steepholm

I have, very briefly, met four of the Pythons, when taking part in Not the Messiah back in 2009. Palin was lovely and very patient with lots of the performers wanting autographs at rehearsals, and his performance was spot on and hilarious. Idle seemed quite full of himself, but then he was directing as well as performing, and he was good at getting what he wanted out of everyone as well as being funny. Jones was uncommunicative and gave a surprisingly poor performance of his one song (having, annoyingly, refused to rehearse with the choir), but possibly he was already starting to suffer from dementia. Gilliam was the one we saw the least of as he only had one line, but he was friendly enough (to a whole crowd of over-excited singers backstage after the show) and didn't strike me as a dick.