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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
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
The Simpsons
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The One Show
The Jonathan Ross Show
Legends
Wogan
Fawlty Towers
The Frank Skinner Show
Daytime Live
Parkinson
Going Live!
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
Time Bandits
Arthur Christmas
The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979
Brazil
Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Monty Python: Live at Aspen
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Death of Stalin
Vanity Fair
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
A Fish Called Wanda
Attenborough at 90
Monty Python's Flying Circus
A Thin Line
Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Palin's New Europe
Whinfrey's Last Case
Across the Andes by Frog
The Curse of the Claw
Brazil with Michael Palin
Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns
The Dress
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Full Circle with Michael Palin
Remember Me
Michael Palin In Wyeth's World
Three Men in a Boat
Golden Gordon
American Friends
Palin on Redpath
Tomkinson's Schooldays
Production Credits
Secrets
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Whinfrey's Last Case
The Curse of the Claw
Time Bandits
Michael Palin In Wyeth's World
Full Circle with Michael Palin
Tomkinson's Schooldays
Golden Gordon
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
The Two Ronnies
American Friends
Michael Palin's New Europe
East of Ipswich
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Time Bandits
Across the Andes by Frog
Life of Brian
Palin on Redpath
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