Michael Palin laughs

[pokerbaby7]

A dummy was brought in to stand in place of the mummy wrapped man. They dropped the dummy moving him into place during the dialog between Micheal and John.

[stewux]

I love Graham's reaction here too, he doesn't look round to see what's happened but has obviously guessed. Cracks me up the way he cocks his head toward the camera at 0.53 and tries very hard to hold it together.

[aspire9000]

@ladylancelot Mike is adorable all the time! ;)

[phantomphan77]

Haha. Michael Palin is awesome. I love how he just comes in and starts hitting everyone

[Denomoses]

0.40 gold you can hear it fall and see the guy behind him smirking too just as he tries michael tries to keep it together haha gold!!

[Vigatos]

God that fake laughing is so obnoxious and unnecessary. Month Python needs to just cut that shit out. It's like its dictating to you when you should be laughing, give me a f'n break. I love Monty Python but goddamn that is annoying.

[Undergroundstudioss]

It's the corpse, it probably fell over...

[sternumagnum]

John Cleese stumbled badly and everyone corpsed.

[sternumagnum]

@sternumagnum No, he didn't! His shadow is immobile. Something fell off camera.

[DarthRevan1051]

what was that bang just before the laughter?

[osuvalpal]

@DarthRevan1051 I'm not sure, but I have a feeling it contributed to the breaking of character :)

[dharmaseed]

@osuvalpal They were moving the actor who was wrapped in bandages. When they brought in the other prop (the head of which 'Maurice' removed at the end of the sketch), the head probably fell off.

[playerthe2nd]

@osuvalpal I think it was the mummy falling over.

[club33az]

@DarthRevan1051 It had to be when they replaced the real bandaged person for the fake, hollow bandaged person.

[raindelayshowfan1]

@DarthRevan1051 Apparently that was the dummy of the character on trial, falling over, after the actor became the dummy for the end of the sketch. And that's why the audience starts laughing too.

[citizenhal]

@DarthRevan1051 The guilty fellow fell over.

[ndarcy]

@DarthRevan1051 Knowing the whole sketch, I'd bet that the bang was caused by the head of the 'defendant' falling off.

[Louill]

Laughing when?

[MsMoonTheLoon]

I wonder if there's any footage of filming the sketches when they had to stop because someone broke up laughing? for example in meaning of life, when Cleese had to laugh in the Mr creosote scene? I'd love to see that outtakes!

[blunklaura]

@MsMoonTheLoon There's one floating round of when they did live tours and Michael breaks down laughing during the Parrot Sketch.

He's soooo adorrbs !!!!!

And yeah,I'd LOVE to see more outtakes!

Especially of Michael Palin,nudge nudge,wink wink :-)

[krows31]

@AndSoItWillBe no, you aren't the only one ;)

[dharmaseed]

Don't call me 'Maurice' in court!

[blunklaura]

michael palin is so cute ;)

is there more videos of him laughing?:)

[ladylancelot500]

Graham has that face he makes when he's trying not to laugh on as well. Just like when he shouts BURMA in the Penguin sketch.

Ans I agree with irnbruyum, mike is adorable when he smiles!

[dewhistle]

@ladylancelot500 Agreed, Graham succeeded on an impressive scale given how long he had to keep it up! And sitting right in front, too.

[dewhistle]

@ladylancelot500 Although, Graham was like that before the thump. I think Palin's entry whacking everything in sight already had gotten to him. I sympathize.

[OMGitsMarika]

I love how he runs in and hits the old lady on head haha

[why1so1serious1]

i love how graham acts to michael :p

and i love when michael brakes up xd :)

[oXtrueloveXo]

were they laughing at the guy when he got off the stand to put the dummy there? did he fall over or something? i hate not knowing!! lol ive watched it on dvd like 5 times & i always here the audience laughing & i CANT see it :P

& you just gotta love it when they start laughing @ stuff. it happens quite a bit actually cause they didnt have much money so they had to use the best that they had ^^

[randomloves74]

You hear the thump, I think the dummy's head fell off before they had it on correctly lol

[oXtrueloveXo]

i love it! cause it just adds on top of the extreme humor of this sketch lol

[raindelayshowfan1]

@randomloves74 That definatley IS what happened, I don't recall where I read it but you can hear the audience laughing at an offseen visual joke.

[shoesfordancing]

when do they laugh?

[firmus90]

After the bang at 00:45 ...Terry Gilliam's laugh is quite visible but you can see that Michael is also having some difficulties not to laugh when he's swinging his...um...police equipment. And he's biting his lip just before the shot of wig-headed mummy at 00:54 .

[Titaniacy]

I always love when Mike breaks character!

[osuvalpal]

haha me too!!! I crack up every time he does!

[DabbooDear]

@osuvalpal Same I Love Him xD

[blackaddergal]

Awesome job!! My Friend!!