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Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made...
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Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus or during the final series just Monty Python) is a BBC sketch comedy programme from the Monty Python comedy team, and the group's initial claim to fame. The show was noted for its surreality,...
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| x Hell's Grannies |
Hell's Grannies is a skit performed by Monty Python. The skit features a gang of elderly women (played by John Cleese, Eric Idle, et al.) who prowl the streets beating up mild-mannered lower class youths.
After the main part of the sketch...
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| x And Now For Something Completely Different |
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And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons. The title was used as a catchphrase in the TV show.
The film,...
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| x Dead Parrot |
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The Dead Parrot sketch, alternatively and originally known as the Pet Shop sketch or Parrot Sketch, is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy. It was written by John...
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The Cheese Shop is a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It appears in episode 33, "Salad Days". The script for the sketch is included in the book The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2.
John Cleese...
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| x The Cheese Shop |
The Cheese Shop were a troupe of six comedy writer-performers from the revue circuit of University of Warwick.
Between 1997 and 1999, Gerard Foster, Dave Lamb, Gordon Southern, Tim Verrinder, Ben Ward and Richie Webb appeared in three series of...
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| x John Cleese |
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John Marwood Cleese (pronounced /ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of the group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's...
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| x Spamalot |
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Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in...
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| x Monty Python Sings |
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Monty Python Sings is a comedy album of songs written by the Monty Python team.
The song "Oliver Cromwell" was never released prior to this album. It also contains a new recording "I've Got Two Legs," which had previously only been released as part...
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| x Eric Idle Sings Monty Python |
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Eric Idle Sings Monty Python is a live recording by original Monty Python member Eric Idle performed at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles in 1999. The concert runs for under an hour and is packed with songs, poems, and arcana from the 30-plus...
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| x Monty Python Live At Drury Lane |
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Monty Python Live at Drury Lane is an album released by Monty Python in 1974, which was recorded at the Drury Lane Theatre in London earlier that year. All of the sketches, except for 'Secret Service' and the 'Idiot' song of Neil Innes, are from...
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| x Monty Python Live at City Center |
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Monty Python Live at City Center is an album released by Monty Python. It was recorded at the New York City Center in 1976. It was a live album only released in the United States. A CD version was later released in 1997. The sketches come from the...
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| x Monty Python's Life of Brian |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian is an album released by Monty Python in conjunction with the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian. It mostly contains scenes from the movie with only brief linking sections performed by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman....
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| x The Meaning of Life |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a 1983 musical comedy film by the Monty Python comedy team. Unlike the two previous films they had made, which had each told a single, more or less coherent story, The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch...
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"Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam (in electronic communication, and...
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| x Parrot Sketch Not Included - 20 Years of Monty Python |
Parrot Sketch Not Included - 20 Years of Monty Python was a tribute special to the Monty Python comedy group, broadcast on 5 October 1989. It was hosted by Python fan and actor Steve Martin, who introduced several sketches from the group's...
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| x Another Monty Python Record |
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Another Monty Python Record is the second album produced by the Monty Python comedy group, released in 1971. It was packaged as "Beethoven Symphony No. 2 In D Major", but defaced by the Pythons to serve as their own record jacket. (The "serious"...
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| x Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus |
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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972...
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| x Monty Python's Personal Best |
Monty Python's Personal Best is a miniseries of six one-hour specials, each showcasing the contributions of a particular Monty Python member. Produced by Python (Monty) Pictures Ltd., the series first aired on PBS stations February 22, 2006, though...
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| x Python Night - 30 Years of Monty Python |
Python Night - 30 Years of Python was a special run of Monty Python related programmes broadcast on BBC2 on October 5, 1999, the 30th Anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
After the success of the group's Aspen...
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| x Not the Messiah |
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a Monty Python 60-minute comedic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian. It was written by former Python Eric Idle and collaborator John Du Prez, and commissioned by the Luminato festival.
The...
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| x The Brand New Monty Python Bok |
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The Brand New Monty Python Bok (Methuen Books, 1973) was the second book to be published by the British comedy troupe Monty Python. It was edited by Eric Idle, and contained more print-style comic pieces than their first effort, Monty Python's Big...
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| x Monty Python's Big Red Book |
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Monty Python's Big Red Book is a comedy book comprising mostly material derived and reworked from the first few years of the Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC television series. It was first published in 1971 by Methuen Publishing Ltd.
It is...
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| x The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief |
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The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973. The full title of the album is Free Record Given Away With The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, and the initial...
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| x The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
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The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an album released by Monty Python in 1975. It is a recording of some bits from Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as some new material. It is billed as...
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| x The Monty Python Instant Record Collection |
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The Monty Python Instant Record Collection is actually the title of two compilation albums released by the Monty Python troupe, the first in the UK in 1977, and the other in the US in 1981. It was billed as "the pick of the best of some recently...
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| x Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (or simply Contractual Obligation Album) is an album released by Monty Python in 1980. It contains a mixture of mainly songs, some new sketches, and some pre-Python work (rerecorded). As the title suggests...
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| x The Instant Monty Python CD Collection |
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The Instant Monty Python CD Collection is a box set released in 1994 of six CDs containing eight albums by the Monty Python troupe.
