Michael Palin
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Michael Palin is a world-famous mate, comedian, actor, writer, travel writer and smug from Sheffield in Yorkshire. He was born in 1943 and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he met fellow smug and future Monty Python collaborator Terry Jones. Despite studying at Oxford, Palin is as far from a self-obsessed, bemortared, becloaked, chinless spastic cunt as you could possible imagine. Indeed he is globally revered and respected as being pretty sound.
[edit] Monty Python
Mate Palin played many memorable roles in the Python television series and films, notably the barber/lumberjack, the parrot-selling pet-shop owner, the cheese-shop proprietor, T.F. Gumby, Cardinal Ximinez of the Spanish Inquisition, Reg Pither, Sir Galahad, Pontius Pilate, Mr. Big Nose, The Knight Who Says "Ni!", Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist peasant, the hospital administrator, and the porr Catholic dad.
[edit] Other roles
Palin has also appeared in Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, A Private Function, Brazil, A Fish Called Wanda, and Fierce Creatures.
[edit] Travel Series
Palin has created several epic travel series for television, each with a particular theme. In Eighty Days Around the World, he follows in the footsteps of Jules Verne's Philleas Fogg by going eastwards around the world from London to London, without using aircraft. In Pole to Pole he travels from the North Pole to the South Pole through Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Africa, with a detour to Chile. In Full Circle Palin travels around the Pacific Rim starting at the western tip of Alaska, through Russia, Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In Sahara, he travels anti-clockwise around northern Africa, visiting Gibraltar, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Ceuta and Gibraltar. Most recently, in Himalaya, he traverses the great mountain range, visiting Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, India again, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
