And now for something completely … familiar.
Thirty years after they last teamed up, the ground-breaking British comedy troupe Monty Python is getting back together.
The five living members – John Cleese, 74, Terry Gilliam, 72, Terry Jones, 71, Eric Idle, 70, and Michael Palin, 70, – will appear in a new version of the show, the UK’s Daily Mail reported.
“We’re getting together and putting on a show – it’s real,” Jones told the paper.
Famed for their offbeat and decidedly weird routines – like “the knights who say ni!” and the dead parrot “whose rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible” – the group enjoyed its heyday in the 1970s, when “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was a staple on public TV in the US.
A spokesman for the aging Pythons would not say whether they would perform live, in a TV special or film.
“A press conference is set for Thursday where the Pythons themselves will be unveiling their plans to work together again,” he said.
And Idle took to twitter to announce: “Only three days to go till the Python press conference. Make sure Python fans are alerted to the big forthcoming news event.’
The troupe also made a few movies, including 1975’s “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” and “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” in 1979.
Graham Chapman, the group’s sixth member, died of cancer in 1989.