It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).

He also provided the narration for a video biography of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, that appeared on McCain's campaign website.

" He also says that when he and Palin were asked to do the sketch for Saturday Night Live, they sat down together to try to remember the lines, and when they got stuck they considered just going out and stopping somebody on the street to ask how it went, since everybody seemed to have it memorised.

Though most of the other Pythons were also unimpressed, Michael Palin loved it and laughed hysterically, eventually falling to the floor.

Another captor ( Terry Gilliam ) notices the two deceased officers and points his gun at Palin, who recites the joke to the captor, who also dies laughing.

Terry Jones, also a student in Oxford, saw that performance and began writing together with Hewison and Palin.

Palin also initiated the " Spanish Inquisition sketch ", which included the catchphrase " Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Palin also appeared in All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 ) as Eric Manchester ( based on Derek Taylor ), the press agent for the Rutles.

Palin also appeared with John Cleese in his documentary, The Human Face.

Palin has also appeared in serious drama.

All seven of these books were also made available as audio books, and all of them are read by Palin himself.

Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

However, Palin also hurt McCain in that after interviews with Katie Couric, there were concerns about her becoming a political liability amid doubts about her fitness to become President should McCain be disabled or die.

The DVD set also includes the only surviving ( and rather poor quality ) recording of Palin and Jones's comic BBC play Secrets from 1973, as well as a documentary by Michael Palin entitled Comic Roots in which he goes back to visit his home town.

It was also used for location work in the 1975 pilot episode of Ripping Yarns, Tomkinson's Schooldays written by and starring Michael Palin and Terry Jones, and was used for exterior and interior locations in 1980 in the BBC production of To Serve Them All My Days starring John Duttine and Frank Middlemass.

Pudsey is also mentioned frequently in the Michael Palin TV series Ripping Yarns.

* Michael Palin as Window Washer ( in Crimson ) / Harry ( also in Crimson ) / Fish # 5 / Mr. Pycroft / Dad / Narrator # 1 / Chaplain / Carter / Spadger / Regimental Seargeant Major / Pakenham-Walsh / Man in Rear End of tiger suit / Female TV Presenter / Mr. Marvin Hendy / Governor / Leaf Son ( voice ) / Debbie Katzenberg

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.

Palin was also invited to speak at the rally.

( 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.

Governor Sarah Palin also appeared on Weekend Update once during the 2008 – 2009 season, and ended the segment with the traditional " Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow " as Amy Poehler had left her seat to perform a ' Sarah Palin rap '.

Rice was also reported to have had a sexual relationship with former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

In November 2009 Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett told viewers that a Sarah Palin book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout, showing footage of Palin with a large crowd.

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.

In 1978, Chapman co-wrote ( with Bernard McKenna ) and starred in The Odd Job alongside David Jason who had previously appeared on Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle, Jones, and Palin.

Those present at the time of Chapman's death in a Maidstone hospital included his brother, sister-in-law, partner David Sherlock, and his former Python fellows John Cleese and Michael Palin, who had to be led out of the room to deal with their grief.

Idle, choking back tears, stated that Chapman had thought that Palin talked too much and had died rather than listen to him any more.

Cleese expressed that his reputation had " plummeted " in his eyes, while Palin commented that, " He was just being Muggeridge, preferring to have a very strong contrary opinion as opposed to none at all ".

The " Dead Parrot " sketch was inspired by a " Car Salesman " sketch that Palin and Chapman had done in How to Irritate People.

That sketch was based on an actual incident between Palin and a car salesman .< ref > In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Palin said that this salesman " had an excuse for everything.

When he was five years old, Palin had his first acting experience at Birkdale playing Martha Cratchit in a school performance of A Christmas Carol.

At the same time Palin was contacted by Jones, who had left university a year earlier, for assistance in writing a theatrical documentary about sex through the ages.

For A series of Bird's the Palin / Jones team had their first experience of writing narrative instead of the short sketches they were accustomed to conceiving.

At the same time the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set had led Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam to be offered their own series and, while it was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought along Idle, Jones and Gilliam.

After filming for Fierce Creatures finished, Palin went on a travel journey for a BBC documentary and, returning a year later, found that the end of Fierce Creatures had failed at test screenings and had to be reshot.

In November 2008, Palin presented a First World War documentary about Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended.

After his tenure, and during the 2008 Presidential campaign, both Vice Presidential candidates, Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden, stated that the office had expanded too much under Cheney's tenure and both had planned to reduce the role to simply being an adviser to the President.

" Of Spamalot, Anderson opined that " Python was formed in reaction to exactly the kind of lazy comedy represented by Spamalot – what Michael Palin once described as the ' easy, catch-phrase reaction ' the members had all been forced to pander to in their previous writing jobs ".

Palin had alleged that America will create rationing " death panels " to decide whether old people could live or die, again widely taken to be a reference to NICE.

In September 2008, following the announcement that Bristol Palin was pregnant, it was reported that Spears had sent her a gift.

Terry Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy.

Both are facing each other and light-hearted music plays while Palin dances towards Cleese, lightly slapping him in the face with two small pilchards, and returning to his starting spot.

Pao accepted, and, except for the very first few days and the very last few days ( he missed out on the two poles due to lack of space in the small aircraft used at both ends of the trip ) it was exclusively his pictures that were used in the follow-on book that Palin wrote, Pole to Pole with Michael Palin.

Palin begins at the North Pole, flying there on a small aeroplane fitted with skis.

* At the end of A Fish Called Wanda, Ken ( Michael Palin ) gets his revenge on Otto ( Kevin Kline ) at Heathrow Airport, in a scene involving a small diesel roller and some wet concrete.