Michael Palin
- 81 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and presenter
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Eddie Izzard, Michael Palin and more on 75 years of the Edinburgh Fringe
Stars of stage and screen share their Edinburgh memories.
The Telegraph, 23rd July 2022Michael Palin to tour
Monty Python legend and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin brings tales of two of the most extraordinary journeys he's ever made to the stage this autumn in a new solo tour, From North Korea Into Iraq.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st July 2022Young viewers are about to discover a terrible truth: Python often weren't funny
Comedy fans have welcomed the return of the series after 34 years. But those unfamiliar with the Flying Circus may be in for a shock.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 12th March 2022Today's comics on Spike Milligan: the godfather of alternative comedy
He was the shellshocked genius who channelled his anarchic brilliance into The Goon Show. Ian Hislop and Nick Newman explain why they've written a play about Spike Milligan - while comedians remember a legend.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 27th January 2022Michael Palin, Isy Suttie, Milton Jones on what they're grateful for
Writers, broadcasters and comedians share memories, family stories and the little things in life that bring them comfort at this time of year.
Kasia Delgado, i Newspaper, 21st December 2021Michael Palin play The Weekend turns into an opera
Michael Palin's 1994 West End play, The Weekend, is to be adapted into a comic opera with a jazz-inflected score by Highbury Opera Theatre this Autumn.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th September 2021Morecambe and Wise 'bored stiff' by Monty Python
In a newly discovered 1973 interview with a student TV station in Norwich, Eric Morecambe said the ensemble delivered "university comedy... and I'm afraid that a lot of it is very unprofessional". Ernie Wise revealed he did "like Monty Python", but felt their shows often contained "five or six minutes of utter boredom". Monty Python member Sir Michael Palin said he was "a little hurt", but "intrigued" having seen the footage.
Zoe Applegate & Paul Hayes, BBC, 27th August 2021Michael Palin's Memory Palaces review
Many of these tales might be familiar to fans, but it's good to hear them told, most engagingly, from the Python's mouth. So don't expect great insights into the working of Gilliam's eccentric mind, but an array of entertaining anecdotes that unfold with a little more space that they would get on the usual chat-show circuit.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th July 2021No Such Thing As A Fish to stream 20-hour long show
QI researchers are to air a mammoth 20-hour version of their hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish for Comic Relief.
Chortle, 3rd March 2021How Monty Python's dead parrot went live in Coventry
The dead parrot went live 50 years ago on Sunday when Monty Python made the leap from TV to public performance.
BBC, 31st January 2021