Neil Gaiman once claimed that ranking the best Monty Python sketches was one of the worst things you could make someone do. The second or third or fourth of fifth worst thing is an unexpected Spanish ...

It’s been 50 years of lumberjacks, dead parrots, and Spam. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to inspire modern ...

For a classic – potentially all-time greatest – comedy troupe who refuses to reunite for one last stage-show or film before they each go off into the sweet hereafter, Monty Python is seldom, if ever, ...

Hello, and welcome to the first in a series of ongoing episodic reviews of the beloved comedy television program, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In order to maintain our standards of innovation and ...

On 5th December it'll have been 50 years since the last episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was first aired on the BBC, and yet, the show continues to captivate audiences around the world. Despite ...

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 ...

They were, and have remained, something completely different. Thirty years ago this week, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences — at least in England, where the ...

It's been 50 years since "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" first aired and yet fans can still quote from iconic sketches such as the "Ministry of Silly Walks," "Dead Parrot" or "The Spanish Inquisition." ...

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.