Monty Python

Monty Python, also known as The Pythons, is a group of British comic actors. They have acted in several comedy movies (most famously, Monty Python and the Holy Grail). They had a television show, Monty Python's Flying Circus between 1969 and 1974, which is still well-known and watched around the world.

The members of Monty Python are: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes regularly appeared in their movies.

Monty Python started with their first movie, And Now For Something Completely Different, and finished with their final movie, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

Movies

• And Now For Something Completely Different (1971)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

Theatre

• Monty Python's Flying Circus – Between 1974 and 1980
• Monty Python's Spamalot
• Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
• Monty Python Live (Mostly)

Monty Python Media

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  The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch at the 2014 Monty Python reunion. Written by Cleese, Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, it was originally performed on their TV series At Last the 1948 Show in 1967. It parodies nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficult childhoods.

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  Monty Python's Flying Circus was recorded at BBC Television Centre in west London (pictured) and on location around the UK, and the show debuted on the BBC on 5 October 1969.

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  "The Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch performed at the 2014 Python reunion. Featuring Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants, it appears in season 2, episode 1 of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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  Cupid's foot, as used by Monty Python's Flying Circus. A trademark of Gilliam's stop-motion animation, the giant foot would suddenly squash things, including the show's title at the end of the opening credits.

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  "The Lumberjack Song" with Palin (right) and Carol Cleveland at the 2014 reunion. It appeared in the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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  Soldier's helmet from Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle

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  Mr. Creosote from The Meaning of Life (played by Terry Jones, pictured) has been called "the ultimate gross-out icon" and the "film's signature" scene.

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  Blue plaque at 11 Neal's Yard, London, marking where Palin and Gilliam bought offices in 1976 as studios and editing suites for Python films and solo projects.

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  Left to right: Palin, Gilliam, Jones, Idle, Cleese (pictured in 2014).

Other websites

Media related to Monty Python at Wikimedia Commons
Quotations related to Monty Python at Wikiquote