One of the most irritating and dangerous aspects of driving a cab is that they talk on continuously on their cellphones. My vote: equip each cab with a button in the back "jam cellphone" that would abruptly end any and all calls made from the front left seat of the taxi.
The punchline of the original joke was that the slave had never done that sort of thing before...likening the death of the slave to simple disobedience or other unpleasant but recurring behavior a slave might have.
In the monty python sketch....there was no punchline (as they had a distaste for punchlines). And further, the premise is that the bird was dead when it was sold, which should have been obvious at the time...though you also have the shopkeeper insisting that the parrot is still alive even though it is obviously dead.
These two sketches are not related at all, IMO, let alone "the same joke." They are just a bit similar in that one person owns something that is dead, and wants his money back.
...now you are going to ruin the joke for me?
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