After The Movies and The Flying Circus...

After:
After the movies and the end of the Flying circus came to a close. The Pythons went onto do Live stage shows of their own most popular sketches. After the release of their last movie (the Meaning of Life), the final reunion of all six members occured during "The Parrot Sketch not Included- Monty Python's 20th anniversary" special. The death of Graham Chapman who died on the eve of the anniversary stopped any speculation of any future reunions.

In 1998, the crew was to be reunited again along with what was to be Chapman's "ashes" to recieve an award from the American Film Institute. They were reunited for the first time in 18 years. in 1999, to commemorate 30 years after the Flying circus, BBC2 devoted a whole evening filled with programs for Monty Python only. There wer also sketches done by the crew especially for the event.
In 2003 there was an autobiography for the Pythons that has interviews of each member compiled into it.


(A recent Photo of the Monty Python Crew. From left to right: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin)

In films that were directed by Jones. There are appearnces of the Python members in non-Python productions. Films such as "Yellowbeard", "A Fish Called Wanda", and "fierce creatures" featured surviving members of Monty Python. Jones' film "The Wind in the Willows" featured four of the surviving members of the crew except for Gilliam since he could not find time in his schedule to do so. In Dreamwork's Popular film "Shrek the Third" Cleese and Idle do voices for some of the characters in the movie.

Other Pythons:
There were other members of the Pythons that appeared in the show as well. Since the crew was an all male cast, they would need a woman to play roles that required one. Especially in ones where the character had to be physically attractive. The name of this actor was Carol Cleveland, who appears in some of the episodes in Flying Circus. She is considered to be the unofficial seventh Python in the cast. Many other Associate Pythons also helped out the cast as well such as Neil Innes.


(Carol Cleveland as the "blod Bombshell" in one of the Flying Circus Sketches)