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 ...
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 ...
The art of TV comedy is distilled into its purest essence in the format of a sketch show. Sketch comedies have been entertaining viewers at home since the 1940s, when variety shows like Texaco Star ...
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 ...
Writers (L-R) Ian MacNaughton, Michael Palin, unknown, Graham Chapman, and Neil Innes in a script conference for BBC television show ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, 1974. (Photo by Chris Ridley/Radio ...
Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch has topped a Radio Times poll to find the best alternative comedy sketch. More than 1,200 people voted in the poll with Dead Parrot getting twice as many votes as its ...
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.
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