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Best of Monty Python on PBS

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check your local television listings. some of the old Flying Circus episodes are kinda dated, and as such are sometimes difficult to get through. but here everything is nicely condensed into just a few hours...

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The Finest Hours of 'Python'
'Eric Idle's Personal Best' leads off a series of the cast's favorites.


PBS is countering the Winter Games with the Silly Olympics. Instead of Turin, Italy, you can visit the steeplechase for people who think they are chickens. Or the run for men with no sense of direction. Or the swim meet for people who don't swim.

Those uproarious moments are found in Eric Idle's Personal Best, airing Wednesday. The Idle special is the first of six hours that recap the favorite sketches of the troupe from Monty Python's Flying Circus: Graham Chapman (also Wednesday), John Cleese and Terry Gilliam (March 1), Michael Palin and Terry Jones (March 24).

As wonderful as these specials are, they aren't exclusives for PBS. The Idle and Palin hours were released on DVD last year. The other four specials come out Feb. 28.

Still, in an often grim world, Monty Python offers a deliriously goofy oasis. And PBS deserves credit for making that spot available to a broad audience. More fish slapping can help you look on the bright side of life.

The hours feature smatterings of new material: Idle introduces his hour from the Hollywood Bowl. Cleese, pretending to be irascible at age 96, looks back on his career.

But the main attractions are completely familiar routines. The Cleese hour features the fairy tale of the princess with wooden teeth, instructions on protecting yourself from people carrying fruit and Wolfgang Mozart's hosting a show about famous deaths.

The Idle hour contains a TV host who obsesses about money, a hairdressers' expedition to Mount Everest and a wacky game show featuring communist heavyweights Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx and Mao Tse-tung.

In a recent preview for TV critics, Idle and producer John Goldstone say troupe members cooperated on the specials.

The five living members selected the skits they wanted for their hours, and Goldstone negotiated so there wasn't too much overlap. The hour for Chapman, who died in 1989, was assembled last.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-haltv1906feb19,0,600259.story?track=rss
 
I just ran into this show the other night while up late and smoking a bowl. It was fabulous! Wonderful, wonderful idea on their part! :D
 
John Cleese sure is looking old, but he hasn't changed a bit.

Turn everyone into this room into chickens!!!!!

Except Me . . . .!!!!!!!!!
 
I had a dream about monty python last night. How many monty movies are there, I can only think of the search for the holy grail.
 
^ There are 5 in total.

And Now For Something Completely Different (more a collection of sketches than a proper film)

Monty Python & The Holy Grail

Life Of Brian

Live At The Hollywood Bowl

The Meaning Of Life
 
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