Mr. Creosote is a fictional character who appears in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. He is a monstrously obese and rude restaurant patron who is served a vast amount of food and alcohol whilst vomiting repeatedly. After being persuaded to eat an after-dinner mint – "It's only wafer-thin" – he graphically explodes. The sequence opens the film's segment titled "Part VI: The Autumn Years". The character is played by Terry Jones, who directed the film. According to Jones, John Cleese, who played the Maître d'hôtel, struggled to keep a straight face saying "wafer-thin mint" and also struggled to get out of shot without bursting into laughter. Synopsis In the sequence, 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 in the aquarium exclaims, "Oh shit—it's Mr. Creosote!" as he passes, causing all the fish to swim for cover. The scene opens with a short dialogue between Mr. Creosote (who speaks with a coarse accent) and the maître d'hôtel (who speaks with a fake, exaggerated French accent), played by John Cleese: Maître d': "Ah, good afternoon, sir; and how are we today?" Mr. Creosote: "Better." Maître d': "Better?" Mr. Creosote: "Better get a bucket, I'm gonna throw up." Creosote is then led to his table and, once seated, starts projectile-vomiting, generally failing to hit the provided bucket. The floor quickly becomes covered in , and so do the cleaning woman and the maître d's trousers. Creosote listens patiently while the restaurant's appetizers are read out to him by the maître d', and after vomiting on the menu held open in front of him, he orders : Mr. Creosote: "I'll have the lot." Maître d': "A wise choice monsieur!" He is served moules marinières, pâté de foie gras, beluga caviar, Eggs Benedict, a leek tart, frogs' legs amandine and quail's eggs with puréed mushrooms all mixed in a bucket with the quail eggs on top and a double helping of pâté. The appetizers are followed by the main course of jugged hare, with a sauce of truffles, bacon, Grand Marnier, anchovies and cream. For drinks, Mr. Creosote has six bottles of Château Latour 1945, a double Jeroboam (6 litres) of champagne, and half a dozen crates of brown ale (144 bottles)—considerably less than his usual fare. Maître d': Bon, and the usual brown ales ...? Mr.