A Pocketful of Python

Eric Idle selects his favorite moments from the world-famous Monty Python films and TV series. This is the fifth volume in the series, the other four being by other members of the Python team. In October 1969 the BBC broadcast the first programme in a new series: 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', written and conceived by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Over the years the six of them followed this with another 44 extremely silly programmes, a German TV special, five full-length feature films, seven books, nine long-playing records and live stage shows that toured the UK and were seen in Canada and New York and at the Hollywood Bowl. This new volume continues the series of pocket anthologies for which each of the Pythons makes a personal choice of favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre. Eric Idle's selection contains classics of silliness that include "Silly Walks", "Twit of the Year" and "Bright Side of Life" as well as some startling and less familiar verbal and pictorial gems.