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 Monty Python Instant Record Collection of record albums (all containing spoofs of popular album names). An inner sleeve featured a spoof "Where Are They Now?" update on the members of the Python team. As ever, the original vinyl release of the UK version had messages from George Peckham on the runout grooves. The first side read: "", while the second side read: "". The only new sketch (on the UK version) is "Summarise Proust Competition" which was originally performed on the television series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and was re-recorded for "Monty Python's Previous Record" but never used, while the Alistair Cooke sketch is preceded