Michael Palin of British comedy troupe Monty Python was held at gunpoint by armed Venezuelan guards until showing them a 1971 sketch from the show. He said the stop, while filming a new travelogue TV ...

Palin, 82, had been shooting his Channel 5 documentary in the troubled South American country when he found himself in hot ...

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 ...

Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt meet Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam to talk about Monty Python's classic comedy albums. The Monty Python team present a series of outrageous ...

A historic building used by Monty Python as the backdrop to one of their most memorable skits was one of the sites to receive an enhanced protected status in the past year. The Mr Creosote sketch, in ...

A Monty Python sketch has been used to highlight a psychological phenomenon that prevents people being aware of something completely different. "Inattentional blindness" refers to the way the brain ...

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