Gold to show final Monty Python stage performance live

It was announced long before they said it was going to be shown on Gold, that a DVD release at Christmas was going to happen.

UKTV have also tweeted tonight that the full uncensored version will be shown in full on Tuesday night, after the watershed.

If it wasn't for the fact that it wasn't the last ever show tonight, I doubt Gold would have shown this live, if not at all. It's been good so far, bleeping aside, although it's worth it being Live for when John Cleese lost it with Terry's G and J.

That's that then. Good night everyone!



I expect that happens every night. Can someone confirm?

I assume this is the interval.

Yes, we've gone back to Dara whilst were waiting for the interval to end.

Apparently not according to Terry G himself.

Nice to hear an apology for the censorship and not an apology for the swearing. Makes a nice change.

EDIT: The ruined it.

Well, there was an apology for the inadvertently unbleeped F bomb ... albeit an ever-so-slightly sarcastic one.

I can't help noticing they had most of the ruder swearier material before the watershed, with the tamer stuff after the watershed.

Well, except perhaps for the Albatross sketch!

After a superb night of swearing it will be interesting to see if the N word has been edited out of this episode of Fawlty Towers.

EDIT: Looks like the episode is intact, at least so far. It says something when a commercial channel is prepared to broadcast something that the BBC isn't.

The announcement at the start said the episode featured "strong language from yesteryear that some viewers may find offensive".

For some reason, broadcasting that word will cause more outrage and upset on the BBC than on a digital channel.

Going by the reports in here, no it wasn't !! Full, uncensored f and c words, both spoken and in 'sing-a-long' lyric subtitles, and thankfully not a single frame of Dara O'Briain to ruin things either.

It was an odd experience though, packed cinema, and some people clapped, which to me didn't quite seem right. Rather surreal really, the show started at bang on 19:00hrs, with a Monty Python Live caption, and some of the songs, interspersed with video clips of the rehearsals and set build. The intermission
just had a caption with a countdown clock for part two. A girl came on to sell ice creams, would have been apt if she'd dressed up as John Cleese and had an albertross, but she was about 20, and the whole evening must have sailed right over her head.

Annoyingly the live cameras where in 'filmic' mode, (well, I suppose it was a cinema showing ) but the linking clips from the TV series were interlaced. The only thing that spoilt the show were some audio glitches, not sure if they were on the feed, or a particular problem at the cinema. (Edit Seems that it was on the feed bird (5 W))