Monty Python

Monty Python

1969–1983   Monty Python also known as The Pythons were a British surreal comedy group who created their comedy sketch show Monty python's Flying Circus, that aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969.   In a 2005 UK poll to find the comedian three of the six Pythons members were voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders to be among the top 50 greatest comedians ever: Cleese at #2, Idle at #21, and Palin at #30.   John Cleese   Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset,  England John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival fringe and as a script and a performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960's he co founded the Monty Pythons. In the mid 1970's he and his first wife Connie Booth, co wrote and starred in the faulty towers. Terry Gilliam (22 November 1940) He was an American born British screen, writer, film director, animator, actor, and member of the Monty Python group. He has directed 12 feature films throughout his life. He was the only python not born in Britain. Gilliam was a part of Monty Pythons Flying Circus from its outset, at first credited as an animator with his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits, later as a full member. His cartoons linked the show's sketches together, and defined the group's visual language in other media (such as LP and book covers, and the title sequences of their films). Gilliam's animations mix his own art, characterized by soft gradients and odd, bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cut outs from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era. Graham Chapman (8 January 1941) Graham was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. Both him and Cleese both worked for the BBC during the 1960's. He also contributed sketches to the radio series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and other television programmes. In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus. Eric Idle (29 March 1943) Idle started at Cambridge college only a year after Footlights President in 1965. his future Pythons fellows Graham Chapman and John Cleese. He became      http://www.thejohncleese.com/