It contained a small booklet of reprinted material from album sleeves and previous Python books, but the track layout...
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| x Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time |
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time is a collection of minigames, screen savers, desktop wallpaper and icons for Mac OS, DOS and Windows. The content is drawn primarily from the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series. It also features specially...
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| x Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail |
Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail is an adventure game created by 7th Level in 1996 for Windows. The game is based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and was the second of three Monty Python games created by 7th Level.
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| x Graham Chapman |
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Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in...
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| x Terry Gilliam |
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Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (pronounced /ˈɡɪliəm/; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films...
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| x Eric Idle |
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Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python.
Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne...
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| x Terry Jones |
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Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy...
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| x Michael Palin |
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Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
Palin wrote most of his material...
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Constance "Connie" Booth (born 31 January 1944) is an American writer and actress, known for appearances on British television and particularly for her portrayal of Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s television show Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote...
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| x Carol Cleveland |
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Carol Cleveland (born 13 January 1942, London) is an American actress/comedienne, most notable for her appearances as the only significant female performer on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Born in London, she moved to the United States with her...
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| x Neil Innes |
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Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944 in Danbury, Essex) is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.
Innes spent a...
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| x Live from the Grill-O-Mat |
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Live from the Grill-O-Mat is a Monty Python's Flying Circus episode from Series 2. This show aired October 27, 1970 and was recorded September 10, 1970). The episode featured sketches including "Blackmail", "Society for Putting Things on Top of...
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| x Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses |
"Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses" is a sketch from the thirty-first Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition".
This skit features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in drag as...
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| x Architects Sketch |
The "Architects Sketch" is a Monty Python sketch, first seen in episode 17 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Buzz Aldrin Show".
The sketch is introduced by a group of Gumbies (on film) who keep shouting "The Architects Sketch" over and over...
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| x The Argument Skit |
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The Argument Sketch (or Argument, Argument Clinic, or Six More Minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus when including the non-argument sections) is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appeared in the show's 29th episode, following the...
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| x The Funniest Joke in the World |
"The Funniest Joke in the World" is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke", the latter...
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| x Fish Licence |
The Fish Licence is part one of a two-part segment of the popular British television series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, in it Eric Praline, played by John Cleese, takes on the role of the put-upon customer who, when seeking to obtain a licence...
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| x The Fish-Slapping Dance |
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The Fish-Slapping Dance is a comedy sketch written and performed by the Monty Python team. The sketch was originally recorded in 1971 for a pan-European May Day special entitled Euroshow 71. In 1972 it was broadcast as part of episode two of series...
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| x Four Yorkshiremen sketch |
The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch is a parody of nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficult childhoods. Four Yorkshiremen reminisce about their upbringing, and as the conversation progresses, they try to outdo one another, their...
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| x Mr. Creosote |
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Mr Creosote is a fictional character in Monty Python's Monty Python's The Meaning of Life; the character is played by Terry Jones, who may be best remembered for the role.
In the sketch, Mr Creosote dines at a French restaurant. The entrance of this...
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| x The Foot of Cupid |
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The Foot of Cupid is a trademark of the BBC television series, Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It is often seen in the opening animation credits at middle, then at the end of the opening, dropping down on the title and everything around it with a...
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| x Pepperpot |
Pepperpot is a term created by Monty Python member Graham Chapman to describe a class of character frequently appearing in the group's comedy sketches.
Pepperpots are frumpy middle-aged housewives, usually British, portrayed by a male member of the...
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| x Mr Praline |
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Mr Eric Praline is a character from the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, played by actor John Cleese.
The Monty Python team consciously decided to avoid recurring characters. Along with Terry Jones' nude organist, Michael Palin's "It's"...
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| x Python (Monty) Pictures |
Python (Monty) Pictures Limited comprises the five surviving members of the main Monty Python team, who now serve as the directors. Python (Monty) Pictures which was incorporated in 1973 and now manages ongoing activities resulting from their...
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| x "It's" man |
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The "It's" man is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Palin in the comedy television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. He appeared at the start of several episodes and introduced the show by approaching the camera from a great distance,...
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| x Gumbies |
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Gumbys are recurring characters in Monty Python's Flying Circus, characterized by a very distinctive appearance. If a name was listed for them, the surname given would always be "Gumby", and the first name would usually be given as two initials....
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| x Patient Abuse |
Patient Abuse is a sketch from the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Party Political Broadcast". The sketch is notable for being one of the few not written by a Monty Python member, and for its considerable amount of black humour. It...
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| x Penis Song |
"The Penis Song" is a song originally from the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and released on the album Monty Python Sings.
In the film, it is sung by Eric Idle at a piano in the persona of a Noel Coward-style lounge singer: hence the sub...
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| x The Philosophers' Football Match |
The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese),...
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| x Piranha Brothers |
"Piranha Brothers" is a Monty Python sketch, first seen in Series 2, Episode 1 (Face the Press) of Monty Python's Flying Circus (original tx September 15, 1970). The premise is a BBC current affairs documentary, inexplicably entitled Ethel the Frog,...
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