Monty Python LIVE

Monty Python LIVE

Monty Python LIVE is really a reissue of their movie:

• Monty Python LIVE At The Hollywood Bowl +
• LIVE At Aspen, the 1998 tribute to the team at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival hosted by Robert Klein (with all the team except the late Graham Chapman present) 
• The German TV episode with some well known sketches performed in German with poorly translated subtitles in English &
• A Greatest Hits package from the 1970s TV show hosted by Steve Martin 

...and it's a must for Pythoneers with both Terry Gilliam animation and comedy sketch filmed inserts providing time for costume changes. Longtime Python gal Carol Cleveland shines in a number of supporting roles and Neil Innes (see: The Rutles) provides a couple of songs, including the reasonably well known How Sweet To Be An Idiot 

Interestingly, of all the Pythons, it's Eric Idle who seems to be the only member of the team who understands how to work an American audience...and get that rock'n'roll response.   

LIVE At Aspen, the 1998 tribute to the team at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival hosted by Robert Klein (with all the team except the late Graham Chapman present)

The German TV episode was recorded in 1972 with some well known Python sketches performed in German and some strangely translated, often bizarre, English subtitles.

Lastly, there's a Greatest Hits package from the TV shows hosted by Steve Martin. 

Monty Python LIVE DVD

Monty Python LIVE is an excellent purchase for:

• Python beginners, those who'd like an introduction to their TV show sketches...and to begin to understand the awe that their peers and their fans  hold them in
• as well as completists who haven't been able to get hold of LIVE At The Hollywood Bowl on DVD