This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...

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 ...

Carol Cleveland, the Seventh PythonTalking with the woman who appeared in all of Monty Python’s projects as their so-called “glamour stooge.” ...

It’s been 50 years of lumberjacks, dead parrots, and Spam. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to inspire modern ...

It took the bedraggled castaway 52 seconds to wade out of the sea, collapse on the sand, crawl towards the camera and say: “It’s…” before the opening credits rolled. So began the iconoclastic ...

One of the most celebrated comedy movies of the ’80s is arriving soon on Netflix. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life came out ...

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

Terry Gilliam's Personal Best selected, written and performed by Terry Gilliam. Produced by John Goldstone. Monty Python's Flying Circus conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese ...

It's been 50 years since "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" first aired and yet fans can still quote from iconic sketches such as the "Ministry of Silly Walks," "Dead Parrot" or "The Spanish Inquisition." ...

You know, rarely has there been a closer relationship between a comedy troupe and a chopped and formed meat product than Monty Python and Spam. Their fortunes became inextricably linked after a ...