Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus is actually just a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. The shows were composed of risqué surreality or innuendo-laden humor, sight-gags and observational sketches. Additionally, it featured cartoons by Terry Gilliam, combined together with live action or often sequenced. The first episode was recorded on 7 September and broadcast on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 4 5 episodes airing over four string in 1969 to 1974, also two episodes to get German TV.
The show is, and targets the idiosyncrasies of British life, notably the of professionals sometimes politically charged. The members of Monty Python were educated. Michael Palin and terry Jones have been Oxford University graduates. John Cleese, eric Idle, and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University. And manhood. Their comedy is pointedly intellectual to literary characters and philosophers. The style used by Spike Milligan in his groundbreaking series Q5, rather than the standard show format was followed and elaborated upon by the series. The team intended their humor to be impossible to categorise, and triumphed so completely the"Pythonesque" was invented to define it later, identical material.
Released: 1969-10-05
Genre:
Comedy