Monty Python on Letterman, Part 1: 1982 re-upped

as the a member as the American member of Monty Python's Flying Circus Terry Gilliam's work became familiar and added worldwide and tonsure adored worldwide on his own mr. Gilliam has produced directed and co-wrote a marvelous co-written a marvelous fantasy entitled Time Bandits a wonderful film please welcome mr. Terry Gilliam [Applause] [Applause] I find something rolling here I really enjoyed your film I thought it was terrific Time Bandits I liked it for about nine different reasons is very low you can same in different minutes no it was great now you sound like you're from Great Britain somewhere but you're not alright yes we know our little secret don't we well do we yes we did know I'm a Minneapolis Minnesota zero is born yeah did you how did you get to London or to England at least well you did I was reading the reviews showing one thing it seemed to say is that you were far more interesting than the guests you have in your school only if only mr. Letterman hadn't remained so determinedly in the background the show might have had more excitement and brashness mention anything in there about helium sock so I think if you just carry on I'll sit here and read the paper I thought all of you want to continue this now you were you were the only American member of Monty Python I tell us that cannot wake up yeah after college which was somewhere in Los Angeles I went to New York and edited along magazine called help begun Mad Magazine was doing and one of the things we used to do there were photo stories golfing netting they were like comic strips but real people were playing in the moon we used to get actors and feed a lot of work to appear in them and please was one of the people that turned up in in New York one day he was with a group called Cambridge circus which had Graham Chapman in it it was the footlights revue from Cambridge and uh I got John to appear in one of these things so in years John Johnson pointed pointed me towards a few TV producers who were my sub a bracket and they one of them was producing a show called do not just your set which Mike Palin Terry Jones and Eric Idle were doing and I got on that did some sketches and then one day I started doing animation and then we all got together and you sleep a lot together so you know something we do occasionally and I'm not sure what it is exactly but whatever you do don't go to bed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you another commercial three half-hour of rock and roll from Paul Shaffer and Terry Gilliam is with us as we well you know because you've been watching and now when when mighty Python was first produced it was not when it came to the United States everyone in this country was under the impression that it was a huge success in Great Britain it was that the case originally when it came out the first four shows were very odd because the BBC kept trying to hide them on the airwaves somewhere so they turned up on different nights different times usually very late this was not the show they thought that they had and they really they pulled this off after the fourth show and he places with the International Horse of the Year Show enough people seem to be screaming for it and it built rather rapidly and pretty much the way it did in the States but it's the beginning of films about it's about a boy living with his rather crass consumer conscious parents who pay very little attention to him one night he goes to bed he's being bad after being badgered by his parents he goes up to his bed room and turns out the lights and things like this start happening so this is the first real bit of fantasy wakes the audience up you watch the monitors or if you're at home as you say the TVs [Applause] just quickly or throughout the film the parents are portrayed as kind of jerks aren't they yeah I think I mean it's really a kid's fantasy come true I did we've all felt this it's terrific and doing quite well thank you for being here we will be back with a report from George Miller dreams [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you very much Paul Shaffer ladies gentlemen welcome back to the show and what a show we have for you tonight Graham Chapman is one of the original members of Monty Python with the group he's been very successful on television stage and record he's authored several books including an autobiography called the liars autobiography and he starred in such films as Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python's Life of Brian while most Americans are familiar with his work not many are aware of the fascinating life this gentleman has led heretofore please welcome Graham Chapman it's a pleasure to meet you thank you very much for being here in the introduction there I looted to a fascinating life is thank you is is that do you consider yourself with a but a fascinating life unusual I think probably in what regard perhaps I just admitted things I've done what strikes you is being unusual in filthy let's get right to it this is exciting no I think I'd rather not that's all in my past really and now we don't learn break over there's ashes again I don't think do we really well it's up to you certainly no no I'd rather not what