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Monty Python's Personal Best
Calling all fans of Spam, dead parrots, upper-class twits and lumberjacks! This series of one-hour specials highlights the all-time favorites of the masters of sketch comedy: Monty Python. The five living members of the troupe - John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin - have selected their favorites of the Python skits, included in each member's "personal best." Each episode includes a special introduction in which the host provides insight into his particular picks. In a separate episode, the Monty Python quintet collaborates on a special tribute to fellow Pythonite Graham Chapman, who died in 1989. They all offer reminiscences of Chapman to celebrate his crazed comic wizardry.
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Download Questions (PDF file - Adobe Reader required)
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Who's your favorite Python? Why?
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Do you think the humor holds up after all these years? If not, what accounts for its decline?
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Can you recall any controversy around the original broadcasts? Do you think any elements would create controversy now?
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What do you think accounts for the success of the series on both sides of Atlantic?
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Would you consider the series "groundbreaking?" Why?
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What do you think the frequent cross-dressing implies? The gay allusions?
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Spamalot, a hit Broadway play based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, premiered in 2005 and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. What do you think this implies?
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What is your opinion of the cartoon segments that were a standard feature of the Monty Python episodes?
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Which of the surviving members do you think has had the best post-Python career? What has impressed you especially?
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