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When the innovative comedy group Monty Python embarked on their unique partnership, combining intelligence with silliness in a stream-of-consciousness display of nonsense, satire, sex and violence, they made a mark on popular culture which is still being felt today. Now, on their 30th anniversary, the five surviving Pythons--along with some chief co-conspirators including BBC's Barry Took and Ian MacNaughton, the late Graham Chapman's companion David Sherlock, and the legendary Douglas Adams--remember what it was like to build a comedic collaboration for the ages.Monty Python was a state of mind--a way of looking at the world as a place where walking like a contortionist is not only considered normal but is rewarded with government funding, where people speak in anagrams or operate a cheese-less cheeseshop, where highwaymen redistribute wealth in floral currencies and knights hop around on imaginary steeds. Here in their own words - and with rare backstage photographs never before published - is a look into that rare collective mind: the story of the Pythons' meeting, their collaboration, their clashes, their struggles to maintain artistic control over their work, and their efforts to expand themselves creatively-from television to films, books, recordings and stage shows. Here are the artists who made their personal mark on humor, engendered amazing passion from their fans worldwide, and built a lasting monument to spam (the luncheon meat, not the e-mail). In short, it's...MONTY PYTHON SPEAKS!

"Morgan extracts the mutual respect beneath the grumbling: Nearly every Python's complaint about another ends with a sincere nod to the offender's brilliant writing."

Josh Wolk, Entertainment Weekly, 07/09/1999

"David Morgan is a professional journalist as well as an aficionado, so his book is well organized, informative and discreet about such matters as the late Graham Chapman's outre life style, while sufficiently gossipy to tell us that the Apollonian John Cleese was a bullying control freak constantly at odds with the Dionysian Terry Jones, a tantrum-throwing fanatic."

Sean Kelly, New York Times Book Review, 7/25/1999

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