num_pages: 130
description: One of the most innovative comedic programs to air on television, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a mix of the carnivalesque and the critical. The show has become famous for eschewing many of the conventions of situation comedy, the fully formed and coherent script, narrative closure, predictable characters, and the decorum associated with presentation. Its curious transatlantic popularity defied the assumption that comedy is regional and exclusive, and the show’s cult status still lives on in the United States and United Kingdom through reruns, videos, DVDs, and continual reappearances by the show’s now iconic stars. Most written accounts of Monty Python’s Flying Circus focus solely on members of the Pythons, histories of the sketches, or the development of other Monty Python projects, leaving a dearth of scholarly and contextual analysis on the television show itself.
language: English
title: Monty Python's Flying Circus
titlecomplete: Monty Python's Flying Circus
characters: Ian MacNaughton, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Humor
ratings_count: 21
series: TV Milestones
publisher: Wayne State University Press