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The title Monty Python's Flying Circus was partly the result of the group's reputation at the BBC.Michael Mills, the BBC's Head of Comedy, wanted their name to include the word "circus" because the BBC referred to the six members wandering around the building as a circus, in particular, "Baron Von Took's Circus", after Barry Took, who had brought them to the BBC. [5]
Only "The Lumberjack Song" was translated from its original appearance on Monty Python's Flying Circus (Series 1, Episode 9), although "Ten Seconds of Sex" from the second show also appeared in Series 3, Episode 9 of Flying Circus around the same time. Both Alfred Biolek and Thomas Woitkewitsch are featured in guest roles.
Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, who became known as "Monty Python", for BBC1.
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Between 1974 and 1980 (Live at the Hollywood Bowl was released in 1982, but was performed in 1980), the Pythons made three sketch-based stage shows, comprising mainly material from the original television series.
Many of the early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus feature a sensible-looking announcer (played by John Cleese) dressed in a black suit and sitting behind a wooden desk, which in turn is in some ridiculous location such as behind the bars of a zoo cage or in mid-air being held aloft by small attached propellers. The announcer would turn ...
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game (1991) Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time (1994) Live With(out) Monty Python (1994) Monty Python's More Naughty Bits (1994) Monty Python's Invasion from the Planet Skyron (1995) [15] Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail (1996) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1997)
Monty Python Live is a two-disc DVD set featuring three TV specials and a live concert film of the British comedy group Monty Python. [1] [2] The set includes: Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl; Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python; Monty Python Live at Aspen; The first episode of Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
In the UK it was released on VHS in 1999 as part of the BBC box set The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A DVD version of the set was later released in 2004. In the US the show was released on DVD in 2001 by A&E Home Entertainment as part of their Monty Python Live box set.