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.

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 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.

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.

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

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

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.

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 ).

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

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 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 )".

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.

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 was also released by Monty Python in 1979 in conjunction with the film.

" 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.

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

On New Year's Day 2007, and again on New Year's Eve, UK television station Channel 4 dedicated an entire evening to the Monty Python phenomenon during which an hour-long documentary was broadcast called The Secret Life of Brian about the making of The Life of Brian and the controversy that was caused by its release.

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.

One of the most influential sketch shows was Monty Python's Flying Circus, a comedy from the late 1960s and early 1970s that introduced both British and American audiences to such luminaries as John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.

The commercial success of the special US version of The Secret Policeman's Other Ball film ( Miramax Films 1982 ) introduced Connolly to a wider American audience, who were attracted to the film because of the presence of Monty Python members.

EEN introduced Wall $ treet Week in November 1970 before PBS began distributing it nationwide in January 1972, as well as the unedited Monty Python's Flying Circus to American audiences in 1975 ( ABC ran censored versions in late night previously ), and brought The Three Tenors to public television audiences in 1991.

With the established and successful ABC daytime soaps veering into a new trend of youth orientation and action / adventure storylines, a format heavy influenced by Gloria Monty on General Hospital, creators Agnes Nixon and Douglas Marland set out to develop a new series that would be introduced as a traditional, classic soap opera for the 1980s.

A versatile and inventive comedian with a gift for accents and a lifelong love of Monty Python and British comedy, he introduced several classic characters during this era, including " Lothar of the Hill People " and ultra-pretentious German arts show host " Dieter ".

( For example, Terry Jones introduced the screening of Monty Python's Life of Brian, and was interviewed extensively after the screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

In the 1990s, Robotman left the Milde family and began living with a geeky inventor named Monty.

During contract negotiations, the syndicate approached Meddick with a request to change the name of the strip to Monty and to de-emphasize and remove the Robotman character from the strip.

This was due to an ongoing difficulty in marketing the strip with the name Robotman ( for a brief period, the strip was rechristened " Robotman & Monty ").

Robotman was gradually phased out of the strip through a farewell storyline, and the series continued as Monty in April 2001.

In 1996, it was revealed that Monty was brainwashed of his past life as a government scientist, when he invented Robotman.

* After assuring Monty that he would be unaffected by the Y2k bug, Robotman became a Theodore Roosevelt-like character.

* Unofficial Robotman & Monty Archive

In 1985, he created the comic strip Robotman, now known as Monty.

Meddick did not own the Robotman property, whereas he created and owns the Monty character.

The Full Monty ( 1997 ) is a story of British ex-steel workers who form a Chippendales-style dance revue and decide to strip naked to make an extra buck.

* 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 1967, they appeared in The Beatles ' Magical Mystery Tour television special playing Vivian's " Death Cab for Cutie " during the strip club scene, and this was followed by a slot as the house band on Do Not Adjust Your Set, a weekly TV revue show also notable for early appearances by most of the Monty Python troupe.

Monty is an American comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick.

" Monty Montahue, the brainy, bumbling bachelor who's unlucky in work and love, is the star of the strip.

Explains Meddick, " I've tried to create the comic strip equivalent of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

* Moondog, a character in Monty ( comic strip )

* Monty ( comic strip ), a comic strip