No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

MONTY PYTHON - STILL ON COMEDY'S FLYING TRAPEZE
(THE NEW YORK TIMES)

40 years later as of today from the premiere of the groundbreaking television show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the the merry men still have it. As someone who dabbles in the comedy sphere with a heavy hand, I can say with complete assurance that Monty Python has played a huge role in shaping contemporary comedy in everything from improv to sketch, television to comedic films. Alas, since then, the members have all gone their separate ways doing such scholarly things as making documentaries and dreaming about Don Quixote remakes (yes, Terry Gilliam. You are the only American and by far the strangest of them).

However, on Oct. 15, the five remaining troupe members (Graham Chapman succumbed to throat cancer in 1989) will reunite at the Ziegfeld Theatre. The Independant Film Channel (IFC) will also broadcast a six-hour documentary entitled Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) beginning Oct. 18. As an avid Python fan since my elementary years, I'm most enthused to see that even in what seems like a completely vapid society, we can still appreciate what is British (and, therefore, awesome).


Link to story at nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/arts/television/04mcgr.html?_r=1