Michael Palin
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05/04/1943
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
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| Lent his name to London's Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children, which opened in 1993. |
| Formed a comedy-writing team while attending Brasenose College with fellow future Monty Python member Terry Jones. |
| Fell off the stage during his first public performance as a child, when he played Martha Cratchit in a school production of A Christmas Carol. |
| Based his character in the comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988) on his father Edward, who stuttered. |
| Along with Jones, was hired to write for the Frost Report, a BBC sketch comedy show that also employed future Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle. |
| Proposed titles for what became Monty Python's Flying Circus included The Algy Banging Hour, Wither Canada and Owl Stretching Time. |
