Mr Creosote Mr Creosote Mr. Creosote is a fictional character who appears in Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life". He is a monstrously obese restaurant patron who is served a vast amount of food whilst vomiting repeatedly. After being persuaded to eat an after-dinner mint, 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. In the sketch, Mr. Creosote dines at a French restaurant. The entrance of this morbidly obese middle-aged man is accompanied by ominous music. One of the fish
Mr Creosote 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. Jones was transformed into Mr. Creosote by British prosthetic make-up artist Christopher Tucker, who also created the prosthetic effects for the American film drama "The Elephant Man" (1980). The was portrayed using large amounts of condensed minestrone soup. This made a considerable mess of the filming location, the Seymour Leisure Centre in Paddington. When asked about his proclivity toward gruesome film