonwoods8809 These days the BBC wouldn't make it

    • @cowboy0212
      @cowboy0212 5 років тому +4

      True

    • @OFS_Razgriz
      @OFS_Razgriz 5 років тому +84

      @@simonwoods8809 Not true. I know several trans people who enjoy this skit.

  • @thenotsodemocraticrepublic7731
    @thenotsodemocraticrepublic7731 Рік тому +537

    When I was a kid, my mom would always sing this, but only the first part. I always assumed it was from some kid's cartoon or something like Paul Bunyan. Needless to say, this has been thoroughly enlightening.

    • @Army_Dog
      @Army_Dog Рік тому +6

      💀

    • @Andrewflynn16
      @Andrewflynn16 Рік тому +37

      You mean your father 😆😆

    • @Army_Dog
      @Army_Dog Рік тому +5

      @@Andrewflynn16 omd 💀

    • @AllytheGumby
      @AllytheGumby Рік тому +2

      LOLL

    • @galexeqe
      @galexeqe 11 місяців тому +5

      You must have had a great mum
      And you have to admit, it's catchy tune

  • @kkhagerty6315
    @kkhagerty6315 3 роки тому +5244

    As a Canadian I find this deeply offensive, misrepresentative, and quite frankly insulting. I have many friends who are lumberjacks and only half of them are transvestites,

  • @gardiloo
    @gardiloo 3 роки тому +134

    Amazing, decades later this is still exactly how we live life in Canada. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

    • @NikCan66
      @NikCan66 2 роки тому

      Trudeau the turd and his Frankfurt school freaks in charge

  • @darkblue5
    @darkblue5 8 років тому +788

    "What about my bloody parrot???"

    • @screwyootube1
      @screwyootube1 6 років тому +60

      Shhh... He's sleeping. Observe the beautiful plumage...

    • @gareginnzhdehhimself
      @gareginnzhdehhimself 5 років тому +27

      He has ceased to be. He has met his maker. He is a late parrot.

    • @SuperSparrow45
      @SuperSparrow45 5 років тому +22

      @@screwyootube1 Alright then. If he's sleeping, I'll wake it up. HELLO POLLY! I got a nice cuttlefish for you when you wake up Polly Parrot!

    • @Goabnb94
      @Goabnb94 5 років тому +19

      Hes pining for the fjords

    • @Titan52berg
      @Titan52berg 5 років тому +16

      If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he'd be pushing up the daisies right now!

  • @flauschifussel7038
    @flauschifussel7038 9 місяців тому +22

    Immer wieder der Renner! Monty Python sind unsterblich! Weiter so! Herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland!!! ❤❤❤❤🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @classicalhero7
    @classicalhero7 7 років тому +2079

    The new anthem for the Canadian Army.

  • @xddddddddddddddddddddd
    @xddddddddddddddddddddd 5 років тому +958

    I love how they changed "just like my dear mama" to "just like my dear papa"

    • @KingofPropane
      @KingofPropane 5 років тому +203

      The family history of cross dressing is better.

    • @abbyabbybobabby3117
      @abbyabbybobabby3117 4 роки тому +63

      It was originally "just like my dear papa", but they changed it to "...mama" later on 😂

    • @nolanL
      @nolanL 4 роки тому +23

      AbbyAbby BoBabby no it was originally mama and was changed to papa

    • @phoneheaded
      @phoneheaded 4 роки тому +65

      @@nolanL No, it was Papa, but the BBC thought it was too much and made them change it

    • @nolanL
      @nolanL 4 роки тому +21

      @@phoneheaded It was Mama in the original live version. This came out subsequently and had Papa.

  • @mandelw
    @mandelw 12 днів тому +2

    Every boy in my 70’s middle school class knew this song by heart.

  • @Novazi74
    @Novazi74 8 років тому +975

    Poor Beavis, all he wanted to do was to be a crossdressing lumberjack....

