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 ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

You know, rarely has there been a closer relationship between a comedy troupe and a chopped and formed meat product than Monty Python and Spam. Their fortunes became inextricably linked after a ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

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 ...

Barry Took, the British stand-up comedian and comedy writer who helped produce such zany shows as “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and lent his talents to the much-loved American television classic ...

Monty Python fans love the British comedy troupe for its Ministry of Silly Walks and cheeky take on the Knights of the Round Table. But for Linda E. Mitchell, Monty Python’s absurd brand of humor is ...

Tchaikovsky was a fun-loving man with a Monty Python-style sense of humour, his biographer has said. Simon Morrison, a ...

Spam was at the center of a classic Monty Python sketch, and their association with the forcemeat had an even longer shelf life than the product itself. You know, rarely has there been a closer ...

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." ...