• The "Dead Parrot sketch", alternatively and originally known as the "Pet Shop sketch" or "Parrot sketch", is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus...
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  • Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python is a British television special dedicated to Monty Python, created to commemorate the 20th anniversary...
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  • Monty Python Live (Mostly), as a surprising coda to the Dead Parrot sketch. The idea for the sketch came after a day of shooting in Folkestone Harbour, where...
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    Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed...
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  • Philogelos has been described as "an ancestor of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch." Comedian Jimmy Carr has said that some of the jokes are "strikingly...
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  • involving the merger of Python with Perl was dubbed "Parrot" after the Dead Parrot sketch. The name "Parrot" was later used for a project to develop a virtual...
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    the faulty item into a dead parrot, and he also suggested that the parrot be specifically a "Norwegian Blue", giving the sketch a surreal air which made...
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  • Chapman's sketches, featuring a used car salesman refusing to believe a customer's model had broken down, became the inspiration for the Dead Parrot sketch. Chapman...
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  • species has been nicknamed the "Danish Blue Parrot", or the "Norwegian Blue", in honor of the Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Paleontology...
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  • simply contain words related to death. Most of them are idioms. The "Dead Parrot sketch" contains several euphemisms for death ("is no more", "has ceased...
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  • Python team performed several of their most famous skits including the Dead Parrot sketch, the Custard Pie (aka The Japes Lecture), and "The Lumberjack Song"...
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    include Monty Python's "Dead Parrot sketch", Home Alone 3 and Rio; and documentaries include The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Parrots have been a food source...
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    breath. The Philogelos even contains a joke similar to Monty Python's "Dead Parrot Sketch". During the 15th century, the printing revolution spread across Europe...
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    Lovecraft. She is stopped upon the arrival of King Triton. In the Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python's Flying Circus, the customer is sent to Bolton for...
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  • of the sketches of The Two Ronnies are in a similar vein. Innuendo with little subtlety was epitomised by Benny Hill, and the Nudge Nudge sketch by Monty...
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    nods to "Ministry of Silly Walks", the "Election Night Special" and "Dead Parrot sketch" routines, a bar from "Spam" worked into "Knights of the Round Table"...
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  • Salesman" sketch, in which Palin refuses to accept customer Chapman's claim that a car he sold is faulty, later inspired Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch, in which...
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  • And Now For Something Completely Different, it follows on from the "Dead Parrot sketch" with Palin's character leaving the pet shop as Eric Praline (played...
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    television specials. As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Cartman attempting to return a dead Kenny to a shop run by Kyle aired during...
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    negative connotations. Call a spade a spade Code word (figure of speech) Dead Parrot sketch Distinction without a difference Dog whistle (politics) Double entendre...
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  • Monty Python's Flying Circus (category 1960s British television sketch shows)
    Night Live sketches. Cleese and Palin re-enacted the Dead Parrot sketch on SNL in 1997. The show was a major influence on the Danish cult sketch show Casper...
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  • crew to desert the set. Afterwards, he later interrupts the famous Dead Parrot sketch, when after Mr Praline calls the situation too silly, the Colonel...
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    "Mountain Town" from the film. As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Kenny as a "dead friend" being returned by Cartman to a shop run...
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  • Kyle Broflovski (category All articles with dead external links)
    As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Kyle as the owner of a shop to where Cartman attempts to return a dead Kenny aired during...
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    And Now for Something Completely Different (category Sketch comedy films)
    composed of some well-known sketches from the first two series of the Flying Circus, including the "Dead Parrot" sketch, "The Lumberjack Song", "Upper...
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    Chapman. He acted in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot sketch", "The Lumberjack Song", "The Spanish Inquisition"...
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    Marriage Emporium – pays homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch and "Dead Parrot sketch". Fawlty Turrets – pays homage to Fawlty Towers. The Delhi Tubbies...
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  • Eric Cartman (category All articles with dead external links)
    performed in the movie. As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Cartman attempting to return a dead Kenny to a shop run by Kyle aired during...
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  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (category Sketch comedy films)
    sketch); Mrs. Thing and Mrs. Entity (Pepperpots sketch) and, most surprisingly, the Dead Parrot sketch. A film version of the Hollywood Bowl performances...
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  • Merriam-webster.com. 31 August 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2013. "The Dead Parrot voted top Monty Python sketch by UK public". Digital Spy. Retrieved 23 August 2019....
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