Watching Monty Python Live last year ranks alongside meeting Sir Patrick Stewart, watching Lyn perform at the paralympic closing ceremony and graduating my masters as one of the greatest events of my life. In my entry about that awesome event, I said that I thought I was watching Python’s last ever performance, and that I didn’t think they would ever perform together again. It now seems I may have been wrong: yesterday on the monty python facebook page a picture appeared showing the five remaining team members together; the caption below said they were making plans. I was instantly intrigued. I can only speculate about what that could mean: could they be making a new film together? Very possible. A documentary about Python? No – the wording of the caption did not suggest that.

I can’t help but think that they might be planning another live show. Perhaps last year was such a success they have been persuaded to do it again. If that is so, then where? I think it’s unlikely to be at the o2 again – cool though it would be for me, I think they would want to go somewhere else. Maybe someone in the States saw the shows last year, thought ”we’ll have some of that” and made the team an offer they couldn’t refuse. I find that rather likely. Either way this is pure speculation started by a single picture on facebook – I could well be completely wrong. Nevertheless, this is a story I’ll be watching with great interest; going by what happened last time, it might well turn out to be something truly awesome. Monty Python, it would seem, is not dead yet.