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",
King Parrot (band) King Parrot (band) King Parrot are an Australian grindcore band formed in Melbourne in 2010. They have released three studio albums: "Bite Your Head Off" (2012), "Dead Set" (2015) and "Ugly Produce" (2017). (Trivia) it is known by a few people that Andrew "Squiz" Livingstone-Squires, before joining the band Fridge, his former band, won a Trace Elliot rig in the early 90's in Tasmania in a competition playing bass. King Parrot formed in Melbourne in 2010 with the original line-up of Matt Young (vocals), Ed Lacey and Ari White (guitar), Wayne "Slattz" Slattery (bass) and drummer Matt Rizzo. White, Rizzo