AP Interview: Monty Python swansong will surprise

By Jill Lawless

Published June 2, 2014 1:48pm ET

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AP Interview: Monty Python swansong will surprise — FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, file photo the surviving members of the Monty Python comedy group, from left, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese pose for photographers during a photocall to promote a reunion stage show they are going to perform together, at a hotel in London. American Monty Python fans who can't attend the troupe's London reunion can always look on the bright side of life. The show will be screened in hundreds of U.S. movie theaters. The anarchic British comedians are reuniting for 10 shows at London's O2 Arena in July, 34 years after their last stage performance. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) | Matt Dunham

LONDON (AP) — Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition. And as with all things Monty Python, fans need to expect the unexpected, too.

Next month the surviving Monty Python members reunite onstage for the first time in almost 35 years — and, they say, the last time ever. Fans understandably want to see the anarchic comedy troupe’s classic skits. They’re hoping for Spam, lumberjacks, dead parrots and of course the red-robed cardinals who burst in to proclaim: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”

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