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Monty Python’s Flying Circus show set to commence major US tour

‘It’s about laughing at yourself and your own death and your inevitable end, which you can do nothing about,’ Eric Idle muses

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John Cleese Packs It In review – former Python goes on the road in sickness and in health

Such is his grumpiness, it isn’t clear why the 85-year-old wanted to make the film – though ‘I need the money’ is a running gag

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Terry Gilliam

The Monty Python star will celebrate 50 years in film at a Guardian Live Q&A on 29 October. Here’s your chance to find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the legendary director

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Michael Palin says Monty Python stars are more estranged than ever

‘There’s only four of us left and people do their own things,’ Palin said

The Independent UK

The 50 greatest Iron Maiden moments

From playing to a room filled with nuns to losing a drum battle against a teddy bear, these moments helped make Iron Maiden Britain's most iconic metal band

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 13: three more British places with tales to tell

We visit Wakefield’s rhubarb triangle Britannia’s westernmost amphitheatre in Carmarthen, and Colne - home of Monty Python’s favourite cobblestones

The Guardian - UK

Eric Idle expresses dissatisfaction with Monty Python financial matters on X

Eric Idle, founding member of Monty Python, has recently made some controversial claims about the group. Find out what he had to say about finances, relati...

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‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil

De Niro agreed because he was a Python fan, Gilliam cast his daughter but she cut her hair off in protest – and Pryce needed a wig as he’d just been playing a friar with a tonsure

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t cry until I knew I was going to live’: Monty Python’s Eric Idle on surviving pancreatic cancer

Three years after being diagnosed, the 79-year-old has been given the all-clear. He reflects on losing his friends George Harrison and Robin Williams – and how he still manages to always look on the bright side of life

The Guardian - UK

JFK derails Doctor Who, plus the drama that was too terrifying to show: 100 years of the BBC, part five

The Pythons fly, Doctor Who stumbles, Match of the Day shows a game of one half, The War Game is pulled – and was Dad’s Army a metaphor for military impotence during the cold war?

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