John Cleese on Sarah Palin: "Monty Python Could Have Written This."

What a nasty thing to say about parrots! Actually, there was a parrot named Alex, trained by Dr. Irene Pepperberg, which clearly understood the content of human language. I think Alex's brain was bigger than Sarah Palin's, so the comparison may be unfair to her.

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#11 posted by A New Challenger

, October 13, 2008 9:23 PM

Awww, I thought we were going to get some dirt on Michael.

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#12 posted by miks2u , October 13, 2008 9:35 PM

What are the odds of this - I had my full 2200+ MP3 collection on shuffle play, and The Lumberjack Song came on just as this post popped up in my feed reader. It's got to be cosmic coincidence...

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#13 posted by BearsAssaultedByBasil , October 13, 2008 10:08 PM

@MIKS2U
(Total number of post views)*(Portion of views where viewer was listening to music on shuffle)*(Average size of library)*(Portion of songs that can be construed as relevant to post) = The chances of a relevant song coming on for someone are probably not that low.

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#14 posted by Rikki Simons

, October 13, 2008 10:42 PM

(Total number of post views)*(Portion of views where viewer was listening to music on shuffle)*(Average size of library)*(Portion of songs that can be construed as relevant to post)

If you feed that into the Improbability Drive you'll be on Magrathea in minutes.

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#15 posted by shutz , October 13, 2008 11:31 PM

This was a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Silly Party.

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#16 posted by Metronicity , October 14, 2008 12:24 AM

"I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there."

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#17 posted by Maddy , October 14, 2008 12:48 AM

he's generally conservative, so his observations are damning ...

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#18 posted by Kieran O'Neill , October 14, 2008 3:53 AM

Lol. And so eloquently and succinctly put.

That's about all any reasonable, thinking person needs to say about Palin.

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#19 posted by ImFeelinLucky , October 14, 2008 5:34 AM

Todd Palin:
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK. I stalk all night and I sleep all day."

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#20 posted by terenceeden , October 14, 2008 5:35 AM

@Maddy In fact, he's a supporter of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. They're a left-of-centre group.

In the USA, they'd be called extreme left - but then, so would our Conservatives...

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#21 posted by Scary_UK , October 14, 2008 5:49 AM

#20 yes it's a bit difficult to compare such things, the US political spectrum is totally diffrent to what it is in Europe.

It reminds me of an old Peter Cook sketch, 'Introduction to American Politics'...

'First you have the Republican Party, they are the equivalent to the British Conservative Party.
Then you have the Democratic Party, they are the equivalent to the British Conservative Party'

It's always bemusing to hear a democrat being described at 'liberal'

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#22 posted by papamook

, October 14, 2008 5:55 AM

dead parrot!

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#23 posted by Nelson.C , October 14, 2008 6:06 AM

Particularly as the British political spectrum seems to have been folded back on itself, so that the Tories have to work hard to keep themselves to the right of NuLabour and the LibDems are hanging out on the left all by themselves.

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#24 posted by eti , October 14, 2008 6:17 AM

Link to high quality version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g&fmt=18

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#25 posted by Tom Hale , October 14, 2008 6:36 AM

Michael Palin was always my favorite from Monty Python. He had his own show for a while, which I enjoyed. I hated when it was canceled. After wiki-ing, looks like it was a series of shows not an actual series. That doesn't make sense does it. Look for yourself here, under Television documentaries.

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#26 posted by Talia , October 14, 2008 6:57 AM

Silly Party '08!

Michael Palin For President

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#27 posted by Scary_UK , October 14, 2008 7:02 AM

#25 - I think you're getting confused.

He has made several travel programmes - Around The World in 80 days, Pole to Pole etc. Each was a series of about 8 episodes.

They've never been 'cancelled' as such, each was a self contained journey. He's still making them, Palin's New Europe being the most recent which was shown last year

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#28 posted by dainel , October 14, 2008 7:08 AM

History is about to repeat. Didn't everyone say Bush was stupid. He was a moron. How come he won the election. Twice. Bush is not stupid. He's only pretending.

