First 20 Years of Monty Python
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0788192450 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 269 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joann Smythe said Attention MP fans!. If you are a MP fan, you must own this book! Lots of memories and laughs.. Annoying To Read C Ballew This may be the best book about python yet, but it is very annoying to read because it is rife with repetitions of previously stated information. Every time a particular incident is mentioned (for example: when Terry Gilliam and John Cleese met during a photo session for HELP magazine), the author goes back and retells the entire story and its events before adding the new bit of information that he could just have easily mentioned the first time around. This doesn't just happen in two's though. He retells stories sometimes as many as ten times! Also, when an incident is spoken of by more than one person. WHY NOT JUST A BOOK ABOUT THE LAST 80 YEARS??? Thats the question you might very well ask! I enjoyed the first version of this book. Mr.Johnson does indeed include some great photos and some great information. (I have read his stuff since his days way back when in STARLOG Magazine.). The only complaints I can say I have,are: #1 The over use of the words "he laughed"(Nearly ever quote by a person,is followed by that phrase. Makes them all sound like giggling ninnies).AND #2 The fact that Python,by Mr.Johnson's reckoning,can do no wrong. We surely all enjoy their work,but lets be frank,Python like the Beatles,are capable of producing rubbish,its not a
The story of the British comedy troupe, Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose half-hour TV show became PBS's top-rated entertainment program in the early 1970s. Over the years he published fanzines & conducted numerous interviews with the Pythons for magazines & radio, & got to know the group members personally & professionally. Kim "Howard" Johnson, a fan who met the group in N.Y., began amassing information about the group with clippings, photos, letters, & other materials. This book is an exhaustive look at the Python TV shows, profusely illustrated with photographs of the classic characters & skits.
--Wendy Smith. 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. 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