1972:

At one point, about 7:00, I had just come back into the studios after having a drink when a slight, thin figure walked towards me. The face was familiar, but before I could register anything, a look of registration crossed George Harrison’s face, and he shook my hand, and went into a paean of praise for Monty Python — with the same exaggerated enthusiasm that I would have lavished on the Beatles had I met them five years ago. He said he couldn’t wait to see Python on 35mm, big screen.

1974:

At lunchtime came a fresh jolt from the BBC. In Graham’s speech as the Icelandic Honey Week rep — very funny and all recorded — they wanted the lines “Cold enough to freeze your ****s off, freeze the little buggers solid in mid-air” cut from the tape, as well as one “piss off” (we could keep the other).

— Michael Palin, Diaries 1969 – 1979: The Python Years