I was in the cinema the other day watching an age-inappropriate film. It was 22 Jump Street, the American slacker comedy about two thick cops who go back to school to crack a drugs ring. I'd laughed ...

【11月14日 AFP】日本でも放送された英国のコメディー番組『空飛ぶモンティ・パイソン（Monty Python's Flying Circus）』の人気スケッチ「死んだオウム（Dead Parrot）」の「元ネタ」が4世紀のギリシャジョークだったことが分かった。 4世期のギリシャジョークを ...

This ex-parrot has not been nailed on its perch but it has been hung upside down from a crane. The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch where ...