Straight from the Obvious Bag

[unbibium]

Someone finally cobbled together a Michael Palin for President video. It's only, what, a week after VPILF.com went live? But OK then.

What we need now is a counter-Michael Palin attack ad. That'll be easy to do, since one of Palin's strengths as a character actor was his ability to lie in an over-the-top transparent fashion. Off the top of my head, he played...

• A barber that was clearly disturbed by the idea of cutting hair,
• A pet shop owner that clearly sold John Cleese a dead parrot,
• A smuggler that was clearly nowhere near Spain,
• A legitimate businessman that clearly was not delivering a Chinese "watch" to a client around midnight.
• A boarder at a bed and breakfast who was clearly Heinrich Himmler.
• At least two characters, not named above, who let the wrong word slip out, only to punctuate it by covering his mouth and shouting "OH, WHAT A GIVEAWAY!"

I'm going to have to comb through a lot of DVD's to find all that.

Comments

[twillis.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty funny idea.

I wonder

[notr.livejournal.com]

if he ever played a character named Sarah.

Re: I wonder

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

HELLO MRS. PREMISE!

HELLO MRS. CONCLUSION!

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I like it! Worse than what you say, he actually played *two* pet store owners who tried to sell John Cleese on a dead parrot. Furthermore, his record on the environment is suspect considering that, rather that being the barber you mention, he aspired to be a transvestite lumberjack.

Michael Palin has also gone around the world in 80 days, but on his Pole to Pole journey, he took an entirely inappropriate route to the South Pole. Also, he was present, on that trip, at the Soviet Coup that induced the USSR's collapse. Coincidence?

He once attempted to obtain a grant from the Ministry of Silly Walks with a walk that was just barely silly. He has attempted to build a series of beauty salons on Mt. Everest.

He also played Pontius Pilate in "The Life of Brian." If that won't kill the Evangelical vote, nothing will!

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Ah, if only I could get DVD's to rip consistently... and if only I had all of the Python series on DVD instead of just twelve episodes. Looks like it's torrent time.