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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Graham Chapman, John Marshall Harlan Ii, John Houseman, Hayagriva Swami, Billy Red Lyons, Ruth Ann Musick, Jack Buchanan, Ron Grainer, Chang Young Hee, Don Lash, Dan Kelly, Jack Kiefer, Leonard Parkin, Ilya Kormiltsev, Marc North, Grace Stafford, Ian Frodsham. Excerpt:Billy Red Lyons William Snip (17 May 1932 22 June 2009) was a Canadian professional wrestler , who used the stage name Billy Red Lyons . He was an active wrestler between 1956 and 1984, and won numerous championship throughout his career. He worked for promotions in both Canada and the United States , particularly in Ontario , California , Minneapolis , Texas , Georgia , and Oklahoma. He won numerous tag team championships throughout his career, including with Dick Beyer , who was his real-life brother-in-law, as well as Fritz Von Erich , Bill Watts , and Ray Gunkel . He also won singles championships, including the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship . After his retirement from in-ring competition, he began working for Maple Leaf Wrestling in Toronto . Lyons later became an announcer for the World Wrestling Federation . Lyons died from cancer on June 22, 2009. Career Snip made his debut in 1956, under the name Billy Lyons, but soon became known as Billy Red Lyons, due to the colour of his hair. During ths first years of his career, he wrestle against future world champions, including Buddy Rogers and Gene Kiniski . During his career, he held several tag team championships with Dick Beyer , who was his real-life brother-in-law , as well as Fritz Von Erich , Bill Watts , and Ray Gunkel . He won his first championship in February 1958, when he teamed with Ray Gunkel to win the NWA International Tag Team Championship. Three years later, he won the NWA Canadian Open Tag Team Championship with Ilio DiPaolo , by defeati... ... Read more

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Chapters: William Harvey, Graham Chapman, W. G. Grace, William Rivers, John Abernethy, John Hunter, Robert Bridges, Robert Morrison, Richard Owen, Donald Winnicott, Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, Donald Mcintosh Johnson, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, William James Erasmus Wilson, Jonathan Hutchinson, Gerald Gallagher, James Paget, John Leech, Ronald Ross, Edward Frankland, William Ross Ashby, Edward Bancroft, Archibald Garrod, Peter Wingfield, John Desmond Cronin, Joseph Adams, Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, Donald Macalister, George Rolleston, Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, John Griffin, Richard Gordon, Edward John Lewis, Gilbert Barling, Maurice Nicoll, James Hinton, William Job Collins, John Freke, William Elford Leach, Percivall Pott, Albert Ruskin Cook, Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, William Acton, George Busk, John Badley, Arthur Wint, William Morrant Baker, Daniel Hack Tuke, Alan John Marshall, Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, David Brown, George Bodington, George Augustus Auden, John Preston Maxwell, Jeremy Davies, Sir William Savory, 1st Baronet, Anne Darquier, Ian Mcwhinney, William Marsden, William Turner, Alexander Muirhead, Spencer Lister, Frederick Batten. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 341. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, (12 March 1864) - 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898, and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship. Rivers was born in 1864 at Constitution Hill, Chatham, Kent, son of Elizabeth Hunt (16 October 1834- 13 November 1897) and Henry Fred...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63708 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Locke, Edward Jenner, Graham Chapman, William Withering, W. G. Grace, Roger Bannister, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, John Radcliffe, Harold Shipman, William Gilbert, Thomas Linacre, Robert Burton, Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet, Hudson Taylor, William Petty, Thomas Sydenham, Thomas Hodgkin, Roy Meadow, James Hamilton Doggart, Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, Jared Eliot, Donald Mcintosh Johnson, Robert Gardiner Hill, Lucy Wills, John Bulwer, Nicholas Culpeper, Philip Henry Pye-Smith, John Epps, William Kitchen Parker, Jim Swire, Stephen Ward, Frederick Howard Taylor, Gideon Mantell, William Oliver, William Penny Brookes, John Webster, James Paget, James Jurin, James Parkinson, Richard Asher, Richard Blackmore, Thomas Horrocks Openshaw, Hank Wangford, Anna Kingsford, Andrew Murrison, Edward Adrian Wilson, Sophia Jex-Blake, John Newsom-Davis, Bill Inman, William Palmer, Alister Mackenzie, Thomas Charles Byde Rooke, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Clinton Thomas Dent, James Cowles Prichard, William Cheselden, William Prout, Samuel Gee, Evan Harris, William Alexander Greenhill, Richard Mead, Lennard Stokes, Mark Akenside, Jonathan Couch, John Conolly, David Southall, Robert Darwin, Archibald Garrod, John Elliotson, Theodore Dyke Acland, Charles Blagden, Charles Hastings, Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, William Charles Ellis, Thomas Muffet, Patrick Christopher Steptoe, Ralph Bathurst, John Mapletoft, Thomas Newton, Fiona Wood, John Langdon Down, Thomas Addison, Anne Macgregor, Yvonne Carter, Thomas Cogan, Samuel Collins, Henry Valentine Knaggs, John Burges, Richard Gilpin, Thomas Beddoes, Richard Lower, William Farr, Cyril Clarke, Thomas Cecil Gray, John Henry Clarke, John Haygarth, William David Doherty, Hewett Watson, George Rolleston, Felix Mann, Henry Levett, Richard Taylor, John M. Holford, Arthur P. Luff, Herbert Hudson Taylor, Matthew Gwinne, Henry Acland, John Griffin, Peter B. Bennett,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=34119 ... Read more

