CLEESE JOHN: (1939- ) English actor and comedian, a co-founder of the comedy troupe Monty Python. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of Cleese in a head and shoulders pose in costume as the disgruntled Mr. Praline, holding a bird cage containing a ?Norwegian Blue? parrot, from the iconic Dead Parrot sketch first performed in the eighth episode of the first series of Monty Python?s Flying Circus (December 1969). Signed by Cleese in black ink with his name alone to a lighter area of the image. One small, minor light stain to the left of the image, otherwise EX