    • @RWBYraikou888
      @RWBYraikou888 7 років тому +40

      "He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life! He rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he'd be pushing up daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket! He's shuffled off his mortal coil! He's run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible! *_.....THIS..... IS AN EX-PARROT!!!!!_*"

    • @testshietchannel
      @testshietchannel 7 років тому +9

      Huh... better replace him then...

    • @paulhampton6408
      @paulhampton6408 5 років тому +5

      Why couldn't he just throw on a blanket and a toil on top of his head and a scarf and claim he's Different ?. It's already a crazed world o_0 why not ! Seriouslys !. And they hate him o_0 I simply don't get it ?_? !.

    • @canadianmistake2640
      @canadianmistake2640 3 роки тому +8

      Now days he would be praised as the ideal lumberjack

    • @constantdvdcollector
      @constantdvdcollector 3 роки тому +5

      What about Butthead? How would he handle that news?

  • @beastyshout
    @beastyshout 6 років тому +549

    The greatest plot twist of the past century.

  • @UilliamTighearnaigh
    @UilliamTighearnaigh Рік тому +9

    I’m an Irish immigrant who has lived in Australia as of 2023 for 50 years….man and boy, as they say. I love my Canadian brothers and sisters . Your comments are just like you find on the MP “Bruce” sketch…..self deprecating and everyone agreeing that’s exactly how we are. We are the best.

  • @alexanderscott2456
    @alexanderscott2456 Рік тому +67

    I like how she briefly had regaining confidence in his masculinity when he said he cuts down trees right before saying he wears high heels.

  • @fletap7782
    @fletap7782 Рік тому +49

    Monty Python was formed in 1969 the year of the moon landing. 1969! That is over 50 years ago and their humour is still relevant and I am still laughing ... truly a work of art.

  • @VinnyMartello
    @VinnyMartello 3 роки тому +927

    I’m a novice lumberjack and I’ve been cutting trees for a living for a short while now. When I’m 60 feet off the ground and wielding a chainsaw I really want to sing this at the top of my lungs.

    • @elan-6418
      @elan-6418 3 роки тому +41

      Go for it.

    • @charlesjustice9868
      @charlesjustice9868 3 роки тому +37

      What's stopping you?

    • @VinnyMartello
      @VinnyMartello 3 роки тому +24

      That is an excellent question

    • @charlesjustice9868
      @charlesjustice9868 3 роки тому +31

      When I was a roofer, I used to sing sea shanties when I was on a ridge, so I don't see why you can't sing this from a tree.

    • @theunknowngamer5477
      @theunknowngamer5477 3 роки тому +26

      GO FOR IT....film the event and I bet a
      UA-cam war lasting years would start.

  • @susanpetterson2093
    @susanpetterson2093 3 роки тому +98

    I remember when this song was sung on Monty Python. For more than a month my brother went around singing this song any chance he could! Quite often Mom would chime in as well.
    I liked playing Twit Olympics with my mom!
    Thanks for the happy memories. 😊

    • @nivlagtj1
      @nivlagtj1 Рік тому +1

      With my mom, watching on PBS on Sunday nights. The Scotsman/Wimbledon/blancmange sketch had us in pain from laughing. "Angus Podgorny! What DO YOU MEAN!?"

  • @Chris-Someguy
    @Chris-Someguy 2 роки тому +44

    As a fellow Canadian I appreciate our proud lumberjacks!! 🇨🇦

  • @johngora9123
    @johngora9123 5 років тому +188

    I like the old ladies turning round John Cleese on a barbecue spit as the Michael the Lumberjack walks away.

    • @rocksnest8282
      @rocksnest8282 4 роки тому

      John Gora
      *Brevin

    • @zephyrsbusiness6437
      @zephyrsbusiness6437 4 роки тому +19

      And Now for Something Completely Different

    • @Profkol0rado
      @Profkol0rado 11 місяців тому

      ​@@zephyrsbusiness6437 IT'SSSS

    • @scign
      @scign Місяць тому

      They're ex-lumberjacks

  • @SuperSparrow45
    @SuperSparrow45 5 років тому +1617

    Dear Sir,
    I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which had just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites.
    Yours faithfully,
    Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Ms.).
    P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.

