Monty Python - The Parrot Sketch and The Lumberjack Song - the movie versions - HQ

Anecdotally, I once found myself IN this pet shop. It was in the Caledonian Road, North London. I wandered in - I was passing and needed something or other - and realised it looked familiar. Then I saw the signed picture behind the counter. It was a still of John and Michael in that "very boutique".

The shop-owner explained that when they'd done the bit on TV, they'd HAD to do it in the studio - for the audience reaction. But since this was for the FILM ("And Now For Something Completely Different") there would be no live audience. And with the superior definition of a film, a set just wouldn't MAKE it. Real pet shops have CLUTTER. And so they'd gone and found one - HIS.

I don't know if the shop is still there - if it is, the guy has probably made more money letting people be photographed there (like on the crossing outside the Abbey Road studios) than he has selling Norwegian Blue parrots!

p.s. xmichelledd asked me if I'd post the following URL - for good karma! I've checked it out and it is what she said it was - a huge DVD set of ALL the Monty Python sketches, on Amazon - so fair enough.

The URL is: http://urlsnippy.com/CompleteMontyPython?it=ndqsdd

But please note: Amazon are only able to ship to certain countries - however, if you live in one they DON'T ship to, you should still be able to find a NEW example of this set on EBAY - whose merchants can usually ship ANYWHERE. Just AVOID their "third-party" shipper - "Channel Advisor" - and use the merchant's OWN shipping service. Good luck.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Monty
• Python's
• Flying
• Circus
• John
• Cleese
• Michael
• Palin
• Parrot
• Sketch
• Lumberjack
• Song

[clivegregory]

The Parrot Sketch for the film was indeed filmed in my aunts pet shop on the Caledonian Road in London, named Child's Pet Shop (her married name), it, like the parrot, "is no more". We think it is now a Turkish coffee shop.

As a kid in the 1970's I worked there assisting my now deceased aunty. They had a very big reticulated python in a large fish tank. It was fed on live rats.

[budgienation]

Nothing better than Monty Python. The worst Python sketch knocks the socks off anything. The one thing I'd like to know is where they got the dead Gold and Blue Macaw? Did one of them chat up a vet and ask him/her to hold onto the next dead parrot he comes across 'cause they've got this great idea for a pet shop sketch....

[elliottthewallis]

Genius!!!!!

[brokensoul8390]

"What about my bloody parrot?!"

Forget the parrot, where did that forest come from?!

[ephabouyed]

@luclfersangel616 Hahahaha very good mate.

[DanizzleHugz]

I did this for a drama performance! I was the shop keeper/lumberjack haha good times

[Djdaveren]

we have nice trees here in british columbia

[luclfersangel616]

But he's not a lumberjack, he's not okay.

He works all night and he sleeps all day.

He sells kitties, he feeds some fish

he sell someone a dead parakeets.

[pyrogyra72]

If you want to get anything done in this country, you're gotta complain until your blue in the mouth.

[pyrogyra72]

@letsgetcarriedaway Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue. Wonderful plumage.

[letsgetcarriedaway]

What about my bloody parrot?!