No way back for Monty Python
Comedy classic Monty Python won’t be returning, says Michael Palin.
Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese and Palin reunited in 2014 for Monty Python Live (Mostly).
Jones has since been diagnosed with a rare form of dementia.
Palin said the stars felt that 10 shows were enough.
He said: “It came to a point where cer tain people needed large amounts of money fairly quickly.
“And within… about sort of five and a half seconds, we’d all agreed – having been disagreeing for the last, sort of, 15 years.
“Towards the end of about show eight – well, earlier for some people – there was a feeling that perhaps we’d done enough,” Palin told BBC2 documentary A Life On Screen, which is on BBC2 tonight.
“We’d be hopeless at going around the world doing the same show all the time. It might have been a good way of making money but, honestly, we’d have got bored stiff.”
Palin also talks about the controversy sparked by Life Of Brian, saying: “I knew that some people, whatever you said or felt, would be upset just by having Monty Python and Jesus mentioned in the same film.
“Because some people can’t see comedy as helping you understand things better... they see comedy def initely as something which i s essent i a l ly destructive and I just don’t see that. I think quite the opposite.”