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divdiv class=story-body readability=75 span class=story-date#13; span class=date19 November 2013/span#13; span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time06:04 ET/span#13; #13; /span#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- Embedding the video player --#13; !-- This is the embedded player component --#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- wwrights check --#13; !-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- end of the embedded player component --#13; #13; !-- Player embedded -- #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed./p#13; pWe're getting together and putting on a show - it's real, Jones told the BBC. /p#13; pI'm quite excited about it. I hope it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!/p#13; pThe reunion is expected to be announced officially at a press conference being held in London on Thursday. /p#13; span class=cross-head'Can't wait'/span#13; pJohn Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Jones are all due to appear at the event, which was a href=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/5270973/Monty-Python-is-set-to-be-a-flying-circus-all-over-again.htmlfirst revealed in the Sun/a./p#13; pEric Idle also a href=https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/402375108322660352tweeted/a on Monday: Only three days to go till the Python press conference. Make sure Python fans are alerted to the big forthcoming news event./p#13; pHe a href=https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/402728901962907648added/a: Python meeting this morning. Can't wait. Press Conference Thursday will apparently be live on Sky News. I'll get you the online URL./p#13; pCleese also a href=https://twitter.com/JohnCleeseNews/status/402620150865616896tweeted/a about the event, saying: Monty Python is set to be a flying circus all over again./p#13; pThe last time the five remaining members of the iconic comedy group appeared together was in 1998 at the Aspen Comedy Festival./p#13; #13; pThe sixth member of the comedy troupe, Graham Chapman, died in 1989./p#13; span class=cross-headHigh Court case/span#13; pThe press conference will take place at the theatre where Monty Python's Spamalot is running - The Playhouse Theatre in London's West End./p#13; pEarlier this year, a film producer won a High Court case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty rights to the hit stage show./p#13; pMark Forstater, who produced the 1975 film Monty Python and The Holy Grail, claimed he was underpaid royalties since the musical's launch in 2005./p#13; pHe estimated he was entitled to more than £200,000. /p#13; pThe six members of the team got to know each other firstly through university, and later through their work on television comedy programmes, including The Frost Report./p#13; pThe Pythons' hugely successful, zany BBC TV series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, effectively threw away the rulebook of traditional sketch writing, dispensing with punchlines and allowing sketches to blend into each other or simply stop abruptly./p#13; pThe first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on October 5, 1969./p#13; pIt ran on TV for four series and spawned spin-off records, books and even German-language specials./p#13; pGilliam's unique animation style became a key element of the show, segueing seamlessly between any two completely unrelated ideas./p#13; #13; pThe comedy group made their successful film Monty Python and the Holy Grail on a small budget in between filming the third and fourth series of their TV show./p#13; pTheir next film was the highly controversial Monty Python's Life Of Brian, released in 1979. /p#13; span class=cross-headCannes film award/span#13; pTelling the story of a man mistaken for Jesus, the film was attacked by Christian groups and banned in some areas./p#13; pMonty Python's The Meaning Of Life was released in 1983 and was another financial and critical success, winning the jury prize at the Cannes film festival./p#13; pThe Pythons also went on to forge successful solo careers while continuing to collaborate with each other./p#13; pCleese famously co-wrote the hugely successful BBC TV comedy series Fawlty Towers, which first ran in 1975, with Connie Booth, who had appeared in Monty Python's Flying Circus. He also wrote the hit comedy film A Fish Called Wanda in 1988, in which he starred with Palin./p#13; pGilliam pursued a film career, and his credits include 1981's Time Bandits, which he co-wrote with Palin, who starred in it alongside Cleese. Gilliam's futuristic 1981 fantasy film Brazil also featured Palin, while 1988's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, about the supposed travels of the baron, featured Idle./p#13; pPalin and Jones went on to write together, and Palin starred in their comic TV series Ripping Yarns, a collection of tales that make ripping good television. /p#13; #13; pFour Python members also appeared in Jones's 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows./p#13; pCleese has also had a hugely successful acting career including starring roles in Clockwise, two James Bond films and two Harry Potter films./p#13; pPalin has also forged a successful film career, starring in movies including The Missionary and A Private Function and has of course made a huge name for himself with his award-winning travel documentaries./p#13; pIdle went on to create spoof Beatles band The Rutles and wrote the hit Spamalot musical./p#13; pHe also performed Always Look on the Bright Side of Life at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony in London./p#13; pJones wrote the screenplay for the movie Labyrinth and he has also written and presented historical documentaries for TV./p#13; pChapman did a lecture tour in the US and took on various film projects including The Odd Job and Yellowbeard before his death from cancer 24 years ago./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center