    • @Titan52berg
      @Titan52berg 5 років тому +125

      Alright! Alright! That's quite enough of these songs about men dressing as women! It's silly! Let's move along to something completely different!

    • @elijahjarman2837
      @elijahjarman2837 5 років тому +104

      Well, I object to all of this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off!

    • @wouterdeheus3626
      @wouterdeheus3626 5 років тому +28

      Titan52berg agreed. This is all getting rather silly.

    • @gimmyherbert8217
      @gimmyherbert8217 5 років тому +11

      True ... Why so much about sex ... It is making the world rapists .. And men less ... Feminists growing. Men are running away

    • @shantyboy4190
      @shantyboy4190 5 років тому +28

      I thought you guys where just being stupid and dumb, but with a bit more digging, I now understand the joke. Sorry

  • @TheBT
    @TheBT 8 років тому +566

    It's interesting the small changes between this and the original.
    The changing of the lead in sketch to the dead parrot one, the changing of rugged to butch, the ending changing from the person complaing about the sketch to something completely different and of course the changing of I wish I'd been a girly just like my dear mama to papa.
    That and this version had real trees :D

    • @jayraj21hbk
      @jayraj21hbk 6 років тому +6

      Jerry Smith I agree.

    • @97channel
      @97channel 4 роки тому +17

      The changing of rugged to butch, I think, is with overseas audiences in mind. Particularly America. Earlier in the movie, they replace the word bum with buttocks.

    • @frank431
      @frank431 4 роки тому +3

      There's an original??

    • @97channel
      @97channel 4 роки тому +25

      @@frank431 Yes, the sketch was first performed in their TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The version in this video is different and comes from their movie And Now For Something Completely Different.

    • @Iamtk777
      @Iamtk777 3 роки тому +32

      The use of "butch" makes it sound like they're a lesbian couple, and the blond girl thought her trans girlfriend was going to be a butch.

  • @utahraptor4729874
    @utahraptor4729874 5 років тому +157

    Lumberjacks were the programmers of their time.

    • @waytoobiased
      @waytoobiased 2 роки тому +3

      I like this

    • @BoindilTwoBlades
      @BoindilTwoBlades 2 роки тому +7

      They're both Jobs where Noone wonders where you disappear to. It's the woods or the basement, no questions asked.

    • @fishouttadawater1712
      @fishouttadawater1712 Рік тому

      what in god's name is your profile picture?

    • @utahraptor4729874
      @utahraptor4729874 Рік тому +1

      @@fishouttadawater1712 Bisedual Dennis Prager

    • @fishouttadawater1712
      @fishouttadawater1712 Рік тому +2

      @@utahraptor4729874 Pretty sure Dennis ain't trans

  • @MarioMartinez-ek5ev
    @MarioMartinez-ek5ev 3 роки тому +431

    As a Canadian I can guarantee everything in this song is true about Lumberjacks
    They like their wood

    • @smuller8988
      @smuller8988 3 роки тому +13

      And their beaver?

    • @squidman556
      @squidman556 2 роки тому +12

      And stopping at Subway for a " Footlong "

    • @Eric-xh9ee
      @Eric-xh9ee 2 роки тому +1

      True dat. The only kind of beaver tail I like is at the restaurant 🤣

    • @Excanda
      @Excanda 2 роки тому +3

      so all lumberjacks are transvestites?

    • @femboyfantasia
      @femboyfantasia 2 роки тому

      @@Excanda based

  • @albertmillus5626
    @albertmillus5626 2 місяці тому +2

    I never tire of Monty Python.

  • @jarg_64
    @jarg_64 5 років тому +615

    I am not a lumberjack
    And I am not ok
    I work all night
    And sleep all day

    • @danieladamczyk4024
      @danieladamczyk4024 5 років тому +25

      Perefectly balanced like nothing should be.

    • @lyss_77
      @lyss_77 4 роки тому +2

      😂😂

    • @NoticeAssemble
      @NoticeAssemble 4 роки тому +7

      Ye dæmon of the night! ...be ye... handling thyself well? Prithee take care!

