A celebration of the silly and enduring genius of the Monty Python
team, including their very best visual and verbal gags
In October 1969, the BBC broadcast the first program in a new series:
Monty Python's Flying Circus, written and conceived by Graham Chapman,
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
Through the years the six of them followed this with another 44
extremely silly programs, a German TV special, five full-length feature
films, seven books, nine long-playing records, and live stage shows that
toured the UK, Canada, and America. This pocket series features the very
best of Monty Python: a collection of favorite sketches, gags, words,
and lyrics, chosen by the members of Monty Python who have picked some
of their prized bits from across the whole range of Python books,
scripts, and films. Included are such memorable moments as "The French
Taunt King Arthur," "The Lumberjack Song," "What Have the Romans Ever
Done for Us?," "The Court Martial of Sapper Walters," "Every Sperm is
Sacred," "The Man Who Talks Entirely in Anagrams," and other priceless
pieces of Python humor. Accompanying these words are some two hundred
images that have become synonymous with Python through three decades.
