Deary me, yet another decade has gone, and I barely noticed...

It's Monty Python's 40th anniversary, and yet again their "reunion" is put before an unsuspecting public as if there would be something "new" to be expected, but of course there isn't, as they stated ad nauseam there would never be.

Still, celebrations were in order, and the good old stalwarts rose to the occasion, it appears, a damn pity it all happened in America...

A "new" six-part series is airing in the Land of the Free this week, six hours of Pythons also already available on DVD, still there and, still there, they celebrated its launch yesterday with another of those performance/interviews which is as much as we can honestly expect from them these days, as a group, I only wish I could actually watch it, sometimes...

The Pythons answered questions posed by the audience, plus some they made up themselves (Cleese: "Can we go home, now?" ) and lots of fun seemed to be had by all, bless them... grrr...

What WE've got so far is possibly most there actually is to be had, in truth (or almost that... ), the Beeb aired a couple of weeks ago "Almost the Truth - The BBC Lawyer's Cut", a one-hour documentary/interview which, I guess, is really ALL the documents part of the series, the American six-parts probably consists of lots of anthology bits, or that's what I suspect at least, but I still have no proof of that, and I still would have liked to watch the "new performance" as well, but I guess there's still time for that, bless the "twilight zone" and YouTube

"People don't really want to still see us old geezers at it, what they want is to feel young again themselves..."

Said Terry Gilliam, more or less, and he's probably frightfully right, I'm afraid... then again, I just can't get enough of some old geezers, let's not forget these folks did at least as much individually as they did as a group, and as soon as one of their faces pops up on a screen, I'm just helplessly captured, no matter if it is a "mere" interview.

Happy Birthday, Pythons, and cheer up, you're just entering middle-age, as a group at least!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/a-night-of-round-table-with-monty-python/?hp