Monty Python returns to performing after 30 years

Humorists of the veteran comic group Monty Python will meet in London this Thursday to present their new plans for the future, which will have them working together again after 30 years of artistic silence, one of the group’s representatives said.

John Cleese, 74, Terry Gilliam, 72, Eric Idle, 70, Terry Jones, 71, and Michael Palin, 70, will announce their plans at a press conference in the British capital.

Jones, the Scotsman of the group, told the BBC Tuesday that the new project bringing Monty Python together again will be a stage play about which he is “quite excited” and hopes that “it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!”

The Monty Python members, except for Graham Chapman who died of cancer in 1989, have been working in secret for months on the new project.

The surreal comedy group that aired its first show in Britain in on Oct. 5, 1969, soon attracted a huge following with the innovative series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” on British channel BBC and segued the group into making tours, movies and musicals.

After the series stopped production in 1974, Monty Python took to making movies that still have their fans today big boxoffice hits like “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1975 and “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” in 1979, an audience favorite that is still screened every Easter Week.

Their last movie, “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life,” premiered in the United States in March 1983 and was the last project in which the Monty Python comics got their laughs together full time.