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| - Michael Palin was a British actor and television presenter to whom Sylvia Noble once compared her daughter, Donna Noble, when she indicated a desire to travel. (TV: Partners in Crime) In Vanezia, Rose asked the Tenth Doctor why he needed to use The Space Traveller's Guide, since she assumed he was "like Michael Palin or something". (COMIC: Opera of Doom!)
- Michael Palin as the "It's" man appears in the special Monty Python's Family Guy title sequence in "Space Cadet".
- Michael Palin (born 1887) had his beautiful body brought into this world in 1887, in England (Britain). In 1687. At this time---1787---he didn't know a lot, but what he didn't know was that he would later in life become part of the most well known snake-based travelling quartet, The Minty Pythons. He is definitely the nicest, most nice man on Earth and indeed in the planets history. Some say he is even nicer than Jesus. For example, during his last round the world trip when he was attacked by thugs not only did he turn the other cheek, but bore his arse which prompted Michael Palin to endure six hours of relentless sodomy which he would otherwise not have received.
- Palin went to the same school as Peel called Shrewsbury School. Both men knew each other at school, but Palin was in his first term, while Peel was in the final year. On his show of 26 November 1979, Peel reads out a trail for the BBC programme 'Personal Call' which featured his old schoolmate Michael Palin. Peel on the show mentioned that Palin had recently been on Desert Island Discs and criticised him for picking a bunch of rotten records. [1] After Peel's death in 2004, Palin paid respect to Peel in the 2005 Channel 4 documentary programme, John Peel's Record Box.
- Palin was born in Broomhill, Sheffield. His father was an engineer working for a steel firm. He started his education at Birkdale preparatory school, Sheffield, and later Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury. When he was five years old at Birkdale, Palin had his first acting experience playing Martha Cratchit in a school performance of A Christmas Carol. At the age of ten Palin, still interested in acting, made a comedy monologue and read a Shakespeare play to his mother while playing all the parts. After his school days in 1962 he went on to read modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford. With fellow student Robert Hewison he performed and wrote, for the first time, comedy material at a university Christmas party. Terry Jones, also a student in Oxford, saw that performance and began writing to
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| - Michael Palin was a British actor and television presenter to whom Sylvia Noble once compared her daughter, Donna Noble, when she indicated a desire to travel. (TV: Partners in Crime) In Vanezia, Rose asked the Tenth Doctor why he needed to use The Space Traveller's Guide, since she assumed he was "like Michael Palin or something". (COMIC: Opera of Doom!)
- Michael Palin as the "It's" man appears in the special Monty Python's Family Guy title sequence in "Space Cadet".
- Palin went to the same school as Peel called Shrewsbury School. Both men knew each other at school, but Palin was in his first term, while Peel was in the final year. On his show of 26 November 1979, Peel reads out a trail for the BBC programme 'Personal Call' which featured his old schoolmate Michael Palin. Peel on the show mentioned that Palin had recently been on Desert Island Discs and criticised him for picking a bunch of rotten records. [1] After Peel's death in 2004, Palin paid respect to Peel in the 2005 Channel 4 documentary programme, John Peel's Record Box. In an interview with Edith Bowman for BBC 6Music in 2013, Palin described what it was like to be with Peel at school: "An extrodinary character called John Ravenscroft or Ravenscroft J.R.P., as we knew him. J.R.P. was in his last term at Shrewsbury, while I was in my first term. Knowingly he had a great sense of humour...Somebody who wore his hair long, allowed to play his music in his study, nobody else was allowed to do.... because he got along with his housemaster because they had a similar sense of humour and Ravenscroft J.R.P. had no pretentions to be a prefect or head of school or any duties like that, but my God he knew about music." [2]
- Michael Palin (born 1887) had his beautiful body brought into this world in 1887, in England (Britain). In 1687. At this time---1787---he didn't know a lot, but what he didn't know was that he would later in life become part of the most well known snake-based travelling quartet, The Minty Pythons. He is definitely the nicest, most nice man on Earth and indeed in the planets history. Some say he is even nicer than Jesus. For example, during his last round the world trip when he was attacked by thugs not only did he turn the other cheek, but bore his arse which prompted Michael Palin to endure six hours of relentless sodomy which he would otherwise not have received.
- Palin was born in Broomhill, Sheffield. His father was an engineer working for a steel firm. He started his education at Birkdale preparatory school, Sheffield, and later Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury. When he was five years old at Birkdale, Palin had his first acting experience playing Martha Cratchit in a school performance of A Christmas Carol. At the age of ten Palin, still interested in acting, made a comedy monologue and read a Shakespeare play to his mother while playing all the parts. After his school days in 1962 he went on to read modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford. With fellow student Robert Hewison he performed and wrote, for the first time, comedy material at a university Christmas party. Terry Jones, also a student in Oxford, saw that performance and began writing together with Hewison and Palin. In the same year Palin joined the Brightside and Carbrook Co-Operative Society Players and first gained fame when he won an acting award at a Co-Op drama festival. He also performed in the Oxford Revue together with Jones. In 1966 he married Helen Gibbins, whom he first met in 1959 on holiday in Southwold in Suffolk the county he returned to in recent years to live. This meeting was later fictionalised in Palin's play East of Ipswich. Together they have three children. Whilst still a baby, his son William briefly appeared in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film. After finishing university in 1965 Palin became a presenter on a comedy pop show called Now! for the television contractor Television Wales and the West. At the same time Palin was contacted by Jones who had left university a year earlier, and was writing a theatrical documentary about sex through the ages. He asked Palin to help him write it. Although this project was eventually abandoned it brought Palin and Jones together as a writing duo. Together with Jones, Palin wrote comedy for various BBC programmes, like The Ken Dodd Show, The Billy Cotton Bandshow and The Illustrated Weekly Hudd. They were also in the team of writers working for The Frost Report. Other members of this team were Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle. Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, The Frost Report was the first time all the British members of Monty Python (Terry Gilliam is an American) worked together. 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 used to write. Following The Frost Report the Palin/Jones team worked 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 Eric Idle and David Jason. The animations on Do Not Adjust Your Set were made by Terry Gilliam who joined the cast on recommendation by Cleese and was the first time the Palin/Jones team worked with him. Without Jones, Palin was asked by Cleese, who was eager to work again with Palin, to perform in How to Irritate People together with Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor. A television program meant to break into the American market. The Palin/Jones team worked again together in The Complete and Utter History of Britain. During this time, John Cleese contacted Palin about doing a show which would become Monty Python's Flying Circus. Cleese and Chapman were offered a show by the BBC who had seen them on The Frost Report and other programmes. Cleese was reluctant to do a two-man show, for various reasons including Chapman's reputedly difficult personality. At the same time, following the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam, were offered their own series. While this series was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought Idle, Jones and Gilliam along. The formation of the Monty Python troupe has been referred to as a result of Cleese's desire to work with Palin and the chance circumstances that brought the other four members into the fold.
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