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Monty Python wasn’t simply a sketch-based comedy troupe ... but by frequenting conventions or comic-book stores, someone could have the entire screenplay of Monty Python And The Holy Grail ...

Monty Python is ... Chapman wrote the sketches with Cleese, Jones wrote with Palin, Idle wrote alone and Gilliam did the animations. Neil Innes and Carol Cleveland have both on occasion been mentioned ...

well we’ll just have a half a sketch and flow into something else,” Jones explains. This resulted in Monty Python’s legendary transitional devices, like Gilliam’s animation, Chapman ...