11/2/07

Monty Python


Monty Python's Flying Circus
UK, BBC, Sketch, Colour, 1969
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam

A series of crucial importance in the development of comedy, not just on British TV but on a global scale and in various media. But although Monty Python's Flying Circus is the most analysed comedy programme of all time it remains difficult to convey in print the sheer bombastic vitality of a show that seemed to break all the rules and then establish completely new ones. Quite simply, the Pythons (as the team's six members became known) invented a new genre.