Sir Michael Edward Palin is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 and was knighted by
Palin in 2018
Palin in "The Spanish Inquisition" sketch at the 2014 reunion, Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Palin at Nightingale House, in Clapham, November 2010
Palin at Cadogan Hall in 2022
Monty Python, also known as the Pythons, were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The group initi
Michael Palin
…Sir Michael Edward Palin ( PAY-lin; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019. Palin started in television working on programmes…
Monty Python in 1978. Left to right: Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, Chapman, Palin and Idle
The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch at the 2014 Monty Python reunion. Written by Cleese, Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, it was originally performed on their TV series At Last the 1948 Show in 1967. It parodies nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficult childhoods.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was recorded at BBC Television Centre in west London (pictured) and on location around the UK, and the show debuted on the BBC on 5 October 1969.
"The Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch performed at the 2014 Python reunion. Featuring Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants, it appears in season 2, episode 1 of Monty Python's Flying Circus.