50-Foot Dead Parrot Drops Into London to Promote Monty Python Reunion

Adweek ^ | July 16, 2014 | David Griner

[Squawk 8888]

What's a Monty Python reunion without a dead parrot? And why settle for a simple prop you can bang on the counter when you could have a monstrous, 50-foot-tall dead parrot?

To promote the live broadcast of the comedy troupe's July 20 performance, UKTV's Gold channel and sculptor Iain Prendergast created a massive fiberglass dead parrot, which was suspended from a crane and laid talons-up in London's Potters Field this week.

[jimbo123]

Monty Python Live (mostly)
BROADCAST LIVE FROM LONDON’S O2
A special live event in cinemas nationwide

http://www.fathomevents.com/event/monty-python-live-mostly/more-info/theater-locations

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Also shows in theaters ( not live ) on the 23rd and 24th of July. My local showings are both dates at 7:30 ET.

Fandango gives the July 20 show as costing $18.

[Slings and Arrows]

*thump* There, he moved!

[Excellence]

I wonder if there is a picture of the Queen doing the Picard palm to the face. It would fit in so well here.

[rlmorel]

My All Time Favorite bar none!

Argument Sketch!"

Brilliant and logically constructed...:)

[a fool in paradise]

Still flogging a dead parrot I see.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

A lesser known one I like;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdCQwigh6H8

[JRios1968]

I didn’t expect a kind of Norwegian parrot.

Well, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[Ditter]

I had never seen that Monty Python skit, good one.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Does it talk?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

No, ‘e didn’t! You ‘it the cage!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Bought my ticket yesterday at the local theater’s box office that’s going to show it. Was $18 and the person selling the tickets was shocked at the price. I wasn’t. I also think I was the first one to buy. Ordering online cost $2 more.

Going to keep looking online to make sure it doesn’t sell out as it’s the only showing for a few hundred miles. If it does then I’ll have to get there super early to get a good seat.

[Squawk 8888]

That’s one of the advantages I have of living in the centre of a major city- *almost* balances out the downside.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Check out this video about the reunion from Mick Jagger.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/showbiz/monty-python-mick-jagger/index.html

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

One last one;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbRHxM4X2g