Do you remember the Monty Python parrot sketch? Here is an extract where the pet store owner finally loses patience with the parrot owner who is trying to return the dead bird, claiming it is still alive:
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
The dead parrot lying in Potter's Field near Tower Bridge, is part of an advertising campaign for the UKTV screening of final performance of the Monty Python Live farewell show this coming Sunday.
13 comments:
There was a time when I knew that sketch word for word.
Remember watching it whe it was on the telly
Classic, together with the 'Lumberjacks', Fawlty Towers 'Gourmet night' and the two Ronnies 'Fork Handles' - oh, and don't forget Del Boy and Co trying to lower the chandelier. Great British comedy.
I look forward to watching the last performance on TV here in Denmark.
So great! So Monty Python.
How fun! I hope that farewell show comes to the US.
RIP Parrot... great shot!
I love it! One of my favourite skits of theirs.
Who could ever forget!
A marvelous way to advertize the Pythons!
Oh my. I wonder who got him down:)
Nice shot.
Bloomin' marvelous innit :) There's been no one like them since!
I didn't know the dead parrot sketch. Thanks for providing it. Monty Python were fabulous in their time.
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