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.😂🇨🇦
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.
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.
Terminology is a little outdated though It’s either cross dresser or transgender person depending on the intention Transvestite has seriously fallen out of favour
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,
"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!!!!!_*"
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 ?_? !.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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. 😊
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!?"
@@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
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."
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....
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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".
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
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.
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.
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"
@@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".
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.
@@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.
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. 😂
Some people say you couldn't get away with this today, but that's not true. In the modern version, he would be completely unironic, the mounties would all be in full praise, wearing rainbow lapel pins, and no one laughs... ever...
@@Nailbat.Aubrey - They're making fun of gays in masculine roles. Is that bigotry? Who cares... It's a joke, and many many people still find it funny. When you say "bigotry isn't nearly as tolerated," the immediate question is by who, and how do YOU define bigotry? Institutions and corporations don't "tolerate" certain types of speech the way they used to, but I think ordinary people are about the same as they've always been. At the same time, the handful of what you call bigotry in the form of jokes that they DON'T tolerate, they DO tolerate in other respects i.e. joking about Christians, males, white people etc. is generally tolerated, so I'm not sure that there's much value or equality in how YOU define bigotry. Just something to think about the next time you hear a joke that offends you. Being offended by a joke doesn't make you special, and a lot of offensive jokes are still "tolerated."
@Brakathor lol sounds like a touched a sore spot. You sure you're not the lil snowflake, upset no one laughs when he makes fun of minorities anymore? Can't even get the minority right, considering it's a trans person they're talking about. Really shows how intelligent the average American is I guess.
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
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.
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
"I cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra" I sing to myself as I put on my suspenders to go to work as a hotel front desk manager. It's a catchy tune, and suspenders are definitely underrated
Final Fantasy VI has an item called the Merit Award which lets you equip Minerva Bustiers - some of the best body armor in the game - on male characters. Totally in line with this song!
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.😂🇨🇦
Covid restrictions, I suppose.
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.
Hahahaha
Liar
I bet there must have been strong protests for this from the lumberjack syndicate...
I was on a ferry trip and there was this absolutely HUGE finnish dude who sang this at the karaoke. He totally nailed it.
I remember that
Was he cute?
I'm disappointed he didn't sing the Finland song:
"Finland, Finland, Finland,
The place where I'd quite like to be..."
Hilarious 😆
You were on a Ferry trip? Or "Fairy" trip?
As a Canadian, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate to our day to day life
If you're not dodging singing Mounties while driving down Yonge Street, you gotta watch out for all those lumberjacks wearing women's clothing.
You must not be a millennial 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Haha.
I'm a Torontonian, and even I have to see those mounties everyday, I can confirm this sketch is the truth as well!
Especially with trudeau in charge
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.
💀
You mean your father 😆😆
@@Andrewflynn16 omd 💀
LOLL
You must have had a great mum
And you have to admit, it's catchy tune
Way ahead of its time.
I think Ernest Hemingway said it best
These days it would be called transphobia or something like that...
@@simonwoods8809 These days the BBC wouldn't make it
True
@@simonwoods8809 Not true. I know several trans people who enjoy this skit.
The new anthem for the Canadian Army.
So they are all gay?
You from Canada?
No, it's your daddy's.
Them fighting words.
*Eh"* !.
Monty Python still holds up all these decades later haha
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
@@jmurray1110has throwing rotten vegetables at them fallen out of favour?
@@displaychicken probably has t happen in decades but it’s not exactly uncouth (unless they have a tomato allergy that is)
@@displaychicken you had to make this a race issue didn't you?
@@displaychickenah, so you're that kind of person
"What about my bloody parrot???"
Shhh... He's sleeping. Observe the beautiful plumage...
He has ceased to be. He has met his maker. He is a late parrot.
@@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!
Hes pining for the fjords
If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he'd be pushing up the daisies right now!
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,
😂😅😁
Hahahahaha
Absolutely hilarious, KK Hagerty!
They got us in the first half not gonna lie
Had us in the first half.
Poor Beavis, all he wanted to do was to be a crossdressing lumberjack....
"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!!!!!_*"
Huh... better replace him then...
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 ?_? !.
Now days he would be praised as the ideal lumberjack
What about Butthead? How would he handle that news?
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.
What is this originally from, an episode? A movie?
@@igystrvigyepisode en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song
@@igystrvigyI think this version is from "Something Completely Different"
@@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.
@@bobbendesky3851 And I was sure he sang "Just like my dear papa", not "mama"; here he sings both :)
I love how they changed "just like my dear mama" to "just like my dear papa"
The family history of cross dressing is better.
