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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.
Mar 31, 1983 · The Meaning of Life: Directed by Terry Jones. With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle. The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
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- Comedy, Musical
- Terry Jones
- 1983-03-31
Dec 31, 2014 · The Meaning of Life. by. Terry Jones. Publication date. 1983-03-31. Topics. Monty Python, British comedy, 1980s, 20th century. Language.
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- worldrambler
Monty Python's the Meaning of Life is rude, ribald, and unafraid to take comedic risks -- which is to say it should more than satisfy fans of the titular troupe. Read Critics Reviews
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- Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
- R
- Graham Chapman
The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise. Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship.
There is blood, sex and violence, and some of the most surreal passages of any Python work, on the topics of birth, death, and all the bothersome business of living in-between. It comes across visually as a mix of Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and Busby Berkeley – with projectile vomiting!
Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Halfway through "Monty Python's Meaning of Life," the thought struck me that One-Upmanship was a British discovery. You remember, of course, the book and movie ("School for Scoundrels") inspired by Stephen Potter's theory of One-Upmanship, in which the goal of the practitioner was to One-Up his daily associates ...
