The Life of Python – 20 Greatest Monty Python Sketches The Holy Grail of Python’s 20 most hilarious sketches, celebrating their 40th anniversary. This Anniversary Special marks the day that Monty Python made its sparkling debut on television when the very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. The irresistible Oxbridge partnership of John Cleese , Eric Idle , Graham Chapman , Michael Palin and Terry Jones , mixed with the dazzlingly surreal artworks of American Terry Gilliam , celebrates four decades and 45 episodes of risqué silliness. The comedy of Monty Python was streaks ahead of its time. Famous for its innovation and radical splendor, Python sketches broke the mould of building to a specific punchline, delivering some of the funniest and most enduring sketches of our lifetime. In honour of 40 phenomenal years of comedy, we take a look at the 20 greatest Python sketches ever. 1. Undeniably the most popular and well known of the Monty Python sketches, and for good reason too. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Canned Dreams - Witness Filmmaker: Katja Gauriloff This film follows the journey of the ingredients which make up a can of ravioli and the dreams and destinies of the workers who contribute towards the making of these ingredients. The film features seven ingredients, seven main characters and seven strong stories from seven countries. The can represents the absurdity of food production, as well as the diversity of European culture, as the film goes on to tell a universal story. By Katja Gauriloff Canned Dreams is a dream-like, almost nightmarish, documentary which gives an insight into the different phases of production that goes into making a can of ravioli. The can's journey begins in one of the biggest open-pit mines in Brazil and ends on the shelves of a grocery store in Finland, after travelling 30,000km. The idea for the film came after studying the ingredients of a popular brand of cheap, ready-made ravioli and being surprised by the large number of ingredients this one particular can contained.