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Surprised by a Python

01.06.10

British comedy fans at the Coolidge Corner Show business last night knew they would be catching a special screening of “Monty Python and the Untainted Grail.’’ What they didn’t know was that one of the Pythons would be joining them. “I’ve never been a disconcert,’’ a giddy Terry Jones told us before the screening. His appearance was a treat for the Python devotees, who got access to the result by being members of Boston’s Yelp Elite Squad, a VIP club spawned by Yelp.com . Jones’s descend upon was set up by the Coolidge Foundation’s Elizabeth Taylor-Mead , who produced a documentary for Jones in the original 1980s about children’s comic strip character Rupert Bear. Jones told us he was expectant for last night’s Q&A session, where he assumed he would be asked whether the Monty Python troupe will ever labour together again. Jones’s answer? “Not very likely,’’ he told us. “We

Source: Boston Globe