
And now for something completely different -- and how. The brainy members of the Python troupe present sketches from the absurd to the obscure, and milk humor out of anything they come across. Just mention the "Dead Parrot" sketch, the "Ministry of Funny Walks" or "Spam," and you'll get a chorus of Python fans chiming in with the best lines.

Climbing the north face of Uxbridge Road; a cheese shop with no cheese in stock; Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days."

Party political broadcast; the Scottish Kamikaze Regiment; comparing penguins to BBC program planners; "Spot the Looney."

Pigs; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hosts a look at famous deaths; American professor gives Italian lessons; a lethal joke.

A bank robber mistakenly holds up a lingerie shop; a pet store that offers to convert terriers into any kind of pet.