Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

• Graham Chapman
• John Cleese
• Terry Gilliam
• Eric Idle
• Terry Jones
• Michael Palin
• Carol Cleveland
• Neil Innes

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982 ) is a comedy film of a stage show by the British comedy troupe Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl. It is a successful revue sketches from the series Monty Python's Flying Circus as well as some new material with a sense of humor, the one called later as " Pythonesque ". Like the television series, as the plot of the stage show is not continuous; most sketches do not have a punch line, but go seamlessly into the next round. With film clips on a big screen among other scenes were used, which produces flying for the German variant Monty Python circus and have never been shown up to this point in the English language.

The show was one of several stage shows, which were performed as part of an American tour. At the time of the performances, the Pythons were actually already in pre-production of the film The Meaning of Life and the comedian articulated in this way from a writing crisis, which they had at that time, from.

Compared to the TV originals some sketches had to be modified, for example, because not so many supporting actors were available. Thus, the " Lumberjack Song", for example, sung by Eric Idle instead of Michael Palin. In addition, in the television series rarely seen Terry Gilliam, who was actually responsible for the animation is frequently used.