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  1. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known simply as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by Terry Jones. The Meaning of Life was the last feature film to star all six Python members before the death of Graham Chapman in 1989.

  2. Mar 31, 1983 · The Meaning of Life: Directed by Terry Jones. With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle. The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

  3. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life is rude, ribald, and unafraid to take comedic risks -- which is to say it should more than satisfy fans of the titular troupe. Read Critics Reviews

  4. Overview. Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor.

  5. Synopsis. The presentation opens with a short film, “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”, directed by Terry Gilliam, that tells the saga of accountants who take up arms as pirates and sail their small office building on the high seas of international finance, laying waste to multinational corporations.

  6. Monty Python's Meaning of Life. The stages of life are told through multiple sketches and songs by the British comedy troupe. 3,800 IMDb 7.5 1 h 47 min 1983. X-Ray R. Comedy · Arts, Entertainment, and Culture · Philosophical · Strange. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $14.99. More purchase. options.

  7. Halfway through "Monty Python's Meaning of Life," the thought struck me that One-Upmanship was a British discovery. You remember, of course, the book and movie ("School for Scoundrels") inspired by Stephen Potter's theory of One-Upmanship, in which the goal of the practitioner was to One-Up his daily associates and, if possible, the world.