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The complete oral history of Monty Python – one of comedy's most legendary and influential troupes – publishing to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their BBC debut.With a foreword by John Oliver from Last Week Tonight‘Some people think it’s very clever and intelligent, and some people say it’s extremely silly and inconsequential, but not many people ignore it’ Michael PalinWith their dead parrots, holy grails and spam, Monty Python revolutionised comedy for the rest of the world. They paved the way for everything from Saturday Night Live to The Young Ones and The Simpsons, ushering in a new brand of surrealist comedy: a stream-of-consciousness sketch show that pushed the boundaries of format, style and content. Its legacy is not only important; it’s monumental.In Monty Python Speaks!, David Morgan has extensively interviewed the entire world of Python – from producers and collaborators like Douglas Adams and Hank Azaria to the founding members themselves – to create the ultimate record of Britain’s most rebellious and successful comedy act. Packed with rare and never-before-seen photographs, and told with the group’s customary wit and irreverence, this newly updated edition, published to o is the inside story of a comedy phenomenon.

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Copyright CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION FOREWORD BY JOHN OLIVER INTERVIEWEES INTRODUCTION PRE-PYTHON BIRTH TAKE-OFF THE PYTHONS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS The Control Freak Splunge! The Nice One The Cheeky One The Zealous Fanatic The Monosyllabic Minnesota Farm Boy The Group Dynamic AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY … THE SAME? FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE BBC MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL THE US INVASION BEGINS THE FOURTH (AND FINAL) SORTIE CAUGHT IN PYTHON’S ORBIT LIFE OF BRIAN FLYING SOLO THE MEANING OF LIFE LE MORTE D’ARTHUR THE ‘IF YOU COULD SAVE ONLY ONE THING YOU’VE PRODUCED’ CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PYTHON SPAMALOT DÉJÀ REVUE EXITING THE STAGE FINAL THOUGHTS FOOTNOTES THE PYTHON OEUVRE SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019

Copyright © David Morgan 2019

Cover design by Paula Russell Szafranski

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Version: 2020-07-23

Dedication CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION FOREWORD BY JOHN OLIVER INTERVIEWEES INTRODUCTION PRE-PYTHON BIRTH TAKE-OFF THE PYTHONS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS The Control Freak Splunge! The Nice One The Cheeky One The Zealous Fanatic The Monosyllabic Minnesota Farm Boy The Group Dynamic AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY … THE SAME? FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE BBC MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL THE US INVASION BEGINS THE FOURTH (AND FINAL) SORTIE CAUGHT IN PYTHON’S ORBIT LIFE OF BRIAN FLYING SOLO THE MEANING OF LIFE LE MORTE D’ARTHUR THE ‘IF YOU COULD SAVE ONLY ONE THING YOU’VE PRODUCED’ CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PYTHON SPAMALOT DÉJÀ REVUE EXITING THE STAGE FINAL THOUGHTS FOOTNOTES THE PYTHON OEUVRE SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

To Gwen Dibley,

who was (almost) there at the start

CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

FOREWORD BY JOHN OLIVER

INTERVIEWEES

INTRODUCTION

PRE-PYTHON

BIRTH

TAKE-OFF

THE PYTHONS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

The Control Freak

Splunge!

The Nice One

The Cheeky One

The Zealous Fanatic

The Monosyllabic Minnesota Farm Boy

The Group Dynamic

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY … THE SAME?

FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE BBC

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

THE US INVASION BEGINS

THE FOURTH (AND FINAL) SORTIE

CAUGHT IN PYTHON’S ORBIT

LIFE OF BRIAN

FLYING SOLO

THE MEANING OF LIFE

LE MORTE D’ARTHUR

THE ‘IF YOU COULD SAVE ONLY ONE THING YOU’VE PRODUCED’ CHAPTER

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PYTHON

SPAMALOT

DÉJÀ REVUE

EXITING THE STAGE

FINAL THOUGHTS

FOOTNOTES

THE PYTHON OEUVRE

SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

FOREWORD CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION FOREWORD BY JOHN OLIVER INTERVIEWEES INTRODUCTION PRE-PYTHON BIRTH TAKE-OFF THE PYTHONS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS The Control Freak Splunge! The Nice One The Cheeky One The Zealous Fanatic The Monosyllabic Minnesota Farm Boy The Group Dynamic AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY … THE SAME? FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE BBC MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL THE US INVASION BEGINS THE FOURTH (AND FINAL) SORTIE CAUGHT IN PYTHON’S ORBIT LIFE OF BRIAN FLYING SOLO THE MEANING OF LIFE LE MORTE D’ARTHUR THE ‘IF YOU COULD SAVE ONLY ONE THING YOU’VE PRODUCED’ CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PYTHON SPAMALOT DÉJÀ REVUE EXITING THE STAGE FINAL THOUGHTS FOOTNOTES THE PYTHON OEUVRE SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

BY JOHN OLIVER

Writing about the importance of Monty Python is basically pointless. At this point, citing them as an influence is almost redundant. It’s assumed. In fact, from now on it’s probably more efficient to say that comedy writers should have to explicitly state that they don’t owe a significant debt to Monty Python. And if someone does that, they’ll be emphatically wrong.

This strange group of wildly talented, appropriately disrespectful, hugely imaginative, and massively inspirational idiots changed what comedy could be for their generation and for those that followed.

I first discovered Monty Python when I was probably ten years old, and back then it felt like something I shouldn’t be watching. That was already a pretty big appeal. Then I saw Life of Brian in middle school, when a substitute teacher put it on to keep us quiet on a rainy day. I’m not sure he knew exactly what he was showing us, but I’ve always been hugely grateful for the reckless professional mistake he made that day, because I’ve never forgotten how it made me feel.

I think what I’ve always loved about all of Monty Python’s work is that they’ve never been afraid to get into trouble, and Life of Brian is the perfect distillation of that. There was a famous episode of a BBC talk show back in 1979, when John Cleese and Michael Palin were being interviewed alongside the Bishop of Southwark and a writer called Malcom Muggeridge, both of whom were furious about the film. Incidentally, the very name ‘Malcolm Muggeridge’ is so stereotypically English, it’s almost racist. It’s the name of someone who should be looking after the owls at Hogwarts. Anyway, for twenty minutes, Muggeridge told them off like a pair of naughty schoolboys, calling what they’d done a ‘miserable little film,’ ‘a squalid number’ and ‘tenth rate,’ and said it contained laughs that were ‘rather easily procured.’

And while everything he said was titanic nonsense, it was that last part that drove me crazy. Because nothing about what Monty Python did was easy – not their TV show, not their albums, and certainly not Life of Brian . It’s fucking hard to write such incredibly smart, incredibly stupid comedy.

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