Then they were made to watch one of two notoriously disgusting scenes – the Mr. Creosote sketch from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and the public toilet scene in Trainspotting.

The entire comedy world, online and elsewhere, is enjoying a long, nostalgic love-in during the 40th anniversary of the formation and premiere of the Monty Python comedy troupe. In a perfect ...

Monty Don has claimed Monty Python sketches being shown on the BBC would be "unthinkable these days" following cuts to the "time, length and freedom" of comedy that airs now.

The dead parrot sketch, which first aired 45 years ago and featured John Cleese and Michael Palin, has been voted the nation’s favourite Monty Python sketch of all time.

R emember the Monty Python sketch in which a man comes into an “argument clinic”? Everything he says is contradicted by another man sitting behind a desk.

“The Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch first aired on Monty Python’s Flying Circus all the way back in 1970, but now it’s been adapted for a new audience: iPhone and Android gamers.