LONDON (AP) — And now for one thing utterly totally different: Britain’s Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating the absurdist comedy of Monty Python.
The ten-stamp sequence introduced on Thursday celebrates a few of the troupe’s most iconic characters and catchphrases, from “Nudge, nudge” to “The Lumberjack Song.”
Six stamps depict scenes from the sketch-comedy TV sequence “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” together with “The Spanish Inquisition,” ”The Ministry of Foolish Walks,” “Dead Parrot” and “The Nude Organist.”
One other 4 mark the fiftieth anniversary of the cult traditional 1975 movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” together with one exhibiting the limb-losing Black Knight insisting, “’Tis but a scratch.”
The stamps might be pre-ordered from Thursday and go on sale Aug. 14.
Made up of Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, Monty Python introduced a novel mix of satire, surrealism and silliness to British TV screens in a sequence that ran from 1969 to 1974. The troupe additionally made a number of characteristic movies, together with “And Now for Something Completely Different,” “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” and “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.”
David Gold, Royal Mail’s director of exterior affairs, mentioned the gathering “honors a body of work that has shaped the comedic landscape for nearly six decades.”
Palin mentioned he was “very glad to share a stamp with the nude organist!”
The group largely disbanded within the Eighties, and Chapman died of most cancers in 1989. The 5 surviving Pythons reunited in 2014 for a string of dwell stage reveals.
Jones died in 2020 from a uncommon type of dementia.
