Monty Python: freedom from work

I was whiling away the hours until my block of flats' stairs have been painted white - no, I don't know why either - when I happened upon William Cook's review of one of Michael Palin's diaries in the Guardian, in which there was a wonderful note from the diary about John Cleese, Eric Idle and Monty Python's Flying Circus: "John and Eric see Monty Python as a means to an end - money to buy freedom from work".