THE MONTY PYTHONS FLYING CIRCUS: COMPLETE AND ANNOTATED: ALL THE BITS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Luke Dempsey | 880 pages | 13 Nov 2012 | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc | 9781579129132 | English | New York, United States ​Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 1 on iTunes It What can I say about the comic genius of Monty Python? I can only offer my homage …. It came out of nowhere. Now my grandmother — MAN. Can you tell me the fastest way there? Uh, Bolton, yes. The M61 through Blackrod, the A or the A Which is fastest? I am not the least bit peckish for fermented curd. Well, then you want to take the M Take this road about 20 kilometers, then take a left at the crossroad. Then take a right and follow it to Khartoum. Are you — are you suggesting I go to Africa? No, no, no — well, yes, yes. Oh yes, fires, and pitchforks and men with horned heads. Horned heads? Oh yes, and nasty sharp, filed teeth and forked tails running about — naked! Are you by chance describing hell? No, no, no — well, yes. I am describing hell. I was just wasting your time. Ah, I see. Can you do me one more favor? Please lay down in front of my car. Whatever you say, squire. Cut to humorous cartoon. Jun 09, Stewart Tame rated it really liked it. This is a huge book. But that's to be expected from a collection of the complete and annotated scripts from all four seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus. To be honest, the annotations are rather underwhelming. Some are fascinating, but many of them serve to explain bits of British slang, or identify public figures of the time period referenced in the show, most of which, I'd say, the average Python fan knows already. It's nice to have the scripts, yes, but there are less unwieldy printings This is a huge book. It's nice to have the scripts, yes, but there are less unwieldy printings of them out there. This makes a handsome gift for the Python fan, but it's more for die-hard fans than casual readers. Mar 11, Kris rated it really liked it. I confess that I did not read every word in this book - it really IS "all the bits" from the entire Monty Python's Flying Circus, along with notes. I found the notes pretty interesting: the author explained most of the British-isms used that we Americans might not understand. Several still shots were included on each page, and there were also full-page profiles of the various members of Monty Python. A must-read for the dedicated Python fan. More than enough for the not-so-dedicated fan. Feb 21, Kathy rated it liked it. Not sure if a reference book, coffee table book, or something to carry around and memorize. Lots of fun to read the long rants that go by so fast when you read them. I did just skim through a lot though. Some of the sketches just aren't very funny anymore, if they ever were. Though the good ones will always be good. Feb 26, Cat. I had this book checked out for over 6 weeks and only got about halfway through it. I'd finish it, if I could, but I'd prefer to have it while I watch the show. It's a little slow to read, and also I found lots of odd little errors. Dec 25, TheDenizen rated it really liked it Shelves: humor. Brilliantly funny, and the annotations are quite informative, although there are a couple of instances where the content of the annotation indicates that Dempsey clearly didn't get the joke. Still, a worthy tome for Python fans. Jul 02, Amy Merkley rated it it was amazing. Notes in the margins help one understand obscure 's topical references. Scripts help one decipher lines hardly accessible to the 21st century American viewer. Great to reference while watching the episodes. Jan 04, Joy rated it liked it Shelves: coffee-table-reads , Interesting info about every Python sketch-although there were a lot of moments where I expected an annotation, and saw none. Fun to read though. Feb 09, Hadena James rated it it was amazing. I love Monty Python! Aug 05, Michael Parker rated it really liked it. Scripts of classic British comedy. Jan 10, Garret rated it it was amazing. Need I say more? Feb 28, Richard rated it did not like it. Way more information than I wanted. I could hardly lift this, let alone read it lying on my back. This is a dangerous batch of paper. I think I got to page Hillary Marek rated it it was amazing May 16, Patrick O'connell rated it it was amazing May 16, Two Readers in Love rated it it was amazing Feb 02, Roxanne rated it really liked it Feb 09, Bob rated it it was amazing Dec 26, Elf rated it liked it Apr 03, Caitlin rated it really liked it Sep 01, Lisa rated it it was amazing Feb 21, Nate Jackson rated it it was amazing Sep 10, Greg Kyhn rated it it was amazing Feb 20, Deborah Bayliss rated it it was amazing Oct 02, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Readers also enjoyed. About Luke Dempsey. Luke Dempsey. Books by Luke Dempsey. Read more Trivia About Monty Python's Fl No trivia or quizzes yet. Cleese also very often played Frenchmen most of the times together with Palin or any other kind of foreigner Germans, Hungarians Sometimes he even speaks French or German in sketches such as "La marche futile" end of the "Ministry of Silly Walks"-sketch , "The funniest joke in the World" or "Hitler in Minehead " , which, combined with a very heavy accent often makes himself hard to understand. All of these elements were combined in incongruous ways to obtain new and humorous meanings in the tradition of surrealist collage assemblies. Other memorable animated segments include the killer cars, Conrad Poohs and his Dancing Teeth, the carnivorous houses, the old woman who cannot catch the bus, the rampage of the cancerous black spot, and a giant cat that stomps its way through London, destroying everything in its path. The animation that received the most viewers' complaints was from the fourth series, in the episode How Not To Be Seen. A hill appears with three crosses silhouetted against the setting sun to the sound of a harmonium playing in a minor key. The camera slowly zooms in to reveal that it is, in reality, three telegraph poles. The animation was cut out for American broadcasts during the show, however, at the end of the episode when the show is played in one whole minute the pieces of the edited animation can be seen. Although he was primarily the animator of the series, Gilliam sometimes appeared before the camera, as more grotesque characters and parts that no-one else wanted to play generally because they required a lot of make-up or involved uncomfortable costumes. The most recurrent of these was a knight in armour who ended sketches by walking on-set and hitting another character on the head with a plucked chicken. He is acknowledged as 'the master of the one-liner' by the other Pythons. Though certainly not reaching Jones' level in drag, Idle was arguably the most feminine-looking of the Pythons. He often played female characters in a more straightforward way, only altering his voice slightly, as apposed to the falsetto shrieking used by the other Pythons. His appearances as upper-class, middle-aged females are his most notable. He was also the only one who read spoofs of children's storybooks in sketches. Idle was the only member of the Pythons who wrote his sketches alone. Although all of the Pythons played women, Terry Jones is renowned by the rest to be 'the best Rat-Bag woman in the business'. While all of the Pythons excel at comic acting, Michael Palin was regarded by the other members of the troupe as the one with the widest range, equally adept as a straight man or wildly over the top character. However, he was equally at home as the indefatigable Cardinal Ximinez of The Spanish Inquisition sketch. Palin is also well known for his leading role in the The Lumberjack Song. He also often plays foreigners mostly French as in "La marche futile" or German "Hitler in Minehead" , mostly along with Cleese, who, of course, have a very heavy accent when speaking English. In one of the last episodes, he even delivers a full speech, first in English, then in French, then in German sadly with an even heavier accent. Palin is the Python who surely played the least women. This is perhaps due to the fact that Palin in drag was a rather convincing woman Among his most convincing portrayals of women are: the queen in the Michael Ellis Episode or as an idiot's wife in the Idiot in rural society sketch. John Cleese was reportedly unhappy with the use of toilet humour in Python sketches. The sketch involves a man taking a tour of a wine cellar where he samples many of the wine bottles' contents, which are actually urine. The sculptor Chapman had made an uncanny likeness of Cleese, except for that his nose was extremely long, almost Pinocchio size. It is unlikely that these sketches will be released on DVD or broadcast on television, although copies of the script for these sketches can usually be found on the Internet.