I doubt Palin is stupid. She got elected as governor. How many of us here can get ourselves elected to the town council? Who is more stupid, the one pretending to be, or the ones taken in? We'll know when she sneaks into office.

Everyone who thought there couldn't possibly be anyone worse then Bush will regret saying "anyone but Bush".

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#29 posted by technogeek , October 14, 2008 7:33 AM

The American public likes to vote for candidates who represent them -- who feed their sense of "If my life had gone a bit differently, I could do that."

Unfortunately, half the American public, by definition, is below average. Any candidate who truly represents the populace is going to be pretty darned mediocre. That isn't what we need.

And I'm not sure Palin meets even that standard.

I used to respect McCain. As of this campaign, he's scaring me. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and postulate that he's reluctantly going along with the advice of his handlers even though it goes against his own sense of what's best for the country... but putting it kindly, that isn't leadership.

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#30 posted by minTphresh , October 14, 2008 7:48 AM

watching a video of bible spice last night, i was struck by cindy mccain's response when sarah said how mccain " was fighting corruption and greed in washington." cindymac 'bout busted out laughing! it seemed it was all she could do to contain it. funny.

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#31 posted by Apashiol , October 14, 2008 8:25 AM

Palin's more lifelike than McCain's wife but neither of them pass the Turing test.

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#32 posted by Destin , October 14, 2008 8:42 AM

That's funny. During the Couric and Gibson interviews, all I could think of was how much Palin reminded me of a John Cleese character, Anne Elk (Miss).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzVkSFnKxI

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#33 posted by Gadgets123 , October 14, 2008 8:45 AM

The Redcoats used to roar through their noses and scatter their tea and crumpets over the silly American frontiersmen, too. We shall see...

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#34 posted by creesto , October 14, 2008 9:45 AM

Ahem. This is my theory, which I developed, which is to say that it is mine. The theory which I shall share which is mine is that ahem John McCain is a maverick.

And so on and so forth.

And now…its'

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#35 posted by Boba Fett Diop , October 14, 2008 10:21 AM

Sadly, the Palin nomination reminds me of a somewhat different Monty Python sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVxM5IBLeU4

(Yes, I know, Godwin. But watch until the rally near the end, and the part where "Ron Vibbentrop" sidles up next to the stereotypical yokel. The Pythons' point was that the English middle class would be too polite to mention that the 3rd Reich was hiding out in a coastal B&B. Many Americans would likely say "Oh, he's just like me...he's a maverick.")

"I am not a racialist, but...und this is a big but..."

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#36 posted by Elvis Gump

, October 14, 2008 10:58 AM

Is there a link to the entire interview? I can't find one on the Seesmic site...

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#37 posted by hombrelobo

, October 14, 2008 11:01 AM

Agree with nr.5 ... what's with the disclaimer ????

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#38 posted by Maddy , October 14, 2008 11:22 AM

#20 -- huh, I've seen other Pythons chide him about being pollitcally more conservative then them ...

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#39 posted by Elvis Gump

, October 14, 2008 12:13 PM

I got a reply from the Seesmic guy who says the entire video will be posted at the end of the week for anyone else searching for the whole thing. More when I know more...

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#40 posted by soupisgoodfood , October 14, 2008 8:26 PM

It's like the Republicans know they're going to lose this time so they just put out McCain and Palin as a formality.

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#41 posted by Leven , October 15, 2008 3:05 AM

#27 - The poster in #25 was referring to Ripping Yarns, not his travel shows. It started with "Tomkinson's Schooldays", which led into a series, in which each show was an independant story, with its own characters and setting.

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#42 posted by bloatedboy , October 15, 2008 2:35 PM

He's probably wishing the last American woman he married was as dumb as Sarah Palin, she (also his shrink)made off with half of everything he owned.

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#43 posted by WhitScott , October 16, 2008 10:18 AM

The full length interview of John Cleese talking about the upcoming election can be found here http://seesmic.com/video/VSomeIE9D4