In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Cleese said that the original idea came from a man Palin bought a car from, who had endless excuses for everything that went wrong with it.

The Knights are led by a man who is approximately 12 feet tall with disproportionately short arms and reindeer antlers inserted into his helmet ( played by Michael Palin standing on a ladder ; the original screenplay suggested that he be played by " Mike standing on John's shoulders ").

* Michael Palin – Mr Big Nose, Francis, Mrs A, Ex-leper, Ben, Pontius Pilate, Boring Prophet, Eddie, Nisus Wettus, 3rd wise man

* The Monty Python sketch " Dr. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease " involves a man ( Michael Palin ) whose discussion of the symptoms with his doctor ( John Cleese ) is in somewhat garbled sequence, a common symptom of the condition.

The common theme was of an average man ( played by Michael Palin in the original television version, but in later live versions by Eric Idle ) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job ( as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.

* In the comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian ( 1979 ), Pilate is portrayed by Michael Palin as a foolish man who has trouble pronouncing the letter " r " ( pronouncing it like a " w ").

* " The Middle Of The Film " is introduced by Gilliam dressed as a black man and Palin in drag.

* " Part IV: Middle Age " features a middle-aged American couple ( Idle as the wife and Palin as the husband ) taking a vacation to a bizarre resort, where they are greeted by M ' Lady Joeline ( Gilliam dressed in drag ) and are shown to an authentic medieval dungeon with Hawaiian music and a man being tortured with hot irons.

The DVD also featured a soundtrack for the lonely, which is an audio commentary of a completely disgusting man ( Michael Palin ) who is sitting watching the film in his flat, throughout the commentary he usually picks up the phone and talks to friends ( Terry Jones and Eric Idle ), passes gas and talks under his voice.

Once there, he finds a man waiting for him-one Mr. Putey ( Michael Palin ) and apologizes for the delay, explaining that his walk has become particularly silly of late and it takes longer for him to reach his destination.

( The segment is a parody of early 20th century cinema, complete with Michael Palin dressed up as Little Tich ; this film is also shown as part of the Hollywood Bowl performance of the skit ) After he tosses the projector off stage, Cleese offers Mr. Putey a grant that will allow him to work on the Anglo-French Silly Walk, La Marche Futile ( an obvious parody of the Concorde's Anglo-French development ), which is then demonstrated by a man ( Terry Jones ) dressed in a mixture of stereotypical English and French outfits, with a sped-up version of La Marseillaise played over the top.

During the 2008 presidential election campaign, then-Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stated: " I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

London-based gangster George Thomason ( Tom Georgeson ) and his right-hand man, Ken Pile ( Michael Palin ), a beleaguered animal lover with a bad stutter, plan a jewel heist.

Michael Palin as the " It's " man

The " It's " man is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Palin in the comedy television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

In Djenne, Palin talks to a local man whose nickname is Pigmy and experiences the Muslim Tabaski ritual of slaughtering a sheep, first at the huge mosque and later at Pigmy's house.

Two of the original crew members had since died, one of them being the older man whom Palin had let listen to Bruce Springsteen on his Walkman.

Palin claimed to have been set up by William Cockrane, another ticket-of-leave man whom Palin said had a grudge against him.

Hysterium, desperate to keep him out of the house where his master is bathing, tells the old man that his house has become haunted — a story seemingly confirmed by the sound of Senex singing in his bath.

The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.

Over 350, 000 objects spanning two million years tells the story of the history of man, from three major continents and many rich and diverse cultures.

She turned it to Matthew 9: 2, which tells the story of Jesus healing a man who was sick with palsy, and after pondering the meaning of the passage, found herself suddenly well and able to get up.

Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.

Don Quixote tells Sancho and the goatherds about the " Golden Age " of man, reminiscent of both Ovid and the later Rousseau in which property does not exist, and men live in peace.

A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.

One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.

However, Raymond Williams in Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review describes Orwell as a " successful impersonation of a plain man who bumps into experience in an unmediated way and tells the truth about it.

The first of these tells the mythological prehistory of the Norwegian royal dynasty, tracing Odin, described here as a mortal man, and his followers from the East, from Asaland and Asgard, its chief city, to their settlement in Scandinavia ( more precisely to east-central Sweden, according to Snorri ).

* 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself " The luckiest man on the face of the earth " as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.

Seconds ( 1966 ) tells of an elderly man John Randolph given the body of a young man Rock Hudson through experimental surgery.

It tells the story of Brian Cohen ( played by Graham Chapman ), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy.

He bursts into the presence of Julius Caesar and tells the emperor that only the wild man of the woods can interpret the dream that has been troubling him.

Iago hates Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him, and tells Roderigo that he plans to use Othello for his own advantage.

Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang ( later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong ) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered to return to the tea it had already started to oxidize.

" It tells of a man named Coriantumr and the downfall of his people.

Just after sunrise on the day after the Sabbath three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, come to anoint Jesus ' body, wondering how they can roll the rock away from the tomb ; but they find the rock already rolled aside and a young man in white inside ; he tells them that Jesus is risen, and that they should tell Peter and the disciples that he will meet them in Galilee, " just as he told you.

Sigurd tells the old man that he is going to choose a horse, and asks the old man to come with him to help him decide.

Among these stories are: a tale of boiled missionaries ; of a lady who borrows a false eye, a peg leg, and the wig of a coffin-salesman's wife ; and a final tale of a man who gets caught in machinery at a carpet factory and whose " widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in ..." As Blaine tells the story of the carpet man's funeral, he begins to fall asleep, and Twain, looking around, sees his friends " suffocating with suppressed laughter.

A Sunni Muslim divorce is effective when the man tells his wife that he is divorcing her, however a Shia divorce also requires four witnesses.