Exclusive: Michael Palin reveals the secrets behind Monty Python

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Thank you for this. A delightful interview with this wonderful man who's been entertaining people for nearly 60 years.

[@keithwald5349]

Not just a national treasure, but a world treasure.

[@2000jago]

Legend. Thank you Mr Palin for improving my life with your comedy.

[@Hughes500]

"You started with an open mind, I realise that". Sir Michael palin gold!!! I think it was brilliant that Palin and Cleese had the guts to front up and have that interview on TV. I have watched it multiple times and it just gets better. As some one who was brought up in a strict Catholic household, the church are clueless.

[@aparnapatil175]

Great....❤❤❤

[@TesterAnimal1]

May the algorithm bless this interview!

[@MrUndersolo]

I taught overseas in Japan, and once used 'The Argument' sketch with some students, and they absolutely got it! Michael and co. really did create something universal, and they are still my inspiration... Albatross.

[@Ofinfinitejest]

It's the best written comedy ever created. The line about Monty Python -- "The Beatles of comedy" -- sums it up perfectly.

[@sorayaassar1602]

I lived in rural Kentucky and got a garbled signal from the PBS station in Evansville Indiana. It was the most amazing thing I’d seen. I must have been 11-13, and I loved the show knowing nothing about it.

[@michaeleastes1705]

Good stuff, sir. Thanks!

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

The Pythons changed my life. I have always loved Michael especially. Thanks, mate!

[@neillewi9576]

💯 agree. I remember doing reenactments of skits and I preferred to be Micheal, he was my favorite, I looked like him and had some shared personality traits.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

@neillewi9576 Oddly enough...yeah, me too. A Yank born almost 20 years after my comedy heroes...

[@dominicbiondi4097]

Absolute legend

[@BunnyStoner]

I love that man so much - watching Monty Python at 11 years old re-wired my head for the rest of my life.... shivers up me lager and lime...

[@doreenarmstrong8795]

I am a good😂 10 years older than Sir Michael Palin - born and educated in Middlesex and this is the first time I have ever seen Monty Python!!!😮 I am very grateful for the opportunity to know so much more about his fascinating career. Funniliy enough my last 67 years have been lived in Africa (including Dodoma). Who knows ? He .ay be lucky enough to meet me!😅🤣😂

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

You're 91?!

[@TesterAnimal1]

And you managed to never see The Life of Brian???? 🤯

[@TheBelegur]

No matter what else any of them do in life or honors bestowed upon them. They will always be known as the Python's.

[@frasermcgeough]

I met Michael Palin after his Dundee show, he is such a nice and funny person

[@mauricekelly1585]

It's really amazing how calm and "normal" the Pythons all seem whenever interviewed while their working careers with Python was mental. The only one who comes of as crazy in real life is Gilliam and Eric is always bursting with enthusiastic. Everyone else comes off to anyone who didn't know anything about Python and how they changed the world of comedy as old British professors. If they only knew.

[@bryanweis]

Saw them live in Vancouver

[@Amber90125]

Living Legend

[@davidyoung5114]

A great interview, except for one minor detail...at 1:50 you claimed that all 6 Python members were Oxford graduates. Terry Gilliam was not an Oxford graduate, having been educated in the United States. Otherwise, a wonderful piece on one of the funniest humans that has ever walked this Earth!

[@mortimersnerd8044]

No, listen again. He calls them "Oxbridge" graduates, a composite name well understood in Great Britain to encompass both OXford and camBRIDG.

[@davidyoung5114]

@@mortimersnerd8044 Yes, he says "Oxbridge', but that does not change the fact that Terry Gilliam didn't go to either of those Universities. Terry Jones did, but not Terry Gilliam!

[@MrDogmeatman]

Also, the video says Michael was awarded an OBE in 2019. This is not true. He was awarded a CBE in 2000 and a knighthood in 2019. I don't think he was ever awarded an OBE.

[@deborahcrawford9079]

ox-bridge graduates

[@cyberspore00]

Mention of, “Ripping Yarns” would make this 100 % 👍

[@ghostinthemachine8243]

Monty Python began in 1969, and it's still funny in 2024. Enough said.

[@dk50b]

10:12 Cleese has noted by far the rarest part of the discussion was the placid Palin getting agitated and very passionate

[@garymartin6987]

I fully expected a birthday "Blancmange" not a cake. Maybe next time.....

[@premanadi]

He would only have to put on a kilt and play tennis with it again.

[@Veaseify]

I was allowed to stay up late and watch Monty Python when I was a kid but my parents didn't get any of it at all. That was kind of the point, in school next day we would all be reciting the sketches word for word and not even wondering why it was supposed to be funny like the older generations, it just made us laugh. I actually don't think it would be as successful these days because modern comedy is based on observation and character, there is practically nothing close to reality in Python's humour.

[@lancep4164]

Same here. Watching MP Sunday night at 10:30 was icing on the cake of the weekend. Going over the sketches at school the next day made Monday a little more tolerable.

[@vincentsaia6545]

Six Ox-bridge graduates AND ONE AMERICAN!

[@stuarthouse-w6o]

spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam that's not got much spam in it........ i died laughing

[@pressureworks]

Incorrect/false/missleading title. No actual secrets revealed. As if there were secrets anyway. All the info presented here, as already been done so numerous times. Big Nose.

[@pressureworks]

Alot of inaccurate info. F-

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Enough of this. It's much too silly! 😂