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",
Bald parrot was discovered that the individuals were sexually mature, they were described as a new species. In reality, juveniles of both species have feathered, greenish heads quite unlike those of the adults. The bald parrot is a medium-small, overall green parrot with a bald, brownish-orange head. As several other members of the genus "Pyrilia", it has red underwing coverts that barely are visible when perched, but highly conspicuous in flight. Bald parrot The bald parrot ("Pyrilia aurantiocephala") or orange-headed parrot is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It was formerly placed in the genus "Pionopsitta", which is now monotypic.