Monty Python’s Election Night Special | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python’s Election Night Special Episode Content: In honour of the US presidential election 2020, here’s a gem from Episode 19 of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, first broadcast on 3 November 1970 and featuring hectic (and downright silly) actions by the media and a collection of ridiculous candidates. Subscribe to the Official Monty Python Channel here - http://smarturl.it/SubscribeToPython Visit the official Monty Python store - http://smarturl.it/MontyPythonStores Welcome to the official Monty Python YouTube channel. This is the place to find top quality classic Python videos, as well as some special stuff that you'll only find here such as interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from our live shows. All the Pythons including John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones & Graham Chapman can be found here being incredibly silly. New videos will be uploaded every Monday!

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In Loving Memory of Terry J (1 Feb 1942 - 21 Jan 2020) - Terry J Best (Monty Python) Bits | Monty Python

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Episode Title: In Loving Memory of Terry J (1 Feb 1942 - 21 Jan 2020) - Terry J Best (Monty Python) Bits Episode Content: In loving memory of our dear Terry J, who passed away on 21 January 2020, we’ve put together this compilation of clips of some of his best Monty Python moments. Clips include sketches from the newly restored “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, iconic scenes from “Monty Python & the Holy Grail,” “Monty Python’s Life of Brian,” and “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” and clips from the 2014 live show “Monty Python (live) - One Down Five to Go” and 2015 documentary “Monty Python The Meaning of Live.” RIP Terry J.

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Michael Palin's Super 8mm Film - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1971) | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Michael Palin's Super 8mm Film - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1971) Episode Content: Michael Palin’s Super 8mm film from 1971, when the Pythons were filming sketches for the 3rd series of "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" in Jersey. With new commentary from Michael Palin himself (recorded in July 2019). The film shows the Monty Python cast and crew filming sketches for series 3 of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” on the island of Jersey, prior to the studio recording sessions for the final 6 shows of the series. Michael Palin rode Mr. Pither's bicycle around the island, which doubled for Devon, in "The Cycling Tour". He also faced a firing squad on the island, and John Cleese held up Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman and Carol Cleveland aboard a coach and horses as Dennis Moore, in the tight country lanes of the self-governing dependency. Michael says of the film: "I had a morning off and took film of the preparation for a sequence in which John Cleese as Moore holds up a passing stagecoach. Looking back now, I realise that the unique aspect of filming I captured that day was its boredom. In that way it is, at least, an honest bit of footage and remains almost the only movie material of Python at work in those early days of the TV series Michael says of the film: "I had a morning off and took film of the preparation for a sequence in which John Cleese as Moore holds up a passing stagecoach. Looking back now, I realise that the unique aspect of filming I captured that day was its boredom. In that way it is, at least, an honest bit of footage and remains almost the only movie material of Python at work in those early days of the TV series”.

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Michael Palin's Super 8mm Film - "The Life of Brian" (1978) | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Michael Palin's Super 8mm Film - "The Life of Brian" (1978) Episode Content: Michael Palin’s Super 8mm film from the Python’s time writing and filming “The Life of Brian” in 1978. With new commentary from Michael Palin himself (recorded in July 2019). The final pre-production script for "The Life of Brian" was finished and ready to go by January 1978, but not without a couple of weeks focused writing in sunny Barbados. The Pythons wrote for six hours a day for the two weeks they were there. The 'there' is Heron Bay, a house loaned to the group by a friend of Eric’s Michael Palin captured the fun of writing under the Caribbean sun with his trusty Super 8mm camera, which also travelled with him to Monastir in Tunisia in 1978 for the filming of “The Life of Brian”. Michael says of the film: "Shot rather restlessly, I was as interested in panning about in trees, along limestone walls and front gates than I was in filming the Pythons, and I regret that".

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Eric Idle - F**K Christmas (Official Lyric Video) | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Eric Idle - F**K Christmas (Official Lyric Video) Episode Content: Join Eric Idle in singing the festive ditty, “F**k Christmas,” with this official Monty Python karaoke-style lyric video. This version of the track was recorded when Eric performed the song as part of his special appearance at Brian Cox and Robin Ince's "Christmas Compendium of Reason" at The Hammersmith Apollo, London on Friday 19 December, 2014. If worrying is more your Christmas vibe, don’t forget to check out our latest single “I’m (still) So Worried” here (link: https://youtu.be/nT5JBrKC5M0)

