Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just The Words - Volumes 1 & 2 (The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus #1 & 2) Paperback | Pages: 696 pages

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Title	:	Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just The Words - Volumes 1 & 2 (The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus #1 & 2)
Author	:	Graham Chapman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 696 pages
Published	:	August 4th 1990 by Mandarin (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Humor. Comedy. Media Tie In. Tv

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Although I have almost memorized the entire length of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I was never that conversant with the original series. Hark! Look here. What’s this? All the Words: The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Pantheon, 1989). Danger, danger, Will Robinson. Now I can be insufferable at parties, as I quickly memorize pertinent sections of this compendium. Now I too can say “Your Majesty is like a big jam doughnut with cream on the top,” and know that the follow-up is “like a doughnut, your arrival gives us pleasure, and your departure only makes us hungry for more.” Unfortunately, All the Words is only the TV series. You have to (and can, fortunately) buy the scripts for the movies separately. If that doesn’t satisfy your need for the python of fun, check out Kim “Howard” Johnson’s The First 20 Years of Monty Python (St. Martin’s, 1989), which supplies a wonderful biography of the group as a whole, and compliments George Perry’s earlier Life of Python (Little Brown, 1983).

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Original Title:	Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just The Words (Volumes 1 & 2)
ISBN:	0749302267 (ISBN13: 9780749302269)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus #1 & 2

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All of the sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Includes some screen captures from the shows. Absolutely hilarious stuff, and helpful sometimes if you can't quite figure out what people are saying. My copy is battered, dog-eared and much loved. A classic.

I haven't exactly read all of this, but I've seen the television product of these scripts, which is ALMOST the same, right? ;)

Pure anarchic genius.

Although I have almost memorized the entire length of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I was never that conversant with the original series. Hark! Look here. Whats this? All the Words: The Complete Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Pantheon, 1989). Danger, danger, Will Robinson. Now I can be insufferable at parties, as I quickly memorize pertinent sections of this compendium. Now I too can say Your Majesty is like a big jam doughnut with cream on the top, and know that the follow-up is like a

Read, re-read and memorised.

Graham Chapman was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

I love Monty Python, and I'm happy to have the text for specific favourite sketches - but as a whole, this was a bit of a slog to get through. And while some pieces were still laugh-out-loud, others really left me cold. It's been a terribly long time since I've watched any Python that wasn't the Holy Grail. Will have to hit Netflix and see if it's the written format that didn't work, or if this stuff simply didn't age well.