do you think you want to hear the dirty what they really want that yeah I was once on a show rather like this in England and actually got some rather amazing mail from it including a very very angry letter from a lady in Scotland and I've been talking on this on this show a little bit about gay gay liberation you know and this lady wrote a very very angry letter to the Python office saying that this person who claimed to be a homosexual apparently didn't give his own name didn't have the courage to do that which was a lie actually my name is on the credits at the end I was introduced as Graham Chapman fine um but nevermind this extremely angry letter said that I deserved eternal fire and damnation from this particular moment hmm brimstone the lot you know but Eric I wrote a letter back to her saying we found out which one it was and we've killed him they can carry them let's before we get into that let me we have some videotape I believe of episode of Monty Python oh yeah it's a very early one yeah yeah and we're for folks who may be just joining us or not familiar with the television show which was so popular in this country we're going to show that now is there anything that mr. Chapman needs to tell us before we see it or okay it's pretty much self-contained yes I think so a word for a voice from the dark telling us no no problem here [Music] yeah when the series was originally produced in your home country it was not the runaway hit of the decade was it or was it no it wasn't to begin with the the BBC were constantly replacing us for such important things as showjumping they didn't like us very much at all Oh show jumping horse fences and things not shows yeah you know we talked earlier about your see me past and what I was alluding to was you were a man you were a doctor oh yes yeah did you actually practice medicine or I did two weeks of ear nose and throat surgery before giving up to to golfin and write a movie on an island in the Mediterranean which I thought was a pleasant thing to do after taking my final examinations yeah I don't but uh we're gonna pause here but that's an interesting transition leave surgery and the gases we're going to the Mediterranean to write comedy how-to we'll find out I guess right okay we're gonna pause we'll be right back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] talking back to the show Graham Chapman is here and you what we were watching the video tape there you mentioned something and a theory about accents that you wanted to bring yes it's something that's only just cropped up there's a geographical connection between accent and well that's it really but it's that for instance in a place like Australia which is which is huge and not too many people there and it's very hot babies wouldn't really talk what you know loud like that there yeah I can say what they feel like because there's plenty of space my god it's a huge concert you can spread your mic that mouth that wide like there where as you say to to New York there's a an accent once certain I think I attributed it really to the to the the system of heating in the building it became rather nasal a lady said to a friend then of course you go to you go to England where it's getting colder and people don't open their mouths very much because it's frightfully cold and it could get you to cavities whose it so you're talking to very stiff upper lip and then in Scotland where it's extremely cold and a lot windier people have to keep their mothers really tightly closed later out because otherwise the wind will get spitting a bleed and going even further north and getting even colder and in the sweden say francis we do they hide it's a fascinating theory you know I've just been they given the indication that we're pausing a game however I am confident that all of us will return we're going to pause first of all briefly for intermission then we'll be back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you thank you thank you and good heavens we're back at last Graham Chapman is with us coming up later in the show the historic telecast of 82 they're calling it already magician Harry Anderson will be joining us and also from mainland China we have gentlemen here to carve food that's right now mister hey if you would like to applaud that feel free you know I was reading over your information that that came by way of courier today as a why I just made that up it I don't know how it got to the office I guess it's not important and it said that at one point you consumed enormous quantities of alcohol on a regular basis yes I did this in fact since you were a young boy you had been drinking heavily from about the age of 14 I was 12 my age and so you could go into pubs and beer at first yeah is there a drinking limit age limit in the great Perez is 18 actually yeah so you were fooling them by about four years yeah and the pipe helped but it it got out of hand didn't it yes it did yeah yeah ridiculous amounts of alcohol I was consuming up until about four years ago yeah yes and I had to stop because I noticed signs that my liver might be on the verge of being beyond recovery if it's if it's a I don't know how you feel about mentioning this but I I was very impressed with the quantity that you