Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python Fliegender Zirkus". True to its title, the popular Dead Parrot sketch is not included. The special was broadcast in the US on the Showtime network on 17 March 1990. This was 90 seconds shorter than the UK version due to a cut scene from the end of the pre-credits sequence which had Steve Martin revealing, via a slowed down clip of the Bruces sketch, that the Pythons were Satanists. This shorter version was released on VHS in the UK by CBS/Fox in 1990 and later on DVD in the US by A&E in 2001, as part of their "Monty Python
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