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Month Python together again.
- Thread starter Nibble
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Don't wait for me!
Few will be horrified. They helped change the face of comedy.
It will be interesting to see if they're still genius at this age. Hope so.
It will be interesting to see if they're still genius at this age. Hope so.
Tricky Dicky
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Leave well alone. History is history, for those that liked it, it can only be a disappointment.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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It's a stage show apparently.
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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BBC
All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, 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.
John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Jones are all due to appear at the event, which was first revealed in the Sun.
Eric Idle also tweeted on Monday: "Only three days to go till the Python press conference. Make sure Python fans are alerted to the big forthcoming news event."
He added on Tuesday: "Python meeting this morning. Can't wait. Press Conference Thursday will apparently be live on Sky News. I'll get you the online URL."
John Cleese The Ministry of Silly Walks is an iconic Monty Python's sketch
The last time the five remaining members of the iconic comedy group appeared together was in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival.
The sixth member of the comedy troupe, Graham Chapman, died in 1989.
The press conference will take place at the theatre where Monty Python's Spamalot is running - The Playhouse Theatre in London's West End.
All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, 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.
John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Jones are all due to appear at the event, which was first revealed in the Sun.
Eric Idle also tweeted on Monday: "Only three days to go till the Python press conference. Make sure Python fans are alerted to the big forthcoming news event."
He added on Tuesday: "Python meeting this morning. Can't wait. Press Conference Thursday will apparently be live on Sky News. I'll get you the online URL."
John Cleese The Ministry of Silly Walks is an iconic Monty Python's sketch
The last time the five remaining members of the iconic comedy group appeared together was in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival.
The sixth member of the comedy troupe, Graham Chapman, died in 1989.
The press conference will take place at the theatre where Monty Python's Spamalot is running - The Playhouse Theatre in London's West End.
PFJ
Not the JPF ..splitters !
Thank god for that . Saw the Parrot Sketch on BBC news earlier and thought John Cleese had died .
Defo get tickets for this if it's a tour or an O2 jobbie. Saw them at the Dome in '74. Hilarious.
Defo get tickets for this if it's a tour or an O2 jobbie. Saw them at the Dome in '74. Hilarious.
theboybilly
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Some of it was funny, rarely laugh out loud funny, but amusing all the same. But most of it left me cold (the Ministry of Silly Walks was a toe-curling embarrassment)
Leave it where it belongs, in the past, please.
Leave it where it belongs, in the past, please.
Nibble
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I find them very unfunny and irritating. Or the films they made. Whenever I think of Monty Python I think of lots of men making silly noises and Michael Palin bobbing around and gurning. It's just noise. Like dogs barking.
You know when you have the radio on in the background and it' splaying jazz but you don't notice it for a while then you register it and want to scream and have to run over and turn it off? That's how I feel about Python. If it's on and I haven't noticed it I think "Jesus, what is annoying me so much?!" Then I realise it's those idiots screeching and talking gibberish. I don't know why I started this thread I hate Monty Python.
You know when you have the radio on in the background and it' splaying jazz but you don't notice it for a while then you register it and want to scream and have to run over and turn it off? That's how I feel about Python. If it's on and I haven't noticed it I think "Jesus, what is annoying me so much?!" Then I realise it's those idiots screeching and talking gibberish. I don't know why I started this thread I hate Monty Python.
John Bumlick
Banned
"I hope it makes us a lot of money."
So DVD sales of the movies and Flying Circus have been affected by torrenting and other forms of digital distribution...
I love Python and good luck to them but I think I'll give this a miss thanks.
So DVD sales of the movies and Flying Circus have been affected by torrenting and other forms of digital distribution...
I love Python and good luck to them but I think I'll give this a miss thanks.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Will be interesting but too pricey fo rme I'd imagine - will wait for it to be on Channel 4 in a few years time.
He is a known twàt isn't he?
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Nibble
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So I've heard but only really watched these interviews and they certainly backed that idea up. I find Eric Idle a bore as well. Michael Palin I like though, perhaps because he has forged an interesting, long term career after Python and generally seems rather affable.
Agree with all that.
I definitely LIKE Palin, and as you say he seems a very AFFABLE chap. Funny, though?
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
I like the fact the Gazet van Antwerpen, one of Belgium's biggest daily newspapers, chose to illustrate the reunion story with this clip:
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Personally I am also underwhelmed by the news. They were great in their day, but their day was over 40 years ago. Time to move on.
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Personally I am also underwhelmed by the news. They were great in their day, but their day was over 40 years ago. Time to move on.
dougdeep
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This.
Absolutely. I'd imagine he'd bring with him a really good bottle of wine, and possibly some flowers for your mrs, and would even offer to help do the washing up. You wouldn't let him though - that would be a liberty.