Editing Dead Parrot sketch (section)

==Further uses==
{{quote box|width=350px|quote="Graham Chapman, co-author of the 'Parrot Sketch,' is no more. ''He has ceased to be, bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last'', and gone to meet the Great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky."|source=[[John Cleese]] alludes to the sketch at Graham Chapman's memorial service.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Marasco | first1 = Ron | last2 = Shuff | first2 = Brian | title = About Grief: Insights, Setbacks, Grace Notes, Taboos | publisher =[[Rowman & Littlefield]] | page = [https://archive.org/details/aboutgriefinsigh00mara/page/94 94] | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-566-63858-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/aboutgriefinsigh00mara/page/94 }}</ref>}}
At [[Graham Chapman]]'s memorial service, John Cleese began his [[eulogy]] by reprising euphemisms from the sketch.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/fsHk9WC7fnQ Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20061108212507/http://www.youtube.com:80/watch%3Fv%3DfsHk9WC7fnQ Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite video | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ | title=Graham Chapman's funeral | medium=Video | date=1989 | people=John Cleese, Eric Idle | location=London, England, United Kingdom | publisher=[[YouTube]] | access-date=26 November 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Part or all of the dead parrot sketch is quoted in several television programmes, among them the "Life of Python" sketch from ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'' (a parody of the ''[[Friday Night, Saturday Morning]]'' debate on ''[[Life of Brian]]'') and "The Early Bird", an episode from the [[List of Death in Paradise episodes#Series 3 (2014)|third season]] of ''[[Death in Paradise (TV series)|Death in Paradise]]''.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

When paleontologists published a paper announcing the discovery of a [[Mopsitta|fossil parrot]] in Denmark,<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Waterhouse, D.M. |author2=Lindow, B.E.K. |author3=Zelenkov, N.V. |author4=Dyke, G.J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title=Two new parrots (Psittaciformes) from the Lower Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark |journal=[[Palaeontology (journal)|Palaeontology]] |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=575–582 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00777.x |bibcode=2008Palgy..51..575W |url=https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/3925609/waterhouseetal2008.pdf |doi-access=free |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-date=5 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105214510/https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/3925609/waterhouseetal2008.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> lead author Dr David Waterhouse alluded to the Dead Parrot Sketch, saying, "Obviously, we are dealing with a bird that is bereft of life, but the tricky bit is establishing that it was a parrot." However, he declared that this bird could never have been pining for the fjords, explaining, "This parrot shuffled off its mortal coil around 55 million years ago, but the fjords of Norway were formed during the last ice age and are less than a million years old."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516123153.htm |title=Parrot Fossil 55 Million Years Old Discovered in Scandinavia |access-date=2020-01-10 |date=2008-05-17 |archive-date=6 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706021253/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516123153.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the Monty Python Reunion at London's O2 Arena in 2014, UKTV channel Gold commissioned sculptor Iain Prendergast to create a giant fibreglass version of the mythical "Norwegian Blue". The 50-foot long (15m) bird was displayed, appropriately "resting" on its back, inside the O2 during the run of the shows there, as well as at Potters Fields Park in South London, in view of Tower Bridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3033103/london-celebrates-the-monty-python-reunion-by-putting-a-50-foot-dead-parrot-in-potters-field|title=London Celebrates The Monty Python Reunion By Putting A 50-Foot Dead Parrot in Potters Field Park|access-date=2020-01-24|date=2014-07-15|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803102116/https://www.fastcompany.com/3033103/london-celebrates-the-monty-python-reunion-by-putting-a-50-foot-dead-parrot-in-potters-field|url-status=live}}</ref>

The sketch was extensively referenced in a 2021 British Columbia court opinion allowing a class action lawsuit for dietary supplements which did not contain the advertised ingredients. The judge stated "Health Canada cannot establish a protocol that requires that a parrot only still have its feathers in order to be sold as a live parrot, and thereby prevent anyone from suing after being sold a parrot who 'joined the bleedin' choir invisible.'"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Proctor |first1=Jason |title='Dead parrot' sketch invoked as B.C. judge OKs glucosamine sulfate class action |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/glucosamine-sulfate-monty-python-class-action-1.6109894 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |access-date=21 July 2021 |date=21 July 2021 |archive-date=21 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721123347/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/glucosamine-sulfate-monty-python-class-action-1.6109894 |url-status=live }}</ref>