The Pythons by The Pythons – The Interviews That Made the Book

The Pythons by The Pythons – The Interviews That Made the Book

Album
Label Orion Audiobooks Release date Format 2×CD Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tracklist

CD 1

1 Part Zero: The Introduction by Bob McCabe
2 Part One: In Which We Are Born
3 Eric Idle
4 Michael Palin
5 John Cleese
6 Terry Jones
7 Graham Chapman
8 Terry Gilliam
9 Part Two: In Which the Pythons Meet the Pythons
10 Michael Palin on Terry Jones
11 John Cleese on Graham Chapman
12 Terry Jones and Eric Idle on Terry Gilliam
13 Eric Idle on John Cleese
14 Terry Jones on Eric Idle
15 Terry Gilliam on Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
16 The Influence of the Goons and Beyond the Fringe
17 We Could Be Getting Paid for This (The Transition From University Revue to Earning for Writing/Performing)
18 We Are Getting Paid for This (Now Professional Writers and Actors)
19 ‘Two Typewriters and Four Telephones’
20 ‘Do You Mind Joining Me on Stage?’
21 ‘I Wanted to Make Films’
22 All Together on the Frost Report
23 Do Not Adjust Your Set
24 The American Interlopes
25 At Last the 1948 Show
26 The Complete and Utter History of Britain and Realising the Need for Something Different…

CD 2

1 Another Introduction by Bob McCabe: Very Nearly, Almost, ‘It’s…’
2 Choosing a Name
3 The First Show
4 The First Sketch
5 A Typical Working Day
6 ‘There Were Sometimes Tremendous Fights!’
7 Writing Styles
8 Keeping Office Hours and Not Using Drugs
9 Literate Comedy
10 Writing Together… or Not
11 ‘The Man With Three Buttocks’ (or ‘It Was Extremely Well Performed Sometimes’)
12 Writing the Lumberjack Song
13 Monty Python in German
14 Don’t Kill the Animator
15 ‘Nudge, Nudge’
16 ‘Spam’ (‘I Just Thought It Was a Funny Word’)
17 The Parrot Sketch
18 The Books (Monty Python’s Brand New Book)
19 Getting Paid a Pittance
20 Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Funny Things That Happened When We Were Making This Movie – You’ll Enjoy This
21 Some Other Funny Things That Happened in the Mud, Etc.
22 The Life of Brian, Another Movie We Made (Some More Talking)
23 Even More Talking, Still About This Guy Bwian
24 The Meaning of Life, I Mean, What’s It All About?
25 An Answer Is Not Given
26 Life After a Death?
27 Very Nearly Almost at the End
28 If It Hurts, It’s Funny