The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume 2

by Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, et al.

Book Overview

***WINNER OF THE 1989 PYTHON PRIZE FOR THEIR OWN BOOKS***

The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes.

Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch.

This second volume contains twenty-two classic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679726489
• ISBN13: 9780679726487
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

great for those who know the series

This was a lot of fun for getting down into the intricacies of some of the sketches. You catch things that make you laugh at the memory of watching them.

"Ah...it was the middle one."

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume 2 is the second half of a set containing the scripts of the entire series (45 episodes). This book, volume 2, contains scripts for episode 24: "How not to be seen" through episode 45: "Party Political Broadcast". This book is more fun than an endless supply of "lupins". Both volumes make great companions to the MPFC video/dvd collection ("There you go, can't be bad.") and also unlike the DVDs, there are no edits, these are the original words. So that horrible "m" word that Graham said in episode 31: "The All England Summarize Proust Competition" is in this book. Enjoy!Yours etc., Brigadier Mainwaring Smith Smith Smith etc., Deceased etc.

The companion volume to Volume I is this, Volume II

"It's satire.""No, it isn't. This is zany madcap humour."With that immortal exchange, nearly everything Pythonian is summed up. For those who haven't memorized every single Python skit (or for those who have and who are looking to free up some short-term memory), this book and its companion volume ("All The Words, Volume I") are must-haves. Every single word from every single bit ever done on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is in here. It's a joy and a treasure and a non-stap laff riot.Every Python nut is familiar with the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" tale, the dead parrot sketch, the Ministry of Silly Walks and so on. But even beyond these justly famed classics, there is wonderfully silly stuff herein. I never realized until buying this and the companion Volume I how utterly the Python crew had mastered the gorgeously silly non-sequiter. To wit:"Would Albert Einstein ever have hit upon the theory of relativity if he hadn't been clever?""Don't call me señor! I'm not a Spanish person. You must call me Mr. Biggles, or Group Captain Biggles, or Mary Biggles if I'm dressed as my wife, but never señor.""I'm afraid we are unable to show you any more of that letter. We continue with a man with a stoat through his head.""Were you worried when his head started to come loose?"It just doesn't get any better than this, and being able to sit and peruse the scripts without watching the frenetic activity on the screen only goes to strengthen the generally accepted view that these guys were genius writers. As the book back states, these volumes are the winners of "the 1989 PYTHON PRIZE for their own books." ARE there higher honors than this?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa

Sometimes the jokes in »Monty Python's Flying Circus« are fired so fast that you don't catch it all. This is your chance to do so.Hilarious. The greatest comedians ever. Now on paper. I'm afraid I'll die laughing...

A book, on paper, in fact, that will make your sides ache.

For all you folks who have ever been engaged in a wonderfully intense conversation about Monty Python, but didn't know all the words to their sketches...READ THIS BOOK! Believe me, your friends who all know the words are probably snickering behind your back at this very moment at how pathetic a rendition you do of the "Cheese Shop"sketch, or perhaps it's the famous "Pet Shop" sketch, that everyone else knows incredibly well, that you keep messing up. Just think, with this published companion, you too can enter the realm of the Python, making others laugh, and helping your social life at the same time. Oh, and the book is incredibly hilarious too.