Monty Python’s Flying Circus!

There it goes, my little piece for AUX Magazine on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which has just been re-released in Spain.

A castaway with a fake beard runs towards the camera with great effort, and just before fainting from exhaustion he manages to pronounce “It’s…”. From then on, lawyers, masons, Oscar Wilde, stock brokers, encyclopedia salesman, police officers, the Queen of England, pantomime horses, extraterrestrial blemanches, army generals, Karl Marx, the Spanish Inquisition, a Cardinal Richelieu impersonator, scotsmen on a horse, and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others, will show up during the following thirty minutes of your average Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode, appearing in some absurd situation until a medieval knight enters the scene and hits the main character in the head with a frozen chicken.
The 45 chapters of this BBC classic created by John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and the late Graham Chapman, have recently been released in a dvd pack way more affordable than the previous release. Absolute sillyness and bright humor live together in harmony in this 22 and a half hours of television. The six members of the group play all kinds of characters in classic sketches like The Ministry of Silly Walks, The Spanish Inquisition, Summarize Proust Competition, Exploding version of The Blue Danube and dozens of others which you mustn’t miss.