Dead Parrot sketch appearance on "The Muppet Show", Cleese appears as a pirate attempting to take over a spaceship during a "Pigs In Space" sketch. At the end of the sketch, he demands of the smart-mouthed talking parrot on his shoulder, "Do you want to be an ex-parrot?" In 1989's "The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball", a benefit for Amnesty International, the sketch opens similarly, but ends very differently: In a 1997 "Saturday Night Live" performance of the sketch, Cleese added a line to the rant: "Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians!" In an interview on NPR's "Fresh Air",
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