And Now for Something Completely Different

And Now for Something Completely Different is a 1971 British comedy anthology film based on the television comedy series Monty Pythons Flying Circus featuring sketches from the first two series. The title was used as a catchphrase in the television show.

This was the Pythons first feature film, composed of some of their favourite sketches from the first two series of the Flying Circus, reshot on an extremely low budget and often slightly edited for cinema release. Some famous sketches included are the Dead Parrot sketch, The Lumberjack Song, Upperclass Twits, Hells Grannies, and the Nudge Nudge sketch. Financed by Playboys UK executive Victor Lownes, it was intended as a way of breaking Monty Python into America, and although it was ultimately unsuccessful in this, the film did good business in the UK. The group did not consider the film a success, but it enjoys a cult following today.The film was the idea of entrepreneur Victor Lownes, head of Playboy UK, who convinced the group that a feature film would be the ideal way to introduce them to the US market and make them lots of money. Lownes acted as executive producer. Production of the film did not go entirely smoothly. Lownes tried to exert considerably more control over the group than they had been used to at the BBC. In particular, he objected so strongly to one character Ken Shabby that the sketch was removed, leaving both Terry Jones and Michael Palin to complain much later that the vast majority of the film was nothing more than jokes behind desks. ........

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