John Cleese waiting to begin when Cleese's offer arrived. Palin agreed to work with Cleese and Chapman in the meantime, bringing with him Gilliam, Jones, and Idle. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" ran for four seasons from October 1969 to December 1974 on BBC Television, though Cleese quit the show after the third. Cleese's two primary characterisations were as a sophisticated and a stressed-out loony. He portrayed the former as a series of announcers, TV show hosts, and government officials (for example, "The Ministry of Silly Walks"). The latter is perhaps best represented in the "Cheese Shop" and by Cleese's Mr Praline character,
John Philip Sousa a rehearsal of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" the previous day with the Ringgold Band in its 80th Anniversary as its guest conductor, and attended a civic dinner at the hotel together with 100 leading citizens and all the members of the Lincoln Band. Sousa is buried in Washington, D.C.'s Congressional Cemetery. A school (John Philip Sousa Elementary) and a band shell were named after him and there was a memorial tree planted in nearby Port Washington, New York. "Wild Bank", his seaside house on Hicks Lane, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, although it remains a private home