Monty Python's Flying Circus

[HorrificAttack]

I think Monty Python is very hit and miss, some of it is genius though

[Tash]

Monty Python to reform on stage

 

All of the surviving members of comedy legends Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, Terry Jones has confirmed.

 

"We're getting together and putting on a show - it's real," Jones told the BBC.

 

"I'm quite excited about it. I hope it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage."

 

The reunion is expected to be announced officially at a press conference being held in London on Thursday.

 

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[Black Rose]

I hope it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage.

 

Would probably sell out even with silly ticket prices, as long as it's a limited run.

[Tash]

Monty Python to reunite for live one-off show in London

 

Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese made their announcement in London's West End

 

The surviving members of comedy group Monty Python have announced their reunion will be a live, one-off show in London next July.

 

At a press conference, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones said they wanted to see if they "were still funny".

 

Idle - who will direct - said the audience should expect "comedy, pathos, music and a tiny piece of ancient sex".

 

The stage show will be their first new project for three decades.

 

It is more than 30 years since the Pythons last performed together at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in September 1980, and 40 years since they last performed on stage in the UK.

 

In a press release issued ahead of the conference, the comedy troupe promised to perform "some of Monty Python's greatest hits, with modern, topical, Pythonesque twists".

 

Ticket prices

 

Warwick Davis, who recently starred in the Monty Python-inspired musical Spamalot, introduced the "five legends" at the London's Playhouse theatre, claiming the venue for the reunion had been decided after a series of bids.

 

Opening a series of gold envelopes, he claimed the winner was first, Qatar, then Meryl Streep.

 

Finally, he announced the show would take place in London at the O2 Arena on the 1 July, with tickets going on sale on 25 November.

 

The top price for tickets will be £95 and the lowest will be £26.50 -"only £300 cheaper than the Stones", quipped Idle.

 

The Monty Python team at the site of their filmed live show at the Hollywood Bowl, California, in 1980

 

Cleese said they would almost certainly include popular sketches such as The Crunchy Frog and The Dead Parrot, but reiterated that there would also be "some new material".

 

"People do really want to see the old hits but we don't want to do them in a predictable way," he said.

 

"The main danger we have is that the audience know the scripts better than we do."

 

Idle said they would also include some material that had never previously been performed live.

 

He said it would be "a big show" likening it to "a huge musical", with input from choreographer Arlene Phillips.

 

He added that the event would be released on DVD: "We'll be filming it and we'll try to flog it later."

 

"It's more than just a performance - people enjoy the experience of performing with us," said Cleese.

 

The 74-year-old said "at first" the gig would be "a one and only" but refused to rule out further performances.

 

"The problem is getting us all together in one room," he added, citing Gilliam's multiple film commitments.

 

When they did eventually get together, Palin said the five of them just "still enjoy getting together to be very silly", adding that it was easier to do "now they are in their 70s".

 

"Silliness is always funny," added Jones.

 

"After you turn 70, you can be absolutely shameless," echoed Gilliam.

 

Leak

 

News of the reunion leaked in the press earlier this week, with Jones telling the BBC he was "quite excited".

 

"I hope it makes us a lot of money," he said on Tuesday. "I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!"

 

The last time the five remaining members of the comedy group appeared together in public was in 2009 at their 40th anniversary celebrations in New York.

 

The sixth member of the comedy troupe, Graham Chapman, died in 1989.

 

The press conference took place at the home of the Monty Python-inspired musical Spamalot - London's Playhouse Theatre.

 

Earlier this year, a film producer won a High Court case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty rights to the hit stage show.

 

Mark Forstater, who produced the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, claimed he was underpaid royalties since the musical's launch in 2005. He estimated he was entitled to more than £200,000.

 

The six members of the Python team got to know each other firstly through university, and later through their work on television comedy programmes, including The Frost Report.

 

Monty Python's Flying Circus was made for TV between 1969 and 1974 and featured sketches and songs that fans can recite by heart.

 

The team went on to make films including Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979).

 

The well-known Life of Brian song, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, was performed by Eric Idle at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony.

