Monty Python's Flying Circus

30 Years of Monty Python, a Revelation

Aired Oct 8, 1999 · 10:00 PM BST · 30 min

Monty Python's 30th birthday was celebrated by the (UK) Paramount Comedy Channel with this program which showed a few of the deleted scenes from Life of Brian - unrelated to "Python Night" on the BBC that same year. Jonathan Ross interviews the (living) members of Monty Python. Ross tells a fake story about how they found the deleted scenes but the truth is, they had been released on the criterion LaserDisc 2 years earlier in 1997. (Although the 'rushes' of the film really were destroyed around this time when the Handmade Films company was sold!)