I have been thinking about Monty Python a lot recently. While it seems my enthusiastic prediction that they were planning another reunion seems to have been premature, I can’t help thinking we haven’t seen the last of the Pythons yet. Of course, now that Terry Jones is unwell, a full reunion like the one in 2014 would seem unlikely. Yet Cleese and Idle are currently touring America with their own show, which apparently includes a lot of Python material; if Palin and Gilliam could be persuaded to join them, surely it wouldn’t take much to get Python back on the road.

2019 marks the golden jubilee of Python. It would be a shame not to mark the anniversary in some way. After all, not many comedy troupes have had as much cultural influence as Python. To mark it, if a full-on reunion is out of the question, then why not some kind of tribute show? You could get fellow comedy legends such as RowanAtkinson and harry Enfield to perform python material. It’s just an idea; I just don’t think Python should be allowed to vanish without a trace, it’s cultural legacy going unmarked.