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The dead parrot sketch, which first aired 45 years ago and featured John Cleese and Michael Palin, has been voted the nation’s favourite Monty Python sketch of all time. The survey of 2,000 British ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dead Parrot has been voted the UK's favourite Monty Python sketch. The skit, featuring John Cleese as a frustrated customer attempting to get his money back from stubborn pet salesman Michael ...

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 ...

A giant 'dead parrot' has been unveiled on the Southbank to celebrate the final screening of the Monty Python live show. The fibre-glass model, measuring 50ft long, is a huge version of the bird used ...