To call Monty Python the Beatles of comedy is no exaggeration. So this reunion show – their first performance together since the Hollywood Bowl gig in 1980 – is, despite being an obvious cash cow, ...

And in the hands of the show's deviser and director, Eric Idle, it can be made into something new and fresh as well. Like all reunions, this one is tinged with sadness as the “one down” is remembered ...

When it was announced earlier this year that there would be a live theatrical broadcast of the final performance of the Monty Python "farewell" shows from London's O2 arena, people that know me ...