Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy television series that premiered on BBC1 on October 5, 1969, created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam. The series abandoned the traditional structure of a sketch show, allowing sketches to end abruptly, run into one another without a punchline, or dissolve into Terry Gilliam's distinctive cut-out animation rather than following a conventional beginning-middle-end format. The show's absurdist, stream-of-consciousness style proved highly influential on later television and film comedy, and its cultural reach extended well beyond entertainment: the Python programming language was named in its honor, and the term spam for unwanted bulk email derives from one of its recurring sketches.
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Why is Monty Python's Flying Circus called a circus?
The BBC called the six a circus as they wandered the building, and the group added flying.
The title Monty Python's Flying Circus was partly the result of the group's reputation at the BBC. Michael Mills, the BBC's Head of Comedy, wanted the name to include the word circus because the BBC referred to the six members wandering around the building as a circus. The group added flying to make it sound less like an actual circus.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy television series that premiered on BBC1 on October 5, 1969, created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".
Created By: Graham Chapman, Lead sentence
created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
Created By: John Cleese, Lead sentence
created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
Created By: Eric Idle, Lead sentence
created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
Created By: Terry Jones, Lead sentence
created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
Created By: Michael Palin, Lead sentence
created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
Created By: Terry Gilliam, Lead sentence
created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam
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The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September 1969 and premiered on 5 October on BBC1, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV.
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