While not exact, one way to gauge a comedy movie’s popularity is by its number of familiar and oft-repeated lines of dialogue, and by those metrics alone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail would ...

The satirical British comedy from 1975, screening at MFAH this weekend, set the table at which 'The Simpsons,' 'South Park' and 'Saturday Night Live' later dined.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was rejected by studios but the comedy troupe found funding from a number of famous musicians ...

All television shows must come to an end — except, perhaps, "The Simpsons," which completed its 36th season in 2025 with no end in sight. But studios, lured by the promise of a built-in audience, have ...

There’s a special kind of laughter that comes from those who have inherited rubble — a laughter that doesn’t deny history but strips it of its borrowed grandeur. “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” ...

The Monty Python troupe were hit with financial woes before their smash hit motion picture was made, meaning funding it was ...

When John Cleese and his Monty Python comedy cohorts premiered “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in 1975, they had no expectations that anyone would be talking about it 50 years later. “We really ...

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was such a success — more than a $5 million international gross, 14 times its budget — that it re-launched the Monty Python brand. A famous character from the movie, ...

The Monty Python troupe were hit with financial woes before the motion picture was made, meaning funding the smash hit was looking impossible until a group of musicians stepped in ...