Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring the comedy group Monty Python. The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September and premiered on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV.
Circus
"Tromba", a film about a tiger trainer, was released in 1948. In 1952 Cecil B. de Mille's Oscar-winning film "The Greatest Show on Earth" was first shown. Released in 1953 were "Man on a Tightrope" and Ingmar Bergman's "Gycklarnas afton" (released as "Sawdust and Tinsel" in the United States); these were followed by "Life Is a Circus"; "Ring of Fear"; "3 Ring Circus" (1954) and "La Strada" (1954), an Oscar-winning film by Federico Fellini about a girl who is sold to a circus strongman. Fellini made a second film set in the circus called "The Clowns" in 1970. Films about the circus made since 1959 include Disney's "Toby Tyler" (1960), the B-movie "Circus of Horrors" (also in 1960); the musical film "Billy Rose's Jumbo" (1962); "A Tiger Walks", a Disney film about a tiger that escapes from the circus; and "Circus World" (1964), starring John Wayne. Mera Naam Joker (1970) a Hindi drama film directed by Raj Kapoor which was about a clown who must make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. In the film "Jungle Emperor Leo" (1997), Leo's son Lune is captured and placed in a circus, which burns down when a tiger knocks down a ring of fire while jumping through it. "The Greatest Showman", a musical film loosely based on the life of P. T. Barnum, was released in 2017.