It is indeed hard to believe, but it’s been 50 years since ‘And Now for Something Completely Different’ came out with John Cleese, Eric Idle and the Python gang. I first saw this hilarious movie my freshman year at Carolina in the Student Union as one of their free flicks for freshmen. I could hardly stop laughing. Here below is the dead parrot sketch, which riffs off of the denial of death theme floating around in the culture then— (see the Moody Blues song ‘Timothy Leery’s dead. No, no, no, no, he’s outside— looking in’). This seems a perfect sketch for Halloween…. enjoy
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