The Irony in a ‘Python’ Who Cancelled Himself

Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese (center), and Terry Jones bow to the crowd after their opening night of 'Monty Python Live (Mostly)' in London, England, on July 1, 2014. Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

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Irony is generally understood to be an incongruity between what might be expected to occur and what actually does.