Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of Comedy Central's SOUTH PARK, have received permission to
sample copyrighted Monty Python work for use in IT'S THE MONTY PYTHON
STORY. The animated special will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the BBC
comedy series MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, which was created by Graham
Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry
Gilliam (the lone American in the group, who did the animation). The
special will include a spoof of the famous "Dead Parrot Sketch" entitled
"The Dead Friend Sketch" with SOUTH PARK's Cartman as John Cleese, Kyle as
Michael Palin and Kenny as the parrot. It will also include other classic
Python routines, interviews and newly written skits performed by Cleese,
Palin, Jones and Gilliam. The special is being produced for England's BBC,
but an airdate has not yet been released. It's too bad that Terry Gilliam
cannot be convinced, despite the urgings of some of his ex-Python
colleagues, to do the animation for something like this.