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
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