"Raging Queen" Michael Palin (1979)

1 year ago

On May 12, 1979, Michael Palin hosted Saturday Night Live. This clip is a spoof of Charles Dickens called "The Adventures of Miles Cowperthwaite" which was a recurring sketch, though there were only two episodes.

In Part 2, Miles goes off to sea on the pirate ship The Raging Queen where the crew was full of "manly men" who did "manly things" together, and where, at night, the pirate captain (Belushi) would come to young Miles's bed to "comfort him".

The curious can look up "SNL Michael Palin 1-27-1979" and you can find the transcript, but this scene seems to be missing from the internet, other than at the internet archives where the entire episode can be viewed here: https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-04-e-18-michael-palin-james-taylor-05-12-1979

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