The Pythons' Autobiography

"In 1969, six Englishmen (well, one of them was Welsh and another was an interloping American) came together to create a television programme about an unscrupulous, untrustworthy and frankly slimy theatrical agent named Monty Python. The resultant programme was said to be a Flying Circus, although no animals, clowns, high wire acts or trapezes were to be found. Monty Python's Flying Circus forever and a day changed the face of television comedy and now, more than four hundred years later (well, thirty years and a bit, really) people are still talking about it." "Here in their own words and never before published personal diary extracts, the men who made Monty Python reveal their childhood lusts and longings, the stories of their formative years at some of the most privileged universities in the world, their break into television through a peculiarly English system known as 'the old boy network', and their own, previously undervalued involvement in Monty Python's Flying Circus. In it they try and remember a TV series that changed the world, movies that made the world either laugh or protest violently, through to a bitter break up that left most of them reeling and one of them dead, exclusively revealing for the first time the numerous reunion attempts, both on screen and on stage, abandoned due to bitter feuds, savage recriminations and not enough money being offered - and the ever-present fact that one of them was still dead." --Book Jacket.