Categories: Biographical notes, Site glossary
Monty Python was not a real person*.
Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python was a group of comedians who wrote and performed a comedy sketch show for the BBC (and later films and stage shows). Their work was considered very original at the time – it often had philosophical underpinning, lampooned class distinctions and norms, and broke with the usual conventions of the medium (such as having a false ending to an episode that mimicked the transition to the next programme, or stopping a sketch and transitioning to the next without the expected niceties).
* Part of the reason given for choosing the name was that there was no such person as Monty Python (along with: it had nothing to do with flying, and it was not a circus).
