‘There’s nothing funny about a man coming out of the sea and saying “It’s”.’ These were the immortal words of the then BBC head of light entertainment Tom Sloane after the screening of the fourth ...

Speaking at Monty Python Live At Aspen, a reunion show staged at the US Comedy Arts Festival in 1998, Terry Jones confessed he was unhappy with the group’s comic legacy. “We tried to do something that ...

Think about someone you’d call a friend. What’s it like when you’re with them? Do you feel connected? Like the two of you are in sync? In today’s story, we’ll meet two friends who have always been in ...

Michael Palin has explained why he thinks another Monty Python reunion would not work. The comedy troupe was co-founded in 1969 by Palin alongside Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle ...

One of the BBC's most enduring comedy programmes, Monty Python's Flying Circus, almost met the same fate as the famous Norwegian blue parrot whose lifeless state was immortalised in a sketch featuring ...