What is "storytime"

n. The time at which a story is told.

"Storytime" is a song from the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's seventh studio album Imaginaerum, as well as the first single from the album. It was released on November 9, 2011, twenty days prior to the album, along with a music video. The song premiered on Radio Rock, a Finnish radio station at 9.00 GMT +2 on November 7, 2011, two days before its commercial release.

Composer and band leader Tuomas Holopainen has said of Storytime that it "is a single that pretty well represents the whole album", and that it give a better picture of the album than " Eva" and " Amaranth" did as the first two singles to the 2007 album Dark Passion Play.

Storytime is a short animated comedy film written, directed and animated by Terry Gilliam. It is Gilliam's first film, and stylistically anticipates the distinctive animations which Gilliam went on to produce for Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Storytime is composed of three loosely connected animated segments. The first two, "Don the Cockroach" and "The Albert Einstein Story", were originally broadcast in the 1971–1972 TV series The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, while the third, "The Christmas Card", was created for the 1968 Christmas Special of Do Not Adjust Your Set. It is not clear when the three segments were first compiled to create Storytime, but the film was eventually included on the Jabberwocky DVD as a bonus feature. It was also shown as an accompaniment to some British theatrical releases of Monty Python's Life of Brian.