on a fairly regular basis we're consuming right up and delivered yes yes yes I was it was a bite mm-hmm I said 60 fluid ounces a day I suppose that's what I know 18 sorry small 80 fluid houses with a about I think that's right isn't it quartz I was to to to American courts yeah of gin good heavens this was daily yeah yeah and but what how is it possible you were writing and working with the Monty Python at the time yes so and I really noticed that I was going to find the first day of shooting of Holy Grail when we were having the the Scottish moorlands out on the mountains and I was miles miles away from from the near gin and tonic and of course and began to have we were filming unfortunately a scene which was the the bridge of death over the gorge of eternal peril and I I was beginning to get DTS and that really showed me that I should not you know try to work and and drink that kind of quantity long term on my fellow workers and and myself so I decided the next next time I had a couple of weeks free I would I would stop and dry out yeah and did work was it easy to unload this burden well the first three days well hell really I didn't know whether I'd I was awake whether I was I'd been asleep or where I was you know things crawling all over me inanimate objects seem to pounce on me extremely unpleasant yeah this is this sound so unpleasant but are you do you know if there was any permanent damage done it certainly sounds like you know done my liver function test we're right back to normal after two months anyway yeah quite a good thing the liver ilium it can do that I wouldn't advise taking the risk and and you but you talk openly about that and yeah is that part of I mean why do you talk openly about well because it is possible and relatively easy to stop once you've actually decided the only difficult thing is to decide that you are permanently not going to drink alcohol mm-hmm once you've made that decision and it mean it then the rest isn't so difficult yeah so you think that it was just a victim of you being around it at an early age yes and I enjoyed it I mean I got him to some extraordinary situations because of it but I'm trying to fathom what two and a half bottles of gin would do to a person I mean is that that can't be an enjoyable feeling like you get a couple of drinks before dinner I mean well you you you need I think this with tolerance stretches to about two and a half times so I was I would need two and a half times as much drink to get make them as drunk in the next person something good happen onstage also a the other thing that you mentioned earlier about the fact that you're a homosexual and well I'm a heterosexual as well I have to point that out well now I'm confused yeah well so right imagine how I feel now how does that work exactly well I don't exactly alternate but it's just a question of what you feel like and who you're with at the time really well I don't know why maybe I got the wrong set of notes here but now was that I think it's about 75% 25% 7525 flavoring male usually I see but now how did your family and friends react to this they imagine the drinking was probably easier for them to understand than this huh I guess it was they came to grips with the drinking much more easily I think than the other yeah yeah but things are rather better now than in those days of course cuz it's some time ago and now even the Church of England I think regards a homosexual is merely being handicapped well they have been making progress yeah well that's interesting what do you of professionally now what are you doing well we've got another Python movie coming out which is a film of a live show we did a year ago at the Hollywood Bowl that's Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl reasonable title the next a rather modestly titled film which were shooting in July starting shooting in July and that's the next real movie of ours and that's going to be called Monty Python the meaning of life that cleared up for once and for all mr. Graham Chapman ladies gentlemen granted mr. Daly comedian Harry Anderson will be joining us right after this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] first of all I saw your new motion picture and I enjoyed it a great deal and thanks for being back here again is it is it exciting a writing of this sort of thing together as a group with all of those folks no it said we did we would describe it as dull dull I think so not much mileage to be got actually it's not fun at all drudgery well occasionally actually once the work one occasion when John Cleese myself actually felt guilty about laughing at us about something we were writing because it was an incredibly bad taste I mean so bad was the taste that we just couldn't help laughing at it they concerned a gentleman walking into morticians would you call it Undertaker Undertaker Undertaker's premises with his dead mother in a sack Terry is of course the lone American in the group correct yes and what is it live function is to make them feel superior now you're from originally from Minnesota right show that personality but you you know you actually sound like you have a British accent would you consider well does it sound that way to you no no no he's Hans day is making