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The Pythons by The Pythons – The Interviews That Made the Book

Release date 2003

Tracklist

1
Part Zero: The Introduction by Bob McCabe
2
Part One: In Which We Are Born
3
Eric Idle
4
Michael Palin
5
John Cleese
6
Terry Jones
7
Graham Chapman
8
Terry Gilliam
9
Part Two: In Which the Pythons Meet the Pythons
10
Michael Palin on Terry Jones
11
John Cleese on Graham Chapman
12
Terry Jones and Eric Idle on Terry Gilliam
13
Eric Idle on John Cleese
14
Terry Jones on Eric Idle
15
Terry Gilliam on Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
16
The Influence of the Goons and Beyond the Fringe
17
We Could Be Getting Paid for This (The Transition From University Revue to Earning for Writing/Performing)
18
We Are Getting Paid for This (Now Professional Writers and Actors)
19
‘Two Typewriters and Four Telephones’
20
‘Do You Mind Joining Me on Stage?’
21
‘I Wanted to Make Films’
22
All Together on the Frost Report
23
Do Not Adjust Your Set
24
The American Interlopes
25
At Last the 1948 Show
26
The Complete and Utter History of Britain and Realising the Need for Something Different…
27
Another Introduction by Bob McCabe: Very Nearly, Almost, ‘It’s…’
28
Choosing a Name
29
The First Show
30
The First Sketch
31
A Typical Working Day
32
‘There Were Sometimes Tremendous Fights!’
33
Writing Styles
34
Keeping Office Hours and Not Using Drugs
35
Literate Comedy
36
Writing Together… or Not
37
‘The Man With Three Buttocks’ (or ‘It Was Extremely Well Performed Sometimes’)
38
Writing the Lumberjack Song
39
Monty Python in German
40
Don’t Kill the Animator
41
‘Nudge, Nudge’
42
‘Spam’ (‘I Just Thought It Was a Funny Word’)
43
The Parrot Sketch
6:51
44
The Books (Monty Python’s Brand New Book)
45
Getting Paid a Pittance
46
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Funny Things That Happened When We Were Making This Movie – You’ll Enjoy This
47
Some Other Funny Things That Happened in the Mud, Etc.
48
The Life of Brian, Another Movie We Made (Some More Talking)
49
Even More Talking, Still About This Guy Bwian
50
The Meaning of Life, I Mean, What’s It All About?
51
An Answer Is Not Given
52
Life After a Death?
53
Very Nearly Almost at the End
54
If It Hurts, It’s Funny