DEAD PARROT SKETCH

a widely remembered and very funny sketch (= short comic play) from Monty Python’s Flying Circus on British television. John Cleese plays a man who goes into a pet shop to complain about a parrot (= a large colourful bird) which he has just bought there. Although the bird is obviously dead, the pet shop owner, played by Michael Palin , argues that it is just ‘resting’, while Cleese tries harder and harder to prove that it is dead.