Cleese is like Chevy Chase...it’s funny he’s an asshole but it’s also not really an act.  Eric Idle has always been too obsessed with famous people and money.  Gilliam has always been crazy and irresponsible.  Chapman was always a huge superior asshole.  Terry Jones was always a tyrant.  And Michael Palin was always…

In the words of Raylan Givens, if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.