Dead Parrot sketch Palin attributed an almost dead audience to his seeing guests reverently mouthing the words of the sketch, rather than laughing at it. To end the sketch, Palin asked Cleese, "Do you want to come back to my place?" to which Cleese said, "I thought you'd never ask!" In his published diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of "Monty Python's Life of Brian" in Tunisia, Spike Milligan (who happened to be there on holiday) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed "Norwegian Blue" to "Arctic Grey". In a 2002 interview with Michael
Vulturine parrot Vulturine parrot The vulturine parrot ("Pyrilia vulturina"), not to be confused with Pesquet's parrot ("Psittrichas fulgidus"), is a Neotropical parrot, which is endemic to humid forest and adjacent habitats in the eastern Amazon of Brazil. Until recently, it was placed in the genus "Pionopsitta", which now is restricted to the type species, "P. pileata". Furthermore, individuals previously believed to be immature vulturine parrots were described as a new species, the bald parrot ("Pyrilia aurantiocephala"), in 2002. The vulturine parrot has a total length of c. . It has a rather short, squarish tail, and a mainly green plumage, which typically