the whole room vibrate is do you do you make fun of him before being the lone American yes yeah yeah to be to be frank we do yes we rib him we would call it we English people yes we spoof Terry a little sometimes because of his use of language maybe he sometimes we feel doesn't have the right word to the occasion I never once when we were flying in Canada over the Great Lakes Terry looked down look back to us and we were all over Lake Superior at the time and he said hey guys a whole bunch of water it gets laughs from the audience this wonderful great tale to tell on talk shows the tub me I'm sure you know we have something that I want to follow up on when we return about your last appearance your hollister gentleman if you don't mind and we'll do that and other wonderful things in a minute or two we'll be right back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] boring lives but Graham lives what we do on the screen for real and uh and it was it the breakfast is that the nights after were wonderful mom because Graham shares these things with us to he's not a hardly realistic a it's constantly surprising what he does is there anything you could surprise us all here with tonight well I don't think we can talk about the Boston start like heavily no no no they've also started to write out great needs to be wide open a restaurant he's gonna be the boss I know which I can't discuss this yeah a hint maybe I don't even think so not on even this late he's it and we can talk about there's it about the nastiest thing you've ever encountered in your life luckily I didn't have to encounter it grave did the encounter and I think I think he might agree it was one of the nails do you think so we should move on there was startling thing startling star very nasty yeah were you injured no the Boston start learn when was it his best usually in very conservative restaurants and we'd be out dining and there'd be this was a nice middle-aged middle class couple styling and you'd so they discovered Graham was no longer at the table but it was underneath the table and other people's tables and kissing people's feet it was wonderful though it's added to the to any meal that we went though is that what was the motivation for this just to avoid the check or boredom boredom out of it alright something to do we have mentioned your motion picture Monty Python live that Hollywood Bowl and we have some footage here we're gonna take a look at it would you gentlemen like to tell us what we're gonna see or is it self explanatory or we've no idea what are going to show okay we I think I have a hint it's a has something to do with the the Olympics ah silly silly let there you go so we'll take a look at that right now from the new motion picture Monty Python live at Hollywood Bowl [Applause] I was when you were performing this stuff in front of that audience I noticed through the film or through the performance they were audience making a lot of hooting noise hmm yeah is that sieve does that seem to be the laughter of the future was it the cheap fiddle I mean by doing that you deprived your brain instantly of large companies of oxygen now while you gentlemen are here you live in in Gaza Terry yeah there's a great deal of excitement and activity going on in Great Britain and over there we had a royal child at an end of a war and I guess the David Frost's marriage came apart so what we're gonna do we're gonna pause for a station identification we'll be back with the mr. Gilliam and mr. Chapman to discuss these matters [Applause] Graham Chapman terry gilliam are here at Ted Nugent would be out a little bit later we mentioned some things happening in Great Britain as a resident resident and a citizen of Great Britain how have you been affected by the birth of the young royal child now hardly at all really unless yes noticed us before we left though that the the bookies were running books on the name on the likely name I think George was evens I was favourite Michael was 41 and Darren would you believe was 400 to 1 really yeah that Knut is more likely than that where did the herb finish on that list it's got to be higher than Darren yeah our people they're excited it seems to me like this country just can't wait to slap a name on that kid and how about the folks of the strange thing going on in America they seem to be obviously obsessed with British royalty now and the French used to be like that the Americans have taken over that I think you need a king here I think now when you did you guys how did you feel about the royal family do you make fun of them or the Queen or I felt him different to it mm-hmm I think it's fair to say I was indifferent yeah what exactly does she do um she's a very good businesswoman you know got a lot of expensive paintings and jewelry things like that and she doesn't pay tax so she's shrewd good gig yeah probably what she doesn't do the keeps her injured in the job I think yeah she doesn't do it around squawking yeah have either of you gentlemen in the course of your travels performed for the family or met the RAM I think it's the closest to royalty yes yes I did meet the Queen Mother in fact she's probably responsible for me being here now no yes [Laughter] no taxes are well spent right so