Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was a man with a good sense of humour, but probably unable to telljokes because of the stammer. So i think there was a
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John cleese, star of a. P. Bio, actor Glenn Howerton an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth hey, everyone its day two back in an empty studio and while things arent normal, they are getting closer. For example, today two different tourists asked me if jimmy fallon was as nice as he seems. So, lets get to the news. According to audiotapes from a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward released today, President Trump said six months ago that the coronavirus was airborne and, quote, more dangerous than even your strenuous flu, and that he intended to play it down listen to this i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic seth well, good job with that this countrys never been more chill. A lot of people arent even moving americas as cool as a cucumber right now. Sure, were stealing toilet paper every time we go into a starb
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John cleese, star of a. P. Bio, actor Glenn Howerton an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth hey, everyone its day two back in an empty studio and while things arent normal, they are getting closer. For example, today two different tourists asked me if jimmy fallon was as nice as he seems. So, lets get to the news. According to audiotapes from a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward released today, President Trump said six months ago that the coronavirus was airborne and, quote, more dangerous than even your strenuous flu, and that he intended to play it down listen to this i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic seth well, good job with that this countrys never been more chill. A lot of people arent even moving americas as cool as a cucumber right now. Sure, were stealing toilet paper every time we go into a starb
In nhs history next month. The Prime Minister says his new years resolution is to keep driving forward. Driving forward. Inflation is set to fall further cutting the cost of living for everyone and were not stopping there. Were going further to grow our economy by reducing debt, cutting taxes and rewarding hard work , building rewarding hard work, building secure supplies of energy here at home, backing British Business and delivering world class education. Meanwhile. The class education. Meanwhile. The labour leader says the power to shape the future of britain rests in everyone hands. Sir Keir Starmers message offered a preview of his partys election campaign, saying 2024 needs to give britain its future back in the labour party. Weve been building to this for four years. Were confident we have a plan that can move our country forward , end the cost of country forward, end the cost of living crisis, take back our streets , get the nhs back on its streets, get the nhs back on its feet
Somebody binds you to them. Comedians dont have a great mortality rate. We lose a lot of people comedian. Im feeling more personal because i know the farc. Mm hmm. I dont drink anymore. I had to quit because i really drank man. I get pulled over by the cops. Id be so drunk id be out dancing to their lights thinking ive made it to another club. In a way laughter is a bizarrely intimate thing. Theres such an uncontrolled physical response. Its very similar biologically to orgasm. Stage someone made you laugh even once you have an affection for that person. Comedian is like your friend. Thats what the job of a comedian is to come on stage and in 60 seconds make friends with a room full of people. Actors theyre geniuses never quite telling us who they are. But comedians getting inside our heads. Its very personal. Theres an intimacy to comedy, so that when theyre gone, you miss it. You have your girlfriend or your wife called you from another room, and shes like sweetie, and then, like the