Monty Python's Big Red Book

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Image:MontyPythonsBigRedBookCover.jpg Monty Python's Big Red Book is a comedy book comprising mostly material derived and reworked from the first few years of the Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC television series. It was first published in 1971 by Methuen Publishing Ltd.

It is available in hard- and softcover editions, both of which sport a completely blue exterior. It was published in the United States in 1975 by Warner Books.

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A poem from The Big Red Book “Haggis” About Horace that ate fis face one day. “Haggis”

Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay

Horace ate himself one day

He didn't stop to say his grace

He just sat down and ate his face

“We can't have this!” his dad declared

“If that lad's ate, he should be shared”

But even as he spoke they saw

Horace eating more and more:

First his legs and then his thighs,

His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes

“Stop him someone!” Mother cried

“Those eyeballs would be better fried!”

But all too late for they were gone,

And he had started on his dong....

“Oh foolish child!” the father mourns

“You could have deep fried those with prawns,

some parsly and some tartar sauce ...”

But H. was on his second course;

His liver and his lights and lung,

His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue

“To think I raised him from the cot

And now he's going to scoff the lot!”

His mother cried “what shall we do?

What's left won't even make a stew...”

And as she wept, her son was seen

To eat his head, his heart, his spleen

And there he lay, a boy no more

Just a stomach on the floor...

None the less since it was his

They ate it - that's what haggis is.