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Rob Hunter loves movies.A He also lovesA working for the BBC where his job entails erasing old show master tapes because they don't have the foresight to know that people may want to watch them again someday.A These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs.A So join ...

Main British television series British television sketch comedy series that aired from 1969 to 1974 on the British Broadcasting Corporation network and became popular with American viewers largely through rebroadcasts on public television .

Forty years ago, as the Beatles were ending their dominance of a musical era, another British troupe was emerging and would ultimately change the history of comedy.

Caption: John Cleese and his family Monty Python 40th anniversary event at the Ziegfeld Theatre New York City, USA .... CLEESE: 'CHAPMAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIXED' Funnyman JOHN CLEESE has opened up about tragic MONTY PYTHON pal GRAHAM CHAPMAN in a new documentary, suggesting the late comedian "should have been sent back to the factory and fixed".

In 1993 Monty Python had gone from cult phenomenon to mainstream. Where the group had problems finding investors for their low budget "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in 1976 they had no problem getting Universal Studios to pay for their big budget "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". Solo Projects like "Time Bandits" became easier to finance and ...

This has been Python Week, but I've sort of reached my quota of Python clips. So I will cheat and post a sketch that most people think is Monty Python, but isn't. The "Four Yorkshiremen" Sketch eventually became part of the group's stage repertoire, but it was written for, and first performed on, At Last the 1948 Show, which made stars of John ...

Elvis Presley loved Monty Python, drove friends and lovers to distraction by quoting bits from the TV series and the movies just like your high school lab partner, and that's not even close to being the most unlikely thing about the four-decade legacy of the fabled comedy crew.

Monty Python docu, in six one-hour parts, traces the group from its pre-TV origins through its movies and eventual disbandment.

Those who don't know Monty Python, and don't care, have been blessed with six hours they can spend on something other than watching IFC's new documentary series.

Thirty years ago, the first Hitchhiker's Guide book was published. But before that Douglas Adams was sinking pints with Monty Python That's Douglas peering down at the camera, wearing a surgical mask and a green surgeon's gown, and that's also Douglas helping me to load a guided missile on to a rag-and-bone man's cart - the only records I know of ...

It is 40 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus amused, confused and outraged British audiences for the first time.

The Pythons were just as comfortable with a gross-out gag as they were with Proust.

I was first introduced to Monty Python, who first appeared on the BBC Oct. 5, 1969, in the spring of 1972 by my friend Chauncey Howell.

The cast of Monty Python in 1969, the first year of their show: Back row, from l., Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam; front row, Terry Jones, John Cleese and Michael Palin.

Comic rebels: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin in 1969 Photo: Allstar 'This parrot is no more.

An Evening Without Monty Python , which is described as "a paeanastic laudatory exaltation of the works of John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin," plays a limited run at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood, CA, Sept.

We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

Forty years ago a bunch of bright young writers got together at the BBC and changed the face of TV comedy.

"Monty Python's Spamalot." Beware the deadly Python strike. You'll be smitten. Whether you're a Monty Python fan or not, "Monty Python's Spamalot" kills.

Monty Python fans needn't fear that the three-time Tony award-winning Broadway show of "Monty Python's Spamalot" has lost its punch with the touring production.