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Posted November 13, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Bjorn Sigurdson, Scanpix / AP Photo British actor John Cleese during dress rehearsals for his new one man show which made its debut at the Oslo Concert House.

Monty Python reconvened on a stage in New York last week to receive a Bafta award and for the premiere of the new documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut.

It is now 40 years since the legendary and hugely influential comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus was first broadcast in the U.K. How do we know this? Well, partly because Python member John Cleese is so unbelievably decrepit.

A veteran actor calls on all his skills for a new role, writes Michael Shmith. "I PLAY an ageing con man.

Monty Python is a hit British TV comedy sketch show. In February 09, reports said Johnny Depp would be interested in taking acting in the show, according to the director Terry Gilliam.

Blackwood , Derek Griffiths and Nina Sosanya will join James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Adrian Lester and Sanaa Lathan in Debbie Allena s sell-out Broadway production of Tennessee Williamsa Cat On A Hot Tin Roof , which opens at the Novello Theatre on December 1, 2009 .

The cast members of A Fish Called Wanda -- John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin -- reassemble in different characters and in an English zoo, and count on the fond remembrance and good will of the audience to pull them through this wheezy farce about crass commercialism and cuddly critters.