Reflecting on his stage performance the previous day, actor, Michael Palin, pens this entry in his diary for April 2, 1979:“If it starts well, then there is great laughter all through, but if something goes wrong at the beginning (God knows why) it can go in silence.”
Source: Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years (London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 2006), 544.
Image: Michael Palin as Dennis in ‘Jabberwocky’.