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
Brown-necked parrot Brown-necked parrot The brown-necked parrot ("Poicephalus fuscicollis"), sometimes known in aviculture as the uncape parrot, is a large "Poicephalus" parrot species endemic to Africa consisting of the savanna-dwelling brown-necked parrot ("P. fuscicollis fuscicollis") and grey-headed parrot ("P. f. suahelicus") subspecies. It formerly included the Cape parrot (now "Poicephalus robustus") as a subspecies before the Cape parrot was re-classified as a distinct species. German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl described the brown-necked parrot in his 1819 work "Conspectus Psittacorum". Although unsure of its country of origin, he felt it was definitely a distinct species and related to the Cape parrot. The species name