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 ...

It’s been 50 years of lumberjacks, dead parrots, and Spam. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to inspire modern ...

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 ...

If any troupe has stood the test of time, it's British comedy team Monty Python. The stories and sketches Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam have ...

John Cleese was a guest on last night’s Late Night, where he looked back at Monty Python’s reunion shows at the Tribeca Film Festival over the weekend as well as the classic Python “Dead Parrot” ...

FARGO - There are Trekkies, Star Wars nerds, Juggalos (if you don't know, don't ask) and Parrot Heads. And then there's the Cult of the Dead Parrot. Perhaps the biggest cult-like cultural impact of ...

For comedy fans — especially those of the droll yet borderline insane variety that is British sketch comedy — this news is tantamount to the Beatles reuniting. The Pythons have lost one founding ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.

Here at The Gist we deeply admire everything that Monty Python has done for science (including but not limited to their work with silly walks, confused cats, migrating swallows, etc.).*** But who ...