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Monty Python - I’m (Still) So Worried (Music Video) | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python - I’m (Still) So Worried (Music Video) Episode Content: In celebration of Monty Python’s 50th anniversary, we have released an alternative country and western version of the Monty Python track, ‘I'm So Worried’, entitled ‘I’m (Still) So Worried,’ with this animated music video, which uses Terry Gilliam’s original ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ animation artwork, to accompany it. The song, written by Terry Jones, was originally written and recorded for the Monty Python’s 1980 album, ‘Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album’ with this alternate version only discovered this year in the Monty Python sound archives. How prescient the track is! Footwear fashion can still hurt like hell, and the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow is still nightmarish. Broadcasters are still very happy to flood the schedules with repeats, although that's including lots of Monty Python recently, so no complaints from us. The worry about "all the things that they dump in the sea" is now, at long last, a serious situation that we should all be worried about, and one that is finally being addressed by international governments: nearly forty years after Terry Jones wrote this song. He is clearly something of a prophet. The single is available from - https://MontyPython.lnk.to/ISW Credits: Song - Written & Performed by Terry Jones / Music Video - Produced by Holly Gilliam and directed by Paul Shammasian

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Monty Python at 50: Gumby World Record Attempt, 5 October 2019, London | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python at 50: Gumby World Record Attempt, 5 October 2019, London Episode Content: On 5 October 2019, to celebrate 50 years to the day of the first broadcast of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” on BBC2, the official Gumby World Record Attempt was held at The Roundhouse in London. Hosted by Terry Gilliam, with special guest Sanjeev Bhaskar, 100s of men, women & children dressed as Gumbys, the iconic Monty Python character, descended upon the venue to enjoy Gumby sketches from the newly restored “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a Monty Python sing-along, a Q&A with Terry G and an after party with Terry G, Sanjeev and Monty Python-inspired cocktails. The rest of the Monty Python team were present as cardboard cut-outs, dotted in between the piles of rubber bricks & flower-arranging stations… and a World Record for the “largest gathering of people dressed as Gumbys” was set. You can purchase your very own official Gumby Kit here: https://www.montypythononlinestore.com/*/*/Official-Gumby-Kit/6A1P0000000 The Gumby soundtrack “Gumby Night at the Python Proms” will be available on Spotify later in the month - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5IxfhXIHjAOAqibxl90NZO The fully restored "“Monty Python’s Flying Circus” is available now to pre-order here: https://networkonair.com/all-products/3077-monty-python-s-flying-circus-norwegian-blu-ray-edition Video by Paul Shammasian

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MPFC 50th Anniversary Restoration: Terry G watches the restored animation for the first time | Monty Python

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Episode Title: MPFC 50th Anniversary Restoration: Terry G watches the restored animation for the first time Episode Content: On 4 November 2019, Network Distributing will be releasing the limited edition boxset of all 45 episodes of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” lovingly restored in glorious high definition. Terry Gilliam went to view some of his fully 'bruced up' animations for the first time, meeting with Network's restoration colourist Jonathan Wood, and we were there to capture his reaction. Featured sketches include Series One opening titles, the pram eating animation from Sex and Violence, animations from Whither Canada, part of the "New Cooker Sketch" from Face the Press, and the "Prince and the Black Spot" animation from Its a Living. Pre-order your limited edition box set here: https://ift.tt/30J2031

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Monty Python at 50 - John Cleese in conversation with Radio Times | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python at 50 - John Cleese in conversation with Radio Times Episode Content: To celebrate Monty Python’s 50th anniversary, the Radio Times has produced a brand new 116-page, limited edition Bookazine - “Monty Python at 50” - featuring new interviews with the Pythons and never-before-published photographs of the group from the Radio Times archive. Here, John Cleese’s interview for the Bookazine is accompanied by some of these never-before-seen images from the Radio Times archive. The Bookazine is available from 27 August 2019 here (https://ift.tt/2HlySYQ)

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Monty Python at 50 - Terry Gilliam in conversation with Radio Times | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python at 50 - Terry Gilliam in conversation with Radio Times Episode Content: o celebrate Monty Python’s 50th anniversary, the Radio Times has produced a brand new 116-page, limited edition Bookazine - “Monty Python at 50” - featuring new interviews with the Pythons and never-before-published photographs of the group from the Radio Times archive. Here, Terry Gilliam’s interview for the Bookazine is accompanied by some of these never-before-seen images from the Radio Times archive. The Bookazine is available from 27 August 2019 here (https://ift.tt/2HlySYQ)

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Monty Python at 50 - Michael Palin in conversation with Radio Times | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python at 50 - Michael Palin in conversation with Radio Times Episode Content: To celebrate Monty Python’s 50th anniversary, the Radio Times has produced a brand new 116-page, limited edition Bookazine - “Monty Python at 50” - featuring new interviews with the Pythons and never-before-published photographs of the group from the Radio Times archive. Here, Michael Palin’s interview for the Bookazine is accompanied by some of these never-before-seen images from the Radio Times archive. The Bookazine is available from 27 August 2019 here (https://ift.tt/2HlySYQ)

