#monty-python

#monty-python

Terry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children's author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag, started a magazine about countryside ecology (Vole), founded his own real-ale brewery and was even once a columnist for this newspaper, beginning one piece in 2011 like this: In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare.

Down an alley in Covent Garden, on a building that was once a banana warehouse, there is a blue plaque. Monty Python, Film Maker, Lived Here, 1976-1987, reads the inscription. It's easy to miss: the plaque is not at eye level as they normally are, but up on the first floor, almost as if the blue plaque committee lost confidence in their uncharacteristic joke. Or perhaps John Cleese put it up.

Via Flickering Myth, the remastered Holy Grail reportedly looks better than ever, with the improved video and audio quality doing heaps of work to extend and deepen this wacky reimagining of the Arthurian legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. But the real reason you want to get in on this re-release is the bevy of special features and other bonus goodies.

Kenneth Colley, a character actor, captured audience attention for over 60 years in roles such as Admiral Piett in Star Wars and Jesus in Life of Brian.

A number of props, costumes and even a lifelike llama from Monty Python's final live show are being auctioned, and you can bid now.