Among the most famous of the sketches that appeared on Monty Python’s Flying Circus was the “Dead Parrot” sketch, which matched Michael Palin and John Cleese in a battle of wits between a customer and a petshop owner who sold him a … well, a dead parrot. A few years later they were matched up again in the below “Cheese Shop” sketch, which is something of a miracle of concision. It was written by Cleese and Graham Chapman; according to Wikipedia, the sketch only made it to the air because of Palin’s enthusiasm for it. I find it delightful.