Monty Python - Ministry of Silly Walks Series 2, Episode 1 - Face the Press/Dinsdale! Aired on #BBC1 9/15/70 Written by Palin and Jones Wikipedia.com A satire on bureaucratic inefficiency, the sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants. Cleese, throughout the sketch, walks in a variety of silly ways. It is these various silly walks, more than the dialogue, that have earned the sket