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Box office. $42.7 million. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known simply as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by Terry Jones. The Meaning of Life was the last feature film to star all six Python members before the death of Graham Chapman in 1989.
Cultural references. "How Not to Be Seen" is regarded as one of Monty Python's signature routines, with the "growing menace" of the "bodiless authoritarian figure" lending it the air of "the leisure activity of a lunatic god." [ 2] Its format has been occasionally parodied, most prominently in a 2005 YouTube Machinima using graphics from the ...
Bruces sketch at Monty Python Live (Mostly) (London, 2014).. The Bruces sketch is a comedy sketch that originally appeared in a 1970 episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 22, "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body", and was subsequently performed on audio recordings and live on many occasions by the Monty Python team.
Eric Idle singing the "Galaxy Song" (from The Meaning of Life) at the 2014 Monty Python reunion. Known for his wordplay and musical numbers, he also performed "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (from Life of Brian) When Monty Python was first formed, two writing partnerships were already in place: Cleese and Chapman, as well as Jones and ...
Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons". The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September 1969 ...
Gender. Male. Mr. Creosote is a fictional character who appears in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. He is a monstrously obese and vulgar restaurant patron who is served a vast amount of food and alcohol whilst vomiting repeatedly. After being persuaded to eat an after-dinner mint – "It's only wafer-thin" – he graphically explodes.
Single. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was first issued as a single as a double A-side with "Brian" in the UK on 16 November 1979 to promote Monty Python's Life of Brian and its soundtrack album, but did not chart. Nine years later when the film was released on VHS, the song was reissued on 21 November 1988 in an edited form to remove ...
Rabbit. The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is a fictional character in the Monty Python film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.[ 1] The scene in Holy Grail was written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese. [ 2] The rabbit is the antagonist in a major set piece battle, and makes a similar appearance in Spamalot, a musical inspired by the movie. [ 3]