For the uber-geeks or the down right nerds, today is a day to rejoice. Monty Python have created their own YouTube channel. In their own words, "For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands."

It seems the great comedians have come to agree with the maxim, if you can't beat them, join them, as digital age of media on demand is irrevocably changing our thoughts towards access and usage. 

It was also revealed today that their famous dead parrot sketch might not be so original.An ancestor of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch has been found in a joke book dating back to Greece in the 4th Century.

Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which has been translated from Greek manuscripts, contains a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died.

"When he was with me, he never did any such thing!" is the reply.