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His other post defending Holly Gilliam, however, remains: "Holly Gilliam I have worked with Holly for the last ten years, and I find her very efficient, clear-minded, hard- working, and pleasant to have dealings with Michael Palin has asked me to to make it clear that he shares this opinion Terry Gilliam is also in[...]

During Monty Python's Flying Circus' run on the BBC (1969-1974), each of the six members wrote and performed in their own sketches, with Jones and fellow Python Michael Palin having written together as a team prior to Python and some very popular shows at the time (Do Not Adjust Your Set, The Frost Report). Credit: s_bukley[...]

This year's BBC Children in Need event included a charity album called Got It Covered that had famous personalities covering famous songs – with Whittaker covering Coldplay's "Yellow" (accompanied by some very familar faces). Flash ahead to this week and Norton's show, where Whittaker was a guest along with Michael Palin, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Kevin[...]

The stories and sketches Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam have heavily influenced generaations. Every 10 years, Monty Python reunites to tell and retell their stories about pitching the idea to the BBC, creative process of the television series, and shooting the films The last time the six were[...]

For the 50th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus' first broadcast, on BBC 1, Michael Palin has narrated and constructed a series of shws for BBC Radio 4, Monty Python at 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes, broadcasting sketches that never made it to air, or in very limited capacities, such as advertising for the show and[...]

Yes yes, we can now officially say that Michael Palin will be an *actual* Knight who says Ni. Soon-to-be-Sir Michael PalinPhoto by Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Palin becomes the first member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python to receive the honor of (substantive rather than honorary) Knighthood from Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during the[...]

The streaming service giant has acquired the entire Python catalogue of films, Flying Circus episodes, and various live performances and will be launching them sometime later this year. Credit: Netflix The UK and Canada Netflix subscribers will actually get access to everything on April 15th (at least according to Deadline), but the US won't until sometime later in[...]

After maybe half a minute of audience sounds, we hear Michael Palin voicing a bored weather forecast over the title card, then announcing that he never really wanted to be a weather forecaster, naturally leading into a performance of the "Lumberjack Song" (still with just the title card for a visual), the first of two[...]

Michael Palin will play Chapman's father and Terry Jones would mimic his mother Terry Gilliam is voicing several roles. Eric Idle has yet to sign up.* Chapman's own voice will be matched with the animation Jeff Simpson described the project: Graham's is the story of a man who was openly gay but secretly alcoholic[...]