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context: work, "Spamalot". They owed a combined £800,000 in legal fees and back royalties to Forstater. To help cover the cost of these royalties and fees, the group arranged and performed in a stage show, "Monty Python Live (mostly)", held at The O2 arena in London in July 2014. Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British independent slapstick comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and directed by Gilliam and </s> Roy Forge Smith Roy Forge Smith (18 May 1929 – 6 February 2017) was a British production designer known for his work in films, such as "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", and television, including 44 episodes of the "Ghost Whisperer" from 2005 to 2007. Smith received two ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominations for his work on the television movies "The Hunley" in 1998 and the 2002 CBS biopic, "Martin and Lewis". He frequently collaborated with writer and director, John Gray. Smith was a native of London. He began his career, which spanned more than 40 years in </s> spinoff, "Spamalot". Written primarily by Idle, the show has more of an overarching plot and leaves out certain portions of the movie due to difficulties in rendering certain effects on stage. Nonetheless, many of the jokes from the film are present in the show. In 2011, an ABC prime-time special, "", counted down the best films chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and "People". "Holy Grail" was selected as the second best comedy after "Airplane!". In 2013, the Pythons lost a legal case to Mark Forstater, the film's producer, over royalties for the derivative
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