“The Dead Parrot Sketch” is no doubt Monty Python’s most famous comedy routine. Since it originally aired as part of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1969, the sketch has been performed in ...

A customer, Mr. Praline (John Cleese) enters a pet shop (run by Michael Palin) to complain about his parrot. Praline claims it was dead when he sold it, but the shopkeeper keeps trying to convince him ...

A model of the dead parrot at the centre of the famous Monty Python sketch has been recreated on a giant scale and placed in London. See pictures and a video.