Monty Python Live (mostly)
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| German title: | Monty Python Live (mostly) |
| Original title: | Monty Python Live (mostly): One Down, Five To Go |
| Original language: | English |
| Slogan / Subtitle: | One down, five to go |
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| Artist: | Monty Python |
| Genre: | Comedy , satire |
| Show type: | Sketch show , musical |
| Year of origin: | 2014 |
| First performance / premiere: | July 1, 2014 |
| Last performance: | 20th July 2014 |
| Place of premiere: | The O₂ , London |
| Author: | Monty Python |
| Actors / Contributors: | Graham Chapman , John Cleese , Eric Idle , Michael Palin , Terry Gilliam , Terry Jones |
| Website: | Website |
Monty Python Live (mostly) (full original title: Monty Python Live (mostly): One Down, Five to Go ) was a stage show by the comedy group Monty Python in the O₂-Arena in London , which took place on ten evenings in July 2014.
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The ten shows took place in two blocks from July 1st to 5th and from July 15th to 20th, 2014. The tickets for the first show were sold out within 45 seconds of the start of sales. The show lasted three hours and was interrupted by a 30-minute break.
All five still living members of Monty Python were back on stage together after 34 years; Graham Chapman , who died in 1989, was shown in various video clips. In addition, Chapman was honored at the end of the show with the display of his name and his life data.
The group performed a comprehensive selection of their most popular skits, some of which were modified to reflect current or past events. Carol Cleveland , who from 1969 had a permanent role in the series Monty Python's Flying Circus , also appeared in several skits on the stage show, including a. as a replacement for Graham Chapman in the Spam sketch . In addition, numerous surprise guests were involved in the show: Eddie Izzard appeared in the final show as Bruce after he had been seen as a blackmailed celebrity as a surprise guest in the Blackmail Sketch the previous evening . Other well-known guest stars in the Blackmail sketch were Stephen Fry and Mike Myers . Professors Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking also appeared in a clip based on the Galaxy Song ; The latter was also present in the audience at the last performance and when he was shown to the audience on the big screen by the director, his supervisor waved his hand.
The last of the ten stage shows on Sunday, July 20, was broadcast live worldwide via a Dish Network satellite in television and cinemas.
Reviews
The show was received largely positively by the critics. A negative criticism from the Daily Mail was answered by John Cleese and Michael Palin on the final show on the Dead Parrot Sketch, when Cleese remarked during a break in the skit that he had heard the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail had "had his asshole transplanted," whereupon Palin replied that the asshole "rejected him soon after the operation".
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Members of Monty Python:
- John Cleese
- Terry Gilliam
- Eric Idle
- Terry Jones
- Michael Palin
- Graham Chapman (in clips from archive material)
In fixed roles:
- Carol Cleveland
- Samuel Holmes
Surprise guests (in the Blackmail sketch):
- July 1: Stephen Fry
- July 2: Lee Mack
- July 3: Bill Bailey
- July 4th: Noel Fielding
- July 5: Matt Lucas
- July 15: Warwick Davis
- July 16: Simon Pegg
- July 18: David Walliams
- July 19: Eddie Izzard
- July 20: Mike Myers
Cameo appearances (recorded in advance):
- Professor Brian Cox
- Professor Stephen Hawking (also attending the final show on July 20th.)
Skits and songs
According to Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph :
First half
- Llamas
- Opening sequence
- Four Yorkshiremen sketch
- The Fish-Slapping Dance (video recording)
- Not The Noel Coward Song - expanded to include a vagina and a butt stanza
- The Naval Medley / Ypres 1914
- Colonel Stopping It (video recording)
- Batley Townswomen's Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor (video recording)
- The Last Supper
- Every Sperm Is Sacred
- Protestant couple
- Silly Olympics (video recording)
- Vocational Guidance Counselor
- The Lumberjack Song
- The Philosophers' Football Match - First Half (video feed)
- Bruces
- Bruces' Philosophers Song
- The Philosophers' Football Match - Second Half (video feed)
- Crunchy Frog
- Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
- I like Chinese
Second half
- Spam Lake (dance routine)
- Sit on My Face
- The Death of Mary Queen of Scots
- Penguin on the Television
- Gumby Flower Arranging
- Camp judges
- Albatross
- Nudge nudge
- Nudge Rap (dance routine)
- Blackmail
- Miss Anne Elk
- Spanish Inquisition
- Galaxy song
- Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking
- The Silly Walk Song (dance routine)
- Argument Clinic
- I've got two legs
- Captions
- Spam / Finland
- Pet Shop / Cheese Shop sketch / Come Back to My Place
- Christmas in Heaven
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life as an encore .
Between them was in some places as in the series Monty Python's Flying Circus by stop-motion - and cartoon animations of Terry Gilliam transferred from one sketch to the next.
Web links
- Monty Python interview. Say no more. ( Memento from June 18, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), English
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Global finale for Monty Python show on stage and in cinemas . BBC. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ^ At Monty Python Reunion Show, The Circus Makes One Last Flight . NPR. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ^ A b Monty Python live (mostly), review: poignant and predictable, but tremendous fun . The Telegraph. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ↑ So are the surviving Monty Pythons just flogging a (dead) parrot? . Daily Mail. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ^ Dominic Cavendish: The almost-definitive guide to Monty Python Live (Mostly) . The Telegraph . Retrieved July 21, 2014.