Editing Monty Python's Flying Circus (album) (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Monty Python's Flying Circus
| type       = live
| artist     = [[Monty Python]]
| cover      = MontyPythonsFlyingCircusREB73M.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 6 November 1970 (UK)<br />1970 (US)
| recorded   = 2 May 1970 at Camden Theatre, London
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Comedy]]
| length     = 53:13
| label      = [[BBC Records|BBC]] (UK)
                [[Pye Records|Pye]] (US)
| producer   = [[Ian MacNaughton]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Another Monty Python Record]]
| next_year  = 1971
}}

'''''Monty Python's Flying Circus''''' is the first album produced by the [[Monty Python]] troupe, released in both the UK and US in 1970, with the US version featuring a back cover slightly different from the original UK version. It features newly recorded versions of sketches from the first ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' television series.

Next to the television show itself, the album was the first piece of media the Pythons released. It is noted that [[Terry Gilliam]] was not included as a member of Python on the album's cast listing (in spite of his brief appearance in the sketch "The Visitors") and [[Graham Chapman]]'s name is misspelled "Grahame".

The album was recorded on a single day, 2 May 1970, in front of a live audience at the [[KOKO (music venue)|Camden Theatre]] in London.<ref>Palin, Michael ''[[Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years]]'', p.23, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.</ref> Recalling the rather muted response, [[Eric Idle]] would later claim "they were a particularly dead audience."<ref>''[[The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons]]'', p179, 2003, Orion</ref>

The [[copyright]] to the record is still owned by the [[BBC]], making it one of the few pieces of material the Pythons themselves do not own. This is also the reason why it did not gain a 2006 special edition release. One of the tracks makes specific mention to the album being in stereo, and Chapman demonstrates it by walking from one speaker to another. The effect was totally lost as the album was recorded in mono, which the Pythons did not know at the time. They felt disenchanted by the BBC's album-producing methods, and for their remaining albums sought very different approaches.

{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r82484}}</ref>
}}