The five surviving members of Monty Python are interviewed about their upcoming "farewell" performances in the U.K. next month…plus, you also get some real ugly photos of them.
Two points of interest. I follow these gentlemen a lot and am always a bit amazed at how they alternate between acting like bosom buddies and airing hostilities in public. I understand them not getting along at times. I don't quite understand what the point is of insulting your partners in the press. I mean, it's not like any of them could ever be certain they wouldn't want to work together again…and here they are, regrouping for ten performances that will pay them an awful lot of money — in some cases, maybe the money that they'll live off for the rest of their lives. Their legacies may also profit from this reassociation. Why say some of the things they say about each other?
Secondly: When they announced what was originally to be one "final" performance in England, everyone assumed it would be followed by a "final" performance in New York, a "final" performance in Los Angeles, other "final" performaces elsewhere. Then the one performance in England became ten and they got more serious about those being the last performances anywhere, anytime, forever. Do we think this is so? I mean, some of them may think it's so but do we think it's so? Barring ill health or another one of them ceasing to be, I don't. It's probably though the last one on this scale and there probably won't be an immediate tour.