Monty Python

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Post your questions for Terry Gilliam
The Monty Python legend and director of 12 Monkeys and Brazil will be receiving his first Aardman Slapstick award for visual comedy next month. Ask him anything here

Rich Pelley

22, Jan, 2024 @12:17 PM

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David Leland obituary
British director and screenwriter who enjoyed huge success with his 1987 hit film Wish You Were Here

Ryan Gilbey

02, Jan, 2024 @1:28 PM

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‘The bedrock of my life’: Michael Palin announces the death of his wife Helen
Monty Python star said his ‘dearest wife’ died ‘peacefully’ a month after the pair celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary

Nadeem Badshah

02, May, 2023 @5:31 PM

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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life at 40: timeless sketch comedy brilliance
The troupe’s last feature as a six-person act is a smart and still relevant collection of satire and silliness

Scott Tobias

31, Mar, 2023 @6:01 AM

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‘I didn’t cry until I knew I was going to live’: Monty Python’s Eric Idle on surviving pancreatic cancer
Three years after being diagnosed, the 79-year-old has been given the all-clear. He reflects on losing his friends George Harrison and Robin Williams – and how he still manages to always look on the bright side of life

Simon Hattenstone

03, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM

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JFK derails Doctor Who, plus the drama that was too terrifying to show: 100 years of the BBC, part five
The Pythons fly, Doctor Who stumbles, Match of the Day shows a game of one half, The War Game is pulled – and was Dad’s Army a metaphor for military impotence during the cold war?

Mark Lawson

30, Sep, 2022 @2:00 PM

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It’s not that people are more sensitive these days. Some things just aren’t funny any more | Martha Gill
Python star Terry Gilliam says today’s students can’t handle the truth. That’s an ex-debate

Martha Gill

14, Aug, 2022 @8:00 AM

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The prime minister merely echoes the empty threats of King Lear | Brief letters
Brief letters: ‘Terrors of the earth’ | Oxford Union debating skills | Half Man Half Biscuit | Expecting the Spanish Inquisition

Letters

27, Apr, 2022 @4:50 PM

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Tantrum of the opera: how Michael Palin’s angry dad inspired new show
The Monty Python star has reinvented his play The Weekend as musical theatre

Vanessa Thorpe

19, Sep, 2021 @8:45 AM

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Morecambe and Wise found Monty Python ‘boring’ and ‘irritating’
Comedy duo’s damning verdict revealed in newly discovered footage from Norfolk student TV station

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

27, Aug, 2021 @12:48 PM

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Michael Smiley’s teenage obsessions: ‘I heard the Beat and came back to Belfast a rude boy’
The comedian and actor on dancing with his mother to Ray Charles, the power of Seamus Heaney’s poetry and how Richard Pryor showed him his future

As told to Tom Seymour

19, Aug, 2021 @1:09 PM

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Suzanne Vega's teenage obsessions: 'Taxi Driver captured something awful but made it beautiful'
In the first of a weekly series where film and music stars discuss their youthful fixations, the US singer recalls silly walks and Saturday Night Fever dance classes

Interview by Dave Simpson

03, Sep, 2020 @3:30 PM

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