{"id":38250,"date":"2017-04-23T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38250"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:51:38","slug":"the-real-reason-we-never-hear-from-monty-python-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/23\/the-real-reason-we-never-hear-from-monty-python-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason We Never Hear From Monty Python Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CH01tfcWsSo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 20 Apr 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legendary comedy group Monty Python was once a force of nature, influencing everything that came after them with their surreal, absurdist approach to comedy. So, why don&#8217;t we hear from them anymore? When Graham Chapman ceased to be in 1989, fellow Python member Terry Jones described it as &#8220;the worst case of party-pooping [he&#8217;d] ever seen.&#8221; His death came the day before Python&#8217;s 20th anniversary, and what followed was a bizarre but fitting eulogy, written to pay tribute to the man who&#8217;d written a dead parrot into one of the troupe&#8217;s most famous sketches. Chapman becoming an ex-person seemed to put a damper on any kind of authentic reunion, but what about the others? What happened to the late, great Monty Python?<\/p>\n<p>Terry Jones&#8217;s illness | 0:44<br \/>\nMichael Palin&#8217;s travel shows | 1:54<br \/>\nJohn Cleese&#8217;s purism | 3:01<br \/>\nTerry Gilliam&#8217;s moved on | 4:13<br \/>\nEric Idle&#8217;s Broadway ambitions | 5:06<br \/>\nThey want to finish on a good note | 6:02<\/p>\n<p>Read more here \u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grunge.com\/53323\/never-hear-monty-python-anymore-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.grunge.com\/53323\/never-hear-monty-python-anymore-2\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 20 Apr 2017 The legendary comedy group Monty Python was once a force of nature, influencing everything that came after them with their surreal, absurdist approach to comedy. So, why don&#8217;t we hear from them anymore? When Graham Chapman ceased to be in 1989, fellow Python member Terry Jones described it as &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,28],"tags":[311,263,1453,101],"class_list":["post-38250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","tag-1960s","tag-1970s","tag-montypython","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9WW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70319,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38250\/revisions\/70319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}