Monty Python's Flying Circus
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 1969 - 1974
- 45 episodes (4 series)
Highly influential off-the-wall 1970s sketch series, starring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones. Also features Terry Gilliam and Carol Cleveland.
Streaming rank this week: 430
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Terry Jones talks about writing Python sketches
Just how did they come up with the classic sketches such as the Dead Parrot sketch, the Lumberjack Song or the Spanish Inquisition?
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 23rd February 2012Monty Python to reunite for sci-fi film Absolutely Anything
Terry Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin are taking part in a movie called Absolutely Anything, with Eric Idle possibly still to join.
British Comedy Guide, 26th January 2012Python's Terry Gilliam - DIY animation 101
Ever wonder how that giant foot came down at the beginning of the classic opening to Monty Python's Flying Circus or how any of the other buffer elements between show segments were created?
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 10th January 2012A to Z of Monty Python
As BBC4's Holy Flying Circus revisits the controversy over Life of Brian, we initialise a Python retrospective...
Radio Times, 19th October 2011The 20 best Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches
And now for something completely different. With the much-loved British comedy troupe Monty Python making recent headlines, including their first reunion project since 1983, we've decided to honor them by creating a list of our favorite Flying Circus sketches. Below you'll find 20 of the silliest, wittiest and most entertaining skits to grace our television sets.
Caitlin Peterkin, Paste Magazine, 12th July 2011All-time best Python sketches. Vote early and often.
You may have heard, recently, that the Pythons will lend their voices to the upcoming film, A Liar's Autobiography, an animated 3D movie based on the memoir of the late Python member, Graham Chapman, who died in 1989. Chapman's own voice will be pulled from his original reading of his autobiography of the same name. Interestingly, the movie, set for a 2012 premiere, will be directed by Bill Jones, son of former Python member, Terry Jones.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 30th June 2011Monty Python reunite for Graham Chapman film
Monty Python members have reunited to voice a 3D animated film based on the memoirs of the late Graham Chapman.
BBC News, 28th June 2011The five best Monty Python sketches
Are these the funniest sketches by the British comedy group, who have announced their first reunion project since 1983?
The Telegraph, 28th June 2011Terry Jones: Monty Python was 'only occasionally' funny
Terry Jones, one of the key members of Monty Python's Flying Circus, has admitted that he "only occasionally" found the comedy sketches funny.
Caroline Gammell, The Telegraph, 11th April 2011Silly walk has not stood up well to the march of time
Monty Python was fun while it lasted but a realistic comedies have a better chance of enduring, argues Michael Deacon.
Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 11th April 2011