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.

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.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

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 )".

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is also featured in Eric Idle's Spamalot, a Broadway musical based upon Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and was sung by the rest of the Monty Python group at Graham Chapman's memorial service and at the Monty Python Live At Aspen special.

That sketch was based on an actual incident between Palin and a car salesman .< ref > In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Palin said that this salesman " had an excuse for everything.

The Monty Python Live at Drury Lane album features a live version of the sketch, which is slightly different from the TV version.

The 1976 Monty Python Live at City Center performance ended with the slug lines, followed by:

The reason for the confusion is that existing live recordings of the song ( included in the Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl film and on the albums Live at Drury Lane and Live at City Center ) have the " Schopenhauer and Hegel " version, while the studio recording on Matching Tie and Handkerchief features the " Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel " version.

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was performed during Amnesty International concerts ( by members of Monty Python — once including Rowan Atkinson in place of Python member Eric Idle ), as well as during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and recordings.

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of the Rutles on Saturday Night Live, and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot.

In 2000 The AV Club gave the album Eric Idle Sings Monty Python: Live In Concert the title of ' Least Essential Solo Album ' of the year.

" Eric Idle Sings Monty Python " ( Live ) / Eric Idle

The film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl also contains a performance of this sketch, with Chapman as the Inspector and Terry Gilliam as his assistant.

While showing some influence from Monty Python's Flying Circus and Saturday Night Live, SCTV eschewed both the live television format and even filming before a live studio audience.

At the end of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the entire march was played over the closing credits.

Sketches were again reused in How to irritate people and by Monty Python for two German TV specials ( Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus ) and for stage shows, including the " Four Yorkshiremen sketch ", which was performed on Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

The 2009 series began with a tense draw in the First Test at SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, with final pair James Anderson and Monty Panesar surviving 69 balls.

An early listing of the sequence of sketches reprinted in Monty Python: The Case Against by Robert Hewison reveals that the film was to have begun with a set of sketches at an English public school.

Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, The Frost Report was the first time all the British members of Monty Python ( its sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was at that time an American citizen ) worked together.

Gilliam was a part of Monty Python's Flying Circus from its outset, at first credited as an animator ( his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits ), later as a full member.

Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni ( particularly Palin, Cleese, and Idle ), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once ( in order of first film appearance ):

* The Full Monty ( 2000 ) is an Americanized stage adaptation of the 1997 British film of the same name, in which a group of unemployed male steelworkers put together a strip act at a local club.

In North America it is available as part of a two-disc set titled Monty Python Live, which includes the 1998 Monty Python Live at Aspen retrospective and the first episode of Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus.

In Monty Python Live in Aspen, Terry Gilliam explains:

* Monty Python Live At Aspen ( 1998 )