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
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar And Now for Something Rather Similar is a documentary about the Monty Python team as they prepare for their first live performances in 34 years. Airing on BBC 1 on 29 June 2014 as part of the "Imagine" series, the programme is presented by Alan Yentob, who tracks down the five surviving Pythons in the months leading up to their "Monty Python Live (Mostly)" shows at the O arena in July 2014. Following the press conference announcing the shows and the team’s subsequent appearance on "The Graham Norton Show" at the end