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Eric Idle is touring the country this spring!
CLEESE FLIES WITH ABC: Monty Python alum John Cleese (currently seen in The World is Not Enough) is developing a series for ABC. Variety reports that the British comedian will write and produce a pilot for ABC, but there are no plans for him to star in the project, which takes place in a law firm where some of the partners have made deals with the devil!
Buy a new edition of videos and DVDs of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is out now on DVD, as is a Criterion version of Life of Brian.
Cleese is set to star in a new film directed by Ben Stiller.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride directed by Terry Jones and starring all the living British Pythons is on video now.
From Backstage Pass:
It was just too good to be true.
At last year's Aspen Comedy Festival the surviving Pythons got back together for a
well deserved tribute. The boys got on so well, they all decided to do a reunion tour,
much to the delight of their fans.
Then Terry Gilliam decided he really didnn't want to do a tour. Maybe a one night
show in Vegas....
No, Michael Palin really didn't want to do Vegas. How about New York? What a
great idea!
Except that Eric Idle didn't want to do it.
So now it's a 4 hour BBC special, set to air in the month of October, 1999.
When asked about the special, John Cleese said "It's going to be a lot of fun.
Hopefully it'll show we haven't grown up at all."
There's been no word yet on what the special will contain but Cleese assures fans
that there will be both familiar material and new bits of dementia. Cleese can be
seen starting this week in the Steve Martin / Goldie Hawn remake of "The Out of
Towners".
The concert films Pleasure at Her Majesty's and The Secret Policeman's Ball are now available from Rhino Home Video.
From Ultimate TV:
John Cleese Given Professorship
British actor-comedian and Monty Python
member John Cleese ("Fawlty Towers") has
been given an honorary professorship at
Cornell University.
"I would be delighted to answer anything,
provided that you call me, 'Professor
Cleese,"' Cleese joked to a crowd of about
1,200 students during a discussion on the mechanics of humor
Saturday. "I think I would rather be a professor than an earl or a
duke."
Cleese was made an honorary A.D. White professor-at-large, a
program named after Cornell's first president.
The German episodes, "Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus," are on video now. Details can be found here.
Click here for John Cleese's 5 Questions from "The Daily Show" and here for Michael Palin's 5 Questions.
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