Michael Palin on Monty Python at Work

Michael Palin talks to Edith Bowman about his new book Monty Python at Work, sharing his experiences working with the comedy group on television, stage and film.
This is a recording of a live Platform event from June 2014.
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  • @uncleambient
    @uncleambient4 жыл бұрын

    Michael must surely be the nicest man on Earth

  • @alancost9244
    @alancost92448 жыл бұрын

    Palin is a true comic gift to humanity. My favorite Python member. I highly recommend to those who have never seen any of them-Palin's series "Ripping Yarns"....especially the "School Bully" episode. What a brilliant, humble and warm man! You lucky Brits!

  • @manygate10

    @manygate10

    7 жыл бұрын

    The obsessive football fan was also brilliantly funny!

  • @deanwilletts7428

    @deanwilletts7428

    5 жыл бұрын

    alan cost That was a great series, Michael was and still is my comedy hero.

  • @00bikeboy

    @00bikeboy

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's actually called 'Tomkinson's Schooldays' S01-E01 of Ripping Yarns. And it's fantastic !

  • @la95921

    @la95921

    2 ай бұрын

    Eric Olthwaite is way more funny than the school bully!

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle5 жыл бұрын

    Michael Palin is in the very rare position of being both national and global treasure. He is a wonderful actor and writer, he added a new dimension to the TV travel genre and he is, without doubt, the embodiment of Monty Python's heart and soul.

  • @2425eryy
    @2425eryy6 жыл бұрын

    I admire Michael Palin so very much.

  • @MaggieShawn
    @MaggieShawn10 жыл бұрын

    I was there! Love Michael Palin and will be seeing Monty Python this evening at the O2 live show, can't wait! :-)

  • @bodegabreath4258
    @bodegabreath42583 жыл бұрын

    I was there at City Center in New York. The only time I ever attended a celebrity show. It was everything I had hoped it would be. Before the show (and after) as they arrived individually, on foot rather than in a limousine, and they very graciously talked with the group of star-struck fans, myself being one. Don’t think that would happen today.

  • @mathiasthelander7834
    @mathiasthelander78343 жыл бұрын

    Listening to Michael making those walking down the stairs sound is such a python thing

  • @bruceriley4063
    @bruceriley40633 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is already 7 years old. MP is simply wonderful comedian.

  • @N324F
    @N324F4 жыл бұрын

    18:30, our family was living in the Seattle area in '74. On Saturday nights, we were glued to PBS for Python.

  • @docsmith9915
    @docsmith99152 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the only dilution regarding the Internet is that things become much more serious and the idea of just having a laugh becomes foreign. Yet Python just makes us laugh. They only after a joke. Brilliant.

  • @Brinta3
    @Brinta33 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant host.

  • @zebra64
    @zebra6410 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful.

  • @deanchristensen4783
    @deanchristensen47836 жыл бұрын

    I knew that Monty Python was very popular in my home state of Utah because we have similar humour.

  • @danddoty3981
    @danddoty39817 жыл бұрын

    If the 20th Century had a peak in the field of comedy , Monty Python Flying Circus was it.

  • @pr1mu
    @pr1mu2 ай бұрын

    meaning of life is still the opus in my mind

  • @parkviewmo
    @parkviewmo8 жыл бұрын

    Jim Beach! Someone should write a biography of him. He is amazing! I didn't know he knew they Pythons. Nelson Mandela, the Pythons, and Queen. That would be a book!

  • @contestor7
    @contestor710 жыл бұрын

    I loved Python's final show on July 20th at the O2 in London but I wish they would've played Palin's "Its" man at the beginning which was totally off-beat and set the tone for the rest of the show.

  • @daicockle1987
    @daicockle19879 ай бұрын

    Like Mike ? seen Ripping Yarns ? -- NO? -- its a MUST -do it now

  • @pepper669
    @pepper66910 жыл бұрын

    Ah, nice!

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle5 жыл бұрын

    It has to be at least 20 years since I found out that the BBC had wiped a bunch of Not Only...But Also episodes. Every time it came to mind since then, I felt kind of hapless annoyance. It's only recently I discovered which specific episodes were 'deleted'. For some reason I thought the bulk of the wiped eps were from the earlier series, but no. It's the 1970 series that was totally lost to history. So now, while I still mourn their loss and curse the people responsible for such a stupid decision, it makes me very grateful that Flying Circus didn't go the same way.

  • @dontrelliommi2607
    @dontrelliommi260711 ай бұрын

    cool

  • @HNCS2006
    @HNCS2006 Жыл бұрын

    30:30

  • @hollyylloh515
    @hollyylloh5152 жыл бұрын

    Penny for Pm 🇬🇧

  • @privateeromally7347
    @privateeromally73476 жыл бұрын

    Great interview. As great as his *yawn* travel program

  • @callithowiseeit5806
    @callithowiseeit58067 жыл бұрын

    Love to listen to Palin.. Bowman on the other hand..

  • @manygate10

    @manygate10

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think she is sweet!

  • @hwren9845

    @hwren9845

    5 жыл бұрын

    She's great. Not sure what your problem is.

  • @mikearchibald744

    @mikearchibald744

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@hwren9845 yes, this is a monty python channel, for needless spiteful comments go to a sci fi or comic book channel. she asked good questions clearly and concisely and didn't interrupt mr. palin. we'll give the benefiit of the doubt and assume he just misses carol cleveland.

  • 5 жыл бұрын

    did these guys ever say no to an interview?

  • @robertd.carver6240
    @robertd.carver62405 жыл бұрын

    Palin, as usual, is articulate and genteel. Accent aside, the young woman interviewing him is out of her depth!

  • @TheAlmightyAss

    @TheAlmightyAss

    4 жыл бұрын

    Seems fine to me.

  • @mightilyoats2729

    @mightilyoats2729

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Accent aside" reads like "I'm not racist, but"

  • @simoncarswell3515

    @simoncarswell3515

    3 жыл бұрын

    With a side of good old misogyny too. Edith was fine - she did her research, asked great questions and let him speak. She was great. "Out of her depth" my arse!

  • @mitchellhogg4627

    @mitchellhogg4627

    2 жыл бұрын

    And what, pray tell, is wrong with a Scottish accent?..

  • @rogerflack415
    @rogerflack415 Жыл бұрын

    David Walliam isn't a writer of any great ability. Just a Roald Dahl knock-off. No idea why Palin would reference him as somebody who found the diaries useful - other than as sort of referencing a more modern celebrity.

  • @86penfold
    @86penfold2 жыл бұрын

    The host has the worst fake laugh

  • @RideAcrossTheRiver

    @RideAcrossTheRiver

    Ай бұрын

    You need a cookie.