What is Monty Python's Flying Circus about?
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
British comedians deliver absurdist sketches, witty humor, and surreal gags with a campy, satirical edge.
Absurdist humor. A comfort watch at a measured pace.
Streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, The Roku Channel (free), Pluto TV (free) and Plex (free).
Monty Python's Flying Circus parents guide
No surprises for a TV-14: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created byIan MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
StarringGraham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
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