Dead Parrot sketch version. Praline's rant about the deceased parrot includes "He fucking snuffed it!" Also, the sketch ends with the shopkeeper saying that he has a slug that does talk. Cleese, after a brief pause, says, "Right, I'll have that one, then!" According to Michael Palin's published diary, Palin changed his response in order to throw Cleese off. During this performance something occurs on stage that does not translate into audio, but causes the audience to break into hysterics upon Cleese's follow-up line "Now that's what I call a dead parrot". The 1976 Monty Python Live at City Center performance ended with
Mulga parrot Mulga parrot The mulga parrot ("Psephotellus varius"), also known as the many-coloured parrot, is endemic to arid scrublands and lightly timbered grasslands in the interior of southern Australia. The mulga parrot was given its current scientific name of "Psephotellus varius" by American zoologist Austin Hobart Clark in 1910, after its name "Psephotus multicolor" was ruled invalid as the original combination ("Psittacus multicolor") had been used for another species. In 1955, British evolutionary biologist Arthur Cain reviewed various described subspecies and found none were valid. Cain concluded in 1955 that within the genus "Psephotus" the mulga parrot was more closely related