    • @jarg_64
      @jarg_64 4 роки тому +7

      Feeny Leander Rubenstein thank ye for your kind words, but I no longer be a creature of te night. Fortune dos smile at me as I now walk around with the living in the day time. Unfortunately it is also where most people with corona also harbor so....

    • @procrastinator41
      @procrastinator41 4 роки тому +4

      JARG 64 hey Jarg! Good for you. It’s really helpful to feel the sun and the breeze on one’s face. Best of luck to you!

  • @maximillianosaben
    @maximillianosaben 2 роки тому +10

    One of their (many) best sketches/scenes. That darn tune is regrettably catchy.

  • @blashernandez3938
    @blashernandez3938 5 років тому +146

    We'll miss Terry Jones, the guy was so funny, but always look on the bright side of life....

    • @johnevans388
      @johnevans388 5 років тому +7

      Watching this in his memory.

    • @magnificentcatz1470
      @magnificentcatz1470 4 роки тому

      Sorry but Terry Jones was the least funny

    • @zephyrsbusiness6437
      @zephyrsbusiness6437 4 роки тому +12

      @@magnificentcatz1470 But he did still contribute to the stuff you don't see: the writing and the directing. The former is done with the other Pythons, but the latter had been shared with Gilliam only for The Holy Grail. As his approach to making the movies was most suited for the Python style of humor, he alone directed the Life of Brian and the Meaning of Life

  • @MasonC2K
    @MasonC2K 2 роки тому +20

    I'd like to thank PBS for introducing me to this and other British programs as a child otherwise I'd be gloriously confused. No one in America says "lavatory."

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton 7 місяців тому +1

      or the bog, the lav, the crapper, the john, or the Khazi all valid Briticisms

    • @GWhite-cl6mk
      @GWhite-cl6mk 14 годин тому

      What year did you convert? I did in 1970.

  • @karatebat5156
    @karatebat5156 4 роки тому +138

    As a Canadian myself I can confirm that this is what Canada is like.

    • @squidman556
      @squidman556 2 роки тому +2

      Didn't I meet you in a forestry camp in northern British Columbia?? You had the short skirt and I was wearing a Tutu

    • @karatebat5156
      @karatebat5156 2 роки тому +2

      @@squidman556 Kind of funny considering I use to live in British Columbia.

    • @senyaspark3361
      @senyaspark3361 2 роки тому

      😂

    • @Shaylok
      @Shaylok Рік тому

      Impossible to see what Canada looks like with all the trees in the way.

  • @maacll4343
    @maacll4343 4 роки тому +36

    Monty Python, the biggest comedy legend in earth history past, present and future

    • @bobwilliams731
      @bobwilliams731 3 роки тому

      and what about Firesign Theater? Either Monty Python is second, or they are tied for first place...

    • @maacll4343
      @maacll4343 3 роки тому

      @@bobwilliams731 then they are tied

    • @ArcYT
      @ArcYT 11 місяців тому

      Whitest Kids U Know took their place, and Wizards with Guns or Almost Friday TV will take their place after. The cycle of life

  • @johnchristopher5075
    @johnchristopher5075 3 роки тому +131

    This just NEVER stops being funny!

  • @StaciArdmore
    @StaciArdmore 2 роки тому +5

    This is like "Who's on First?" It never gets old! Man! those mounties in the background, really bring it home1

  • @lunavixrn5651
    @lunavixrn5651 Рік тому +17

    As a Canadian whose father is a carpenter who has a friend who is a landscaper and cuts down a lot of trees, I can confirm my dad has this as his friend's ringtone.

  • @carolynfletchere-davies3250
    @carolynfletchere-davies3250 Рік тому +10

    Love it...memories from the years gone by of good old British Comedy..Excellent 😂😂

  • @lumberjackcharlie6154
    @lumberjackcharlie6154 9 місяців тому +11

    The Choir "Suspenders!?" Gets me every time😂

  • @williambarnes4612
    @williambarnes4612 3 роки тому +23

    The greatest comedy troupe ever💕

  • @penguinbreath3102
    @penguinbreath3102 2 роки тому +77

    My lifelong dream is to hire a small male choir, dress them in Canadian Mounty uniforms, along with my wife, dress like a lumberjack and perform this classic on Halloween.

