Contents: "What's all this then?" : the introduction / Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch -- "Life's a piece of shit" : heresy, humanism and heroism in Monty Python's Life of Brian / Kevin Schilbrack -- What Mr. Creosote knows about laughter / Noël Carroll -- The limits of Horatio's philosophy / Kurt Smith -- Why is an argument clinic less silly than an abuse clinic or a contradiction clinic? / Hary Brighouse -- A very naughty boy : getting right with Brian / Randall E. Auxier -- Monty Python and the holy grail : philosophy, gender, and society / Rebecca Housel -- Against transcendentalism : Monty Python's The meaning of life and Buddhism / Stephen Asma -- Is there life after Monty Python's The meaning of life? / Stephen Erickson -- God forgive us / Stephen Faison -- Monty Python and David Hume on religion / John Huss -- Madness in Monty Python's Flying circus / Michelle Spinelli -- Monty Python and the search for the meaning of life / Patrick Croskery -- Existentialism in Monty Python : Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre / Edward Slowik -- "My brain hurts!" / Rosalind Carey -- "Why is a philosopher like a python?" / James Taylor -- Tractatus comedo-philosophicus / Alan Richardson -- Monty Python's utterly devastating critique of ordinary language philosophy / George A. Reisch -- Word and objection : how Monty Python destroyed modern philosophy / Bruce Baldwin -- My years with Monty Python, or, what's so funny about language, truth, and analyticity? / Gary L. Hardcastle -- Themes in contemporary analytic philosophy as reflected in the work of Monty Python / Gary L. Hardcastle -- Everyone remembers their first time : about the authors -- What was all that, then? The index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.