During the run of The Frost Report the Palin / Jones team contributed material to two shows starring John Bird: The Late Show and A series of Bird's.

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.

Following The Frost Report the Palin / Jones team worked both as actors and writers on the show Twice a Fortnight with Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn, and the successful children's comedy show Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle and David Jason.

After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin / Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over three years from 1976.

* Full Circle with Michael Palin ( Travel 1996 / 97 ; Programme release 1997 ): in which he circumnavigated the lands around the Pacific Ocean anti-clockwise ; a journey of almost 50, 000 miles ( 80, 000 km ) starting on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and taking him through Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

* Sahara with Michael Palin ( Travel 2001 / 02 ; Programme release 2002 ): in which he trekked around and through the world's largest desert.

* Himalaya with Michael Palin ( Travel 2003 / 04 ; Programme release 2004 ): in which he travels through the Himalaya region.

A typical Palin / Jones sketch draws its humour from the absurdity of the scenario.

* 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

Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin later became members of the hugely successful Monty Python comedy troupe.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

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.

The voices of Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, and Palin will be spliced into commentary recorded by Chapman reading from his memoir and taped shortly before his death.

In September, 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer and Carol Cleveland.

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 ).

In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth was finally lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones and Michael Palin alongside mayor Sue Jones-Davies ( who portrayed Judith Iscariot in the film ).

" At this point, the Inquisition — consisting of Cardinal Ximénez ( Michael Palin ), and his assistants Cardinal Biggles ( Terry Jones ), and Cardinal Fang ( Terry Gilliam )— burst into the room to the sound of a jarring musical sting.

Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones.

Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns.

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

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.

Although this project was eventually abandoned, it brought Palin and Jones together as a writing duo and led them to write comedy for various BBC programmes, such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Billy Cotton Bandshow, and The Illustrated Weekly Hudd.

Eager to work with Palin sans Jones, Cleese later asked him to perform in How to Irritate People together with Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

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.

Palin frequently co-wrote sketches with Terry Jones, including " The Lumberjack Song " and " Spam ".

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.

* The Monty Python team of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

Five of the Python team dressed as Gumbys ( left to right: Jones, Idle, Cleese, Chapman, and Palin ), introducing the Architects Sketch

The comedy team was photographed in costume against mosques and palm trees ; Michael Palin noted in his diary: " Nostalgia time.

After a couple of days in Hong Kong, Palin asked Pao to accompany the BBC team on the stretch from Hong Kong to Shanghai to act as guide and interpreter, and Pao agreed.

In 1992 when Palin and the BBC were planning to make a new travel programme, Pole to Pole, they decided that it would be a good idea to have a full-time stills photographer on the team, and that Pao was a top candidate for the job.

Each of the following Michael Palin trips for the BBC included Basil Pao on the team as the stills photographer, and it was exclusively ( or almost exclusively ) Pao's pictures that were used in the follow-up book that Palin wrote about each trip.

To gain entry, Michael Palin and his team have joined up with a British veteran's tour, and he mingles with the 80-year-old former " Desert Rats " who reminisce about the Battle of Tobruk.

Strictly speaking, it was only Palin who obeyed the rules of the journey, as the production team was not allowed on the road trip across Saudi Arabia and Qatar ( Palin and Clem Vallance did this stretch ) or on the Yugoslav ship ( Palin and Nigel Meakin did this stretch ).

Palin later spoke, saying that he liked to think that Chapman was there with them all that day —" or rather, he will be in about 25 minutes ," a reference to Chapman's habitual lateness when they were all working together.

Michael Palin says that the various separatist movements were modelled on " modern resistance groups, all with obscure acronyms which they can never remember and their conflicting agendas ".

In a 2002 interview with Michael Parkinson, John Cleese said that when he and Palin were performing the sketch on Drury Lane, Palin made him laugh by saying, when asked if his slug could talk, " It mutters a bit " instead of " Not really.

" 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.

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

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.

His co-stars were Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Denise Coffey and Michael Palin.

At an NPR interview in 2007, Michael Palin stated the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck and unable to come up with a conclusion to the barbershop sketch that preceded it.

In December 2010, Whitman criticized 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, commenting that if Palin were to run for President in 2012 and win the Republican nomination, " I don't think she'll win nationwide ... will energize the base.

" She went on to say that if Palin were to run,

The post-war Palin Report noted that the English recruiting officer, Captain C. D. Brunton, found al-Husseini, with whom he cooperated, very pro-English, and that, via the diffusion of War Office pamphlets dropped from the air promising them peace and prosperity under English rule, ' the recruits ( were ) being given to understand that they were fighting in a national cause and to liberate their country from the Turks '.

On September 5, 2008 the Drudge Report reported that Oprah staffers were " sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin.

In 1979 he criticised John Cleese and Michael Palin during a television debate concerned with the perceived blasphemy of the film Life of Brian, despite having arrived late for the showing, thus missing the two scenes in which Jesus and Brian were shown as two separate people at the same time.

For example: several skits from the cult 1960s TV show At Last the 1948 Show were resuscitated by John Cleese ( one of that show's creators ) and performed by him with various Amnesty show cast members, including fellow Pythons ( Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman ) and other peers ( John Bird, John Fortune and Tim Brooke-Taylor ( the last also an At Last the 1948 Show writer / star ), younger performers ( Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and Cleese's then wife, actress / writer Connie Booth.

Additionally, Beavis and Butthead appeared in an animated sequence and former Monty Python members Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones appeared in pre-recorded video segments explaining comedically why they were not there.

The 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President, Sarah Palin, and then Democratic Vice President candidate Joe Biden were also invited to the show, but chose not to make an appearance.

The college has two mascots-Depravo the rat, the rights to which were granted to the college by Michael Palin and, since 2000, the Grizedale Boar.

In a spoof of epic journeys, the Norrises ( Michael Palin as Brian Norris and Graham Chapman in drag as Betty Norris ) set out to see if the journey from Surbiton to Hounslow was possible ; they were thwarted by the Thames and had to finish the trek by rail.

Anyone with the name Palin or McCain got a free bleacher seat ( Bi-Partisan Consolation Prize ), and fans were given discount coupons and American flags after the game ( Clear Cut Exit Strategy ).