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A Pocketful of Python
A Pocketful of Python
Eric Idle selects his favorite moments from the world-famous Monty Python films and TV series. This is the fifth volume in the series, the other four being by other members of the Python team.
In October 1969 the BBC broadcast the first programme in a new series: 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', written and conceived by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
Over the years the six of them followed this with another 44 extremely silly programmes, a German TV special, five full-length feature films, seven books, nine long-playing records and live stage shows that toured the UK and were seen in Canada and New York and at the Hollywood Bowl.
This new volume continues the series of pocket anthologies for which each of the Pythons makes a personal choice of favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre. Eric Idle's selection contains classics of silliness that include "Silly Walks", "Twit of the Year" and "Bright Side of Life" as well as some startling and less familiar verbal and pictorial gems.
In October 1969 the BBC broadcast the first programme in a new series: 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', written and conceived by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
Over the years the six of them followed this with another 44 extremely silly programmes, a German TV special, five full-length feature films, seven books, nine long-playing records and live stage shows that toured the UK and were seen in Canada and New York and at the Hollywood Bowl.
This new volume continues the series of pocket anthologies for which each of the Pythons makes a personal choice of favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre. Eric Idle's selection contains classics of silliness that include "Silly Walks", "Twit of the Year" and "Bright Side of Life" as well as some startling and less familiar verbal and pictorial gems.
- GenresHumor
64 pages, Hardcover
First published November 19, 2002
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About the author
Eric Idle
69 books301 followersEric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python.
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May 7, 2012
I never did like 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' when it first came out so you may well ask why I am reading a book containing some of the sketches. The answer is quite simple, I bought it as a present for a friend and thought I would try it first to see if I had changed my mind, matured perhaps!!
I had not, most of the contents still leave me cold and are not funny (although I admit I have very little sense of humour!). There are pictorial and verbal "gems", a noun the blurb uses but not one I would subscribe to although I must confess one or two of them are mildly amusing.
John Cleese's 'Silly Walks' is illustrated and always manages to raise a slight smile while 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' has one or two nice lines in it. The 'Python Literary Guild' has a couple of interesting titles on offer (one not for the faint-hearted) but perhaps my favourite, in a book that you will have gathered by now does not grip me immensely, is 'Spamelot!', which contains the two classic lines 'We dine well her in Camelot/We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot'. Perhaps if it had all been like that (simple and understandable) I might have become a Python follower.
I apologise to all the Python fans but it is just not for me ... not again anyway - two bites at the cherry is plenty.
I had not, most of the contents still leave me cold and are not funny (although I admit I have very little sense of humour!). There are pictorial and verbal "gems", a noun the blurb uses but not one I would subscribe to although I must confess one or two of them are mildly amusing.
John Cleese's 'Silly Walks' is illustrated and always manages to raise a slight smile while 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' has one or two nice lines in it. The 'Python Literary Guild' has a couple of interesting titles on offer (one not for the faint-hearted) but perhaps my favourite, in a book that you will have gathered by now does not grip me immensely, is 'Spamelot!', which contains the two classic lines 'We dine well her in Camelot/We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot'. Perhaps if it had all been like that (simple and understandable) I might have become a Python follower.
I apologise to all the Python fans but it is just not for me ... not again anyway - two bites at the cherry is plenty.
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