# Point to Terry Gilliam in a Monty Python sketch- any Monty Python sketch. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952 "2004-12-15T10:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/21 "2004-12-15T15:45:11Z")
In the _Biggles Dictates a Letter_ sketch, Gilliam played Ginger; wearing, if I remember correctly, sequined shorts and heavy makeup, but explained that he was not a poof. Gilliam tended to take on the exaggerated, flamboyant bit parts. ---
**Author:** ![pyrrthon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pyrrthon1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyrrthon1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/22 "2004-12-15T15:52:14Z")
He plays one of the guests in the guest house where Mr Hilter, Ron Ribbentrop and that nice Mr McGoering were planning their Stalingrad vacation. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/23 "2004-12-15T16:02:32Z")
Gilliam was the guy dressed up in the suit of armor who appeared occasionally. He’s one of the guys who dies from the “Killer Joke”. You can see him more in the later episodes, but none of his roles were particularly memorable until the movies… ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/24 "2004-12-15T16:11:43Z")
I love his Daffy Duck-esque exit in the movie writers sketch. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/25 "2004-12-15T18:14:07Z")
> [@](#): > > naked organ guy > [@](#): > > played parts …that required a lot of makeup or involved uncomfortable costumes. How uncomfortable is his costume of as a naked guy? ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/26 "2004-12-15T18:22:09Z")
Well I, for one, am sincerely glad that he didn’t prove to be an accomplished actor, because I value his contributions to popular culture as a Cinematic Director far more than anything else he’s done. I mean, geez. I can express it in one word: _Brazil_ > [@](#): > > How uncomfortable is his costume of as a naked guy? Depends on how cold it is in the studio. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/27 "2004-12-15T18:46:03Z")
He also took on parts that involved getting into costume but didn’t have lines, simply because they had to have someone there on the stage: the dead body in “It all happened on the 11:20 from Hainault to Redhill via Horsham and Reigate, calling at Carshalton Beeches, Malmesbury, Tooting Bec, and Croydon West.” ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/28 "2004-12-15T19:02:51Z")
I recall he was one of the Gumby brain surgeons. That’s also the only Flying Circus sketch I’ve seen that had all 6 men in it at once. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/29 "2004-12-15T19:08:35Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > He was the fifth writer/yes-man to Graham Chapman’s “Mr. Saltzberg” hollywood film-producer charactor in the “20th Century Vole” sketch of Episode Six. “Splunge” for me, too! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/30 "2004-12-15T19:25:34Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > How uncomfortable is his costume of as a naked guy? [Cleese] Well, that quite depends on what he’s sitting on, doesn’t it? [/Cleese] ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/31 "2004-12-15T19:44:12Z")
Bested, I am. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/32 "2004-12-15T19:55:24Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > That’s also the only Flying Circus sketch I’ve seen that had all 6 men in it at once. There’s the aforementioned movie writing sketch. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/33 "2004-12-15T20:49:23Z")
There was an episode where, during the intro, the various characters are pre-occupied with press interviews instead of doing their jobs of playing organ nude (Terry Jones did it in the intros), saying “And now…”, etc. Later, as an animation begins, Gilliam can be heard describing his technique before realizing he’s missed his cue. He sticks his head into the animation (still in stop-motion), and apologizes. In the TV version of “Argument Clinic”, he is the hand that appears in the doorway last, at the very end, when they are arresting people under the provisions of the Strange Sketch Act. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/34 "2004-12-15T21:01:03Z")
In “The Visitors” (succession of horrible people bursting in on couple trying to have a romantic evening) Gilliam is the “poofy friend” whose wife has just died. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/35 "2004-12-15T21:01:35Z")
> [@cantara](#): > > Also the american husband in the “Meaning Of Liff” salmon mousse death sketch (possibly his longest screen time…). [death] You Americans you talk and you talk, you say “let me say this” and “I just want to say that”, well you’re dead now. So Shut Up! [/death] ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/36 "2004-12-15T21:22:29Z")
But I didn’t eat the salmon. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/37 "2004-12-15T21:28:26Z")
After hearing him as Patsy and the Old Man from Scene XX, I find his American accent rather unconvincing. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/38 "2004-12-15T23:07:58Z")
He was a Viking in full regalia (including horned helmet) who broke into Graham Chapman’s sentence during the “Killer Sheep” sketch. (Graham) The only clue we have is this wolf pelt that one of the killer sheep… (Terry G as Viking)_…wuz wearing…_ (Graham) when the crime was committed. I’m recreating the sketch from memory, so sorry if I got some of the dialog wrong. It’s really kind of pathetic that I know stuff like this… ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/39 "2004-12-16T01:23:24Z")
He also sang “I’ve got two legs”. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952/40 "2004-12-18T09:53:11Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > After hearing him as Patsy and the Old Man from Scene XX, I find his American accent rather unconvincing. Which is funny, because Gilliam _is_ American. Waitaminute waitaminute waitaminute… Patsy spoke? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-to-terry-gilliam-in-a-monty-python-sketch-any-monty-python-sketch/279952.md?page=3)