The art of TV comedy is distilled into its purest essence in the format of a sketch show. Sketch comedies have been entertaining viewers at home since the 1940s, when variety shows like Texaco Star ...

A running gag in Monty Python’s Flying Circus found the show occasionally cutting away to old stock footage of an audience of elderly women tepidly applauding. Well, it turns out that this joke may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...