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The Monty Python sketch mined laughs from the absurdity that Catholic Inquistiors would exist in modern day Britain and torture people with furniture padding. More to the point, the first ...

This helped steer the course of sketch comedy on TV as we know it, and made these six comedians into lifelong stars in the process. Monty Python came together as a group in 1969 with a coveted TV ...

Monty Python is ... Chapman wrote the sketches with Cleese, Jones wrote with Palin, Idle wrote alone and Gilliam did the animations. Neil Innes and Carol Cleveland have both on occasion been mentioned ...

Fifty years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy, stars Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam look back on the freedoms – and limitations – that shaped the film. An independent ...

Wallace attributes his style to the influence of Monty Python, beginning with comedian John Cleese’s familiar announcement before episodes and between sketches. Cleese is sitting at a table ...

Featuring a wealth of exclusive interviews and sketches from their classic films, this definitive documentary contemplates the origins of Monty Python, and their successes as well as the deeper ...