Ministry of Silly Books

Monty Python was British comedy's answer to the Beatles: the Fab Six who broke the mold, broke records, broke America and were idolized by kids who learned by heart every routine from the Flying Circus television show — and knew their parents would never get the joke. The Pythons were rock 'n' roll. So writing a definitive, collective autobiography to set the record straight — just as the Beatles did in their Anthology — is no act of hubris. And for all those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time, The Pythons...

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