* The Argument Sketch, a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus

* Ministry of Bubbleblowing: possible ancestor of Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

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.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

Déjà Vu was the third episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British comedy program.

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.

* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant

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.

In 1978, the Monty Python comedy group invited Moon to join them in Tunisia for their filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where he was to play some of the smaller roles.

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team.

Richard Webster comments in his A Brief History of Blasphemy that, " internalised censorship played a significant role in the handling " of Monty Python's Life of Brian.

The song " All Things Dull and Ugly " and the parody scripture reading " Martyrdom of St. Victor " were performed on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( 1980 ).

The idea of a violent rugby match between school masters and small boys was filmed in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ).

An album of the songs sung in Monty Python's Life of Brian has been released on the Disky label.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

In October 2008, a memoir by Kim " Howard " Johnson entitled Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian was released.

" – Messianism and modernity in Monty Python's " Life of Brian ".

* Monty Python's Life of Brian film script

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) ( adapted in 2004 as the stage production Spamalot ) was a comedic adaptation.

" 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.

With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamalot, Idle announced that he would be giving Life of Brian a similar treatment.

He originated the role of King Arthur in the Broadway hit Monty Python's Spamalot.

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 2004, Idle created Spamalot, a musical comedy based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Idle also wrote the book and co-wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Monty Python's Spamalot, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Monty Python's Spamalot opened later in 2006 and ran until 2009.

* Monty Python's Spamalot ( 30 September 2006 – 3 January 2009 )

* 2005: Monty Python's Spamalot – Book by Eric Idle, music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, lyrics by Eric Idle.

At the request of Lloyd Webber, Kenwright brought his production of Whistle Down the Wind to the Palace Theatre, London in March 2006, where it played a limited run until August, filling the gap between the closure of another Lloyd Webber musical, The Woman in White and the opening of the Monty Python musical Spamalot.

In 2008 and 2009, he appeared as King Arthur in the national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot.

Aiken made his Broadway debut playing the role of Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot in January 2008.

On January 18, 2008, Aiken made his Broadway debut when he joined the cast of Monty Python's Spamalot for a four-month run, ending on May 4, 2008.

In the Monty Python 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, " Sir Bedevere the Wise " is played by Terry Jones, and in the Broadway musical Spamalot, he was originally played by Steve Rosen.

In August – September 2010, Shaughnessy appeared as King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot!

Decca Broadway has also recorded recent hits including: Wicked, Monty Python's Spamalot, Seussical, and Spring Awakening.

The song appears twice in the Broadway musical Spamalot, based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail – once in Act II and again during the curtain call.

* In the Monty Python-derived Broadway show Spamalot written by Eric Idle, there is a song called “ The Fisch Schlapping Song ”, sung by pseudo-Finnish people, before the historian abruptly ends the song.

Carty stars as Patsy, from May 2010, in the Monty Python touring production of Spamalot.

In Monty Python, Palin played various roles, which ranged from manic enthusiasm ( such as the lumberjack of the Lumberjack Song, or Herbert Anchovy, host of the game show " Blackmail ") to unflappable calmness ( such as the Dead Parrot vendor, Cheese Shop proprietor, or Postal Clerk ).

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

* Mongomery ' Monty ' Brewster, the lead character played by Richard Pryor in the 1985 film Brewster's Millions.

Monty Woolley makes a full-blown character of the man who comes to lodge ; Joseph Cotten is droll as the Navy playboy, and Hattie McDaniel does an Andy-act quite well .... No doubt, this would have been a sharper picture if Mr. Selznick had played it in much less time, and it would have been considerably more significant had he kept it somewhat closer to average means.

Also in 2009, Horrocks took the lead in the BBC TV production Gracie !, a drama portraying the life of Gracie Fields during World War II and her relationship with the Italian-born director Monty Banks ( played by Tom Hollander ).

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

One of the most notable characters is Charlie Hungerford ( played by Terence Alexander, well known as having played Monty in the BBC adaptation of The Forsyte Saga ), who also happens to be Jim Bergerac's former father-in-law.

In 2009, Jane Horrocks took the lead in the BBC TV production Gracie !, a drama portraying the life of Fields just before and during World War II and her relationship with Monty Banks ( played by Tom Hollander ).

Monty Python sent up the highwayman legends in the Dennis Moore sketch in Episode 37 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which John Cleese played the titular criminal who stole only lupins.

Ray played for a time with the " Quartet " with Monty Alexander, Milt Jackson and Mickey Roker.

He also played with a variety of other leading musicians of the time, such as Clark Terry, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Milt Jackson and Monty Alexander.

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

Many of the early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus feature a sensible-looking announcer ( played by John Cleese ) dressed in a black suit and sitting behind a wooden desk, which in turn is in some ridiculous location such as behind the bars of a zoo cage or in mid-air being held aloft by small attached propellers.

In England, drag has been more common in comedy: Benny Hill portrayed several female characters, and the Monty Python troupe and The League of Gentlemen often played female parts in their skits.

In 1975's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sir Bors ( played by Terry Gilliam ) is the first Knight of the Round Table to succumb to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog ; he is quickly decapitated before he can attempt a single blow.