Monty Python's PythoNET is an unofficial site for fans of Monty Python, created by artist and filmmaker Garrett Gilchrist (DOB 4-20-81). The site was originally created all the way back in 1996, as a tiny, crappy site on America Online. The site started small but grew, grew, grew and grew.In 1999, the site was officially established at PythoNET.org. From 1999 to about 2001, PythoNET.org was probably the #1 Monty Python fansite out there, and was officially recognized by the Monty Python official website, Pythonline. For a brief period I even worked as a licensing designer for official Monty Python products. I still occasionally design merchandise for Python friend Neil Innes.
I wasn't really happy running a standard Monty Python fansite. I wound up, during that period, doing things very differently than most Python webmasters. I paid the most attention to Python projects other than the most well-known ones.
I dedicated the most space on the site not to projects like The Holy Grail or the TV series, but to obscure but wonderful shows and films like Rutland Weekend Television, "The Wind in the Willows, and At Last the 1948 Show. I didn't want to cover the subjects that had already been covered better by other sites. This is probably what made the site so popular. I still can't go to a Python site anywhere on the web without spotting at least one thing that I originally created. PythoNET's original stuff is everywhere now.
I've moved on since then, and the site is no longer as popular as it once was. I don't update the site much anymore - there's little new to report about a team who did their most beloved work thirty years ago! But the site is still around, and will stay around as long as I can keep it up. And I still update from time to time, and it's usually with something really cool and interesting and big.
You'll notice that this site is no longer called PythoNET.org, but is instead just a part of Orangecow.org. That's the official site for my entertainment company, Orange Cow Productions. What is Orange Cow Productions, you may ask? Well, we are an up-and-coming entertainment company based in Los Angeles, CA. We are currently responsible for seven feature-length motion pictures, thirty short films, several television shows, several plays, quite a few screenplays, several books, endless comic strips, a bunch of video games, and god only knows what else. See the main page of Orangecow.org to find out more.
Special thanks must go at this point to all the many fine folks who have helped make this page so much nicer in the course of its short history. Frankly there have been hundreds, but here's a representative sampling -- Laurie Stevens constantly gives up her own money and time to keep this site and our movie projects running. Linus the Llama stopped doing Python stuff several years ago, but the great stuff he left behind remains. Check his Virtual Camelot page and all our various joint projects like the Pycon collection and the Pythemes for hints of his talent, which is considerable. Major thanks to Some of the Corpses are Amusing's Mike and Joe, the smartest and angriest comedy scholars on the 'Net today - they are an endless source of information and good things, and have helped immeasurably. Thanks to Jonathan "Squidy" Sloman, gav-lai, SirKobble, and the forum members at Cook'd and Bomb'd for all their support. Thanks to Bruce Jewell, the philosophical Aussie who created the original big Python site at Stone Dead Productions. To Bonnie Rose, an angry Irish woman and the self-appointed ruler of anything having to do with Neil Innes anywhere, and lives up to it in every way. To Steve Hull, the a talented musician who created the best of our Python MIDI collection. Alley Ernst, the best videotape archivist and talk show host ever to come out of New Jersey. Mark Gumby, who did a lot for the site when we first began in the late 90s. Trond Frittz, without whom we couldn't have made our "Brazil" section. To Jeanna Crawford , a true survivor and former caretaker of the late official site, Pythonline. To Mike Strauss, who had a spiffy Python page before anyone had a right to. Thanks to Cory Parkinson for his help on the ANSCD script. Thanks to everyone else whose work we've used on this page.
And most of all, thanks to the Pythons themselves.
Thanks must go also to Reg, our announcer, who has lent his voice to the page for a pretty reasonable rate,
considering, and we thank him for that. Reg started out as an extra on the David Frost shows and appeared in one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which he uttered the immortal words "I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!" He then got his head sawed off and borrowed for a bit of animation, kind of a nasty thing to do really, and after that he just sloshed round the BBC for a while until we found him on a streetcorner, recognized him, and offered him a job. He's been our announcer ever since, working tirelessly without one day's leave (except during that nasty Puss incident, but we think that's cleared up now). So we'd like to salute our buddy Reg and wish him luck in all his future endeavors. And if you ever need an animated head....Last but not least, we'd like to thank you, the viewers at home, for taking the time to visit the page over all these years. Yes, we'd like to salute you and give you a good bit of cheer for making this page what it is today, but we're sorry, there isn't time. And now, the end of the page.
