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Dead Parrot’s Classical Roots

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Famous Monty Python skit preempted by ancient Greeks.

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As if we needed more evidence of the ancient Greeks’ genius: a fourth century joke book features a joke that preempts Monty Python’s “Dead Parrot” sketch, which was recently ranked by Nerve magazine as the best comedy skit of all time.

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