1. A team of well-educated clowns
Monty Python
A team of well-educated clowns

2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
popular sketch comedy show
BBC 1969
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
4 series (45 episodes)

3. 4 films And Now For Something Completely Different (1971)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian (1979)
- most controversial
 success
- “the story of a man mistaken for the Messiah - the eponymous Brian”(
Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life (1983)

4. Sketch comedy new genre ‘segue technique’:
- use of stream-of-consciousness ideas in a logical and rigid structure
- no longer use of punchlines (= ‘‘the final part of a joke, usually the word, sentence or exchange of sentences which is intended to be funny and to provoke laughter from listeners ” ( wikipedia))
- rather: funny ideas everywhere

5. A phenomenon sitcoms on BBC films albums books
a musical adaptation on stage

6. The name’s origins Python - sounded funny Monty
- Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a legendary British general of World War II OR
- a popular fellow who drank in Idle’s local pub

7. // The Beatles an autonomous comedy team
responsible for both writing and performing their work
changing the way performers entertained audiences
George Harrison  regarded Monty Python as ‘continuing the spirit’ of The Beatles