LONDON — Comedy is a bit like history. It repeats itself, and what started out as satire can mellow into farce. The Monty Python troupe burst forth from Britain as the 1960s became the '70s, with a ...

This ex-parrot has not been nailed on its perch but it has been hung upside down from a crane. The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch where ...

Dozens of props from Monty Python’s final live shows are being auctioned. The items, from Terry Gilliam’s personal collection, include a life-size llama and the iconic dead parrot, complete with cage, ...

Monty Python Live (mostly) at the O2 was the show to end all Python shows. Bigger, brassier, bolder than anything we'd done before. The reception was amazing. We kept adding shows.” — Legendary Monty ...

They are some of the props associated with many of the classic comedy moments of their age. Dozens of props, costumes and a lifelike llama from Monty Python’s final live show are set to be auctioned.

OVER 90 LOTS FROM THE 2014 MONTY PYTHON STAGE SHOW TO BE SOLD ONLINE, WITH RARE COLLECTIBLES FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF PYTHON LEGEND, TERRY GILLIAM Monty Python Live (mostly) at the O2 was the ...

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