Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen (1998 TV Special)

Michael Palin: Self, Various

Quotes 

• Robert Klein : You were six and of course, Graham Chapman passed away in 1989. He would have loved this.

  Terry Jones : He would have.

  John Cleese : But he's dead.

  Michael Palin : He is no more.

  Terry Gilliam : Stone dead!

  Michael Palin : He is no more. Ceased to be.

  John Cleese : Stone fucking dead.

  Michael Palin : Fucking dead.

• Robert Klein : [in German]  Why did you decide to do TV episodes in German?

  John Cleese : [in German]  What an asinine question. Could we please get to the clip? I need to use the restroom.

  Eric Idle : [in German]  Yes, and I would like some Chinese take out - and Spam.

  Michael Palin : [in German]  I can kill a bat with an egg spoon.

• John Cleese : I hid in his room once. We got in from filming in Jersey and I was in the first car and they gave the key and I went up and I said it wasn't for my room it was for Michael's which was next door. So unlocked his door and I got the key and I thought I could take advantage of this so I went into his room and put the lights on and took a look around and there was a dressing table in the corner. So I got behind it and um, having turned the lights off, Michael came in...

  Michael Palin : As it was my room. You know, there was nothing kinky about that. It was MY room.

  John Cleese : And he wandered over to the dresser and started doing the

  [making gestures for taking out contacts] 

  John Cleese : I could have reached over and touched him there. But he never saw me and he went over and started brushing his teeth, then he started taking his clothes off and he put his pajamas on, he got into bed put his glasses on got his book and started to read. And then I realized that the joke was on me! I didn't know what to do so I sat there for about five minutes and then I just got up and said, "I'm awfully sorry Michael but I have to go."

  Michael Palin : I remember what happened then, Carol shouted, "Get Out!"

• Robert Klein : Didn't you hide in Carol's closet?

  Michael Palin : What? No. Well... I wasn't hiding. I'd gone in to look for something. I was looking for an adze. It's a type of tool used for planing wood and I needed it for another show I was doing about carpentry.

• Michael Palin : [as Gumby]  Flower arranging!

• John Cleese : [on how they came up with the name]  Someone shouted out Python and then someone else shouted out Monty which made us all laugh because Monty to us means Lord Montgomery, our general from the second world war.

  Terry Jones : Oh I see!

  Michael Palin : I thought it was Monty Sunshine the jazz player.

  Terry Jones : Yes, Monty Sunshine the jazz clarinetist.