Monty Python are about to begin their run of reunion/farewell shows at the 02 Arena in London on Tuesday, and in the lead up Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones have made a video clip in which they send up their countrymen for being “a bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money.”
The tongue-in-cheek video was commissioned by the Pythons and shown at the troupe’s news conference about the shows on Monday. “Monty Python, are they still going?” Mick Jagger asks his assistant and band mate Charlie Watts who is reclined on the lounge next to him watching the World Cup football.
“I bet it’s expensive. Who wants to see that again, really? It was really funny in the Sixties,” he continues. “The best one died years ago,” he adds both in reference to the Python’s Graham Chapman, who died in 1989, and the Stones founding guitarist Brian Jones who died 45 years ago this week.
Watts sits there bemused as Jagger seamlessly rattles off a bunch of Stones hits for a set list, concluding with the “Dead Parrot Sketch”. The five surviving members of Monty Python will perform together live for the first time since 1980 this week, putting on 10 shows at London’s O2 arena.
According to the Associated Press, Michael Palin said the group’s decision to reunite was inspired by the Rolling Stones frontman himself. “A kind of madness takes over,” Palin told a news conference on Monday. “You just leap about at a certain point.” Terry Gilliam added, “our version of ‘Brown Sugar’ is far better.”
It has been announced that the final date of the reunion tour will be broadcast in movie theatres around the world on July 20th.
Mick Jagger introduces the Monty Python Live (mostly) Press Conference