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Chapters: Deaths From Arthritis, Deaths From Bone Cancer, Deaths From Spinal Cancer, Graham Chapman, Charles Laughton, Richard Helms, Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Rimbaud, Lew Allen, Alexander Knox, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Jack Swigert, John Marshall Harlan Ii, Jane Wyman, John Houseman, Alistair Cooke, Jim Bibby, Lucien Carr, Armand Hammer, Hayagriva Swami, Chet Upham, Suzy Parker, Vivian Vance, Billy Red Lyons, John Cazale, Belinda Emmett, Simon Dee, Ali Farka Touré, Eric Forth, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Roy M. Hopkins, Lillian Gordy Carter, Gordon Jackson, Thomas Mitchell, Michael Turner, Antonietta Meo, Gail Robinson, Eileen J. Garrett, Mary Stuart, Lorenzo Music, Chris Tame, Michael Angelo Saltarelli, Mel Gussow, Frank Reynolds, Viveca Lindfors, Brenda Frazier, June Pointer, Ruth Ann Musick, Paul Birch, Joe Farrell, Vince Steen, Gino Pariani, Frank Mcgee, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Joy Davidman, Robert Berning, John Wallowitch, Jack Buchanan, Billy Wilson, Ron Grainer, Chang Young Hee, John Allan Cameron, Don Lash, Jack Clark, Tim Holt, Valeria Moriconi, Percy Heath, Al Dorow, Dan Kelly, Friedrich Goldmann, Kate Wilkinson, Jack Kiefer, Mona Van Duyn, Dai Llewellyn, Pietro Di Donato, Ron Burton, Roma Mitchell, Herbert Biberman, Brian Gibson, Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Roger Kool, Edward Piszek, Sharman Douglas, Leonard Parkin, Laurel Burch, Ilya Kormiltsev, Marc North, Jimmy Roberts, Jarl Kulle, Dona Spring, Grace Stafford, Stu Kerr, Montserrat Grases, Tom Kennedy, Pete Jolly, Emmanuel Hostache, Benita Hume, Nicola Chapman, Baroness Chapman, Malachy Mcgurran, Shane Drury, Norris Weese, Graham Jarvis, Ian Frodsham, Cameron Duncan, Ulla Jacobsson, Vincent Meli, Kurt Von Trojan, Samantha Lewes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 474. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=660957 ... Read more

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Chapters: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Graham Chapman, Gary Lineker, Joe Orton, C. P. Snow, David Attenborough, Lady Catherine Grey, Anne Fine, Joseph Merrick, Colin Wilson, Henry Walter Bates, David Icke, Emile Heskey, Peter Shilton, Jon Lord, Lady Jane Grey, Richard Attenborough, William Carey, Andy Reed, Dion Dublin, Henry Ernest Atkins, Engelbert Humperdinck, Parminder Nagra, Alastair Campbell, Harold Hopkins, Kevin Myers, Kasabian, Luke Varney, Joe Mattock, Mark Selby, George Dawkes, Betty Driver, Anne Lenner, Gok Wan, Jamie Green, Richard Armitage, Peter Oakley, Kav Sandhu, Barry Letts, Samit Patel, Tony Kaye, Kevin Hewick, Darren Maddy, Julian Barnes, Dale Smith, Lilian Lenton, Andre Winner, Jessie Pope, Sue Townsend, Carl Heggs, Volcano the Bear, Chris O'grady, Stephen Frears, Crazyhead, Showaddywaddy, Ryan Amoo, William Lindsay Everard, Chapman Cohen, Matt Darey, Manjula Sood, Guy Branston, Jack Palethorpe, Julie Etchingham, Tony Thorpe, Quentin Willson, Anthony John Mundella, Peter Lewis, Tommy Wright, Malcolm Gregson, Ashley Chambers, Claudia Webbe, Bill Maynard, John Henry Chamberlain, Dominic Keating, Basil Mott, Levi Porter, Ernest Gimson, Willie Thorne, David Leveaux, Paul Danson, Bert Trueman, Darren Stevens, Mark Cox, Roger Williamson, David Barnes, M. J. K. Smith, Harry Ellis, Alison King, Mark Wells, Alec Skelding, Bill Garner, Harry Brophy, Rob Purdie, Mick Farmer, John Rawlings Rees, Ryan Baldacchino, Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Louis Deacon, Ian Bolton, Spencer Weir-Daley, Errol Christie, Aman Verma, Dan Cole, Elizabeth Heyrick, Thomas White, Mark Morrison, Biddy Baxter, Charley Barden, Tom Meighan, Tom Hopper, William Wilson, Mckenzie Lee, John William King, John Hunting, Lathaniel Rowe-Turner, Cleveland Taylor, Mike Harrison, Chris Charsley, Marc Joseph, Billy Kee, William Forsell Kirby, Danny Maye, Scott Oakes, Ian Baraclough, Misterlee, Kate O'mara, Cedric Smith, Debbi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8759562 ... Read more

