Monty Python's Flying Circus: Set 1, Episodes 1-6
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Actor: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry JonesBrand: A&E
Writer: Graham Chapman
Writer: John Cleese
Writer: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Eric Idle
Writer: Terry Jones
Writer: Michael Palin
Cinematographer: Terry Hunt
Cinematographer: Max Samett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 204 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Contains episodes 1-6 from Season 1 of Monty Python s Flying CircusVery possiby the most tragic waste of Oxbridge educations ever broadcast. The programme that made all of America sit up and say: what? That put Spam back in the national pantry, launched crossdressing as a national craze, and made Rene Descartes a household name. Now it s back in its original order--the first six episodes of the pr
Movie Reviews of Monty Python's Flying Circus: Set 1, Episodes 1-6
Movie Review: Wink wink, nudge nudge
Summary: 5 Stars
In 1969, pop culture experienced a sudden earthquake, started by five British goofballs and one American goofball, who created "Monty Python's Flying Circus." And no, Monty Python isn't a person. Just so you know.
The first two volumes (six episodes) of this skit-filled comedy series, where the insane and surreal are everyday: Picasso paints while riding a bicycle, a dirty fork sets off madness, murder and suicide in a very dramatic restaurant ("Never kill the customer!"), a self-defense course against fresh fruit ("... release the tiger!"), a man with three buttocks, a world full of superheroes where Bicycle Repairman comes to the rescue, and a web of spies, intrigue, and dentistry.
Does it sound insane? Good. These six guys created some of the most unabashed, naughty, nasty, and just plain weird comedy ever, which still influences everything from Saturday Night Live to author Jasper Fforde. The first six episodes have some of their most legendary work ("Wink wink, nudge nudge, SAY NO MORE!") and it only gets better from there on.
And all of this by men who often dress up as the world's most unattractive girls, with only a tiny budget and minimal cast. The 70s production values are omnipresent, and they are decidedly unpolitically correct. But in a weird way, these only make it even funnier than it would have been otherwise -- the writing and acting are pure, raw, unrefined comedy.
Probably the most memorable actors here are Cleese and Idle. Cleese does his psychotic shrieks better than anyone, as well as having that rubbery lanky body and howling monkey voice. And Idle not only has amazing comic timing, but he can adjust his voice and body language to... anything, from a fussy sailor to the wink-wink-nudge-nudge man.
But the other actors are quite good too, especially Michael Palin, especially when he's playing someone timid or crazy. And Terry Gilliam created the most bizarre, oddballish little cartoons, including giant stomping feet, flying sheep, and many other strange things that bridge the various skits together.
This classic comedy series not only became a pop culture staple, but it's still fresh and funny more than thirty years after it was made. So eschew lame sitcoms and recycled reality shows, and check out what real entertainment is about.
Summary of Monty Python's Flying Circus: Set 1, Episodes 1-6
Contains: candid photos (nudge nudge-say no more) the funniest joke in the world a bicycle repairman and crunch frog. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2000 Run time: 204 minutes Rating: NrIn 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator invaded the homes of unsuspecting BBC viewers with a brand of comedy that was, at the very least, odd. "Absurd," "bizarre," and "incomprehensible" are other descriptions that jump to mind. Nonetheless, this wacky sextet inaugurated an absurd tradition that continued through three and a half seasons of half-hour TV episodes, a series of live performances, a handful of movies, and a legacy of dead parrots and upper-class twits. Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 1 features the first episodes foisted on a still-reeling public, introducing running gags ("And now for something completely different") and recurring characters (an armor-clad Terry Gilliam wielding a rubber chicken, Graham Chapman's pompous Colonel intruding on sketches he deems simply too silly, and of course Michael Palin's "It's a Man" wandered through the entire season). Among the sketch highlights in the first three shows are Nudge Nudge, the Funniest Joke in the World, How to Defend Yourself from a Man Attacking You with Fresh Fruit, Confuse a Cat, and The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker, all interspersed with various and sundry cut-out animation sequences by Terry Gilliam. These early episodes may lack the consistency and stream-of-consciousness flow of their later, more assured work, but they're packed with some of the most memorable moments of the group's brief but brilliant history. --Sean Axmaker
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