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In this first edition of the Be Funny Or Die podcast, I’m looking at Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch, broadcast for the first time 55 years ago in December 1969, and wondering what on earth’s going on in there.

I want to look at how the sketch’s accidentally perfect balance of familiarity and absurdism made it the unexpected signature sketch of the gro…