I pity da foo who be thinkin Monty Python had brilliance.
Nothing says brilliance like playing with dead birds, slapping people with large trouts, and attacking your head with bricks.
In the time "Flying Circus" was originally aired it was brilliant.
Maybe if it was produced nowadays it wouldn't raise a brow, with all the other over-the-top comedy shows. But stuff like the 'idiot olympics' remains above all that has come afterwards, and always will.
@kara: I guess I've seen em all (although it's hard to keep them seperate in my memory), but I remember it getting boring towards the end, might have been after season 4, though.