Monty Python Books

The Complete Unexpurgated Scripts of the Original TV Series (Except for the Animation Bits)

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***ALMOST CERTAINLY NOMINATED FOR SOMETHING SOMEWHERE***The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes.Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch.This first volume contains twenty-three classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.

October 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Television.

The Complete Unexpurgated Scripts of the Original TV Series (Except for the Animation Bits)

This is the script of the film which looks at what life is really all about, which featured the whole Monty Python team and was directed by Terry Jones This is a fully illustrated edition of the hilarious Python classic, which takes a pop at almost every single sacred cow of culture and includes the famous tune "Every Sperm is Sacred." Although primarily aimed at an audience of fish, Monty Python's film, The Meaning of Life, spans the whole range of human experience. It starts with the birth of a seemingly insignificant human being (especially from a haddock's point of view) who, sure enough turns out to play no further part in the film.

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Television in October 1969

October 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Television.

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Television in October 1969

Was die legendäre Komikertruppe angeht, so sind früher sowohl Textbücher als auch Biografisches erschienen, doch, wie B. Robenek in der Rezension anmerkte: " ... eine Biographie, die den Pythons gerecht wird, steht noch aus". Der vorliegende Band kann diese Lücke füllen, bringt er doch ein autobiografisches Mosaik, das fast alle Fragen beantwortet. Zu Wort kommen John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones und Graham Chapman (von Letzterem, der 1989 gestorben ist, berichten auch die Eltern, der Bruder und der Lebensgefährte), die abwechselnd ihre Schilderungen und Kommentare zum persönlichen Werdegang und vor allem natürlich zu der Karriere als TV- und Filmstars, von der Kindheit bis zum letzten gemeinsamen Film, abgeben. Dem ausdauernden (und, wegen des Gewichts, kräftigen) Leser eröffnen diese Stellungnahmen sehr tiefe Einblicke in Leben und Werk der Pythons, die noch verstärkt werden durch eine überaus grosse Zahl von Illustrationen verschiedenster Art (auch privater Fotos). Beeindruckend