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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who does not know the Monty Python dead parrot sketch? For the few of you who don't: it involved the efforts of a pet shop owner to persuade a furious purchaser of a defunct 'Norwegian Blue' that the ...

As we know, it has shuffled off its mortal coil and joined the choir invisible. Its metabolic processes are history. It is demised. But while the parrot in the celebrated Monty Python sketch is well ...

A 50 foot fibreglass bird was hung upside down by a crane this morning at London's Potters Fields to mark the forthcoming TV screening of Monty Python's live show. The world famous dead parrot sketch, ...

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 ...

How the Norwegian Blue became a comedy icon. Perhaps we're braving bad luck by mentioning this, but it was 13 years ago next month that one of the great scientific/comedic discoveries was announced, ...

Monty Python's ''dead parrot'' sketch has been named the nation's most-loved routine by the comedy troupe. The team, currently performing a number of sell-out reunion shows in London, were thought to ...

John Wood and Gemma Harris had a dead parrot (Norwegian blue of course) as their table centrepiece To mark the 50th anniversary of Monty Python's first broadcast, superfans John Wood and his bride ...

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 ...