  • @AllytheGumby
    @AllytheGumby Рік тому +6

    I know this is meant to be funny but words can’t express to what extent I genuinely love this, and how happy it makes me😂 the way Palin sings it is also just so happy!

  • @britneyspearsvillarosa
    @britneyspearsvillarosa 3 роки тому +6

    Love Monty Python thanks to my late wonderful dad he raised me on Monty Python I'm 36 years old

  • @EyeOfDestiny18012000
    @EyeOfDestiny18012000 4 роки тому +13

    My friend, Eric, was in that! One of the Canadian Mounties in the group. Few years back now. Funny change on the lyrics 😆

  • @jackcox7945
    @jackcox7945 2 роки тому +6

    I saw this live on TV the first time it played in the US! I've been a Python fan from the first broadcast.

  • @LuiePool
    @LuiePool 3 роки тому +23

    Three cheers for all the Canucks here in the comment section; your reactions make this clip even better 😄👍 Hip, hip!

  • @eugene7476
    @eugene7476 3 роки тому +68

    As an Australian I can confirm this is exactly what Canadians are like

    • @SSHitMan
      @SSHitMan 2 роки тому +5

      Yes, every single one of them.

    • @senyaspark3361
      @senyaspark3361 2 роки тому

      😂😂😂

    • @heywoodjerbloume
      @heywoodjerbloume Рік тому +6

      Im Canadian and a lumberjack.When I go to Tim Hortons I wear my finest dress and use the womens rest room.I must point out that Im not a transvestite.

    • @arkady116
      @arkady116 Рік тому +2

      Canadian here and can confirm lol

  • @Cmc-lg8ik
    @Cmc-lg8ik 5 місяців тому +1

    Grew up in a family who loved Monty Python shows! Good ole days when you could say anything and it was just so freaking funny! Like Benny Hill too!

  • @melaniesmith1313
    @melaniesmith1313 2 роки тому +6

    I love the old ladies roasting John Cleese at the end.

  • @Morfe02
    @Morfe02 6 років тому +371

    Canadians

  • @wildhias6195
    @wildhias6195 4 роки тому +15

    I like that the others only when recognise the lyrics when they have to sing it hemselves

  • @Steven_Rowe
    @Steven_Rowe Рік тому +11

    It's funny to think that 50 years since Monty Python started, not only is it still funny to me, but so many who weren't born till the 21st Century also find it funny

  • @NationalAcrobatT
    @NationalAcrobatT 3 роки тому +9

    As an American, I read Canadians comments about this song.😂👍

  • @noelivester7340
    @noelivester7340 5 років тому +22

    “And now for something completely different”

  • @SubtleStair
    @SubtleStair Рік тому +8

    Only thing manlier than being a lumberjack is being a LION TAMER!

  • @vivaldireal1741
    @vivaldireal1741 3 роки тому +7

    This is my favorite Monty Python episode. And for good reason, this song

    • @camelkaze
      @camelkaze 3 роки тому

      Which episode is it in? I really want to watch that episode with the lumberjack song.

    • @blindriv3r
      @blindriv3r 2 роки тому

      @@camelkaze this is from a movie, the orginal TV episode was different and low budget

  • @chrisrabinson1
    @chrisrabinson1 3 роки тому +8

    0:02 The Larch. The, Larch.

  • @GeekAffinity
    @GeekAffinity 5 років тому +14

    When I used to go camping, when I was a teenager, every year they would have the counselors put on skits the first night...And I vaguely remember them doing this exact skit, unfortunately that was before I even knew about Monty Python

  • @texasBMXer
    @texasBMXer Рік тому +8

    What makes this song even funnier is that people who work in logging and forestry have some of the highest levels of self-reported happiness of any job in the United States.

