Original Monty Python member, Michael Palin says he was recently filming an episode of a travel show in Venezuela when armed men from the country’s intelligence service showed up and held the entire film crew hostage at gun point.
Palin described it like this, “It started with a couple of policemen, then a couple of the National Guard, and then along came men with rifles. It was the kind of thing you’d expect to encounter if an embassy was being bombed.”
They were held at gun point for hours until one of the people in charge looked Michael Palin up online and found a clips from Monty Python movies. The crew was eventually let go after the Venezuelan authorities saw the “Fish Slap Dance” bit and thought it was hilarious.
That bit is only 23 seconds long, but it is hilarious. It’s two guys in British military uniforms, dancing, and slapping each other in the face with actual fish.