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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Monty Python

Actor Ben Perry (left) and Roi Oppenheim of The Revolution Orchestra, in a new Monty Python show that opened February 11, 2024 (Courtesy Moshe Chitayat)
February 13, 2024, 11:52 am
Resilience via absurdity: Israeli orchestra launches Monty Python show
Revolution Orchestra’s 90-minute ‘The Passion of Monty Python’ is ode to the 70s-era British comedy troupe
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2023. The banner at right reads: "It's vital to safeguard the common home"; the banner at center reads: "Freedom, equality, kinship." (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
June 1, 2023, 2:50 am
Echoes of the Judean People’s Front: Monty Python’s in Jerusalem, and it isn’t funny
When the pro-democracy ‘Safeguarding Our Home’ rallies are overwhelmed and undermined by adjacent, rival-allied ‘Free Palestine’ demonstrators
By David Horovitz
Remains of 12th century Medieval vessels discovered in Jerusalem's Old City, including (far right) a fragment of the sphero-conical vessel that was identified as containing an explosive material from Jerusalem, Israel. (Robert Mason, Royal Ontario Museum)
April 29, 2022, 12:28 pm
Was Monty Python’s ‘Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch’ fact? Crusader-era explosive found
Analysis of 11th-12th century vessel shards excavated in Jerusalem’s Old City give support to Crusader-era accounts of exploding projectiles — such as depicted in ‘The Holy Grail’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Graham Chapman and Terry Jones in a scene from the film 'Life Of Brian', 1979. (Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images via JTA)
January 23, 2020, 5:05 am
Monty Python’s Terry Jones cut a ‘Nazi Jew’ scene from ‘Life of Brian’
Scene depicting a Jew named Otto with Nazi ideology was left out because it didn’t flow with story, but director later regretted move
By Gabe Friedman
John Cleese performs during his show 'Last Time to See Me Before I Die' (Tobias Nokolai/Polfoto via AP)
September 3, 2019, 8:50 pm
How John Cleese got laughs from his mother with an offer of murder and taxidermy
The man from the Ministry of Silly Walks is about to turn 80 and no longer leaps into potted plants. But at three packed Tel Aviv shows, he proved there’s life in an old Python yet
By David Horovitz
Funnyman John Cleese will appear in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2019, as part of his current comedy tour (Courtesy John Cleese Facebook page)
January 13, 2019, 1:24 pm
John Cleese plans Tel Aviv stop during world tour
The 79-year-old British funnyman presents ‘Last Time to See Me Before I Die’
By Jessica Steinberg
Mark Forstater and the late Graham Chapman (courtesy)
March 17, 2016, 5:18 am
Jewish ‘seventh Python’ gets revenge with spammy memoir
Mark Forstater, the producer of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail,’ felt he’d been left out of the annals of showbiz history. So he decided to write them himself
By Jenni Frazer
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