Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 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. It was the last film to feature all six Python members before Graham Chapman's death in 1989. Unlike "Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian", the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story, "The Meaning of Life" returned to the sketch format of the troupe's original television series and their first film from twelve years earlier, "And
Patsy (Monty Python) production, he was played by Michael McGrath, who impersonated Terry Gilliam's role in the film. McGrath's role in the musical was praised in reviews, and he was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for "Spamalot". In the musical, Patsy is half Jewish. He didn't mention this at first because "it's just not the kind of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian." King Arthur also refers to him as "family." Patsy (Monty Python) Patsy is a character in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the musical "Spamalot". He is