Post by dedennedillo on Feb 10, 2023 19:18:52 GMT
I felt like posting something about a hunt I have been on for a little while now -
I was recently talking with a Canadian friend of mine, and eventually in the conversation we start talking about Monty Python - to which my friend brings up his first 'Monty Python memory'.
He recalls watching Just For Laughs Montreal sometime around the year 2000 - when suddenly he sees British comedian Eric Idle on the screen, and eventually he starts singing Monty Python's Lumberjack Song - a song in which a male Lumberjack admits to enjoy wearing woman's clothing, to the dismay of his girlfriend and choir of Mounties.
My friend recalls thinking, 'who are these Monty Python people - and why are they obsessed with Lumberjacks?'
Intrigued, I try to search for this on the internet to no avail - though my friend still insists that he did, on that day around the year 2000, see Eric Idle perform the Lumberjack Song at Montreal.
I have been skeptical about this for some time - finding little aside from the ocassional internet dog-whistle to this event - though recently I found something which may have changed my mind.
One poster in the thread posts on March 12 2006:
once in my life i want to go to a Just for Laughs festival.. i watch it all the time on TV and im just dieing to go ><
It's fun. I saw Eric Idle perform The Lumberjack Song, boy was that a moment.
I recall earlier in this search I somewhat immediately brushed it off as all I could find was one track that appeared to date from 2000 featuring Eric Idle at Just For Laughs - but was the 'wink-wink nudge-nudge' sketch, and not the Lumberjack Song. And so I assumed that, thus, one popular Python sketch was being confused for another. But now, I believe I have fairly sound evidence proving that Eric Idle may truly have performed the song at JFL circa 2000 after all. All that I am curious now about is actually seeing if it can be found online in any capacity ...