    • @MK007-YT
      @MK007-YT Рік тому

      @@tinyrockyplanet8953, agree....Forests are amazing places !

  • @WhoisVinnie
    @WhoisVinnie 3 роки тому +114

    My classmates wanted my teacher to play Lumberjack. They didn't think it was gonna be this Lumberjack. They were expecting a rap version. Well my teacher got them real good.

  • @nolanrux7866
    @nolanrux7866 Рік тому +5

    Only in a Monty python sketch can we start off with a argument about a dead parrot, which leads to the clerk admitting he’s dissatisfied with his work, then proclaiming he wished he was a lumberjack, while simultaneously admitting he’s a closet transvestite.

  • @randallbray6105
    @randallbray6105 3 роки тому +54

    God they were comedic geniuses! I can always laugh at Monty python

  • @noobynoob6819
    @noobynoob6819 8 років тому +129

    is this from now for something completely different

    • @uny4781
      @uny4781 5 років тому +22

      Two years later, I can now reveal that the answer to your query is...
      Yeah.

    • @aSmallGreenDot
      @aSmallGreenDot 5 років тому +11

      @@uny4781 nice Necro. And it's originally from Monty Python's Flying Circus

  • @davmar5648
    @davmar5648 3 роки тому +1

    Its nice to see Polly was in this sketch.. Faulty Towers

  • @flauschifussel7038
    @flauschifussel7038 5 місяців тому +7

    Monty Python! Unsterblich! Eure Scherze und Witze werden ewig leben!!!!! Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @johnslade7540
    @johnslade7540 Рік тому +3

    You know I never really got into Monty Python because I thought it was just British humor and I figured as an American, I wouldn't like it. Then I saw the clip of the song "Brave Sir Robin" from "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" and thought it was hilarious. Then I see this video and realize what geniuses the Monty Python troupe was. I'm not going to watch all the films from the first to the last.

  • @corsair12760
    @corsair12760 2 роки тому +9

    I used to laugh so hard to this song,
    but now, in this day and age,
    oh my!!

    • @landenrudnik7681
      @landenrudnik7681 2 роки тому +12

      Now we laugh twice as hard

    • @a3a14613
      @a3a14613 2 місяці тому

      Some people are aware of the violence perpetuated against anyone who doesn't fit the stereotype.

  • @PublicSecuritySectionWolf
    @PublicSecuritySectionWolf 6 років тому +70

    I break out in song everytime that I see a flannel shirt.

  • @crabstubular3251
    @crabstubular3251 Рік тому +4

    As a canadain. Best stuff ever🇨🇦

  • @mwfudge
    @mwfudge Рік тому +23

    As an honorary Canadian I can confirm that all other honorary Canadians do not wear suspenders and a bra...but they do wear high heels.

  • @vladimirlestrad3120
    @vladimirlestrad3120 6 років тому +96

    I like how it’s when he mentions the heels do the background guys wise up and Go away.
    Almost like a pair of high heels killed their family or something.

    • @jackierocha5096
      @jackierocha5096 4 роки тому +3

      I think it’s cause their balls have been on the bad end of high heels, the thought of a powerful lumberjack wearing them and kicking them probably freaked hen out enough to high tail it out of there

  • @lucypotato8793
    @lucypotato8793 Місяць тому +1

    Just complete silliness & now I cant get the song out of my head😂!

  • @starvingpeoplecantcomplain
    @starvingpeoplecantcomplain 4 роки тому +9

    Monty Phyton influenced me profoundly in my childhood. I mean it basically formed my Humor and helped me with my childhood depression and the urging feeling that nothing matters and our society is truly fucked up. I can't describe that feeling too my satisfaction in english because i mean it's english but in german we have the perfect word "Weltschmerz".

    • @fun_ghoul
      @fun_ghoul 4 роки тому +2

      Your username is a beaut. Cheers.

    • @jasem222
      @jasem222 3 роки тому +1

      @@fun_ghoul F the Kulaks, I used to work for one myself comrade.

