Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think! (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 19)

This humorous guide looks at the deeper implications of Monty Python's sketches and films, which are among the best loved and most successful work in the history of comedy.

With its logical paradoxes, clever wordplay, and focus on the absurdities of life, the work of Monty Python appeals to everyone with a philosophical bent, the more bent the better. Twenty-one surprising chapters by professional philosophers and amateur Python fans celebrate the intersection of rigorous, profound TV comedy and zany, madcap metaphysics. Surprise is the chief quality of this book. Surprise, provocation, and a fanatical devotion to the enlightenment of the masses . . .