Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam interview

The self-confessed 'least recognisable Python' weighs up whether or not the reunion is 'depressing' and hopes he won't pay homage to Tommy Cooper.

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Monty Python star Terry Gilliam has said his recent comments describing the prospect of forthcoming reunion shows as "depressing" were taken out of context.

Monty Python interview

GQ talks to the iconoclasts who challenged the British establishment and ended up global comedy royalty. John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle discuss the glory years, blazing rows, groupies and the Knights Who Say Ni... Say no more!

Terry Gilliam: Monty Python is a thorn in my side

Terry Gilliam on his new film The Zero Theorem, reviving Don Quixote - and those rumours of Monty Python US dates.

Simon Pegg joins Monty Python's Absolutely Anything

Simon Pegg has joined the cast of Absolutely Anything, the film in which Monty Python's Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam provide the voices of alien creatures.

Monty Python stars reunite for film Absolutely Anything

The original stars of cult comedy Monty Python look set to reunite once more for a new movie. John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin are all said to be voicing characters of a group of aliens in the film who grant wishes to humans for laughs.

Monty Python's Terry Jones on Graham Chapman's biopic

We talked to original Python Terry Jones about Graham Chapman's drinking, his mum's influence, and Terry Gilliam's bossiness.

It's been more than 40 years since the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC One and we never looked at comedy - let alone spam, parrots or lumberjacks - in the same way again. This documentary marks the first time the surviving Pythons have come together for a project since 1983's The Meaning of Life]. Directed by Alan Parker, it features interviews with Terry Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle, as well as archive chat from late Graham Chapman. All tell the story of how they met at Oxbridge and The Frost Report, created trail-blazing television, made the transition into movies and ultimately became a British institution. Which, like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expected.

Radio Times review

Peter Capaldi plays it straight as a film buff and devotee of the now defunct Cricklewood Studios. Pure fiction, of course, but pinning spoofs of cheap British movies and even cheaper British movie stars onto a made-up studio lets Capaldi and co-writer Tony Roche have some arch fun.

Capaldi presents this "documentary" celebrating the output of his beloved Cricklewood Studios (now a DIY superstore). He recalls Florrie Fontaine (Lindsay Marshal), a terrifyingly cheerful Gracie Fields-type singer whose career died when she became friendly with Nazi high command: "I speak as I find, and they were grand company."

Watch out for Hustle's Kelly Adams as a Barbara Windsor-ish bimbette, star of the Thumbs Up series. But the show is stolen by Terry Gilliam, playing himself, a profligate director who brought the studio to its knees.