Monty Python Live at City Center is an album

Album

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 released by Monty Python

Monty Python

Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...

. It was recorded at the New York City Center

New York City Center

New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...

 in 1976. It was a live

Concert

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 album only released in the United States

United States

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. A CD

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 version was later released in 1997. The sketches come from the television series

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a BBC TV sketch comedy series. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines...

, with small variations, and Neil Innes' songs are his own. The album was not released in the UK, due to its similarity to Live at Drury Lane

Monty Python Live at Drury Lane

Monty Python Live at Drury Lane is an album released by Monty Python in 1974, which was recorded at the Drury Lane Theatre in London earlier that year. It was also released in Canada in 1975...

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Side one

1. Introduction / Llama
2. Gumby Flower Arranging
3. Short Blues by Neil Innes
4. Wrestling
5. World Forum
6. Albatross
   Albatross (Monty Python sketch)
   "Albatross" is a well known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It is particularly known for its opening lines: "Albatross!! Albatross!! Albatross!!" and the question: "What flavour is it?"...
   
     / Colonel Stopping It
7. Nudge Nudge
   Nudge Nudge
   "Candid Photography", better known as "Nudge Nudge", is a sketch from the third Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" featuring Eric Idle and Terry Jones as two strangers who meet in a pub.-Sketch description:As patrons in a...
   
   
8. Crunchy Frog
   Crunchy Frog
   "Crunchy Frog" is a fictional sketch originating from a Monty Python sketch titled "Trade Description Act", inspired by the British law Trade Descriptions Act 1968.- The sketch :In this sketch, Mr...
   
   
9. Bruces' Song
10. Travel Agent

Side two

1. Camp Judges / Blackmail
2. Protest Song by Neil Innes
   Neil Innes
   Neil James Innes is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.-Personal life:...
   
   
3. Pet Shop
4. Four Yorkshiremen
   Four Yorkshiremen sketch
   The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch is a parody of nostalgic conversations about humble beginnings or difficult childhoods. Four Yorkshiremen reminisce about their upbringing, and as the conversation progresses, they try to outdo one another, their accounts of deprived childhoods becoming increasingly...
   
   
5. Argument Clinic
6. Death of Mary, Queen of Scots
7. Salvation Fuzz / Church Police
   Dead Bishop
   The Dead Bishop sketch, also known as the Church Police or Salvation Fuzz, is a comedic sketch appearing in Episode 29 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Money Programme"...
   
   
8. Lumberjack Song
   The Lumberjack Song
   "The Lumberjack Song" is a song by the Monty Python comedy troupe. The song was written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson.It first appeared on the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Ant: An Introduction" on BBC1 on 14 December 1969...
   
   

Monty Python Live at City Center was also broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour

King Biscuit Flower Hour

The King Biscuit Flower Hour was a syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock artists.-History:...

radio show on 9 May 1976, with an introduction by John Cleese and Dave Herman.

External links

• This concert on the Concert Vault website - a slightly different version recorded on the 23rd of april, 1976.
• The unreleased introduction by John Cleese and Dave Herman - hosted on youtube by the Monty Python Museum.