Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy

The guide for the evening is Mrs. Betty Palin. Four members of Monty Python will meet on stage. There are about ten familiar Gumby's with handkerchiefs on their heads sitting side by side in the front row. The music is roaring, the choir is singing, the choir is crawling before the Lord, crawling after Brian, singing at times when they shouldn't be singing at all. And bleating, too. Eric Idle doing a Bob Dylan impression. Terry Jones acts as a Roman miner, Terry Gilliam is again (thanks to his speech) definitely the most worthy protagonist of this whole crazy thing. “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" sounds unreal. Mixed into all of this are occasional Scottish bagpipers, Mexican trumpeters, shepherdess Carol Cleveland with singing sheep, and Pilate/woodchopper accompanied by the Canadian Mounted Choir. It couldn't have turned out any other way than five stars!___P.S. I miss Graham and John on stage, though. And while the former is excused for dying, where the hell was Cleese hanging out? Could it be that his gait has gone a little off again? (27/06/2010)