how was how was the she respond over you oh yeah well it was I was at medical school at the time and she was deaf I was an offer to go with a show to New Zealand you see and my parents didn't like the idea of me leaving medicine to go off and do a silly stage show and the Queen Mother happened to be opening a new biochemistry block and I was lucky enough to get or not excuse me exactly what is a biochemistry block that's a place where people do a lot of biochemistry you know very intellectual place next to the mental block next [Laughter] gynecology certainly anyway it was yes she was hanging tea I was lucky enough to get to have tea with her you see my skin is done and because of this quandary that is and I said that well I had this offer to go to New Zealand and she said oh he must go it's a very beautiful place so to my parents I just said the Queen Mother said I must go no problem royal dictum you were born into show business yeah now we mentioned two other topics I know they're both important we want to get to them the end of the skirmish in the Falklands anything despite the fact that was a tragic incident anything humorous arise out of that was amazing in which the BBC News when I was sitting watching and suddenly came on and the HMS Sheffield was one of the ships who went down and as it was going down and the sailors were all sitting on the burning deck and helicopters ferrying them away they were all singing always look on the bright side of life wonderful we're thinking of suing the task force the song from the well that must have been the in an odd way high flattery though and and now to the to the probably the real reason you're here tonight the I know you wanted to address yourselves briefly that the David Frost unpleasantness oh yes yes poor David no we don't feel we all feel for him I think you've worked with David before you you've known him he's a lovable swine I like him I think Glynn is doing extremely well that's all I can say several times over next exactly luckily we've got no money so we're say we certainly know better than that and you have another film Jabbar oh yes yes Jabberwocky which is a thing done a few years ago and it's now rearing its ugly head again and later in the summer and most filthy film ever made and of course Time Bandits probably one of the runaway hits of the decade yeah that he might come back in and the Monty Python live at the Hollywood Hills own thank you gentlemen for being here together this evening mr. Graham Chapman for Terry Gilliam we'll be back with Ted Nugent [Music] [Music] thank you very much welcome back to the program while still involved with Monty Python's Flying Circus on occasional projects my next guest has recently been active as a writer and a performer on his own his latest project is a film he wrote and stars in entitled the missionary welcome please mr. Michael Palin hopefully awfully nice to meet you very nice to be here you you have idea for a farm any toys often ask you to say whether it's true or not that's uh feel like you have a packet of things yeah I'll put them down well no I'm you know that get in the way people keep what do you fight are you gonna find it just carry on is that those are those personal belongings hmm I say I don't know you see I I may have to leave for England quicker than I thought so what I bring I think I always have a few things when I do an interview just in case you never know well change of play that you don't mind if we let's just take a look yeah well now sure I'd rather we didn't if we just sort of you know it may not be the right moment I think we could leave it for our build up the tension toiletries on so forth and yeah not complete toilet oh no [Laughter] jeez I don't we can get some certainly yeah well not not for this segment I mean if I if I own more than one second well let's see how easily the policy yeah okay yeah okay tell me about the your movie the missionary yeah hmm I say yeah yeah the movie the missionary yeah great get everything very vey I I enjoyed it a lot yeah last seen 18 times in the last two weeks it's it's getting nice write-ups in this country isn't it yeah yeah it's it's you wrote it love the reviews yes I did I did I must get on with plugging this otherwise Colombia gonna be so angry I I wrote it well now wait a minute you're not this is not the only reason you came on the show let's establish that nobody here anyway wouldn't my god yeah I came to bring the toiletries yeah I was told this is the sort of show you could bring things on now I've never seen them as quiet as this very quiet is that a good sign or a bad sign Oh calm before the storm oh the chair what's it made of he fell Oh No so yeah almost get back to that you don't mind ya know the name of the film the missionary what does that mean 0:01 who has a mission one who has a mission I should say that yeah one has a mission sounds oh no nocturnal know that words like that be that's with Annie Edward man the other one is very messy yeah no so so you are the man with a mission is that is that your phone numbers at the no no no no this is the room where yesterday I'm staying so now you play the man with a mission yeah and that mission is uh well its mission is to convert not convert to reform