While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...

The cast of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' From left: Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and John Cleese in 1975 Cleese remembered a department head at the BBC, ...

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 about laughing at yourself and your own death and your inevitable end, which you can do nothing about,’ Eric Idle muses ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The movie was created on a shoestring budget by British comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, ...

The comedy of Monty Python is being honored for the ages. The Royal Mail will issue a series of stamps to mark the contributions of the comedy troupe. The British mail service announced that it will ...

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was such a success — more than a $5 million international gross, 14 times its budget — that it re-launched the Monty Python brand. A famous character from the movie, ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in the United States 50 years ago, on April 28, 1975. And though it’s now a comedy classic, co-writer and star John Cleese says his comedy troupe mostly ...