The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons

graham chapman michael palin john cleese terry gilliam eric idle

Over thirty years ago, a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American re-wrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen and practically unprogrammed half hour of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact on the world has been felt ever since.

From its humble beginnings as late night entertainment on a British TV channel that went off the air before midnight, Monty Python's Flying Circus blossomed into arguably the most influential movement in modern comedy. They found the Holy Grail, detailed the life of the Savior-also-ran Brian, and explained the Meaning of life.

Now, those purveyors of dead parrots and silly walks are going to tell us something more: their story. In their own, intimate, never before heard words. The Pythons is the definitive word on all things Pythonesque. Thirty years of insight, hindsight, and bad sight - now told for the first time. Stuff they're never remembered before alongside stories they'd forgotten to say, coupled with things they couldn't say then and even more things they can't pronounce now (with a healthy dollop of things they would never have said in the first place if any others had been in the room at the time.)

The Pythons is a unique look at arguably the most important comic team of the modern age, lavishly illustrated with 1000 photographs and illustrations, many culled from the teams' own personal collections, many seen here for the first time. A tome, a tombstone, the definitive word on all things Python, as told by all things Python - do you want Spam with that?

Genres nonfictionbiographyhumorautobiographycomedyhistoryfilmmemoiraudiobooktv

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2003

This edition

Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Published: November 15, 2005 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312311452
ASIN: 0312311451
Language: English

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Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Librarian note:There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this nameTerence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.After graduating from Oxford University ...
John Cleese

John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and singer.Cleese is probably best known for his various roles in the British comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus, his role as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and his various roles in...
Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surrealist comedy group Monty Python....
Michael Palin

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Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

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Eric Idle

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graham chapman

Graham Chapman was an English 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 Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian.