In Monty Python's film "The Meaning of Life" what was the last thing that Mr. Creosote ate?
Mr. Creosote is a fictional character who appears in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. He is a monstrously obese, rude restaurant patron who is served a vast amount of food and alcohol whilst vomiting repeatedly. After being persuaded to eat an after-dinner mint – "It's only wafer-thin" – he explodes in a very graphic way. The sketch opens the film's segment titled "Part VI: The Autumn Years".
The character is played by Terry Jones, who directed the film. According to Jones, John Cleese, who played the Maître d'hôtel, struggled to keep a straight face saying "wafer-thin mint" and also struggled to get out of shot without bursting into laughter.
John Cleese said that the sketch, originally written by Jones and Michael Palin, was initially rejected. Cleese said the sketch suffered from a flawed construction and rewrote it with Graham Chapman. At the 'U.S. Comedy Arts Festival — Tribute to Monty Python' it was claimed Cleese was taken with the unflappable maître d' character. Jones thought Creosote should be played by fellow Python Terry Gilliam, before Gilliam persuaded Jones to play the role instead.
When asked about his proclivity toward gruesome film violence, director Quentin Tarantino said that the "Mr. Creosote" scene was the only time he had been disturbed by a graphic or gruesome film sequence.
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