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Monty and American
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.
* 1923 – Monty Westmore, American make-up artist ( d. 2007 )
Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).
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.
* 1971 – Monty Williams, American basketball player
** Monty Stratton, American baseball player ( d. 1982 )
* May 6 – Monty Woolley, American actor ( b. 1888 )
While prochronisms such as this may not be noticed by the uninformed, other prochronisms are intentionally comic ( e. g. a 10th-century peasant earnestly explaining his village as an " anarcho-syndicalist commune " in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or a Beatlesque band called the " Bedbugs " appearing in the American Civil War era TV comedy F-Troop ).
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.
Monty Woolley ( August 17, 1888May 6, 1963 ) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor.
Monty is an American comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick.
In the north British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (" Monty "), in the middle the American 12th Army Group commanded by General Omar N. Bradley, and in the South the American 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.
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.
Dudley's career in film music has spanned 20 years and her film scores include: American History X ( 1998 ) an American drama directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton ; A Man Apart ( 2003 ) starring Vin Diesel ; Black Book ( 2006 ) a World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven ; Bright Young Things ( 2003 ) British drama written and directed by Stephen Fry based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ; Buster ( 1988 ) a British comedy drama starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock ; The Crying Game ( 1992 ) an Irish / British drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan ; The Full Monty ( 1997 ) a Peter Cattaneo directed comedy about six unemployed steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act.
Orson Welles's The Trial is notable for heavily influencing Gilliam's signature style years before the American ex-patriate joined the Monty Python comedy troupe while only being a one-feature style for Welles.
For example, in The Reptile Room, Uncle Monty and the Baudelaires plan a trip to Peru ; there are also references to the fictional nobility of North American regions, specifically the Duchess of Winnipeg and the King of Arizona.
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.
Monty Kip Sopp ( born November 11, 1963 ) is an American professional wrestler.
Marvin Earl " Monty " Roberts ( born May 14, 1935 ) is an American horse trainer who promotes his techniques of natural horsemanship through his Join-Up International organization, named after the core concept of his training method.
The show's style was variously influenced by vaudeville, the American Tonight Show format, The Marx Brothers, The Goon Show and Monty Python.

Monty and people
A 1972 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a mock documentary which investigated whether the residents of Hounslow, another London area suburb, had long ago been descendants of the people of Surbiton " who had made the great trek north.
Patricia Bosworth, who had access to Clift's family and many people who knew and worked with him, wrote in her book, " Monty carried on affairs with men and women.
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.
* In a standup comedy routine in Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road Larry the Cable Guy, referring to strange people who go to Wal-Mart in the middle of the night, says that it " turns into Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.
" When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity in " Monty Can't Buy Me Love ", Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people ; Homer later states, " White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl.
Monty goes to the church, discovering that the " shelter " is simply an alley filled with homeless people.
Very little happens in Framley, so the highlights in the newspaper are the absurdist classified ads ( for items such as second-hand Dachshund stabilizers, a child's Paul Simon costume, and a set of nested bunk beds that sleep eighteen progressively smaller people ), firmly in the absurdist British comic tradition of The Goon Show and Monty Python.
* 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.
In various sketches, Cleese demonstrates exactly what the title suggests — how to irritate people, although this is done in a much more conventional way than the absurdity of similar Monty Python sketches.
When he asks how Monty found him, Monty says, " I heard that there was a bar where newspaper people hang out.
The people wear masks and cloaks, so Palin decides to get into the spirit and dresses up as a Gumby from the Monty Python television series.
Another rumour was that Sherlock sprinkled Chapman's ashes on people at the 25th anniversary of Monty Python's founding in Los Angeles.
Mavado, Sean Paul, Buju Banton, Elephant Man, The Mighty Diamonds, Monty Alexander, Beres Hammond, Lady Saw, Sugar Minott, Bounty Killer, Mr. Vegas, Richie Spice are some of the parish's current residents The area of Trench Town was made famous because of its rise of people like The Wailers ( Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley ), and Toots Hibbert who gave credence to the birth of reggae music.

Monty and who
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.
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 ).
In his published Diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian in Tunisia, Spike Milligan ( who happened to be there on holiday ) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed " Norwegian Blue " to " Arctic Grey ".
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.
He wrote, " This is more of a message film than a noir thriller, but has been classified by most cinephiles in the noir category ... J. Roy Hunt, the 70-year-old cinematographer, who goes back to the earliest days of Hollywood, shot the film using the style of low-key lighting, providing dark shots of Monty, contrasted with ghost-like shots of Mary Mitchell ( Jacqueline ) as she angelically goes to help her troubled husband Arthur.
In the late 1960s, Took became Comedy advisor to the BBC and was responsible for bringing together the performers who formed Monty Python's Flying Circus before moving to the USA to work briefly on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.
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 1975 comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail contains a scene wherein King Arthur encounters uncooperative peasants who are part of an autonomous, anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".
Veda, who has been training to become an opera singer, goes on to a great deal of fame as Mildred convinces her new boyfriend Monty ( a young man who, like Mildred, lost his family's wealth at the start of the Great Depression ) to help reconcile them.
Monty explains to Mildred that he's leaving her for Veda, who gloats that they've been planning this all along.
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.
As Tromeo and Juliet leave the house of Capulet, they are confronted by Ingrid and Monty, who reveal to them the real reason behind the Capulet / Que feud: Long ago, Cappy and Monty were the owners of the successful Silky Films production company.
* In the comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian ( 1979 ), Pilate is portrayed by Michael Palin as a foolish man who has trouble pronouncing the letter " r " ( pronouncing it like a " w ").
When they are approached by local women who have heard of their show, Gaz declares that their show will be better than the Chippendales dancers because they'll go " the Full Monty " and remove all their clothes.
Bothell remains the only municipality in the state of Washington to have two consecutive amputee mayors ; James Dixon ( who lacked a right leg ) from 1956 to 1960, followed by Monty Winestein ( left arm ) from 1960 to 1963.
* The short-lived 2003 series Keen Eddie featured a character Monty Pippin who, along with a female friend, pretended to be married in order to gain access to a swingers ' club for recreational sex.

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