The announcement that the remaining members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were reuniting took us all by surprise, and rightly so. For comedy nerds this is our ‘Free as a Bird’ moment, this is the reunion declared impossible (as indeed a true reunion is, with the death of Graham Chapman in 1989), and not since 1998 in Aspen (when Chapman’s ashes were kicked across the stage) have they appeared together on stage.
Indeed even the last series of the television show did not include a full complement of Pythons, jettisoning the Flying Circus and John Cleese who was already keen to do other things. Thankfully the mercurial genius which inspired such beautiful lunacy survived the small screen and the team would go on to jump in and out of each other’s projects as they each grew as writers, performers and directors. Indeed they are scheduled to appear in Terry Jones...
Indeed even the last series of the television show did not include a full complement of Pythons, jettisoning the Flying Circus and John Cleese who was already keen to do other things. Thankfully the mercurial genius which inspired such beautiful lunacy survived the small screen and the team would go on to jump in and out of each other’s projects as they each grew as writers, performers and directors. Indeed they are scheduled to appear in Terry Jones...
- 11/21/2013
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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