Performer: Monty Python
Title: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Country: UK
Style: Comedy
Rating: 4.7
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Monty Python's Flying Circus is the first album produced by the Monty Python troupe, released in both the UK and US in 1970, with the US version featuring a back cover slightly different from the original UK version. It features newly recorded versions of sketches from the first Monty Python's Flying Circus television series. Next to the television show itself, the album was the first piece of media the Pythons released
Monty Python's Flying Circus was the first comedy album by Monty Python, released in 1970 by BBC Records. It collects sketches that first aired on the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series and changes some details.
The vast majority of the Python catalog can be found on CD, and this title graced the medium for a very brief time in the mid-'80s as part of the BBC's Audio Visual International series. While all of the characters may not be as fully-formed - such as the sincere and butch Chapman persona used in "The Visitors" - this is a worthwhile find, if not a somewhat compulsory primer for all enthusiasts.
The Monty Python players make their mark with a winning mix of wit, ingenuity, and brilliant timing - and a penchant for mockery and cross-dressing. 31m. Mozart presents famous deaths. Whizzo Butter is indistinguishable from dead crab. Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson has only one shed. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But Monty Python's Flying Circus subverts all expectations with their trademark surreal humor. 30m. For quicker service, a housewife chooses death. The Ministry of Silly Walks fields a grant applicant. The crimes of the Piranha Brothers are recalled. 2. The Spanish Inquisition.
Monty Python's Flying Circus 1. The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe. Actor: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland.
The very first series of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' had come to the end of its original run just four months before the BBC rushed this album into production. Despite designing the iconic cover artwork and even cropping up as an extremely camp unwanted guest in the Visitors sketch, it was a five man outfit back then. The one woman, Carol Cleveland, is reassuringly on hand to be shocked, seductive or sedate as and when required
Monty Python’ Heads To Netflix As SVOD Service Picks Up Entire Comedy Catalog 22 March 2018 Deadline TV. Netflix UK grabs loads of Monty Python stuff for February 26 January 2018 Den of Geek. Owen and Luke Wilson's Father, Television Pioneer Robert Wilson, Dies at 75 07 May 2017 Entertainment Tonight. The irreverent Monty Python comedy troupe present a series of skits which are often surreal, bawdy, uncompromising and/or tasteless, but nearly always hilarious. Written by Murray Chapman
A1 | Flying Sheep | 2:50 |
A2 | Television Interviews | 2:01 |
A3 | Trade Description Act | 3:28 |
A4 | Nudge Nudge | 1:43 |
A5 | The Mouse Problem | 3:14 |
A6 | Buying A Bed | 3:56 |
A7 | Interesting People | 3:18 |
A8 | Barber, The | 1:43 |
A9 | Interviews | 3:17 |
B1 | More Television Interviews | 2:21 |
B2 | Children's Stories | 1:13 |
B3 | The Visitors | 3:49 |
B4 | The Cinema | 4:01 |
B5 | The North Minehead Bye-Election | 1:51 |
B6 | Me, Doctor | 0:58 |
B7 | Pet Shop | 4:22 |
B8 | Self Defence | 6:02 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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REB 73M | Monty Python | Monty Python's Flying Circus (LP, Mono) | BBC Records | REB 73M | UK | 1970 |
ISBN 978-1-60283-056-1 | Monty Python | Monty Python's Flying Circus: Greatest Skits (CD) | BBC Audiobooks America | ISBN 978-1-60283-056-1 | US | 1998 |
2424 109 | Monty Python | Monty Python's Flying Circus (LP, Album, Mono) | Polydor | 2424 109 | Canada | 1970 |
ZBBC 1508 | Monty Python | Monty Python's Flying Circus (The Best Of The Original Series) (Cass) | BBC Canned Laughter | ZBBC 1508 | UK | 1994 |
79 | Monty Python | The Worst Of Monty Python's Flying Circus (CD) | BBC Music | 79 | UK | 1985 |