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Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch

submitted by looris

1 decade 3 years 11 months 1 week ago

the original one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

10 Comments

They didn't show the part where Maggie fired the parrot from its government job, started a nationalistic war to get it to vote for her and lectured it for not showing true Victorian values.

And she also didn't mention that the avant-garde comedy she is referencing would never be allowed in her status-quo dream society. Funny that.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'parrot, bird, monthy python' to 'parrot, bird, monty python' - edited by rasch187

A courageous attempt to violate The First Law Of The Universe. ("Margaret Thatcher is not funny").

dystopianfuturetoday

It's so stiff and forced, that it somehow transcends not funny and becomes funny. For me anyway. Probably helps that she was never the leader of my country. That said, I can't imagine Ronald Reagan saying 'cheeburger, cheeburger, cheeburger'.

Monty Python on MSNBC's "Countdown" has been added as a related post - related requested by grinter on that post.

*promote

In honor of the dead parrot sculpture installed at Potters Field in London recently.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, May 31st, 2010 3:28am PDT - promote requested by bareboards2.

*british!

Adding video to channels (British) - requested by Zawash.

And now happily, she is an ex-human (if indeed, she ever was one).

you were a vicious bastard, maggie.... I'm glad you're dead

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