Monty Python's Personal Best

Monty Python's Personal Best is a six-episode compilation series released on video and public television in the United States. Each instalment is presented by one of the five surviving members of the comedy troupe Monty Python, and showcases outstanding sketches, scenes, songs, and animated sequences written and/or performed by that Python. All five Pythons co-presented Graham Chapman's episode, for Chapman died in 1989.

The "personal best" are selected from the first two series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as from Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, Life of Brian, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, and The Meaning of Life.

In the United States, PBS television stations broadcast all six episodes in February and March 2006.

John Cleese

Intertitle: In memory of Mr John Cleese, who died recently, we will first show you his favourite fairy tale.

Narrator: Once upon a time, long, long ago, there lay in a valley far, far away in the mountains the most contented kingdom the world has ever known. It was called Happy Valley, and it was ruled over by a wise old king called Otto. And all his subjects flourished, and were happy. And there were no discontents or grumblers, because wise King Otto had them all put to death, along with the trade union leaders, many years before.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Monty Python's Personal Best on Wikipedia