Pythons honoured for film and TV work

The Monty Python team have been honoured for their contribution to film and television during a special 40th anniversary reunion event in New York.

John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin turned up to receive the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts gong with a cardboard cut-out of the sixth troupe member, the late Graham Chapman.

The presentation followed a screening of a new documentary chronicling the troupe's work, titled Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut).

According to Reuters, the Pythons took questions from audience members at Manhattan's Ziegfield Theatre and reminisced about their careers since Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired in 1969.