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Monty Python is the name of a British comedy group known for such works as Monty Python's Flying Circus, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

Members include Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Occasional members have included Connie Booth, Neil Innes, Chris Langham (in Life of Brian) and Eddie Izzard (in two television specials).

Monty Python's Spamalot, a Broadway musical comedy based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, was spoofed in Sesame Street's 37th season with a sketch titled Scramalot.

Their comedy was the inspiration of a Muppet character on Sesame Street named Monty.

One of the most popular Monty Python sketches is a sketch where John Cleese tries to return a dead parrot to a pet shop, calling it an "ex-parrot". In the Pigs in Space sketch which John Cleese appears in, he gets frustrated at a wise-cracking parrot, holds his gun out in front of the parrot and asks the parrot if he would like to be an "ex-parrot"