Monty Python's Personal Best

Reporting live from the Bollywood Howl [sic], a newscaster (Eric Idle) introduces his interviews with several people about what they thought about Eric Idle, including Idle's mother and a former Nazi soldier living in South America (both also played by Idle). Throughout the segments, the reporter confuses the members of Python with The Beatles, an homage to Idle's work on All You Need Is Cash, a parody film featuring The Rutles.

Some say you can't take it with you. Others just refuse to go. Graham Chapman - doctor, tall actor, self-wrestler, and really famous dead guy - is the latter. Chapman has had at least 8 movie and TV appearances to his credit since he passed away in 1989, making him the most prolific corpse since Elvis. His personal best makes 9. In a comprehensive tribute written by the 5 other members of the incomparable MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, this program includes the sketches that they believe Chapman would have called his very favorites. Of course, they could be wrong.

The show is a pseudo-documentary about fish-slapping, with Michael Palin playing the same character he played in the original sketch hosting the show. The sketches are supposedly added because the show originally introduced the world to fish-slapping. Michael Palin "travelling" to the original filming location of the Fish-Slapping Dance jokingly references his current popularity as a travel documentarian.

From his lavish home, Jones discusses how he conceived Monty Python as a showcase for his own considerable talents, how he reluctantly let the other members join and that 'Monty Python' is an anagram of 'Terry Jones'. Several sketches are personally (and often inaccurately) introduced by Jones.