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 ...

The famous saying ‘art imitates life’ came to a bizarre fruition in Canada this week after a British Columbia resident sued another man for selling him a defective parrot in a suit reminiscent of one ...

This ex-parrot has not been nailed on its perch but it has been hung upside down from a crane. The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch where ...

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 ...

A PARROT dropped dead as animal welfare officers swooped on a pet shop, sparking memories of Monty Python's "ex polly" sketch. Inspectors probing claims of neglect were stunned as the bird keeled over ...

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 ...

ONE of the most famous scenes from the series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is the "dead parrot" sketch. In this sketch, a pet shop owner sells a dead parrot (aka: the "Norwegian Blue") to a naive ...

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Margaret Thatcher did not "entirely grasp" why mocking the Liberal Democrats' logo using Monty Python's dead parrot sketch was funny, the Culture Secretary has said. John Whittingdale, former ...