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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heard the one about the man who bought a slave which died? You may have recently: it was performed on a London stage by comic legend Jim Bowen. But the show was not exactly new or fresh - instead, the ...

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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 ...

Dozens of props, costumes and a lifelike llama from Monty Python’s final live show are set to be auctioned. Fans will be able to get their hands on rare items from Terry Gilliam’s personal collection ...