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A Private Word to the Reader

You are currently holding in your hand . . .

. . . well, actually, God knows what you are holding in your hand, you are after all adults, and what you hold in your own right hand is entirely up to you . . .

. . . you may, after all, have this in your left hand and something else in your right hand and you will probably have held far worse things in both your hands than this . . . and hey! . . . No! . . .

Stop that! Miss Johansson, I said, "Please hold my calls . . ." Honestly. Hollywood!

Anyway, what you are about to read--or have read to you--is a new book that is the first active collaboration of the Monty Python chaps for many, many years. In fact, the first book written and produced by the Pythons, themselves, since 1979. No, they are not all dead. Okay, some of them have been a bit quiet recently, and one or two have DNR notes by their bedsides, but the point is five of them are still technically alive and that, if not exactly cause for rejoicing, may well be cause for a new book. And this is it!

So hold whatever you like in your right hand while you read this book. Because laughter is jolly good for you. Even if it can make you blind.

--The Pythons

Customer Reviews (2)

Perfect for Python fans, young and old!
What a great read!With a surprisingly sizable compilation of photos, stories and scripts from the Python touring years, I was very happy that the book surpassed my already hopeful expectations.

The rich and colorful graphics are classic Python and I loved that so many of the stories and photos in the book were new to me.

This is a right treat for Pyth fans, my family has been cracking up non-stop reciting our favorite lines!

Good But Not Great
I am a huge Python fan and was looking forward to this book a great deal.Although I am generally happy with it I can't help but be a little disappointed.

The idea of the book is a good one: a chronicle of the Python's 70's tours of England, Canada and the U.S. and their early 80's appearance at the Hollywood Bowl.All six Pythons contribute (Graham's comments are from his book "A Liar's Autobiography") as do Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and several others around the Python's orbit.There's some very funny stories about the tours but most hardcore Python fans will have heard the majority of these tales several times before over the years.However it is nice to have all these stories and comments laid out well and in chronological order.

That's the good part.

The bad part is that the stories of the tours take up less than half the book.The majority of the book are scripts of sketches that have been reprinted many times before.Do we really need to see the script of 'Dead Parrot' again?

The photos are generally quite good (I had not seen a number of them before) and the programme from the Hollywood Bowl show is an especially nice touch.The book is very well put together and it's great to have a product that all the Pythons at least put a little time into.Eric Idle should be commended for his editing of the material.

All in all I think most serious Python fans will want to check this out and it makes an oddly nice companion to the other recent Python book Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian which chronicles the Python's filming of 'Life of Brian' in the late 70's.If you love Python like I do then you should pick this one up.If you're a so-so Python fan then you can probably do better with The First 28 Years of Monty Python, Revised Edition or Monty Python Speaks.



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ver thirty years ago a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American rewrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded half-hour of sketches, hilarities, inanities, and animations first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact on the world has been felt ever since. The Pythons is the ultimate word on all things Python-esque. Thirty years of insight, hindsight, and bad sight-now told for the first time. It's full of stuff they're never remembered before alongside stories they'd forgotten to say, coupled with things they couldn't say then and even more things they can't pronounce now (with a healthy dollop of things they would never have said in the first place if any others had been in the room at the time). Here is a unique look at arguably the most important comic team of the modern age. In the style of The Beatles Anthology, it's lavishly illustrated with 1,000 photographs and illustrations, many seen here for the first time. Do you want Spam with that?Amazon.com Review
Python fans will need to clear a large space on their bookshelf or coffee table for The Pythons--a big, vital autobiography of the comedy troupe. This is an oral history by the six members (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) from birth to--in the case of Chapman--death. We get reminisces about childhood, university days, early successes, and rich details about the landmark Flying Circus TV series and subsequent films. The voices are fresh (with expectation of Michael Palin's insightful diary entries), not just complied from earlier publications. "Due to his insistence of being inconveniently dead," Chapham's voice is heard through his longtime partner David Sherlock, his brother and sister-in-law (and some archival materials). As a whole, the six impart a refreshing ability to deal honestly with the frustrations that arose over the years and it comes out in the text even when events are recalled differently. The book is not a light read (figuratively and literally), perhaps a smaller size would have been better for the amount of text; a cursory glance at the coffee table is tough. What does fill the book is an abundance of photos (over 1,000), most never published and many from the troupe's private collections. Along with concept sketches, Gilliam's drawings and doodles, and a few correspondences, this is a keepsake memento of the legendary group. --Doug Thomas ... Read more

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Insert Laugh Here
The Pythons turn the mirror on themselves and try to explain where all of the brilliance came from.Not a book to read in the library!!!

