Michael Palin

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Sir Michael Edward Palin (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, writer, and television presenter.

He was a member of Monty Python's comedic troupe.

Palin wrote the majority of his comedic content with fellow Pythonist Terry Jones since 1980.

They had appeared on other programs, including the Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report, and Do Not Adjust Your Set before Monty Python.

Palin appeared in some of Python sketches including "Argument Clinic," "Dead Parrot sketch," "The Inquisition," "The Spaniard's Sketch," "The Spanish Inquisition," "The Lumberjack Song," "The Fish-Slapping Dance," and "The Fish-Slapping Dance."

He also played a Gumby. After reading Ripping Yarns by Python, Palin continued to work with Jones.

He has appeared in many films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam, as well as in other films, including A Fish Called Wanda (1988), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Support Role.

He was named the 30th favorite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders in 2005's survey of The Comedians' Comedian.

His travels have taken him around the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe, Brazil, and North Korea.

Palin was given a CBE for services to television in the 2000 New Year Honours, and in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to travel, culture, and geography.

He served as the president of the Royal Geographic Society from 2009 to 2012.

Palin was named a BAFTA Fellow on May 12, 2013, the highest accolade given by the organization.

Early and personal life

Palin was born in Ranmoor, Sheffield, the second child and sole son of Edward Moreton Palin (1900-1977) and Mary Rachel Lockhart (née Ovey; 1903-1990). His father, a Shrewsbury and Cambridge-educated engineer, worked for a steel company. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lockhart Ovey, DSO, was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1927.

Palin attended Birkdale and Shrewsbury School. Angela's younger brother was nine years old; despite the age gap, the two siblings had a close relationship before her suicide in 1987. Palin is of mixed English and Irish Catholic roots, and he has ancestral roots in Letterkenny, County Donegal. His great-grandmother survived the Irish Famine and was adopted by a wealthy English family.

Palin had his first acting experience at Birkdale as a student in A Christmas Carol's school performance. Palin, a ten-year-old actor who is still interested in acting, performed a comedy monologue and read a Shakespeare play to his mother while still interested in acting. He continued reading modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford, after leaving Shrewsbury in 1962. For the first time, fellow student Robert Hewison performed and wrote comedies at a university Christmas party. Terry Jones, who was also a student at Oxford, saw the success and began writing with Hewison and Palin. Palin came to Co-op drama festival that year, and the Brightside and Carbrook Cooperative Society Players gained prominence for the first time. In addition to Jones, he appeared and wrote in the Oxford Revue (called the Et ceteras).

Palin married Helen Gibbins, who first met in 1959 on holiday in Southwold, Suffolk, who first met him in 1966. This meeting was later fictionalized in Palin's teleplay for the BBC television drama East of Ipswich, 1987. Thomas (born 1969), William (born 1971), Rachel (born 1975), and four grandchildren have three children. Rachel is a BBC television presenter whose work includes MasterChef: The Professionals. William is the Director of Conservation at Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London, and he oversaw the Painted Hall's restoration from 2018 to 19. William as a baby was featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail briefly as "Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film." Jeremy Herbert, the theatre designer, is his nephew. Palin is an agnostic. In the 1960s, he moved to Gospel Oak, London. His employment has denied rumors that he is autistic.

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Early career

Palin became a host on a comedy pop show called Now! after finishing university in 1965. Television Wales and the West, the television company. Palin was contacted by Jones, a year earlier, for help in writing a sex-to-date book. Despite the fact that this initiative was eventually ended, Palin and Jones joined together as a writing pair and taught them to write comedy for various BBC shows, including The Ken Dodd Show, The Billy Cotton Bandshow, and The Illustrated Weekly Huddd. They collaborated on writing lyrics for Barry Booth's album Diversions. Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh, and future Monty Python writers Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle were also on the team writing for The Frost Report, among the team's writers.

Despite the fact that Monty Python's sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was the first time any of Monty Python's British members (it was the first time an American citizen) worked together for the first time. During the run of The Frost Report, the Palin/Jones crew contributed to two shows starring John Bird: The Late Show and A Series of Birds. The Palin/Jones team had their first encounter with writing narration rather than the short sketches they had been used to.

The Palin/Jones team spent time on the show Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn, as well as the highly popular children's comedic series Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle and David Jason, as both actors and writers. Future Monty Python musical collaborator Neil Innes appeared on the program as well as musical numbers by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Terry Gilliam created the animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set. Having a desire to work with Palin sans Jones, Cleese later ordered him to perform in How to Irritate People together with Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor. The Palin/Jones team was reunited for The Complete and Utter History of Britain.

Cleese and Chapman had been invited to a programme by the BBC, but Cleese was unable to do a two-man performance due to Chapman's infamously cynical personality. Cleese contacted Palin during this period to see the performance that would eventually be Monty Python's Flying Circus. At the same time, Do Not Adjust Your Set's popularity prompted Palin, Jones, Idle, and Gilliam to be produced, and Palin, Jones, Idle, and Gilliam to be co-produced, but Palin accepted Cleese's plan and brought along Idle, Jones, and Gilliam. The Monty Python troupe has been formed as a result of Cleese's desire to work with Palin and the chance circumstances that brought the other four members into the fold.

Palin appeared in Monty Python, ranging from euphoria (such as the lumberjack of "The Lumberjack Song") to unflappable calm (such as the Dead parrot vendor or Cheese Shop proprietor). He was often a contrast to the character portrayed by Cleese's as a straight man. Arthur Putey, the man who lurks in shadows as a marriage advisor (Eric Idle), and Mr Anchovy, a chartered accountant who aspires to be a lion tamer, are among the many aspiring, socially inept characters. At the beginning of most episodes, he appeared as the "It" man (a Robinson Crusoe-type castaway with torn clothes and a long, unkempt beard). Palin said he often played a Gumby, a character who was "expressed with incredible vigour."

Palin co-wrote sketches with Terry Jones, including the "Spanish Inquisition sketch," which included the catchphrase "No one wants the Spanish Inquisition." "The Lumberjack Song," "Every Sperm Is Sacred," and "Spam" were among Jones' songs. "Decomposing Composers" and "Finland" were two of his solo musical compositions.

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