Monty Python’s John Cleese, 82, admits he can’t do trademark silly walk any more because of ‘two artificial hips, an artificial knee and a heavily infected big toe’

• Skit featured in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which aired on TV from 1969 
• Cleese was seen walking in a bizarre and exaggerated fashion to work
• He portrayed a bureaucrat in the satirical Ministry of Silly Walks
• Star said on BBC Radio 4’s Private Passions that age is now catching up with him 

By Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline

Published: 15:13 GMT, 3 December 2021 | Updated: 16:01 GMT, 3 December 2021

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More than five decades on from its appearance on television in 1969, Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch still prompts a laugh.

The skit sees star John Cleese skewer self-important inefficiency by walking to his bureaucratic place of work in an exaggerated fashion whilst wearing a bowler hat and carrying a briefcase.

But now, the 82-year-old star has admitted that, due to the physical toll imposed by his advancing years, he can no longer do his trademark walk. 

Speaking in an upcoming episode …….

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10271609/Monty-Pythons-John-Cleese-82-admits-silly-walk-more.html