Monty Python's Flying Circus

Eric Idle - the outrageously successful actor, writer, composer, director, producer and Broadway Impresario - is not satisfied yet. Determined to reshape the entire entertainment world in his image, Eric has gathered what he considers to be the very best Monty Python material of the entire four year run and squeezed it all into one convenient package. This one. He's even created all new, never before seen material. It's amazing what some zillionaire meta-stars will do for a few extra shillings, isn't it?

Some say you can't take it with you. Others just refuse to go. Graham Chapman - doctor, tall actor, self-wrestler and really famous dead guy - is the latter. Chapman has had at least 8 movie and TV appearances to his credit since he passed away in 1989, making him the most prolific corpse since Elvis. His personal best makes 9. In a comprehensive tribute written by the 5 other members of the incomparable Monty Python's Flying Circus, this program includes the sketches that they believe Chapman would have called his very favorites. Of course, they could be wrong.

For more than 40 years, John Cleese has made millions - nay, billions of fans laugh themselves into a state of near incontinence. But have you ever asked yourself, "What makes John Cleese laugh?" You haven't, have you, you selfish git? Well, for once in your life think about someone else and download John Cleese's personal best. It's chock full of Python bits selected by The Great Cleese himself, plus original never before seen footage.

Michael Palin - globe trotting adventurer and "Comedian's Comedian" - has somehow managed to sit still just long enough to put together his compilation of the very best of Monty Python. Of course, the perpetually peripatetic Palin found it impossible to resist a bit of free travel, so he has courteously included an all new, never before seen retrospective visit to the site of the notorious Fish Slapping Dance. And because he's the nice Python, Michael Palin has included the world famous Cheese Shop Sketch. Let's here it for Michael! Huzzah.

Terry Gilliam - the disturbed American animator who shifted Monty Python from "very strange" all the way to "totally bizarre" - has finally snapped. From Baron Munchausen to Time Bandits, to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, no project has challenged Gilliam's unstable mind like this one - building an entirely new Monty Python experience out of the best pieces of the entire four-series "Flying Circus" run. The results, in this tiny unassuming package, are truly devastating. Brace yourself for the first ever, all animation Monty Python program - exactly as Gilliam would have done it if the BBC were crazy enough to put him in charge.

Terry Jones - writer, director, actor, political satirist, polymath genius - still can't figure out what he wants to do with his life. So he's back to bother us. Between attempts to save the free world, Mr. "I can't make up my ginormous mind" Jones has scrutinized the entire four year run of Flying Circus and pretty much taken credit for all of it. Herein lie his majesty's picks of the very best Python sketches, along with incontrovertible new evidence that it was all his doing. So pour yourself a glass of sherry and join Terry at the piano for a silly walk down memory lane which he call, "How I created Monty Python's Flying Circus."

Twenty years of classic comedy history in 73 scintillating minutes. The very best of Python? Yes indeed, selected by the Pythons themselves. Immortal sketches including The Ministry of Silly Walks and the Spam sketch and the Lumberjack Song and Dennis Moore, the Silly Olympics, the Man with a Tape Recorder up his Nose, the Flying Sheep, the Fish Slapping Dance, the Spanish Inquisition and the Gumbies and the very best of Terry Gilliam's amazing animations. All of them together in one place, in a nutshell as it were, all on this one essential video. But what about the Parrot Sketch?