old news, but still reminding us we all get old...

[acroyear]

MONTY PYTHON - CLEESE DOCTORS BAN 'SILLY WALK':

MONTY PYTHON star JOHN CLEESE has been ordered to abandon his infamous 'silly walk' over fears it will jeopardise his recent hip replacement. The British funnyman, who used the skit on a number of Python shows, blames his outrageous pedestrian routine for forcing him into the operating theatre in the first place. The 66-year-old says, "I can't do it because I've had a hip replacement - probably because I did so much of it. "I don't know how I even managed in the first place."

Comments

[pyllgrum.livejournal.com]

Actually, I originally heard he blamed his bad hip on his misspent youth. He apparently was a Morris Dancer before he realized he could entertain more people with the relatively safer "Ministry of Silly Walks" routine.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Stop stealing my material!

[pyllgrum.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Joe was just lying there beside the road, unconscious, holding onto that white hanky and the tambourine. His neck exposed and the carotid artery was thum-thum-thumping like a bass drum in a high school marching band and I had to bite.

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

Ah, the end of an era. It will be missed...

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

... but fondly remembered...

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