# Charity prize draw offers chance to appear in Monty Python sketch

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/07/03/charity-prize-draw-offers-chance-appear-monty-python-sketch/
- Published: 2014-07-03T15:03:58+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Monty Python fans have an opportunity to appear in a Monty Python sketch during 
one of the last live shows by the comedy group in London. The Pythons have partnered
with the Evening Standard newspaper to offer the place in a charity prize draw on
behalf of the Evening Standard’s Dispossessed campaign.

To enter the competition you have to text a payment of £5, of which a minimum of
£3 will be donated to the charity (except Virgin users, where £1.79 will be donated).

[⌊Monty Python charity competition⌉⌊Monty Python charity competition⌉[

Monty Python competition in aid of The Dispossessed Fund

 

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The winner will get to make a guest appearance in _The Bruces_ sketch on July 18.
They will also receive two tickets for the show.

The Pythons told the Evening Standard: “the winner must be prepared to be very silly
for a very serious cause.”

The Standard launched the [Dispossessed Fund](http://dispossessedfund.communityfoundations.org.uk/)
in 2010 to fight poverty, inequality and exclusion in London after an investigation
revealed shocking levels of child poverty. So far it has raised more than £12.2 
million.

The [entry details are published by the Evening Standard](http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/comedy-fans-get-a-chance-to-appear-in-a-monty-python-sketch-9565131.html).**
Entries close at 23.59 on 14 July 2014**.

 

_Main photo: [Monty Python graffiti](https://flic.kr/p/ijXtJ) by Southtyrolean on
Flickr.com_

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