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57 years ago today, BBC greenlit 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' changing comedy forever

Fans can stream the beloved show right now for free.
Washington Examiner

Monty Python’s fourth season: The terrible end of the greatest sketch show of all time

Writers (L-R) Ian MacNaughton, Michael Palin, unknown, Graham Chapman and Neil Innes in a script conference for BBC television show 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', 1974. (Photo by Chris Ridley/Radio ...
The Daily Beast

Inside the Birth of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus,’ the Weird Little British Show That Took Over the World

LONDON—It was demented from the very first minute. It began with a blast of American military band patriotism, John Philip Sousa’s The Liberty Bell, playing to a graphic montage of bizarre images ...
The Guardian

Monty Python Live (Mostly) review – reunion show is one for the faithful

Comedy's greatest supergroup, in fact its only supergroup, gathered at London's O2 Arena like the Gratefully Not Dead, undertaking their staggeringly lucrative reunion show in the same cheerfully ...
CBC.ca

Monty Python's farewell show has plenty of antics

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