In 1969 John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, and animator Terry Gilliam joined forces in England to form the groundbreaking comedy troupe Monty Python. The group’s mix of surrealism, satire, music, farce, philosophy, and flat-out absurdity first found expression as the BBC television series MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS. Several albums followed,... Wikipedia