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First 20 Years of Monty Python Book

Longtime Python fanatic Kim "Howard" Johnson's update of The First 200 Years of Monty Python retains at its core the nearly blow-by-blow account of each of the 45 classic episodes in which this British troupe blew gale-force fresh air into television comedy. But for this new volume the author has extensively reinterviewed the Pythons, as well as Carol Cleveland (the lone female performer--unless you count the guys in drag); expanded the material on individual members and their work before and after Monty Python's Flying Circus; and added a bibliography of their output in every medium (plus coverage of PythOnline). Johnson first met John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and the late Graham Chapman in 1978, when he published a Python fanzine, and he actually worked on their third film, Life of Brian. That 21-year relationship gives the book a jovial insider's tone making it a nice complement to David Morgan's more conventional oral history, Monty Python Speaks! Johnson conscientiously profiles every manifestation of Python's creative madness, but his first loves remain "The Spanish Inquisition," "Cheese Shop," "Dead Parrot," and all the other insanely inventive sketches that are as fresh and funny in reruns as they were 280 years ago. --Wendy Smith Read More

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  • Product Description

    The story of the British comedy troupe, Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose half-hour TV show became PBS's top-rated entertainment program in the early 1970s. Kim "Howard" Johnson, a fan who met the group in N.Y., began amassing information about the group with clippings, photos, letters, & other materials. Over the years he published fanzines & conducted numerous interviews with the Pythons for magazines & radio, & got to know the group members personally & professionally. This book is an exhaustive look at the Python TV shows, profusely illustrated with photographs of the classic characters & skits.

  • 0788192450
  • 9780788192456
  • Kim ''Howard'' Johnson
  • 1 January 1989
  • Diane Pub Co
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 269
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