Its so Funny ! Monty Python Tickets are ?140 !

[the-e-dealer]

They are having a laugh!

[Otta]

Terry Jones did say he hoped they'd make a lot of money so he could pay off his mortgage. Maybe he wasn't actually joking.

Still, it'll probably be more fun than a Rolling Stones concert, and it's cheap next to some of their tickets!

[El Pibe]

I do love them, but not at those prices.

Good luck to them I say, Jones' comment made me chuckle and it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.

I doubt any of them are especially minted from their endeavours.

Apart from Palin and all those travel books....

[maxxi]

I'll wait for the dvd.

[Jeremy]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> I doubt any of them are especially minted from

> their endeavours.

>

> Apart from Palin and all those travel books....

Idle and Gilliam must be loaded, surely? Things not going so well for John Cleese recently though, by all accounts....

[giggirl]

?140 - where did you get that information from? It's wrong. Top price tickets are ?95 and the nosebleeds are ?27.50.

[the-e-dealer]

Ticketbastard

[giggirl]

Try www.axs.com - they are also bastards but in their case they are the bastards that own the O2

http://www.axs.com/series/368/monty-python-live-mostly-one-down-five-to-go-tickets

[woodrot]

jesus christ, imagine the demographic that would attend this- it makes Nick Cave devotees look pre pubescent.

[giggirl]

My issue with it is that I just don't think they're funny any more. Well past their sell-by date. Plus, the O2 is not a venue for comedy IMO. All 5 nights are showing as sold out but they aren't as lots of blocks are being held back. So if anyone actually does want to go to it then wait a while until tickets are re-released, which will happen.

[Jeremy]

The old material is still funny IMO. But the question is whether it will be funny to watch the skteches rehashed 40 years later with a few updated cultural references shoehorned in? Seems unlikely.

[*Bob*]

It's like groundbreaking art.

Shook the world (etc) at the time, but now.. it's just a big blank canvas with two lines on it.

[????]

John Cleese spends about a gazillion a year on pyschoanlysis and paying off his various wives - it seems a viscous circle with the pysconalaysis not helping in his choice of partner which pushes him into more analysis. Terry Jones used to drink in the Firkin & Pheonix a lot, he probably had a big tab to settle.

[Otta]

On a completely irrelevant note, I went to secondary school with Terry Jones' son.

[Bluerevolution]

That's a bargain

[Jah Lush]

Otta Wrote:

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> Terry Jones did say he hoped they'd make a lot of

> money so he could pay off his mortgage. Maybe he

> wasn't actually joking.

>

> Still, it'll probably be more fun than a Rolling

> Stones concert, and it's cheap next to some of

> their tickets!

Says a man who has never seen the Stones live. Pah!

Seen Terry Jones in many pubs around the manor over the years. Lovely bloke by all accounts. He's owned a house nearby since 1969.

Cleese must be skint. All that alimony and wasting money on shrinks. Fuck that.

The o2 is horrible and not the place I would want to see anybody.

[giggirl]

The O2 is just about OK for a loud evening of rock but definitely not for comedy. Demand was high for the Pythons so I guess if they'd have played a smaller venue then they wouldn't be able to shoe-horn as many people in. Some crazy prices on the secondary market for the Pythons right now. Personally I think the RAH would have been iconic.

[Otta]

Haven't seen them and wouldn't want to anymore Jah. They're more like a big band than a rock n roll band. I wish I could go back in time and see them before they got too big a stage show but there you go.

[the-e-dealer]

It is a Dead Bargain , It has exceeded, it has broken the bank, It has gone to the Golder Tower, It has joined LeeMan Brothers, It is a Royal Bank of Scotland. It has Nothern Rocked its socks off. It has gone down the Yellow Brick Road,It has joined the Bullingden Club, Kt has Spun the Zero .

[PeckhamRose]

Agree with posts of many of the above. Not funny anymore. John Cleese lost it for me when he advertised Sainsbury's in his Bond character, and Terry Jones's admission is basically like saying he wants to rip us all off.

On the news it said all the tickets were sold in 43 seconds. A bit like The Book of Mormon, there are too many rip-off shows around. Best to catch shows when they're on early try out at Menier, BAC, etc.

And LIKE the above post!

[Otta]

Johnny Rotten made a similar admission about a Sex Pistols reunion. It's just honest.

We'll get together and give you what you want to see, and we'll make money for it.

Don't think there's anything wrong in that, and they will probably have had very little, if anything to do with setting the prices.

[giggirl]

Tickets didn't sell out in 43 seconds. None of these nights are anywhere near sold out yet. I don't have an issue with the pricing because there were cheaper seats to be had. I have an issue with them not being that funny any more.

[Otta]

I can't imagine it being more than a nostalgia trip for old fans. It's not going to break any new ground and win a new generation of fans.

[*Bob*]

I barely cracked a smile at re-runs of most of the TV series, but TLOB is a different matter. I can forgive everything else just for that.

[giggirl]

Exactly. What have the Romans ever done for us?