  • @Koridai011
    @Koridai011 2 роки тому +2

    Ever wonder why the dead parrot owner called him ms at the front desk when he was mistaken for him as a sissy

  • @winstonsizemore2385
    @winstonsizemore2385 3 місяці тому +3

    I got my corset hang on a crosscut saw and ended up in the ER!!!

  • @TonyWhite-s4c
    @TonyWhite-s4c Місяць тому +1

    Connie Booth could well be the most gorgeous woman in TV history

  • @The-kr9rb
    @The-kr9rb 4 роки тому +7

    this song has no right to be so good.

  • @anthonyboerio4955
    @anthonyboerio4955 4 роки тому +28

    The soliloquy before the song:
    "Well the weather for the whole area
    Will continue much the same as the past few days
    Temperatures seventeen centigrade, that's forty-nine Fahrenheit
    Winds will freshen later tonight to south-west force six or seven
    And there will be showers sometimes heavy in many
    Oh sod it, I didn't wanna do this
    I don't wanna be a weather forecaster
    I don't wanna rabbit on all day about sunny periods
    And patches of rain spritting from the west
    I wanted to be
    A lumberjack!
    Leaping from tree to tree
    As they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia
    The giant redwood
    The larch
    The fir
    The mighty Scots pine
    The lofty flowering cherry
    The plucky little aspen
    The limping Roo tree of Nigeria
    The towering Wattle of Aldershot
    The Maidenhead Weeping Water Plant
    The naughty Leicestershire Flashing Oak
    The flatulent Elm of West Ruislip
    The Quercus Maximus Bamber Gascoigni
    The Epigillus
    The Barter Hughius Greenus
    With my best buddy by my side
    We'd sing, sing, sing"

    • @gogglesgrath280
      @gogglesgrath280 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you

    • @fun_ghoul
      @fun_ghoul 4 роки тому +5

      If I may be so petulant, 17°C is actually 63°F.

    • @anthonyboerio4955
      @anthonyboerio4955 4 роки тому +1

      @@fun_ghoul Good call!!!! I looked into it further, because I thought centigrade was a seldom used term and found this:
      It was not even until February 1985 that the weather forecasts issued by the BBC switched the term from "centigrade" to "Celsius".

    • @fun_ghoul
      @fun_ghoul 4 роки тому +3

      @@anthonyboerio4955 I think that was common in the Commonwealth. My grampa, an Italian-Canadian, always said centigrade.

    • @squidman556
      @squidman556 2 роки тому +2

      Regardless 40 below is 40 below. Its kinda cold heading to the bar in my work boots and favorite skirt

  • @a.jlondon9039
    @a.jlondon9039 5 років тому +7

    Some Canadian Identity! NEVER LOSE IT!

  • @thomassmith5548
    @thomassmith5548 Рік тому +6

    Dear Sir,
    I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms
    about the song you have just broadcast
    about the lumberjack who wears women’s clothes.
    Many of my best friends are lumberjacks,
    and only a few of them are transvestites.
    Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur
    Strong, Mrs.
    P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times

  • @shrav7-
    @shrav7- 4 роки тому +6

    All lumberjacks sing this song while they are felling the trees.

  • @edwardwilliams2438
    @edwardwilliams2438 4 роки тому +7

    I saw this when I was about 15 years old on the Canandian channel ..Channel 9. I didn't get it at first....then it dawned on me! I was always a little slow. Now, I find it rather progressive and very funny.....Thanks.

    • @lj-wp3sf
      @lj-wp3sf 4 роки тому +3

      Def not progressive but still funny.

    • @tacos4uce
      @tacos4uce 4 роки тому +3

      careful with all that edge!!

    • @lj-wp3sf
      @lj-wp3sf 4 роки тому

      @@tacos4uce who's being edgy?

    • @jlaw7670
      @jlaw7670 4 роки тому

      Let me guess, channel 9 from Windsor?

