#michael palin

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

A ridiculously funny farce.

The Death of Stalin (UK, 2017)
Dir: Armando Iannucci
DoP: Zac Nicholson

Haveyoumet Monster?
Might we introduce you to him in this delightful stop-motion animation clip, animated by the team behind Wallace and Gromit and narrated by Michael Palin.

Monster—created by Ellen Blance and Ann Cook, with illustrations by Quentin Blake—taught many young people how to read in the 70s and 80s. He was so good at it that he even got his own animated television show—well, a pilot—that was created in 1983.

Those were simpler times, but we’re bringing Monster back in a new treasury called Meet Monster: The First Big Monster Book(May), which collects his first six adventures. Blance and Cook pioneered a new way of allowing early readers to be confident in their skills, by basing the Monster stories on stories children themselves suggested, and by beginning with a simple vocabulary that is gradually built up and broadened.  And from our own recent experiences watching children interact with the stories, it’s a system that teaches, even as it brings joy.

Ripping Yarns: The Curse of the Claw 
-(Terry Jones, Michael Palin)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Commentary #2
-(John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin)

Ripping Yarns: The Curse of the Claw
-(Terry Jones, Michael Palin)

Oh my god, Jesus Christ! (Oh no that’s another movie.)
Michael Palin as a nice specimen of prehistoric males. 
Evolution could thank him - sad it’s only a sketch from The Complete and Utter History of Britain.

This character aged quite quickly until he became the “It’s” man in Flying Circus.

It could’ve been a real-life discussion between Palin and Cleese. 

…lovely

Palin, as Dennis Cooper in Gilliam’s hilarious and absurd Jabberwocky (1977)

+ a signed photo for Terry, from ‘Michael Dennis Palin - Peasant of the Year’
…which is also funny, considering the MP & The Holy Grailreference.

This time the not-so-nice one, in the Travel Agent Sketch.

What a relief!

Judge Michael Palin, carrying ‘Harmony Hairspray’ in his suspender in one of the early ‘70s unaired industrial films by Monty Python.

Terry Gilliam’s “Jabberwocky” (1977), Terry Gilliam’s first movie, a transitional film between Gilliam’s Monty Python humor, and the style that would later define him. Some fans call it “Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail 2.”

Monty Python - Terry Jones, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam

by Andy Gotts