Playing Pudding (and...)

[Umberto Rossi]

Ok, in the end it all depends on what is your idea of Pudding.  If
Pudding is a tragic character (albeit grotesque), you need an actor
who is able to convey an impression of tragedy.  If, on the other
hand, you see Pudding as a comic character, then you need an ironic
actor.  As for O'Toole, couldn't work.  His speciality is masochism
(see Lawrence of Arabia), not coprofagy.

Personally, I'm thinking of an aged, more bitter, more serious John 
Cleese.

But who should play Captain Blicero, then?

Umberto Rossi

"A commission is appointed 
To confer with a Volscian commission 
About perpetual peace"--and nobody told me!