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celtic_oracle's review
2.0
I love Monty Python, and I'm happy to have the text for specific favourite sketches - but as a whole, this was a bit of a slog to get through. And while some pieces were still laugh-out-loud, others really left me cold. It's been a terribly long time since I've watched any Python that wasn't the Holy Grail. Will have to hit Netflix and see if it's the written format that didn't work, or if this stuff simply didn't age well.
gengelcox's review
5.0
Although I have almost memorized the entire length of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I was never that conversant with the original series. Hark! Look here. What’s this? All the Words: The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Pantheon, 1989). Danger, danger, Will Robinson. Now I can be insufferable at parties, as I quickly memorize pertinent sections of this compendium. Now I too can say “Your Majesty is like a big jam doughnut with cream on the top,” and know that the follow-up is “like a doughnut, your arrival gives us pleasure, and your departure only makes us hungry for more.” Unfortunately, All the Words is only the TV series. You have to (and can, fortunately) buy the scripts for the movies separately. If that doesn’t satisfy your need for the python of fun, check out Kim “Howard” Johnson’s The First 20 Years of Monty Python (St. Martin’s, 1989), which supplies a wonderful biography of the group as a whole, and compliments George Perry’s earlier Life of Python (Little Brown, 1983).
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