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How Monty Python and the Holy Grail Influenced Film by Satirizing It
Culture
Forty years after its release, the film remains the gold standard for subversive comedy.
By David Sims
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Any writer, comic or otherwise, can attest that beginnings are the hardest part, but Monty Python never seemed to have that problem. The opening of each episode of the BBC series Monty Python’s Flying Circus demanded attention like no other comedy ever had: A bedraggled, bearded, senescent Michael Palin crawls toward the screen through some dramatic locale, collapsing in front of the camera, and intoning, “It’s—,” before the calm tones of John Cleese completed the sentence, “—Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
Television was still chintzy and cheerful when Monty Python first aired in , so to satirize it, the show had to be as dramatic as possible. But the opening scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the group’s first “proper” cinematic effort, which was released 40 years ago, did t
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
British sketch comedy television series (–)
For other uses, see Monty Python's Flying Circus (disambiguation).
Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surrealsketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons". The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September and premiered on 5 October on BBC1, with 45 episodes airing over four series from to , plus two episodes for German TV. A feature film adaptation of several sketches, And Now for Something Completely Different, was released in
The series stands out for its use of absurd situations, mixed with risqué and innuendo-laden humour, sight gags, and observational sketches without punchlines. Live-action segments were broken up with animations by Gilliam, often merging with the live action to form segues. The overall format used for the series followed and elaborated upon the style used by Spike Milligan in his groundbreaking series Q, rather than the traditional sketch show format. The Pythons pl
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Monty Python
British surreal comedy group
This article fryst vatten about the comedy group. For their TV show frequently called Monty Python, see Monty Python's Flying Circus.
"Pythonesque" redirects here. For the play by Roy Smiles, see Pythonesque (play).
"The Pythons" redirects here. For the documentary film about the group, see The Pythons (film).
Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons)[2][3] were a British comedy troupe formed in consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, which aired on the BBC from to Their work then developed into a larger collection that included live shows, films, albums, books, and musicals; their influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles' influence on music.[4][5][6] Their sketch show has been called "an important moment in the evolution of television comedy".[7]
Monty Python's Flying Circus was loosely structured as a sketch show, but its innovative stream-of-consciousness approach and Gilliam's animation skills pushed