Favourite Monty Python Actor

[whitelion]

Seeing the other thread about Terry Jones got me thinking about Mony Python.

Brilliant together but for me Eric Idle just eclipses the others.

 

[ManOfSussex]

I'm going for Michael Palin, purely for this one scene, that always makes me laugh.

 

[Blackadder]

Tough Call. I'm going for JC.

 

[Mackenzie]

Palin.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Palin

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

All good, Cleese was best Python would not have been as good without him.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

That bloke what walked like a German and got hit on the head by a moose.

 

[ManOfSussex]

That bloke what walked like a German and got hit on the head by a moose.

Naughty moose!

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Tough one - I probably prefer the work they all did after Python

Palin/Jones - Ripping Yarns
Cleese - Fawlty Towers
Idle - Rutles/Rutland weekend Television
Terry Gilliam -Time Bandits/Brazil/Twelve Monkeys

I'll go for Palin - Ripping Yarns was probably my favourite of the lot.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

All good, Cleese was best Python would not have been as good without him.

Same could be said of any of them, the sum was greater than the parts. I always thought Eric Idles face was just funny.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Arthur (two sheds) Jackson. Or possibly the polititian-turned-footballer Kevin Phillips Bong

 

[Norman Potting]

Tough one - I probably prefer the work they all did after Python

Palin/Jones - Ripping Yarns
Cleese - Fawlty Towers
Idle - Rutles/Rutland weekend Television
Terry Gilliam -Time Bandits/Brazil/Twelve Monkeys

I'll go for Palin - Ripping Yarns was probably my favourite of the lot.

Anyone here old enough to remember the precursor to the Pythons, "Do Not Adjust Your Set" which featured three Pythons in the form of Idle, Jones and Palin together with a very young David Jason. Compulsive after school watching in B & W on ITV for an eight year old Potting.

 

[el punal]

The names of some of the characters always make me chuckle, like - Dinsdale and Doug Piranha, Ron Obvious, Ken Shabby and many, many more.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Can't remember his name...

 

[Danny-Boy]

Anyone here old enough to remember the precursor to the Pythons, "Do Not Adjust Your Set" which featured three Pythons in the form of Idle, Jones and Palin together with a very young David Jason. Compulsive after school watching in B & W on ITV for an eight year old Potting.

Also with the Bonzos including the brilliant Viv Stanshall.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Captain Fantastic and the Evil Mrs Black

 

[Sussex Nomad]

My first thought before opening this thread was Cleese, for what he did during and after Python. But then reading about Idle and Palin and you start to err a bit. Special mention to Palin for Lumberjack.

 

[Norman Potting]

Also with the Bonzos including the brilliant Viv Stanshall.

Forgot about them, wondrously bonkers lot they were. I feel the urge to post this, worth it if only for the guitar solo:-

 

[studio150]

Carol Cleveland

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Palin. Barnstonworth.