‘E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!
Avui estava rient amb el famós sketch dels Monty Python Dead Parrot en el que entra en Mr. Praline, John Cleese, a una botiga d’animals amb un lloro mort, per queixar-se al botiguer, Michael Palin, que es fa el longuis. De mica en mica es va escalfant la cosa i el client acaba cridant:
‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
Increïblement el febrer passat aquesta situació tant surrealista es va fer realitat a Israel.
Quan Graham Chapman, coautor de l’sketch, va morir l’any 1989, Cleese va fer potser el parlament més divertit en tota la història dels funerals, que comença així:
Graham Chapman, co-author of the ‘Parrot Sketch,’ is no more.
He has ceased to be, bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the Great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky, and I guess that we’re all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, such capability and kindness, of such intelligence should now be so suddenly spirited away at the age of only forty-eight, before he’d achieved many of the things of which he was capable, and before he’d had enough fun.
En aquest vídeo hi trobareu la primera part del discurs, i com tothom s’hi pixa de riure i uns quants s’escandalitzen. Per una transcripció completa (llegiu-la!) aneu a aquesta plana i cliqueu a l’enllaç del requadre a la dreta que posa John Cleese’s speech at Graham Chapman’s eulogy / funeral /tribute is in the VARIOUS section.