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- 1. an influential British television comedy series (1969–74) noted for its surrealist style of humour and starring, among others, John Cleese.
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- Monty Python's Flying Circus is a sketch comedy show, though it does not adhere to any regular format. The sketches include live-action skits performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, along with animations created by Gilliam, frequently used as linking devices or interstitial between skits.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) 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 collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, British television sketch comedy series that aired from 1969 to 1974 on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) network and became popular with American viewers largely through rebroadcasts on public television.
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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. Genre. Sketch comedy. Surreal comedy. Satire. Black comedy. Created by. Graham Chapman. John Cleese. Terry Gilliam. Eric Idle. Terry Jones. Michael Palin. Starring. Graham Chapman. John Cleese. Terry Gilliam. Eric Idle. Terry Jones. Michael Palin. Carol Cleveland. Ian Davidson. Connie Booth. Composer.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974): The show that started the Python phenomenon, see also List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes. Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972): Two 45-minute specials were made by WDR for West German television.
And if you look back at the reviews of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' they were really not particularly noticeable – nothing remarkable about the reviews for quite a long time. I suspect you would probably get to show 9 or 10 of the first series before anybody was really writing that something remarkable was happening.
