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Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", and "The Spanish Inquisition". Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Palin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "Argument Clinic", "Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", and "The Spanish Inquisition". Palin continued to work with Jones after Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian. His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and, most recently, Eastern Europe. In 2000 Palin was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Palin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Simpsons
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Saturday Night Live
The One Show
The Jonathan Ross Show
Legends
Wogan
Fawlty Towers
The Frank Skinner Show
Daytime Live
Parkinson
Going Live!
A Series of Bird's
Artsnight
Clive Anderson All Talk
Movie Connections
Staged
The Witches
The Grand Knockout Tournament
Absolutely Anything
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Worzel Gummidge
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Arthur Christmas
Time Bandits
The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979
Monty Python: Live at Aspen
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Brazil
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
The Death of Stalin
Vanity Fair
A Fish Called Wanda
Full House
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Attenborough at 90
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
A Thin Line
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
Palin on Redpath
Remember Me
Michael Palin In Wyeth's World
New Tales from Around the World in 80 Days
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Brazil with Michael Palin
Michael Palin's New Europe
Whinfrey's Last Case
Three Men in a Boat
American Friends
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Tomkinson's Schooldays
Across the Andes by Frog
Golden Gordon
The Dress
Full Circle with Michael Palin
The Curse of the Claw
Production Credits
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
American Friends
Time Bandits
East of Ipswich
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Secrets
Across the Andes by Frog
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Michael Palin In Wyeth's World
Whinfrey's Last Case
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
The Curse of the Claw
Michael Palin's New Europe
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Tomkinson's Schooldays
Black and Blue
A Series of Bird's
Life of Brian
Full Circle with Michael Palin
Golden Gordon
Palin on Redpath
Time Bandits
The Two Ronnies
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