 

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[Tash]

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[Black Rose]

Prices are cheap considering it will be a good show (hopefully).

[Tash]

Monty Python extends stage show to five dates

 

The Pythons announced they were reuniting last week

 

The Monty Python stage show has been extended from one date to five, running from 1 to 5 July next year.

 

The first show sold out within 43.5 seconds, organisers announced.

 

Last week it was announced that John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones were to reunite and perform together.

 

It will be the first time the anarchic comedians have performed together since 2009, at their 40th anniversary celebrations in New York.

 

The shows will take place in London at the O2 Arena.

 

Earlier this year, a film producer won a High Court case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty rights to the hit stage show Spamalot.

 

Mark Forstater, who produced the 1975 film Monty Python and The Holy Grail, claimed he was underpaid royalties since the musical's launch in 2005.

 

He estimated he was entitled to more than £200,000.

 

The six members of the team got to know each other firstly through university, and later through their work on television comedy programmes, including The Frost Report.

 

The Pythons' hugely successful, zany BBC TV series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, bucked the trend of traditional sketch writing, which used a punchline at the end of a sketch. Instead, the Pythons followed in the footsteps of Spike Milligan, allowing sketches to merge into each other or simply stop abruptly.

 

The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on 5 October, 1969.

 

It ran for four series and spawned spin-off records, books and even German-language specials.

 

Gilliam's unique animation style became a key element of the show, segueing seamlessly between any two completely unrelated ideas.

 

The comedy group made their successful film Monty Python and the Holy Grail on a small budget in between filming the third and fourth series of their TV show.

 

Their next film was the highly controversial Monty Python's Life Of Brian, released in 1979.

 

Telling the story of a man mistaken for Jesus, the film was attacked by Christian groups and banned in some areas.

 

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life was released in 1983 and was another financial and critical success, winning the jury prize at Cannes film festival. The sixth member of the comedy troupe, Graham Chapman, died in 1989.

 

The surviving Pythons went on to forge successful solo careers while continuing to collaborate with each other.

 

Cleese famously co-wrote the hit BBC TV comedy series Fawlty Towers, which first ran in 1975, with Connie Booth, who had appeared in Monty Python's Flying Circus. He also wrote the hit comedy film A Fish Called Wanda in 1988, in which he starred with Palin.

 

Gilliam pursued a film career, and his credits include 1981's Time Bandits, which he co-wrote with Palin, who starred in it alongside Cleese. Gilliam's futuristic 1981 fantasy film Brazil also featured Palin, while 1988's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, about the supposed travels of the baron, featured Idle.

 

Palin and Jones went on to write together, and Palin starred in their comic TV series Ripping Yarns, a collection of tales that make "ripping good" television.

 

Four Python members - Jones, Idle, Cleese and Palin - also appeared in Jones's 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows.

 

Cleese's acting career has also included roles in Clockwise, two James Bond films and two Harry Potter films.

 

Palin has also starred in films including The Missionary and A Private Function and has of course made a huge name for himself with his award-winning travel documentaries.

 

Idle went on to create spoof Beatles band The Rutles and wrote the hit Spamalot musical.

 

He also performed Always Look on the Bright Side of Life at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony in London.

 

Jones wrote the screenplay for the movie Labyrinth and he has also written and presented historical documentaries for TV.

 

Chapman did a lecture tour in the US and took on various film projects including The Odd Job and Yellowbeard before his death from cancer 24 years ago.

 

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[Black Rose]

Good to see the touts hard at work.

 

I wonder how many tickets actually went onto public sale and how many were sold direct to the secondary ticketing sites?

 

10% mark-up law will hopefully put a stop to touting, if it ever gets off the ground (and the secondary ticketing sites stops paying MPs to go against it)

[IcingOnTheCake]

Don't know whether anyone else saw them on Graham Norton a few minutes ago, hilarious as ever.

More tickets go on sale 10am tomorrow they said.

[Tash]

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[dontgo]

haha!

[Smithjhon77]

I have watched the Monty Python, Very funny stuff contain this movie. I really enjoy to watch this movies. I think Funny acting more taught the action acting or serious acting.