The Colonel (Monty Python) The Colonel (Monty Python) The Colonel is a recurring fictional character from the British television show "Monty Python's Flying Circus", played by Graham Chapman. The Colonel acts as a "straight man" comic foil to the show's absurd characters and sketches. He maintains a rigidly mirthless personality and is always dressed in khaki British Army uniform. He occasionally makes appearances in the show, usually breaking the fourth wall and disrupting sketches to pronounce them too silly for the public and, therefore, demanding that something else be shown. He often orders the show to proceed in a different direction (sometimes to the
The Colonel (Monty Python) keep-left signs. The Colonel effectively ends the episode, by staring straight into the camera and saying “Now for a complete change of mood.” The Colonel has made appearances in "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl", at Pink Floyd's 1975 concert at Knebworth UK, and in a May 1982 episode of "Saturday Night Live" in which the character is used to comment on NBC's earlier refusal to air a commercial (featuring Chapman as the Colonel) for the Amnesty International benefit "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball". Archive footage of the Colonel was used in "Monty Python Live (Mostly)" for 2014. The