The remaining members of the Monty Python comedy troupe will be getting back together for a new stage show. Whether the show would have new material or old remains to be seen.
The formal announcement is due out Thursday, but on Tuesday, Terry Jones confirmed the news himself when talking to the BBC. "We're getting together and putting on a show - it's real."
Jones added, "I'm quite excited about it. I hope it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage."
Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and John Cleese are all set to return to the stage for a reunion show for the first time in 30 years, The Telegraph reports. The last member, Graham Chapman died of cancer in 1989.
Plans for reunions have been discussed now and again. The comedy troupe realized "it was now or never." Monty Python plan on doing "a fully-fledged reunion," and potentially TV program or movie could also come after.
One of the main reasons a reunion never really came about before was due to Chapman's death. The group never got back together after that, though they have, in part, appeared in each others' various solo projects over the year. The last true reunion attempt was in 1999, but fell apart with various reasons given. Idle joked it would happen "just as soon as Graham Chapman comes back from the dead. We're talking to his agent about terms."
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