Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch has topped a Radio Times poll to find the best alternative comedy sketch. More than 1,200 people voted in the poll with Dead Parrot getting twice as many votes as its ...

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This week, I was lucky enough to be at the O 2 for Monty Python’s reunion gig. Among much else, I got to see the dead parrot sketch, live I am a great fan of Monty Python but was worried the live ...

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 ...

Monty Python's dead parrot has made a new appearance in London - as a giant fibreglass model. The bird at the centre of the famous Monty Python 'Dead Parrot' sketch has been carefully recreated, as a ...