Simply Awesome
This giant photo-riffic book is the Python equivalent of the now-standard Beatles Anthology. No fan of Cleese, Palin, Jones, Idle, Chapman and Gilliam should be without it.

The Pythons
After purchasing the complete set of DVD's and laughing so hard I was sick, I just had to find out out they did it.This book answered my question.I enjoyed it, but it was a bit long and somewhat redundant.

depressing
This is probably the most accurate history of the Monty Python television program and films.

It reveals the impressing background of the players and their problems in working together which resulted in their dispersing and ill will with each other.

Intriguing but flawed like most oral histories-for the true fan
THE PYTHONS is a must for fans of the group but for the more casual reader it probably won't serve a purpose. It is an oral history of the group with contributions by the living members and statements culled from the late Graham Chapman's auto-biography. (A very funny book, but one that needs to be taken with a 16 ton grain of salt)If you are looking for specifics of how any of this marvelous group put together their sketches, look elsewhere; this is not a breakdown of how Monty Python's Flying Circus came to be, rather it is a bunch of reminiscences of early life, working together( and who worked with whom) and some still not quite healed wounds. Chapman comes off poorly, his drinking a constantly mentioned problem, Gilliam's story is so separate from the rest that he really doesn't seem to be a member of the group until The Holy Grail, although his animations were a key to the show's success, and Cleese is often seen here as standoffish, a bit out of the mix with the others. Memories often don't jibe for each member, an example being who chose "The Liberty March" as the theme, Palin lays claim to it as does Gilliam (with Idle agreeing with Gilliam.)But it is interesting to see how the group's personalities come forward as time goes on, and it does give some insight into the creative processes behind the scenes even though it does fall short of offering the aforementioned specifics. there are a number of great stories here and well worth the time (and strength!) to read this book. I did enjoy this slightly askew look at one of comedy's most influential and funniest groups ever; I just have difficulty recommending it to anyone but the converted. ... Read more

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Pretty Good
"Meaning of Life" was the last of the Monty Python films, and it returned to the unrelated sketch format of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and the film "And Now For Something Completely Different." While some of the sketches just didn't work and it lacks the sheer brilliance of "Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian," it is a very funny movie in its own right.
This is the script book. It has plenty of colour pictures and is printed on high quality paper. It contains several scenes not in the final cut ("Adventures of Martin Luther"), and a couple of frills (bizarre intro. about fish, a hilarious correspondence between John Cleese and the editor of The Sun Newspaper.) While not containing the amount of frills that the script books of "Holy Grail" and "Brian" did, it is definitely worth owning.

Contains deleted scenes!
This is the companion book to Monty Python's most outrageous film.Great color photos illustrate the script, but the REAL reason to own this is that it is the only place you may ever get to read/see some sequences cut from the film.These are "The Adventures of Martin Luther," in which Jones plays a very randy Martin Luther making the Jewish parents of two young daughters (mother Chapman and father Palin) quite nervous and an extended version of the "Middle Age" sequence featuring Carol Cleveland as a waitress in the Dungeon Room waiting on Idle and Palin. The text to these scenes is what warrants the high rating - otherwise, it's simply a souvenier.

Meaning of What Again?
Well, the Python Fellows have done it again!They have produced a book so funny, so rue to nothing, that it could be just a figment of a madman's imagination.If they think that someone will want to buy this book, they are definetly right on, chaps!I hope everyone will buy this book, read it, and then send it to me!(Just kidding!) ... Read more

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa
Sometimes the jokes in »Monty Python's Flying Circus« are fired so fast that you don't catch it all. This is your chance to do so.

Hilarious. The greatest comedians ever. Now on paper. I'm afraid I'll die laughing...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa
Sometimes the jokes in »Monty Python's Flying Circus« are fired so fast that you don't catch it all. This is your chance to do so.

Hilarious. The greatest comedians ever. Now on paper. I'm afraid I'll die laughing...

Brief
Also known as 'All the Words', this is exactly what it says on the tin - the scripts for every single show (minus the two German episodes), plus some amusingly-crude photographs, and an index. There isn't really a way ofreviewing this book without straying from the brief and reviewing the showitself, so I'll stop here. ... Read more