Why monty python?

[twaflooers]

I just wondered if any of you ABers out there know why John Cleese et al decided to call themselves 'Monty Python'?

Thanks in advance.

=0) twaflooers

[B00]

According to Wikipedia....

There are differing accounts of the origins of the Python name although the members agree that its only 'significance' was that they thought it sounded funny. In the 1998 documentary Live At Aspen the group implied that 'Monty' was selected as a gently-mocking tribute to Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a legendary British general of World War II; requiring a "slippery-sounding" surname, they settled on 'Python'. On other occasions Idle has claimed that the name 'Monty' was that of a popular and rotund fellow who drank in his local pub; people would often walk in and ask the barman, "Has Monty been in yet?", forcing the name to become stuck in his mind. These explanations aside, some believe that 'Monty Bodkin', the name of a character in several books by humourist P. G. Wodehouse, served on some level as an inspiration

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_python

[twaflooers]

Wow, thanks Boo that was quick. It'll stop bugging me now.

Thanks again =0)

[vehelpfulguy]

When they first got together they originally wanted each TV show to have a different name, so people would not be able to find the show on TV, or would not know what to expect.

They came up with all sorts of strange titles for the shows like Owl Stretching Time and so on.

One of the possible titles they came up with for a show was Monty Pythons Flying Circus.

Eventualy this name was given to the whole team.

Some of the strange titles were still used in the first series of Monty Python, see here

http://www.pythonland.com/episode04.php