(comedy) Monty Python


BBC2 have been celebrating the history of the comedy sketch-show, Monty Python, with a series of films…

MP is nowadays understood as having ushered-in a forms of comedy deriving from the counter-culture of the 1960s, and that seemed to expose the anarchy that lay just below the calm surface of British society…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=monty+python

There’s a documentary and a set of highlights…and there will be loads on the internet.

Later the MP team made full length films…Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979) for example.

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