It was originally "just like my dear papa", but they changed it to "...mama" later on 😂
AbbyAbby BoBabby no it was originally mama and was changed to papa
@@nolanL No, it was Papa, but the BBC thought it was too much and made them change it
@@phoneheaded It was Mama in the original live version. This came out subsequently and had Papa.
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.
It's extremely irrelevant.
@@WiseOwl_1408 Did you come here for an argument ?
Amazing, decades later this is still exactly how we live life in Canada. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Trudeau the turd and his Frankfurt school freaks in charge
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.
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.
Go for it.
What's stopping you?
That is an excellent question
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.
GO FOR IT....film the event and I bet a
RUclips war lasting years would start.
The greatest plot twist of the past century.
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.
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!
Well, I object to all of this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off!
Titan52berg agreed. This is all getting rather silly.
True ... Why so much about sex ... It is making the world rapists .. And men less ... Feminists growing. Men are running away
I thought you guys where just being stupid and dumb, but with a bit more digging, I now understand the joke. Sorry
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
Jerry Smith I agree.
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.
There's an original??
@@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.
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.
As a Canadian I can guarantee everything in this song is true about Lumberjacks
They like their wood
And their beaver?
And stopping at Subway for a " Footlong "
True dat. The only kind of beaver tail I like is at the restaurant 🤣
so all lumberjacks are transvestites?
@@Excanda based
I like the old ladies turning round John Cleese on a barbecue spit as the Michael the Lumberjack walks away.
John Gora
*Brevin
And Now for Something Completely Different
@@zephyrsbusiness6437 IT'SSSS
They're ex-lumberjacks
As a fellow Canadian I appreciate our proud lumberjacks!! 🇨🇦
Immer wieder der Renner! Monty Python sind unsterblich! Weiter so! Herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland!!! ❤❤❤❤🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@flauschifussel7038 say what now?
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.
Lumberjacks were the programmers of their time.
I like this
They're both Jobs where Noone wonders where you disappear to. It's the woods or the basement, no questions asked.
what in god's name is your profile picture?
@@fishouttadawater1712 Bisedual Dennis Prager
@@utahraptor4729874 Pretty sure Dennis ain't trans
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. 😊
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!?"
As a Canadian myself I can confirm that this is what Canada is like.
Didn't I meet you in a forestry camp in northern British Columbia?? You had the short skirt and I was wearing a Tutu
@@squidman556 Kind of funny considering I use to live in British Columbia.
😂
Impossible to see what Canada looks like with all the trees in the way.
We'll miss Terry Jones, the guy was so funny, but always look on the bright side of life....
Watching this in his memory.
Sorry but Terry Jones was the least funny
@@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
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."
or the bog, the lav, the crapper, the john, or the Khazi all valid Briticisms
I am not a lumberjack
And I am not ok
I work all night
And sleep all day
Perefectly balanced like nothing should be.
😂😂
Ye dæmon of the night! ...be ye... handling thyself well? Prithee take care!
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....
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!
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.
Monty Python, the biggest comedy legend in earth history past, present and future
and what about Firesign Theater? Either Monty Python is second, or they are tied for first place...
@@bobwilliams731 then they are tied
Whitest Kids U Know took their place, and Wizards with Guns or Almost Friday TV will take their place after. The cycle of life
One of their (many) best sketches/scenes. That darn tune is regrettably catchy.
This just NEVER stops being funny!
The Choir "Suspenders!?" Gets me every time😂
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.
Do it!
What about my bloody parrot????
@@sumthingwikked4257 it's resting
Go for it, I'll be cheering you on!
Follow the dream! ❤
As an Australian I can confirm this is exactly what Canadians are like
Yes, every single one of them.
😂😂😂
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.
Canadian here and can confirm lol
is this from now for something completely different
Two years later, I can now reveal that the answer to your query is...
Yeah.
@@uny4781 nice Necro. And it's originally from Monty Python's Flying Circus
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!
My friend, Eric, was in that! One of the Canadian Mounties in the group. Few years back now. Funny change on the lyrics 😆
This is like "Who's on First?" It never gets old! Man! those mounties in the background, really bring it home1
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.
You had a good teacher :-)
I saw this live on TV the first time it played in the US! I've been a Python fan from the first broadcast.
Canadians
As an American, I read Canadians comments about this song.😂👍
The greatest comedy troupe ever💕
Love it...memories from the years gone by of good old British Comedy..Excellent 😂😂
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.
@@tinyrockyplanet8953, agree....Forests are amazing places !
