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Monty Python

Matthias Rest; 05.11.02; E3; 12/1

Actors:
Graham Chapman
Born: 08.01.1941 in Leicester
- Cambridge Footlight Club
- I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again
- At Last, the 1948 Show
- Frost Report (conventional comedy show)
- since 1969 Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python movies
†04.11.1989
John Cleese
Born: 27.10.1939 in Weston-super-Mare
- Cambridge Footlight Club
- At Last, the 1948 Show
- Frost Report
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python movies
- Fawlty Towers (with Connie Booth, his 1st woman)
- Movies: Splitting Heirs (1993)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Rat Race (2002)
James Bond (since 1999)
Terry Gilliam
Born: 22.11.1940 in Minneapolis (Minnesota)
- Do Not Adjust Your Set (Comedyprogramm for children)
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python Movies
- Co-Director: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Director: Jabberwocky (1977 with Michael Palin)
Time Bandits (1981 with John Cleese and Michael Palin as Co-Director)
Brazi (1985)
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1989)
The Fisher King
Eric Idle
Born: 29.03.1943 in South Shields
- Cambridge Footlight Club
-Do Not Adjust Your Set
- Frost Report
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python movies
- Produced: The Rutles-Project
- Movies: Around the World in Eighty Days (1988)
Nuns on the Run (1990)
Splitting Heirs (1993)
Terry Jones
Born: 01.01.1942 in Colwyn Bay
- Experimental Theatre Club
- Frost Report
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python movies
- Ripping Yarns (with Michael Palin)
- Writer: Chausers Knights
The Sage of Eric the Viking
- Movies: Erik the Viking (1989 with John Cleese) as writer and actor
Michael Palin
Born: 05.05.1943 in Sheffield
- The Oxford Line
- Frost Report
- Do Not Adjust Your Set
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python Movies
- Ripping Yarns
- Writer
- Documentations :Confession Of A Trainspotter
Around The World In Eight Days
Pole To Pole

History:
1969 – 1973 Monty Python’s Flying Circus (45 episodes produced)
1971 And Now For Something Completely Different (Best Of Flying Circus)
1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (King Arthus is searching for the Holy Grail)
1979 Life Of Brian (Story about the life of the boy who was born next to Jesus)
1982 Life at the Hollywood Bowl (Performance of famous Python Scatches at the Hollywood Bowl)
1983 Meaning Of Life (Monty Python deals with the sense of life and shows their own interpretation)

Humour:

Object of sketches:
Famous spectacles in History and TV (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Normal wellknown daily situations
The BBC
Blasphemous sketches about the church and religion (Life Of Brian)

Methods of Humour:
Senselessabsurd sketches
Surreal animations from Terry Gilliam
Slapstick
Eskalation sketch
“Hard-punch-line” or many punch lines in one sketch (sometimes no punchline at all)

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