1970's Monty Python created a skit where a man enters a pet store with a cage containing a parrot he bought there and the parrot is dead. The clerk says “no, the parrot is resting”.

When a teenage Monty Python fan wrote a letter to his hero John Cleese he barely expected a reply, let alone an absolutely hilarious one. Matt Hyde wrote to Cleese back in the 80s, when he was 14 ...