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 Instant Monty Python CD Collection which was removed from some pressings of the "Contractual Obligation" album. The Instant Monty Python CD Collection The Instant Monty Python CD Collection is a box set released in 1994 of six CDs containing eight albums by the Monty Python troupe. It does not include the first Monty Python record, "Monty Python's Flying Circus", whose rights are still owned by the BBC. It contained a small booklet of reprinted material from album sleeves and previous Python books. For this release, each album was represented by two tracks, with each track corresponding to one side of the original vinyl pressings. For