Who or what was Monty Python?
Monty Pythons Flying Circus was a ground breaking comedy sketch show that ran on the BBC from 5 October 1969 to 18 January 1973. A mixture of oddly strange and surreal (some would say pythonesque) sketches and anarchic animations, it was largely responsible for breaking the convention of having to have a punch line at the end of sketches (although this was pioneered by Spike Milligan on his Q5 television programme a few years earlier). They also released 4 (well technically 4 and a half films) films: And Now For Something Completely Different (an anthology of their best sketches) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (loosely based of King Arthur and the Knights (or kniggets) of the Round Table.) Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (consistently voted one of the best comedy movies of all time). Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life The half film is The Crimson Permanent Assurance; a short film made by Terry Gilliam, which ran before The Meaning of Life. As well as appearing in stage shows (e.g. Li
