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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.450280922
EAN: 9780312033095
ISBN: 0312033095
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 15, 1989
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Sales Rank: 867758
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product Description:
This book celebrates the group's career with exclusive interviews, rare photographs, and an episode guide detailing the original TV shows still being aired daily across the country. Photos throughout.
Amazon.com Review:
Longtime Python fanatic Kim "Howard" Johnson's update of The First 200 Years of Monty Python retains at its core the nearly blow-by-blow account of each of the 45 classic episodes in which this British troupe blew gale-force fresh air into television comedy. But for this new volume the author has extensively reinterviewed the Pythons, as well as Carol Cleveland (the lone female performer--unless you count the guys in drag); expanded the material on individual members and their work before and after Monty Python's Flying Circus; and added a bibliography of their output in every medium (plus coverage of PythOnline).
Johnson first met John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and the late Graham Chapman in 1978, when he published a Python fanzine, and he actually worked on their third film, Life of Brian. That 21-year relationship gives the book a jovial insider's tone making it a nice complement to David Morgan's more conventional oral history, Monty Python Speaks! Johnson conscientiously profiles every manifestation of Python's creative madness, but his first loves remain "The Spanish Inquisition," "Cheese Shop," "Dead Parrot," and all the other insanely inventive sketches that are as fresh and funny in reruns as they were 280 years ago. --Wendy Smith
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This had been on my "To Read" shelf since 1990 (I know because I was using the sales receipt as a bookmark). A biased, glowing look at the Pythons, it is full of useless but amusing trivia, which is exactly what Python fanatics like myself buy these books for. As a history, it's nowhere near the level of Hill and Weingard's Saturday Night (a look at the making of Saturday Night Live and its myriad cast members), but as histories of the series goes, it's about as good as it gets. There's also a complete ... Read More
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If you are a MP fan, you must own this book! Lots of memories and laughs.
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This is a fantastic guide to Monty Python. Pre-Python, The TV Show, the films, the records: it's all there. It is full of facts & photos. I often refer to it while I'm watching a Python TV show or film on DVD. There are other books about Python, but none that cover the history so thouroughly. It's a very enjoyable, funny read. I particularly like the Pre-Python photo comic from Harvey Kurtzman's Help Magazine, which is reprinted in the book. It features John Cleese as a man who falls in love with ... Read More
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Kim Howard Johnson has far too much time available. Fortunately, if you are going to waste your time, Kim has chosen the perfect waste of time, Monty Python.
LOOK... A PENGUIN! Sorry.
Johnson has wasted a perfectly good lifetime with this ridiculously nitpicky tome which reduces all things Python to little more than a college thesis. Albeit, one which is fascinating and thoroughly researched to the nith degree. Worthy of a Pulitzer. It's just too good for words. If you're not a Python ... Read More
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I admit, thisbook is now outdated, having been updated by the annoyingly quotated Kim "Howard" Johnson. This is the edition i read, though, so i had better stick with it. Perhaps (somehow i doubt it) the flaws have been corrected in the new edition.
A compilation book, descriptions of each of the shows and movies ~ with brief information about the records (CDs now, i suppose), books, and videotapes ~ snippets from conversations with each of the Pythons, brief biographies of the six, and a fair number ... Read More
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