Heartwarming / Monty Python

• At a 2002 tribute concert to George Harrison (himself a longtime Python fan, who created Handmade Films simply because he wanted to see Monty Python's Life of Brian), the Pythons reunited to perform "Sit On My Face" and "The Lumberjack Song". At the end of the performance, the chorus of Mounties turned to the portrait of George Harrison and delivered a British military salute, before marching off, chanting, "Spam, spam, spam, spam..."
• The reaction to John Cleese's "freeloading bastard" joke at Graham Chapman's funeral is this for the simple reason that it got the reaction that Cleese wanted... it lifted their spirits.
• At the final performance of the reunion concerts in July 2014 during the Dead Parrot Sketch John Cleese added "He's gone to meet Dr. Chapman" to the list of euphemisms for death. Both Cleese and Michael Palin then paused and proffered a thumbs up towards heaven while the audience burst into applause.
• Among the songs reworked or rewritten for the final reunion show was an update of "The Penis Song," formerly consisting of a single verse now expanded to three to include vaginas and butts for equal opportunity.
• How the troupe's media appearances begin and end with Flying Circus. The very end of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ends with the theme song playing as an episode's just gotten started on a television, then slowly floating away in space. Fitting end for them, if anything.
  • Speaking of which, what happens to be the film’s definition of the Meaning of Life? "Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations". Considering how dark and grey the film itself was, it’s a nice way to let the audience off. Even if it’s considered “nothing very special”.