I feel like people have forgotten George W. Bush’s famed inability to get through a sentence of the English language without shredding it to bits.

“Hey, it’s Mark here. Am I in the new Star Wars film too?”

Igmatiy Vishnevetsky. There was a man who could tear a film a new asshole and make it look classy.

Man these guys sound grumpy. Hasn’t anyone ever told them to look on the bright side of life?

It’s well known Michael Palin grew up in an old water tank on a rubbish tip.

1. JK Rowling

Palin has a lovely cameo in one of the seasons of ‘Staged’ where he savages David Tennant and Michael Sheen for improvising. Afterwards, Sheen says, “Maybe we could get one of the other Pythons to say something? One of the nice ones?” and Tennant yells, “He’s meant to be the nice one!”

He’s summarising Proust to the angels now.

I’m quite partial to ‘Across the Andes by Frog’.

Why were so many people willing to marry John Cleese?

“According to Jeunet, the Academy held a grudge against Weinstein at that point because of his perceived shady campaigning practices.”

I remember at the time not quite getting what all the fuss was about. I watched it, it was okay, but I honestly couldn’t see how it had so fully captured all these hearts.

That body-swap training montage in ‘The Marvels’ is some of the most fun I’ve had watching a superhero film in ages. If I have to be in the minority for really enjoying that film, well, so be it.

July 2025, huh? So they’ve got just over a year to figure out how to make stretching powers not look like shit on screen.

After seeing him be absolutely terrifying (and loathsome) in the most recent season of ‘Fargo’, I’d love to see more Hamm villainy.

My pick for Doom is Flula Borg. Hear me out: It would be terrible, but I personally would be very amused.

“Jim, I saw the pages you submitted last night. You’ve gotta stop doing peyote right before you come up with new supervillains.”

I know you said forget the 2015 movie, but maybe we’re being a little hasty, and there’s still a lot of fertile ground left in turning Doctor Doom into a gloomy kid hacker called Domashev who ends up transforming into a walking mannequin with glowey eyes.

“Dude, how did you get here so fast? Did you take the bypass off the Negative Zone?”