Monty
Python’s Flying Circus - a series of crucial importance in the development
of comedy, not just on British TV but on a global scale and in various
media. But although Monty Python's Flying Circus is the most
analyzed comedy programme of all time it remains
difficult to convey in print the sheer bombastic vitality of a show that
seemed to break all the rules and then establish completely new ones. Quite
simply, the Pythons (as the team's six members became known) invented a new
genre. Brought
together by Barry Took (then a comedy adviser at the BBC), who had seen the
various players in At Last The 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set, the Python
team had many strengths but perhaps none more important than their
understanding of continuity and symmetry, which meant that their seemingly
aimless, stream-of-consciousness ideas and sketches were prevented from
dissolving into anti-climax by being contained within a rigid, but
flamboyant, structure. Once the Pythons decided to virtually do away with
the traditional idea of using punchlines to
finish a sketch - instead preferring to segue from one segment to the next
- they unleashed their full writing potential, since ideas that were funny
yet would hitherto have been rejected because of having a weak ending could
now be joyously accommodated. Spike Milligan had also trod this route in
his Q... show but less successfully,
although it was no surprise that his producer, the former actor Ian MacNaughton, kept his hand on the tiller during Python's
run. Further, it is impossible to overestimate the value of Terry Gilliam's
animation to the show's successful use of the segue technique. An American
who had first met John Cleese in (Read more… http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/m/montypythonsflyi_1299002137.shtml)
R1 DVD
A & E Entertainment released Monty Python’s Flying Circus on eight Region 1 DVDs, each
containing six episodes on two discs, and a 14-disc box set of the entire
series in 2000.
NTSC VHS
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