The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2 (edition 1989)

by Monty Python (Author), Graham Chapman (Author), Eric Idle (Author), Terry Gilliam (Author), Terry Jones (Author)

Series: Monty Python (2)

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*WINNER OF THE 1989 PYTHON PRIZE FOR THEIR OWN BOOKS* The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch. This second volume contains twenty-two classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.… (more)

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Title:	The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2
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As the title suggests, this two-volume set of books contains all the sketches and skits from the famous comedy troupe. Each volume has an index at the back, listing the names of each skit, with the skits that appear in the opposite volume being italicized, so the reader knows which volume to search. Lovely for browsing, and of course each sketch that I read makes me want to watch the show again! (

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Volume 2 of all the TV episode scripts. A python fan must. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Monty Python	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Chapman, Graham	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Cleese, John	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Gilliam, Terry	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Idle, Eric	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Jones, Terry	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Palin, Michael	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Wilmut, Roger	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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To Ian MacNaughton,
who somehow understood it all,
and everyone else who joined the Circus,
especially Carol Cleveland.

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An office.

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Alternate Titles: US Publication uses title All the Words, UK Publication uses title Just the Words

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***WINNER OF THE 1989 PYTHON PRIZE FOR THEIR OWN BOOKS*** The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch. This second volume contains twenty-two classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.

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