The Very Best of Monty Python

by Graham Chapman, John Cleese (Selected by), Terry Gilliam (Selected by)

A celebration of the silly and enduring genius of the Monty Python team, including their very best visual and verbal gags In October 1969, the BBC broadcast the first program in a new Monty Python’s Flying Circus, written and conceived by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Through the years the six of them followed this with another 44 extremely silly programs, a German TV special, five full-length feature films, seven books, nine long-playing records, and live stage shows that toured the UK, Canada, and America. This pocket series features the very best of Monty a collection of favorite sketches, gags, words, and lyrics, chosen by the members of Monty Python who have picked some of their prized bits from across the whole range of Python books, scripts, and films. Included are such memorable moments as "The French Taunt King Arthur," "The Lumberjack Song," "What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?," "The Court Martial of Sapper Walters," "Every Sperm is Sacred," "The Man Who Talks Entirely in Anagrams," and other priceless pieces of Python humor. Accompanying these words are some two hundred images that have become synonymous with Python through three decades.

Genres: Humor, Comedy

300 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

Graham Chapman was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's what you'd expect. All the living Pythons choose their favourite sketches, songs and illustrations. All the classics such as Mr. Cresote and The Lumberjack Song etc are there but there are a good number of selections which a die hard MP fan would know about like Consulting with Jean Paul Sartre or the Piranha brothers sketches. It good stuff for a beginner or a fan.

[Roman Stadtler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why Accountancy is not boring, who won Upper Class Twit of The Year, that there is fascinating News For Parrots, that Stan has every right to have babies, and How To Walk Silly.

[Cihangir Bayburtluoğlu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Çok nadirdir ingilizce kitap okumam.
Ama bu kitabı zevkle okuyorum. İngiliz soğuk, epik ve absürt mizahın en iyi örneklerini veren bu entellektüel mizahın şahikası ekibin skeçlerinin kitaplaştırılmış hali.
Yer yer şiirler, "meme" mim tarzı fotoğraf kolaj mizah sayfaları da barınmakta.
Bitiremesem de ara ara elime alık bir skeç okuyorum. Keyfim yerine geliyor.

[Emmett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jo que tíos más tontos y como los quiero.... este recopilatorio posee el espíritu y la esencia de todo lo que hicieron.... así que imaginaos lo estúpido y maravilloso que es.

[Zoey Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say - just brilliant!! Classic British comedy from the days when British comedy ruled the world!! Highly recommended!!