The lawyers cut tells the story of monty python through brand new interviews with the pythons. The monty python troupe includes john cleese, terry gilliam, eric idle, terry jones, michael palin and graham chapman. Almost the truth season 1 episode 2 the much funnier second episode. Childhood to pre python work, the series interviews john cleese, terry gilliam, eric idle, terry jones, michael palin, with archive.
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