Some enterprising graduate student someday will doubtless trace the various strains that went into Python comedy. The Chapman-Cleese sketches tended to originate in confrontation, as in the parrot piece, for example, while the Oxford stuff was sillier and more notional. It was Mr. Jones and Mr. Palin who dreamed up the idea of having the Spanish Inquisition turn up in a middle-class living room. And Mr. Gilliam’s instinct was, as he says, to “get rid of all the weak bits” and fill in the gaps with his surreal, sometimes Dada-like animation. Partly through his influence the troupe subverted the sketch form itself, dispensing with beginnings or endings, sometimes walking off the set (or being stomped by a giant foot) right in the middle of a scene.
What seems to be an official "Daily Python" site here, and not one but two Wikipedia entries.
Bonus musical number:
Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Lumberjack Song - Watch more amazing videos here
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