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Monty Python: Almost The Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut) is set to mark the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of the show. The Monty Python’s Flying Circus troupe included John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman.

The documentary will be featuring interviews with all of the surviving Python members, along with archive footage of Chapman, who died in 1989.

Terry Jones said: “This is the documentary I always hoped that would be made - something so complete and so faithful to the truth that I don’t need to watch it.”

The documentary will also include guest interviews with Russell Brand, Steve Coogan, Bruce Dickinson, Jeff Bridges, Eddie Izzard, Stephen Merchant, Dan Aykroyd, Tim Roth and Hugh Hefner among others.

The program will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in October, 40 years since Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast on the BBC in October 1969.

For those who are perhaps too young to remember:  Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a creative — though, sometimes perhaps, a bit bizarre — experiment in humor.  Its catchphrase, And Now for something completely different, caught on in the cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, and the troupe itself provided two of the most comical yet talented actors in the media:  John Cleese and Eric Idle.

Okay … that’s all for this issue, but I’ll be back this evening with more!
That being said, I’ll see ya on the flip side.