This is delightful. And real. Delightfully real. Thank you for sharing this.
posted by OrangeDisk at 1:22 PM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

If you¡¯d like to avoid Twitter, here is the same video on YouTube, I believe.

Oh, and according to this news archive, a Pawel Miotla recognized the pigeon and claimed it as his own. I haven¡¯t found anything more out about the pigeon.
posted by Kattullus at 1:31 PM on August 21, 2023 [9 favorites]

I wonder if he's related to Terry Pratchett's Duck Man?
posted by Fuchsoid at 1:36 PM on August 21, 2023 [9 favorites]

It's all in how you discuss birds on the head,
he doesn't even need accordion lessons!
Thanks for posting this was a bit of lovely whimsy on a hectic day
posted by winesong at 1:39 PM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

Weirdly, Flying Circus had already been on air for a few weeks when the interview with Glynne Wood was aired, which makes me consider the possibility that Monty Python were documentary filmmakers.
posted by Kattullus at 2:14 PM on August 21, 2023 [5 favorites]

Obligatory.
posted by Paul Slade at 2:17 PM on August 21, 2023 [2 favorites]

The video clip I didn't know I needed!
posted by treepour at 2:23 PM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

On some level, it's this kind of thing that led to Flying Circus.

It is very easy to imagine the voice of Michael Palin saying, "In our studio now, a man with a pigeon living on his head." Then they'd introduce the next guest, who, unfortunately, would have a cat living on his head. Mayhem would ensue, and when they finally got everybody calmed down they'd introduce the next guest... who'd have a dog living on his head. They'd all start chasing each other around and then we'd cut away to the Terry Gilliam cartoon.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 2:23 PM on August 21, 2023 [10 favorites]

If you're going to post Tom Lehrer videos I feel obligated to remind you that

a) he is still alive
b) he is 95 (that's 137 in base 8, if you carry the one)
posted by chavenet at 2:41 PM on August 21, 2023 [9 favorites]

Now go back to the 64s, you're left with 2 and you take away 1 from 2 and that leaves?

Let's not always see the same hands...
posted by Windopaene at 2:43 PM on August 21, 2023 [6 favorites]

Now do hexidecimal!
posted by evilDoug at 2:50 PM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

obviously it was a wood pigeon.
posted by ZaphodB at 3:07 PM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

1. A little "The front fell off" vibe (the serious presentation, with the absurd premise and straightface through it all).
2. The Duck Joke link. Mark Linn Baker has some strong David Schwimmer vibes here.
3. Obligatory Venetian Snares ... Masodik Galamb :
"It¡¯s just a pigeon, looking for its nest
It doesn¡¯t know that it¡¯s wild
It doesn¡¯t know?that?it scares me
Why?am I frightened so easily?
Pigeon, why?can you scare me?
Am I not part of your life anymore?
Am I not welcome anymore?

Am I not part of your life?
Pigeon"
posted by symbioid at 4:05 PM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

I don¡¯t know what I expected
posted by Going To Maine at 4:39 PM on August 21, 2023 [5 favorites]

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man.
WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK?
"What duck?"
AH. SORRY.

-- Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
posted by JHarris at 4:50 PM on August 21, 2023 [4 favorites]

I love how the guy is just kinda like "we lock the pigeon up at night, let him out in the day, and here we go again, nothing I can do, rolling with it."
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:47 PM on August 21, 2023 [3 favorites]

Zim! You've got head pigeons. Go see the nurse before they spread to the other children!
posted by The otter lady at 8:49 PM on August 21, 2023 [5 favorites]

...But This Is Real

What a sensible gent.

Some of the people they show on the BBC are just fucked in the head.
posted by flabdablet at 11:38 PM on August 21, 2023 [3 favorites]

Whilst watching this video via YouTube I got a sidebar suggestion for Attempted Start of BBC2 which is apparently a real recording from the day the UK broadcaster the BBC was due to launch it's second television channel, BBC 2, in 1964. However due to power failure this didn't go to plan, instead it went to the backup studio and a very hurried looking news desk with presenter reading the news.

I'm still slightly unbelieving this is really a genuine video and not a sort of Python-esk spoof, but I suppose this was exactly the sort thing they were parodying: cool, calm, collected, but with a sense of humour when needed news reader handles the worst that can be thrown at him: reading the news, effortless padding for time as required, receiving breaking news updates in paper, and answering the phone (twice!) on air and in mid-flow.

Note: The audio doesn't start until about 2 and a half minutes in.
Note: Offensive/racist language used twice during this broadcast (as part of reporting a news story - another sadder sign of the times)
posted by eddieddieddie at 1:33 AM on August 22, 2023 [3 favorites]

Mo Willems has a book about this.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:31 AM on August 22, 2023 [3 favorites]

Folks, we've got a new favorite in the "most British person alive" competition
posted by rhymedirective at 6:07 AM on August 22, 2023 [8 favorites]

How to Command Respect in 7 Steps [Perry Bible Fellowship]
posted by AlSweigart at 7:55 AM on August 22, 2023 [5 favorites]

No Our Flag Means Death references? Or did I miss one?

Look, my interests are very narrow these days.
posted by allthinky at 4:32 PM on August 23, 2023 [2 favorites]