fallen women fallen women being women who have heard their knees no kidding or broken their legs that's a line after filler in the movie no he comes back from Africa from ten years in Africa to England to marry his child you peeping yeah yeah evening me Michael Palin and he comes back and he has given this task of getting streetwalkers off the streets and into a mission and he he has a sort of it's set in 1906 when sex was not really talked about very much and perfected it then either heavy doing some work on it well they had one one leg one leg or they go but that's about all they hadn't got to the stage where the closer removes Oh in fact they put clothes on no get up yeah actually used to dress up or it masks or straight from yeah anyway then how he gone to that uh he he comes back and starts this mission he works a lot of policy of personal availability I mean for the girls on the street rather than disapproving of them he he tries to join them and understand what their problems are councilman and this results in in very close relationship with the ladies and they got on with them very well the mission fills up is incredibly successful and the church obviously close it down because these are not the methods which he should be indulging in check on sure don't like ah well I'll do my best and then there's a originally called Maggie Smith you're doing a fine job I take what's in the back no it's not in the back no Maggie Smith is not in the back now that's a total lie you know we have a sample of this film if you'd like to AH like you do that now yes okay do you know what what is gonna be on this I think it's one of the earlier moments when he first arrives back with this very simple mighty man after ten years in Africa the missionary arrives back to go to the house where his fiancee is living okay good enough this is what we're gonna take a look at them from the film the missionary with mr. Michael Palin used the monitors at home your TV's [Music] the missionary we're gonna go away we'll be right back though we'll get me some lettuce and whatever else you need for that beast will be back with Michael Palin every other day [Music] [Applause] welcome back to the program mr. Michael Palin is here we saw scene from your motion picture of the manor where did you shoot this all over the world in a studio ah traveling studio we took all over the world yeah no actually it was all shot on location in England of Scotland and Africa a little bit in Africa mm-hmm very dangerous working also well I've never done comedy in Africa before and apparently the oh it's dangerous it's highly dangerous well you've got to get giraffes elephants animals in it somehow yeah and so we went out one morning to shoot myself as the missionary ambling in sort of comic vaguely comic style past some elephants and I jumped out of the the Land Rover whatever we were in and started walking off and immediately a samburu gameranger left out and shouted at me volleyballs Samburu screamed at me dragged me back in the car and said has this man never seen anyone trampled to death by elephants so I I mean I had to confess that I hadn't cosy little things they eat out of your hands but in Africa they hate you especially actors doing very bad comedy walks across their countries so what he said was that I could only do the shot provided I went no further than 200 yards from this beast who by this might enjoy by several other elephants obviously didn't like comedy looking very sour and he would have to cover me with a loaded rifle it's the first time I've ever done a piece of acting with a loaded rifle being pointed in my direction by a man crouched behind the bush yeah we I'm not sure I've aimed at the elephant of me you know I think it's probably me because elephants are protected out there as actors are not a protected species many of them get burned down indiscriminately know when you when you're out there doing films like that do the animals ever interrupt or get in the way or cause delays or anything are they pretty much cooperate just by standing there at gunpoint yeah no not that good that good I understand the gunpoint I understand that very very well the only time yeah we actually did very trouble with animals was we shot a whole marvelous scene we wanted really the biggest house in England and we actually got probably the third biggest private house in England which is called longleat and is owned by Lord birth marker Sabath and the house is fine it's lovely it's sort of 15th century it's got beautiful long libraries but it does have outside a wildlife preserve because the British aristocracy are heavily into the business of marketing themselves nor to get people into the estate they they have various attractions one of them just wildlife preserve so we would be doing a really very beautiful little library senior the Sun coming through all dappling nice Maggie Smith forever hard and then you'd have to stop every now and then because you'd hear gorillas mating out in the park rhinoceros is reading heavily whatever they do breathe it's like breathing so the only time animals actually stopped us otherwise it was just we just had human problem yeah you know it's interesting to me I guess as a side note that this film was