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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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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 ...

Following the death of Monty Python's beloved Terry Jones, take a look back over the very best sketches from the masters of surreal comedy. Arguably the most famous, most readily quoted, Python sketch ...

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 ...