Monty Python's Flying Circus

INDEX

115 Adams, Douglas, 4 Adventures of Baron Münchausen, The, 10, 13 Affluent society, 16 Agamben, Giorgio, 101 Alfie, 18 American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 1, 2 American Television, 1–3, 25–30 Amis, Kingsley, 17 Anderson, Lindsay, 17 Angry Young Men, 17 Animals, 41, 63–66, 69–70 Animation, 35, 63, 64, 65, 68, 70, 78, 101; in “Attila the Bun” sketch, 51–52; function in television, 41–42; Gilliam’s role in, 12–13, 44, 79, 86; nonverbal language in, 92 Arnold, Matthew, 20 Ascent of Man, The, 99 At Last the 1948 Show, 7, 22–23 Avengers, The, 14, 25 Bakhtin, M. M. See carnivalesque humor, and popular art Balfour, James, 4 Beatles, The, 16, 18, 28 Beethoven, 75–76 Bennett, Alan, 18 Beyond the Fringe, 17 Black Panthers, 29–30 Body, 1, 2, 3, 27, 35, 62–65, 101. See also Human Body Bond phenomenon, 25 Brains Trust, The, 99 Brazil, 13 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 3, 4, 9, 10, 19–25, 45, 84, 92, 96–97, 100; announcers on, 52, 61, 62; criticism by, 67–68; and economics, 42, 44; philosophy of, 28; programming on, 34, 37; Reith, John and, 20; time slots on, 48 British culture, transitions in, 15–19 British humor, 81 Bronowski, Jacob, 99 Brontë, Emily, 83 Bruce, Lenny, 30 Cambridge Circus, 12, 17 Cambridge Footlights Club, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17 INDEX 116 Cambridge University, 6, 10, 11, 17 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), 25–26 Carnivalesque humor, 3, 35, 51; comic devices of, 39, 54, 62, 64–65, 87; and popular art, 27; predecessors to, 33 Carry On films, 33–34; Carry On Nurse, 71 Censorship, 1–2, 23, 44, 48, 63, 92, 96, 101 Chaplin, Charlie, 66 Chapman, Graham, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11–12, 22, 24, 92–93, 100; in “Arthur Two Sheds Jackson,” 46–47; in “Attila the Hun Show,” 50–51; in “Death of Mary, Queen of Scots,” 99; in “Face the Press,” 73; in “Famous Deaths,” 60–61; in “Flying Sheep,” 63; in “It’s the Arts,” 45–46; in “Killer Sheep,” 63; in “Mosquito Hunters,” 59–60; as Mrs. Premise, 49, 73; in “Njorl’s Saga,” 49; in “Raymond Luxury-Yacht Interview,” 46; in “Spectrum,” 89; as “Vox Pops,” 24; in “The Wacky Queen,” 41–42; in “Wooden and Tinny Words,” 92–93; in “Working-Class Playwright,” 81–83 Christie, Julie, 18 Cinema, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 102; American, 12, 52–53, 66; British, 18, 30, 33–34, 71, 79; French New Wave, 18, 84–85 Clark, Sir Kenneth, 38 Class, social, 6 Cleese, John, 4, 5, 6–8, 12, 14, 22, 58, 94; in “The Attila the Hun Show,” 50–51; in “Dead Parrot,” 7, 93; in “Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook,” 91; in “E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease,” 87; in “Famous Deaths,” 60–61; in “Fish License,” 89–90; in “French Lecture on Sheepcraft,” 63–64; as Gumby psychiatrist, 6; in “It’s the Arts,” 45–46; in “The Man with Three Buttocks,” 65; in “Ministry of Silly Walks,” 7, 67; in “The Mosquito Hunters” (voice over), 60; as Mrs. Conclusion, 49, 73; in “People Falling from Buildings,” 56; in “Stolen Newsreader,” 57–58 Cleveland, Carol, 4, 13–14, 71; in “Attila the Hun Show,” 14, 50–51; in “French Subtitled Film,” 84–85; in “The Lumberjack Song,” 13, 72–73; in “Marriage Counselor,” 13; in “Multiple Murderers,” 71; in “Wooden and Tinny Words,’ 92–93 Clifford, Andrew, 100 Comedy Central Python-a-thon, 100 Comedy: camp, 29; canned laughter, 50; common sense in, 95–99; defamiliarization , 36; direct address, 36; escalation in, 55–56, 79–83, 96; excess in, 80–83; facial and physical gestures in, 66–67; gags, 101; gender reversal in, 71; hyperbole in, 80, 86, 101; laugh tracks, 43; reversal in, 37; sense and nonsense in, 3, 93–94; “something different style” of, 28, 101; stream-of-consciousness in, 3, 4; surrealism in, 3, 18, 32, 70; uses of, 4–5; visibility and invisibility in, 50, 56 Complete and Utter History of Britain, The, 8, 9 Cook, Peter, 18 Cooke, Alistair, 25 Counterculture, the, 16–18, 24 Cross-Dressing, 70–71, 73, 75–76, 83 Cruising, 71 Cuban missile crisis, 29–30 Cult, Python, 27, 29 Culture: high, 58–59, 75–76, 82–83, 84, 86; mass, 34 Index 117 Index Danger Man, 25 Darling, 18 David Frost Show, The, 9 Davies, John Howard, 4 Dixon of Dock Green...