It took less than 45 seconds to sell every ticket to the first Monty Python reunion performance in 2014, a disappearing act that prompted the group to add four more dates at London's O2 Arena.  Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones last got together to perform as Monty Python in 2009 in New York City. The Python troupe burst onto the scene in October, 1969 when Monty Python's Flying Circus made its BBC debut.  Their first big screen success, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, paved the way to other films and the hit stage production Spamalot.

Former member Graham Chapman passed away in 1989.
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