He's the best Python, unsullied by thirty years of decline into utter irrelevance.

Best at being DEAD.

Anyway, there isn't a best Python - only a worst (Eric Idle, obviously).

Yeah but Eric was the one who co-wrote Labyrinth, wasn't he?

Terry Jones is the worst.

Terry Jones is clearly the worst. Michael Palin is the best.

Terry Jones wrote Labyrinth and directed the best Python movies (doing a better job than Gilliam). Eric Idle made Nuns on the Run.

"Utter irrelevance" is a more than a might hyperbolic given how goddamn alive this sketch feels forty years on.

:::lightly applies ritual orange dust:::

Idle had undeniably brilliant moments as a performer, writer, and songwriter with Python, but suffered the most outside it. He also seems to be the least appealing post-Python personality; which is saying something.

Palin appears to sku the balance of them all being horrible monsters by being genuinely awesome.

I've had more gala luncheons than you've had hot dinners.