Love Monty Python thanks to my late wonderful dad he raised me on Monty Python I'm 36 years old
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
Three cheers for all the Canucks here in the comment section; your reactions make this clip even better 😄👍 Hip, hip!
Agree!
Love this performance. I heard that Canadian crossdressing LumberJacks prefer to be called LumberJills. Just saying.
As long as you call us . I hate when I'm wearing my best dress a sailor asks for my number and never phones
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".
Your username is a beaut. Cheers.
@@fun_ghoul F the Kulaks, I used to work for one myself comrade.
Only thing manlier than being a lumberjack is being a LION TAMER!
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
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.
God they were comedic geniuses! I can always laugh at Monty python
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.
I love the old ladies roasting John Cleese at the end.
“And now for something completely different”
I like that the others only when recognise the lyrics when they have to sing it hemselves
I break out in song everytime that I see a flannel shirt.
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"
Thank you
If I may be so petulant, 17°C is actually 63°F.
@@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".
@@anthonyboerio4955 I think that was common in the Commonwealth. My grampa, an Italian-Canadian, always said centigrade.
Regardless 40 below is 40 below. Its kinda cold heading to the bar in my work boots and favorite skirt
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!
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.
Just complete silliness & now I cant get the song out of my head😂!
This is my favorite Monty Python episode. And for good reason, this song
Which episode is it in? I really want to watch that episode with the lumberjack song.
@@camelkaze this is from a movie, the orginal TV episode was different and low budget
I used to laugh so hard to this song,
but now, in this day and age,
oh my!!
Now we laugh twice as hard
Some people are aware of the violence perpetuated against anyone who doesn't fit the stereotype.
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.
Def not progressive but still funny.
careful with all that edge!!
@@tacos4uce who's being edgy?
Let me guess, channel 9 from Windsor?
@@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.
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. 😂
this song has no right to be so good.
I never tire of Monty Python.
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Happy to see that my fellow Canucks can still laugh at themselves! 😂
How comes that I still laugh out loud at this 50 years later?
because its absolutely hilarious loll
Some people say you couldn't get away with this today, but that's not true. In the modern version, he would be completely unironic, the mounties would all be in full praise, wearing rainbow lapel pins, and no one laughs... ever...
We used to call them transvestites, now we call them transgender. The modern day version of "suspenders and a bra" is "lipstick and a beard"
When you consider that many throw punches, or much worse, it really isn't funny.
It's almost like they were being bigoted, and that bigotry isn't nearly as tolerated these days...
@@Nailbat.Aubrey - They're making fun of gays in masculine roles. Is that bigotry? Who cares... It's a joke, and many many people still find it funny. When you say "bigotry isn't nearly as tolerated," the immediate question is by who, and how do YOU define bigotry? Institutions and corporations don't "tolerate" certain types of speech the way they used to, but I think ordinary people are about the same as they've always been. At the same time, the handful of what you call bigotry in the form of jokes that they DON'T tolerate, they DO tolerate in other respects i.e. joking about Christians, males, white people etc. is generally tolerated, so I'm not sure that there's much value or equality in how YOU define bigotry. Just something to think about the next time you hear a joke that offends you. Being offended by a joke doesn't make you special, and a lot of offensive jokes are still "tolerated."
@Brakathor lol sounds like a touched a sore spot. You sure you're not the lil snowflake, upset no one laughs when he makes fun of minorities anymore? Can't even get the minority right, considering it's a trans person they're talking about. Really shows how intelligent the average American is I guess.
This is basically what a typical work day looks in Canada.
I got my corset hang on a crosscut saw and ended up in the ER!!!
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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
Still sooooo funny!!! " I wish I had been a girly, just like dear papa!"
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.
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
As a canadain. Best stuff ever🇨🇦
"I cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra" I sing to myself as I put on my suspenders to go to work as a hotel front desk manager. It's a catchy tune, and suspenders are definitely underrated
Final Fantasy VI has an item called the Merit Award which lets you equip Minerva Bustiers - some of the best body armor in the game - on male characters. Totally in line with this song!
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.
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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.
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.
Its okay Lumberjack, I'll hang out with you at the bar 🍻
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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.
She says that in some versions
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They should’ve played this in the Dexter ending
I'd have shat a brick of funny.
I cut down trees and cut up enemies, If they meet the code🎶🎶
What about his bloody sister?
Legendary... thanks MP for laughing me for decades
I will sing this over and over (spontaneously) and laugh my ass off every time 🤣😁
All lumberjacks sing this song while they are felling the trees.
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How hilarious. This guy is definitely funny 😁
0:02 The Larch. The, Larch.
What about my *bloody* _parrot?!_
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