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LIVE: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones hold a news conference at London's Playhouse Theatre
The surviving members of comedy group Monty Python have announced their reunion will be a live, one-off show featuring their "greatest hits".
Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones will reveal the location of the show at a press conference in London shortly.
The stage show will be their first new project for three decades.
News of the reunion leaked in the press earlier this week, with Jones telling the BBC he was "quite excited".
"I hope it makes us a lot of money," he said on Tuesday. "I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!"
It is more than 30 years since the Pythons performed last performed together at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in September 1980, and 40 years since they last performed on stage together in the UK.
In a press release issued ahead of the conference, the comedy troupe promised to perform "some of Monty Python's greatest hits, with modern, topical, Pythonesque twists".
Idle tweeted on Wednesday: "Extraordinary reaction to the Python reunion leak. Bids are coming in from all over the world. We'll announce the winner tomorrow."
He also posted a photograph of the Python team having a meeting to discuss their plans.
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It's been more than 30 years since the last proper Python project as David Sillito reports
The last time the five remaining members of the comedy group appeared together in public was in 2009 at their 40th anniversary celebrations in New York.
The sixth member of the comedy troupe, Graham Chapman, died in 1989.
Reacting to the reunion news on Tuesday, impressionist and Python fan Jon Culshaw said: " I remember 10 years ago at a Peter Cook tribute show there was a performance of Terry Jones and Michael Palin together and the mere sight of them sent the audience into absolute raptures.
"So the thought of all the Pythons back together is absolutely fantastic. People won't be able to wait to see what new inventions they are going to come up with. For comedy, the Pythons are The Beatles."
The press conference on Thursday will take place at the home of the Monty Python-inspired musical Spamalot - London's Playhouse Theatre.
Earlier this year, a film producer won a High Court case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty rights to the hit stage show.
Mark Forstater, who produced the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, claimed he was underpaid royalties since the musical's launch in 2005. He estimated he was entitled to more than £200,000.
The six members of the Python team got to know each other firstly through university, and later through their work on television comedy programmes, including The Frost Report.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was made for TV between 1969 and 1974 and featured sketches and songs that fans can recite by heart.
The team went on to make films including Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979).
The well-known Life of Brian song, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, was performed by Eric Idle at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony.
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