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Eric Idle's Personal Best Eric Idle returns to the Hollywood Bowl to introduce his favorite skits from "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
  • Original2/22/2006
  • MOPY
Graham Chapman's Personal Best This memoir of the late Graham Chapman from his fellow Pythons includes their favorites featuring Chapman and a selection of Chapman's own favorites. The show includes Spam, wrestling, a documentary on mollusks and the wit of Oscar Wilde.
  • Original2/22/2006
  • MOPY
John Cleese's Personal Best John Cleese chooses instructive selections as his favorite sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Viewers learn how to defend themselves against fresh fruit, perform brain surgery Gumby-style and fly. For music lovers, there's the exploding version of the Blue Danube.
  • Original3/1/2006
  • MOPY
Terry Gilliam's Personal Best Terry Gilliam is animated about animation as he presents his cartoon favorites from "Monty Python's Flying Circus." It's a reversal of the original shows, as live-action segments link the cartoons in a surreal collection of killer cars, sprouting hands and dancing teeth.
  • Original3/1/2006
  • MOPY
Michael Palin's Personal Best Michael Palin takes a look at one of Britain's most popular leisure pursuits: fish slapping. In possibly the first in-depth documentary on this piscine subject, he examines method, technique and equipment. In between are some of his favorite sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus," including the Cheese Shop, Blackmail and, appropriately, the Piranha Brothers.
  • Original3/8/2006
  • MOPY
Terry Jones' Personal Best Terry Jones reveals for the first time that he was the true creative genius behind Monty Python and in fact wrote all the shows himself. This makes the job of selecting his favorites all the harder, but he manages to produce an hour that features The Bishop, News for Parrots, Bicycle Repair Man and the Spanish Inquisition.
  • Original3/8/2006
  • MOPY