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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.



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A series of cryptic tweets and a news conference announcement have sparked speculation that the five surviving members of British comedy troupe Monty Python may be about to reunite.

They are holding the news conference in London on Thursday.

Member Eric Idle tweeted Tuesday that there was a "Python meeting this morning," after tweeting Monday: "Only three days to go till the Python press conference. Make sure Python fans are alerted to the big forthcoming news event."

The public relations agency that sent out the invitations to the news conference declined to confirm it was to announce a reunion, saying: "All will be revealed on Thursday."



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LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Palin was deadly serious, Terry Jones yawned and Eric Idle looked like he was half asleep.

At London's High Court on Wednesday, proceedings in a case over royalties from the hit musical "Spamalot" were distinctly humorless, despite the presence of three out of six members of the surreal comedy troupe Monty Python.

Palin took the witness stand and, under cross examination, rejected the idea that Mark Forstater, who produced the group's hit 1975 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", would ever have been considered the "seventh Python".

Forstater has taken legal action, arguing that under a 1974 agreement between him and the Pythons he was entitled to one-seventh of profits derived from the film and any merchandise or spin-offs.

He says that he has not received his fair share of profits from Spamalot, the musical spin-off of Holy Grail which opened on Broadway in 2005 and has enjoyed success in Britain as well.

"It might have been what he was seeking, but it was never going to be accepted by the Pythons," Palin said.

"The idea of a seventh Python just doesn't happen ... I don't think there was ever any suggestion this man was going to be a 'seventh Python'."

Palin, wearing a dark jacket, open-necked blue shirt and glasses, said he did not recollect a meeting where terms of the agreement were laid out.

When pressed on negotiations with various partners during the mid-1970s, he said there were details he could not recollect more than 35 years later.

"We were working very, very hard, it was very last-minute," he said of the period just before the Pythons travelled to Scotland to shoot Holy Grail.

Of Forstater, Palin said: "He was not the creator of the film. The film had been created by the Python team entirely. Mark was not part of our team."

Forstater, who was also in court, has said previously that he believed he was owed 250,000 pounds ($400,000) in relation to Spamalot.

Idle and Jones, who sat at the back of the small, modern courtroom in central London, occasionally chuckled at what was being said, but mostly Idle had his eyes closed and Jones could not resist a yawn.

The trial, which began on Friday, was scheduled to last four to five days.

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Okay, so this is a really weird and specific thing to complain about, but I feel personally denigrated, and have yet another weird reason to hate Iron Maiden.

I've been watching this six-part documentary series on Monty Python on Netflix Instant Queue called, "Monty Python: Almost the Truth". It's a really awesome series with interviews mainly from the five remaining members of Python, but also of comedians and famous people they influenced, friend and acquaintances, etc. I'm on the 5th episode which is all about Monty Python's Life of Brian and it's great! But then, this interview with Bruce Dickinson, from the band Iron Maiden, really bugged me:



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Summary of video: Bruce Dickinson ponders how Americans, who have never learned Latin, are able to find the conjugation scene in Life of Brian funny?

*headdesk*

Well Bruce, I don't know specific statistics or numbers, but the majority of Americans do have to take atleast one foreign language class in middle school, high school and/or university. We may not have had the draconian methods of British boarding schools, but the funny part of this scene is not only that if he gets the grammar wrong there is the threat of corporeal punishment – it's also funny because the Centurion is not angry about the message, he's angry about the incorrect conjugation and sentence structure. As well as how Brian is making all the same mistakes we've all made when learning other languages.

You see Bruce, Americans aren't all stupid assholes, we have the ability to see something and relate it to our own experience. I've never taken Latin - I've taken French, Spanish & Italian. I've also taken English. I also have I never made such glaring grammatical errors, but I have witnessed them. So I get it, and I find it hilarious. So, fuck you for thinking so little of >300 million people.

Love, Jamie

Happy new year, community! Hope there's still some members around here.

Terry Jones says Monty Pythons will reunite for film

The surviving members of Monty Python's Flying Circus are set to reunite for another film, Terry Jones has confirmed.

The star told trade newspaper Variety that he would direct the science fiction picture, Absolutely Anything.

"It's not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility," he said.

Jones revealed John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin were on board and he still hoped to sign Eric Idle.

The last time the five remaining members of the iconic comedy group appeared together was in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival.

In the new CGI movie, the Pythons will provide voices for a group of aliens who grant a human being immense power, which eventually leads to all sorts of disruption.

A talking dog named Dennis will be voiced by Mrs Doubtfire actor Robin Williams.

Jones co-directed the 1974 film Monty and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam and was the sole director for Life Of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983).

In June, it was announced that Cleese, Gilliam, Palin and Jones would voice a 3D animated film based on the memoirs of the late Graham Chapman, the sixth Python, who died in 1989.

However, Idle was not involved in the film, which is expected to be released later this year.

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[20]: Audrey Hepburn
[8]: The Man With No Name
[24]: Monty Python
[5]: Nikola Tesla
[15]: Robert Pattinson
[94]: Sherlock
[16]: Star Wars
[182]: TOTAL

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More here!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/201…

Apparently BBC is doing a docu-drama of the making of "Life of Brian."

Hmm...

There is a Python shirt at teefury being offered for the next 21 hours. (Until 12am EST)

So it's confirmed @PythonJones is a REAL Terry Jones! Whoa!
http://twitter.com/#!/PythonJones
With Terry G disliking social media (he stated he disliked 'Twitter and stuff like that' not so long ago) there's no real chance we'll see Gilliam joining his mate there. But anyway it's great news, isn't it? I just love those lads!

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Some of recent posts by Terry J for those of you who dislike Twitter like Terry G does:
So this is Twitter is it? They had something in the Middle Ages like this called 'writing things on a bit of paper and passing it around'.
Goodness-hello-so many questions. I'm sorry I can't talk much until next week but I'm on an island in the Baltic with unmanageable computers
Currently in Gotland. (Where?) The Baltic Sea is the temperature of ice cream but still salty.
Yesterday was Midsommarafton. We all danced around the Maypole pretending to be frogs.
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Back from Gotland (Where?) Desk hidden under mound of debris-Plugs,sardine cans,bits of wire,custard, medieval seals,old underpants...
...Well that's what it feels like. Hey ho. Start digging.
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@rufusjones1 Hi Rufus. I don't envy you having to get into bed with Charles Edwards but it’s all in a good cause. Hope he washed his feet.