When I first did this blog entry in June of 2006, the Sound of Young America was at a different URL and the Monty Python 1975 PBS interview was linked from their website. Now they have moved to a new website and I couldn't find the video there although it might have been right in front of my nose. So, here are the links as they are in January 2007: the TSOYA blog at maximumfun.org; the TSOYA Monty Python blog entry for an interview with Terry Jones; the video on YouTube, which is credited to maximumfun and where you will find other Monty Python videos, including this Spam video which I first found on Google while trying to relocate the TSOYA blog. If that link doesn't work, just do a Google search on Monty Python 1975 - the link is to a Google Video page.
TSOYA had rediscovered this PBS interview video from 1975 showing early Monty Python actors and skits. The interview in the video is introduced on The Sound of Young America blog at the above link. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Michael Palin are the ‘Pythons’ who are interviewed. Sadly, John Cleese appears only in the background of the skit which features Pythonese (not Canadian) mounties. Since the show took place in 1975, the hairstyles in the audience, especially on the men, are interesting, to say the least. The interview was taped during a PBS pledge drive so there is a lot of phone-ringing in the background.
Link originally found via Computer Arts Daily blog from March 27, 2006.
[Extensively revised January 20/07]
June 12, 2006
Monty Python / Sound of Young America
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