Michael Palin says John Cleese “couldn’t have done without” him in ongoing ‘Monty Python’ feud

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Monty Python colleague “couldn’t have done without him”.Cleese had made the comment during Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show earlier this month, when he spoke about joining Palin for his 81st birthday.When Ball asked him how Palin is, Cleese joked: “Michael is just the same, sweet, kind, slightly boring man.”And now Palin has sent back his own barb during an appearance on ITV’s This Morning. “John is scintillating, we all know that.

It’s in his passport,” he said.“I really enjoy playing boring characters, and I’ve done a few, including the most boring man in Yorkshire, Eric Olthwaite [from Palin’s comedy series Ripping Yarns].“But you know, you just talk about rainfall all the time, and shovels.

And putting a shovel next to the other one. It really irritates people who think they’re interesting.“You go back to Python, and I always played the boring character, but John couldn’t have done without me,” he continued. “You had to have someone selling the parrot, or someone in the argument sketch to play off.

So I think I’m going to continue to bask in John’s compliment that I’m boring. The more boring I can be the better.”Monty Python, made up of Cleese, Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam, made their debut on television with the BBC sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which ran from 1969 to 1974.