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.

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

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

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

It would later be reworked for the album The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

In the audio version on The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief ( MT & H ) album and other live and recorded versions, Cleese also mentions Greek feta.

) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.

Idle included a live version of the song on his album Eric Idle Sings Monty Python.

However, this idea was dropped when the band discovered that the Monty Python comedy troupe had executed the very same idea three years earlier with their Matching Tie and Handkerchief album.

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.

* 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.

It has been home to actors as diverse as Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, child actress Clara Fisher, comedian Dan Leno, the comedy troupe Monty Python ( who recorded a concert album there ), and musical composer and performer Ivor Novello.

A parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring Eric Idle as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Sprocket-a later reference on a Monty Python album gave rise to the band of the same name.

** Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( album ), album by Monty Python in conjunction with film of same name, also contains a song titled " The Meaning of Life "

Monty Python Sings is a comedy album of songs written by the Monty Python team.

" The album also has the complete version of the " Medical Love Song " and " Henry Kissinger ," which each had a verse cut out of its appearance on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album.

A slightly re-worked version of the sketch also appeared on the album Another Monty Python Record, which opened by announcing that the brothers had recently been sentenced to 400 years imprisonment for crimes of violence.

Free Record Given Away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, later shortened to simply The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973.

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.

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.

To further confuse the listener, both sides of the LP are labelled " FREE RECORD Given away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief-Side 2 "-only the matrix numbers identify which are the first and second sides.

One of his most technically demanding achievements was the so-called " three-sided " album, The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief ( 1973 ).

As Fingerprince was originally meant to be a three-sided album ( a concept abandoned due to expense and Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief beating them to the punch ), much of the material was abandoned and the third side remained unfinished until November 1977 although most tracks from the EP was shown at the Residents Radio Special in September 1977.

* Monty Python's 1973 record, Matching Tie and Handkerchief includes a sketch called " Novel Writing ".

Original 1973 album cover to The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief

Notable examples of double-grooving are Monty Python's infamous " three-sided " Matching Tie and Handkerchief, Tool's Opiate EP and Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante.

The most frequently cited example of a multiple-groove record is Monty Python's infamous " three-sided " Matching Tie and Handkerchief album, issued in 1973.

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