Monty Python Speaks!

<p>Broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974 <em>Monty Python's Flying Circus</em> introduced something completely different: a new brand of surrealistic stream-of-consciousness comedy that pushed the traditional boundaries of format style and content. Blending brilliant satire with slapstick silliness The Pythons--Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones and Michael Palin--spoke to a generation eager to break free of the conventional. Making their way across the Atlantic and the world the Pythons' zany approach to comedy would have a monumental influence on modern popular culture paving the way for farcical entertainment from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> to <em>The Simpsons</em> to <em>Austin Powers.</em></p><p>In <em>Monty Python Speaks</em> David Morgan has collected interviews with Monty Python's founding members actors producers and other collaborators to produce a no-holds-barred look at the Pythons' legendary sketches and films including <em>Monty Python's Life of Brian Monty Python and the Holy Grail</em> (the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical <em>Spamalot</em>) and <em>The Meaning of Life</em>. </p>