produced in part by George Harrison yeah and this is his second or he's participated in was his third actually I mean George saved us with the life of Bryan was about to be financed by EMI which is an English one of the few remaining English companies who put money into films and suddenly the the manager of EMI actually caught sight of the script to the spirit of British adventure and progress and experiment in the art he cancelled straight away so we were left with with a script people about to go to Tunisia start getting the sets ready and no money and Eric Idle was a friend of George Harrison's talked to George and said we're desperate can you lend us any money in George I think George raised four million he said well I'll give it to you because I want to see the movie yeah able to do that in this position so he then financed time bandit Rach I wrote with terry gilliam and was a very entertaining film yeah terrific yes that was nice did better here than in English and also this is a other country other musicians have been involved in Monty Python projects heretofore everything yes yeah the very first movie Holy Grail was was financed partly by that guy up there that guy up there yeah he used to be Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd both put in about sort of well twenty-five thirty thousand pounds each it was a lot in those days lad buy yourself a Dunkin donut in those you want it don't point though no I'm sorry far be it for me to point at your bag I have to have them on the knee now because it's getting a look you won't have a look in let's please think we should okay okay whatever need help there with a twist tire they've got time Emily you got it there's a long shows it sort of where we're coming down yeah yeah fine almost the end of the proceeding there yeah I'd save these because they're very useful only you're packing your bags oh yeah yeah yeah sweet now this is something that I wanted you to have because I was given this I'm sorry I thought you mean oh no I'm clearing it you'll know when I leave I buy some American friends the University of Maryland when I went down there look he likes you [Applause] [Music] - ice is very affirmative that's a sizeable beast it says the size under here somewhere it's called a testudo testudo yes which is you know nice something they use in medical experiments it actually is a turtle and I was given that I thought you might be you know his shirt comes off that's not it's not the case with the real turtles I don't think they have the snap one for now you cannot apart with this but you even want a part with this well I mean do you want it oh I know you must be given lots of things on the show you've got you your house is full customs in England I think it's program we have to mr. Palin [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome back to the show we have to go I want to thank Robert Clannad first mr. Michael Palin my thanks to Bill Wendel and Paul Shaffer do you have a name for this fella yeah David I'm gonna call that's cute I think he was very nice Mike they said that would go down well [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I and welcome back to the program we have a fine the program indeed let's get to it shall we my first guest and I'd came to the attention of American audiences as one of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus the one who happened to play the organ nude and appear in drag he is also directed the life of Brian and the forthcoming the meaning of life and he is the author of this book an intriguing bit of work this is a book entitled fairy tales and that's just what it is welcome please mr. Terry Jones there are [Applause] [Applause] peekaboo aren't impresses stupid dog can do like an iconic before we get into the the meat of this as they say before they get into the meat of it tell me about this your your experience flying from was it uh London last night Oh London yes yes God whose last night was it I don't know yeah well we were just taking off was half an hour on the plane leaving London Airport you know and something scums out of a car me no English suave captain's always comes over says somebody just found a note in the men's room um whatever wrote it please come and have a word with me please that's we all sat there think you know what is it says cool voice nobody panics nobody panics NIM very cool voice says um we're gonna have to land at Shannon Airport after all just nothing much just nothing - something wrong with the plane nobody sits there absolutely icy cold nobody moves not a flick of an eyelid we land five hours later we take off again and the Aventine going a bit here captain they cool voice comes out again and says them expect you're wondering what all that was about we had a note you know I'm saying there was a bomb on board panic everybody panic oh that's ugly that's that's probably my worst nightmare what but weren't people just edgy and nasty what did they get the guy and beat him up or well they say he said he yes we vote the letter the guy who found it actually vote Lunetta yeah did you get a look at the guy no well Terry's here tonight would john-boy that's just a darned ugly experience I would think tell me about the book of fairytales it