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The Pythons : Autobiography by The Pythons
Over thirty years ago, a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American re-wrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen and practically unprogrammed half hour of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact on the world has been felt ever since.
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Paperback, 368 pages
Published
November 15th 2005
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2003)
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The Pythons Autobiography is a funny and fascinating history of Monty Python, by the Pythons themselves: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. (Graham Chapman died in 1989; he's represented by excerpts from earlier books and articles, as well as by his longtime companion David Sherlock and his brother and sister-in-law John and Pam Chapman.) Switching back and forth from one member to another, it covers their individual beginnings, their coming to...more
...and now for something completely different, let me introduce you the Pythons autobiography by... the Pythons themselves (applause).
What you can find in this book is:
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and yes, ladies and gentlemen, Graham Chapman live-dead from the afterlife talking about the twenty years they spent together.
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What they did earlier.
What they did after.
Plus
Who they were before Monty Python:
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What you can find in this book is:
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and yes, ladies and gentlemen, Graham Chapman live-dead from the afterlife talking about the twenty years they spent together.
Plus
What they did earlier.
What they did after.
Plus
Who they were before Monty Python:
t...more
All the Pythons (one from his grave) give a collective account of the career of the owner of one Flying Circus, an account made up of extracts from interviews and extracts from diaries and published memoirs. The late Graham Chapman is represented by his own surreal recollections and comments from family members and partner, while the rest discourse freely on their early lives, education, university experiences (principally Oxbridge) and occupations as comedy writers, actors and (in the case of T...more
A very thorough account of the Pythons humble beginnings within the confines of Oxbridge and US Midwest to international stardom and infamy. If you're interested in their backgrounds then this book is a good starting point. The chapters at the start of the book before they were "famous" so to speak, felt disjointed and all over the place. And even at some points VERY BORING. Hence it took me a real while to get into the book but once you get to the point where they are working together...more
This is sort of like "The Python Anthology." The remaining members of Monty Python, as well as Graham Chapman's brother, sister-in-law, and longtime partner David Sherlock, tell the history of Monty Python in their own words. There are a lot of contradictions; no one can seem to remember who actually picked "The Liberty Bell March" as the theme, for example, and some things have become so legendary that one gets the feeling that everyone is telling the version that makes the ...more
A long read, but still an amazing masterpiece and a must-have for any python fans. I remember, I read this in 6th grade, it was my first really big book. I talked to the librarian and my teacher, and I must be the only student in the world to get away with ready a book with "naughty bits" in school! The teacher didn't believe that I had read the hole book! I must've gotten like 50points for that! Ah... The good old' days.
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The Pythons have been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. It was something my Dad and I bonded over as a kid and it is something that still makes me laugh to this day (I just got the complete TV series on DVD and I'm in heaven). I have met 3 of the 6 Pythons and I made a complete foll of myself upon meeting them but it was so worth it just to get a hug from them.
This book is brilliant!
This book is brilliant!
recommended for any python fan, this book covers pretty much all the bases. a quick and interesting read - i would've liked it if the pythons' involvement in this were a little more than just being interviewed, but i guess we can't expect much more from them at this point.
oh and there's plenty of sweet pics, too.
oh and there's plenty of sweet pics, too.
Everything a Python fan could desire can be found in this book, large enough to tip over a small coffee table. Again, a great gift from Jodi some years back. It's hard to contain laughter every time you turn a page. Great source of history, pics, and musings by Britain's most intelligent and deranged comedy troupe.
a very interesting read, great to have perspective from all 6 python's on their early lives, early careers, the tv series, the films, and their lives after graham's death. great pictures, great stories, and it brings a lot of great memories flooding back. a great read for any python fan.
It's... an account of the story of the group since the very beginnings (childhood and all). I personally found Graham Chapman's story (told here with some excerpts from other books and with testimony of his longtime partner, his brother and his sister-in-law) quite amusing. In general, the book is a pretty fast and entertaining read. Recommended even if you are not that much into Monty Python.
A great read for any python lover. A visual feast to boot. If you ever wondered why they gave the game away definitely read this for all the not-so-funny behind-the-scenes intrigues.
It was an incredibly poor recording of the interviews, especially with John Cleese with the telephone ringing in the background. I enjoyed hearing the story of the Pythons.
The "Pythons" Autobiography by the "Pythons" (Monty Python) by Michael Palin (2003)
My only regret with this book is that I wish that the pictures had been better captioned.
A weighty and impressive-looking coffee-table book, The Pythons makes excellent reading for devoted fans, though it's probably too in-depth for those who aren't interested in the nuts and bolts of how the series were produced. Although they don't deal with everything—understandably, after four decades I'm sure there are some things that can't be recalled, and everyone needs some measure of privacy for themselves—what is discussed is frank and honest, even if that honesty seems to have led to som...more
There is so much here! A great coffee table laden swallow.
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My favorites. I have them memorized....
hilarious. fresh. innovative as always.
Beautiful Plumage.
Wonderful to read.
i was home sick from work and managed to read this entire book in one day. it was great - especially loved all the photos and the particularly the postcards sent to terry jones from the rest of the guys in amsterdam.
plenty of juicy information for the python fanatic, but i wanted to know more about the sketches and who wrote them. but there's plenty of other information to learn, straight from the mouths of the pythons themselves.
ps: john cleese really loves michael pali...more
plenty of juicy information for the python fanatic, but i wanted to know more about the sketches and who wrote them. but there's plenty of other information to learn, straight from the mouths of the pythons themselves.
ps: john cleese really loves michael pali...more
I kinda just want to say "cool" and leave it at that. I'll just add that I enjoyed hearing these interviews and getting a feel for who each of the Pythons were and how their relationship evolved over the years. Not a true "book" but enjoyable nonetheless.
The only thing better than this are the scripts themselves...
Monty Python as sketch performers are brilliant. Monty Python as autobiographers are boring.
Exhausting... this is literally everything you need to know about the Pythons, from (literally) birth to the present day, all from their own mouths. Only drawback is the really small text. It's understandable given the length of the book, but when they lay it over an image it gets lost.
Yes, Virginia, you can even do research for Spamalot! This is a wide-ranging 1st person account from all of the boys. The state, restate, contradict, argue, and some of the best bits come posthumously from Graham Chapman. Python-head must read.
Amazing book for anyone who is a fan of Monty Python. It has BUNCHES of pictures provided by the Pythons and their families. It is very, very in-depth. Oh, and the chapter on Graham Chapman's death has made me cry every time I've read it.
Four stars cause I haven't read it. It's massive, gorgeously laid out and illustrated. Barnes and Nobles was giving them away so each of my siblings got one for Christmas.
I'm a Python fanatic, and I just bought this book. I've thumbed through it a few times, but I'm looking forward to the time when I can sit down and read it.
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Graham Chapman was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the title character in Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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