It strikes me that Michael Palin played most of the funniest characters in the Python series. The funniest of the Spanish Inquisition, the Lumberjack, the Parrot seller. And he's done the best stuff out of the past 25 years, for me. Idle did Splitting Heirs and some other rubbish things before figuring he'd revisit…

Fail: Wood is a Hobbit, not a Fawn.

Fail: Wood is a Hobbit, not a Fawn.

The happy ending doesn't seem untrue to the tone at all to me. The tone had seemed sympathetic to Audrey and Seymour - we'd been given those loving songs by them, they were set up as the heroes, Audrey II as the villain. Seeing them triumph over the plant seemed quite natural. I've just looked at some of the original…

The happy ending doesn't seem untrue to the tone at all to me. The tone had seemed sympathetic to Audrey and Seymour - we'd been given those loving songs by them, they were set up as the heroes, Audrey II as the villain. Seeing them triumph over the plant seemed quite natural. I've just looked at some of the original…

Jeez, it really is dark then.

Jeez, it really is dark then.

It took me years to realise that guy was the lead guitarist out of Spinal Tap. And also Christopher Guest.

It took me years to realise that guy was the lead guitarist out of Spinal Tap. And also Christopher Guest.

* Tramps outside mouth "twice as many"*

* Tramps outside mouth "twice as many"*

Harry S Truman?

Harry S Truman?

Not much of an ironclad rule if he broke it twice

Not much of an ironclad rule if he broke it twice

Remember Sammy Jenkis

Remember Sammy Jenkis

Cos, come on, he IS better than us, isn't he?

Cos, come on, he IS better than us, isn't he?

It's always the 47% who get it.