A look back at five memorable sketches following the announcement that John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones will perform a reunion show in London next summer. By Kyle ...

Python Bytes serves up nearly two dozen sketches from the first season of the show, plus a few fun extras. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts ...

Sketch comedy shows are the purest form of comedy on TV, and these 10 shows have reached higher and gone further with their humor than any other.

The dead parrot sketch, which first aired 45 years ago and featured John Cleese and Michael Palin, has been voted the nation’s favourite Monty Python sketch of all time. The survey of 2,000 British ...

Here’s a question for the Monty Python 40th anniversary festivities: what’s your favourite Monty Python sketch that isn’t (in your opinion) all that well-known? It’s hard to define which sketches are ...

Not everyone can make comedy that stands the test of time as well as Monty Python did, and few people get this like Bob Odenkirk. That's because, before he ventured into more diverse genres like drama ...

The British troupe’s influence on comedians is well documented. But what about their impact on scientists and philosophers? BBC Culture finds out. “Who wants to see that again, really?” said Mick ...

A "Pink Knight" who demands that King Arthur give him a kiss and an entirely different, and more expensive, ending have been unearthed in Michael Palin's script notes that are part of his archive. By ...

It’s just about impossible to discuss sketch comedy without bringing in Monty Python. Everyone from The Simpsons’ Matt Groening to Tina Fey to Jim Carrey has cited the comedy troupe as an influence.

She never hesitated to make the most of her voluptuous figure in their sketches, but at times the Monty Python boys went too far even for Carol Cleveland. The ‘Female Python’, now 72, was known for ...