In 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail transformed the titular British sketch troupe from TV comedy icons to genuine movie stars. The film hit the ground running with its instantly quotable opening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This essay killed me. Terry Jones, from somewhere in the back: “You don’t look dead to me.” I got better. But, honestly, what is ...

Monty Python consisted of two groups of college friends and a creative collaborator. The first included Terry Jones and Michael Palin, who met at Oxford University; the second group featured John ...

Editor's Note: Late Take is a new semi-regular feature of the Dive blog reviewing the classic movies showing at Franklin Street's Varsity Theater. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” reels in heavy ...

Our community season continues with one of the funniest movies of all time and our first newly minted Top 100, Monty Python and The Holy Grail. A gleeful skewering of the filmmaking process by first ...

“It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!” Calling all King of the Britons. Grab up your shrubberies ...

Fifty years ago, six mostly-British humorists fresh from injecting dead parrots and Spam into sketch comedy launched their first attempt at movie-making, jumping into cinema with a budget so low they ...

“If Monty Python and the Holy Grail had one great production number,” comedian Eric Idle must have figured, “how much better would it be if it were all production numbers?” So 30 years later he ...

Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin (and Terry Gilliam hiding in the middle) In 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail transformed the titular British sketch troupe from ...

This is the 26th anniversary rerelease of the British comedy sextet Monty Python’s second feature, complete with almost 30 seconds of additional footage, though you’ll be hard-pressed to spot it even ...