Monty Python's Flying Circus: Set 1, Episodes 1-6

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767018814 Format: Box set ISBN: 0767018818 Label: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: 1999-09-28 Running Time: 204 Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great Service Comment: received order very quickly received just as advertised would order from this seller again Customer Rating: Summary: Daft, Daffy, but Deft Comment: This is a collection of the very first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Included in this boxed set are: Famous Deaths, Man with Three Buttocks, Flying Sheep, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, Undressing in Public, Confuse-A-Cat, and Silly Job Interview and that's just the highlights! These comedy shows aired in Great Britain in 1969 and the humor holds up astonishingly well. These guys are just as odd now as they were when they first started and these comic riffs rely on universally funny things such as nudity, death, humiliation, insanity, TV programming, government and history. It's a bit like a medieval morality play gone wrong with young men dressing as old women. Really cheesy sets and totally un-special effects combine with inspired writing and timing to produce something that became a cult classic. Customer Rating: Summary: Upperclass Twit of the year Comment: To the person who asked about this skit. It's on this DVD set. It's the funniest I've seen. Customer Rating: Summary: information please! Comment: can anyone advise me as to which dvd set has the 'upper class twit of the year contest' on it? thank you kindly! Customer Rating: Summary: But It's My Only Line! Comment: OK, now that the DVD versions are out, and the Personal Bests, and the Entire Series', it's unlikely you will want to purchase a puny little set of VHS' of the first season of Tony M. Nythop's Flying Ricsu. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were doing anagrams. I meant Monty Python's Flying Circus. But it's all I have! So I'm reviewing it. I love the Flying Circus series. Aside from Life of Brian, and bits of The Holy Grail, I would pit the series against any of the Python movies. I think Terry and Michael, and John and Graham, and Eric (the three teams who wrote together or solo as the case may be) were most brilliant doing sketch comedy, and this particular packet shows that they arrived from The Frost Report, Do Not Adjust Your Set, and Doctor In the House hitting the ground running. It's amazing to realize that such time honored skits as Dead Parrot, Nudge Nudge, and Confuse-a-Cat are all here--in the first season! One could argue that these Oxbridge thespians were "to the manor born", having all been products of either the Cambridge Footlights or the Fringe Festivals. And that would be true. However, rather than rest on their laurels and serve up a formulaic comic television show, the Pythons deliberately focused on a stream-of-conciousness style, taking cues from heroes like Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook. Although there were many TV shows at the time that were tending towards the absurd, there weren't any that didn't have punch lines at the end of skits, and this caused some apparent discombobulation with audiences at first. Thankfully, however, Python remained popular enough to remain on the BBC for another 5 seasons and in American hearts for over twenty years. Do yourself a favor. Even if you have seen all the Monty Python films, even if you have heard some of their records....buy this or another VHS or DVD collection of the best showcase of their patchwork, tangential comedy---Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Editorial Reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great Service Comment: received order very quickly received just as advertised would order from this seller again Customer Rating: Summary: Daft, Daffy, but Deft Comment: This is a collection of the very first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Included in this boxed set are: Famous Deaths, Man with Three Buttocks, Flying Sheep, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, Undressing in Public, Confuse-A-Cat, and Silly Job Interview and that's just the highlights! These comedy shows aired in Great Britain in 1969 and the humor holds up astonishingly well. These guys are just as odd now as they were when they first started and these comic riffs rely on universally funny things such as nudity, death, humiliation, insanity, TV programming, government and history. It's a bit like a medieval morality play gone wrong with young men dressing as old women. Really cheesy sets and totally un-special effects combine with inspired writing and timing to produce something that became a cult classic. Customer Rating: Summary: Upperclass Twit of the year Comment: To the person who asked about this skit. It's on this DVD set. It's the funniest I've seen. Customer Rating: Summary: information please! Comment: can anyone advise me as to which dvd set has the 'upper class twit of the year contest' on it? thank you kindly! Customer Rating: Summary: But It's My Only Line! Comment: OK, now that the DVD versions are out, and the Personal Bests, and the Entire Series', it's unlikely you will want to purchase a puny little set of VHS' of the first season of Tony M. Nythop's Flying Ricsu. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were doing anagrams. I meant Monty Python's Flying Circus. But it's all I have! So I'm reviewing it. I love the Flying Circus series. Aside from Life of Brian, and bits of The Holy Grail, I would pit the series against any of the Python movies. I think Terry and Michael, and John and Graham, and Eric (the three teams who wrote together or solo as the case may be) were most brilliant doing sketch comedy, and this particular packet shows that they arrived from The Frost Report, Do Not Adjust Your Set, and Doctor In the House hitting the ground running. It's amazing to realize that such time honored skits as Dead Parrot, Nudge Nudge, and Confuse-a-Cat are all here--in the first season! One could argue that these Oxbridge thespians were "to the manor born", having all been products of either the Cambridge Footlights or the Fringe Festivals. And that would be true. However, rather than rest on their laurels and serve up a formulaic comic television show, the Pythons deliberately focused on a stream-of-conciousness style, taking cues from heroes like Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook. Although there were many TV shows at the time that were tending towards the absurd, there weren't any that didn't have punch lines at the end of skits, and this caused some apparent discombobulation with audiences at first. Thankfully, however, Python remained popular enough to remain on the BBC for another 5 seasons and in American hearts for over twenty years. Do yourself a favor. Even if you have seen all the Monty Python films, even if you have heard some of their records....buy this or another VHS or DVD collection of the best showcase of their patchwork, tangential comedy---Monty Python's Flying Circus. In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator invaded the homes of unsuspecting BBC viewers with a brand of comedy that was, at the very least, odd. "Absurd," "bizarre," and "incomprehensible" are other descriptions that jump to mind. Nonetheless, this wacky sextet inaugurated an absurd tradition that continued through three and a half seasons of half-hour TV episodes, a series of live performances, a handful of movies, and a legacy of dead parrots and upper-class twits. Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 1 features the first episodes foisted on a still-reeling public, introducing running gags ("And now for something completely different") and recurring characters (an armor-clad Terry Gilliam wielding a rubber chicken, Graham Chapman's pompous Colonel intruding on sketches he deems simply too silly, and of course Michael Palin's "It's a Man" wandered through the entire season). Among the sketch highlights in the first three shows are Nudge Nudge, the Funniest Joke in the World, How to Defend Yourself from a Man Attacking You with Fresh Fruit, Confuse a Cat, and The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker, all interspersed with various and sundry cut-out animation sequences by Terry Gilliam. These early episodes may lack the consistency and stream-of-consciousness flow of their later, more assured work, but they're packed with some of the most memorable moments of the group's brief but brilliant history. --Sean Axmaker
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