Seldom does an act of haphazard comic rebellion infiltrate popular culture. But when it happens, other things happen, too. People start quoting it before they get home. Before you know it, the movie ...

Monty Python made five films together, but as their final reunion nears, we're wondering which was the best one? Terry Gilliam's opera diary: 'We have a big head problem' With the Monty Python Live ...

It took the bedraggled castaway 52 seconds to wade out of the sea, collapse on the sand, crawl towards the camera and say: “It’s…” before the opening credits rolled. So began the iconoclastic ...

Comedy legend Graham Chapman was the first Monty Python member to die, as he succumbed to illness at the tragically young age of 48 on October 4 1989. His battle with tonsil cancer was devastatingly ...

In 1969, the world was introduced to a joke so good, so funny, so ruthlessly powerful that anyone who read or heard it would ...

The comedy troupe explains why they're eager to reunite after 30 years In desperation, the five Pythons met with longtime Queen manager Jim Beach — an old friend of Cleese and Idle from their days at ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.