Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical-sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python team, and directed by one of its members, Terry Jones. Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian, this film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story, The Meaning of Life returns to thesketch comedy format of the troupe's original television series, loosely structured as a series of comic sketches about the various stages of life.