Monty Python's Personal Best

Eric Idle, the third-tallest member of the Python team, returns to the Hollywood Bowl to introduce his favorite skits from Monty Python's Flying Circus. His choices include the Silly Olympics, Bruces, Lumberjacks, and the Hairdressers' Expedition to Mount Everest.

His fellow Pythons salute Graham Chapman with favorite sketches featuring their late colleague. Topics include Spam, wrestling, mollusks, and the wit of Oscar Wilde.

John Cleese hosts educational segments from Monty Python's Flying Circus that demonstrate how to defend yourself against fresh fruit, perform brain surgery Gumby-style, and fly. For music lovers, there's an exploding version of the "Blue Danube."

In a reversal of the usual Flying Circus formula, live-action segments serve as bridges between surreal cartoons featuring killer cars, sprouting hands, and dancing teeth.

Michael Palin takes a look at one of Britain's most popular leisure pursuits: fish-slapping. In possibly the first in-depth documentary on this piscine subject, he examines method, technique, and equipment. In between are some of his favorite sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Cheese Shop, Blackmail, and Piranha Brothers.

Jones reveals that he was the true creative genius behind Monty Python—and that, in fact, he wrote all the shows himself. His best bits include Bishop, News for Parrots, Bicycle Repair Man, and Spanish Inquisition.