Monty Python is having a 40th-anniversary reunion show tonight in New York. Their show launched on the BBC on October 5, 1969.
The NY Times has notes on tonight’s reunion, with a few good quotes:
As Terry Jones, one of the six-member troupe who created and acted in the show, said recently: “Time just seems to get quicker. You look in the mirror in the morning and you think, I’m already shaving again!'”
And from a wry John Cleese:
“I thought we had flogged this horse to death — way past death, in fact. We did it because Jones needed money. He’s about to have a baby, and we felt for the guy. Anyone entering on fatherhood at age 67 needs all the help he can get.”
About that baby: Terry Jones did indeed have just a daughter. The mother is his 26-year-old Swedish girlfriend, Anna Soderstrom. They’ve been dating since 2005.