From 1969 until 1974, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" was a very popular, important, and oft-quoted TV comedy series on British television. Python's influence on comedy was compared to the Beatles' influence on music. This landmark series completed 45 episodes where the 'Flying Circus' had silly setups, clever conceits, snide insults, and saucy people situations. There were fun skits, including "The Ministry of Silly Walks," "The Dead Parrot," "Banter in the Cheese Shop," "Spam, the Funniest Joke in the World," "The Spanish Inquisition," "The Argument Clinic," "The Fish-Slapping Dance," "The Lumberjack Song," etc.

Some critics said that Monty Python was, quite possibly, the most inventive comic troupe ever. Did they change the face of British comedy?

Based upon their skits, the answer to the question was yes! A good example that members of Monty Python (Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman) point out is The Ministry of Silly Walks. They called this skit a revolutionary idea for its time. Monty Python's Flying Circus first silly-walk or non-logical steps were meant to symbolically poke fun at idiosyncrasies in British life.

Monty Python took stylistic risks that others would copied. Their manipulation of the TV medium in the 1970s paved the way for what BBC executives and producers called a 'new wave' of comedy ". Monty Python was directly seen as a 'satire on mankind, rather than on individuals or ideas."

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