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Monty Python And Doctor Who Coming To Theaters

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Tenth_Doctor_bFathom Events is turning July into a fan service month.

David Tennant will headline a one-ticket/two event extravaganza on July 16-17. The first night he will star as Doctor Who in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, seamlessly tied together as a continuous story, and give an interview about his experiences as the Tenth Doctor. On the second night, ticket holders will return to see nature documentary Wings 3D, and hear Tennant’s narration.

Then Monty Python fans will be able to see the group’s reunion at London’s O2 Arena on July 20.

For the first time in over three decades, comedy legends Monty Python will be performing live on stage together at London’s famed O2 Arena. At a combined age of just 361, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin will once again perform some of their greatest hits, with modern, topical, Python-esque twists.

Monty Python Live (Mostly) will broadcast live to theaters across the U.S. and will rebroadcast on July 23-24. Fathom Events is selling tickets here.Monty_python_foot

Monty Python Together Again

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Five surviving members of Monty Python are expected to announce plans to reunite for their first live performances since 1998 at a press conference on Thursday.

[Terry] Jones suggested that a certain motivating force had helped the troupe members overcome any personal animosities that may have developed over the years.

“I’m quite excited about it,” he told the BBC, regarding the planned reunion. “I hope it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!”

The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast in October 1969. While several of the individuals are still active and successful performers, the average age of the principals is 71.4 and people wonder if they can still deliver laughs as a troupe.

Actor and musician Neil Innes, who appeared in two Pythons’ films quipped in a BBC interview, “The idea of John doing the silly walks with two false hips is very amusing.”

Monty Python Flies Again, Sorta

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Members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus will do the voices of aliens in Absolutely Anything, a science fiction comedy combining CGI and live action. Terry Jones will direct, reports Variety.

And Robin Williams will voice the character of a talking dog.

The five surviving members of Monty Python last appeared together in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival along with an urn that allegedly contained the ashes of late member Graham Chapman.

John Cleese’s Alimony Tour

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John Cleese will perform his one-man show, “A Final Wave at the World (or the Alimony Tour, Year One)” at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on November 14. That’s literally next door to the Mystery and Imagination Bookstore which has hosted so many of the Bradbury events reported here.

A Glendale News-Press reporter interviewed the Monty Python veteran and got some remarkably frank answers:

Q: Is your tour something you had been wanting to do for a while?

A: No, no. Not at all. It was just that, as I said, I do have to earn a million a year to hand over in alimony and that means I’ve got to get out and earn money and this is not a very good time.

Cleese said he enjoyed the Monty Python troupe’s recent reunion very much, prompting this question:

Q: Any chance of a new project together following this seemingly renewed group chemistry?

A: I don’t know what we’d do really because it always took us a long time to write whatever we were up to and it’s very clear Eric has done some terrific work for “Spamalot,” but he doesn’t really want to work with us. He doesn’t want to cooperate with us artistically or creatively. Because I offered to work with him, even without Monty Python, but ?he didn’t really want to do that. So I think he likes to work on his own.

Cleese is 70. He has been living in Southern California for the last decade.

Monty Python Documentary on IFC

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This will be the second post of the day to mention Mike Glicksohn. During Torcon II he introduced a room party full of American fans to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, then being aired on Canadian television but not in the U.S. The episode — The Spanish Inquisition — fulfilled even the wildest expectations. We went home wishing for more. Fortunately, the series began running on PBS at the end of 1974.

That party came to mind when I read in today’s Los Angeles Times that the 40th anniversary of Monty Python’s British debut is being commemorated by a six-hour documentary series, “Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut),” beginning October 18 on the Independent Film Channel.

The Independent Film Channel publicized the program by reuniting the five surviving members of the troupe in New York on October 15 for a public “conversation” at the premiere of a feature-length theatrical cut. The Monty Python Reunion can be viewed online:

Watch the historic event reuniting all five surviving members of the Monty Python team — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin — as they take to the stage for a Q&A discussion with the audience.