About the Author

Marcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has authored and edited many books; most recently, she wrote Italian Film (Cambridge, 2000) and co-edited The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (Rutgers University Press, 2001). She is also editor of Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama (Wayne State University Press, 1991).

Reviews

And now for something completely different: a highly readable, thoroughly researched, critically sophisticated look at one of television's most influential comic troupes. Landy situates their innovative sketches in historical and theoretical contexts [while] at the same time bringing a smile to one's face in fond remembrance of the Pythons' inspired comic madness. The book is a must read for those interested in comic theory, British culture, and television studies."--David Desser "University of Illinois"