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Monty Python's Personal Best

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33: 335:, with Michael Palin playing the same character he played in the original sketch hosting the show. The sketches are supposedly added because the show originally introduced the world to fish-slapping. Michael Palin "travelling" to the original filming location of the Fish-Slapping Dance jokingly references his current popularity as a travel documentarian. 280:: Reporting live from the Bollywood Howl , a newscaster (Eric Idle) introduces his interviews with several people about what they thought about Eric Idle, including Idle's mother and a former Nazi soldier living in South America (both also played by Idle). Throughout the segments, the reporter confuses the members of Python with 341:: From his lavish home, Jones discusses how he conceived Monty Python as a showcase for his own considerable talents, how he reluctantly let the other members join and that 'Monty Python' is an anagram of 'Terry Jones'. Several sketches are personally (and often inaccurately) introduced by Jones. 324:
was originally to be his show alone, with animations only. The "viewer" flips a switch that turns on the lights to reveal that Gilliam and his workshop are really animations. General pandemonium ensues as the episode shows a vast collage of Gilliam's famously neurotic
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stations between 22 February and 8 March 2006, although the Eric Idle and Michael Palin episodes were initially released by
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sketch appears in every episode except Eric Idle's, while Conrad Pooh's Dancing Teeth appears twice.
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segment features one or more wraparound sketches written by and starring the featured member:
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McCall, Douglas (12 November 2013). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012, 2d ed. McFarland.
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to syndication on PBS stations. Episodes were aired two at a time over three weeks:
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member. Produced by Python (Monty) Pictures Ltd., the series first aired on
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of six one-hour specials, each showcasing the contributions of a particular
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DVDs in 2005; the remaining episodes were released in late February 2006.
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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
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With the exception of Graham Chapman's episode, each
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Index


John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
PBS
Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python
miniseries
Monty Python
PBS
A&E
Region 1
Eric Idle
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Michael Palin
Terry Jones
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Graham Chapman
The Beatles
All You Need Is Cash

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