Turns out that Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch wasn’t really groundbreaking. For it’s time, maybe. But it turns out that there’s a similar joke from the 4th century in Greece.
…a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died.
“When he was with me, he never did any such thing!” is the reply.
I still love ’em, even if they were beat to the punch line by about 1500 years. Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?