Ever since he went around the world in 79 days and seven hours back in 1988, former Python Michael Palin’s career has been split into two distinct areas.
And his show at Theatre Royal Brighton reflected this – with the first half devoted to “25 years of holiday snaps” before the focus shifted to his life in comedy.
Throughout more than two and a half hours Palin was an engaging and entertaining host.
He avoided a chronological account of his travels to focus on the marvels he had seen and the characters he had met across the world in a mix of the humorous and poignant – especially when he talked about places like the Khyber Pass where he would never be able to film today.
His life in comedy was sprinkled with extracts from scripts, his latest diaries, Graham Chapman’s A Liar’s Autobiography and his book Dr Fegg’s Encyclopaedia Of All World Knowledge.
As he told stories from shoots on Glencoe with the Pythons and shared the moment he first saw the woman he has spent the last 48 years with it was easy to see why Palin has gained a reputation as the nice Python - much to John Cleese’s disgust.
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