If you missed the ‘Monty Python Live (mostly) – One Down Five to Go’ shows at The O2, London or the cinema & TV broadcasts, or simply want to relive the experience, you can now watch exclusive video highlights from the group who influenced a generation and revolutionised comedy.
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As the countdown to the ‘Last Night of the Pythons’ at The O2, London on July 20th begins, here are some things you've always wanted to know about the first five ‘Monty Python Live (mostly) – One Down Five to Go’ shows.
Our Charity Bruce raised over £20,000 in the first 5 shows, for NSPCC, Shelter, The Roundhouse, Maggie’s Centres and The Mercury Phoenix Trust. Next five shows will support The Stammering Centre, Nordoff Robbins, Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity.
Our ‘Celebrity Blackmail’ guests were Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Lee Mack, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas… More great surprise guests in the next five shows….
A giant sculpture of a Dead Parrot appeared at Potters Field and has now made it’s way to The O2, London which will be it’s home for the next 7 days. Have a look at Terry G above!
July 20 is ‘The Last Night of the Pythons’ and will be broadcast live around the world in cinemas and on TV. UKTV Gold will broadcast a full wrap around show to go with the live show in the UK.
During the first five nights of Monty Python Live (mostly) at London's O2, the Pythons have helped to raise over £20,000 for their chosen charities: The Mercury Phoenix Trust, NSPCC, Shelter, Maggie’s Centres and The Roundhouse.
The charities were given the opportunity to auction the part of 'Bruce' to their supporters. Each night one of the winners then took to the stage to take part in the infamous 'Bruce' sketch alongside the Pythons at the O2, answering questions about their charity and singing along to the 'Philosopher's Song' - in front of thousands of people! Well done to the 'Bruces' who took part!
The Pythons hope to raise more during next week's shows when a further five 'Charity Bruces' will participate in the sketch.
The Pythons performed their ‘Monty Python Live (mostly) – One Down Five to Go’ show in front of an audience of 300 friends and family last night. Here’s what some of them had to say about it:
“Thank you so much. What a wonderful event. What a wonderful spectacle. I cannot remember enjoying myself so much and laughing so much that it hurt. We were overwhelmed by the whole joyful production. I also found the show to be so emotional. At the end I had tears in my eyes. A Python experience I'll never forget. I could see it again and again.”
“We much enjoyed the show last night and were hugely impressed by the production values and how smoothly it seemed to run.”
“I loved the slick interplay of animation, dance and performance!”
“Wow!!! What an introduction to the world of Python! That was brilliant!”
“That was absolutely brilliant – I pissed myself.”
Unleash your silly walk across London dodging dangerous obstacles and collecting gold coins in this stupendously additive survival game.
Monty Python invites you to join that British bastion of eccentric loco-motion - 'The Ministry of Silly Walks'. Your assignment as a member of this venerable organisation is to showcase your increasingly frantic promenading as far as you possibly can. As you and your stiff upper lip travel through the streets of London take care to avoid obstacles and pesky pigeons. Bank coins and collect power ups to help take your walk to new heights of silliness.
- Warning! Highly addictive
- Voice acting by the Minister of Silly Walks himself, Mr John Cleese
- Randomised obstacles and scenery - Never play the same game twice
- Use your banked coins to buy sillier suits and enhanced power ups
- Sumptuous 3D Graphics
- Realistic physics and ragdoll
- Regular updates
DISCLAIMER: No comedy legends were harmed in the making of this game. Get it here ... www.thesillywalk.com
Exciting news, the official online shop has opened its doors. Just click here http://www.montypythononlinestore.com to visit the store and browse the "Stuff For Money" available.
Monty Python have announced the re-release of their classic and much adored single 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' with a brand new verse fitting for this year’s World Cup, should England fail to triumph. The single is out now and available for download on iTunes.
Written by Eric Idle for the final sequence of Monty Python’s second feature film 'The Life of Brian' (1979), 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' is probably the best-known and most popular Python song and has become established as a favourite sing-along at both funerals and sporting events.
Its cheerfully stoic message found particular resonance with football fans and was initially adopted as a chant by fans of Sheffield Wednesday at the dawn of the 1990s, before becoming part of the repertoire of England fans experiencing deflating failures at major international tournaments.
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Monty Python has donated to a selection of charities the chance to appear with them live on stage in their infamous "Bruces" sketch ... as a Bruce, at their London O2 arena shows "Monty Python Live (mostly)". Watch the video above to find out more.
First published in 2003 this is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued with a new cover to coincide with the eagerly anticipated live shows at The O2 in July 2014.
‘The Pythons’ Autobiography by the Pythons’ is a unique insight into arguably the most important comic team of the modern age, lavishly illustrated throughout, with photographs culled from the team's own personal collections.
This is the definitive word, in their own words, on all things Pythonesque.
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Here is the new music video to accompany the ‘Lousy Song’, one of the bonus tracks featured on Monty Python Sings (again), a reissue of the 1989 Python album Monty Python Sings, which is out on 9 June 2014.
Originally recorded during sessions for Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album in 1980, 'Lousy Song' was conceived and performed by Eric Idle and the late Graham Chapman. You can order the album here.
