It's A Tree is a sketch that appears in "Untitled," the tenth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Synopsis[]
David Unction (Graham Chapman) comments on the previous sketch and bids a good evening to the audience before he introduces the talk show It's A Tree, starring Arthur Tree (Eric Idle), a tree. He announces the guests, first being a block of wood (John Cleese), who has been in films, designing a cathedral, doing charity work, photographing royalty on the loo, averting World War III, and learning to read as of late. The laughing audience shows a picture of a forest.
Arthur Tree then introduces, from America, a chippendale writing desk. The desk appears on a stage in a Terry Gilliam animation, thanking Tree and saying he will do impersonations of his favorite Englishmen, starting with Long John Silver (said as 'Sliver'). The desk goes off stage and comes back with one leg replaced by a boot, saying 'Argh, Jim Boy, argh, argh, argh.' The next is Edward Heath, where the desk comes in wearing a fake nose. His lid opens to show fake teeth, and he says 'Hello, sailor.' Finally, he intends to do a short scene of a play by Harold Splinter, but is suddenly smashed with a giant hammer before he can do so, ending the sketch with the curtain coming down.
An emcee stands in front of the curtain and introduces the next sketch.