Mick Jagger gets the Monty Python treatment

  • 10 years ago
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STORY: Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and drummer Charlie Watts appeared in a video put together to help promote the Monty Python farewell performances called 'Monty Python Live (mostly) - One Down, Five to Go'.

The video was played to journalists ahead of the comedy troupe's news conference in central London on June 30.

In the video, Jagger, who is watching the World Cup with Watts, talks to an aide about his upcoming set list.

They get on the subject that their lighting engineer is in London doing the Monty Python performances instead of their tour. Jagger says lines like 'Monty Python? Are they still going?' and 'They must be coining it in.'

Monty Python has often been referred to as the Beatles but for comedy. Jagger makes fun of this by saying 'Who wants to see that again? I mean, it was really funny in the sixties' and then 'It's still a bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load o