What the Monty Python musical succeeds most at in this revival, playing at The Bushnell through Dec. 14, is in parodying traditional Broadway musicals.

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Idle sometime gazes up into the heavens and wonders about something if we ever make contact with aliens: Will they have a sense of humor? “I think the answer must be yes, because ...

Recently, there has been more drama in the Kennedy Center’s offices than in its performance spaces. That was certainly the ...

Writers (L-R) Ian MacNaughton, Michael Palin, unknown, Graham Chapman, and Neil Innes in a script conference for BBC television show ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, 1974. (Photo by Chris Ridley/Radio ...

In 1969, five young British comedians and one young American animator came together to make a television show. Without much of an idea of what they were going to do, they were given a series by the ...

When John Cleese and his Monty Python comedy cohorts premiered “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1975, they had no expectations that anyone would be talking about it 50 years later. “We really ...

Farewell, Terry Jones — in Monty Python’s box of chocolates, he was always the crunchy frog. This man was a comic genius, the soul of Python — their most unselfish performer, their most wide-ranging ...

Monty Python writer and actor Neil Innes has died aged 75, his agent has confirmed. The comedian and musician died of natural causes Sunday night, agent Nigel Morton said. Innes was known for his work ...

An English newspaper once described a soccer star as having “developed splendidly and then aged as well as could be hoped for.” That might sum up another U.K. icon, Monty Python. Because while it’s ...

Some of Monty Python's most famous film scenes, including the Black Knight, were almost cut - because the stars thought they were 'too silly, dull or offensive', the movies' editor has revealed.

Sir Michael Palin has said that seeing his fellow Monty Python stars can be a “rather tearful” experience. The actor, comedian and travel presenter, 80, last performed shows in 2014 alongside some of ...

They redefined comedy in the 1960s and films like ‘Life of Brian’ and ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ are amongst the best ever made. The writer/director has a fairly modest combined box office haul ...