A giant parrot appeared in London today (14th July 2014), and the Norwegian Blue looked distinctly deceased. The dead parrot at the centre of the famous Monty Python sketch performed by John Cleese ...

Monty Python, left to right: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin The dead parrot went live 50 years ago on Sunday when Monty Python made the leap from ...

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What better way to celebrate the return of Monty Python than hanging a giant dead parrot from a crane? The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch ...

The dead parrot routine, The Lumberjack Song and The Ministry of Silly Walks have been voted as the nation's favourite Monty Python sketches. The results come following a poll of 2000 comedy fans ...

A Monty Python fan has discovered that Norwegian parrots really did exist. Fifty five million years before John Cleese and Michael Palin immortalised the birds in the classic dead parrot comedy sketch ...

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I was in the cinema the other day watching an age-inappropriate film. It was 22 Jump Street, the American slacker comedy about two thick cops who go back to school to crack a drugs ring. I'd laughed ...