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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, a British comedy troupe—Monty Python's Flying Circus—produced a now-famous skit in which a disgruntled consumer tried to return a parrot to a pet shop, claiming that the bird was ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The dead parrot routine, the Spanish Inquisition and the silly walk will all be performed on stage this week for what the five remaining members of the Monty Python comedy team, all ...

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 ...

1970's Monty Python created a skit where a man enters a pet store with a cage containing a parrot he bought there and the parrot is dead. The clerk says “no, the parrot is resting”. The man replies ...

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.

And now for something completely different. In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator ambushed the BBC with the strangest show in British history. How they got on the air ...