    • @edwardwilliams2438
      @edwardwilliams2438 4 роки тому

      @@jlaw7670 Yes...CKLW Canadian TV...the best. My world into a bigger overall view of entertainment. There was also a PBS aspect to this channel...art,comedy,opera,...I was rather jaded by Detroit urban slant....really miss my channel 9 fix.....Thanks for your reply.

  • @nieja6238
    @nieja6238 4 роки тому +140

    The original femboy

  • @citymad2mancitymad644
    @citymad2mancitymad644 3 роки тому +3

    CLASS YOU CAN'T BEAT A BIT OF MONTY ..... DARLINGS

  • @davidrule385
    @davidrule385 4 роки тому +4

    This is one new thing they added in the film, than when the song was featured in Flying Circus, which was the Lumberjack's Canadian Mountie friends throwing fruit and veg at him off screen.

  • @h.calvert3165
    @h.calvert3165 Рік тому +2

    Happy to see that my fellow Canucks can still laugh at themselves! 😂

  • @CorporalCanada
    @CorporalCanada 3 роки тому +19

    This is basically what a typical work day looks in Canada.

  • @cpi_productionscreatoxx6289
    @cpi_productionscreatoxx6289 2 місяці тому

    I'm also impressed by the firm discipline of order, first cutting, then eating and then going to take a dumb. I can verifie that German Lumberjacks like to keep their workplace clean.

  • @horrorghoul
    @horrorghoul Рік тому +8

    Showed this to my husband - he didn't laugh once - we are now getting divorced.

    • @mdumasyou
      @mdumasyou 11 місяців тому +2

      Harsh, but fair.

    • @kathygroot5611
      @kathygroot5611 9 місяців тому +1

      Omg that's wicked funny. 🇨🇦

  • @krista4449
    @krista4449 2 роки тому +12

    Love this performance. I heard that Canadian crossdressing LumberJacks prefer to be called LumberJills. Just saying.

    • @squidman556
      @squidman556 2 роки тому +4

      As long as you call us . I hate when I'm wearing my best dress a sailor asks for my number and never phones

  • @nathanburling7053
    @nathanburling7053 2 роки тому +5

    Still sooooo funny!!! " I wish I had been a girly, just like dear papa!"

  • @DGCpicturesEntertainment
    @DGCpicturesEntertainment 7 місяців тому +1

    I was awaiting to hear Cleese say his famous line, but it got cut off at the very end, which possibly made the abrupt sight of him roasting on a spit even more hilarious to me. 😂

  • @patrickdestain392
    @patrickdestain392 3 роки тому +21

    How comes that I still laugh out loud at this 50 years later?

    • @AllytheGumby
      @AllytheGumby Рік тому +2

      because its absolutely hilarious loll

  • @meletisananias9057
    @meletisananias9057 6 років тому +51

    Top 10 Anime Plot Twists

  • @marleegould542
    @marleegould542 2 роки тому +4

    Its okay Lumberjack, I'll hang out with you at the bar 🍻

  • @volbeatdbv9846
    @volbeatdbv9846 2 роки тому +2

    Legendary... thanks MP for laughing me for decades

  • @stevebutler812
    @stevebutler812 10 місяців тому +4

    The hidden joke is that people will be offended by the references to homosexuality, but not cannibalism

    • @Etobicoke67
      @Etobicoke67 6 місяців тому

      .....or paedophilia and medical child abuse.

  • @trayzee67
    @trayzee67 Рік тому +1

    I love this song.

  • @afsces
    @afsces 3 роки тому +7

    I haven't seen this since my dad showed it to me as a child and I swear to god I thought the wife said "I thought you were so rugged" now it just sounds weird in my head.

    • @waytoobiased
      @waytoobiased 3 роки тому +5

      She says that in some versions

  • @zoeangel4lyf
    @zoeangel4lyf 3 роки тому +2

    How I Feel when I wear My Red Flannel 🤣🤣
    Thus song makes me Crack Up haven't heard it in YEARSS I'm 25 now and was like 12 or 12 last time I heard it aha.
    BRAVO MONTY PYTHON!! MY all time Favourite Comedy Troupe