Thursday, April 11, 2013

Margaret Thatcher and the Dead Parrot Sketch

In honor of the late Baroness Thatcher, we present to you the most delightful thing we've seen in a good while: the then-Prime Minister delivering, absolutely deadpan, the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch.



I did miss the line about how, if he weren't nailed to his perch, he'd be pushing up daisies.

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4 comments:

  1. Andy4/11/2013 10:20 PM

    Margaret Thatcher quoting Monty Python? I think I need to go sit down and have a cuppa.

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  2. ~Katherine~4/11/2013 10:55 PM

    Can't...breathe...laughing...too...hard...

    Thank you SO much for posting that! I'd never heard of her having done that before, and oh, what I'd missed!

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  3. Donald R. McClarey4/12/2013 6:10 AM

    Priceless Mrs. D!. Have Dawin put this up on The American Catholic! Hilarious!

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  4. Josiah Neeley4/15/2013 10:41 AM

    This version of the Parrot Sketch has a Thatcher-related payoff at the end.

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