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Monty Python To Bid Farewell In a Simulcast Show

Posted by Soulskill on from the soon-to-be-pining-for-the-fjords dept.

dacarr writes "The five remaining members of Monty Python will be performing in the O2 Arena, and their last show as a comedy troupe will be simulcast across hundreds of theaters in the UK, and roughly 1,500 more across the world, according to the Guardian. Michael Palin says this is really going to be the last time before the Pythons cease to be. Well, at least, before Monty Python, as a comedy troupe, runs down the curtain and joins the bleedin' choir invisible."

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  1. No Graham Chapman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only absent member will be Graham Chapman, who died in 1989 at the age of 48.

    They could dig him up and have him fall out of cupboards, and other visual gags.
    The audition would be a mere formality.

    1. Re:No Graham Chapman? by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Insightful

      1989 really was the end of Monty Python, some partial reunions since then, some interviews....but if more than three or four members performed something together since then I don't recall it. They were already 45 years and older then, and all went on to other things. 20 years for a comedy group is a good run.

    2. Re:No Graham Chapman? by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The members may perish but Monty Python itself is a remarkable show that has influenced later shows and will therefore live on long after the members playing have perished.

      Not everyone likes their humor, and few likes everything, but they still mark a turning point in the history of humor shows - venturing into the "forbidden" part of humor so far and strong that it becomes absurd and it's no longer possible to take them seriously.

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      If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
    3. Re:No Graham Chapman? by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Though they were in turn inspired by the absurdism of the Goon Show.

      http://www.thegoonshow.net/dow...

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  2. Re:Their next step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry, they're only splitting up to get their heads together. They'll reform in a fortnight as Heads Together, then become Dead Together, then Dead Gear, then Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, and the inevitable split up. After another ten days, they'll reform again as Sole Marnier, then Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Baith, the Plaices, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon In A White Wine Sauce, Salmon Marnier, and Helen Shapiro.

  3. amazing talents by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Loved them when I was a kid, and have to watch their stuff from time to time (my wife, of course, finds them mostly unbearable).

    Funny though ... the world that they were spoofing was largely gone (outside of rarefied circles) even in their prime, and now it is really ancient.

    In a turnabout, it is today the hipsters and the snark-meisters who are the establishment at which you must not poke fun.