References to Beachcomber are strongly pervasive in Private Eye, and there is a possible, but more tenuous, line of descent from it, via the Goon Show, to Monty Python.

The genre dates from the silent era, and the most famous examples of this type of film would be those produced by Monty Python.

The greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1971 ), Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) and Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979.

In some films, knitted string spray-painted with a metallic paint is used instead of actual mail in order to cut down on cost ( an example being Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed on a very small budget ).

The subgenre has also been represented in television and film, such as in the television series I Dream of Jeannie, Kröd Mändoon, and the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night.

Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin later became members of the hugely successful Monty Python comedy troupe.

At least one DNAYS sketch was re-used in Monty Python.

In common, with another important Monty Python predecessor, At Last the 1948 Show, many episodes were wiped as was common practice at the time due to the lack of any apparent market for them prior to the invention of home video.

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Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

In David Morgan's book Monty Python Speaks, Cleese asserted that Chapman, although officially his co-writer for many of their sketches, contributed comparatively little in the way of direct writing.

In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Cleese said that the original idea came from a man Palin bought a car from, who had endless excuses for everything that went wrong with it.

After reuniting with the other Pythons in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Chapman began a lengthy series of American college tours where he would tell the audience anecdotes about Monty Python, the Dangerous Sports Club, Keith Moon, and other subjects.

Chapman kept his sexuality a secret until the 1970s, although he did allude to it in some Monty Python sketches.

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is a fictional weapon from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.

The Knights who say Ni are a band of knights from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, feared for the manner in which they utter the word " ni " (, like knee but clipped short ).

* The Crimson Permanent Assurance ( 1983 ) ( a short that accompanied the feature Monty Python's The Meaning of Life )

As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Cartman attempting to return a dead Kenny to a shop run by Kyle aired during a 1999 BBC television special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Kyle as the owner of a shop to where Cartman attempts to return a dead Kenny aired during a 1999 BBC television special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

A short spoof was part of episode 19 of the 1970 season of Monty Python's Flying Circus

Dr. Montgomery, or " Uncle Monty " as he prefers to be called, is a short, chubby man with a round red face.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a short film that plays as the beginning of the feature-length motion picture Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

* According to the 2003 Monty Python's Meaning of Life DVD, this short immediately won over the audience at the Cannes Film Festival.

* Gilliam shot the film with a different cast and crew than the Meaning of Life main production ( five of the members of Monty Python can be seen in brief cameos in the short: Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin washing the windows ; and Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman early in the board room when the attack starts ).

* The Miracle of Flight ( The Miracle of Flight on YouTube ), a short cutout animated clip from the famous Monty Python's Flying Circus-by Terry Gilliam

Monty also possesses a nasty personality and a very short temper, and uses his wealth for his own amusement, often to the discomfort or belittlement of others.

Some battle sequences like knight versus knight, or king versus bishop, are direct references to the black knight fight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the short battle between Indiana Jones and a swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark, respectively.

In its original airing on Monty Python's Flying Circus, the sketch was preceded by a short link in which Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin portray schoolboys being interviewed for television by John Cleese.

* The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a short film that appears before the 1983 Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life

Even Monty Python's Flying Circus had a short milkman sketch, where a lonely housewife lures the milkman into her house and up many stairs, then shoves him in a room with nine other milkmen, many of whom are very old ( and two skeletons wearing milkmen uniforms ) and locks the door.

There are comparisons between Monty Python's Flying Circus show and New Primitives methods, as they share the short sketch form and utilize absurdity as means to elicit laughs from the audience.

* Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ) … Man walking by Crimson Insurance building as anchor is raised

The original tagline read " It took God six days to create the Heavens and the Earth, and Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up ", but the length of the film is 107 minutes ( the film only has a length of 90 minutes if The Crimson Permanent Assurance is counted separately ).

Typical of how Pythons would weave previously ' terminated ' plot lines into later scenes of the same episode ( like Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition in the TV show, or the recurring theme of the swallows carrying coconuts in the movie Holy Grail ), The Crimson Permanent Assurance suddenly re-emerges in the middle of the main feature of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

In 1983 Sarony appeared as one of a number of elderly insurance clerks in the The Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

Bands which were signed or had releases by Stolen Transmission include The Oohlas, The Horrors, PlayRadioPlay !, Monty Are I, Permanent ME, Schoolyard Heroes, The Photo Atlas, Innerpartysystem, and Bright Light Fever.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

The appearance was billed as the " U. S. Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python ", although video releases have gone by varying titles, including " Monty Python Live at Aspen ( 1998 )".

The " Dead Parrot Sketch ", alternatively and originally known as the " Pet Shop Sketch " or " Parrot Sketch ", is a popular sketch or one act from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.

Idle is an accomplished songwriter, having composed and performed many of the Pythons ' most famous comic pieces, including " Eric the Half-a-Bee ", " The Philosophers ' Song ", " Galaxy Song ", " Penis Song ( Not the Noel Coward Song )" and, probably his most recognised hit, " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ", which was written for the closing scene of the Monty Python film Life of Brian, and sung from the crosses during the mass crucifixion.

Reviewer John Jenkins compared the dizzying complexity of splinter groups which results as akin to Monty Python's Life of Brian with its " Judean People's Front ", " People's Front of Judea ", " Judean Popular People's Front " and so on.

According to the episode " Principal Charming ", his name was Ralph Melish, which is a reference to the Monty Python sketch " The Adventures of Ralph Melish: Hot Dog and Knickers " from The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

Perhaps the first time that Wensleydale cheese was thrust into the limelight was as one of the cheeses mentioned by John Cleese in the Monty Python sketch " The Cheese Shop ", which originally appeared in a 1972 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Early use of the mockumentary format in television comedy may be seen in several sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 1974 ), such as " Hell's Grannies ", " Piranha Brothers ", and " The Funniest Joke in the World ".

* The British comedy troupe Monty Python mention Tess of the d ' Urbervilles on their 1973 comedy record album Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief on the track " Novel Writing ", in which Thomas Hardy writes Return of the Native before a live audience.

" Crunchy Frog " is a fictional confection originating from a Monty Python sketch titled " Trade Description Act ", inspired by the British law Trade Descriptions Act 1968.

Keble is mentioned in John Betjeman's poem " Myfanwy at Oxford ", as well as in the writings of John Ruskin and in Monty Python's " Travel Agent " sketch.