A review by gengelcox
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words: Volume 1 by Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Roger Wilmut, Graham Chapman

4.0

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 [a:Kim “Howard” Johnson|2838944|Kim Howard Johnson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442498141p2/2838944.jpg]’s [b:The First 20 Years of Monty Python|972203|The First 200 Years of Monty Python|Kim Howard Johnson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1179911501s/972203.jpg|957100] (St. Martin’s, 1989), which supplies a wonderful biography of the group as a whole, and compliments [a:George Perry|13825|George Perry|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]’s earlier [b:Life of Python|289753|The Life Of Python|George Perry|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1173450984s/289753.jpg|281122] (Little Brown, 1983).