Michael Palin: Dying with Monty Python would be 'great'

Bang Showbiz Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:12 AM

Michael Palin thinks dying during a Monty Python sketch ''would be a great way to go''.

The legendary British comedy troupe recently announced they were reforming for a one-off reunion show in London and star has said he thinks passing way as part of the group would be a fitting end.

He told The Sun newspaper: ''If I died in the middle of a sketch with the Pythons then it would be a great way to go.''

The 70-year-old comedian has also revealed he was the reason the surviving members of the group - completed by John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle - hadn't reformed sooner.

Their six member, Graham Chapman, died in 1989 and - despite attempts to work together a decade later - Michael wasn't convinced that the time was right.

He admitted: ''I was the one who said I wasn't happy with it ... Part of my reasons for not doing a stage show 15 years ago was because we'd miss Graham.

''He was a vital member of the cast and a brilliant writer ... But this time we haven't had to think about him - and not because we're being anti-Graham in any way.

''The great thing is that we can use technology to bring Graham in and not actually have to replace him.''

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Monty Python reunite for one-off show: 'We can still be funny'

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Monty Python's reunion will take place in just one, one-off, show at London's O2 Arena on July 1 2014, it was announced at a press conference on Thursday.

The five surviving Pythons, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle took part in a press conference at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End. Actor Warwick Davis introduced them and announced the details for the stage show before the Pythons took questions from the audience.

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They revealed that the show would include a mixture of old, known Python content as well as material that has never before been performed in public. Cleese explained that there will be new material but also performances of "the old hits in an unpredictable way". Palin and Cleese revealed that they had recently read some of the script for the show and that "it suddenly feels funny again".

Idle told Telegraph reporter Hannah Furness that they would be updating the older material for a modern audience, however. "We have Arlene Phillips and singers and dancers," he said, "we'll try and make it as exciting as funny as possible."

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