LOL!
Hey, the Michael Palin character (the shopkeeper) is a bit like Kerry, no? Say any ridiculous thing to try to close the deal!
I went to see the Monty Python stage show in NYC in 1976. Got most of their autographs (not Gilliam, but the other 5). Cleese was really friendly; the others not so much. But I doubt they were interested in spending time with a pimply teenage boy! Wish I still had that playbill. But the memory is enough . . .