The Dead Parrot Skit Explained!
“He’s not dead. Just sleeping.”
(Come on, I can’t be the only Python fan to think that when the headline is: “Dead British Parrot had deadly H5N1 flu strain.”)
“'E’s not pining, 'e’s pathenogenic! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E’s succumbed to disease and gone to infect 'is Maker! It’s a stiff! (BANG) Bereft of life, 'e rests in pandemia! If you hadn’t nailed 'im to the perch 'e’d be pushing up the quarantined daises! It’s run down the curtain and joined the choir invisibile!! THIS! is an INFECTED parrot!”
Beautiful plumage, though.