Monty Python to reunite to receive BAFTA Special Award

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Nice to see my personal comedic heroes get the accolades they deserve, what I wouldn't give to get a front row seat to this ceremony. As a child in the 70s I remember watching their TV show, one of the best on TV, then when their Movies came out Life of Brian and others, I was hooked watching them over and over again.  My first TV episode my three brothers and I ever watched was Eric the Half Bee.  For some reason though my Mom and three sisters never really liked it, preferring to watch Carson, so there was also a fight to change the channel between commercials so I could watch Monty Python between Droll Carson commercials.  Yep Good times, for some reason though women for the most part are just not into Python for some reason! Must be a gender thing. Even as we speak, I have the complete TV works of Monty Python on CD in my truck for those long drives into the interior to pass the time away, Spam,Spam,Spam, Spam.

The five surviving members of Britain's famed Monty Python comedy troupe are to reunite for a 40th anniversary bash in New York, where they will be presented with a BAFTA Special Award, the academy said Wednesday. The Monty Python team, which shot to international fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with their surreal and satirical humour, will receive the award on October 15, said the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.