actually is fairytale kind of fairytales you've never heard before yeah how did this come about what sort of a project is this the way I was reading fairytales my daughter Sally who was then about five and I was reading her Grimm's and hands Anderson things like that and I kind of found they were a bit long and a bit sort of nasty some of them I mean you know things like the if you read Grimm's version of Snow White I mean at the end of it the fairy godmother they were the wiki that Auntie has it has to put on them red hot iron slippers and dance until she's dead you know it's bedtime you know you're reading this your five-year-old daughter what I can't read that red-hot iron slippers Hannah dance till she's dead that's right Oh daddy baby that again would you please so I thought I'd want man and dear would you mind reading just at the beginning of one of them the silly King silly King yeah well you can find it it's your book you certainly know this is the silly King yes the first couple of paragraphs okay he will sitting comfortably good then we'll begin king Herbert the twelfth had ruled why isn't in well for many years but eventually he grew very old and although his subjects continue to love him dearly they all had to admit that as he'd grown older he had started to do very silly things one day for example King Herbert went out of his palace and walked down the street with a dog tied to each leg another time he took off all his clothes and sat on the fountain the principal square seeing selections of popular songs and shouting radishes at the top of his voice nobody however liked to mention how silly their King had become even when he hung from the spire of the great Cathedral dressed as a parsnip and throwing turkish dictionaries at the crowd below no one had the heart complain in private they'd shake their heads and say poor old her but whatever will he do next but in public everyone put that pretended that the king was as grave as wise as he'd always been very imperfect in that picture he's hitting up hitting people but I had it what can you tell us about the the new film the meaning of life meaning of life well it's extremely dirty actually filthy filthy yes there are some of the dirtiest things I've ever seen on film it I can't actually demonstrate them but get one of the dogs they could probably it's kind of it's not like I can say really it's I mean it tells you all about human life freely from the birth to the grave the title of the film is the meaning of life modest little title we thought but it is specifically I should say I should just specifically aim that fish basically I mean we sort of realized you know that if you look at the North Sea I mean there were unbelievable shoals of herring in the North Sea we we reckon if we could open that up as an audience we you know that webservice whole new market that's right yeah it just encouraged these folks to go to the theatre yeah well good luck to you in that hasn't caught you're living in you live in London but you're actually from Wales yes do you sound like a Welshman no I mean it's funny about a few years ago that them people used to sort of get a bit sort of upset mummy you know I get so happy like this no getting back exciting things and people going on shying away and eventually I suddenly realised was my accent I moved from Wales when I was about five and went to live in England and I picked up this terrible English accent that I've got now and if you get excited with a Welsh accent you go down at the end of every line and everybody thinks you're telling them off for being you know so I'm excited I've toned myself down you know now it no what is the the native language of Welsh it is well what does that sound like oh I can't me I didn't speak any Welsh but it's very sort of NOS dice somebody's a little Gaucho forget it yes it's and there's a real language or just noise people make for the fun of it [Laughter] language nasty feelings on the well yes no chance of an uprising well there is a Welsh national army but it doesn't get very okay they do burn down a lot of English people have holiday homes in Wales so they do tend to do it to burn them down the coal board have a slogan you come home to a warm fire another thing that I think is fascinating is you own your own brewery mmm now how do you do that it can't be a large brewery nice a tiny boy you know yes you could you could almost drink the entire contents of it in a couple of years I just I just suddenly decide to start a brewery about sort of six years ago I thought nobody's done it for a couple of hundred years it'd be nice thing to do I can't see why not yeah who continued success with the brewery and also of course the new publication fairy tales and the meaning of life many many projects thank you very much for being here perry Jones ladies better we'll be right back the Paul and the boys are gonna play carlo divita Marty shorts the Nestle TV right after this [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Don Giller

Views: 74,850

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Keywords: Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones

Id: 984De23H7f4

Length: 54min 40sec (3280 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2019