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Monty Pythoncelebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Here are nuggets about late-period Python found in the new material fromMonty Python Speaks!
The Complete Oral History, Revised and Updated Edition,which hits stores this week.
Their ideas for a reunion show sound sexist and terrible (but by design).
In March 1998, HBO assembled the surviving Pythons for an appearance at the U.S. Gilliam expanded on the concept with Michael Palin, inventing something called the Pythonettes.
Yes, these are the girls, theyre doing great.
Well done, girls!
Eric Idle gave Mel Brooks the idea to do aProducersmusical.
By the early 90s, Eric Idle thought Broadway musicals werent funny anymore.
Gone were the broad, comic musicals in favor of Andrew Lloyd Webber melodramas.
Andthatis what gave Eric Idle the idea forSpamalot,the stage adaption ofMonty Python and the Holy Grail.
Eric Idle made it difficult for the rest of Monty Python to refuseSpamalot.
Idle worked onSpamalotfor two years without input from any of the other Pythons.
While they liked the music, they still had reservations about how it would play out onstage.
But Idle was so far along in the process by then that they really couldnt deny him permission.
Whos going to be in it?
Are other people going to be saying our lines?
Is this a good thing?
So there were doubts, definitely doubts.
They reunited for the money (which they needed because of a lawsuit).
Some members have struggled with what it means to be a Python.
I prefer my solo work, because it is mine, Idle says.
I like my play,my books, my songs, the Rutles, so much stuff.
Python was just a part of my life; it isnt my fault people wont let it go!
