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Patsy is a character in the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 in film film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones....
 and the musical Spamalot
Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....
. He is played by Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Brazil , Twelve Monkeys , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....
 in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Serving as King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
's assistant, he only has a few simple tasks throughout the entire film, such as using two halves of a coconut
Coconut

The Coconut Palm is a member of the Family Arecaceae . It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaf 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth....
 to simulate the hoofbeats of Arthur's nonexistent horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
.

He also announces King Arthur's arrival, as when Arthur's group approaches a castle claimed to be Camelot
Camelot

Camelot is the most famous castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century France romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the fabulous Arthurian world....
 early in the movie.






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Patsy is a character in the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 in film film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones....
 and the musical Spamalot
Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....
. He is played by Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Brazil , Twelve Monkeys , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....
 in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Serving as King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
's assistant, he only has a few simple tasks throughout the entire film, such as using two halves of a coconut
Coconut

The Coconut Palm is a member of the Family Arecaceae . It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaf 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth....
 to simulate the hoofbeats of Arthur's nonexistent horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
.

He also announces King Arthur's arrival, as when Arthur's group approaches a castle claimed to be Camelot
Camelot

Camelot is the most famous castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century France romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the fabulous Arthurian world....
 early in the movie. Patsy has only one line in the film: "It's only a model," said when the Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table

Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the Literature cycle the Matter of Britain....
 first catch sight of the castle at Camelot
Camelot

Camelot is the most famous castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century France romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the fabulous Arthurian world....
.

In the 2005 musical, Spamalot
Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....
, Patsy has a bigger role with many more lines, and he sings "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a popular song written by Eric Idle that originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals....
" from The Life of Brian to King Arthur, and they later sing "I'm All Alone". As in the film, Patsy follows King Arthur everywhere and bangs coconuts together to simulate Arthur's horse. In the original Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 production, he was played by Michael McGrath, who impersonated Terry Gilliam's role in the film. McGrath's role in the musical was praised in reviews, and he was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. The award has been presented since 1947....
 for Spamalot. In the musical, Patsy is half Jewish. He didn't mention this at first because "it's just not the kind of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
."