A musical-sketch comedy film by the Monty Python team. Unlike the two previous films they had made, which had more or less each told single, coherent stories, The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch comedy format of the troupe's original television series, loosely structured as a series of comic skits about the various stages of life. Unlike their first film, And Now For Something Completely Different, which was a compilation of various Flying Circus sketches, this film was composed from entirely new and original material by the Pythons.