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THE PYTHONS with BOB McCABE**: : THE PYTHONS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.**

LONDON.ORION,2003.

ISBN 0752852930.

UK,Folio HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Grey background with colour cartoon animation with blue+red letters to upper wrap and b/w subject,portrait photographic rear wrap with negligible shelf-wear and miniscule creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright, tight and clean - near pristine.Bright, clean, blue paper-covered bds with bright, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour cartoon animation illustrated eps.Folio,6-359pp includes double-page photographic illustrated title-page, contents list, acknowledgements page,profuse b/w,sepia+ colour contemporary photographs and illustrations throughout. In 1969, six Englishmen (well, one 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.Now, for the first time, Monty himself tells the whole story of all that stuff, admittedly using the voices of several other people to do so. Consequently, he is very grateful to Messrs Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Gilliam, Jones and Palin (at least one of whom is dead;Mr Python sadly cannot remember which one, as it was all a very long time ago.) 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. As Mr Python said just the other day:'It's about time they stopped talking about it, and let us have a go.Firstly, Graham is dead so now we can say whatever we want about him.Secondly, Cleese is out of rehab and can actually remember life before crack.Thirdly, Eric has finally realised that The Beatles have split up and, no, they're never going to call him "just on the off chance".Fourthly, Michael Palin is taking a break from travelling to increasingly obscure parts of the world. Fifthly, Terry Gilliam is now such a financial liability/insurance risk that no one will back any of jis generally insane ideas for a movie - and let's be honest,the man is mad.And, finally, Terry Jones thinks it's a good idea too.And he's Welsh, so he should know.The result is this tome - some would say tombstone - that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Monty Python, plus all the stuff you don't want to know, but will have to trawl through just to get to the juicy bits.(With tits.)It is big, it is glossy and - frankly - they're paying us peanuts for it.The only way to make a crust on this is in royalties.Thirty odd years on we think you, the educated and discerning book-buyer, owe us.Big time. The accountants (sorry publishers) have asked to add the following:'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.Here, as never before, from the mouths that originally spoke it, is the full block-busting story of Monty Python.(Mr Python has asked us to point out that at least some of the above is true.] Please contact seller,because of the value and weight of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Book weighs 2.7Kg unpackaged - a HEAVY tome!

UK,Folio HB+dw/dj,1st edn.

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