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Who's the sexiest Python?

55 replies

musicalfrog · 18/08/2021 22:40

I'm bored (clearly). And watching Life of Brian.

It's got to be Michael Palin right?

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Champagneforeveryone · 21/08/2021 07:53

@GreyhoundG1rl

Graham Chapmans was the first penis I ever saw Intriguing...
To clarify, it was in The Life of Brian on an all girls school trip rather than in a more personal sense.

All these years later I'm still baffled about what our teacher was thinking allowing it to be played on the coach Grin

musicalfrog · 21/08/2021 12:56

Graham Chapmans was the first penis I ever saw

LOL @Champagneforeveryone

I guess that teacher was giving an education of sorts to the girls... Like when they showed us Labyrinth in the last year of primary and I learnt all about the joys of lycra. Grin

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musicalfrog · 21/08/2021 12:57

@CorvusPurpureus

John Cleese for me. I like them tall, clever & sarky.
Hurray! We found one. I like your criteria I must say!
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MrsBede · 21/08/2021 13:34

Graham Chapman, especially if looking at Life of Brian.

MrsBede · 21/08/2021 13:36

@TellySavalashairbrush

Michael Palin. Had a huge crush on him as a teenager when he did ‘Around the world in 80 days’. Wasn’t Graham Chapman the one who Miriam Margolyes said was a nasty bully to her when they were at University? Instantly puts me off him.
Didn't she say that all her male counterparts dismissed her and were sexist bullies at Cambridge? Don't know if she said anything about His Niceness Michael Palin -he was at Oxford wasn't he?
GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 21/08/2021 13:41

I can't possibly choose between Graham and Micheal.

I love them all though.

Runrigdan · 21/08/2021 13:43

Michael Palin for sure

Saucery · 21/08/2021 13:44

Graham Chapman, especially after giving up alcohol (in time for LoB). Him dressed as The Colonel gives me fanny gallops.

Justjoinedforthis · 21/08/2021 13:46

Can’t believe no one is saying Eric Idle!!

Dunlin · 21/08/2021 13:54

Oh it’s Michael Palin every time. He is so inadvertently and ironically sexy in the Castle Anthrax scene it’s untrue.

Chikapu · 21/08/2021 13:54

I don't think any of them could be described as sexy.

Dunlin · 21/08/2021 13:57

I also have a weirdly strong sexual attraction to him when he is The Bishop (“Oh Mr Belpit your legs are so swollen” scene).
I’d never admit to that in polite company but figure this thread is a safe space to share such things.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 21/08/2021 13:59

Michael Palin, closely followed by Graham Chapman.

Maybe we need a similar thread about The Goodies.

Saucery · 21/08/2021 14:02

@YetAnotherSpartacus

Michael Palin, closely followed by Graham Chapman.

Maybe we need a similar thread about The Goodies.

Graeme Garden. I seem to have a thing about men who trained as doctors but gave it up for the stage. But not Harry Hill. Possibly becuase his name isn’t a variation of Graham Hmm
PermanentTemporary · 21/08/2021 14:04

Eric Idle was the President who opened the Footlights to women. Doesn't mean he wouldn't be sexist in modern terms but that was a real change.

Saucery · 21/08/2021 14:09

Opened eh? Opened……..OPENED….eh, eh? Nudge nudge, wink wink

PermanentTemporary · 21/08/2021 14:10
Grin
HPLikecraft · 21/08/2021 14:10

I had a crush on Eric idle as a child - that cheeky face!

SquirryTheSquirrel · 21/08/2021 14:11

Graham Chapman, then John Cleese.

Tenementfunster · 21/08/2021 16:28

No takers for Terry Gilliam?check out his muscles in LOB!
It will always be Palin for me. A long enduring crush. Even in a Fish Called Wanda with the bad perm Grin

movingadviceneeded · 21/08/2021 16:32

John Cleese. I have a crush on Basil Fawlty.

Saucery · 21/08/2021 17:21

Didn't she say that all her male counterparts dismissed her and were sexist bullies at Cambridge? Don't know if she said anything about His Niceness Michael Palin -he was at Oxford wasn't he

Terry Jones and Michael Palin were at Oxford, yes. They tended to write more absurdist, almost gentler and whimsical stuff than Cleese and Chapman, whose sketches were more acerbic (the thesaurus type). Jones and Cleese often didn’t get on, with the latter winding up the former for a reaction, so it’s said. For instance, referring to him and Palin as “kid’s TV writers” because they worked on Do Not Adjust Your Set.
As parts of a whole they haven’t been beaten, imo.

musicalfrog · 21/08/2021 22:58

@Chikapu

I don't think any of them could be described as sexy.
It's a theory.
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PhoboPhobia · 21/08/2021 23:06

@Saucery

Opened eh? Opened……..OPENED….eh, eh? Nudge nudge, wink wink
Grin
MrsSkylerWhite · 21/08/2021 23:15

Today 01:21 Iampicklerick

Never. It’s Terry Jones. For Labyrinth and his beautiful book of Fairy Tales and his inability to say the letter R. I am so fond of that man“

Beautifully put.

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