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Monty Python at 50 - Eric Idle in conversation with Radio Times | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Monty Python at 50 - Eric Idle in conversation with Radio Times Episode Content: To celebrate Monty Python’s 50th anniversary, the Radio Times has produced a brand new 116-page, limited edition Bookazine - “Monty Python at 50” - featuring new interviews with the Pythons and never-before-published photographs of the group from the Radio Times archive. Here, Eric Idle’s interview for the Bookazine is accompanied by some of these never-before-seen images from the Radio Times archive. The Bookazine is available from 27 August 2019 here (https://ift.tt/2HlySYQ)

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"It's... Monty Python at 50" BFI Season (1 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2019) | Monty Python

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Episode Title: "It's... Monty Python at 50" BFI Season (1 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2019) Episode Content: To kick of Monty Python’s 50th anniversary celebrations from 1 September 2019 the BFI will curate a month-long season celebrating Monty Python – their roots, influences and subsequent work both as a group, and as individuals - entitled "It’s…Monty Python At 50". The season will feature all the Monty Python feature films; oddities and curios from the depths of the BFI National Archive; back-to-back screenings of the entire series of "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" in a unique big-screen outing; and screenings of post-Python TV ("Fawlty Towers", "Out of the Trees", "Ripping Yarns") and films ("Jabberwocky", "A Fish Called Wanda", "Time Bandits", "Wind in the Willows" and more). There will also be rare screenings of pre-Python shows "At Last the 1948 Show" and "Do Not Adjust Your Set", and a free exhibition of Python-related material from the BFI National Archive and The Monty Python Archive. Visit https://ift.tt/2yKV6i6 for more information. 2

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Michael Palin's Super 8mm Home Movie Sneak Peak - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Michael Palin's Super 8mm Home Movie Sneak Peak - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" Episode Content: A sneak peak of Michael Palin’s never-before-seen super 8mm home movies, with new commentary from Michael Palin himself, from 1972 when the Pythons were filming sketches for the 3rd series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in Jersey. Michael Palin rode Mr. Pither's bicycle around Jersey which doubled for Devon in "The Cycling Tour". He also faced a firing squad on the island. But he wasn't alone. John Cleese held up Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman and Carol Cleveland aboard a coach and horses as Dennis Moore, in the tight country lanes of the self-governing dependency. By this stage in the production of the 3rd series, 7 episodes are in the can. This film shows the Monty Python crew filming around the island prior to the studio recording sessions for the final 6 shows of the series, the first of which would happen just two weeks after filming was completed. Michael says of the film: "I had a morning off and took film of the preparation for a sequence in which John Cleese as Moore holds up a passing stagecoach. Looking back now, I realise that the unique aspect of filming I captured that day was its boredom. In that way it is, at least, an honest bit of footage and remains almost the only movie material of Python at work in those early days of the TV series". You can watch the full-length films as part of the BFI Python Season “It’s… Monty Python at 50” from 1 September 2019. For more details visit: https://ift.tt/12grcLr

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Michael Palin's Super 8mm Home Movies Sneak Peak - "The Life of Brian" | Monty Python

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Episode Title: Michael Palin's Super 8mm Home Movies Sneak Peak - "The Life of Brian" Episode Content: A sneak peak of Michael Palin’s never-before-seen super 8mm home movies, with new commentary from Michael Palin himself, from the Python’s time writing and filming “The Life of Brian”. The final pre-production script for "The Life of Brian" was finished and ready to go by January 1978, but not without a couple of weeks focused writing in sunny Barbados. The Pythons wrote for six hours a day for the two weeks they were there. The 'there' is Heron Bay, a house loaned to the group by a friend of Eric’s Michael Palin captured the fun of writing under the Caribbean sun with his trusty Super 8mm camera, which also travelled with him to Monastir in Tunisia in 1978 for the filming of “The Life of Brian”. Michael says of the film: "Shot rather restlessly, I was as interested in panning about in trees, along limestone walls and front gates than I was in filming the Pythons, and I regret that". You can see the full-length films as part of the BFI Python Season “It’s… Monty Python at 50” from 1 September 2019. For more details visit: https://ift.tt/12grcLr

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We're Turning 50! Events & Activities for 2019 | Monty Python

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Episode Title: We're Turning 50! Events & Activities for 2019 Episode Content: This October, Monty Python will commemorate five decades of entertainment and, to celebrate, a variety of new releases and events will be taking place including a BBC takeover, a BFI season, the release of the fully restored "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" series, a series of new Monty Python radio programmes executive-produced by Michael Palin, and a World Record attempt. Video by Paul Shammasian of Resight Films.

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"How to Dress Like A Gumby" - animated video | Monty Python

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Episode Title: "How to Dress Like A Gumby" - animated video Episode Content: In anticipation of this year’s first ever official Monty Python Guinness World Record attempt for the ‘Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Gumbys,’ which will take place at an iconic London venue on 5 October 2019, we have put together this helpful “How to Dress Like a Gumby” guide. If you're interested in taking part in the record attempt please join the official Facebook group for the event here. Video (concept, illustrations & animation) by Nate Merritt, with Terry G’s blessing Gumby voiced by David Arquette

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