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7. "... if they were still around..."

Reply to Disaffected (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 03:57 PM

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Eric Idle, Lyn Ashley, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John Cleese are still with us. Just those alone would be awesome, and don't completely count them out from doing a satire on today's U.S. political system.

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