Editing Monty Python (section)

===Other contributors===
Cleese's first wife, [[Connie Booth]], appeared as various characters in all four series of ''Flying Circus''. Her most significant role was the "best girl" of the eponymous Lumberjack in "The Lumberjack Song", though this role was sometimes played by Carol Cleveland. Booth appeared in a total of six sketches and also played one-off characters in Python feature films ''And Now for Something Completely Different'' and ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedy: Connie Booth |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/people/connie_booth_person_page.shtml |access-date=20 August 2019 |website=BBC}}</ref>

[[Douglas Adams]] was "discovered" by Chapman when a version of ''Footlights Revue'' (a 1974 BBC2 television show featuring some of Adams' early work) was performed live in London's [[West End theatre|West End]]. In Cleese's absence from the final TV series, the two formed a brief writing partnership, with Adams earning a writing credit in one episode for a sketch called "[[Patient Abuse]]". In the sketch—a satire on mind-boggling bureaucracy—a man who had been stabbed by a nurse arrives at his doctor's office bleeding profusely from the stomach, when the doctor makes him fill in numerous senseless forms before he can administer treatment.<ref>{{cite news |title=Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 4, Episode 6 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031d26j |access-date=29 August 2019 |website=BBC}}</ref> He also had two cameo appearances in this season. Firstly, in the episode "The Light Entertainment War", Adams shows up in a surgeon's mask (as Dr. Emile Koning, according to the on-screen captions), pulling on gloves, while Palin narrates a sketch that introduces one person after another, and never actually gets started. Secondly, at the beginning of "Mr. Neutron", Adams is dressed in a "pepperpot" outfit and loads a missile onto a cart being driven by Terry Jones, who is calling out for scrap metal ("Any old iron&nbsp;..."). Adams and Chapman also subsequently attempted a few non-Python projects, including ''[[Out of the Trees]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6150254.stm|title='Lost' gems from the TV archives|date=December 2006|website=BBC News – Entertainment|access-date=19 August 2019}}</ref> He also contributed to a sketch on the soundtrack album for ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''.

Other than Carol Cleveland, the only other non-Python to make a significant number of appearances in the ''Flying Circus'' was [[Ian Davidson (scriptwriter)|Ian Davidson]]. He appeared in the first two series of the show, and played over 10 roles. While Davidson is primarily known as a scriptwriter, it is not known if he had any contribution toward the writing of the sketches, as he is only credited as a performer. In total, Davidson is credited as appearing in eight episodes of the show, which is more than any other male actor who was not a Python. Despite this, Davidson did not appear in any Python-related media subsequent to series 2, though footage of him was shown on the documentary ''[[Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python]]''.<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cce5b11885f24b708cc195c106f497fa "Python Night"]. BBC. Retrieved 19 August 2019</ref>

Stand-up comedian [[Eddie Izzard]], a devoted fan of the group, has occasionally stood in for absent members. When the BBC held a "Python Night" in 1999 to celebrate 30 years of the first broadcast of ''Flying Circus'', the Pythons recorded some new material with Izzard standing in for Idle, who had declined to partake in person (he taped a solo contribution from the US). Izzard hosted ''The Life of Python'' (1999), a history of the group that was part of Python Night and appeared with them at a festival/tribute in [[Aspen, Colorado]], in 1998 (released on DVD as ''Live at Aspen''). Izzard has said that Monty Python was a significant influence on her style of comedy and Cleese has referred to her as "the lost Python".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/living-the-dream-eddie-izzard-26586127.html|title=Living the dream: Eddie Izzard|first=Eamon|last=Sweeney|date=27 November 2009|website=The Irish Independent|access-date=30 May 2016}}</ref>

Series director of ''Flying Circus'', Ian MacNaughton, is also regularly associated with the group and made a few on-screen appearances in the show and in the film ''And Now for Something Completely Different''. Apart from Neil Innes, others to contribute musically included [[Fred Tomlinson (singer)|Fred Tomlinson]] and the Fred Tomlinson Singers.<ref>{{cite news|first=Daniel E.|last=Slotnik |title=Fred Tomlinson, Singer Who Led a 'Monty Python' Troupe, Dies at 88  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/arts/television/fred-tomlinson-monty-python-singer-dies-at-88.html?_r=0 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2016-08-04 |access-date=20 August 2019}}</ref> They made appearances in songs such as "[[The Lumberjack Song]]" as a backup choir. Other contributors and performers for the Pythons included [[John Howard Davies]], John Hughman, [[Lyn Ashley]], Bob Raymond, [[John Young (actor)|John Young]], Rita Davies, Stanley Mason, [[Flanagan (model)|Maureen Flanagan]], and David Ballantyne.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8718897/John-Howard-Davies.html "Obituary: John Howard Davies"]. ''Daily Telegraph'', 23 August 2011</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-john-young-5593573.html |title= Obituary : John Young |work =The Independent |date= 18 September 2011 |access-date=20 August 2019}}</ref>